Alex Lidell Books in Order
Explore Alex Lidell books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy tips on where to start across her fantasy and romance novels.
Last updated: July 4, 2026
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Publication Order
40 books
The Cadet of Tildor
by Alex Lidell
2013
Cadet Renee de Winter struggles to survive an elite military academy in a kingdom sliding toward unrest. When her commander is pulled into criminal games, she is dragged into a knot of politics, loyalty, and hard moral choices.
Air and Ash
by Alex Lidell
2017
After a failed mission shatters her future, Princess Nile Greysik slips aboard a troubled ship in disguise. Hidden among a bad crew and dangerous waters, she must prove she can lead while concealing forbidden magic.
First Command
by Alex Lidell
2017
Seventeen-year-old Lieutenant Nile Greysik finally gets a command of her own, but a captured ship, hostile waters, and a skeptical crew test her at once. To reach safe harbor, she has to earn trust, including her own.
War and Wind
by Alex Lidell
2017
Nile's defiance saves lives but leaves her exposed on a ship commanded by fear and bad judgment. As war tightens around her, she must choose between freedom, duty, and the man who understands her best.
Mistake of Magic
by Alex Lidell
2018
The elders call Lera a mistake and give the quint a cruel choice, exile or brutal retraining. To stay together, Lera must survive deadly trials in a world still convinced she does not belong.
Power of Five
by Alex Lidell
2018
Orphaned stable girl Lera is swept into fae lands when four elite warriors learn magic has chosen her, a mortal woman, as the missing fifth member of their battle bond. Staying alive is hard enough. Trusting them is harder.
Sea and Sand
by Alex Lidell
2018
Nile's war spreads beyond one ship and one command, dragging her into tougher alliances and harsher truths about her forbidden magic. The sea is no longer the only battlefield, and every choice carries a cost.
Tracing Shadows
by Alex Lidell
2018
Spy Kali is forced into a palace mission that demands two disguises at once, noblewoman by night and male guard trainee by day. Getting close to the truth means getting dangerously close to Captain Trace too.
Trial of Three
by Alex Lidell
2018
Lera's magic is growing harder to control just as River and Coal bury dangerous secrets. When the enemy emperor makes his move, training gives way to a larger fight for Lunos itself.
Unraveling Darkness
by Alex Lidell
2018
With the king deposed and her sister trapped inside the palace, Kali flees with Trace and the future ruler of Dansil. To save her kingdom, she must navigate enemy alliances, new magic, and a heart she can no longer ignore.
Clock Strikes Midnight
by Alex Lidell
2019
By day Lera struggles through classes and River's watchful discipline. By night she hunts dark creatures slipping into the mortal world. As the Ostera Ball approaches, duty and desire are both racing toward midnight.
Crime and Punishment
by Alex Lidell
2019
Lera breaks the rules, and Coal is tasked with making her regret it. Their clash turns sharper when a storm threatens her last chance to restore the males' memories before the mission falls apart completely.
Dungeons and Dreamers
by Alex Lidell
2019
Coal's nightmares are getting worse, and staying away from Lera is only making them deadlier. When both end up trapped in the academy dungeon, buried memories and an inescapable bond force them to face what they fear most.
Enemy Tyes
by Alex Lidell
2019
Tye thinks Lera betrayed him and is ready to make her pay. With royal guests about to descend on Great Falls, Lera joins the Prowess team anyway, stepping into her hardest test yet.
Great Falls Cadet
by Alex Lidell
2019
This collected edition gathers the opening Great Falls Academy arc as Lera goes undercover, loses her males to shattered memories, and fights to survive a harsh mortal academy long enough to bring them back.
Hide and Seek
by Alex Lidell
2019
The Prowess Trials may be moving to Great Falls, right where the wards are already failing. Injured, exhausted, and still battling his own memories, Coal tries to keep Lera safe, but she refuses to stay put.
Lera of Lunos
by Alex Lidell
2019
War closes in on Lunos, Lera's unstable magic is running wild, and Tye's past is no longer content to stay buried. If the quint cannot hold together now, they could lose their world along with each other.
Prowess Trials
by Alex Lidell
2019
The games begin just as the academy's magic starts to crack. Lera must protect the visiting royals from inside the trials while the bonds she has fought to rebuild are tested all over again.
