Smaragdine Books: 8 books

When Noemi's father dies, leaving her an orphan, her unpleasant relatives don't waste any time before shipping her off to a poor, out-of-the-way boarding school. For Noemi, that turns out to be the best thing they could ever do for her—and the worst. She learns of the powerful magic at her command......

When war overwhelms them, they can only take refuge in each other. When Sher asks for aid from the bird-woman inventor Melowren, she does not expect to fall in love. But it happens anyway: suddenly, completely, and for both of them. They have no time to do more than enjoy it, for their cause—freeing...

The woods hide wolves. But Nadine never believed that. She meets the gorgeous, mysterious Connor and immediately finds a strange connection to him. When they meet, time and memory slips away. Frightened but still attracted, Nadine tries to put him out of her mind, only to find him again at the edge...

Tuga enjoys his new life with his father and his new home in Atash. But when he travels to the capital city to begin his training, things shift again. He doesn’t fit in with the other boys—too old, too strange, too uneducated. He begins to fear that he will never become the son his father needs....

Elaine, Dominic, and baby Mackenzie are the happiest family in the world--until Mackenzie starts to act strangely. The doctor can't find anything wrong, but their neighbor Ken discovers the truth: Mackenzie has been replaced by a changeling. Now all they have to do is get her back.

Witches must be paid. Lavender considers any price acceptable for his dream. He does pay a price, but not what he expects. He gets what he wants—and far more than that. A new body, a new life, a new world. He knew he had to change, but he did not know how far-reaching those changes would be.

Her true destiny—or doom—revealed Noemi and her friends escape from a killer who wants to use her unique powers, but that doesn't mean freedom—or safety. Their only hope is one woman who claims to have known Noemi’s mother. With only a name to go on and the killer on their trail, they travel...

Do the stars control her destiny, or does she control the stars? Noemi can’t trust her teachers, she can’t trust history, and she certainly can’t trust her family. She puts her faith in her friends and traveling companions—and her mother, who left her nothing but magical powers and a mysterious...