Cursebreaker is about a girl who works with her father to break the fire mage lock on firearms by making a weapon that does not need fire based gunpowder. The mages don't care but she can defend herself and uses the new weapon to do so.
Castles in the Air is about Elery, who lives in the beseiged human town of Spielglase, who is tested by the elves and thinks she is to learn magic. On the way, however,... [click here for more]