Catherine Asaro Books in Order

Fighter pilot Soz Valdoria meets a man she believes is one of her people's worst enemies, but he is hiding a far stranger truth. Their bond could either save Skolia or hand it to the enemy.

A young woman from Earth falls for a stranger who is far more lost than he first appears. Their connection pulls her into the future and into the path of an interstellar war.

Pilot Kelric Valdoria crash-lands on the matriarchal world of Coba and discovers its people have no intention of letting him leave. His failing biomech and their fear of him make escape even harder.

Soz Valdoria and Jaibriol Qox II have built a hidden life together, but war tears it apart. When he is forced into the Trader throne, Soz must lead a rescue that could change civilization.

A shy ballerina and a wealthy tech CEO meet by chance, then get thrown together by kidnapping and danger. Their uneasy bond deepens as a breakthrough in AI and virtual reality draws hostile attention.

Fieldwork on the colony world of Coba takes a bad turn when anthropology student Jeremiah Coltman becomes too good at a ritual dice game. His academic stay turns into a gilded captivity with no easy exit.

After escaping years of captivity, Kelric returns to Skolian space and finds his family shattered and his position perilous. Forced into hiding, he still has to reclaim both his freedom and his future.

MIT researcher Megan O'Flannery is given the chance to work with a lifelike android in a secret desert lab. Teaching him freedom may be the very thing that makes powerful people decide to take control.

Kamoj Argali expects a political marriage to save her starving province, until a mysterious outsider claims her hand instead. His arrival opens her world into something stranger, larger, and far more dangerous.

An anthology of speculative stories about sex, identity, and social rules. Catherine Asaro's story 'Soul of Light' adds a science fiction note to a collection interested in desire and possibility.

In the aftermath of a disastrous war, the Skolian pharaoh struggles to gather her shattered family and restore a broken empire. Personal loss and public duty collide at every step.

A three-author collection of romantic fantasy novellas. Catherine Asaro's 'Moonglow' follows Iris Larkspur, who must heal the prince she is required to marry in a kingdom where magic shapes marriage.

A chance meeting between provincial ruler Eldrinson and the mysterious Roca changes far more than their own lives. Their bond helps give birth to an interstellar dynasty, and to the wars around it.

At seventeen, Jaibriol Qox III inherits a vast and brutal empire. To survive as ruler, he must seize power without losing the part of himself that could still prevent a devastating war.

Charon may be gone, but one of his most dangerous creations remains. With a hostage in tow and a hidden plan in motion, the android Alpha could become either a person seeking freedom or a threat to humanity.

As war with the Traders worsens, young Soz Valdoria fights for the chance to train as an elite pilot. Her choice opens a painful rift inside the Ruby Dynasty just when the family can least afford it.

AI researcher Samantha Bryton rescues an injured stranger from the sea and learns he escaped a terrifying experiment. Soon she and Turner are running from Charon, with only rogue machine intelligences to help them.

Mage Chime and the sidelined former heir Muller both lose the futures they expected. When war threatens their kingdom, they have one chance to redeem themselves by uncovering the plot behind it.

The war and family break begun in Schism reach full force here. As the empire comes under assault, young Soz Valdoria is thrown into battle long before anyone is ready to lose her.

To preserve peace, Mel Dawnfield must marry Cobalt the Dark, heir to a feared house. In his isolated home she faces old evil, uncertain magic, and the question of whether light can survive there.

This anthology gathers twelve paranormal romance stories that mix love, wonder, and the uncanny. Catherine Asaro's contribution, 'The Shadowed Heart,' adds a science fiction thread to the collection.

Mel Dawnfield pushes her magic past every known limit as rebellion and family danger close in around her husband's realm. To save the people she loves, she may have to turn her gift into a weapon.

Desert priestess Ginger-Sun becomes bound to a mysterious stranger and suddenly inherits enemies she does not understand. To survive, she must master a dangerous magic before violence consumes both her land and her soul.

When Jazid nomads invade Aronsdale, young enchantress Allegro is carried into the desert as a prize. Love offers one path, but her deeper fight is to save her homeland and its freedom.

Kelric rules Skolia and Jaibriol rules the Eubian Concord, and both know war could ignite again at any moment. Each carries secrets that could destroy him and everything he is trying to protect.

This collection centers on the title novella, where MIT grad Janelle falls through a portal into a damaged parallel world and a dangerous prophecy. It also includes 'Light and Shadow' and an essay on the math behind Asaro's fiction.

Del Valdoria is a Ruby prince who would rather sing holo-rock than play dynastic games. But once fame finds him on Earth, music, celebrity, and interstellar politics become a volatile mix.

Kelric Skolia and Jaibriol Qox III try to build peace between two enemy empires, but assassins and old power structures have other plans. The closer they get to a treaty, the more dangerous every move becomes.

Major Bhaajan is hired to find a runaway son of the ruling dynasty on the harsh world of her childhood. Gangsters, old loyalties, and the dangerous streets of Cries make a simple search anything but simple.

In 1987 East LA, Tina Santis Pulivok meets a stranded fighter pilot from the future and discovers her strange empathic gift has a reason. Together they race to recover his captured starfighter before it detonates.

Former military officer Major Bhaajan now works as a private investigator, taking cases that can turn deadly fast. One job sends her deep into a hidden underworld where the truth could reshape an interstellar empire.

When the Ruby Pharaoh witnesses an impossible murder by a Jagernaut, Major Bhaajan is sent after a killer who should not exist. Her search drags her back into the danger and divided loyalties of the Undercity.

Powerful elites are disappearing from the City of Cries, and only Bhaajan knows the buried world well enough to track what is happening. To solve it, she must return to the Undercity she once escaped.

A serial killer is hunting prominent scientists in Selei City, and the clues point toward a conspiracy tied to people in power. Major Bhaajan must untangle the murders before the case tears into the heart of the empire.

Tina Santis Pulivok thinks the stranger she meets in East LA is just confused, until his mind touches hers. Helping Althor means facing time displacement, military pursuit, and a ship that could explode over California.

Tina leaves Earth behind to follow Althor into his future universe, where love is only the start of her troubles. Treachery, politics, and a brutal enemy threaten both their marriage and human civilization.

Major Bhaajan and her Dust Knights escort a royal mission into the Undercity in hopes of mending a divided world. Instead they find deeper wounds, older distrust, and a hidden place where peace may fail.

Raylicon's overlooked runners and Dust Knights get a chance to prove themselves on a bigger stage. Athletics, class tension, and newly discovered abilities collide as the Undercity is finally forced into view.