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Melissa McShane
For five years, Aderyn has waited to get the Call-the event when the system controlling her world grants her a class and appropriate skills to become an adventurer. When the…
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What secrets lie hidden in a distant stronghold of knowledge?
After accepting the responsibility of the Fated One quest, Aderyn, Owen, and their friends must travel north to the Repository…
Can the team survive an eccentric dungeon that might be alive?
The knowledge gained in the Repository directs Aderyn, Owen, and their team to the distant, lawless city of Obsidian…
Will Aderyn's patience and compassion be enough to survive the team's greatest challenge yet?
Aderyn and her friends can tackle any challenge they'll encounter on their eight-week trek across the…
The oracle Helena Campbell can't ignore the threat posed by elves bent on destroying humanity. But despite the viciousness of the elves, she worries more about the dangers posed by…
Can Aderyn stop a hidden danger before it destroys those she loves?
The quest to discover the truth about the legendary Fated One has taken Aderyn and her friends across…
As the custodian of the oracular bookstore Abernathy’s, Helena has faced any number of challenges in learning her new role. But when the store begins giving out false prophecies, Helena…
For over seventy years, the use of familiars-monsters bound by magic to fight beside humans in the Long War-divided magery into two factions. Now, the monsters strike back.As Helena prepares…
Helena Davies knows all about keeping secrets.
Now her secrets will come to light.
Helena’s encounter with a terrible creature whose kind arebent on destroying the world revealed a terrible…
A CITY LOST TO TIME
An unexpected discovery takes Sienne and her companions tothe mysterious country of Omeira, Kalanath’s lost homeland. There, a surprisingwelcome for Kalanath leads to another discovery…
Fiona, cursed with the power to ignite fire in a country where magic is illegal, wants to start a new life for herself, far from the mistakes of her past.A…
With the Mercy’s attacks on the Wardens neutralized, Helena prepares for her upcoming wedding to Malcolm Campbell. But when Helena steps into the oracle’s space and finds herself somewhere unfamiliar…
PERU, 1815. Bess Hanley, fresh from service with England’s War Office and grieving the loss of her dearest friend, embarks on a sea voyage that ends in disaster. Shipwrecked off…
Elspeth North, born and raised far from her Tremontanan homeland, wants nothing more than the peaceful, holy life of a priestess. Although born a princess, she believes her father’s abdication…
Veronica North, quiet and shy widow of the King of Tremontane, spends her days drifting from one charitable cause to another. Longing for something different, she returns to the Scholia…
Spain, 1814. The warrior woman Amaya, born Imelda Salazar, has the power to alter bodies with a touch-to heal, or to destroy. Having left behind her Inca rescuers for a…
Thanks to the dragon Lamprophyre and her friend, the human Prince Rokshan, dragons and humans live in harmony for the first time in centuries. But as humans come to accept…
As a royal wedding draws near, relations between humans and dragons are better than ever. Even the discovery that an ancient, evil entity was behind human animosity toward dragons cannot…
THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE DRAGONS OF MOTHER STONE
A new year brings new purpose to Lamprophyre and Rokshan as they continue in their quest to find and defeat their…
France, 1815. As a rifleman in Wellington’s Army, Jennet Graeme conceals two secrets from her comrades in arms. She is no man, but a woman. And she, like Napoleon, is…
LONDON, 1815. Home after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, Clemency, Countess of Ashford, looks forward to resuming a quiet life. But her past refuses to stay in the past. Fighting memories…
LONDON, 1816. After many years confined to an asylum when her ability to sense the emotions of others drove her temporarily mad, Lydia Wescott, Extraordinary Discerner, now serves England as…
"Maybe it's just that this time of year, when it's dark and cold and the world feels like it's trying to kill us, we get the urge to band together…
Paladin of the Goddess Ginnevra Cassaline and her companion, the werewolf Eodan, want to teach people the truth about how good werewolves turn their backs on the Goddess's enemy, the…
