Dante King Books in Order

Transformed into an infernal dungeon core, Dominic Thompson is tasked with honoring a dark goddess by killing adventurers. Building his domain means confronting rival cores and their formidable avatars, whose allegiance he must win or whose power he must destroy.

In a world whose goddesses have all died, a renowned assassin discovers the power of necromancy. His new abilities offer a way to challenge the finality of their deaths, setting him on a path where the divine may not remain buried.

Newly become the God of Death, Vance sets out to recover his lost lordship. Supported by his companions, he strengthens his position through necromancy, turning defeated enemies into an undead army as he works toward reclaiming the authority he believes is his.

Leaving his city behind, Vance leads his undead forces and trusted companions into the Frozen Wastes. Hunting his uncle and the followers of the Blood God becomes a campaign to establish the new Death God’s power across hostile territory.

Captain Jacob Berger receives extraordinary powers after an attack strands him on an alien planet. Searching for his missing starship crew, he must learn to survive a hostile world with abilities beyond any other human's.

Jacob seeks a way off the alien planet so he can resume his mission against the Xeno. His new powers face a greater challenge when he discovers how deeply the enemy has established itself there.

A magical sword transports Ethan into a world of martial-arts guilds, monsters and elemental powers. His excitement at the adventure is tempered by dangerous rivals and unexpected relationships with the people helping him learn.

Sent into a foreign land divided by conflict, Ethan learns new techniques and combines elemental powers. A meeting with a siren princess adds possibilities as he tries to resolve a struggle between rival factions.

A priestess and her powerful earth golem block Ethan's entrance to a troubled province. Restoring its rightful ruler will require mastering unfamiliar elements and discovering new ways to combine the abilities he already possesses.

Ethan returns to his guild to find a mysterious monastery newly appeared in a nearby valley. Sent there with his friends, he begins training designed to unlock more powerful forms of elemental augmentation.

Von Dominus continues transforming Zagorath into a stronghold worthy of a powerful overlord. A newly acquired object opens access to another realm, offering the dungeon master a chance to leave his own defenses behind and experience adventuring from the other side.

Vance sails across the Sea of Storms with his companions and undead army, pursuing a powerful warlock and rumors of a Dragon Goddess. Existing enemies remain active, while the Church of Light grows increasingly hostile to his rise as the God of Death.

Vance leaves Yeng with his undead forces and divine companions, heading toward the Luminescent Spires. His campaign has reached its final objective: confronting the Blood God and attempting to end the enemy’s threat once and for all.

After magic collides with ordinary America, Brink City becomes a refuge for supernatural outsiders and a center of illicit power. An ambitious newcomer intends to rise through its criminal world, using magic to challenge rival families and establish control over the city.

Discovering he can acquire spells through intimate connections reveals a young man’s unexpected magical gift. Invited to Mazirian Academy, he begins training toward extraordinary potential, facing examinations and the challenge of mastering powerful abilities he had not known existed.

A Creation Mage continues studying at a magical academy, building on the unusual method through which he learns spells. New classes and abilities expand his opportunities, while entering the Mage Games presents another arena in which to test his growing power.

Winning a sponsor after exhibition matches brings a Creation Mage under the guidance of unpredictable Igor Chaosbane. New runes and intensified training prepare him for the War Mage Games, while interest in a potions tutor opens further possibilities involving infernal magic.

Creation Mage Justin Mauler discovers limits to his growing spell collection while dealing with a troublesome pirate poltergeist. Seeking answers from his dead father leads toward a difficult supernatural undertaking, with dangerous work required before he can understand and expand his abilities.

Jacob and his crew reach another planet aboard a captured alien starship. A hidden presence beneath its surface forces him to develop new uses for his powers and turn his companions into an effective team.

Inheriting an apparently ordinary suburban mansion gives a new owner responsibility for a dungeon disguised as a house. Its enchanted rooms can create objects, traps and creatures, leaving him to protect its inhabitants while learning how to strengthen their unusual home.

