Melanie Rawn - The Golden Key (collaboration with two other authors) This is a fascinating story of magic through art, secret societies, family loyalties and political plotting. The Dragon Prince - An interesting world in which greed, family loyalty, growing older and watching your children make their own choices and mistakes, magic, forensic discovery and innovation all compete to be the theme.
Robin Hobb - Begin with the Farseer trilogy, a story of how one person can give up his life to a cause, learn to live with it, learn to love it and then learn to regret it. Great insights, introduces The Fool, the interesting subject of political assasination and the vagaries of genetics.
Elizabeth Hayden - Rhapsody is a fully realized world with new and unusual races, the paths your life can take from small and seemingly insignificant choices...