Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Books in Order

Attorney Charlie Moon defends Dr. Miranda Trobridge after a child's death leads to a malpractice accusation. Another suspicious death convinces him something more sinister is happening, prompting an investigation that draws on his legal skills and Ojibwa spiritual heritage.

In an imagined 1990s where medicine has defeated most fatal illnesses, the government begins reintroducing disease to control population growth. Medical workers opposed to the program struggle to preserve lives against a policy that turns their profession's achievements into weapons.

This collection brings together science fiction and horror stories in which strange beauty, alien encounters, and disturbing discoveries unsettle familiar expectations. Brief comments from Yarbro follow the tales, offering glimpses into the ideas and circumstances behind her fiction.

After environmental collapse devastates California, Thea and Evan travel toward refuge in the Sierra Nevada. Raiding gangs and surviving settlements force them to keep moving, while the cost of staying alive tests what remains of their humanity.

In eighteenth-century Paris, the wealthy Count Saint-Germain conceals his ancient existence as a vampire beneath an aristocratic identity. His attachment to young Madelaine de Montalia draws him into a struggle against Satanists intent on destroying her.

A celebrated French tenor dies onstage at the San Francisco Opera House, drawing attorney Charlie Moon into a murder investigation. The international company supplies numerous suspects and competing alibis, requiring both his detective abilities and insight beyond ordinary legal methods.

In Renaissance Florence, vampire Francesco Ragoczy da San Germano abandons isolation after falling for Estasia, a relative of Botticelli. Their growing connection faces the threat of Savonarola, whose religious campaign endangers suspected heretics and the city's artistic life.

During Nero's reign, the immortal Saint-Germain moves through Rome's volatile political world and becomes involved with Atta Olivia Clemens. Their relationship places intimate desires beside the brutality and instability surrounding them in an empire shaped by violence.

Yarbro presents conversations attributed to Michael, described as a collective spiritual entity communicating with her circle. The material explores awareness, personal decisions, and the soul, offering a framework for readers interested in the origins of the Michael teachings.

In an alternate Renaissance where Italian states have united, poet Ludovico Ariosto writes a New World fantasy reflecting his patron's troubles. His support for the Medicis entangles him in political schemes threatening the federation while his imagined heroes battle a wizard.

Sheriff Dan Gillis investigates murders in the coastal town of Potter's Bluff while encountering newcomers resembling people already buried. His wife Janet's strange behavior deepens his unease, suggesting an evil that may reach far closer than the unexplained killings.

After the death of the man who possessed Fayre, a brain surgeon and a psychic researcher become rival claimants to her. One seeks her physically, the other covets her spiritual power, beginning a contest whose consequences extend beyond either man's expectations.

In thirteenth-century China, Saint-Germain allies with warrior T'en Chih-Yu as Jenghiz Khan's forces threaten her people. His concealed vampirism complicates their bond, bringing the prospect of eternal life into a struggle against the dangers of war.

Saint-Germain becomes guardian to a Russian war orphan amid revolution and the aftermath of World War I. Traveling across Europe with his adopted daughter, he encounters women whose attachments and dangers test his immortality, including his fellow vampire Madelaine.

In a future where ordinary entertainment no longer satisfies, Dreamwebs sells immersive, professionally created dreams to an increasingly dependent public. The system offers opportunities to business and government while its creators suffer mounting damage to their mental stability.

As the Spanish Inquisition extends its control across the kingdom, a curse threatens the household of King Alonzo. The rising supernatural horror brings a new challenge to the Grand Inquisitor's power, intertwining religious persecution with a danger attributed to the Devil.

Prince Rolon challenges the authority of Spain’s Grand Inquisitor in a story combining adventure and romance. His struggle against that formidable power forces him to face the consequences of being both singled out and condemned.

This collection follows the vampire Count Saint-Germain through adventures in different historical periods, extending his story into the modern United States. It includes The Spider Glass, a tale linking the immortal aristocrat to a disturbing antique Venetian mirror.

Jennifer Wystan inherits a Napa Valley hotel and hopes to transform it into a fashionable resort despite neighbors pressuring her to sell. Suspicious accidents threaten the project, while attraction to winery owner Ross Benedetto is complicated by doubts about his motives.