A traveler crosses fantastical worlds to bind the powers of legendary warriors and develop their weapons, armor and spells. Sharing those abilities with new companions creates an expanding group whose adventures may eventually establish legends of their own across the realms.

A man who once explained away his mother’s ghost discovers that magic is real when a supernatural agency recruits him. After the agency vanishes, he must learn his unusual powers with help from new allies and a disgraced magical genius.

With the agency gone, a newly awakened mage must protect Portland from supernatural creatures no longer held in check. Learning to control his abilities requires new alliances with the strange beings who share the city’s hidden world.

A mage and his allies enter the Phantom Sphere to rescue the missing members of the Supernatural Agency. The realm is supposed to be empty, but what they discover complicates their mission against the necromancers threatening the world.

Caught stealing from a mage, a thief is imprisoned in the Jade Bastion and trained in battle magic. Bonds with fellow inmates offer a path to power, and his best chance of surviving a brutal new life.

Training at the Jade Bastion nears its end, and the apprentice battle mages prepare to leave its walls. Their initiation will carry them into the Wilderlands, where unfamiliar monsters promise a harsher test than anything they have faced inside.

Studying an ancient museum artifact gives an intern the power to transform into beasts and reveals a hidden world of shifters. With rivals willing to devastate the city to obtain the talisman, he builds a clan to defend their future.

After defeating a chimera shifter, a newly empowered clan leader possesses several magical talismans but cannot yet use them. Following a lead toward unlocking their abilities becomes essential as his people seek an advantage against the growing threat of Atlantis.

Having gathered the souls needed to contact his dead father, a young mage hopes for answers that will guide his next challenge. Success in the Mage Game Qualifiers could finally put his mother’s white staff within reach.

Justin travels to the Chaosbane family ranch for Yuletide, accompanied by unpredictable Leah and other festival guests. The gathering promises unusual magical complications, but he hopes the family’s eccentric celebrations might also provide an opportunity to acquire new spells.

Targeted by the Arcane Council, Justin and his companions flee into the Spectral Realm seeking his late parents’ stronghold. Its location has been lost, leaving them dependent on pirate Isobel Galeflint as they search for a refuge among restless spirits.

Justin must infiltrate the Castle of Ascendance to locate four fellow Creation Mages who may help save Universal Magic. Disguised as a noble, he plans a dangerous extraction while trying to escape the attention of the Queen and Arcane Council.

Transported to a world governed by magical cultivation, a man discovers he can transform women into powerful weapons. The partnerships grant abilities they previously lacked, giving him the means to assemble an arsenal and pursue supremacy among the rival guilds.

With Anna the Scythe and Lyra the Snake Spear at his side, a cultivator prepares to confront the Hollow Frog Guild and its master. Two legendary weapons may not be enough, making new partnerships essential to strengthening his arsenal before the conflict.

A back-alley fight reveals a hidden supernatural world and a man’s rare combination of dragon-shifting and magical abilities. Suddenly sought by others, he sets about building a hoard of power, wealth and allies while discovering what his unusual nature allows him to become.

A dragon shifter builds his clan’s resources through monster hunting, but the return of the Nightlords threatens their progress. A missing thunderbird shifter may be connected, drawing the group toward an investigation that could prove more complicated than gathering wealth.

Months after defeating the Nightlords’ ruler, a dragon shifter expands his stronghold while preparing for the arrival of his children. The enemies’ apparent disappearance offers uneasy peace, leaving him questioning whether the vampires have truly abandoned their threat to his growing clan.

Transported from Los Angeles to a dying fantasy world, Michael Gilmore joins an academy of dragon-bonded soldiers. As its only male student and bearer of an unusual dragon, he must discover how to restore the creatures whose disappearance threatens their civilization.

Bonding with a Chaos Dragon transforms Michael Noctis and reveals an unexpected role in bringing new dragons into the world. Continuing his education at a military academy means balancing growing supernatural abilities, relationships with dragonmancers and responsibilities he has barely begun to understand.

