Maria V Snyder Books in Order

This novella follows Valek’s younger siblings Zethan and Zohav as they journey with Stormdancer Heli to Ixia’s Northern Ice Pack to help tame deadly blizzards. When the mission turns into a fight for survival, they must trust each other and their magic to make it home.

While Yelena travels to Sitia in Magic Study, Valek stays in Ixia to untangle the deeper roots of Brazell and Mogkan’s schemes. Facing suspicious generals and whispers of a coup, he works to protect the commander and the fragile stability they have built.

During the turmoil of Fire Study, Valek juggles a strange case in Castletown and fresh attempts on the commander’s life that may be meant to spark war with Sitia. His investigation uncovers a hidden faction of powerful warpers whose plans could burn both nations down.

The Study of Poisons retells the events of Poison Study from Valek’s point of view, following him as he recruits condemned prisoner Yelena to be the commander’s food taster. While he trains her to detect toxins, he hunts the conspiracy moving inside Ixia’s ranks before it can strike.

The Study Chronicles collects novellas and short stories set in the Ixia and Sitia universe, featuring fan favorites like Yelena, Valek, Opal, Ari, and Janco. It gathers earlier web only tales with new pieces, maps, timelines, and extras that fill in the gaps around the main novels.

This collection gathers sixteen of Maria V. Snyder’s fantasy and science fiction short stories, ranging from urban adventures and military missions to fae quests and space explosives work. It offers bite sized glimpses into many of her worlds plus a few that exist only here.

Fresh from turmoil in Zirdai, Shyla Sun Kissed and Rendor are ordered to the royal court to answer to the King of Koraha. There they discover a mysterious army using terrifying magic to bend minds, forcing them onto a dangerous journey across the desert to uncover who is truly pulling the strings.

In the underground city of Zirdai, sun cursed researcher Shyla is valued for her knack with ancient maps and artifacts but scorned for her pale skin. Hired to locate the legendary Eyes of Tamburah, gemstones that grant immense power, she is framed when they vanish and must recover them to clear her name and save the city.

Having awakened the power of the Eyes, Shyla throws herself into leading the Invisible Sword, a fragile resistance against Zirdai’s ruthless Water Prince and Heliacal Priestess. With enemies closing in from every level of the city, she has to hold a splintered movement together long enough to challenge their rule.

As alien forces push toward the Milky Way and a conspiracy spreads through the military, Lyra’s visions inside the quantum network grow stranger and more urgent. No longer just a hacker, she must convince hardened leaders to trust her insight before the entire galaxy is overrun.

Officially dead and now serving as junior officer Ara Lawrence, Lyra has a new name and a dangerously upgraded connection to the galaxy’s quantum network. Cut off by looters and facing an unstoppable alien phenomenon, she has to outthink both criminals and aliens to keep her people alive until help arrives.

In the year 2471, teen hacker Lyra Daniels is dragged across space every time her archaeologist parents time jump to a new planet to study buried terracotta warrior statues. When one warrior world goes silent and sabotage hits their base, her illegal skills may be the key to uncovering a deadly alien threat.

With Ixia poised to invade Sitia, Yelena and Valek confront a ruthless Cartel using a mind bending substance to control key leaders. Dodging bounty hunters and betrayals, they race to break the Cartel’s hold before a manufactured war destroys both their homelands.

While teaching her adopted daughter Reema to work molten glass, Opal Cowan receives a desperate letter from her long missing mentor, Master Magician Zitora Cowan. Suspecting a trap but unable to ignore the plea, she journeys with soldiers Nic and Eve on a rescue mission that quickly turns dangerous.

Still stripped of her powers, Yelena faces mounting threats as unrest pushes Ixia and Sitia toward open war. While she searches for a way to restore her magic, Valek uncovers secrets at the heart of the command structure that could shatter their loyalty to the commander.

Years after becoming Soulfinder, Yelena’s magic suddenly vanishes just as enemies on both sides of the Ixian–Sitian border move against her and Valek. Hiding her vulnerability while hunting the source of the attack forces her to question long held alliances and old assumptions.

In this short adventure, Valek learns that an assassin has been hired to kill Yelena while she travels south to Sitia after the events of Poison Study. Racing to intercept the killer, he must decide how much he is willing to risk to keep her alive.

Avry has survived plague and war, but now her heart mate Kerrick is missing and a vicious new ruler called the Skeleton King moves to claim the Fifteen Realms. With armies shattered and the dead refusing to stay down, Avry’s choices may decide whether her world recovers or collapses.

After his mother dies in a storm, sixth grader Luke Riley is obsessed with weather yet terrified of thunder and lightning. A promised Bloodhound puppy, a stubborn dog breeder, new friendships, and a summer of storms force him to face his grief and fear head on.

Believed dead, Avry uses her anonymity to slip behind enemy lines, infiltrating holy armies and training soldiers while quietly undermining King Tohon’s plans. Torn between stopping his army of living dead and finding her estranged sister, she risks exposing herself every time she uses her forbidden healing.

Avry of Kazan can heal by taking on other people’s injuries and illnesses, a gift that once inspired awe but now makes her a hunted criminal blamed for a devastating plague. Rescued from execution by a band of rogues, she is forced into a perilous journey to heal a dying prince who might not deserve saving.

After exposing the truth about Inside, Trella finds herself tangled in fragile new politics instead of slipping unseen through the pipes. When sabotage and strange attacks threaten the cube, she must uncover whether the danger comes from bitter insiders, something from Outside, or both.

After sacrificing her blood magic, Opal has lost her powers and become strangely immune to the spells of others. Drawn into an undercover mission, she uses new glass talents and that immunity to track stolen blood and decide what she is willing to risk to regain what she lost.

Trella is a maintenance scrub in a cramped metal world of pipes and levels, skilled at sneaking through ducts and avoiding the brutal Pop Cops. Asked to find proof of a fabled Gateway to Outside, she stumbles into a rebellion that could upend everything Inside.

Apprentice glassmaker and reluctant magician Opal Cowan is summoned to help the Stormdancer clan, whose glass orbs are shattering and killing their strongest weather mages. Investigating the sabotage drags her into deadly politics and forces her to unlock unsettling new magic.

Opal’s glass messenger spheres have become vital to Sitian communication, and rival powers will do anything to control them, and her. As she hunts proof that outlawed blood magic still thrives, shifting loyalties and betrayals make her question who to trust and even her own judgment.

Now recognized as a Soulfinder, Yelena alarms Sitia’s ruling Council even as an escaped killer and a fanatical clan plot to unleash devastating fire magic. Caught between warring factions and two countries on the brink of war, she must push her powers to their limits.

After gaining her freedom, Yelena travels south to Sitia to reunite with the family she barely remembers and train as a magician. Branded an outsider and possible spy, she is pulled into plots to reclaim Ixia’s throne and deadly rivalries at the Magician’s Keep.

Awaiting execution for murder, Yelena is offered a brutal choice, die at once or serve as food taster to the commander of Ixia. Training under assassin Valek, she faces poison, political plots, and a dangerous magic awakening inside her.