Sylvia Volk: 7 books

War threatens Salsabil's family. Drought and raiders may take all they have, and though Salsabil's brothers are ready to fight, none of them know what they're getting into. She's only a girl, raised in the sands of the Arabian desert; what can she do to help? But she has seen a wild horse in the dunes,...

When her mother dies, young Amyke is sold into slavery, forced to toil in the beer-shop she should have inherited. She hides her face when Muru--the handsomest woodcutter in their city of Alalalk--comes by. If she could, she'd welcome Muru's kisses, but she's only a slave. If free, she could open...

Wenceslaus the clumsy apprentice despairs of ever mastering smith-magic. His teacher, wicked Black Kaspar, mocks him, but Kaspar’s lonely young wife Kalyna breaks into a smile full of dimples whenever Wenceslaus is about. None of them know that their mountain harbours a dragon—or that the gold...

Dovizel lives in a city built on the back of a sleeping dragon, a city full of wonders. Strange beasts stalk its markets; magic is everywhere, miracles are commonplace. As is peril. The buried dragon is about to wake. It is so immense that if it rises and spreads its wings, it will tumble her city...

Young Harmony lives in seclusion, hidden from the more dangerous mages who are her elders. So when a dragon poses her a riddle, intending to eat her if she can't find the answer, she has no one to turn to. No way to escape. No future, unless she can solve the riddle.

Nothing wrecked a vacation cottage worse than sasquatches. Nothing wrecked a happy marriage worse than lovesick sasquatches on the prowl. Just ask Pete. All he was looking for was a weekend of married bliss, but all he found was a sasquatch ransacking his romantic mountain getaway.

Anahita, living goddess of the Mazans, longs to be ordinary again - just another archer among the warlike men and women of her tribe. But magic wakes in her, like a sword she can’t fling away. She can’t go back to a simpler life. Her people are homeless – wanderers across the map, searching...