Charlie N Holmberg Books in Order

Three months after saving Emery Thane, Ceony is advancing in paper magic but still hiding a dangerous secret. A revenge-minded magician starts attacking those around her, pushing Ceony toward the limits of what she can do.

Top student Ceony Twill is forced into paper magic instead of the metal magic she wanted, then discovers paper can be far stranger than it looks. When a flesh magician steals her teacher's heart, Ceony must chase a nightmare to save him.

When Smitha rejects a stranger's proposal, she is cursed to freeze everything she touches. Banished from home and shadowed by Death himself, she has to decide whether regret will consume her or lead her back toward life.

Ceony Twill is close to finishing her apprenticeship when a final exam, a hostile evaluator, and an escaped enemy throw everything into chaos. Her impossible secret about magic may be the only thing that can save the people she loves.

Maire bakes emotions and abilities into her sweets, but she remembers nothing about who she is or how her magic works. After she is enslaved by a man demanding sinister confections, returning memories begin to reveal a much larger danger.

Matrona discovers a set of painted nesting dolls, one for every villager in her isolated home, and learns they can change the people they represent. Forced into their dark stewardship, she uncovers a secret far stranger than the dolls themselves.

Alvie Brechenmacher comes to London eager to master Polymaking, the magic of bespelling plastic, under inventor Marion Praff. When their breakthrough attracts a jealous rival, Alvie must protect a discovery that could change her world.

Left to fend for her siblings after their father chases gold, Gentry meets a stranger who can control a hungry kind of magic with the metal itself. As the land turns violent, she must choose between safety, love, and survival.

This fantasy romance anthology gathers six novellas, including Holmberg's Illusions of Love. In her story, a magician's assistant uses disguise and nerve to chase the man she loves at a glittering house ball.

Sandis has escaped Kazen, but freedom brings new doubts, broken trust, and a world still threatened by the monster he wants to unleash. To stop him, she will need allies, even when she can no longer tell who belongs on her side.

Sandis is finally free, only to learn her long-lost brother has been turned into a vessel for the ancient beast Kolosos. Saving him may require dangerous lore, painful choices, and more sacrifice than she or Rone are ready to pay.

Sandis is a human vessel forced to host terrifying ancient spirits for her cruel master. Fleeing through a city of smoke and corruption, she teams up with a thief whose one-minute burst of immortality might be her only chance at freedom.

Elsie Camden secretly breaks enchanted protections for ordinary people, until elite wizard Bacchus Kelsey catches her in the act. Their uneasy bargain pulls them into a murder plot involving dead magicians, stolen spellbooks, and dangerous attraction.

After a mysting attacks her for an enchanted stone, Enna saves herself by striking a desperate bargain with another mysting, Maekallus. Their soul-bound deal buys time, but breaking it may be the only way to save them both.

Elsie Camden knows who is behind a string of murdered wizards, but exposing the truth could destroy her as an illegal spellbreaker. With Bacchus at her side and a marriage ruse in play, she has to stop a killer before England's magical order cracks apart.

Ceris Wenden agrees to die bearing a new star for the Sun God, but instead survives and returns home seven hundred years too late. Guided by a fugitive godling, she crosses mortal and celestial realms in search of her descendants and the truth.

Writer Merritt Fernsby inherits a remote estate that promptly traps him inside its enchanted walls. Hulda Larkin, a specialist in taming magical houses, must help him survive Whimbrel House and the threat stalking its power.

When endless night falls, farmhand Aija finds an unconscious stranger who bleeds light and claims ties to the heavens. Falling for the Sun God is risky enough, but a celestial war may put the whole world in darkness.

Rue Thompson never forgot the boy who wrote her letters and then disappeared. When Landry suddenly comes back into her life without recognizing her, second chances, old hurt, and a little live-action roleplaying make things messy fast.

Blaine has spent two years crushing on the quiet IT guy at work and is finally ready to tell him. Then Lysander returns from California with new confidence, new complications, and a girlfriend who may ruin Blaine's carefully built plan.

Merritt Fernsby is finally settling into life at Whimbrel House when strange new powers start drowning him in the voices of plants, insects, and dogs. As Hulda investigates a disappearance at the Institute, both are pulled deeper into family secrets and dangerous magic.

Lark has spent years running from her father and surviving with a cursed power that forces terror into others. Her last hope is a troll city suspended over a dark canyon, where refuge comes with deadly rules and unexpected loyalties.

Owein, a centuries-old soul-shifter trapped in a dog's body, is offered a human future through Queen Victoria's court. But London brings nightmares, suspicious hosts, and a new threat that could undo everything Merritt and Hulda have built.

This practical craft guide walks fantasy writers through building magic systems that feel clear, useful, and alive. Holmberg covers rules, schools, worldbuilding, and revision, with exercises and reference material to help ideas take shape.

Engineer Pell is called to a strange tower to restore ancient machines on the sunbaked world of Tampere. What she uncovers could explain the keepers who guard the tower, the visions haunting her, and her pull toward the enigmatic Heartwood.

In this short Followed by Frost spinoff, Death faces another dangerous chance at connection. When a priestess who can see beyond his mask enters his path, old wounds and impossible choices rise with her.

Nym, a healer and beekeeper, is summoned from her family's apiary to cure the isolated Prince Renn in a kingdom sliding toward war. The palace is full of cruel politics, stranger magic, and a bond she never meant to form.

Whimbrel House is changing again when the dead wizard Silas Hogwood returns in a new body, bent on revenge. Owein races to gather allies, uncover buried magic, and defend the people he loves before the island falls.

Owein travels to England to marry Lady Cora, only to be pulled into Queen Victoria's schemes for preserving magic. While Cora digs into palace secrets, Owein must choose between obedience to the crown and treason.

Captured by the ruthless King Nicosia, Nym becomes both political pawn and key to a dangerous magical bond with Renn. As war deepens and prophecy closes in, escaping the palace may be the only way to save two kingdoms.