Point of Hopes & Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott and Lise Barnett
They're humans-only fantasy set in a Renaissance level culture where the stars really DO influence your life, and magic is expensive and academic but by no means un-heard of. The stories are crime investigations that end in swords and sorcery in the first book, and an action denouement in the second.
Extra Bonus: The two male protagonists from the first book end up getting engaged in at the end of the second, and the authors made females the dominate gender without shoving it in your face or over-explaining (or voyeur lesbianism.) If you have social equality buttons, this will hit them like a hammer in the good way.
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They're humans-only fantasy set in a Renaissance level culture where the stars really DO influence your life, and magic is expensive and academic but by no means un-heard of. The stories are crime investigations that end in swords and sorcery in the first book, and an action denouement in the second.
Extra Bonus: The two male protagonists from the first book end up getting engaged in at the end of the second, and the authors made females the dominate gender without shoving it in your face or over-explaining (or voyeur lesbianism.) If you have social equality buttons, this will hit them like a hammer in the good way.