One of Michael’s dragonling children will fade unless he finds another magical crystal. Leading companions and soldiers into the Subterranean Realms, he searches for the resources needed to save his son and potentially restore the means of expanding their dragon family.

Michael receives orders to enter a kingdom where warriors bond with bears rather than dragons. Accompanied by dragonmancers and his growing dragon family, he must navigate an unfamiliar society whose formidable inhabitants cannot all be assumed to welcome his presence.

A new assignment sends the Dragon Breeder from the bearmancers’ realm into a desert kingdom ruled by a tyrant. Encountering another form of magical partnership draws him toward opposing the ruler, with his own unusual abilities shaping how he responds to the people’s plight.

An alliance of dragonmancers, catmancers and bearmancers prepares to attack the Shadow Nations’ Bronze Citadel. Michael hopes additional allies will join their cause, but the defenders possess unexpected advantages, including a kind of dragon that may exceed even his ability to confront.

Learning that he is the reincarnation of a forgotten ruler draws Benjamin Davies into another world. With memories of a lost continental empire shaping his ambitions, he begins rebuilding its power through new alliances, a growing family and the creation of monstrous followers.

Benjamin establishes himself in an ancient magical tower, but similar structures appearing to the north raise new questions about rival power. Information held by two prisoners forces him to confront how far he is willing to abandon his old morality to rebuild an empire.

A human learns that he is destined to rule Hell, provided he first attends its Infernal Academy. Surrounded by powerful supernatural students, he begins training for a future far removed from ordinary life.

The human candidate to become Hell's next ruler must now attend both Infernal and Celestial academies. Balancing two supernatural schools brings new training, unfamiliar challenges and expanding relationships across opposing realms.

Training at two supernatural academies gives way to another journey into the Fae Realm. With his companions and new allies, Hell's prospective ruler faces choices that could accidentally trigger the Day of Judgment.

After bonding with his mansion’s dungeon core, its owner prepares for the arrival of a dangerous technomancer. Creating monsters, expanding the dungeon and training his companions become urgent tasks as he works to ensure the magical household can defend itself.

The search for a dragon leads a party of apprentice battle mages beyond familiar civilization. A prophetic dream threatens their leader with death, but he resolves to challenge that fate as they venture into the Spires of the World.

Separated from his companions in the far north, a battle mage must find and bond with a dragon. Meanwhile, his allies confront undead forces in a goblin city, and a growing evil threatens the Jade Bastion itself.

Traitorous battle mages prepare to bring Kraelkor into the living world. Defending the Jade Bastion means protecting the place that became home, along with the friendships and relationships its former prisoner refuses to surrender to darkness.

Kraelkor has returned, and a battle mage races to confront him before his power fully develops. The hunt takes him and his bonded allies into an elven realm where darkness has infected everyone from villagers to the monarch.

A shifter’s mastery of a combined beast form offers new strength as an Atlantean revelation approaches. Rival representatives from Atlantis and Mu both seek his allegiance, forcing him to weigh their ambitions against his determination to protect his own clan.

Empath Devin Maxwell flees a powerful superhuman and his army, surviving an assassination attempt that reveals his abilities exceed anything he imagined. Determined to stop running, he begins assembling a faction capable of challenging his enemies and protecting the world.

Saving Universal Magic sends Justin in search of three other Creation Mages hidden in the Infernal Realms. Reaching them means descending into hell and negotiating with the devil, where a necessary alliance could become another dangerous trap.

The final installment brings the Creation Mage’s mission to a multiversal scale. Relationships with other Creation Mages and a confrontation with powerful immortals stand between him and the effort to preserve the worlds and magic threatened around him.

A vampire queen takes a dragon shifter to his father’s former home and reveals that the man is still alive. Yet the truth of his identity remains concealed, raising questions about the consequences that revelation may hold for the shifter, his clan and the wider world.

A dragon shifter races Dracula to find mages capable of casting a world-changing spell. If his rival succeeds, the clan and family he has built could be destroyed, forcing him to consider choices he previously believed he would never make.

