Elemental Masters

Fire Rose Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Purchase Fire Rose	Fire Rose 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. Books in the Elemental Masters Series Fire Rose Serpent's Shadow Gates of Sleep Phoenxy & Ashes Wizard of London Reserved for the Cat Fire Rose is published by BAEN Books and is not listed as an Elemental Masters book in the following DAW publications.
Serpent's Shadow Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Purchase Serpent's Shadow	Serpent's Shadow Serpent's Shadow second book in the The Elemental Masters series. Maya Witherspoon had lived most of the first twenty-five years of her life in her native India. As the daughter of a prominent British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste, she had known only luxury. Trained by her father in the medical arts since she was old enough to read, she graduated from the University of Delhi as a Doctor of Medicine by the age of twenty-two. Welcomed into her father’s lucrative practice, she treated many of the wives and daughters of the British military personnel who made up a large percentage of their patients in the colonial India of 1909. But the science of medicine was not Maya’s only heritage. For Maya’s aristocratic mother Surya, had not just defied her family, friends and religion to marry Maya’s father, she had turned her back on her family’s powerful magical traditions as well. For her mother was a sorceress—a former priestess of the mystical magics fueled by the powerful and fearsome pantheon of Indian gods. Though Maya felt the stirring of magic in her blood, her mother had repeatedly refused to train her. “I cannot,” she had said, her eyes dark with distress, whenever Maya asked. “Yours is the magic of your father’s blood, not mine….” Surya had never had the chance to explain this enigmatic statement to her daughter, before cholera claimed her life. Yet Maya suspected that something far more sinister than the virulent disease had overcome her powerful mother. But it was Maya’s father’s death shortly thereafter which confirmed her darkest suspicions. For her father was killed by the bite of a krait, a tiny venomous snake, and in the last hours of her mother’s life, in the seeming delirium of her fever, Surya had repeatedly warned Maya to beware “the serpent’s shadow.” With the sudden loss of her father, Maya knew she must flee the land of her birth or face the same fate as her parents. In self-imposed exile in London, Maya surrounded herself with every protection possible. All the magic Maya knew had been learned by covertly observing her mother, and by cobbling this knowledge together with the street-magic gleaned from a few genuine fakirs. Her workings were a mixture of instinct, extrapolation, and trial-and-error. Crude, but somewhat effective, her spells let Maya hide her household behind a wall of secrecy in a poorer section of the city. Here, in a small but adequate house she lived with only the most loyal of her mother’s servants, and her mother’s seven unusual “pets”—if you could use such a word for creatures who seemed far more like friends. For Charan, the little monkey, Rajah, the peacock, Mala, the falcon, Sia and Singhe, the mongooses, Rhadi, the parrot, and Nisha, the owl seemed far too sentient to be ordinary animals. Maya knew that these seven unusual and loving companions had been in some way special to her mother, but their secrets were hidden to her, perhaps forever. In her new home she fought the dual prejudices against her sex and her race to continue in her medical profession. Only her high scholastic abilities and her extreme determination enabled her to meet with any success. She managed to place herself in a minor position at a prestigious hospital while she pursued her own medical passions: helping the poor at a tiny clinic where they welcomed any doctor, and setting up a small, controversial practice which specialized in “female complaints” and offered “absolute discretion.” But Maya knew that she could not hide forever from the vindictive power which had murdered her parents. She knew in her heart that even a vast ocean couldn’t protect her from “the serpent’s shadow” which had so terrified her mother. Her only hope was to find a way to master her own magic: the magic of her father’s blood. But who would teach her? And could she learn enough to save her life by the time her relentless pursuers caught up with their prey? Books in the Elemental Masters Series Fire Rose Serpent's Shadow Gates of Sleep Phoenxy & Ashes Wizard of London Reserved for the Cat
Gates of Sleep Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Purchase Gates of Sleep	Gates of Sleep Gates of Sleep third book in the The Elemental Masters series. Retelling of Sleeping Beauty, set in Devon, England around 1912. Set in same universe as Fire Rose and Serpent's Shadow. For seventeen years, Marina Roeswood had lived in the care of close friends of her wealthy, aristocratic parents. As the ward of bohemian artists in turn-of-the-century 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 had she never seen her parents, or been to Oakhurst, her family's ancestral manor? And why hadn't her real parents trained her themselves? Marina could get no clues out of her guardians. But 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 encountered, 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 depths of the country. But could Marina unravel the secrets of her life in time to save herself? Books in the Elemental Masters Series Fire Rose Serpent's Shadow Gates of Sleep Phoenxy & Ashes Wizard of London Reserved for the Cat
Phoenix & Ashes Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Purchase Phoenix & Ashes	Phoenix And Ashes Phoenix And Ashes fourth book in the The Elemental Masters series. Retelling of the classic Cinderella story, set around Stratford, England 1918ish. Maya from Serpent's Shadow is involved in this story. Books in the Elemental Masters Series Fire Rose Serpent's Shadow Gates of Sleep Phoenxy & Ashes Wizard of London Reserved for the Cat
Wizard of London Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Purchase Wizard of London	Wizard of London Wizard of London fifth book in the The Elemental Masters series. Set in England in the mid 1800's this is a retelling of the Snow Queen. The first part of the book incorporates the much requested "Grey" stories featuring Sarah and her African Grey parrot "Gray". Lord Alderscroft who appears in Serpent's Shadow as an old man, is a young man in this novel. In same universe as Fire Rose, Gates of Sleep, Serpent's Shadow, Phoenix & Ashes. Books in the Elemental Masters Series Fire Rose Serpent's Shadow Gates of Sleep Phoenxy & Ashes Wizard of London Reserved for the Cat
Reserved for the Cat Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Purchase Reserved for the Cat	Reserved for the Cat Reserved for the Cat sixth book in the The Elemental Masters series. The newest entry to the series is based on Puss in Boots. The cat in question is a elemental master in cat form, and father of the young dancer in the story. She is of course human. In same universe as Fire Rose, Gates of Sleep, Wizard of London Serpent's Shadow, Phoenix & Ashes. Books in the Elemental Masters Series Fire Rose Serpent's Shadow Gates of Sleep Phoenxy & Ashes Wizard of London Reserved for the Cat

If you would like to be added to our Mercedes Lackey electronic mailing list? Just contact Firebird at our e-mail address. Please mention Mercedes Lackey in your message.