Tourmaline — Steve Vassey

The Runaway ProdigyWhen you're the youngest student in advanced training at the Magic Workers' Guild School, it's already tough to fit in. Now, puberty is wreaking havoc with Tourmaline's ability to weave magic. When a prank against her obnoxious professor goes seriously wrong, she's suspended and sent home. An ensuing fight with her guardian, Dolphe, and a chance encounter with Jake, a visiting teenager, sends her seeking the idyllic village life the young man describes. But life among the independent Mer'cans holds an unsuspected danger, one that turns potentially deadly when Dolphe tries to bring her home. It falls to Tourmaline to rescue her rescuer-if she can control her magic.