In ancient Pompeii, young Enecus studies medicine under the demanding Locadio and learns to confront illness, accidents, and mortality. His growth as a healer unfolds against the looming eruption of Mount Vesuvius, placing personal responsibility beside an approaching disaster.

Eileen Flax becomes involved with a French-Canadian anthropologist studying drifters in California. His discovery of a sinister force among them puts her own life in danger, transforming an investigation of wandering communities into an encounter with supernatural evil.

Ten stories explore horror through hauntings, macabre encounters, and the undead. Across separate unsettling situations, Yarbro examines people confronted by threats beyond ordinary experience, bringing together supernatural suspense and the darker possibilities lurking within everyday life.

In late-fourteenth-century France, a sinister influence takes hold among the sisters of La Tres Saunte Annunciacion. As religious and social calamities surround the convent, the women and those near them struggle against forces entangled with desire and tragic love.

Enslaved stunt rider Tishtry dreams of buying freedom for herself and her family by performing in the Roman Empire's arenas. Bigger opportunities demand dangerous new tricks, while corruption and jealous competitors threaten both her life and her ambitions.

Surata, the last adept in tantric alchemy, has lost her family, sight, and freedom to the soul-stealing Bundhi. The mercenary Arkady becomes her champion, and their growing trust enables a challenge against the enemy who tried to destroy her.

Esmeralda was human before a witch's curse turned her into a dragon. Her predicament unfolds in a fantasy world populated by mismatched lovers, inept heroes, and scheming witches, whose conflicting purposes produce a succession of unlikely adventures.

Fourteen-year-old Millicent befriends the illusionist Anton during a transatlantic voyage with her aunt. When inexplicable murders aboard ship make the magician a suspect, she uses her own intelligence to investigate and defend the man she believes is innocent.

This sequel gathers further conversations attributed to the spiritual entity Michael, expanding on the framework introduced in the first volume. Questions range from everyday choices to reincarnation, the evolution of the soul, and the nature of human experience.

An ancient numerical code associated with a fire demon enters modern computerized systems, from household appliances to government equipment. As unexplained flames spread, public and private agencies struggle with one another and with admitting the threat behind the disasters.

Fleeing Rome after its capture by the Ostrogoths, vampire Atta Olivia Clemens settles in Constantinople with her longtime bondsman Niklos. Her independence and Roman customs provoke suspicion in a deeply religious city, complicating a new romance with Captain Drosos.

An unreported laboratory accident involving pregnant women produces children who spread a devastating disease. Doctors race to find a cure while surviving patients mysteriously disappear, turning the search for an explanation into a struggle against both the plague and its aftermath.

Vampire Atta Olivia Clemens leaves her Italian estate to serve Cardinal Mazarin in France, offering a discreet setting for political meetings. Her love for musketeer Charles d'Artagnan develops amid royal intrigue, treachery, and pursuit by a hidden enemy.

A brutal rapist and murderer stalks San Francisco, leaving the police desperate for help. They recruit a former Vietnam intelligence officer, whose investigation brings him into conflict with the killer while forcing him to confront doubts about his own sanity.

Former Bow Street Runner Jason Russell, the illegitimate son of an English earl, has built a new life as sheriff of Charity, Colorado. His efforts to make a place for himself become troubled when the past he left behind returns.

Vampire Olivia Clemens lives in Tyre amid the turmoil of the Crusades and hopes to return to Rome. A French Hospitaller knight becomes her protector and lover, challenging her reluctance to bind her immortal life to a mortal man.

In the frontier settlement of Charity, former Bow Street Runner Jason Russell becomes sheriff despite his preference for restraint over gunplay. When murderous outlaws threaten the town, his reliance on a baton and intelligence faces a severe test.

Vampire Madelaine de Montalia joins French archaeologists excavating Egyptian ruins in the 1820s, confronting corruption, theft, and hostile colleagues. Letters from Saint-Germain connect her experiences to his own ancient Egyptian life as a captive, healer, and priest.

