Deborah Chester Books in Order

An early historical romance driven by strong emotion, stubborn characters, and a relationship tested by circumstance. It is big on feeling without losing the adventure underneath.

A lighter historical romance of manners, missteps, and social pressure. Chester uses wit, courtship, and the small disasters of polite society to keep the story moving.

This young adult historical novel follows a young protagonist caught between duty, danger, and first love in an older world shaped by custom and conflict. Adventure and coming-of-age unease drive it forward.

Court politics and attraction make a risky mix in this historical romance. Chester blends nobles, schemes, and a love story that has to survive ambition as well as appearances.

This romance turns on longing, misunderstandings, and the hard part of love, saying what you actually want. It is a compact emotional story with high personal stakes.

A summer setting gives this romance its spark, but the real pull comes from the emotional choices underneath it. Attraction rises quickly, while trust takes much longer.

Secrets and desire do not stay buried for long in this early romance. Chester builds the story around hidden motives, emotional risk, and characters forced to be honest with themselves.

An early romance about desire, timing, and the complications that come when strong attraction collides with equally strong pride. The stakes are emotional, intimate, and very personal.

Fugitive Omari flees through a black star hoping for freedom and lands on the dying world of Ruantl. Trapped among mutants, priests, and a buried army, he faces a transformation that may cost him everything.

After alien assassins wipe out her patrol and leave her alive, officer Costa becomes the prime suspect. To clear her name, she has to chase the truth from city streets to the heart of the Omcri threat.

A category romance built around strong feelings, crossed loyalties, and the risk of opening up at the worst possible moment. Chester keeps the emotional conflict front and center.

War on an interstellar scale forces old enemies and uneasy allies into the same fight. Chester mixes space opera action with questions of loyalty, identity, and who pays for power.

A new assignment turns into a covert operation with high stakes and little margin for error. The second Star Hawks novel leans into espionage, military action, and survival under pressure.

Ruantl is dying, outsiders are stripping it bare, and the few survivors left have almost nothing. One ancient lord's choice to reawaken the goddess Anthi turns desperation into open resistance.

The opening Operation Star Hawks adventure throws a spacefaring military crew into danger from the start. Fast missions, battlefield pressure, and shifting loyalties set the tone for the series.

The Star Hawks are pushed beyond safe territory into a mission where distance, isolation, and the unknown become enemies of their own. It is brisk, old-school space adventure under pressure.

Orders, discipline, and survival all crack at once when a mission slides toward open rebellion. This installment thrives on pressure, suspicion, and the question of who can still be trusted.

A seemingly clear target turns into a trap in this Star Hawks outing. Chester pairs military action with the tension of not knowing who is hunting whom.

Trying to get back to the twenty-sixth century, Noel is dumped into the pirate Caribbean of 1697. He must stop his evil twin, survive murderous seas, and prevent history from taking a deadly turn.

Noel Kedran lands in another volatile slice of history where one wrong move could echo far beyond the moment. The series keeps its mix of time-travel puzzles, action, and personal rivalry.

Politics and strategy matter as much as weapons in this Star Hawks novel. A dangerous plan forces the crew to think several moves ahead or lose far more than a single battle.

A saboteur sends historian Noel Kedran to medieval Greece instead of his intended destination. Trapped among bandits, Crusaders, and an evil twin, he must protect history without changing it.

Trying to repair the damage to history may be Noel Kedran's most dangerous mission yet. The stakes are not just survival, but whether the timeline can be put back together at all.

Betrayal moves to the center of the mission when loyalties blur across time and identity. Noel has to spot the real enemy before the wrong side of history locks into place.

Set in the *Earth 2* universe, this tie-in novel drops the colony into another dangerous mystery on an already hostile world. Survival depends on solving the puzzle before fear tears the community apart.

The final Time Trap adventure raises the stakes from one mission to the whole struggle over history itself. Noel's long fight with his enemy reaches a hard, dangerous endgame.

Immortal Emperor Kostimon has held the Ruby Throne for nine centuries, but the bargain behind his power is failing. Caelan and Elandra begin separate journeys that will decide Imperia's future.

With Emperor Kostimon dead, darkness sweeps across Imperia and the old evil breaks loose. Elandra and the warrior Caelan must choose between love, destiny, and the survival of the realm.

Elandra is being prepared for the throne while Caelan rises from slavery to become a champion. As Beloth's darkness spreads through Imperia, their separate lives move toward the same war.

In a distant universe of fully alien empires, a reptilian ruler buys a strange pet for his daughter. The creature, Ampris, is meant for something far larger than a life in chains.

Ampris survives a brutal fall from privilege into violence and captivity. As rival powers circle the failing empire, her fight to stay alive becomes part of a much larger reckoning.

Old powers awaken as the struggle for the Viis empire narrows to a few desperate choices. Ampris must decide what kind of leader she will become when survival is no longer enough.

Alexeika is captured, Gavril reaches for darker power, and Dain is forced deeper into a dangerous destiny. A lost talisman may save the woman he loves, if the cost does not break everything first.

Half-elven Dain and the fierce rebel Alexeika are pulled into a struggle against Crown Prince Gavril and a kingdom sliding toward ruin. It opens a fantasy saga full of divided loyalties, prophecy, and court danger.

With Princess Pheresa dying from poison, Dain joins even his bitter rival on a desperate quest for the Chalice of Eternal Life. The search drags them through war, magic, and old hatreds that refuse to stay buried.

Princess Pheresa expects a political marriage, not a crown. When she suddenly becomes queen, she must outmaneuver enemies, survive a scheming husband, and trust the one man she should never love.

Years after winning the throne, King Dain faces grief, treachery, and a strike at the heart of his family. Dark sorcery and private wounds turn a royal crisis into something far more personal.

As Queen Pheresa prepares to claim her crown, a deadly mist sweeps the cathedral and she disappears. Her sworn protector, Sir Talmor, can save her only by revealing dangerous magic of his own.

A deadly curse leaves Dain racing home for the Chalice of Life while old enemies close in. At the same time, one betrayal inside the family threatens the kingdom more than any battlefield.

Lady Lea's tears become pearls, and her gift lets her see into hearts. When a hard warrior kidnaps her through the Hidden Ways, she glimpses a destiny that could force her to choose between family and love.

Lea has chosen love over safety, but trusting Lord Shadrael leaves them both in the hands of corrupt priests. Wounded and hunted in the shadow realm, they have to find a balance between light and darkness to survive.

New king Faldain discovers that taking the throne is easier than keeping a kingdom together. With monsters in his palace, spies at court, and two very different possible brides, politics turns personal fast.

Chester breaks fantasy writing into workable parts, from premise and character to structure, scene design, and revision. It is a practical guide for writers who want clear tools instead of vague inspiration.

A compact craft guide focused on plot. Chester shows how to build conflict, raise stakes, and shape a story so each turn pushes the next one.