The Elemental Masters · Book 1
The Fire Rose
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780671319670
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Fire Rose opened Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series in 1995, establishing the world every later book returns to: Victorian and Edwardian Britain, where gifted Elemental Masters command Fire, Water, Earth, and Air against a backdrop of séances and occult societies, each novel loosely built from a classic fairy tale's bones. It runs 448 pages.
Its place in The Elemental Masters
The Fire Rose is book 1 in the The Elemental Masters series. It is followed by The Serpent's Shadow. See the full The Elemental Masters reading order.
The Elemental Masters series reimagines classic fairy tales — Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Snow White, The Snow Queen, and more — as historical fantasy set mostly in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, where certain gifted people can command the classical elements of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. Each novel follows a different Elemental Master or apprentice navigating a plot loosely built from a specific fairy tale's bones, transplanted into a world of séances, industrial magic, occult societies, and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780671319670