Barbara Hambly Books in Order

Wizard Ingold pulls Rudy Solis and Gil Patterson from California into Darwath, a world being destroyed by the Dark. Their only choice is to help fight for a land they have barely begun to understand.

The final struggle against the Dark demands every scrap of old lore, courage, and sacrifice Gil, Rudy, and Ingold can find. Survival is not enough anymore. They need a real answer.

Set in ancient Rome, this historical mystery follows a thoughtful outsider into kidnapping, murder, and political intrigue under imperial power.

Darwath is still falling, and the survivors' refuge is more fragile than it looks. Gil, Rudy, and Ingold search for lost knowledge while the Dark close in again.

The women of Mandrigyn kidnap mercenary captain Sun Wolf and force him to teach them how to fight for their city. It is a hard-edged fantasy of war, power, and gender.

When a black dragon threatens the south, young Gareth seeks out John Aversin, the only living dragonslayer. Legend has made him famous, but the man himself is far more weary and complicated.

When Spock vanishes into 1860s Seattle with no memory of who he is, Kirk must follow through a time-travel puzzle that could alter history itself.

A California programmer is pulled into a murder-and-magic plot that spans her own world and a threatened empire across the Void. To survive, she must learn fast whom she can trust.

Seeking magical training, Sun Wolf and Starhawk travel to Wenshar and find a kingdom troubled by supernatural murder, fear, and old desert sorcery.

Joanna and Antryg confront a terrifying new threat, a sorcerous intelligence that has learned to work through machines. The border between wizardry and technology becomes dangerously thin.

Former spy James Asher is forced into an alliance with the ancient vampire Don Simon Ysidro to investigate who is murdering London's vampires. The answer threatens both the undead and the living.

Catherine and Vincent's love anchors this novel set between the worlds above and below New York. Hambly captures both the danger around them and the tenderness that keeps them reaching for one another.

Built from episodes of the television series, this tie-in blends music, illness, obsession, and the enduring bond between Catherine and Vincent.

Sun Wolf and Starhawk are pulled into one more struggle where magic, conscience, and survival refuse to stay separate. Old enemies and older costs wait for them at every turn.

The Enterprise arrives at a strategically vital world where telepathic native leaders, the Federation, and the Klingons all want different futures. One wrong move could start a war.

Wizard Rhion is drawn into a world-crossing story of power, belief, and dangerous desire. What begins as curiosity becomes a much larger question about where magic belongs and who controls it.

Living in California after their escape, Joanna and Antryg are dragged back into wizard politics when Joanna is kidnapped. Returning to the Citadel may be the only way to find her.

Rhion and Jaldis answer a call from a world without magic and find themselves in Nazi Germany. What its rulers want from sorcery is far worse than either wizard expected.

In 1923 Hollywood, silent-film star Chrysanda Flamande seems to have brought home more than a prop from Chinatown. Her practical cousin Norah soon realizes a curse may be stalking everyone around the actress.

A diplomatic mission turns dangerous when the Enterprise crew is caught between local conflict and interstellar politics on a world at a breaking point.

Kyra returns home for her sister's wedding and becomes convinced the marriage is shadowed by dark magic. Family expectations, buried resentments, and old secrets make leaving impossible.

Luke follows a call from the long-lost Eye of Palpatine and encounters Callista, a Jedi spirit trapped in the ship's computer. An old Imperial weapon is waking, and the past refuses to stay dead.

James Asher spots vampire intrigue on the move and follows it from England across Europe. Lydia, Simon Ysidro, and a determined chaperone race after him into a web of spies and undead power.

Years after defeating the Dark, the survivors of Dare face a colder and stranger enemy spreading across the north. Gil, Rudy, and Ingold are split apart as the world's fate tilts again.

Recently back from Paris, Benjamin January is accused of murdering a placée he was the last person to see alive. To avoid prison and the gallows, he has to find the real killer himself.

Leia is stranded on Nam Chorios amid plague, politics, and Force mysteries, while Luke and Han race to understand a threat that reaches well beyond one troubled planet.

