Michelle Sagara West is a prolific fantasy writer, the author of ten novels and nearly twenty short stories. Although she has yet to garner academic attention, she has received two John W. Campbell Award nominations for her first novels, Into the Dark Lands (1991) and Children of the Blood (1992). She has also achieved critical recognition in the science-fiction press for her high-fantasy series The Sacred Hunt (The Hunter's Oath, 1995, and The Hunter's Death, 1996) and has been praised for her development of complex characters and unusual cultures. In an interview with Edo van Belkom (1998) West affirms that high fantasy, for her, is best defined by its "use of archetypes and is almost always informed by the concept of justice, of a just outcome to a situation; in its barest sense its about coming of age, about struggling for justice, about how the one and the other are interconnected." In keeping...