Fire Rose first book in the The Elemental Masters series.

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.

Jason Cameron her new employer is a man with a problem: An Adept and Alchemist, Master of the Element of Fire, he had attempted the old French werewolf transformation, and got stuck in mid transformation. Trapped halfway between wolf and man, over the centuries he has been slowly losing his humanity, and with it his ability to discover a cure for his condition.

Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Books in the Elemental Masters Series

Fire Rose
Serpent's Shadow
Gates of Sleep
Phoenix & Ashes
Wizard of London
Reserved for the Cat

Links

More about Mercedes Lackey
Heralds, Companions and Velgarth
Mercedes Lackey’s website
Cover artist Jody Lee’s website.
The DAW Books website
The Tor Books website
The Baen Books website
The Secret World Chronicle website