Mercedes Lackey

Herald Mags, the King of Valdemar's Herald Spy, has been developing a network of young informants who operate on the streets and also in the halls and kitchens of the wealthy and highborn. His wife Amily is King's Own Herald and finds it useful to be underestimated for there are dark things stirring in the shadows of Haven. Someone has discovered many secrets of the women of the Court and the Collegia and is using those secrets to terrorize and bully...

Trained as a spy by the King's Own Herald, an orphan named Mags rises through the ranks of the Heralds' Collegium and uses his powerful Mindspeech gift to outmaneuver a royal court plot that risks his mentor and family.

While fighting monsters that break through the barriers surrounding Apex City, Joy and her pack of magical hounds begin finding dead Psimons, and reporting the incidents only causes more trouble.

"A teenage girl leaves home to join the legendary Hunters, who protect the people from the terrifying monsters that have overrun their world"--

Vetch, and Altan serf who was saved by a dragon-rider and trained to be a dragon-boy, cannot forget the family he lost during the war, so he steals a dragon egg in the hopes of raising the dragon as his own and using it to help find his family.

Acting as the "son" her father never had, Gwenhwyfar, when called upon to serve another purpose by the Ladies of the Well, bows to circumstances to become Arthur's queen--only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption.

Kiron discovers that the world of Alta has a dark side when he attempts to enter into Altan noble society and exposes a plot orchestrated by the Magi to take over Alta with a powerful weapon called the Eye of Light.

Vetch, an Altan serf, must learn the secret of the Tian jousters and their dragons in order to save his people.