Alma Alexander Books in Order

This collection brings together three ghost stories exploring the ties between memory and haunting. Its spirits embody love, unfinished business, regret, and the unsettling persistence of the past, examining how the dead can protect, disturb, or frighten the living.

During the bombing of Yugoslavia, Sasha and Dave exchange emails across geographical and political divisions. Their correspondence follows the turmoil of war and the development of a personal connection, presenting conflicting experiences of a crisis through an intimate epistolary narrative.

After King Red Dynan dies, nine-year-old Anghara Kir Hama must flee her half-brother Sif, who seizes her throne. Pursued by his forces, the rightful queen travels toward a distant desert land where her mysterious gift of Sight can develop.

Within the kingdom of Syai, women form enduring bonds through the secret language and oath of jin-shei. A seamstress's daughter enters a world of imperial privilege, sorcery, and intrigue, where chosen sisterhood reaches across divisions of class and power.

Anghara returns from Kheldrin with a stronger command of Sight, hoping to confront the usurper who stole her kingdom. Betrayal and imprisonment threaten her claim, drawing her back toward the mysterious land and powers that have reshaped her destiny.

Four centuries after the original jin-shei sisterhood, revolution threatens the Syai Empire and those attached to its traditions. Amais seeks the lost women's oath while becoming entangled with a man whose political role could endanger her family and homeland.

Thea Winthrop, a seventh child of a seventh child, is expected to possess extraordinary magic but appears unable to perform any. Sent to a school for the magically incompetent, she finds friends and begins discovering unexpected possibilities in herself.

Magical spells hidden in spam emails turn ordinary promises into dangerous transformations. Thea Winthrop investigates as the effects grow more threatening, bringing her into conflict with a powerful mage and forcing her to confront the consequences of misused magic.

Returning to the Wandless Academy, Thea discovers that she is an exceptionally rare Elemental Mage. She must reunite her troubled circle of friends to oppose the Alphiri and help Nikola Tesla, whose extraordinary powers are shadowed by a devastating loss.

Alma Alexander reflects on the experiences and memories that have shaped her life as a writer. These personal pieces consider beauty, grief, beloved animals, hope, and unexpected joy, inviting readers into the ordinary moments behind a creative existence.

On the eve of the predicted end of the world in December 2012, five former college friends reunite at a café. A mysterious bartender offers each a passage into an alternative life, making their reunion a confrontation with choices.

Taken from Europe to Africa at ten, Alma Alexander describes the landscapes and experiences that shaped her childhood. Her memoir moves through contrasting beauty and hardship, reflecting on memory, belonging, and the homes that remain vivid after departure.

Three science fiction stories explore starflight, unfamiliar worlds, and the people who inhabit them. Combining previously published work with a new story, the collection considers human experiences of the universe through journeys beyond the boundaries of everyday earthly life.

These love stories examine the vulnerability of offering one's heart despite the possibility of loss. The collection explores heartbreak, longing, courage, and unexpected affection, considering why people continue to seek connection even when earlier relationships have left painful wounds.

This fantasy collection explores choices whose consequences extend beyond the visible world. An angel offers a troubled woman a costly alternative life, a sinner confronts purgatory, and a young person's theft carries implications for entire worlds and their inhabitants.

These stories approach love through physical sensation and emotional immersion rather than detached explanation. Taste, touch, and sound become ways of exploring an experience that resists logic, as the collection considers the vulnerability involved in opening oneself to affection.

Jazz Marsh belongs to a family of Random Were, whose changing forms depend on the creatures they see before transforming. Discovering her dead sister's diaries exposes family secrets, while her brother's troubled behavior challenges everything she understands about their kind.

A science fiction convention is already facing missing guests and organizational disasters when time-traveling androids abduct its entire hotel. Officials and fans find themselves traveling around the Moon, where their familiar convention culture collides with an unexpected science fictional reality.

Thea and her friends, including Nikola Tesla and Coyote the Trickster, embark on a quest to recover humanity's stolen magic from the Alphiri. Their journey toward the origins of that magic forces them to confront powerful enemies and difficult choices.

Mal Marsh has waited longer than anyone in his generation for his first transformation. Burdened by guilt over his sister's death, he chooses to become a Lycan, hoping to pursue revenge while discovering complications hidden within his family's history.

Simonis rises from childhood circus performances through work as a courtesan and spy in an empire resembling Byzantium. Her relationship with Emperor Maxentius challenges social expectations, as their personal bond becomes entangled with the responsibilities and dangers of imperial power.

Saladin van Schalkwyk knows he was created as a genetic chimera but cannot uncover the purpose behind his existence. When his friend Mal infiltrates the Lycans to investigate, their search exposes secrets that challenge Saladin's understanding of himself.

Four stories reimagine familiar fairy tale princesses as refugees rather than figures destined for effortless happiness. Through experiences of displacement, loss, strength, and courage, the collection revisits childhood narratives to examine the human realities hidden behind conventional fairy tale endings.

Sabrina Warne discovers that her former lover is Lucifer and still claims part of her soul. Pursued by supernatural enemies, she must navigate a world of selkies, rusalkas, and taniwha while questioning the relationships and beliefs that shaped her life.

Five friends return to the café where they celebrated graduation twenty years earlier, exchanging memories and disturbing secrets. An enigmatic bartender gives each the opportunity to enter another life, forcing them to weigh unfamiliar possibilities against the lives they know.

Fourteen stories take their inspiration from words that resist easy translation into English. Drawing on different cultures and ways of seeing, the collection explores how language can reveal experiences that familiar words struggle to capture.

Val Hall offers a refuge for retired superheroes whose powers emerged from extraordinary moments in otherwise ordinary lives. Through the stories of its residents, this volume explores the memories, sacrifices, and search for companionship behind their exceptional abilities.

Retired superheroes gather at Val Hall to share the experiences behind their unusual powers. This companion volume follows stories from the institution's odd-numbered years, exploring people who protect loved ones, avert catastrophe, influence belief, or perceive the world beyond death.

Earth's first starship returns after nearly two centuries, its six crew members barely aged but carrying more than seventy personalities. Psychologist Stella Froud and Jesuit Philip Carter investigate their condition, uncovering a mystery that complicates the apparent miracle of homecoming.

Witches, princesses, and monsters inhabit fairy tales reshaped around unfamiliar choices and broken promises. These stories revisit the assumptions behind familiar enchantments, giving old patterns new complications and asking what happens beyond the expected ending.

Alma Alexander revisits the books that shaped her life through essays, reflections, and personal memories. A journey through her library traces how reading transformed her imagination and helped turn a lifelong book lover into a writer.

Sent to a rival kingdom as a hostage, Prince Steffan forms unexpected bonds before returning to a troubled home. An unwanted marriage, his brother’s ambitions, and a prophecy about his son threaten the future he hopes to build.