Gemworld

The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power has kept the peace and tranquility, and the kingdom has flourished. Jewel Lin and her Lapidary Sima may be the last to enjoy that peace. The Jeweled Court has been betrayed. As screaming raiders sweep down from the mountains and Lapidary servants shatter under the pressure, the last princess of the Valley will have to summon up a strength she's never known. If she can assume her royal dignity, and if Sima can master the most dangerous gemstone in the land, they may be able to survive.

The Fire Opal Mechanism is the fast-paced and lively sequel to Fran Wilde's The Jewel and Her Lapidary Jewels and their lapidaries and have all but passed into myth. Jorit, broke and branded a thief, just wants to escape the Far Reaches for something better. Ania, a rumpled librarian, is trying to protect her books from the Pressmen, who value knowledge but none of the humanity that generates it. When they stumble upon a mysterious clock powered by an ancient jewel, they may discover secrets in the past that will change the future forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Book of Gems, the final installment in Fran Wilde's Gem Universe series, explores what happens when truth is ground into myth by the pestle of time, and how some truths are too powerful to ever be shattered. It’s been centuries since the Jeweled Valley and its magical gems were destroyed. The Seven Kingdoms have crumbled, their memory all but dissolved into myth. In the republics that rose to replace them, scientists craft synthetic jewels to heat homes, power gadgetry, and wage war. Dr. Devina Brunai is one of these scientists, and is perhaps the only living person who believes real gems still exist. While experimenting in a lab, she receives strange readings from a family heirloom rumored to be a page from the legendary Book of Gems. The recent unearthing of the Palace of Gems in the Valley presents her with the perfect opportunity to travel back to the land of her ancestors, search for the Book, and prove her naysayers wrong. But her chance is snatched away at the last moment when her mentor steals her research and wins the trip for himself, his arrogant communications from the field only deepening the scar of his betrayal. That is, until his messages transform into bizarre ramblings about the Book, a Prince, and an enemy borne of the dark…before ceasing altogether. Now Dev must enter the Valley, find her mentor, and save her research, before they too become relics of a time long forgotten.