If the winner is so overcome with emotion that she drops the scepter, the runway will be strewn with $5,000 worth of crystal shards. The scepter remains the property of Waterford, which approached ...

C.S. Lakin delivers yet another brilliant, earthy, complex "fairy tale for adults" in The Crystal Scepter, the latest in her series The Gates of Heaven. Lakin weaves qualities of Shakespearean ...