Charlie Moon defends a man accused of assaulting schoolgirls, believing his client innocent while recognizing that abuse has occurred. As the investigation exposes child pornography, Charlie's judge wife also faces stalking linked to another trial, placing both in danger.

Charles Whittenfield entertains his dinner guests with a disturbing story about an antique Venetian mirror. The tale brings the sophisticated vampire Count Saint-Germain into an unusual supernatural mystery, presented as a standalone novelette drawn from his broader chronicles.

Attorney and occasional detective Charlie Moon defends a personable young suspect accused in a string of San Francisco doorstep murders. Uncertain appearances complicate the case, leading him to draw on his Native American heritage while seeking the truth behind the killings.

Shipwrecked on the Baltic coast in 937, Saint-Germain is rescued by Ranegonda, who governs a Saxon fortress for her absent brother. Her gift of blood sustains him, while love develops amid the tensions surrounding her unusual authority.

Sent by Poland's king to the court of Ivan IV, Count Saint-Germain uses his alchemical talents to create extraordinary jewels. Russia's dangerous politics and the emperor's volatility threaten him, while an unexpected romantic attachment draws him deeper into court intrigue.

On a confidential mission for her husband, Inspector General Vernet, Victoire uncovers a conspiracy against Napoleon's coronation. Aristocrats and foreign plotters threaten anyone who discovers their plans, forcing her to use courage and cunning to protect both herself and France.

During Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, military police chief Lucien Vernet is accused of murder and stealing a precious pharaonic scepter. His wife Victoire crosses dangerous political and military territory to investigate, risking her life to establish his innocence.

This collection gathers Yarbro’s vampire fiction beyond the Saint Germain stories, including a new tale and a collaboration with Suzy McKee Charnas. An essay, bibliography, and chronology accompany stories exploring different encounters with the undead.

This continuation of the Michael series presents spiritual messages attributed to a collective entity and considers humanity's future approaching a new millennium. Its New Age framework explores Earth's prospects through the teachings and perspective introduced in Yarbro's earlier books.

Count Saint-Germain travels to seventeenth-century Peru, where a relationship with an Incan priestess offers relief from his enduring loneliness. Spanish conquest and the Inquisition threaten the world around them, bringing particular danger to a vampire whose nature must remain hidden.

New secretary Paterson Guthrie enters the dangerous world of Mycroft Holmes, whose intelligence work helps direct the British Empire. Assassination attempts, anarchists, concealed identities, and the elusive Miss Gatspy draw him into intrigues far beyond his sheltered education.

On the eve of World War I, Russia's czar enlists Saint-Germain to help preserve peace in Europe. His efforts to restrain the arms race provoke a ruthless weapons merchant, threatening both the vampire's secrecy and a young artist he loves.

Saint-Germain has gained uneasy acceptance in a fourteenth-century French village through his generosity, despite being a foreigner. When the Black Death arrives, fear turns against outsiders, forcing him to flee into a wider landscape of plague and suspicion.

Mycroft Holmes and secretary Guthrie help negotiate a treaty with Japan amid mutual suspicion and opposition from British officials. When a diplomat is killed with a Japanese dagger, solving the murder becomes essential to saving the agreement and protecting themselves.

Through accounts of individuals and couples facing changes in work and love, this book applies teachings attributed to the spiritual entity Michael. It presents a New Age framework for understanding personal development, relationships, and the choices involved in life's transitions.

Young Kelene believes angelic guidance protects her family amid the violence of Ottoman expansion. When a more demanding presence enters her dreams, its promises and desires draw her toward a dark destiny as one of Dracula's brides.

In seventeenth-century Rome, Saint-Germain defends his friend Niklos's inheritance against a claimant backed by powerful church figures. Sheltering a woman fleeing an arranged marriage creates further enemies, forcing the vampire to navigate legal conflict, religious authority, and dangerous personal loyalties.

A catastrophe has transformed Delos into a magical world and released the threatening entity known as the Laria. A vampire and a paladin form an unlikely alliance to recover a lost shard that may offer a means of stopping it.

In an alternate 1997, the papal conclave selects a woman who is neither a cardinal nor Catholic. Her unexpected election creates questions about faith, reform, and legitimacy, while opponents determined to kill her turn the Vatican's transformation into a political crisis.

