DK Holmberg Books in Order

An assassination attempt nearly costs Galen his life, then reveals that his young target needs protection. Helping the boy and a girl he rescued means confronting a dangerous thief-master, testing whether Galen will risk himself for strangers.

Three stories explore lives altered by time travel. A storm offers Jason a different future, a Tracker pursues a girl through the past, and a dying father faces the chance to make one change for his son.

Tan is learning earth shaping when fire shapers enter Ethea and the returned draasin attack the city. His connection to the creatures may explain their actions, but an enemy's stolen artifact threatens destruction beyond the capital.

Tracker Tan reluctantly guides the king's servant through dangerous mountains in search of an ancient artifact. When creatures from Incendin destroy his home, he must trust a grieving wanderer and confront powers he scarcely understands.

Princess Eris struggles to find the flower required to begin her lessons. A strange discovery and friendship with gardener Terran reveal signs of a plot against the kingdom, forcing her to explore magic she never knew she possessed.

Eris struggles to control her new powers as keeper of the forest while magi threaten the kingdom. Returning home for guidance reveals her mother's illness and a hidden message, drawing her into danger she isn't prepared to face.

Oliver wants to send Taylor back to Arcanus before more magical dangers reach his city. When Devan is abducted by a powerful painter, he must build uneasy alliances and master unfamiliar magic to rescue his friend.

Tan's attempts to free the king from spirit magic unleash a dangerous change in himself. Separated from familiar help, he must understand his altered powers before an old enemy's plans threaten his friends and the elementals.

Sent across Incendin by her mentor, young wind shaper Zephra hopes to complete her task and return to the university. Meeting a girl who needs help forces a choice between personal ambition and another person's safety.

With war approaching, Tan suspects a danger greater than Incendin requires old enemies to work together. He must rescue a friend, defend the draasin, and persuade the kingdoms to recognize the threat before their divisions prove disastrous.

Tan seeks forgotten knowledge to master his bond with the elementals while Incendin's fortress burns with renewed power. When his bonded draasin is injured, saving the creature exposes a threat greater than the dangers he already knows.

Eris hopes for peace with Terran, but a message carried by a strange flower warns of returning darkness. Rebuilding the lost Gardens of Elaysia requires new teaching and a journey into a place beyond her magic's reach.

A painter's death and an old friend's unexpected powers place Oliver's city in danger. Staying beyond the Trelking's reach becomes harder as he weighs protecting Conlin against risking Devan, using magical knowledge he still doesn't fully understand.

Hidden Par-shon shapers release a dangerous serpent elemental within the kingdoms. Tan must protect his existing bonds and uncover the creature's concealed history while a delegation from mysterious Chenir raises further questions about the growing threat.

Tan enters the Fire Fortress seeking help from the lisincend as Par-shon's invasion advances. With his bonded draasin injured, he must attempt unfamiliar shaping and build another connection before the coming battle overwhelms the kingdoms.

Oliver returns from exile determined to learn what happened to his missing father. His magic works through painted patterns, but another painter's arrival unleashes creatures that force him to confront forbidden knowledge and dangerous family secrets.

The Trelking demands that Oliver recover a dangerous box once protected by his father. With Devan vulnerable and another threat crossing the Threshold, Oliver must defend Conlin while questioning the true purpose behind the demand.

This collection follows Princess Eris as she discovers magic within flowers and forests. With gardener Terran beside her, she must learn to use unfamiliar powers against threats to her kingdom and the balance of light and darkness.

Galen accepts an assignment outside his homeland, hoping to escape conflicts he doesn't want. Reconnecting with someone from his past draws him toward a dangerous crystal and forces alliances against enemies whose powers may exceed his skills.

Rsiran prepares for attacks from rival forces that want control of his Sliding ability. When his sister is abducted, rescuing the family member who abandoned him leads toward secrets that challenge his understanding of himself and his loyalties.

Tan tries to rule Par-shon without the guidance of his bonded draasin. Unfamiliar politics and hidden history complicate the fragile peace, while a new threat tests whether his elemental connections can protect the kingdoms he now serves.

The missing Mistress of Souls and a new attack on the elementals send Tan searching for answers. Reluctant to endanger pregnant Amia, he turns to new allies while a spreading darkness threatens the creatures bound to him.

Jasn's training reveals unexpected depths to his abilities and the war he thought he understood. Following Alena into Rens brings a discovery that binds their futures together, challenging his pursuit of vengeance and her own plans.

Ciara's promised instruction has failed, leaving her people vulnerable as darkness grows. Jasn struggles to save Alena from a dangerous elemental connection while their scattered allies seek whoever is summoning a force capable of destroying them.

Undying warrior Jasn seeks revenge for his beloved's death, while water seeker Ciara risks everything to save her drought-stricken village. Their separate struggles unfold within an endless war that conceals a danger greater than either nation.

