Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden is an American author who has written stories under two different pen names, originally as Megan Lindholm, and later as Robin Hobb, for which she is better known. As Megan Lindholm, she has been nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards and won Asimov’s Readers Award.

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Assassin’s Apprentice is the first novel in the epic fantasy Farseer Trilogy series and the first written under the pseudonym Robin Hobb.

It’s well known that royalty are named for virtues, however this doesn’t quite apply to the bastard son of Chivalry Farseer, FitzChivalry. After being thrown out, only his magic that allows him to talk to animals gives him comfort. This magic can be perilous if used to often though, and is detested by the nobility. Therefore when he is adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old habits and customs as he learns the skills of an assassin.

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Royal Assassin is the second book in the Farseer Trilogy series.

After surviving his first mission as the king’s assassin, Fitz is left crippled by poison and embittered, vowing to break the oath he made to King Shrewd. He ultimately returns, lured back into the political intrigue by love and the renewed attacks of the Red-Ship Raiders on the coast. While their vicious attacks leave husks of people and their homes in their wake, the kingdom is in danger from within as well, treachery threatening the throne of the ailing king.

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Harpy’s Flight was written under the name Megan Lindholm, and is the first in the Windsingers series.

Blood debts are very serious to harpies and to those who serve them. After the devastation of her family and being haunted by her own revenge, Ki rejects her husband’s gypsy people’s comforts and wanders in self-exile. Across icy mountains and through treacherous shadows, she must flee from harpies intent on vengeance, and a stubborn man intent on being part of her future.