The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy
- 880 pages
- 31 hours of reading
Collects three novels about Vanyel and his magical horse Yfandes.
Mercedes Lackey Books
This author sees herself as a storyteller, with narratives emerging from characters and their responses to situations. Writing is less a job and more an addiction that drives her creative process. She focuses on constructing intricate fantasy worlds with a commitment to realism, where magic carries a cost and characters grapple with everyday struggles alongside extraordinary events. Her work often explores themes of love, freedom, and self-discovery, reflecting her personal philosophy.
The Mage Storms
- 1016 pages
- 36 hours of reading
Karse and Valdemar have long been enemy kingdoms, until they are forced into an uneasy alliance to defend their lands from the armies of Eastern Empire, which is ruled by a monarch whose magical tactics may be beyond any sorcery known to the Western kingdoms.
New York Times #1 bestseller Mercedes Lackey's epic Valdemar series continues in this collection of three novels set in the classic fantasy universe. Exiles of Valdemar tells the story of Alberich, the youngest captain in the army of Karse.
The Complete Arrows Trilogy
- 720 pages
- 26 hours of reading
Arrow's flight: Talia, having mastered her psychic and empathic powers, is chosen to be a Herald by the Companions, but must face a testing period before she becomes the Queen's protector.
Burdens of the Dead
- 576 pages
- 21 hours of reading
A Venetian siege on alternate-universe Constantinople finds Italian captain Benito Valdosta battling a magical manifestation of Hekate in order to save his daughter and destroy the fleets of the Chernobog
Apex
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Being a member of the Elite Hunter Command imperils Joy in more ways than one. In their latest clash with Othersiders, the army of monsters nearly wiped them out. Apex City is safe?for now. But within the city barriers, Joy must wage a different kind of war. The corrupt and powerful PsiCorps is determined to usurp the Hunters as chief defenders of Apex City and Joy is now squarely in their crosshairs. Unused to playing political games, she has very few people she can truly trust-not even Josh, her first friend in Apex City, who broke up with her when it became too dangerous for a Psimon to be dating a Hunter. Then Josh comes to Joy for help. He fears that Abigail Drift, the head of PsiCorps, will soon use him in her twisted experiments designed to empower PsiCorps and render Hunters superfluous--a scheme that's already killed off dozens of Psimons. Joy manages to smuggle Josh to safety, but he cannot evade Drift forever? As Joy faces ever more powerful Othersiders, she is helped by the most surprising ally imaginable---the same Folk Mage she once met in battle on the train to Apex City. But can Joy trust the most cunning and treacherous of all Othersiders? In the thrilling finale to Mercedes Lackey's #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy, Joy must risk everything to end a brutal war?before she loses all she's ever loved.
The long-awaited founding of Valdemar comes to life in this new series from the New York Times bestselling author and Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
From a High Tower is the newest adventure in Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series, featuring a retelling of Rapunzel's not-so-happily-ever-after ending.
Avalanche
- 992 pages
- 35 hours of reading
From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, Book #5 in the pulse-pounding SECRET WORLD saga of modern-day humans with superpowers.THE SECRET WORLD CHRONICLE CONTINUESUltima Thule has been destroyed—but the Thulians mounted an even bigger force to destroy Metis. The Metisians who escaped the carnage and destruction of their secret city now must somehow find somewhere safe to go—without getting snapped up by various world governments. And now the Thulians have changed their tactics, sending wave after wave of their ships and troops to attack vulnerable targets all over Earth. John Murdock and The Seraphym have become a force of nature, but they can’t be everywhere at once, and if they were regarded with suspicion before, now they are regarded by ECHO’s allies with fear as well. The heroes of ECHO and CCCP have to save the world. But first, they have to save each other. And the avalanche has begun.About World Divided, Book 2 in the Secret World "[C]omes together seamlessly. . .an awesome and lightning-paced read it on a day when you will not have to put it down."– San Francisco Book ReviewAbout Mercedes "With [Mercedes Lackey], suspense never lags..." – KliattThe Secret World ChronicleInvasionWorld DividedRevolutionCollision
The long-awaited founding of Valdemar comes to life in this new series from the New York Times bestselling author and Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.