EE Knight Books in Order
Explore E.E. Knight books in order, from Vampire Earth to Age of Fire, with short summaries, series background, and simple tips on where to start.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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EE Knight books in publication order
21 books
Way of the Wolf
by EE Knight
2001
In a Louisiana ruled by the Kurian Order, Lieutenant David Valentine joins the Wolves to fight back against alien overlords and their Reaper hunters. It is the start of a hard, violent campaign across a broken Earth.
Choice of the Cat
by EE Knight
2004
David Valentine begins training as a Cat, one of the resistance's elite stealth fighters. His first mission sends him after the mysterious Twisted Cross and deeper into the strange machinery of Kurian rule.
The Lost Cult
by EE Knight
2004
After a mission involving stolen Iraqi artifacts, Lara Croft is drawn into the murder of an archaeologist studying the ancient Mene cult. Her search takes her into Peru, where ruined temples, old secrets, and a dangerous former ally await.
Dragon Champion
by EE Knight
2005
When raiders destroy his mountain nest, young Auron escapes alone into a brutal world. The rare gray dragon has to learn how to survive, find his own kind, and understand why dragons are disappearing.
Tale of the Thunderbolt
by EE Knight
2005
Now a Cat warrior, David Valentine is sent after a legendary weapon that could shift the balance of the war. The mission takes him deep into enemy territory, where survival depends on nerve, secrecy, and luck.
Valentine's Rising
by EE Knight
2005
Returning to the Ozarks, David Valentine finds his home region under Kurian rule. He answers with a desperate rebellion, risking his life, his honor, and the future of his people in a fight that will not stay small.
Dragon Avenger
by EE Knight
2006
Separated from her family after the destruction of their nest, Wistala must survive the upper world and seek out other dragons. Her grief soon hardens into purpose, and she begins hunting those responsible for her shattered life.
Valentine's Exile
by EE Knight
2006
Celebrated as a hero, Valentine is pulled into a search for a missing woman who vanished inside Kurian territory. The trail leads to a heavily guarded compound in Ohio and discoveries that shake even his hardened sense of reality.
Dragon Outcast
by EE Knight
2007
Cast aside from the start, the young Copper dragon grows up wounded, angry, and determined to prove himself. His long journey through danger and unlikely alliances turns him into one of the series' most complicated figures.
Valentine's Resolve
by EE Knight
2007
After years in exile, David Valentine returns to the war with a mission to rescue the remaining Lifeweavers. To succeed, he must win over the Marshal, a legendary resistance leader who is nearly as dangerous as the enemy.
Dragon Strike
by EE Knight
2008
AuRon, Wistala, and the Copper are finally moving toward the same war, but they want very different futures. Human conflict gives each dragon a chance to act, and each move pulls the siblings closer to a reckoning.
Fall with Honor
by EE Knight
2008
As the rebellion goes on the offensive, David Valentine and his former Quislings march to join a guerrilla army. The mission looks like progress, until the road ends in a brutal surprise that changes everything.
Dragon Rule
by EE Knight
2009
Wistala leads the Firemaids while her brothers pull in very different directions over how dragons should deal with humans. As the Copper's empire grows more unstable, family conflict and politics threaten to turn into open war.
Winter Duty
by EE Knight
2009
Valentine's battered battalion staggers out of Appalachia into a Kentucky tearing itself apart. With Kurian forces moving toward extermination instead of occupation, survival depends on holding together an army and a cause that are both breaking.
Dragon Fate
by EE Knight
2011
The surviving dragon siblings have withdrawn from the world, but peace does not last. As old sorceries awaken and war spreads again, they must reunite or watch dragonkind burn.
March in Country
by EE Knight
2011
Kentucky is up for grabs, and David Valentine needs to bring settlers through hostile territory before the Kurians do. It is a long, dangerous push through slavers, aliens, and a land that has already swallowed plenty of armies.
Appalachian Overthrow
by EE Knight
2013
Ahn-Kha is captured and sold into the coal mines of Appalachia, where brutal conditions turn anger into open revolt. As he fights the Maynes family and their Kurian backers, a local uprising begins to take shape around him.
Dragon Search
by EE Knight
2013
On her first mission for dragonkind, young Irelia leaves the Lavadome to hunt a threat to the food supply. What she finds in the upper world forces her to question her vows, her duty, and where she truly belongs.
Baltic Gambit
by EE Knight
2014
After Alessa Duvalier raids a Kurian gathering in Indiana, the resistance uncovers a plot aimed at a peace conference in Helsinki. Espionage, betrayal, and a dangerous mission draw David Valentine into one of the series' most political battles.
Novice Dragoneer
by EE Knight
2019
Orphaned Ileth runs away to the Serpentine to join the dragonriders she has dreamed about for years. Life at the academy is harder and rougher than she expected, and one dangerous assignment proves that dragons and status can kill as easily as inspire.
Daughter of the Serpentine
by EE Knight
2020
Now an apprentice at the Serpentine Academy, Ileth faces enemies on two fronts: a hidden attacker inside the school and pirate pressure outside its walls. As the Vale Republic tightens toward war, she must decide what kind of dragoneer she wants to become.
