A. Trae McMaken Books in Order

A traveling fiddler reflects on the experiences and choices behind a life spent carrying traditional music into the modern world. This varied collection follows adventures, mistakes, hardship, and beauty while considering what it means to inhabit a centuries-old tradition.

After his family settles on an abandoned Michigan farm, McMaken explores the landscape and remembered lives surrounding Puttygut Road. Family experience intertwines with local history, revealing how overlooked places preserve stories that continue shaping those who live there.

When members of two tiny woodland tribes disappear, squirrel-rider Fir ventures beyond his familiar home to prevent a war. His search reveals unexpected truths about his people's origins, discoveries that could either reconcile the tribes or deepen their conflict.

After an organized goblin attack destroys Urh, young Aust escapes with an old friend toward a hoped-for refuge. Their journey is diverted by mysterious forces and legendary heroes, drawing Aust into a conflict inseparable from his own guilt.

Rivien and Wydd seek a wish-granting dragon they hope can restore the families they lost to goblins. Strange hermits complicate their journey, each with different ideas about the boys' purpose as the search leads them into dragon country.

Sam enters an abandoned village where space and time behave unpredictably and escape seems impossible. Guided by an eccentric archivist and threatened by a vengeful dragon, he must uncover the village's hidden foundation and its connection to his identity.

Dwarven prospector Naen finally finds wealth, then encounters fugitives fleeing an unforgiving master. Helping them survive could give his lonely life meaning, but staying with their outlaw settlement means preparing to face the vengeance of powerful dwarven rulers.

Centuries after the loss of Ice-Cloak, young Tourmaline dreams of escaping life as an itinerant tinker among humans. When violence strikes her caravan, she joins other dwarves heading north toward a homeland that survives chiefly in legend.

As raids threaten Ice-Cloak and its queen weakens, Prince Firehelm seeks victory to prove his right to lead. Korin joins the prince's guard hoping to find purpose, following him toward ancient dangers and a struggle over their people's future.

A smuggler's secret tunnel threatens the supposed security of Ice-Cloak's only gate. When Topaz begins considering marriage proposals, she becomes entangled with its creator Yale and a royal pursuit whose consequences could reach every dwarf in the mountain.

Rothe joins the Jackals of the Waste just as unrest and approaching armies threaten the dwarves. An assassination mission offers a chance to avert destruction, but hidden weapons and competing enemies complicate this companion tale to The Mine Lord.

Young prospector Yorvig seeks command of a remote mining claim after realizing its workers value ore over survival. As the settlement expands, leadership brings conflicts of love and loyalty alongside enemies determined to drive the dwarves from their land.

Jareen has raised Faro in an enchantress's sheltered glade, but invasion forces her to flee with new knowledge about the Malady. As ancient power awakens and the Synod struggles, that revelation offers hope while difficult choices approach.

The Malady continues killing Findeluvié's High Trees, prompting the Synod to unleash devastating power. Its attention then turns toward Jareen and what she carries, while Tirlav's changing fortunes draw both lives into the spreading crisis.

Unable to benefit from the Wellsprings that sustain her people's immortality, Jareen finds purpose caring for dying humans. When mortality returns to her former homeland, she is pulled back into its crisis while a harper faces a summons to war.