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All That You Do Comes Back Unto Thee by Todd Macintosh- It's the year 2000 in Sunnydale and Buffy is the slayer. A fellow student at UC Sunnydale named Josh decides to stand up for himself against the mean jocks and summons an ancient Eygptian spirit to do his bidding. Only the spirit doesn't want to play along and is in search of his mummified body which is currently located in Sunnydale's museum. It's up to Buffy to stop this spirit from inhabiting his old body, but it turns out that Xander, despite his mummy fears, saves the day.

Lady Shobu by Kara Dalkey
- Japan 980, Kishi Minomoto is a brave girl born into a warrior clan who is suddenly called to serve as a lady in waiting for the Great Lady Ankimon-in. Her summoner, Bennin, claims to be her Watcher and informs her of her duty as a Slayer. He teaches her precious little concerning the demons around her as well a her predecessor before sending her to wait on the Great Lady. Kishi does her best to locate the demons which have been surrounding the Palace only to find out that Bennin is not who he says he is nor is the Great Lady who was originally the Watcher of the past Slayer. Bennin, is actually Migoto, his brother, who has been sacrificing Slayers to a dragon in order to maintain his immortal life.

Abomination by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz
- France, 1320 - Eliane and her Watcher have spent years training together, but as the years go by and Eliane becomes older they begin to suspect that she will never be called as a Slayer. Eventually she and her Watcher fall in love, get married and form a family. When she finally reaches the age of 20, she is abruptly called to her duty and her husband is taken away from her for violating codes of conduct with his charge. Eliane refuses to accept her duty until her husband has returned to her even though Tatoul, a particularly vicious vampire plagues her city. When the demon finally steals her five year old child and turns him into a vampire, she begins to fight back. But it may be far too late.

Blood and Brine by Greg Cox
- The Caribbean, 1661 - Robin Whitby is the captain of a schooner titled Neptune's Lady. She has been passing herself off as a man in order to be accepted by her crew. While sailing the seas, they come about a boat called the El Dorado which is strangely free of any crew members, save for a young Spanish girl. The boat is loaded with gold and treasures and in particular, an ugly little idol. After a brief mutiny on board her ship as soon as the crew realizes that she's female, half the members take the other boat and set off. However, the boat becomes plagued by the kraken, a water monster with fangs and squid-like arms, and Robin heads back to fight for the crew that once betrayed her. In a fight with the kraken, Robin loses her right forearm to the beast, losing a part of herself, yet still not defeating the hideous monster.

The Ghosts of Slayers Past by Scott Allie
- London, England, 1843 - The current Watcher of the current Slayer (who is from the run down east end of London) has absolutely no sympathy for his charge until he is visited by two Slayers from the past who show him what he is doing wrong, but it isn't until one Slayer from the future makes an appearance that the Watcher learn the error of his ways.

The New Watcher by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Atlanta, Georgia 1864 - Pauline Francis Bernard is passing herself off as a man under the name of Frankie Massey in order to enlist in the army. Her Watcher long dead, a new Watcher arrives in her town in search of a woman. Her general as secretly known that Frankie is in fact a woman but wants her on his side and the Watcher is sent off without ever finding his Slayer.

House of the Vampire by Michael Reaves
- London, England 1897 - Dracula has come to England, even after his supposed death years ago. Angelique Hawthorne, the current Slayer, must determine if she's under the thrall of Dracula himself and how to defeat him. She also learns a hard lesson about keeping friends in her field.

The War Between the States by Rebecca Rand Kirshner
- New York, 1922 - A young woman named Sally Jean comes to New York and becomes awed by a flapper named Ardita O'Reilly who is in fact the current Slayer. Sally Jean becomes completely enthralled by everything that Ardita possesses, until she learns what exactly Ardita is and what she does.

Stakeout on Rush Street by Max Allan Collins with Matthew V. Clemens
- Chicago, Illinois 1943 - The new Slayer is in fact a private eye who goes by the name Betty. She has ties to the mob currently in Chicago and has helped them out on several occasions. When she learns that one of their current employees is in fact a vampire, she informs the mob boss who agrees to pay her a large sum of money in exchange for her killing the demon.

Again by Jane Espenson
- Sunnydale, California 1999 - Buffy, Willow and Xander are sent back into their 1999 bodies back in high school. They have all the knowledge of what is to come because they are actually from the year 2001. Willow and Xander are both disturbed and want to go back to the present time but Buffy is determined to stay in the past where her mother still lives and her life isn't nearly as complicated as it had become in the future