Rules of Stone
by Alex Lidell
2019
Lera goes undercover at a human military academy with her four fae warriors, only for a disastrous accident to strip the males of their memories. Now the new cadet must survive Great Falls and make them remember her.
Scent of a Wolf
by Alex Lidell
2019
Keeping a low profile at Great Falls is impossible when a giant gray wolf starts haunting Lera's room and Princess Katita marks Tye as off-limits. Danger rises fast, and so does Tye's resistance to her.
Great Falls Protector
by Alex Lidell
2020
Lera joins the Prowess team to stay close to the continent's young royals, but Tye is determined to drive her out. With the opening ceremonies closing in, duty, heartbreak, and mortal danger collide.
Great Falls Rogue
by Alex Lidell
2020
This omnibus continues Lera's undercover mission at Great Falls, collecting the next three episodes as midnight hunts, buried trauma, and failing wards push her closer to disaster. Saving the mortal world means surviving the academy first.
Last Chance Academy
by Alex Lidell
2020
Thief Sam takes a bad job, gets caught, and must choose prison or Talonswood Reform. Inside the brutal academy for supernatural delinquents, she learns she is the only witch and somehow tied to four dangerous immortals.
Last Chance Reform
by Alex Lidell
2020
Talonswood falls under new vampire control, and Sam lands in the sights of Reese, the academy's cold second-in-command. As the pressure on witches, fae, and vampires grows, power struggles get personal fast.
Last Chance Witch
by Alex Lidell
2020
Asher takes charge of a shattered Talonswood and blames Sam for everything from her power to her dangerous bonds. But bigger secrets are moving underneath the academy, and the magic between them refuses to stay quiet.
The Last Bell
by Alex Lidell
2020
The final battle at Great Falls Academy can no longer stay hidden. Lera must hold together her hard-won bonds, protect the mortal world, and face the cost of every secret before the last bell sounds.
Enemy Contact
by Alex Lidell
2021
Dani is hired to evaluate Eli Mason, a former SEAL turned powerful CEO, and maybe help destroy his career. Then a predator targets her, Eli steps in, and the man she was paid to break becomes the one person she may trust.
Enemy Hold
by Alex Lidell
2021
Competitive climber Jaz Keasely wants a career-making win, not a bodyguard. But when threats around her escalate, former SEAL Liam Rowen is forced into her orbit, and protecting her may be even more dangerous than the person hunting her.
Enemy Lines
by Alex Lidell
2021
Doctor Ivy West refuses to sign off on reckless former SEAL Kyan Keasley, no matter how hard he pushes. When a storm traps them together and a violent gang comes after Ivy, their standoff turns into a fight for survival.
Enemy Zone
by Alex Lidell
2021
Journalist Skylar Reynolds lands in Denton Valley and instantly clashes with Cullen Hunt, the brooding ex-SEAL behind Trident Rescue. As danger closes in and his PTSD shadows every move, dislike turns into a bond neither expected.
Last Chance World
by Alex Lidell
2021
Talonswood's secrets finally spill beyond the academy walls as Sam and the immortals bound to her face faction war, old betrayals, and the full cost of witch magic. The fight is bigger now, and nowhere feels safe.
Enemy Chase
by Alex Lidell
2022
Former Special Forces operative Aiden meets Tara, the woman tied to his lost captivity. She remembers exactly who he is, and why he should hate her. As old enemies close in, attraction and buried truth become equally dangerous.
Lethal Heat
by May Dawson
2022
Cyan's family plans to sell her into an arranged omega marriage, so she runs with fake beta papers and a pet snake. Getting caught by Grey Akiva only trades one problem for another, and the military academy ahead is no safer.
Dragons' Bride
by Alex Lidell
2023
A bargain forces Kit to train as a proper dragon bride before the Equinox Trials. Aboard a dangerous voyage, lessons in combat, courtship, and trust make her fake place in the pack feel far too real.
Dragons' Captive
by Alex Lidell
2023
Human slave Kit is dragged into the orbit of four dragon princes and a future she never asked for. Freedom still drives her, but in the dragon world, even survival comes with a price.
Dragons' Mate
by Alex Lidell
2023
The Equinox Trials are brutal, the priests are hiding deadly secrets, and Kit's growing bond with her dragons may be the only thing keeping them alive. Love is no longer a distraction. It is part of the fight.
