title: The Super-Secret Science Club: Case of the Disappearing Glass (Volume 1)
author:  S.C. Davis 
description: S.C. Davis is a biologist-turned writer, who now writes from her home in the San Francisco Bay Area where she lives with her husband and pets. The Super-Secret Science Club is her debut novel series. Visit her on the web at scdavisauthor.com.
zlib_text: **sea glass**
  
  The Council wanted me to return. My new powers terrified them, and me, too, if
  I thought about it for long.
  
  The Council had an excellent reason to be nervous and want me safely
  contained. I could drain a magician of his or her powers. All I needed was a
  glass orb in my hands and I could extract their magic, transforming it into a
  physical substance—diamonds. A magician didn’t even have to attack me as I had
  first assumed.
  
  Oh no, I could milk a magician dry without them doing a thing.
  
  The Council’s messenger hadn’t waited around for a response. No one disobeyed
  a direct order from the Council. Certainly not a student glass magician who
  hadn’t even graduated from the Keep yet.
  
  Unaware of the coming storm, I ignored the Council’s message and travelled on
  …
  
   _Also by New York Times bestselling author_
  
   _ **Maria V. Snyder**_
  
   _The Chronicles of Ixia_
  
  POISON STUDY  
  MAGIC STUDY  
  FIRE STUDY  
  STORM GLASS  
  SEA GLASS  
  SPY GLASS
  
   _The Insider series_
  
  INSIDE OUT  
  OUT