|a India |x History |y British occupation, 1765-1947 |v Fiction. When her parents are murdered, Maya flees to Edwardian London where she must master her own magic. Maya's mother was a former priestess of the magic fueled by the powerful pantheon of Indian gods.
|a Living most of her 25 years in her native India, Maya Witherspoon is the daughter of a prominent British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste-and a doctor herself. |a The serpent's shadow / |c Mercedes Lackey. Editions for The Serpent's Shadow: 0756400619 (Paperback published in 2002), (Kindle Edition published in 2002), 0886779154 (Hardcover published in 2001). /rebates/2ffirst-edition2fSerpents-Shadow-LACKEY-Mercedes-Daw-New2f1644576322fbd&. Her only hope was to find a way to master her own magic: the magic of her father's blood.|a URA |c URA |d OCLCQ |d MR0 |d BAKER |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d ZXN |d FHP |d CoLwJCPL
She knew in her heart that even a vast ocean couldn't protect her from "the serpent's shadow" that had so terrified her mother. In self-imposed exile in Edwardian London, Maya knew that she could not hide forever from the vindictive power that had murdered her parents. For her father was killed by the bite of a krait, a tiny venomous snake, and in the last hours of her mother's life, Surya had warned Maya to beware "the serpent's shadow." Maya knew she must flee the land of her birth or face the same fate as her parents. show more Maya Witherspoon had lived most of the first twenty-five. /rebates/2f97807564006132fSerpents-Shadow-Lackey-Mercedes-07564006192fplp&. Yet it was Maya's father's death shortly thereafter that confirmed her darkest suspicions. The Serpents Shadow em-2 Mercedes Lackey Fantasy / Science Fiction / Music. "Yours is the magic of your father's blood, not mine." Surya never had the chance to explain this enigmatic statement to her daughter before a mysterious illness claimed her life. "I cannot," she had said, her eyes dark with distress, whenever Maya asked. Though Maya felt the stirring of magic in her blood, her mother had repeatedly refused to train her. For Maya's aristocratic mother Surya was a sorceress-a former priestess of the mystical magics fueled by the powerful and fearsome pantheon of Indian gods. Following her acclaimed novels The Serpents Shadow and The Gates of Sleep, Mercedes Lackey reinvents a classic fairy tale-and gives it a new twist. As the daughter of a prominent British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste, she graduated from the University of Delhi as a Doctor of Medicine by the age of twenty-two.īut the science of medicine was not Maya's only heritage. Maya Witherspoon lived most of the first twenty-five years of her life in her native India. The first novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines the fairy tale Snow White in a richly-detailed alternate Edwardian England
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