Ardath Mayhar

Ten-year-old Andraia fights with the government not to destroy the planet where she is working alone, because of an intelligent life form she has discovered there.

The ruling family in Sherath has an inherited Gift bringing fabulous power, but when its dark side leads the tainted Theora to seize control it is only her sister Choria who can save the land.

When Carrot's distant relative Emiglia moves from a scholarly English home to the Ramsden ranch in Texas, everyone has to make adjustments.

After rejecting her only likely proposal of marriage, sevenfoot Grittel wanders the kingdom using her strength and skill to right wrongs until she goes on a quest and finds her true destiny.

A magic lyre is the key to salvation for the people of Hasyih when they are threatened by a group of rebels awakening in a neighboring world.

When Marise Dering marries Ben Clarrington and moves into the old mansion where the rest of the Clarringtons live, she's ordered to keep out of the closed-off sections of the third floor - but is not told why. It is only later that she learns the sinister family secrets ... but has she been told all of them? As the family members begin perishing in odd and horrifying circumstances, Marise must try to uncover all the secrets of the Clarrington heritage...

Tyrnos needs no armies, no police, no enforcers, for it has its Soul-Singers. These carefully trained and strongly talented people travel the country, showing the truth of their souls to nobles and commons alike, often resulting in the removal or reform of those needing it. Yeleeve, newly sent forth from the School for Singers, encounters, early in her journey, disturbing indications that something is seriously wrong in Tyrnos. Finding along her way such allies as Lisaux of the Black Shield and the Winter Beast, she pursues clues that crop up inexorably, arriving at last at the conclusion that an intrusion by alien beings has corrupted not only the King, but his own Singer of Souls. Drawing on the power of her training and her gift, Yeleeve must risk everything in an attempt to remedy this situation.