Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Books in Order
Browse Elizabeth Ann Scarborough’s collaborations with Anne McCaffrey in order, with summaries, series background, and where-to-start tips.
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Elizabeth Ann Scarborough books in publication order
39 books
Song of Sorcery
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1982
Hearthwitch Maggie Brown can cook banquets and kindle fires, but finding her runaway fairy stepsister demands unfamiliar magic. With a talking cat and traveling minstrel Colin Songsmith, she leaves home to bring Amberwine back.
Bronwyn's Bane
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1983
Princess Bronwyn has inherited a giant's stature and a curse that forces her to lie. Sent away during a war, she travels with companions whose magic may help her confront the curse and her kingdom's troubles.
The Unicorn Creed
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1983
Made a princess against her wishes, Maggie Brown abandons her crown to travel with Colin Songsmith and Moonshine the unicorn. Their search for a loophole in the unicorn's restrictive creed draws them into fresh dangers threatening Argonia.
The Harem of Aman Akbar
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1984
Aman Akbar chooses three foreign wives instead of the cousin his family expects him to marry. When an angry relative uses a genie to transform him into a donkey, his wives join forces to reverse the enchantment.
The Christening Quest
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1985
Carole accompanies Prince Rupert on a journey to christen his kidnapped niece. In a kingdom where firstborn children become bargaining chips, securing the child's safety requires magical gifts and protection that an ordinary baptism cannot provide.
The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1986
Aspiring adventure writer Valentine Lovelace travels to Texas and finds more danger than material for her stories. Captivity, intrigue at a frontier fort, and a dragon controlling the region's scarce water complicate her western expedition.
The Goldcamp Vampire, or the Sanguinary Sourdough
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1987
Valentine Lovelace heads to the Klondike with a coffin, a mysterious companion, and hopes of restoring her fortunes. A murder accusation and employment in a Dawson dance hall draw her into troubles involving an unusually bloodthirsty employer.
The Healer's War
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1988
Army nurse Kathleen McCulley struggles to care for patients amid the violence and prejudice of the Vietnam War. A dying holy man's amulet takes her beyond familiar medicine into a perilous journey through the jungle.
Nothing Sacred
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1991
Unemployed despite her education, Viveka joins the military and becomes a prisoner in the Himalayas. Inside a remote Tibetan camp, uncertainty about time and a mysterious nearby valley challenge what she understands about captivity and survival.
Phantom Banjo
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1991
A campaign by devils threatens folk music and the people who preserve it. A magical banjo passes into the hands of musicians whose songs may offer a defense against a world increasingly stripped of human feeling.
Picking the Ballad's Bones
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1991
Musicians fighting a supernatural assault on folk music seek help from Britain's old ballads. A bargain with the Fairy Queen sends them into the songs themselves, where preserving musical traditions means navigating stories with notoriously dangerous endings.
Last Refuge
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1992
Shambala has survived nuclear devastation, but its newborn children are arriving without souls. A search beyond the protected valley sends travelers into a haunted world to discover what has disrupted the cycle of reincarnation.
Strum Again?
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1992
Returning to America, the musicians continue their struggle against devils determined to silence folk music. With Torchy's help, they work to restore endangered songs while confronting the institutions that have fallen under their supernatural enemies' influence.
The Godmother
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1994
Seattle social worker Rose Samson wishes her troubled city had a fairy godmother. When F. Fortune arrives, runaway children, abused young people, and fractured families find their lives intersecting with modern versions of familiar fairy tales.
The Godmother's Apprentice
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1995
Snohomish Quantrill, a rock star's daughter, becomes an apprentice to fairy godmother F. Fortune. Training in Ireland introduces her to Celtic magic and journeys through time, turning an unusual education into a series of unexpected adventures.
Carol for Another Christmas
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1996
Eight-year-old Tina awakens Ebenezer Scrooge's spirit through a computer while her mother, a technology executive, remains absorbed in work. On Christmas Eve, the ghost must understand the modern world and help restore warmth to their family.
The Godmother's Web
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1998
Cindy Ellis travels to Tuba City to help train a friend's horse and encounters hardships she cannot easily remedy. A Navajo grandmother offers another kind of guidance, drawing Cindy into a protective web of love and magic.
The Lady in the Loch
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1998
Missing young women and skeletal remains draw Sheriff Walter Scott into a disturbing Edinburgh mystery. A palm reader's search for vanished girls intersects with his investigation, exposing dangers linked to body snatchers and something beyond ordinary crime.
Channeling Cleopatra
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2002
Forensic anthropologist Leda Hubbard becomes involved with a technology that blends living people with personalities recovered from ancient DNA. Her search for Cleopatra's remains leads to an unexpectedly intimate encounter with the queen she has long admired.