After Dracula remakes the world, a dragon shifter finds his clan and family taken from him. Believing the losses can still be reversed, he sets himself against his powerful father, determined to defeat him and recover the people whose disappearance has shattered his life.

Veteran adventurer John Devonte seeks a quiet life on the edge of an empire, only to find monstrous forces emerging from the Deadlands. Discovering his True Dragon nature and the power to transform companions into magical weapons gives him a chance to resist.

John Devonte’s adopted town faces beastmen advancing from the north and an imperial army approaching from the south. Defending Vismuth means relying on his newfound dragon abilities and magical companions while enemies threaten both their home and the bonds connecting them.

Waking in a hospital, Mark finds himself attacked by a dragonlike man and unexpectedly transforms a nurse into a dragon. Realizing he has left Chicago for a world ruled by powerful dragon beings, he begins discovering the extent of his own unusual gift.

Benjamin prepares to claim a distant northern tower, first seeking training from a master hidden in nearby dungeons. New abilities and the support of his growing family promise an advantage, but the journey brings him against a power capable of undoing his ambitions.

Ethan searches the ruins of an elven guild destroyed by cultists to unlock the dragons within his weapons. Exploring his lover's lost home reveals secrets that could either advance his quest or end it.

Ethan gains a powerful traveling base and new magical blades, including a weapon linked to the Void. Fighting demonic enemies, he must develop its strength without succumbing to corruption while seeking the dragon within his weapons.

An apparent victory offers little respite when the Beast of Revelation threatens to devour the universe, beginning with Hell. The aspiring ruler must protect the homes and relationships he has established across several realms.

Denied his childhood dream of becoming a magical guardian, Rune unexpectedly bonds with a nobleman's daughter after a tragedy. Her hidden secret sends them fleeing powerful pursuers while they learn to develop their new connection.

Cleared of wrongdoing, Rune enters the palace and begins elite guardian training that involves bonding with a princess. A foreign ambassador's marriage ambitions threaten his mission while court secrets complicate the protection of his existing allies.

A trained operative without powers discovers his father's device can steal abilities and give them to others. Building his own team offers a chance to challenge the superhumans who dominate the world.

After forming Unity, an operative who steals superpowers seeks public support through visible missions. Building the team's reputation attracts dangerous attention, revealing enemies beyond the powerful organization he originally set out to confront.

Dean has captured a former superhero whose knowledge could help his young team survive. With time running short, he must decide how to win her cooperation before the consequences of the kidnapping catch up with Unity.

A holiday mall worker escapes an ogre attack alongside an elf and arrives in another world. Discovering that elves are hunted for their magic, he learns his own abilities may offer them protection and a new future.

With dark elves joining his settlement, its human leader strengthens defenses and plans an expansion into a town. Recruiting more elven allies becomes essential if their growing community is to stand against the Ogre King.

Varglade grows into a refuge for different elven peoples, but sea elves remain trapped behind a magical barrier. Its leader must use his unusual Earth-born magic to reach their island and challenge the blood elves holding them there.

After defeating the Ogre King, Varglade enjoys growth and apparent peace. Dreams of a mysterious elf warn its leader that a greater threat is approaching, driving him to seek more magic to protect the settlement.

A disastrous date reveals that Vincent Pike’s lifelong sensitivity to sunlight comes from vampire ancestry. Learning he is a rare Blood Lord gives him power to build a supernatural following, while established factions move to protect their control of New York.

Vincent Pike’s growing authority is interrupted by an uncle’s warning that his parents are in danger and their identities are not what he assumed. Rival Blood Lords and undead attacks complicate his response as he considers expanding his rule along the East Coast.

Former soldier and mob fixer Simon Jackson steals an ancient starship and unwittingly endangers his home station. With hostile factions pursuing the vessel and its key, he and his companions must keep Myan Station from being destroyed.

Simon Jackson and his crew use their mysterious starship to help others and recover his lost honor. Discovering a secret shared by two alien peoples threatens their ship and the universe, forcing him to confront old enemies and his powers.

