Maevens Ash and Orm continue to search for her family in Banneret. Orm is attacked and instinctively teleports away leaving Ash behind. Chains prevent her using her magic. The Kings Advisor, is convinced she can do magic and tries to discover her secret. Problems arise when the King takes an unhealthy interest in her. To escape she must force her magic past the chains, but will this damage her magic and memory.
An Outlander befriends Orm and helps him look for traces of Ash’s family. By the time they return to the Kings Keep to rescue Ash, she has already escaped–but where is she and will they be able to find her before the King's men recapture her?
Ash and Orm reach the end of their journey, but the final stop is not as they expected. They see no sign of humans and the swampy grounds appear to be the habitat of unfriendly and dangerous animals.
The further they travel into the continent, the land appears stranger and stranger. Is this really the home of Ash's parents and her people, or has their journey been in vain? If they have failed in their quest, will they be able to return home again?
Academy of Magic
The Maeven came as strangers.
Strangers came to Homa, wielding magic to raise a vast stone academy from the earth. Within its walls, the Maeven trained their young, sending them out as teachers, healers, and guides. Over the years the people of Homa embraced their presence, even sending their own children to the Academy to learn the ways of magic.
Two centuries later whispers of discontent grow louder. Students suspect the Maeven are keeping secrets—denying them the true depth of their power. Curiosity turns to rebellion, the Academy stands on the edge of change… and the balance between trust and betrayal could decide Homa’s future.
The Beginning
Ash and Orm's continued search for Ash's parents. Their magic brings them to the country of Stavmo, a civilization whose power is based on steam.
Steam cars, whirlybirds, and small appliances, even guns, are all powered by steam–but at a cost.
A huge factory blows toxic smoke into the air, and only the rich can escape the smell by living on the opposite side of town. Class is based on your hair color, and if your hair isn't red like the dictator who runs the country, you vanish into the mines or are thrown into the volcano. The volcano holds even greater secrets, and maybe a link to Ash's family.
The magical pair make friends with the rebels and try to help them fight for their rights, but in doing so they get separated and place themselves in danger.
Prior to her first year at Spires Magic College, Ash discovers her parents adopted her as a toddler, the reason her silver purple hair sets her apart from her peers. She works hard at her studies, but Spires magic seems wrong to her. The maeven consider her style of magic to be alien and try unsuccesfully to expel her. Ash is compulsively drawn to the ruined North Spire but students are not allowed near this ruin. She believes the ruin holds the answer to her origins, but is afraid she will get thrown out of Spires if she breaks the rules.
Orm, another talented student, promises to help her enter the North Spire at the end of their time at Spires, but will Ash’s alien magic get her expelled before then and end her dreams of discovering her past?
Broken Spire
Book One
Steam Mountain
Book Two
Knights Keep
Book Three
Journey's End
Book Four
Magic, Mystery and Mayhem
For the young and not so young
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