Magic's Poison Books in Order

Magical guardian Marin discovers that a renegade sorcerer possesses venom from serpent-people believed extinct. Seeking help from a neighboring duke, she faces manipulated authorities, threatened war, and unsettling truths about the creatures whose power once sustained an empire.

Scholar Jaketta's research becomes urgently relevant when her patron survives an assassination attempt. Accompanying him into a kingdom divided between king and duke, she must draw on her knowledge of serpent-people amid magical intrigue and the threat of civil war.

Marin accompanies a duke into a country that executes magicians after a warning of an assassination plot. To secure help, she must break an ancient enchantment protecting a collection of books, while danger grows around the visiting delegation.

Exiled reporter Idareh investigates a duke imprisoned for protecting serpent-people condemned as monsters. As he uncovers a different truth, publishing it risks the wrath of powerful enemies and exposure of the secret hidden in his own past.