An assignment to mediate a religious conflict takes the paladin Ginnevra and her werewolf companion Eodan to the city-state of Quinizelle, site of Ginnevra's greatest failure. Four years earlier, a…
Helena and the oracular bookstore Abernathy’s stopped an attack by the alien invaders’ human allies and destroyed their attempt at a second oracle, giving the Wardens much-needed victories. Now, after…
Ten years after joining with the oracular bookstore Abernathy's to become an oracle herself, Helena Campbell has a perfect life: a loving husband, three wonderful children who share her gift…
AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY
The four hundredth anniversary of the city of Fioretti's founding provides Sienne and her companions a welcome break from their quest. But the celebration also brings Sienne's…
Zara North, Queen of Tremontane, has the ability to unconsciously heal herself-a magic that also keeps her from aging. Faced with the reality that public knowledge of her magic could…
When unquiet ghosts walk the earth, the servants of Atenas, God of Death, guide them to their final rest in His domain. For six years, Zerafine, priestess of Atenas, and…
The country of Dalanine, at war with the vicious Despot, turns to young magician Evon Lorantis to solve a mystery: a rash of spontaneously occurring fires that melt stone and…
Alison Quinn, Countess of Waxwold, is content with her bookish life-until she’s summoned to be a lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Tremontane’s mother for six months. Alison is prepared to…
Imogen, warrior of the Kirkellan tribes, has never wanted to be anything else. But when the long war between the Kirkellan and the country of Ruskald ends, the terms of…
Telaine North Hunter, Princess of Tremontane, is beautiful, spoiled, flirtatious, and the center of fashionable society throughout Tremontane. She’s also a spy. As an agent of the Crown, Telaine uses…
Five years after the defeat of the Despot, the southern country of Santerre has finally recovered from his rule and sends an embassy to Dalanine. Piercy Faranter, government agent and…
Willow North has safely brought the boy-King Felix out of Tremontane and secured the support of neighboring Eskandel in his bid to recover the Crown. Now she faces her greatest…
Calcutta, 1813. Lady Daphne St. Clair, who as an Extraordinary Bounder is capable of transporting herself anywhere in the world with a thought, has longed to serve in the Army…
The wizard Sienne hopes to make a name for herself as a scrapper-someone who scours the ruins of the Empty Lands for treasure and lost magical artifacts. But first she…
Sesskia, talented thief and secret mage, has spent the last ten years traveling the world, searching for ancient books that will teach her magic forbidden in her country. When she…
The convergence is over, but Sesskia’s role in preventing it has left her far from her friends and her husband Cederic.
As she tries to travel north to rejoin them…
A SPOT OF BLACKMAILFor months, Sienne and her scrapper team have faced many challenges in their quest to free Alaric’s people from the wizard enslaving them. But when a new…
Men and women come to Castle Always to receive a destiny. Few of those questers survive to return home. Mysterious, difficult to find, and possibly sentient, the Castle keeps its…
In 1812, Elinor Pembroke wakes to find her bedchamber in flames-and extinguishes them with a thought. At 21, she is old to manifest magical talent, but the evidence is unmistakable…
Sophia Westlake is an Extraordinary Seer, gifted with the ability to see past, present, and future in Dreams and Visions. Her talent led to the destruction of the Caribbean pirates…
Helena Davies just wants a job that will get her out of her parents’ basement. Abernathy’s Bookstore is disorganized, out of the way, and smells funny, but it pays well…
THE FINAL CHALLENGEWith their quest nearly over and the coming of age ritual complete, Sienne and her companions prepare to challenge the wizard who enslaved Alaric’s people. But a message…
Where THE CROWN OF TREMONTANE and THE SAGA OF WILLOW NORTH leave off, TALES OF THE CROWN begins…This SPOILER-FILLED COMPANION volume to the Tremontane novels contains stories, novellas, scenes, and…
With a successful challenge to the Accords behind her, and her relationship with Malcolm Campbell made public, Helena Davies’ life seems perfect.Then the attacks begin.As the enemy magi known as…
