Worlds Enough: Fantastic Defenders (Volume 1) / Keener, David

Across astounding and magical worlds, five heroes step forward to defend against magical threats:

• A sorceress in a besieged city faces a malignant force even more dangerous than the city's would-be conquerors.
• An unassuming bureaucrat stumbles upon a threat to a vast empire and deals with it in his own inimitable fashion.
• A resourceful bodyguard for an infant princess, trapped and surrounded by merciless assassins, finds a unique way to hold them at bay.
• A mage press-ganged into the Royal Navy finds himself volunteered for a dangerous secret mission on foreign soil.
• A disgraced royal guardian who failed in protecting his king hunts down those who cost him his honor.

These are the...FANTASTIC DEFENDERS!