Where to start with EE Knight
If you want post-apocalyptic action: Way of the Wolf → Choice of the Cat → Tale of the Thunderbolt
If you want dragons from the dragons' point of view: Dragon Champion → Dragon Avenger → Dragon Outcast
If you want a coming-of-age dragonrider story: Novice Dragoneer → Daughter of the Serpentine
If you want a one-book adventure: The Lost Cult
EE Knight sub-series and character series
Age of Fire books in order
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Dragon Champion
by EE Knight
2005Age of Fire, Book 1
Dragon Avenger
by EE Knight
2006Age of Fire, Book 2
Dragon Outcast
by EE Knight
2007Age of Fire, Book 3
Dragon Strike
by EE Knight
2008Age of Fire, Book 4
Dragon Rule
by EE Knight
2009Age of Fire, Book 5
Dragon Fate
by EE Knight
2011Age of Fire, Book 6
Dragon Search
by EE Knight
2013Age of Fire, Book 7
Age of Fire books in chronological order

Dragon Champion
by EE Knight
2005Age of Fire, Book 1
Dragon Avenger
by EE Knight
2006Age of Fire, Book 2
Dragon Outcast
by EE Knight
2007Age of Fire, Book 3
Dragon Strike
by EE Knight
2008Age of Fire, Book 4
Dragon Rule
by EE Knight
2009Age of Fire, Book 5
Dragon Fate
by EE Knight
2011Age of Fire, Book 6
Dragon Search
by EE Knight
2013Age of Fire, Book 7
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Way of the Wolf
by EE Knight
2001Vampire Earth, Book 1
Choice of the Cat
by EE Knight
2004Vampire Earth, Book 2
Tale of the Thunderbolt
by EE Knight
2005Vampire Earth, Book 3
Valentine's Rising
by EE Knight
2005Vampire Earth, Book 4
Valentine's Exile
by EE Knight
2006Vampire Earth, Book 5
Valentine's Resolve
by EE Knight
2007Vampire Earth, Book 6
Fall with Honor
by EE Knight
2008Vampire Earth, Book 7
Winter Duty
by EE Knight
2009Vampire Earth, Book 8
March in Country
by EE Knight
2011Vampire Earth, Book 9
Appalachian Overthrow
by EE Knight
2013Vampire Earth, Book 10
Baltic Gambit
by EE Knight
2014Vampire Earth, Book 11
Vampire Earth books in chronological order

Way of the Wolf
by EE Knight
2001Vampire Earth, Book 1
Choice of the Cat
by EE Knight
2004Vampire Earth, Book 2
Tale of the Thunderbolt
by EE Knight
2005Vampire Earth, Book 3
Valentine's Rising
by EE Knight
2005Vampire Earth, Book 4
Valentine's Exile
by EE Knight
2006Vampire Earth, Book 5
Valentine's Resolve
by EE Knight
2007Vampire Earth, Book 6
Fall with Honor
by EE Knight
2008Vampire Earth, Book 7
Winter Duty
by EE Knight
2009Vampire Earth, Book 8
March in Country
by EE Knight
2011Vampire Earth, Book 9
Appalachian Overthrow
by EE Knight
2013Vampire Earth, Book 10
Baltic Gambit
by EE Knight
2014Vampire Earth, Book 11
Author bio
E.E. Knight, the pen name of Eric Frisch, was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and grew up near the Twin Cities in Minnesota. That upper Midwestern background stayed with him. His books often care about landscape, weather, long travel, and the stubborn people who keep going when the world gets rough. He later settled in the Chicago area, where he has lived with his family and pets.
Writing started early. As a kid he wrote stories for fun, including fan fiction inspired by Creature from the Black Lagoon, and in high school he worked on the school paper and became one of its editors. For a long time, though, writing was something he loved, not yet the job he expected to have.
He studied history and political science at Northern Illinois University, graduating in 1987. After that came a mixed run of day jobs: warehouse work, managing a McDonald's, wedding photography, and freelance nonfiction, including articles on photography for bridal magazines. It was a practical stretch of life, and a useful one. You can feel it in his fiction, which tends to notice work, logistics, chain of command, and the cost of getting from one place to another.
His road to publication was not quick.
In the 1990s he wrote a first novel that did not land. By his own account, it was him chasing a hot trend instead of writing the sort of story he actually wanted to read. A nudge from his aunt, a children's writer, changed that. She asked him what he loved, not what he thought the market wanted. Knight went back to old pulp adventure, horror, westerns, noir, classic science fiction, and the gaming world he had built for friends. Out of that shift came Way of the Wolf and, with it, the start of Vampire Earth.
That series is still what many readers know him for first. Beginning with Way of the Wolf, it drops readers into a future Earth ruled by alien vampire overlords and follows resistance fighter David Valentine through battles, betrayals, and hard choices. Readers who click with Knight usually like the blend: military action, monster horror, and a hero who has to grow up fast while the world keeps getting worse.
He took a very different angle with Dragon Champion and the Age of Fire books. Instead of using dragons as scenery, he put them at the center and let readers see the world through their eyes. Later, with Dragon Outcast, he widened that approach through another sibling's perspective, and with Novice Dragoneer and Daughter of the Serpentine he shifted again, following a human girl named Ileth as she tries to earn a place in a dragonrider order.
Across all of these books, the same interests keep showing up: outsiders trying to belong, people learning duty the hard way, and societies held together by fragile bargains. He likes campaigns, marches, fortresses, borderlands, and command structures, but he also makes room for odd friendships, small acts of kindness, and characters who are not as tough as they pretend to be.
He found his lane a little later than some writers do, but once he did, he built a body of work that feels unmistakably his.
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