Melissa McShane
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With two threats to the oracular bookstore Abernathy's behind her, Helena finally feels secure in her role as custodian. But when, a new danger rises, it threatens not the store, but the magi of Portland. As tensions between the factions grow, and monsters terrorize the city, the conflict tests Helena's neutrality and requires her to solve the mystery-before she becomes the next victim.
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Helena and the oracular bookstore Abernathy's stopped an attack by the alien invaders' human allies and destroyed their attempt at a second oracle, giving the Wardens much-needed victories. Now, after months of fighting a defensive war, the Wardens plan a direct assault on the enemy stronghold. But as the battle approaches, Abernathy's has other plans. The oracle directs Helena to contact four ordinary people with extraordinary talents whose abilities...
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With a successful challenge to the Accords behind her, and her relationship with Malcolm Campbell made public, Helena Davies' life seems perfect.
Then the attacks begin.
As the enemy magi known as the Mercy wreak havoc on Warden strongholds, Helena and the oracular bookstore Abernathy's play their role in guiding the Wardens. But the oracle knows a deadly secret, one Helena struggles to interpret while the enemy draws nearer. And the one question...
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Helena Davies just wants a job that will get her out of her parents' basement, but by the end of her first day at Abernathy's Bookstore, she has a dead boss in the basement and the news that she is now a part of an endless magical war.Abernathy's is the world's only living oracle, and Helena is now its custodian. Without any training, she must navigate her new world and find a place for herself within it. But there's still a murderer on the loose-and...
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For over seventy years, the use of familiars-monsters bound by magic to fight beside humans in the Long War-divided magery into two factions. Now, the monsters strike back.
As Helena prepares for the Conference of Neutralities, reports of familiars breaking their bonds to attack and kill their masters raise tensions between the factions to an unprecedented high. Faced with the challenge of keeping her relationship with Malcolm Campbell secret from...
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As the custodian of the oracular bookstore Abernathy's, Helena has faced any number of challenges in learning her new role. But when the store begins giving out false prophecies, Helena comes up against her greatest challenge yet: how can she fix Abernathy's when she doesn't truly know how it works?
Armed only with a few special talents and her desire to protect her magical charge, and with the assistance of her best friend Viv, her reluctant assistant...
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Ten years after joining with the oracular bookstore Abernathy's to become an oracle herself, Helena Campbell has a perfect life: a loving husband, three wonderful children who share her gift, and a calling she loves. But a chance encounter reveals a secret conflict between adepts who wield magic unlike anything she has ever seen and a powerful cabal that wants to rule the world. For a thousand years, the adepts have guarded the way to the realm of...
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Hot on the trail of a counterfeiter who has turned to murder, the paladin Ginnevra and her werewolf companion Eodan travel to Ginnevra's hometown of Talagne. Within the bustling metropolis, crime and justice fight for dominance. The complex investigation stretches Ginnevra's skills to the utmost as she tries to stay ahead of the criminal organization that wants her prey for reasons of their own.But complications arise when Ginnevra and Eodan discover...
9) Hidden Enemy
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Return to the world of The Last Oracle! With the destruction of the barrier protecting our world from the lost realm of Faerie, conflict rises between the Wardens and the magical adepts who created it. While most adepts understand Helena's role in eliminating the barrier, some adepts, angry with the loss of their life's work, call for her to restore it. And one adept may want her dead. A series of mysterious poems leads Helena and Malcolm on a hunt...
10) Burning Bright
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In 1812, Elinor Pembroke wakes to find her bedchamber in flames-and extinguishes them with a thought. As an Extraordinary, gifted with powerful magical talent, she is respected and feared, but her father intends to control her and her talent by forcing her to marry where he insists. Trapped between the choices of a loveless marriage or living penniless and dependent on her parents, Elinor takes a third path: she joins the Royal Navy.