Mycroft Holmes must protect a Swedish prince whose secret treaty with Britain has made him a target. Traveling incognito aboard the Flying Scotsman with secretary Guthrie offers a route to safety, but suspicious passengers may threaten their carefully concealed mission.

Fenice escapes an arranged marriage in Venice by stowing away on her brother's ship, only to be abandoned in a foreign port. Dracula offers an alluring freedom whose price is obedience, while another consort may become her ally or rival.

Saint-Germain turns Csimenae into a vampire in medieval Spain, but her ruthless hunting and careless creation of others endanger their kind. Across centuries of religious conflict and war, he must decide how to protect a clan whose behavior exposes it.

Mycroft Holmes confronts seemingly disconnected incidents involving anarchists, an asylum, a missing brother, and an attempted assassination. The kidnapping of an actor friend performing Macbeth makes the investigation personal, while agents of the Brotherhood threaten him and secretary Guthrie.

In fourteenth-century India, Saint-Germain is caught in the devastation of Timur's invasion and the sack of Delhi. A female acrobat offers help, but captivity, escape, and the vulnerabilities of his vampire existence complicate their struggle through a shattered landscape.

Vampire and scholar Madelaine de Montalia falls in love with William Tecumseh Sherman as the American Civil War approaches. His responsibilities to his family and country, together with the difference between mortal and immortal lives, place painful limits on their relationship.

Twenty years before Hamlet, royal jester Yorick tries to serve his king and protect the infant prince. Treason threatens the dynasty, and someone is murdering Elsinore's jesters, drawing the trusted entertainer into a dangerous struggle over the court's future.

In this fictional adventure, Ian Fleming's Jamaican retirement is interrupted by a British intelligence officer carrying news of stolen nuclear secrets. The man's disappearance sends Fleming investigating in Los Alamos, where suspicion, dangerous encounters, and assassination attempts complicate his search.

Summoned to Charlemagne's court, Saint-Germain attracts admiration and envy through his learning and unusual principles. Escorting a young woman with controversial stigmata to Rome brings companionship, but also exposes them both to powerful enemies and competing judgments about her nature.

Time-traveling Renaissance scholar John Dee has adapted to Earth in 2100 when an alien renegade poses as a messiah. Working with his future-era companions, he must confront the impostor's growing power and an army of humans under its control.

Yarbro collects dark fantasy and horror stories that emphasize psychological unease alongside supernatural threats. The volume includes the new story Fugues and an introduction by Patrick LoBrutto, bringing together varied examples of her shorter fiction.

Saint-Germain flees Spain on the eve of civil war and travels through Depression-era America toward San Francisco. Reuniting with an old lover offers comfort, but violent extremists, attacks on friends, and an assassin from Europe threaten his refuge.

Retired intelligence operative Ian Fleming becomes involved with journalist Nora Blair DeYoung, whose investigation leads toward a suspected enemy agent in San Francisco. Their growing attraction accompanies a dangerous pursuit in which concealed motives make both romance and professional judgment precarious.

Hugh deSteny seeks to stop the supernatural evil spreading through Sherwood Forest before it divides the kingdom. An ambitious plan involving the sheriff and Prince John goes wrong, leaving him to risk new allies against enemies preparing schemes of their own.

People entering the king's forest are found dead or disappear, and former Crusader Hugh deSteny recognizes the danger behind the attacks. He must lead a struggle against bloodthirsty supernatural enemies whose victory could endanger both the surrounding community and his soul.

A massive eruption plunges the sixth-century world into darkness, hunger, disease, and fear of outsiders. Saint-Germain flees west with a nomadic tribe, seeking sanctuary while exposure, betrayal, and loss threaten the necessities that keep his vampire existence possible.

A former intelligence colleague draws Ian Fleming into a disturbing investigation in New Orleans, where photographs of mutilated bodies point toward hidden relationships and dangerous secrets. Fleming must navigate his associate's instability while trying to protect their shared past.

Saint-Germain's publishing interests place him under scrutiny during Europe's religious conflicts in 1530. Leaving Venice to protect his business in the Netherlands exposes both his livelihood and the musician he loves to espionage, embezzlement, and threats to his hidden identity.