Tan wants peace for his new family, but his bonded friend Honl is in danger. Rescuing him takes Tan back into Incendin, where forgotten history may explain a threat capable of severing all his elemental connections.

Lacertin's final service to his dying king reveals secrets behind the illness and sends him into danger. This two-part prequel follows the warrior's search for answers and a calling that challenges everything he believes about fire.

Rsiran and the guilds regroup in the Aisl Forest after losing control of their city. Finding a missing crystal requires an alliance with Carth and new allies, but Venass retains weapons that threaten their attempt to return.

As the Khalan prepare their final attack, Alena must lead a divided city and Ciara must unite unlikely allies. Jasn's growing abilities offer help, but stopping Tenebeth requires each of them to overcome wounds from the past.

When the feared A'ras kill her parents, Carth discovers they prepared her for magic she never knew she had. Seeking answers and revenge, she must decide whether to protect new friends from a threat greater than her enemies.

Carth leaves the north to learn what being shadow born means, but storms trap her in a dangerous port. Captured while helping a girl escape slavers, she must navigate her captor's games and the continuing threat of the Hjan.

Training with the A'ras leaves Carth isolated and struggling to balance their magic with her shadow powers. A mysterious teacher offers guidance as the Reshian attack, but mastering her conflicting abilities exposes secrets tied to her past.

Ciara's captors offer the summoning lessons she desperately wants, making escape harder as their influence grows. Elsewhere, Alena confronts corruption within her order and Jasn discovers unfamiliar strength, while the darkness threatening them continues to spread.

Hired to capture a slaver instead of killing her, Galen discovers his target is hiding more than expected. The assignment pulls him deeper into Eban's underworld, where powerful people are manipulating both him and his only friend.

Banished for forging forbidden blades, Rsiran uses his ability to Slide out of danger and finds acceptance among thieves. His unusual magic attracts powerful interests, forcing him to resist becoming a pawn in an ancient struggle.

Galen questions an assassination contract when he meets the woman he is supposed to kill. Helping her return to his former homeland requires confronting a deadlier assassin, old secrets, and a plot larger than either of them expected.

Rsiran uses his Sliding openly to help rebuild the city, but guild duties expose tensions with its ruling council. A missing crystal tests their alliance and leads him toward a concealed betrayal before Venass can attack again.

An attack using knives Rsiran forged pulls him back into dangerous conflict. Searching for answers tests his Sliding and trust in his friends, while an unusual alloy may hold the key to protecting both them and Jessa.

An attack on someone close to Rsiran sends him searching through family secrets and forgotten history. Understanding what Venass wants may reveal how to stop them, but protecting his friends requires mastering the full extent of his abilities.

Rsiran's power over magical metals draws competing factions that want to use him. After a friend is attacked, he travels to dangerous Thyr, where promised help from the Scholars of Venass comes with a troubling price.

Tan senses another confrontation approaching and wants to protect his powerful young daughter. As the Mistress of Darkness begins her final plans, understanding ancient cycles may be his only chance to stop a struggle that keeps repeating.

Carth reaches Asador while investigating the Hjan, but a companion’s mysterious illness draws her into the city’s criminal underworld. Discovering ways to neutralize her magic forces her to save herself before helping others.

Carth builds a network to protect the women of Asador, drawing powerful opposition. When an assassin strikes someone close to her, pursuit outside the city reveals that her plans may not be enough to keep them safe.

Blamed for an attack on Keyall, Carth is confined by the ruling tribunal. The Collector offers freedom in exchange for the Elder Stone, drawing her into a contest that threatens both her life and her friends.

Carth follows reports of southern attacks to a city with a troubling past. There she encounters the Collector, a rival whose power and strategy challenge her ability to protect her friends and establish her growing network.

Carth patrols the north, fearing that fragile peace accords will collapse. Attacks on coastal villages lead her toward an old master and unresolved questions from her past that could determine whether the agreement survives.

After the Collector escapes prison on Keyall, Carth prepares a plan to recapture her. Understanding an opponent who anticipates her moves demands an uneasy alliance and a search through Carth’s own past for answers.

Elle wants to return to university after washing ashore in Doma. An attack reveals an unexpected bond with a water elemental, forcing her to master a power that may be essential to protecting her homeland.

Endric returns to Vasha and finds his relationships and place in the Denraen changed. With Urik plotting and Mage Tresten missing, his search for answers puts him at odds with the organization he wants to serve.

A Conclave mission takes Endric to Salvat alongside an old enemy. When events endanger Senda, he must decide whether to trust Urik while confronting a conflict beyond his military training and uncovering the Conclave’s secrets.

Endric wants to fight rather than accept the commission his general father demands. A strange attack suggests betrayal within the Denraen, sending him away from the city to find allies and prove a threat others dismiss.