During cholera and yellow fever, Benjamin is drawn into a poisoning case, the kidnapping of free Black people, and the brutal underside of New Orleans respectability. It is the book that brings Rose fully into his life.

The Keep of Dare stands against siege and sorcery until Prince Tir is snatched away. Only the exiled warrior Icefalcon can hope to follow the kidnappers into the unknown and bring the boy back.

John and Jenny's uneasy peace collapses when demons that feed on magic steal their son. With civil war brewing, even dragons may not be enough to hold the realm together.

Benjamin's sister Olympe is accused of murder, and her role as a voodoo practitioner makes her an easy target. To save her, Ben must navigate fear, family hatred, and a city eager to condemn.

John Aversin and Jenny Waynest are both damaged by what came before, but their world offers no rest. Demon bargains and a terrible quest force them into another fight that may cost everything.

Benjamin returns undercover to the plantation where he was once enslaved to investigate violence and sabotage. The case forces him back into the most dangerous memories of his own life.

An Italian opera company arrives in New Orleans, and Benjamin is hired to play in the orchestra. Assaults, censorship, and slave smuggling soon turn the production into a deadly mystery.

A sudden global shift cripples technology and lets magic loose on modern life. As Los Angeles tips into a new and stranger reality, survival depends on learning rules nobody had yesterday.

Separated by war, suspicion, and everything earlier books have cost them, John and Jenny fight toward one last reckoning. Siege, prophecy, and hellspawn leave little room for error.

In a desert city where male magic is failing, women begin to discover forbidden powers of their own. That change threatens religion, politics, and the whole balance of society.

The death of an aging former placée with pirate ties sends Benjamin and Rose into the bayous and marshes. The case mixes old crimes, storms, slave rebellions, and a dangerous flight through the wilderness.

Benjamin and Rose head to Mexico City to save Hannibal from a poisoning charge. The rescue becomes a full mystery tangled up with wealth, obsession, and a city far from home.

When a bank embezzlement threatens Rose's school, Benjamin, Rose, and Hannibal follow the missing money onto a steamboat. Then the suspected thief is murdered, trapping them all on the river with the case.

As magic shifts from men to women, the upheaval continues across the Yellow City and beyond. A young Sun Mage-in-training is drawn into a plea for help that widens the world's already dangerous changes.

A historical novel about Mary Todd Lincoln that follows ambition, marriage, grief, and the brutal pressures of the Civil War. Hambly keeps the focus on the woman inside the legend.

Dracula's most famous servant takes center stage in this gothic retelling. Hambly turns his dependence, obsession, and fear into a dark story of survival and submission.

Hambly follows Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Sally Hemings, and Dolley Madison through the private costs of public history. The result is a Founding-era novel about love, duty, and power at home.

In pre-World War I Mesopotamia, archaeologist Anne Steelyard searches for the Garden of Eden while fighting condescension, danger, and mysteries older than empire.

An epistolary Civil War novel following two women on opposite sides of the conflict, bound by friendship, books, and divided loyalties. War changes everything but does not erase what they once shared.

Anne Steelyard's expedition pushes deeper into imperial intrigue and the mystical pull of the ancient world. Dreams, scholarship, and danger start bleeding into one another.

In revolutionary Boston, Abigail Adams discovers a mutilated body where a missing printer and seamstress should have been. To save John from suspicion, she has to investigate where men will not look.

Boston in 1774 is tense enough without murder, but Abigail Adams finds herself following a case tied to the Sons of Liberty and a supposed suicide. Politics and private grievance are tangled from the start.

Violence against young women pulls James and Lydia Asher back into the perilous overlap between human crime and vampire need. The case widens into a darker web than either expects.

At a funeral, Benjamin January discovers the wrong body in the coffin, and Hannibal recognizes the dead man. The mystery forces long-buried secrets from Hannibal's past into the open.

Anne Steelyard returns to the Basra region to find a missing man and stop a deadly secret from falling into German hands. Archaeology, war, and mysticism all close in at once.

Two murdered concubines draw Benjamin January into a case linked to a former Turkish ambassador. Half the story reaches back to Paris, revealing more of Ben's first marriage and earlier life.

