A young wielder struggles to recover from the Wielder Wain plague that killed nearly all the magic wielders in Chussen Faire sixteen years ago and crippled him since the day of his birth. His family’s poverty provides him with no means to purchase a standing stone and so become the Master Wielder he is certain he can be. Jahl Pratter must master more than the magic essence found in a standing stone but also the pain and limitations caused by his disfigurement. His great uncle’s room of Twai’wa Lor could hold the key to achieving his dreams and surviving a second attack by the Wielder Wain, but it will take more than reclaiming his forgotten training and may start the Wain all over again. Note: this novel can be read by individuals age 16 and older.

It's the simplest things that can surprise you. Young wielder Pratter agrees to travel to Carolan Faire to pick up an apprentice whose master died unexpectedly and bring him to the Chussen wielder school. It seemed simple enough until he learned that wielders are being attacked, their powers of wielding the magic essence stolen from them. Before he can even get his first night’s sleep in the dead master’s house, someone enters through locked doors and attacks Jahl’s friend Rouen. By noon, no one is safe and anyone could be the assailant. Can Jahl identify the attacker in time to stop the next wielder from suffering a similar fate? Is his own high level of magic control going to make him a prime target? Read the second book in the Standing Stone series because the Sinister Sisters are more than a mountain named after a myth.

Wielder school’s out for the summer, but Jahl, Donya and Rouen can’t seem to get a quiet moment anywhere. Jahl’s certain Donya is up to some sort of mischief, and Rouen has received a mysterious package from the young twai wielder they met in Carolan Faire last year. What starts out as a short trip to the headwaters of the Naigan River turns into one mad dash after another. When a small mountain predator attaches itself to Rouen, the three wielders find themselves facing more than the mystery behind why the rare creature has left its natural environment. Someone is stalking the nahrak and has no problem with harming those who get in the way. They may not only be what stands between it and destruction, but also what stands between their own safety and the source of the High Council’s magic. Read the third book in the series because trust can be difficult to pin down even when you have magic at your fingertips. .

Jahl and Donya journey to Loeban Desert to solve a mystery, but they don’t go together. Their two-year-old daughter is a handful around essence, and Donya believes it best to keep her home. So she sends Jahl off with her brother Rouen and a Martan’s Ferry guard. They should keep him out of trouble. But who’s going to keep Donya and Alriane out of trouble? A valuable flask of sand sends the two of them off to Loeban Desert to find Jahl. Who can Donya trust with the knowledge her daughter is wielding far beyond her years? Keeping Alriane’s developing skill secret is proving to be as difficult as crossing a desert. An elder sand walker and a young sand wielder: Jahl’s not sure his new companions are telling him the truth, but at least he didn’t talk Donya into traveling with him and bringing their daughter along. That would have been disastrous! Jahl must find out who’s behind the fluctuating essence and missing oasis junctions before a sand walker destroys him with a sand storm beast prepared to pound him into the wind-swept dunes. Learning Donya and Alriane are searching for him somewhere in the desert sands means he has far more to lose than his grimoire and sharded staff. He could lose his family. Buy the fourth book in the Standing Stone series because Jahl has never been good at avoiding trouble.

There's seeking knowledge and then there's obsession. Ever since Jahl's experience at High Reach putting the grid back together after the renegade sand walker nearly dismantled it, he's had nightmares. With them has come an insatiable curiosity for pushing the limits of wielding magic essence. The nightmares aren't so bad. Half the time he forgets he even had them. Donya's not forgetting though. Then there are those dreams that just won't let go, and he struggles to push the jangled feeling aside that they leave behind. Returning home from Loeban Desert will open up plenty of possibilities. There's his old shard that he buried on Fallon Mountain. It's sure to hold answers. He might yet get access to Prestig's grimoire. What about Alriane and the warning they received to keep her from extending beyond the reach appropriate to a precocious two-year-old's access to essence? Donya can take care of that. Will Donya and Rouen be enough to watch over Alriane? And what about Jahl? Maybe he needs some oversight, too. Will he know when he's pushed wielding magic essence too far? Who's experienced enough to know when he's crossed the mark? What if he goes so far that even Donya and Rouen won't be able to pull him back from the brink? Read the fifth book in the Standing Stone series because even the best wielders cross the line.