Nym can heal by magic. Historically magic is outlawed, but the second prince of the realm was born with a strange disease and had a debilitating childhood injury, so healers have been conscripted to come to the palace and try to heal him. So far, no one has succeeded. But then Nym makes a difference, and she must stay and work...forever?
The smuggler Dev is desperate to earn money and get away from the city after breaking up with his no-good girlfriend. Usually he takes goods—spelled charms, from the mage city of Ninavel to the restricted-magic-only country of Alathia. This time his cargo is a young man—an apprentice running from a blood mage.
Georgia is graduating high school and going on to university. It's her last chance to confess to her multi-year crush whom she's never spoken to. The moment comes, he's about to kiss her...and Georgia realizes this is eew like the last thing she wants. Why? At university she is determined to figure out what is up, and, urged by her roommate Ronnie, tries a dating app, goes dates with her best friend Jason, and so on...even after she has pretty much reached the conclusion that this romance stuff just isn't for her, no matter how desperately she wants it.
Taemon lives in a city where everybody has psi—powers that let you move things around with your mind. Doing anything with your hands is, like, being disabled. People without psi end up getting sent to a colony. Get them out of the way because they make people uncomfortable. Well, Taemon is actually quite skilled, until he loses his Psi...
Katie is a normal country girl who moved to the big city to make something of herself. She seems some weird stuff in the city and well, it's a city, what did she expect. Then she gets scouted by some weird people and offered a job at...a company that sells magical spells. Turns out magic doesn't work on Katie, and that rare immunity makes her valuable to spot illusions, contract forgeries, invisible spies, and more. Plus, her experience in marketing might help the company up against their first ever competition.
Kami is an acrobat. His father leads the troupe of acrobats, his sister is an acrobat, he really doesn't have much of a choice...even though everyone else possesses the sort of 'magic' (kazuh) of acrobats, and Kami doesn't. The traveling troupe stops for some time in a town where the ruling nobleman has a special fondness for acrobats. It's important to note that the 'beloved ruling class' treat commoners however they want—the acrobats don't let this bother them. Kami is in love with a noblewoman, who is courted by a nobleman, and that noble is not inclined to treat Kami fairly. A series of vicious accidents result in Kami being tasked with solving for murder.
Mara's decision to become a priestess is thwarted when her father and brother die in battle, leaving her as the Ruling Lady of the Acoma. She must figure out how to lead her people, handle the finances, and figure out how to keep them from ruin—most likely in the form of obliteration by their enemies who killed not only her family, but most of their warriors. Mostly out of desperation, Mara hatches scheme after scheme to protect the Acoma and ensure their future.
Vaine and Iris are sisters who survived a military assignment they should never have returned from. They not only survived, they caused massive damage to the enemy and were promoted and knighted as a result. So now Sir Vaine can enter the royal court and basically pick whatever job she wants. She chooses to be a tutor to the royal children, which nobody else can understand, but that doesn't bother her. Nobody knows how to handle her anyway, because she is a Weeper, which should mean she's ostracized, butttt she's also a hero. What can you do.
Captain Rick is a regular Earth soldier with a good mind for military history. When a mission goes awry, Rick and his team find themselves snatched up...by aliens. Technically they saved their lives...but in return, they want Rick to go to a hidden planet, populated by humans of past eras, to grow a super special crop that has growing periods only every 600 years. They just have to like basically conquer the planet. No biggie. Then there's Gwen, whose boyfriend turned out to be a non-Earth human transporting these soldiers to their new planet. She's an anthropologist so teamed up with Rick they can definitely bring this planet of barbarians into the modern era. Also, the locals! Basically the Scots vs the Romans!
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