After an attack on her young nephew, Abigail Adams travels to Harvard to uncover why a mysterious woman wanted him translating Arabic. The search draws her into obsession, politics, and murder.

Lieutenant Shaw asks Benjamin and Hannibal to help solve his brother's murder in the Rocky Mountain fur trade. The journey west becomes a hard, dangerous search far from anything Ben can control.

A grim new case sends James and Lydia beyond familiar ground, where imperial politics and supernatural hunger become equally deadly.

A disappearance in Washington, D.C., sends Benjamin January and his circle into a tangle of slave-stealers, codes, politics, and literary gossip. It is one of the series' busiest, widest-ranging cases.

Murder stirs London's undead society, and James and Lydia Asher are pulled into the case from opposite directions. The deeper they go, the more dangerous the vampire world becomes.

Rose's white half-brother is murdered in a hunt for hidden treasure and older family secrets. The chase takes Benjamin, Rose, and Hannibal from Louisiana to Cuba and finally toward Haiti itself.

A quick return to Sun Wolf and Starhawk's world, full of old friendships, sharp humor, and the kind of trouble that never stays small for long.

While Benjamin is away, Rose and Dominique investigate the murder of a neighbor. Their quiet, determined sleuthing gives this short mystery a different but welcome angle on the series.

A darker Windrose piece that twists familiar patterns into something uneasy, personal, and quietly perilous.

A Windrose story about thin places between worlds, and the trouble that starts when someone or something finds a way through.

A Winterlands story that takes a sidelong look at fairy-tale roles, mixing danger, wit, and magic in a way only Hambly really does.

Old crimes and old predators resurface, dragging James Asher back into the undead world's shifting alliances. To survive, he must read both the living and the dead with equal care.

This Sun Wolf and Starhawk tale circles around beauty, power, and the cost of being valued for the wrong reasons. Sharp talk and hard choices matter as much as steel.

A sharp, eerie Windrose tale in which everyday necessity meets unpredictable magic and the results turn dangerous fast.

At a costume party, Rose January witnesses the murder of a plantation owner's wife. To save the maid blamed for the crime, she starts digging for the truth with help from Hannibal and Lieutenant Shaw.

Benjamin January investigates the disappearance of a placée's daughter who was about to be drawn into the same system herself. It is a short case with deep roots in New Orleans society.

A shorter story set in Sun Wolf and Starhawk's world, where magic, memory, and divided loyalties meet in a dangerous and personal way.

Set in the Windrose world, this story explores temptation and escape, and the price people pay for the lives they think they want.

A clever Windrose tale about magic crossing into modern life, with all the awkward and dangerous consequences that follow.

A return to Darwath where familiar allies face a smaller but no less unsettling threat. Even after the great battles, the world beyond the Keep remains full of danger.

This Winterlands novella focuses on John Aversin, where dragon-scarred experience and family loyalties matter far more than heroic legend.

A dark Winterlands tale where old magic, troubled kinship, and the danger of what is only half-understood rise to the surface.

Holmes and Watson investigate a disappearance with unsettling overtones. The trail of a missing child leads them into darker corners of London than the case first suggests.

Holmes tackles a case shaped by rumor, prejudice, and deliberate theatrical menace. As ever, he must separate the story people want to believe from the danger that is actually there.

Told through Mary Watson's eyes, Holmes tackles a sinister case whose handmade surfaces hide something far darker underneath.

Set on the edges of the James Asher universe, this story follows ordinary lives brushing up against very old darkness.

A stranger's attempt to steal a Bible sounds minor until Benjamin and Hannibal look closer. The theft opens into a mystery of memory, value, and hidden motives.

A long-lost Keep is about to be reached by teleporter, but Ingold is snowed in and absent. Gil and Rudy must explore the unknown place alone before whatever waits there follows them back.

Another Windrose-world story, driven by character, memory, and the quiet menace that sits behind ordinary choices.

Colossus Films heads to a supposedly haunted castle near Reno for a location shoot, and the old silent-movie crowd finds that studio melodrama is not the only thing on set. Curses, jealousies, and death arrive together.

