Mercedes Lackey

Spirit White attends the mysterious Oakhurst Academy after her parents are killed in a car accident, and as she learns how to control the magical gifts she never knew she had, her classmates begin to disappear and it is up to Spirit to find out what has happened to them.

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.

Spirit and her friends Burke, Loch, Muirin, and Addie, believe they have defeated the evil force that has been killing students at Oakhurst Academy for forty years, so Spirit is suspicious when a series of magical attacks prompt Dr. Ambrosius to call in alumnus Mark Rider to secure the campus, and sets out to learn what is really going on.

The eldest daughter is often doomed in fairy tales. But Bella--Isabella Beauchamps, daughter of a wealthy merchant--vows to escape the usual pitfalls.

Anxious to avoid the traditional path, Bella dons a red cloak and ventures into the forbidden forest to consult with "Granny," the local wisewoman. But on the way home she's attacked by a wolf--who turns out to be a cursed nobleman. Secluded in his castle, Bella is torn between...