Anthony Ryan Books in Order

Given to the warrior monks of the Sixth Order as a child, Vaelin Al Sorna is forged into a weapon of the Faith. As politics and prophecy pull him into brutal wars, he begins to question the king and god he serves.

Suspended from the Slab's police force and drinking too much bourbon, Alex McLeod is tending bar when a beautiful vampire claims a myth obsessed serial killer is loose. To stop the god haunted murders, Alex must trust a witness who may be lying.

In the lawless Asteroid Belt, pirate captain Bad Jack prepares for the biggest heist of his career. When his new recruit turns out to be war scarred inspector Alex McLeod, reset to combat mode, the job explodes into a bloody clash of agendas.

When a young girl is kidnapped on the Slab, grieving widower Alex McLeod is forced to seek help from Madame Choi, a ruthless drug dealer and fellow veteran. Their uneasy alliance leads deep into the Slab's criminal underworld and a plot with wide reaching consequences.

On the orbiting slum called the Slab, where sweat falls like rain and gene spliced thugs rule the alleys, inspector Alex McLeod hunts a clawed vigilante who is murdering assassins. Tracking the killer drags him through gang wars, corrupt officials, and old war ghosts.

After the Unified Realm's dream of unity collapses in blood, Vaelin returns home vowing never to kill again and is named Tower Lord of a remote border. Peace will not last, as rival powers and old enemies move against the fractured kingdom.

Promoted to lead Special Homicide, Alex McLeod finally has a chance to topple Mr Mac, the most powerful criminal in orbit. A seemingly simple murder case soon points to a far larger threat that could trigger Ragnarok and drag Alex back to Earth.

Queen Lyrna fights to drive invaders from the Unified Realm while Vaelin, his mystical blood song faltering, must confront a hidden master who grants unnatural life to loyal servants. Their campaign will decide the fate of both empire and Faith.

This stand alone story set in the Raven's Shadow world follows characters drawn to the glittering yet dangerous Hall of the Diamond Queen, where a single audience can reshape reputations, stir old grudges, and test how far people will go for honour or survival.

Newly minted Blood blessed Ethelynne Drystone joins the Sandrunners, a hard bitten contractor company, on a hazardous expedition into the Arradsian Interior. Their goal is to find the lair of the legendary White Drake, but the desert holds dangers no map can show.

Veteran Realm Guard Jerhid, newly appointed Lord Collector of the king's excise, is sent to a wild southern port to hunt smugglers and a mysterious survivor of a shipwreck. Working with Brother Sollis, he uncovers a conspiracy soaked in blood and secrets.

In a world where the Ironship Syndicate fuels its might with the blood of captive drakes, a petty thief, a ruthless spy, and a young naval officer are sent on converging quests to find a legendary white drake before war erupts.

Imperial chronicler Lord Verniers records the last desperate stand between Kethia and the conquering Volarian Empire, as mercenary king Tavurek leads his army against a host commanded by the Spear point. History, however, is clouded by Dark magic and buried motives.

Derla, a hardened enforcer from Varinshold's underworld, agrees to serve King Janus in exchange for a chance at bloody revenge. Charged with guarding the disreputable cardsharp Sentes Mustor, she is drawn into a dangerous game with the crime lord known as One Eye.

With the White Drake awake and its Spoiled armies spreading, Claydon Torcreek heads for the frozen south in search of ancient weapons, Lizanne Lethridge infiltrates enemy territory as spy and assassin, and Corrick Hilemore risks mutiny to defy disastrous orders at sea.

Ten years before Blood Song, Brother Sollis leads a small band of Sixth Order warriors into the frozen north to investigate an outbreak of the Red Hand plague. In a ruined castle they find an older, inhuman threat that may consume them all.

As the White Drake's war scorches continents, Clay, Lizanne, and Hilemore pursue desperate final gambits on land, sea, and in the air. Their hunt for lost knowledge and unlikely allies becomes a last chance to keep human civilisation from being burned to cinders.

In this brief horror tale, a narrator invites you to hear a ghost story that claims to outdo them all. As mist thickens and details blur, the line between a safe campfire yarn and something far more dangerous begins to dissolve.

