Sword-Dancer

<b>From the back cover of the DAW first edition:</b> "Southern blade skill, Northern sword magic... - He was Tiger, born of the desert winds, raised as a slave and winning his freedom by weaving a special kind of magic with a warrior's skill. Now he was an almost legendary sword-dancer, ready to take on any challenge - if the price was right... or the woman pretty enough. <p>She was Del, born of ice and storm, trained by the greatest of Northern sword-masters. Now, her ritual training completed and steeped in the special magic of her own runesword, she had come South in search of the young brother stolen five years before. <p>But even Del could not master all the dangers of the deadly Punja alone. And meeting Del, Tiger could not turn back from the most intriguing challenge he'd ever faced - the challenge of a magical, mysterious sword-dancer of the North..."