The Care and Feeding of Magical Veterinarians

Jixin is the child of a dragon physician, who cares for the dragons ridden in the lucrative world of dragon racing. But his life changes when Lu Si, the scion of a powerful Rookery owner, takes an interest in him and opens the possibility that he could become a dragon rider. This has been Jixin’s lifelong dream, but the reality is perhaps more than he bargained for. Will he become a dragon physician like his mother, or will he step into the danger and glamor of racing?

BJ Vaughan is a student in veterinary school, burnt out, struggling, and about to give up entirely due to an ongoing family crisis. But when she’s chosen by one of her professors to go on a field trip to Crossroads, a magical world where unicorns, griffins, and other magical creatures exist, she finds out that medicine can also be magic and healers can heal themselves.

Marjan’s father always told her fables about magical creatures when she was a little girl. But she’s now an adult, and in the wake of her father’s sudden death, she’s perilously close to falling apart as she adds her father’s veterinary practice to the schoolwork and friendships she was already juggling. As if that isn’t complicated enough, she receives a visitor who reveals to her a wondrous truth: her father was a veterinarian who treated the creatures of legend he told her stories about…and with him gone, it’s up to her to take his place.

The province of Fermange has the typical fantasy world population of knights, castles, and dragons…but it’s also home to the veterinarians who care for those dragons. Stephen Oshrand is a new veterinary apprentice, and he quickly finds out that caring medically for magical creatures is more dangerous and difficult than he could have imagined — and also more rewarding.

Latin Americans are the pioneers of faster-than-light travel, and Dr. Jan Amos Sangan Dongo is one of their number out among the stars. But he’s not a human doctor — no, his specialty is as a xenoveterinarian, treating the strangest alien animals humanity has discovered. When a gigantic creature swallows two ambassadors and the incident threatens to set off a war between the seven intelligent species of the galaxy, Dr. Sangan may be humanity’s only hope.

On a frontier planet, Bethnee Bakonin is a veterinarian who has escaped an unwilling time in the pet trade industry that’s left her emotionally scarred and terrified of being discovered. She has a minder talent for healing animals but is too afraid to exercise it — though she also makes it her business to rescue pet trade castoff animals. Then she meets elite forces Jumper Axur Tragon, who has crashed on the planet in a stolen ship that had a shipment of illicit designer pets as its cargo. Axur is determined to do right by the animals he accidentally kidnapped and enlists Bethnee’s help in pursuit of that — even though she’s terrified of him. But when the nominal owners of these rescued animals come looking, they will have to join forces to save the day.

Seventeen-year-old Zenn is an exoveterinarian student at the Ciscan Cloister Exovet Clinic on Mars, where she’ll learn to work with the occasionally dangerous alien patients. But when the school is in danger of being shut down by some alien-phobic officials after a series of animal escapes that make no logical sense, Zenn sets herself the task of figuring out the source of the inexplicable “accidents” — which aren’t accidents at all.