Now an officer, Endric searches for Urik while his father excludes him from planning against a new threat. When someone he cares about disappears, he defies the Denraen and must become the leader he has resisted being.

Endric travels north to the Antrilii warriors, hoping to understand his ancestors and connection to teralin. Hostile territory and an unwelcome reception lead to a family secret that demands a dangerous choice about whom he serves.

Conlin’s protector studies magic with Nik to challenge the Druist Mage, but a greater power demands a test. With three days to prepare, failure could disrupt magic’s balance and break the barrier beyond the Threshold.

As Raime prepares another attack, Roelle considers a difficult alliance while Jakob tries to awaken powers in people once afflicted by madness. Understanding the groeliin may be essential before their enemy steals the strength needed to resist him.

With a final confrontation approaching, Roelle and Isandra work to keep the groeliin from serving Raime’s plans. Jakob searches through the magical fibers for an understanding of their enemy and a secret that could stop him.

Roelle struggles to lead after poisoning, Isandra seeks answers among the Antrilii, and Jakob follows Raime through the fibers. As groeliin attacks continue, each must uncover knowledge that may be essential to stopping the approaching war.

Brohmin seeks a way to stop the Deshmahne, while Isandra searches for groeliin breeding grounds despite losing her magic. Jakob follows the fibers, trying to understand his new power before Raime returns to claim it.

After an attack on his home, apprentice historian Jakob begins a dangerous journey with a mysterious task. New sword skills and troubling abilities leave him fearing madness as ancient powers return and a lost prophecy gains importance.

Roelle takes the Magi north to seek help from the Antrilii against creatures advancing south. Jakob’s journey into the Unknown Lands reveals more about his visions, but survival depends on understanding his growing abilities quickly.

Roelle turns to an enemy for help against the advancing groeliin. Jakob seeks someone trapped in Thealon who may explain his visions, forcing their companions to face hostile armies while trying to save the last gods.

A fragile peace gives scattered allies time to prepare for Raime’s return. As Roelle seeks healing and Isandra travels north, Jakob follows the fibers into the past to understand his power before their enemy grows stronger.

Sam prepares a dangerous journey to reach her brother, while Alec investigates the secrets behind magical paper and his family’s deception. A new revelation exposes a long-planned attack threatening Verdholm and its rulers.

Sam and Alec try to master their linked magic, but scarce supplies and Marin’s disappearance hinder their training. Strange attacks raise questions about other Kavers, forcing them to risk their lives for answers Verdholm needs.

Alec’s father arrives at the university with a mysterious illness, forcing the new physicker to seek help from masters who exclude him. Sam delays searching for her brother as concealed histories suggest a wider plot.

Fes continues serving the empire despite discovering his Dragonwalker ancestry. A mission imposed by an old enemy takes him toward Toulen, where betrayal forces him to use unfamiliar magic to rescue a friend and protect innocents.

A dragon has returned, but Fes is still learning the risks of his magic. A failed rescue of captured Deshazl draws him into a renewed war, forcing him to decide how deeply he will fight for his people.

Fes, a thief with a gift for finding dragon relics, receives an opportunity from the emperor’s fire mage. A priest’s dragon bone reveals a threat that sends him toward the Dragon Plains and questions about his own magic.

Damhur-controlled dragons attack the coast while the empire’s defenders weaken. Fes travels to a foreign land seeking ancient knowledge, hoping to protect both dragons and people before exhausted fire mages lose the ability to resist.

Fes and Jayell flee after betraying both the empire and rebellion. A failed break-in forces him toward people determined to resurrect dragons, where understanding his ancestry becomes necessary to save Jayell and resist another dangerous faction.

Fes questions an imperial peace bargain that leaves his people enslaved. A summons south exposes another threat to the dragons, sending him toward Javoor for answers before the Damhur gain the power to control or destroy them.

Fes wants the hidden dragons to live freely, but another attack leaves the empire vulnerable. Searching for allies means deciding whom to trust while protecting the creatures the Damhur are determined to bring under their control.

Sam and Alec pursue Master Helen as injured Kavers are found drained of blood. Sam’s search for her brother risks leaving Verdholm exposed, while uncovering Helen’s true plan may decide the fate of everyone wielding blood magic.

Sam trains at the palace while Alec advances through the university, leaving little time to explore their shared magic. Suspicions of conspiracy and threats to Verdholm’s defenses force them to reconnect before Marin’s plans advance.

Endric must choose between leadership in the Denraen and service to the Conclave. Investigating the Historian Guild’s growing silence offers a delay, but his journey south in search of Novan brings unexpected questions about his future.

Sam risks her palace position to search for her brother and a traitor within Verdholm. Alec’s questions about powerful university Scribes make their investigation dangerous, with another Theln attack threatening everything they have gained.