Two centuries after a mad god shattered the kingdom of Alnachim, a nameless veteran known only as Pilgrim joins a band of desperate travelers crossing the cursed Execration. Each seeks a miracle, but Pilgrim's demon haunted sword may bring only ruin.

Years after laying down his sword, legendary warrior Vaelin Al Sorna learns that Sherin, the woman he once loved, is caught in the grip of a rising warlord called the Darkblade. To reach her, he must cross the sea and face the Steel Horde.

Defeated and driven back, Vaelin Al Sorna regathers his broken forces while the Darkblade's fanatical horde marches unchecked. As fragments of his blood song return, Vaelin must decide how much of his soul he is willing to burn to stop a self styled god.

Guyime, once called the Ravager, and his companion Seeker follow rumours of a demon bound sword to Carthula, a city built atop a kraken's skeleton. Amid feuding noble houses and submerged horrors, they must steal the blade known as the Kraken's Tooth or die trying.

Seeking another of the demon cursed Seven Swords, Guyime and his allies travel to the glittering City of Songs, where noble houses wage shadow wars. To claim the blade hidden there, they must solve an impossible murder and survive a web of dangerous politics.

This collection gathers four novellas from the world of Raven's Shadow, including tales of ancient battles, deadly plagues, underworld vendettas, and grim excise work. Together they reveal hidden corners of the Unified Realm and deepen the legends surrounding Vaelin's age.

Alwyn Scribe grows up as an outlaw in the forests of Albermaine, content among thieves until betrayal destroys his band. Dragged into war under visionary noblewoman Evadine Courlain, he becomes soldier, scribe, and spy while deciding whether he is more sinner than saint.

Now a knight and spymaster to Evadine Courlain, widely hailed as a Risen Martyr, Alwyn marches to hold a vulnerable border castle for a suspicious king. Besieged by enemies and doubt, he watches faith, power, and loyalty twist into something far more frightening.

Guided by ominous portents, Guyime joins the retinue of a romantic knight bound for Blackfyre Keep, a ruin that no garrison can hold for long. Within its haunted halls, a summoned ancient evil forces him to confront the monster he once was.

Guyime's hunt for the Seven Swords carries him onto the Sorrow Sea, a storm wracked expanse haunted by monsters and ruled by a ruthless pirate king. To reach the Spectral Isle where the blades were forged, he and his companions must survive both.

Years after his outlaw youth, Alwyn Scribe is the chief adviser to Evadine Courlain, whose holy zeal now borders on tyranny. As war and prophecy collide, he must choose between loyalty to the woman he serves and the people who will suffer for her cause.

In the saga soaked land of Ascarlia, ruled for centuries by the Sister Queens, rumours spread of tattooed raiders serving a forgotten cult. Agent Thera Blackspear, her exiled brother Felnir, a secretive scribe, and a cursed prisoner are drawn into the coming storm.

In an earlier age of the Unified Realm, tyrant king Lakril earns the name book burner by turning paranoia into policy. Former assassin Kestra Saero is lured back to the Faith's Seventh Order for one last mission, to infiltrate his nightmare palace and kill a king.

In the sun blessed kingdom of Alcedon, rebellion and an ancient evil erupt together. Leading his band of sword bearers, Guyime allies with a besieged king and marches along the dreaded Road of Storms, where the last demon cursed blade will decide the world's fate.

After Ascarlia's capital falls to the Nihlvarians, Elvine walks a perilous line inside the new regime while quietly plotting resistance. Across sea and islands, Thera, Felnir, and Ruhlin fight to gather allies, challenge the invaders, and decide what their broken realm should become.

Fifteen years after creatures called feeders shattered civilisation, teenager Layla lives behind the walls of New City Redoubt. When her adoptive father falls ill, she joins the elite Crossers to scavenge the wasteland for medicine, facing evolving monsters and threats from fellow survivors.

The final volume of The Seven Swords cycle sees Guyime and his weary companions journey toward the Infernus Gate, a threshold into the demons' own realm. There they hope to unite all seven blades and finally learn whether their curse can ever be broken.

As the Age of Wrath reaches its climax, Ascarlia and its enemies converge on one last, ruinous campaign. Thera, Felnir, Elvine, and Ruhlin must face betrayed oaths, vengeful gods, and the consequences of every choice they have made since the tide first turned.