The release date for the English version of 'Magic Study' by
Maria V. Snyder is Sep 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
When you long for the days you spent tasting poison, you realize your life is difficult.
Yelena should be happy that her worst adversary is gone and that she is on her way to reunite with the family she was abducted from a long time ago. Though she is again free, she is once more alone herself, estranged from her partner Valek and maybe being watched as a spy due to her unwillingness to follow Sitian customs.
She is excited to begin her magic training despite the chaos, particularly because she has been given a year to use her talent or face execution. However, when she is sucked into a scheme to retake Ixia's kingdom for a missing prince and becomes enmeshed in fierce conflicts with other magicians, her intentions take a drastically different turn.
As if that weren't awful enough, it seems like her brother would prefer if she died. Fortunately, Yelena may rely on some old friends to support her in facing her new foes.