Beth Cato Books in Order

Magical healer Octavia Leander boards an airship to begin work in a war-scarred realm. Strange incidents and murder interrupt the journey, drawing her into a conspiracy involving concealed identities, royal assassins, and the source of her exceptional powers.

Fleeing with former royal assassin Alonzo Garrett, Octavia Leander searches for the origins of her expanding magical abilities. Their journey toward the mysterious Lady's Tree crosses a contested wasteland where rival powers want to exploit her gifts.

Training under Miss Percival, young magical healer Octavia Leander is called to the front lines of a war. Together, teacher and student must identify the cause of a devastating illness spreading among soldiers in this Clockwork Dagger prequel.

Young machinist Rivka Stout struggles with polite society after leaving the slums for a new life. Discovering a laboratory's scheme involving gremlins and brutal arena entertainment, she seeks unexpected allies to protect creatures threatened by powerful interests.

In an alternate 1906 San Francisco, secretary Ingrid Carmichael hides geomantic powers in a society that dismisses women's abilities. An attack on the city's magical guardians draws her into political conspiracies as an earthquake threatens to expose her strength.

Captain Hue's airship is commandeered by soldiers and placed under a royal assassin's control for a dangerous secret mission. Regaining command requires a mutiny that risks his crew and teenage son, while worsening weather narrows his options.

This anthology combines classic and contemporary science fiction, including work by Beth Cato and other contributors. Stories explore dystopian societies, apocalyptic futures, time travel, robots, and speculative adventures, placing newer voices alongside writers from earlier generations.

Escaping an earthquake-devastated San Francisco, Ingrid Carmichael travels north with friends while a powerful ambassador seeks to control her magic. Kidnappings and an uneasy political alliance complicate her search for answers about abilities that could reshape her alternate world.

Twenty-eight stories and six poems range across imagined histories and alien worlds. Horses bonded to war machines, rampaging gnomes, magical food, and a sentient house appear in narratives exploring longing, strangeness, and the search for belonging.

The magazine's prelaunch issue gathers six international science-fiction stories, ranging from Earthbound futures to interstellar possibilities. Reprinted tales vary in tone from humorous to melancholy, introducing its focus on global perspectives and fiction in translation.

This issue presents original and translated science fiction from several countries, including China, Nigeria, Italy, Ukraine, and the United States. Interviews and essays accompany the stories, exploring television storytelling, empire in the genre, and the Dyachenkos' work.

Weakened by using her geomantic powers, Ingrid Carmichael travels to Hawaii with companions to investigate her magical ancestry. Learning about her connection to Madame Pele may help her confront an enemy whose ambitions threaten both loved ones and world peace.

Nine stories from international contributors range across distant futures and unfamiliar forms of life. Themes include android experience, consciousness inhabiting multiple bodies, unusual alien gifts, and Beth Cato's lunar tale, combining original work with fiction in translation.

Moon-centered stories mark the fiftieth anniversary of the lunar landing in this international science-fiction issue. Additional tales explore artificial intelligence, relationships between people and robotic animals, and time travel, bringing several speculative themes into one collection.

Rogue magical chef Ada Garland flees assassins after sixteen years in hiding. Her path converges with Princess Solenn, her long-lost daughter, whose discovery of a political murder plot draws both women into conflict shaped by rival nations and gods.

Princess Solenn struggles to restore peace between rival countries as war becomes personal for her mother, Ada Garland. With Ada’s beloved captain facing execution, mother and daughter must draw on human and magical alliances despite opposition from the gods.

Grieving writer Fayette Wynne rescues actor Rex Hallstrom during a California storm and finds shelter in a sentient cliffside house. Their growing friendship and her inherited bread magic offer healing, but the house’s dark history threatens their refuge.

Bird Nichols moves to a quiet California town to build a gourmet cheese board business, then discovers a body. When her closest friend becomes the sheriff’s prime suspect, she starts investigating the neighbors to protect him and prevent another murder.