Magic users can create items from their memories, but typically specialize in only one medium - that is, if they make teacups from clay, they don't make their teapot from stone.

Dying Race: The whole point of Masters and the Hold is to prevent the extinction of rakus.

De-power: Burning someone's tracings, although some can recover depending on the severity of the damage and the presence of existing damage.

Dance of Romance: Lodesh attempts this on Alissa in the third book.

Crystal Dragon Jesus: By implication and invocation of her name, Mirim.Crush Blush: Lodesh becomes interested in Alissa when he fails to make her blush and she succeeds in making HIM blush.This helps them bring her back when she shifts the first time and forgets about him. Converse with the Unconscious: Strell has a habit of doing this with Alissa in the first book.Close-Enough Timeline: There are minor changes but it's not like there was another chance to do it right.Chekhov's Gun: Talon is rather old for her kind of bird.When having someone burn their tracings is an option, they tend to regard it as a mercy. Shadufs continue to see their own possible deaths, and become bitter and harsh because of it. Blessed with Suck: Shadufs, who can see the future- but only future deaths, starting with their own.Best Her to Bed Her: The only way Beast views sexual relationships she merges with Alissa at the end in order to understand why Alissa would WANT to be 'grounded.'.Babies Ever After: Alyssa is pregnant when the series ends.Arranged Marriage: The Masters practice this, because their population is tiny and arranging marriages helps them keep a more viable gene pool.In the final book Alissa tries to find the missing Masters of the Hold and to bring them back, facing off with one who would rather not return home. The third book focuses on Alissa's unintentional travel back through time to the Hold in its heyday and her efforts to get home without disrupting the past or going mad from her displacement.

Along the way, she teams up with Strell and the captive Talo-Toecan to discover her own magical potential and defeat Bailic. The first two books centre on Alissa, a girl of mixed heritage, and her quest to find the Hold and rescue the Book of First Truth from the crazed Keeper Bailic who has killed all the remaining Keepers and Masters in his quest to possess the book. A quadrology of Fantasy books written by Dawn Cook (also author of Urban Fantasy series The Hollows).

Hidden Truth by Dawn Cook