The Fire Rose (Elemental
Masters #1)
by Mercedes Lackey
Rosalind Hawkins is a medieval scholar from a fine family in
Chicago. Unfortunately, her professor father has speculated away the family
money and died, leaving young Rosalind with no fortune and no future. Desolate
with grief, forced to cut her education short, she agrees to go West to take a
job as a governess to a wealthy man in San Francisco. A boom town in the 1850s,
in 1905 San Francisco is the center of culture in the new West, and perhaps
there she will rediscover a reason for living. But when she arrives at Jason
Cameron's mansion on a hill overlooking the Pacific, she discovers that there
are no children, not even a wife, in residence: just the gentleman himself and
his enigmatic manservant. Penniless, Rosalind stays despite her misgivings. For
the household is very odd indeed. Despite there being but one servant, the huge
house is immaculate and food is prepared and served in the most elegant manner.
Oddest of all is the master of the house: Rosalind never sees him, but
communicates only through a speaking tube, and only at night. But then...she is
happy. For her job in the household is to read to him: Latin, French, Greek,
German - and she feels herself coming alive once more. As for Jason Cameron,
through his contact with Rosalind, he, too, is renewed. An Adept and Alchemist,
Master of the Element of Fire, he had attempted the old French werewolf
transformation - and bungled it. Stuck in wolf form, over the years he had
slowly been losing his humanity. Rosalind is bringing it back to him. But when
a rival alchemist offers Rosalind the chance to restore her family's fortune in
exchange for Jason's secret, who will she side with? And then the earthquake
strikes....
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The Serpent's Shadow
(Elemental Masters #2)
by Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey returns to form in The Serpent's Shadow, the
fourth in her sequence of reimagined fairy tales. This story takes place in the
London of 1909, and is based on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Lackey creates echoes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, pays affectionate homage to
Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey (who plays an important role under a thin
disguise), and turns the dwarves into seven animal avatars who masquerade as
pets of her Eurasian heroine, Maya.
Some of Maya's challenges come from the fact that she is not
"snow white," and she has fled India for her father's English
homeland after the suspicious deaths of her parents. Establishing her household
in London, she returns to her profession as a physician, working among the
poor. Her "pets" and loyal servants stand guard, and Maya herself
uses what bits of magic she managed to pick up in childhood to weave
otherworldly defenses as well. But the implacable enemy who killed her parents
has come to London to search for her; if Maya can be enslaved, her enormous
potential powers can be used to the enemy's ends. Fortunately, English
magicians of the White Lodge have also noted a new, powerful presence in their
midst, though they're having trouble locating her, too. They send Peter Scott,
a Water Master, to track her down. He finds Maya beautiful and benign, and is
determined to teach her to use the Western magic she is heir to, before her
enemy discovers her.
Some will find the author's Kiplingesque descriptions of India and
Hindustani culture offensive. Lackey describes Maya's enemy as a powerful
devotee of the goddess Kali-Durga, though she carefully shows that the avatars
of the other deities will not attack her, and has Kali-Durga repudiate her
servant in the climactic confrontation. And, though the story is layered, its
surface is as glossy and brightly colored as an action comic. But readers who
enjoy late Victorian London, Sayers, Sherlock Holmes stories, and a page-turning
tale will want to take this one home.
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The Gates of Sleep
(Elemental Masters #3)
by Mercedes Lackey
For seventeen years, Marina Roeswood had lived in an old, rambling
farmhouse in rural Cornwall in the care of close friends of her wealthy,
aristocratic parents. As the ward of bohemian artists in Victorian England, she
had grown to be a free thinker in an environment of fertile creativity and
cultural sophistication. But the real core of her education was far outside societal
norms. For she and her foster parents were Elemental Masters of magic, and
learning to control her growing powers was Marina's primary focus.
But though Marina's life seemed idyllic, her existence was riddled
with mysteries. Why, for example, had she never seen her parents, or been to
Oakhurst, her family's ancestral manor? And why hadn't her real parents, also
Elemental Masters, trained her themselves? That there was a secret about all
this she had known from the time she had begun to question the world around
her. Yet try as she might, she could get no clues our of her guardians.
But Marina would have answers to her questions all too soon. For
with the sudden death of her birth parents, Marina met her new guardian- her
father's eldest sister Arachne. Aunt Arachne exuded a dark magical aura unlike
anything Marina had encounter, a stifling evil that seemed to threaten Marina's
very spirit. Slowly Marina realized that her aunt was the embodiment of the
danger her parents had been hiding her from in the backwoods of Cornwall. But
could Marina unravel the secrets of her life in time to save herself from the
evil that had been seeking her for nearly eighteen years?
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Phoenix and Ashes
(Elemental Masters #4)
by Mercedes Lackey
In this dark and atmospheric rendition of the Cinderella fairy
tale, an intelligent young Englishwoman is made into a virtual slave by her
evil stepmother. Her only hope of rescue comes in the shape of a scarred World
War I pilot of noble blood, whose own powers over the elements are about to be
needed more than ever.
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The Wizard of London
(Elemental Masters #5)
by Mercedes Lackey
Isabelle Benson has learned that an Elemental Master is behind the
attempts on her students' lives-and the would-be murderer is someone very close
to her former flame, "The Wizard of London."
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Reserved for the Cat
(Elemental Masters #6)
by Mercedes Lackey
In 1910, in an alternate London, a penniless young dancer is
visited by a cat who communicates with her mind to mind. Though she is certain
she must be going mad, she is desperate enough to follow the cat's advice and
impersonates a famous Russian ballerina. The cat, it turns out, is actually an
Elemental Earth Spirit, and leads her to minor stardom. Meanwhile, the real Russian ballerina has fallen victim to an evil
troll who takes over her body and kills her patrons, drinking their life
essences in order to strengthen his powers. And soon, the troll focuses his
dark attentions on the young dancer...
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Unnatural Issue (Elemental
Masters #7)
by Mercedes Lackey
Richard
Whitestone is an Elemental Earth Master. Blaming himself for the death of his
beloved wife in childbirth, he has sworn never to set eyes on his daughter,
Suzanne. But when he finally sees her, a dark plan takes shape in his twisted
mind-to use his daughter's body to bring back the spirit of his long-dead wife.
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