Christopher Mitchell Books in Order

An occupying Rahain army enslaves the survivors of Kellach Brigdomin. Keira, its last fire mage, struggles with grief and alcohol as she decides whether to defend her people or pursue a revenge that could destroy them.

Daphne Holdfast flees the Imperial City with her young daughter, whose magic is beginning to emerge. Their search for safety takes them through occupied Rahain, where religious conversion and aristocratic rebellion threaten the family’s hopes of reunion.

A God-Emperor devastates the Star Continent while gathering its surviving mages. Having already lost to him, Keira wants only to drink in peace, until her friends’ decision to resist forces her to reconsider her retreat.

Enslaved by the reptilian Rahain, Killop seems far from the destiny foretold for him. An exiled mage, a politician and a refugee with dangerous powers become potential allies against rulers determined to preserve their centuries of dominance.

After escaping captivity, Killop must choose between finding Daphne and leading his enslaved people toward freedom. Meanwhile, Keira is held as both war criminal and weapon by the Rahain, determined to escape her captors.

After sixteen peaceful years, Rahain prepares a war of vengeance against the Empire. Karalyn emerges from magical exile toward imperial service, while Lennox, raised among the stolen children of slaves, trains to fight on the opposing side.

The Holdfast family is scattered, imperial armies retreat and enemy gods hunt Karalyn. As the only mage capable of stopping them, she must choose between remaining hidden and risking everyone she loves by confronting the advancing threat.

Fire twins Killop and Keira grow up amid the rivalries of four highland clans. When invasion threatens their people with enslavement and destroys their way of life, survival depends on overcoming generations of hostility and joining forces.

Rebel mages Keir and Thorn hold the Empire’s defenses against the Rahain, but their ambitions threaten that role. Elsewhere, grieving Karalyn and Lennox retreat from the war, only for their meeting to unleash consequences beyond their control.

As Rahain invades, sixteen-year-old vision mage Keir Holdfast discovers he also possesses his notorious aunt’s destructive fire powers. His struggle to master them unfolds alongside a mysterious message to a remote family of hedgewitches.

A ruthless new prince controls the besieged city and is determined to claim Aila as his bride. Beneath its walls, an imprisoned black dragon clings to her bond with Maddie as fresh conflict threatens them all.

Taken from his home, Corthie Holdfast must fight as a champion for a city ruled by gods. Meanwhile, failing soldier Maddie faces a perilous new assignment that leads her toward a secretly imprisoned dragon beneath the walls.

The city’s ancient walls have been breached, leaving its survivors trapped between monstrous invaders and their own tyrannical gods. A disgraced champion and unlikely allies must confront the catastrophe while the black dragon remains missing.

Young captain Daphne Holdfast arrives at an isolated fort where officers distrust her family connections and apparent inexperience. Facing an enemy attack, she must unite her soldiers while learning to command the extraordinary powers of a Vision Mage.

The rescued Tenth Ascendant seizes the City’s throne and subdues its immortal rulers. Across the Straits, Emily, Van and Kelsey Holdfast gather resistance, but defeating him will require former enemies to overcome crimes they cannot easily forgive.

Survivors of the Lostwell catastrophe arrive with dragons and a Holdfast, offering Queen Emily hope of reclaiming Jezra. Meanwhile, God-Prince Montieth plots against the mortal government and schemes to seize the City’s remaining reserves of salve.

Exiles regroup in the unstable world of Lostwell while the gods prepare to seize its source of everlasting youth. Working alone, Sable Holdfast searches for a way to protect her allies and resist the temptations of her past.

With the Holdfasts scattered, injured, and captive, resistance to the Ascendants threatens to collapse. Belinda must overcome her fears and conceal her opposition as she struggles to free the land she once ruled from their control.

Corthie Holdfast embraces the possibility that he can overthrow the Ascendants. While the Black Dragon gathers outlaw dragons, enemy gods send a force to recover a powerful instrument and destroy the Holdfasts before their resistance can grow.

The City of the Aurelians enjoys a fragile peace while a former God-Queen hides under an assumed identity. When her secret emerges, the onetime tyrant’s hope of a quiet, comfortable life becomes a struggle to find refuge.

As a divine civil war nears its end, the imprisoned demigod Aila must decide whether to resist or accept the victors’ rule. Her choice could determine the future of the City’s mortals under her ruthless uncle.

Blackrose has regained Ulna’s throne, but hostility toward her foreign rider Maddie grows as enemy agents infiltrate the realm. Elsewhere, Topaz serves pirates while an injured Sable seeks peace on an island that may offer little safety.

Returning to a homeland scarred by occupation and civil war, dragon queen Blackrose begins another uprising. With Maddie beside her, she must find allies and contend with the unpredictable witch Sable Holdfast and her powerful dragon.

Sable Holdfast launches a destructive campaign against Dragon Eyre’s occupiers as the gods gather strength. Her reluctant ally Blackrose must protect Ulna while caught between Sable’s vengeance, wild dragons and the armies of Implacatus.

Karalyn’s quiet family life is threatened by the rise of a young mage from Kellach Brigdomin. As Thorn seeks greater power and Corthie struggles to resist violence, the Holdfasts’ private choices endanger the peace of their world.