In divided Verdholm, thief Sam wants a better life for her brother, while apothecary Alec dreams of becoming a physicker. An ancient magical connection brings them together as the city’s natural defenses begin to fail.

As a new enemy changes the struggle around the elder stones, Daniel must understand his augmented powers. Lucy, Haern, and Ryn pursue their own answers, but an approaching dark force leaves little time to prepare.

Haern investigates a disturbing change in familiar metal, while Lucy encounters danger between Slides. Daniel searches for the Shadow Queen’s secrets and Ryn enters the Temple of the Mind as a greater threat begins to emerge.

Haern trains against the Ai’thol while Daniel investigates an alloy granting impossible powers. Lucy struggles to balance service to the C’than with responsibility for those she rescued, as hidden schemes threaten the elder stones.

Haern trains with an assassin after another attack exposes plans to seize the elder stones. Lucy investigates betrayal within the C’than, while Daniel improves his skills to protect her against enemies pursuing the stones’ power.

An attack on the Academy sends Tolan toward the waste, where elemental shaping fails and elementals cannot survive. His unusual abilities may offer the only response to the growing chaos, but crossing this hostile territory presents its own dangers.

Haern faces attacks that challenge his control over metal while Daniel searches for an Elder Stone. Lucy pursues the feared Architect for answers, and divisions within the Ai'thol complicate efforts to stop Olander Fahr's long-prepared plans.

Four new Council members search for the fifth as the Shadow Queen launches her attack. With the old Elders missing, they must cooperate despite their differences and discover their roles before she claims the power she has pursued for centuries.

An attack renews a struggle over stones that grant extraordinary powers. Haern ventures beyond his father's influence, Daniel seeks help from someone he despises, and Lucy pursues understanding as their separate paths converge on control of the Elder Stones.

Haern's plan to stop Olander Fahr requires trusting someone who has already betrayed him. As Daniel explores shadow magic, Lucy searches for the larger scheme and Ryn faces challenges to her authority, doubts grow about the enemy directing events.

Tolan has passed his first Academy test using borrowed power, but must learn to shape independently or face expulsion. Further attacks on Terndahl complicate his training and make him fear that his reliance on bondars may be releasing elementals.

Now a master shaper, Tolan wants to investigate beyond the waste while the Academy studies nearby power. His mother's unknown intentions and a discovery made with the Draasin Lord force him to weigh further exploration against Terndahl's fragile peace.

Carpenter's apprentice Tolan enters an academy for elemental shapers despite having no magic of his own. As rogue elementals attack, he must find a way to remain among his gifted classmates and uncover the danger threatening their school.

Tolan investigates a plot against the Academy and Terndahl involving power its shapers have never encountered. His connection to the elementals may help, but understanding the threat requires confronting his origins and why his parents left him behind.

Tolan can finally shape the element bonds, yet suspects his magic works differently from his classmates'. Investigating its connection to the elementals draws him into a plot against the Academy, where visiting Inquisitors make asking questions increasingly dangerous.

Tolan faces an offer to leave the Academy and learn from the Draasin Lord, while the Grand Master requests a dangerous favor. Conflicting loyalties force him to reconsider his teachers' explanations and decide how to confront the Inquisitors' plot.

Tainted element bonds send Tolan and his allies beyond the waste to seek answers. Doubting his place as the Academy's spirit instructor, he faces an enemy whose mastery of spirit may surpass everything Tolan has learned.

The appearance of an elemental called Light challenges Tolan's belief that elementals are harmless. Pursuing the threat beyond the waste exposes an ancient secret and demands more than his existing mastery of spirit if he is to protect shapers and elementals.

Strange attacks threaten the Jahor as the Volatar struggles to maintain his restored powers. Meanwhile, Hevith leads a caravan north toward promised safety, only to find new dangers that could jeopardize his people far beyond the travelers under his care.

Weakened by a mysterious ailment, Tolan must protect Terndahl from the elementals he once defended. Attacks on the Academy send him searching for ancient knowledge and new allies before the barriers separating his homeland from the Lands Beyond collapse.

An attack on Jason's home forces him toward Lachen to confront Therin. He needs the dragon misfits' help, but protecting his people depends on whether the forest dragon can teach him to master illusion in time.

Jason Dreshen hides a silver eye that gives him dragon sight while struggling to feed his family in a mountain village. A stranger's arrival draws him into conflict with Dragon Souls and forces him to reconsider the creatures he fears.

Jason searches for other dragon misfits at the Ice Dragon's request, while Dragon Souls pursue them for their power. Finding and protecting another dragon takes him away from home and forces him to seek help from people who distrust him.

Jason prepares Dragon Haven for another attack, but a returning ally's methods raise doubts. Stopping Lorach may endanger its captured dragons, forcing him to choose between defeating his enemies and protecting the creatures who rely on him.