A showman arrives in New Orleans claiming he can reveal life on the moon through his marvelous telescope. When one of his supposed moon-creatures dies, Rose and Hannibal start pulling apart the fraud and the murder behind it.

Benjamin January and Hannibal take summer work with a traveling minstrel show, only to be pulled into Underground Railroad danger in Vicksburg. Ben must prove a man's innocence without exposing people who cannot afford discovery.

War throws Europe into chaos, and James Asher is drawn into another bargain with the undead. The battlefield proves fertile ground for a threat even older and more ruthless than the men fighting on it.

This later Darwath tale widens the world beyond the original trilogy. Survival after catastrophe has created its own new dangers, and familiar victories are no guarantee of safety.

A grim little Winterlands adventure in which local superstition, real magic, and the needs of survival collide.

A Sun Wolf and Starhawk story of hard bargains and harder loyalties. What begins as trouble on a manageable scale becomes a sharp test of nerve, wit, and survival.

A playful title hides a very Hambly mix of portal fantasy, sharp humor, and danger arriving from thoroughly unexpected directions.

A dead Englishman in New Orleans pulls Benjamin January back toward an older murder from Paris in 1832. As the two cases begin to mirror each other, old loyalties and older wounds come back into play.

An elderly family friend's shocking engagement seems scandal enough, until a maid is murdered and the young bride may be next. Benjamin January soon learns the case could threaten not just lives, but his own family's freedom.

A later Sun Wolf and Starhawk tale that returns to Hambly's mix of steel, memory, and uneasy loyalty. Even a smaller story carries real emotional stakes here.

A sequel to the later James Asher novels, this story revisits vampire politics with mordant wit, a fresh mystery, and trouble that refuses to stay buried.

A Windrose-world story that blurs the line between performance and reality. What looks manageable at first turns into a sharp little collision of illusion, identity, and dangerous magic.

When a former pupil is kidnapped into slavery, Benjamin January follows the trail into the Republic of Texas, where free Black status means little. A murder at Rancho Perdition traps him in a brutal landscape of lies, politics, and survival.

Lydia Asher takes the lead in a restless, wide-ranging mystery shaped by old grievances, human cruelty, and vampire interests. The farther she travels, the clearer it becomes that someone dangerous is using the undead world for cover.

Benjamin January travels north to find a missing young woman whose trail runs through new religious movements and the Underground Railroad. The search leads him into fraud, violence, and a cult that is far more dangerous than it first appears.

In 1924 Hollywood, Emma Blackstone works for silent-film star Kitty Flint and thinks she finally understands the chaos around her. Then a dead ex-husband appears in Kitty's dressing room, and Emma has to prove her sister-in-law was framed.

Campaign season brings Benjamin January into a knot of duels, family grudges, and political ugliness in 1840 New Orleans. When a beautiful troublemaker is murdered, Ben must clear an old friend's family before the case turns even deadlier.

Emma Blackstone and Kitty Flint are drawn into another Hollywood murder when a director is found shot on a studio lot. The suspects include stars, gangsters, and anyone with something to lose.

When magic starts to fail, Clea Stylachos suspects the Crystal Mages are turning monstrous outbreaks into a weapon. To save her people and her brother, she must trust a cursed wizard who has every reason to refuse.

This late Winterlands tale returns to dragon-shadowed magic, hard choices, and the way power rarely hurts only the people who sought it.

Child star Susy Sweetchild survives a near-fatal stunt, then vanishes with her mother. Emma and Kitty have to navigate silent-era Hollywood and a ransom threat before the film turns into tragedy.

A later Windrose story that turns questions of shelter, belonging, and divided lives into a quietly dangerous problem.

A chance meeting at a Christmas ball ties Benjamin January to a haunting puzzle from his Paris years. To help old friends in Louisiana, he must untangle slavery, greed, and a murder that never truly ended.

During Carnival season, Benjamin January attends a duel and realizes the man who died could not have been killed the way it appears. In a case he cannot safely claim as his, he still has to uncover the murderer.

An absurdly rich stranger offers Kitty Flint money to marry and then divorce him, and Emma Blackstone knows it is a terrible idea. When the man behind the warning rumors turns up dead, New York society turns lethal.