Enemy Stand
by Alex Lidell
2023
Lawyer Sonia Dancer wants nothing to do with Casey McKenzie, the smug former Delta JAG who once humiliated her in court. Then an outlaw motorcycle gang forces them into a fake engagement and a mission that feels too real.
Dragons' Future
by Alex Lidell
2024
As secrets from the trials and the dragon court come into the open, Kit and the princes have to decide what future they are willing to fight for. Their pack may be stronger now, but the kingdom around them is not stable.
Fated to Flurry
by Alex Lidell
2025
Rowan's bond with her riders deepens as the war shifts and long-buried truths about the draken begin to surface. Loyalty, fate, and survival pull in different directions, and every answer seems to raise the stakes.
Power of Draken
by Alex Lidell
2025
Rowan's rare alchemist magic makes her valuable in a war against draken-riding fae. When Kai, Kyrian, and Logan claim her for their squad, desire and fate pull hard, but the three men are hiding enemy loyalties of their own.
Where should I start?
If you want fae romantasy: Power of Five → Mistake of Magic → Trial of Three → Lera of Lunos
If you want darker academy fantasy: Last Chance Academy → Last Chance Reform → Last Chance Witch → Last Chance World
If you want seafaring YA fantasy: First Command → Air and Ash → War and Wind → Sea and Sand
If you want contemporary romantic suspense: Enemy Zone → Enemy Contact → Enemy Lines → Enemy Hold
If you want dragons and fated mates: Dragons' Captive → Dragons' Bride → Dragons' Mate → Dragons' Future
Author bio
Alex Lidell writes fantasy and romance with fast plots, dangerous training grounds, and heroines who usually have to earn every bit of authority they get. Whether she is writing about fae courts, naval battles, reform academies, or former special operators back home, her stories tend to move with the same brisk, high-stakes energy.
She was born in Russia and learned English in elementary school. One early turning point came when a librarian handed her Tamora Pierce's Alanna, the first English-language novel she read for fun. It also became the book she credits with starting her lifelong love of fantasy, especially fantasy with girls who fight for their place.
That detail explains a lot.
Lidell's debut novel, The Cadet of Tildor, was a finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and was published by Penguin in 2013. It is a young adult fantasy about a cadet trying to survive an elite military academy while her kingdom slips toward unrest. Even that early, you can see several of the things Lidell comes back to again and again: command structures, loyalty under pressure, morally messy choices, and young women trying to prove themselves in systems not built for them.
After that, she expanded into indie fantasy romance and romantasy, and that is where many readers first found her. Air and Ash and the rest of the Tides books lean into maritime fantasy, with Princess Nile Greysik chasing command at sea while war and forbidden magic close in around her. Power of Five takes a different route, throwing a mortal stable girl into the orbit of four fae warriors after an ancient bond chooses her as their missing fifth. Readers who like training arcs, found family, and tension-heavy group dynamics tend to have a good time there.
She likes teams, tension, and people who have to learn command the hard way.
That carries into later series too. Last Chance Academy and the Immortals of Talonswood books go darker, building around a brutal reform school full of witches, fae, vampires, and old grudges that refuse to stay buried. Her dragon-centered books, including Her Royal Dragon Pack and Fated to the Draken Riders, stay in the romantasy lane but keep the same interest in power, duty, and messy loyalties. Even when the magic gets bigger, the emotional core stays practical: who can you trust, what are you willing to risk, and what happens when love shows up in the middle of a war or a mission.
Lidell also writes contemporary romantic suspense as A.L. Lidell. In books like Enemy Zone and the rest of the Trident Rescue series, she swaps fae politics for Denton Valley, Colorado, where former Navy SEALs build a rescue and security company and then discover that emotional baggage does not stay politely in the background. The settings change, but the appeal is familiar. Competent people. Pressure. Banter. Wounds that need more than one kind of healing.
Across all of her work, readers usually know what they are getting in the best sense. Strong heroines who are not instantly unstoppable. Men with histories. Institutions that can be useful and cruel at the same time. Romance that has to grow while something larger is on the line. Her books are not interested in standing still for long.
She also writes as A.L. Lidell.
Outside the page, she has described herself as an avid horseback rider, a bad hockey player, and someone who believes in dessert first. She lives in Washington, DC, and that feels oddly fitting for a writer who clearly enjoys power struggles, sharp loyalties, and characters trying to keep their balance while everything around them gets complicated.
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