This series is set in Tamora Pierce's world of Tortall, specifically during the Protector of the Small quartet. If you'd like to know more about Tamora Pierce or her books, her website is here and a more comprehensive summary of her books can be found on the Steelsings fan site.
In the far North, Andrea Kirisra was struggling to hide her magical powers in a village where the Gifted were hanged. Orphaned and alone, she could see no way to avoid the long walk to the gallows.
In the capital city of Corus, Ryan Talver was a thief struggling to scrape a living together. When the magic that had lain dormant inside him exploded into his life, it had devastating consequences.
Keladry of Mindelan was fidning her life as a squire difficult, and with good reason: the only female squire among a host of boys, she was set apart, even if she had managed to make friends and a life for herself among them.
When the three find themselves drawn together by circumstance and divine meddling, they discover the dangerous truth about magic and about the difficulties of growing up.
Phillippa ha Minch felt trapped in the world of the artistocracy. Expected to marry well and serve her husband and her family, she chose instead to pursue the path of the Shang, renowned warriors.
But the Shang did not accept nobles into their number. Uncovering the story behind their exclusion, Pip found herself caught up in the remnants of a love and a war that had outlasted the centuries, and unlikely to survive either.
Book III: Bindings
Tentatively titled and planned, I intend this book to chronicle ther tales of Bruna of Farbrook and Davir sin Porphyros, a rather unorthodox Carthaki noble.