In a corrupt and unstable Rome, Saint-Germain draws the hostility of an official whose extortion he resists. Protecting vulnerable friends and a courtesan keeps him tied to the city as surveillance, religious tension, and accusations threaten his survival.

Living in Switzerland after the Napoleonic wars, Saint-Germain comforts a widow separated from her children and investigates an Austrian nobleman's research into blood. The nobleman's ward develops a dangerous fixation on him, threatening the peace he and his lover share.

These shorter Saint-Germain stories follow the vampire through historical encounters that test his resourcefulness and understanding of people. Pirates, a monastery, a dying widow, and the complications of teaching alchemy place his unusual life against mortal needs and dangers.

Saint-Germain travels to Russia under Peter the Great, posing as a diplomat and the husband of a fellow spy. Harsh conditions and dangerous intrigue complicate his efforts to assist those around him while preserving the secret of his vampire identity.

As the Huns threaten the Carpathians in 438, Saint-Germain joins refugees seeking safety at a monastery. His relationship with Nicoris offers companionship during the crisis, but the woman carries a secret that may place their shared future in danger.

Saint-Germain becomes a virtual prisoner at a Bohemian queen's court, making jewels while trying to avoid its intrigues. An ambitious lady-in-waiting uses the threat of religious persecution to blackmail him, turning courtly attention into a threat to his very existence.

Learning that Madelaine de Montalia faces execution by France's Revolutionary Tribunal, Saint-Germain enters the country with a troupe of actors. His attempt to rescue her becomes entangled with a new lover, jealousy, and political fervor that threaten his mission.

Developed from Yarbro's writing seminars, this workbook combines instruction with practical exercises for refining fiction. It brings together the lecture and workshop elements of her teaching, giving writers a structured resource for examining and developing their own work.

Saint-Germain guides pilgrims through southern Egypt toward underground churches, finding companionship with a widow troubled by religious guilt. The travelers' visions, ambitions, and desires intensify their quarrels, forcing him to prevent a holy journey from becoming deadly conflict.

Lucy discovers her late mother's hidden collection of books on magic and the occult, uncovering a reality she never expected. When her circle of computer hackers faces an enemy beyond their skills, she must confront her fears and this newly revealed inheritance.

In postwar Europe, Saint-Germain protects Americans escaping persecution, only to become entangled in deceit and murder. His efforts to provide refuge place the vampire among people whose hidden loyalties and betrayals threaten the safety he hopes to offer.

This omnibus collects Nimuar's Loss, The Deceptive Oracle, and Agnith's Promise, following magically gifted sisters Ninianee and Erianthee. Their search for their missing father draws them through court intrigue, dangerous journeys, and threats to their homeland and talents.

In 1924 Philadelphia, aspiring crime reporter Poppy Thornton investigates a businessman's apparent suicide with information supplied by a ghost. Following a series of murders alongside her unusual partner draws her toward a familiar suspect and places her own life in danger.

Before becoming a celebrated detective, Sherlock Holmes leaves Oxford for London under his older brother’s care. Mycroft’s rising career at the Admiralty frames a visit in which Sherlock encounters the city’s darker side and experiences lasting change.

Philadelphia reporter Poppy Thornton and her ghostly associate Chesterton Holte investigate a wealthy teenager's disappearance in Eastern Europe. Their search crosses family rivalries, a mysterious refugee cult, and official corruption, while Poppy must conceal the supernatural source of her information.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson confront an American client’s case from the detective’s early career. Expanding an oblique reference in Watson’s accounts, this adventure brings an otherwise unrecorded investigation into focus through Yarbro’s version of the famous partnership.

Deprived of his cavalry troop, Nicodemus Hazeldene takes command of three ships and accepts a wizard's commission. Finding the Raven Queen's Amulet on remote Wolftooth Island becomes more dangerous because one of his surviving officers intends to betray him.

Mycroft Holmes asks Sherlock to protect Madame Flora Yao, a trusted informant threatened with death. The brothers must identify her enemies and their motives while navigating a hidden London world where espionage, exploitation, and violence intersect.