While on a visit with an old friend, Di discovers that a malevolent combination of sex and blood magic is behind relatively normal teenage jealousies and infatuations at Tulsa's Jenks High Mercedes Lackey began writing fiction while working for American Airlines. In addition to her many novels, she has written lyrics for and recorded several albums of fiction folk songs, which have been distributed through Firebird Arts & Music. Lackey's longest-running series, beginning with A rrows of the Queen , details the adventures of the Heralds of Valdemar. Lackey's other series include Bardic Voices; the Elementals; the Halfblood Chronicles (first volume: The Elvenbane ); Elves on the Road , which includes Tor's Burning Water and its sequels; and the Obsidian Trilogy , also published by Tor, which begins with T he Outstretched Shadow. Lackey often teams up with both her fellow masters of fantasy, such as Andre Norton and Anne McCaffrey, and talented newer writers Rosemary Edghill. Married to artist and sometime co-author Larry Dixon, Lackey, who was born in Chicago, lives near Tulsa, Oklahoma.