When the Athena begins malfunctioning, Simon Jackson heads for the overlooked planet where it was built. Discovering its secrets could save the universe, but enemies waiting there threaten his ship and crew as war begins.

A bounty-hunting assignment costs Captain James Decker his ship and crew but introduces a living starship and one of the last surviving symbiotes. Agreeing to locate her scattered sisters offers extraordinary rewards and a new kind of command across the cosmos.

Captain James Decker continues searching for seven scattered symbiotes aboard the living starship Farrago. With only three found and a mysterious observer watching from beyond the void, completing the mission may mean more than fortune: it could determine the universe’s survival.

A hotel employee’s encounter with a demoness at a poker game reveals he is a warlock capable of binding supernatural beings. Armed with an ancient staff and new allies, Wes must navigate powerful enemies taking an interest in a magical population already under threat.

Discovering an angel beneath a bar interrupts Wesley Alban’s plans to meet other warlocks. Her presence could ignite a war between Heaven and Hell with Earth caught between them, forcing Wes and his guild to weigh protection against the danger of catastrophe.

The end of the world leaves Wes and his bound demonic companions searching for a way to reverse disaster. Saving the universe demands a journey into Hell and the use of formidable magic as they confront the consequences of the catastrophe.

Newly graduated battle mages travel to the imperial capital, suspecting Kraelkor has infiltrated the palace. Their discovery forces a terrible choice: uniting the world against darkness may require an act that makes their leader appear a murderer.

After a costly victory, a battle mage discovers that Kraelkor now holds the imperial capital and commands overwhelming forces. He crosses the sea to Kanjen, seeking allies who might help turn the struggle against the armies of darkness.

Leo Flint reaches the final confrontation with Kraelkor, the Emperor of Darkness. Their long struggle comes down to a decisive battle as the magical inmate’s story approaches its conclusion and the two enemies face each other directly.

Finding a magical card transforms an ordinary day into entry to a hidden world of power and dangerous competition. As his deck grows and new relationships form, rival guilds target him, determined to acquire the cards even if he must die first.

A card wielder forms his own guild to survive a hidden magical game and confront secretive crime boss Wilson. Hunting rare cards and discovering their abilities offers a path to greater strength, while relationships with fellow players complicate his expanding responsibilities.

Having weakened Wilson’s position, a growing group of card wielders prepares to finish its struggle against him. New powers and disturbing revelations about the Arbiters raise questions about the game threatening Millbank and what it will take to bring it to an end.

Leading a newly formed guild makes its founder a target for powerful rivals within Millbank and beyond Earth. As enemies move to destroy the organization, unfamiliar weapon cards may provide the advantage needed to keep its members alive and their ambitions intact.

Trapped inside the sealed Deadlands, John Devonte and his companions seek a mysterious source of power at its heart. Reaching it may be their only route to survival, but the emperor who imprisoned them is also prepared to kill for what lies there.

John Devonte and his companions prepare for a final confrontation with the emperor who has threatened their world. Drawing on his True Dragon power and their ability to become weapons, John seeks to end the ruler’s influence and determine what will follow his reign.

Prince Gray discovers that monsters created by human magic have learned to impersonate people and infiltrate their realms. Protecting his kingdom requires alliances with secluded beastkin women whose potential he can unlock, while he investigates the origins of both the monsters and his powers.

After securing a second tower, Benjamin targets a third controlled by an intelligent counterpart whose creations pose a formidable threat. Expanding his population and strengthening his monsterkin forces may offer the means to defeat an enemy who mirrors his own abilities.

Arriving in an unfamiliar world without his memories, a man discovers he has been chosen by Father Time for a divine contest. With a blood-magic-wielding butcher as an ally, he must master time-based gifts while confronting gods who treat mortal struggles as entertainment.

An amnesiac traveler uses powers granted by Father Time in a world of clockwork and divine magic. His next mission is to rescue a destructive mage and gather allies before her former employer reclaims her.