Elemental masters

The first in a series of adult fairy tale retellings full of magic, romance, humor, and suspense—from a Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy!

A richly reimagined Snow White uncovers the secrets of her family’s magical history in an alternate Edwardian London . . .
As the daughter of a prominent British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste, Maya Witherspoon graduated from the University...

Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series recasts familiar fairy tales in a richly-imagined alternate Victorian world
Eleanor Robinson’s life had shattered when Father volunteered for the Great War, leaving her alone with a woman he had just married. Then the letter came that told of her father’s death in the trenches and though Eleanor thought things couldn’t get any worse, her life took an even more bizarre

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Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series recasts familiar fairy tales in a richly-imagined alternate Victorian world
Ninette Dupond was a dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet. She had been very lucky—if she had not been pretty, and a natural dancer, she could only have become what her mother had been: a washerwoman.
 
But Ninette’s good luck ended the day that the lead dancer sprained her ankle and Ninette...

They came from the sea…
 
For as long as she could remember, Mari Prothero had seen things—tiny manlike creatures that were mischievous and wore only seaweed, and beings that seemed to be made of water. Mari had grown up in a tiny Welsh fishing village where she lived alone with her father, Daffyd, a master fisherman—her mother and brother having drowned when she was a child.
 
On the morning...

Gretchen Schwarzwald, or Little Red Riding Hood, is rescued by the Woodsman's Lodge Fire Master after her parents are killed by werewolves.

Sent by Lord Alderscroft to the bachelor's flat of a certain famous, and rather rude, detective, psychics Sarah and Nan are compelled to prove their powers to him before being asked to consult on behalf of his Elemental Masters associates, John and Mary Watson.

The grief-stricken friends of Sherlock Holmes--including psychic Nan, medium Sarah, and Elemental Masters John and Mary Watson--investigate a series of murders involving young brides and dangerous magic.

A retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country. Learning elemental magic from her witch aunt after her Tennessee coal miner father's black-lung death, Anna May falls in love with a stonemason who abandons his work as a gravestone cutter to pursue true art.