With no magic talent of her own, Anne de Vernase must take on her sister's magical legacy to unravel the secrets behind the dark sorcery besieging the royal city of Merona--and to uncover the truth behind her sister's death.

Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, is reduced to tending the library at Sabria's last collegia magica, where he fights off despair with scholarship. When the king charges him to investigate an attempted murder that has disturbing magical resonances, Portier believes his dreams of a greater destiny might at last be fulfilled.

Addicted to an enchantment that turns pain into pleasure and bound by oaths he refuses to abandon,Valen, a rebellious sorcerer, risks body and soul to rescue one child, seek justice for another, and bring a dying land its rightful king.--From publisher description.

Once Seyonne's people were the guardians of magic. But the Derzhi came and enslaved them. years of misery has drained his strength and blurred his memory. Till he finds hope in an unlikely place.

Seyonne, the slave-turned-hero from Berg's highly acclaimed Transformation, returns to discover the nature of evil--in a "spellbinding" (Romantic Times) epic saga.

After giving up everything, including his memory and his name, to join the Order, a powerful sorcerer has his past come rushing back to him on his first assignment alone, in the second novel of the series following Dust and Light.

The rebellious son of a long line of pureblood cartographers and diviners, Valen has spent most of his life trying to escape what ordained for him. His own mother has predicted that he will meet his end in water and blood and ice. And her divination seems fulfilled when a comrade abandons Valen, half-dead, in a rainy wilderness, addicted to an enchantment that converts pain to pleasure and possessing only a stolen book of maps. Offered sanctuary in...