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11) Wondering Sight
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Sophia Westlake is an Extraordinary Seer, gifted with the ability to See past, present and future in Dreams and Visions. When she accuses a prominent politician, Lord Endicott, of embezzling from the Army, her Dream is "proved" false and she is disgraced, her reputation ruined. Furious and desperate, Sophia takes the only course left to her: she sets out to discover Lord Endicott's criminal enterprises and bring him to justice.
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Elspeth North, born and raised far from her Tremontanan homeland, wants nothing more than the peaceful, holy life of a priestess. Although born a princess, she believes her father's abdication means politics and intrigue have nothing to do with her. But her cousin King Francis's untimely death and a twist of Tremontanan law changes her whole life…and makes Elspeth Queen of Tremontane. With no formal training, no experience, and very little support,...
13) Liberating Fight
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Spain, 1814. The warrior woman Amaya, born Imelda Salazar, has the power to alter bodies with a touch-to heal, or to destroy. Having left behind her Inca rescuers for a new life in England, she finds herself lost in this new world, surrounded by people who insist she use her talent in ways at odds with her warrior upbringing. When the opportunity to find her father's family arises, Amaya journeys to Spain, hopeful of finding the truth about her past....
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An assignment to mediate a religious conflict takes the paladin Ginnevra and her werewolf companion Eodan to the city-state of Quinizelle, site of Ginnevra's greatest failure. Four years earlier, a bandit attack caused the death of the king's sister, the woman Ginnevra's paladin company was sworn to protect, and nearly cost Ginnevra her life. Now, Ginnevra's former best friend returns, claiming to have proof of what really happened four years ago....
15) Sands of Memory
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A CITY LOST TO TIMEAn unexpected discovery takes Sienne and her companions to the mysterious country of Omeira, Kalanath's lost homeland. There, a surprising welcome for Kalanath leads to another discovery. To complete their quest, they must travel to the city of Ma'tzehar, swallowed up by the desert centuries ago.Dangers lurk on every side on the journey to Ma'tzehar. But the real challenge begins when they reach the mysterious city, filled with...
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Beginner witch Chloe has a problem. There's a frog in her tub who says he used to be a man. Worse, his memory is slipping away from him. Magic doesn't work, so there's only one way she can think of to turn him back-but can she bring herself to do it? And that's only the beginning of her challenges… In these fourteen short fairy tale retellings, including "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Frog Prince," and "The Princess and the Pea," follow the adventures...
17) Soaring Flight
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Home after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Clemency, Countess of Ashford, looks forward to resuming a quiet life. But her past refuses to stay in the past. Fighting memories, the Extraordinary Mover takes to the skies by night, secretly bringing criminals to justice. When a rash of bombings strikes London, the crisis entangles Clemency in the intrigue centered on the bomber's terrible demands: remove all Extraordinaries from their positions of power,...
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For the first time, all four Crown of Tremontane novels in one collection, PLUS the complete novella Exile of the Crown!SERVANT OF THE CROWN: Alison Quinn, Countess of Waxwold, content with her bookish life, never expected her world to collide with the playboy Prince Anthony North, but their initial animosity turns into friendship--and then something more. When catastrophe strikes, Alison must find a way to save her beloved Royal Library...and regain...
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Paladin of the Goddess Ginnevra Cassaline and her companion, the werewolf Eodan, want to teach people the truth about how good werewolves turn their backs on the Goddess's enemy, the Bright One. But as a new challenge arises, they must temporarily set aside their personal quest. Men and women are going missing in the city of Uparde, including Ginnevra's aunt, a retired paladin, and Revered Parenogne, leader of Uparde's religious community.
When Ginnevra...
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London, 1816. After many years confined to an asylum when her ability to sense the emotions of others drove her temporarily mad, Lydia Wescott, Extraordinary Discerner, now serves England as a secret agent. Recruited by the Duke of Craythorne to stop a threat to the King of England, Lydia travels to the American colonies, where intrigue and treason threaten on every side.
Lydia wants nothing more than to put her Discerner's talent to good use, but...