Maria V Snyder
1) Poison study
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace -- and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust -- and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison. As Yelena...
2) Sea glass
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
379 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Student glass magician Opal Cowan's newfound ability to steal a magician's powers makes her too powerful. Ordered to house arrest by the Council, Opal dares defy them, traveling to the Moon Clan's lands in search of Ulrick, the man she thinks she loves. Thinks, because another man--now her prisoner--claims Ulrick's desire for blood magic has eclipsed his passion for her. In hostile territory, without proof or allies, Opal isn't sure whom to trust....
3) Storm glass
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
488 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowen understands trial by fire. Now it's time to test her mettle. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians.
4) Fire study
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Apprenticeship is Over-Now the Real Test has Begun.
When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder-able to capture and release souls-spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before...
Honor sets Yelena on a path that will test the...
5) Magic study
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Maria V. Snyder delivers another magical adventure in this sequel to her romantic fantasy Poison Study. Yelena Zatalba, who had been kidnapped by the barbarians of the north at the age of six and survived a stint as a poison taster, now has even steeper challenges to meet: a year of magical training in her homeland to learn how to control her powers or be sentenced to death. But her plans take a radical turn when she becomes involved with a plot to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (3.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Yelena is on her way to her ancestral homeland of Sitia to be reunited with her family and to learn more about her magical powers. An order of execution hangs over her head should she ever return to Ixia. But her true love, Valek, quickly learns that an assassin has taken it upon himself to make sure Yelena doesn't reach her destination. As Ixia's chief of security, and a highly skilled assassin himself, can Valek track down the killer in time to...