Circles Of Light Series

A young slave girl flees from the Lord who owns her, choosing to die in the mountains rather than become one of his 'pretties'. When that death seems all too likely, she is found by one of the Dragon Kindred and Tika's life takes a twist she could never have imagined in her wildest dreams - or her worst nightmares.

In the face of increasing troubles in the world, Tika and her companions discover Vagrantia, the hidden community of once-powerful magic wielders. After centuries of seclusion, the Vagrantian leader, Thryssa, has to decide whether to allow her people to participate in the affairs of the outside world.

While still seeking Namolos, Tika and her company learn that an ancient evil, believed to have been safely neutralised a thousand years before, is now beginning to stir. With the help of a mage councillor, the evil strengthens and comes close to gaining its freedom. Tika has to combat this evil rather than continue her search for Namolos, whose trail grows ever fainter.

Leaving Mim in control in the Northern Stronghold, Tika travels west to the lands where she was born a slave. She is searching for a mysterious being called Namolos. Meanwhile, in the lands of Drogoya, evil is growing rapidly with all too few people able to resist its force.

Olam, Arms Chief of Far, leads a small company to the ruins of ancient Valsheba on the west coast of Sapphrea. He believes that Seola, a mage from the Dark Realm who has sworn to kill Tika in revenge for the death of her brother Cyrek, is hidden somewhere in that area. Tika knows nothing of this expedition – she is still recovering from the battles of the previous year. Somehow, time fluctuates. Olam and some of his company are hurled back in time to the period when Valsheba was thriving. It is also close to the time when Valsheba was utterly destroyed. The crimson Dragon Brin and his young daughter, Skay, are thrown back through time with Olam. Will they find a way to travel forward to their own time again before Valsheba becomes rubble and dust?

One thousand years after the Mage Tika defeated the evil in the Kelshan lands, and Jemin was restored as Imperator, another power has gradually evolved. Tilliat Kranch believes herself to be no more than a Trader's daughter, but finds she is the Mage Foretold by Tika. Helped on her way by both people and Dragons, Tilliat discovers strange truths about herself and her heritage. Her awakening power causes her to dreamlink with her previously unknown twin brother, Tetsura Crown Prince of Vremilia, the puppet ruler controlled by Regent Hikmat. Tilliat accepts her destiny to confront the invisible enemy of cosmic proportions threatening the world.

When Tika vanishes, Farn collapses and is close to insanity. The First Daughter of the Dark Realm risks herself to retrieve Farn's mind, knowing that the young Dragon must be reunited with Tika. She believes that Tika is the only one who will be able to defeat the Crazed One.

Gremara has fled the Northern Stronghold with her surviving children and found a refuge in Kelshan. In her search for Gremara, Tika follows false clues and wrong trails but does find a remnant of the alien entity she fought before. It is trying to find a star ship to escape this world and has reached the port city of Eddaven but there are only sea going ships there. Tika discovers new people, new cities, and also finds Gremara. She believed she would have to kill Gremara but can she actually do so?

Tika is faced with ever worsening problems in trying to locate the Splintered Kingdom. Increasingly she despairs of ever reaching the end of this chain of events, and of finding a safe haven for herself and her friends.

The Tower The three children who fled from their mother, Gremara, seem to have found a safe haven in northern Kelshan. Because of the Kelshan military suffering such a heavy defeat at the battle of Ferris Lake and the death of Imperator Jemin, bands of renegade arms men roam the countryside. Tika must find a more secure place for the children where they can grow and learn to survive alone.

The Imperator of Kelshan plans to exterminate all of the clans in the north of his lands. Shivan, Lord of the Dark Realm, asks Tika to help him thwart this plan. She agrees, although they cannot avert a battle where many are lost. Kelshan descends into civil chaos with many of the Confederate states declaring their independence from Kelshan overlordship. Those states are all very small but very determined, and ask Tika and Shivan for their friendship and alliance.

Endis begins what he believes is his training to become a Seer. The Augur surprises him by teaching him an enormous amount of the world's history but he struggles to understand where she's leading him or who she actually is. Tika discovers serious trouble arising in an important town in the east of Kelshan and offers her help according to her treaty with Kelshan. She also realises Youki is very far from what she'd assumed her to be. Tika tries to help Lord Shivan of the Dark Realm find his sister, Jian, who has sworn to serve Youki above all. Even above Mother Dark.

Emperor Kasheen is enraged when one of his Crystal fleet is taken by pirates. Tika of Iskallia traces them to a settlement hidden in the land of snow in the far north of Drogoya. She is amazed to find people living in such harsh conditions. She also discovers a man of strange talents quite unlike her own powers. Other lands are in turmoil, including Vagrantia, Strale and Gaharn. Somehow it falls to her to try to settle things down once more.

While the Asatarian boy, Endis, struggles to understand how his life must change as he learns the ways of a Seer, Tika too must learn some lessons. Reluctantly, she is forced to face the fact that she has made certain decisions for very personal but very misguided reasons. She procrastinates until finally, another takes action, telling her it is on her behalf. Tika is angry and saddened, but also accepts the whole sequence of events was due to her own mistakes.

When the air mage, Penda is farseeking over the ocean south of Iskallia, he is shocked to encounter another mind. And even more shocked as he recognises it as a Dragon mind. The Iskallian Dragon, Brin, Impetuously rushes off to trace this mind and discovers an island, long separated from the rest of the world. Lady Tika decides she has to travel the same route to investigate the information Brin brings back on his return. While they are away, reports reach Iskallia of trouble on the Middle Plains of Sapphrea. Reports of Dragons attacking farmers. Tika seeks out Farn's father, Jorab, to try to put an end to these attacks.