[LMB] Chalion-esque books?

[alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca]

Perhaps:
_Death of the Necromancer_ by Martha Wells
_A College of Magics_ and _A Scholar of Magics_ by Caroline Stevermer

If you don't mind leaving out the fantasy elements, have you tried Dorothy 
Dunnett? (Start with either _The Game of Kings_ or _Niccolo Rising_).

-- 
Alayne McGregor
alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca

"There's no reason to bring religion into it. We ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can,
so as to keep it out of as many things as possible." -- Sean O'Casey, "The Plough and the Stars", act 1