Scarborough Fair
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2003
These stories connect supernatural encounters with human struggles over loss, injustice, and belonging. A reincarnated cat investigates his murder, a cursed princess faces an altered body, and displaced Indigenous people and returning veterans confront painful histories.
Cleopatra 7.2
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2004
Leda Hubbard and Gabriella Farouk carry versions of Cleopatra's personality through experimental DNA blending. As government retaliation threatens unauthorized uses of the technology, the women face the consequences of sharing themselves with a powerful historical presence.
9 Tales O' Cats
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
Nine fantasy stories follow cats through Camelot, ancient Egyptian mysteries, Edinburgh, and worlds shaped by reincarnation. Their feline protagonists intervene in human troubles, confront supernatural dangers, and pursue adventures that depend on distinctly catlike priorities.
Bastet's Blessing
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
An Egyptologist's cat, Shuttle, becomes entangled with the powers of ancient Egypt. Faced with a vengeful mummy, he turns toward the cat goddess Bastet, whose blessing may offer protection for him and his human companion.
Boon Companion
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
Born Again
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
Peaches finds himself between two of his nine lives, guided by the feline bodhisattva Mu Mao. Hoping to return to his human friend, he discovers that the world's destruction makes his next incarnation far more complicated.
Cat Among the Pigeons
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
A veteran soldier investigates why a king's twelve daughters keep wearing out their dancing shoes. His secret feline companion, Captain Shadow, helps him uncover the mystery in this retelling of the story of the dancing princesses.
Final Vows
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
A cat begins another life in an unfamiliar monastery with unfinished business from his previous existence. To protect the cats in his former home, he must investigate the circumstances of his own death and identify his murderer.
Mu Mao and the Court Oracle
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
The feline bodhisattva Mu Mao returns in a new incarnation to fulfill a prophecy involving a court oracle. His task brings him into contact with a despairing cat who needs help finding purpose and fulfillment.
Spam vs. the Vampire
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
When web designer Darcy Dupres disappears after working for a vampire's dating service, her cat Spam sets out to find her. His computer skills and animal allies help him investigate a threat that humans have overlooked.
The Cat Quest of Mu Mao the Magnificent
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
Mu Mao, the world's last tomcat, lives within the protected refuge of Shambala after civilization destroys itself. To ensure cats survive into the recovering world, he must leave safety behind and search for a mate.
The Queen's Cat's Tale
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
Guinevere's cat Gray Jane tells her version of Camelot's downfall, revealing what its human inhabitants missed. Her account explores the feline intervention behind the familiar legend and the disasters that might otherwise have followed.
Tinkler Tam and the Body Snatchers
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2011
A stray Edinburgh cat investigates grave robbers whose activities threaten his human friend, a refugee from the French Revolution. Tinkler Tam discovers that their demand for fresh bodies poses a danger beyond the city's cemeteries.
Father Christmas
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2012
Spam expects a peaceful first Christmas, but Renfrew the raccoon's mischief sends him into action. His efforts to protect the holiday lead to a vulnerable mother and child and an uncomfortable reunion with his feral father.
The Tour Bus of Doom
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2012
A busload of zombies arrives in Spam's coastal town, bringing kidnapping and disappearances. The feline detective joins animal friends and supernatural allies to investigate the visitors and protect the humans whose lives are suddenly at risk.
The Dragon, the Witch, and the Railroad
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2015
Industrial Argonia runs on enslaved dragons, while witches and their magic fall out of favor. After her father's fatal balloon accident, truth-cursed Verity Brown seeks the real culprit and tries to save the dragon wranglers blamed for it.
Spam and the Sasquatch
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2016
An eagle hires Spam to investigate a large, hairy creature driven into town by a forest fire. The cat detective calls on his animal informants while a charismatic fanatic hostile to cats threatens the investigation.
Spam, the Spooks, and the UPS Bandit
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2016
Spam investigates strange hauntings at a home for older people while Renfrew the raccoon steals delivered packages. Ghosts, a visiting vampire cat, and other animal acquaintances complicate his attempts to resolve the household's supernatural troubles.
The Redundant Dragons
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2018
Queen Verity frees Argonia's dragons from industrial servitude, only to face the enormous problem of feeding them. Political enemies exploit the crisis and force her aboard an outbound ship, leaving her kingdom vulnerable to a rival's control.
Extended Family
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
2022
The Civil War and forced Cherokee resettlement uproot a family from the only home they have known. Alongside these historical threats, a curse within the family raises another question of danger, inheritance, and survival.
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The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1986V. Lovelace's Guide to the Wild West, Book 1
The Goldcamp Vampire, or the Sanguinary Sourdough
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1987V. Lovelace's Guide to the Wild West, Book 2




























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