The reunited Holdfast family faces an imperial succession that could plunge its lands into civil war. Meanwhile, Karalyn discovers that Belinda may still be alive in Implacatus and prepares to rescue her from an unwanted marriage.

Lahnos and Leona conceal dangerous secrets from the people of Serpent Isle, knowing discovery will only grow more costly. Meanwhile, Lyla’s search for her identity threatens others as distant centers of power approach a wider conflict.

With rival powers threatening the Serpent Isle and the Demon Witch unable to help, its people turn to Lahnos. The outcast they once despised for his Bullan ancestry must now find a way to save them.

The newly independent Serpent Isle prepares for invasion under Colonel Friel’s leadership. As the Gunstian Empire and Dragon Dominion close in from opposite directions, Leona and Lahnos seek help from a witch who has vanished.

The Star Continent’s fractured empire threatens the Holdfast family as Daimon, a Dream Mage with a personal grievance, leads its armies. Thorn must bring her adopted family together before their brief hold on power ends in disaster.

Leona’s magical gift has lifted her from the streets into the service of a powerful island leader. When news of the Dragon King’s death reaches Serpent Isle, she and the ostracized Lahnos face revolution and divided loyalties.

Defeated by Implacatus, the Holdfasts face the collapse of everything they have fought to protect. As gods gather around Kellmourn, the remaining free mortals prepare a final stand against forces that could determine the fate of four worlds.

Empress Thorn Holdfast seeks to expand her rule beyond the Star Continent. As her chosen successor Kyra discovers the scale of those ambitions, Kyra’s twin Cael becomes absorbed in creating worlds with a dangerously powerful device.

Widowed Princess Kilbride returns to Upper Down intending to kill her father, whose welcome to wealthy Westland raiders endangers the kingdom. Caught between those invaders and an imperial army, she must build alliances among deeply unreliable companions.

As dragons wage civil war across Athumia, Lyla seeks a route home and Lahnos struggles with an unwanted rebellion. On the Serpent Isle, Leona faces hostile subjects and political enemies while trying to keep the island united.

Searching for his sister, Bailey enters an abandoned palace and releases imprisoned gods and creatures. Corthie Holdfast reluctantly returns to battle, while an alliance with Queen Blackrose draws the Empire into new dangers on Dragon Eyre.

Defeated gods discover Athumia and seek refuge there from their dying worlds. With dragons already locked in civil war, Lyla must confront her identity and stop an invasion while hoping to see her children again.

After helping save Upper Down, Princess Abigone enters the last school of Makers in Klef Mordain. Her magical education becomes entangled with secret executions and a divided city facing a choice between independence and the expanding Sanctian Empire.

Saffie joins an Upper Down delegation to the Sanctian court, where old rivalries and personal temptations threaten its mission. While Walter tries to buy time for their homeland’s defenses, she must negotiate a dangerous court and her own loyalties.

Kyra and Cael Holdfast are imprisoned on opposing sides of an imperial struggle. As the Sapphire Empire and Dragon Dominion prepare for war, the twins’ shared powers and conflicting loyalties could determine the fate of several worlds.

Denny Sanctos follows Abigone to Geathan and reluctantly becomes a focus for rebellion. Meanwhile, Hydar returns with an army for a royal wedding, but imperial plans may send him against the very Makers gathering to resist the empire.

Seven years of peace have left old wounds festering among the immortal Holdfast children. As Konna approaches independence, her brother Cairney draws her toward a revenge scheme involving the powers of the mysterious Lost Ascendant.

Abigone and the surviving students flee their ruined school while imperial agents hunt the remaining Makers. Seeking safety brings them toward the Great Forest and a ruthless pirate ruler, whose silver mine hides new dangers for the fugitives.

Karalyn retreats into worlds of her own creation while threats gather beneath the Empire’s peace. Gunstian vengeance, Edgar’s pursuit of immortality for Kyra and rival Holdfast ambitions converge around the powerful Sextant and its increasingly isolated keeper.

After defeat in Geathan, leading Sanctians maneuver to escape Emperor Antonio’s punishment. Saffie must find her footing in a difficult royal marriage while a lawyer’s investigation into Stephano’s death threatens to expose secrets within the imperial court.

Walter returns from captivity carrying secrets while Kilbride governs Upper Down for its child king. An invitation to a neighboring royal wedding appears to be a trap, yet may offer her last chance to resist Emperor Antonio’s expanding power.

Released from exile, Cairney Holdfast gathers supporters to overthrow the mortal rulers of the Sapphire Empire. With major opponents neutralized and the Sextant within reach, his ambition threatens to restore the tyranny his family once defeated.

Cairney Holdfast and his immortal allies stand poised to seize the Sapphire Empire, armed with the power to destroy their enemies. The remaining mortal Holdfasts must resist a conquest that would return their people to divine servitude.

Saffie follows the displaced imperial court to ancient Elestia, where her husband’s illness leaves her increasingly vulnerable. As she tries to establish an independent power base against Emperor Antonio, Kilbride’s agents prepare to spread disorder within the empire.

Constance Favente approaches adulthood expecting to inherit Mithersea’s imperial throne. A proposed pirate attack on the apparently undefended capital draws dragons and rebels toward Everabide, while her brother Ruben begins uncovering a conspiracy beneath the empire’s fragile peace.