Mercedes Lackey

Young, brash, and impulsive, Rune backs up a brag by ascending Skull Hill to play fiddle for the malevolent spirit that resides there, striking a bargain with the ghost to surrender her soul if he tires of her playing before sunrise....

Mags was a Herald of Valdemar. But he had once lived the brutal life of a child slave....

Mags was once an enslaved orphan living a harsh life in the mines, until the King's Own Herald discovered his talent and trained him as a spy....

It has been four years since Darian saw his village sacked and burned by barbarians. Taking refuge with the Hawkbrothers, he soon finds his life's calling - as a Healing Adept....

She is the unwanted spawn of a mad king and queen, her lands lost before her birth; her family - her very name - erased from history. Cursed by many, yet protected by an even greater curse....

Mags, a young Herald trainee in Haven, the capital city of the kingdom of Valdemar, has talents not commonly found in Herald trainees....

High Mage Cilarnen learns an ancient secret that can make him, for a brief, white-hot time, the greatest mage in the world....

Kellen Tavadon, son of the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked....

Traditionally, marauding dragons are soothed only by a virgin sacrifice....

In March 1987, Mercedes Lackey, a young author from Oklahoma, published her first novel, Arrows of the Queen.

A re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty as a dark and enchanting Edwardian fantasy....

Though her father takes his boat out on the sea regardless of weather, Mari has learned not to fear for his safety, for he is a Water mage....

Herald Mags, the King of Valdemar's Herald-Spy, has been developing a clandestine network of young informants who operate not only on the streets of the capital city of Haven....

The first audiobook in this thrilling new series introduces us to a young slave who dreams of becoming a jouster - one of the few warriors who can actually ride a flying dragon. And so, in secret, he begins to raise his own dragon....

United by sword-spell and the will of the goddess, Tarma and Kethry swore a blood oath to carry on their mutual fight against evil. And together, sword master and sorceress set forth to fulfill their destiny....

In Magic's Pawn, an ancient age in the history of Valdemar comes to life - an age when the kingdom was ravaged by the ungoverned fury of bandit warlords....

With Elspeth, the heir to the throne of Valdemar, now of marriageable age, Talia, the Queen's Own Herald, returns to court. Here, she finds the Queen and heir beset by diplomatic intrigue as various forces vie for control of Elspeth's future....

In Magic's Pawn, an ancient age in the history of Valdemar comes to life life....

They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world....

Within the Eastern Empire, Duke Kordas Valdemar rules a tiny, bucolic Duchy that focuses mostly on horse breeding. Anticipating the day when the Empire's exploitative and militant leaders would not be content to leave them alone, Korda's father set out to gather magicians....