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Elves On The Road Books in Order

Explore the Elves On The Road books by Roberta Gellis in order, with quick summaries, universe context, and help finding her Tudor-set entry point.

Last updated: July 8, 2026

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Burning Water

by Elves On The Road

1989

Dallas detective Mark Valdez calls in witch and novelist Diana Tregarde when ritual murders point to something older and darker than a human killer. To stop it, they must face a blood-soaked power tied to Aztec magic.

Children of the Night

by Elves On The Road

1990

After a young Rom asks for help and dies almost at Diana's door, she joins forces with the vampire Andre LeBrel. New York's night streets hold more than one predator, and not all of them are undead.

Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

by Elves On The Road

1990

Down-on-his-luck musician Eric Banyon accidentally frees the elf Korendil with his flute. Suddenly he is caught in a hidden war for California, where music, magic, and faerie politics can get people killed.

Jinx High

by Elves On The Road

1991

Called to Tulsa by an old friend, Diana investigates a golden girl and her clique, who seem magically protected from consequences. Their power is dangerous enough already, and it may wake something ancient under the city.

Bedlam Boyz

by Elves On The Road

1992

Runaway teenager Kayla discovers she can heal, which makes her valuable to gangs, predators, and far older things. In Los Angeles, a gift like hers can save lives, or get her killed.

Born to Run

by Elves On The Road

1992

Good elves have discovered stock-car racing as a practical way to survive in modern America. When runaway kids get caught between them and dark elves who profit from misery, human mage Tannim is pulled into the fight.

Summoned to Tourney

by Elves On The Road

1992

Eric's bardic gifts grow just as California faces catastrophe from dream-born horrors and faerie schemes. Saving the coast may mean calling up allies almost as dangerous as the enemy.

Wheels of Fire

by Elves On The Road

1992

A mother searching for the son taken by her ex-husband gets help from an elf mechanic with a fast car and a stubborn streak. The trail leads straight into a radical cult and something worse behind it.

When the Bough Breaks

by Elves On The Road

1993

The racing-elf crew becomes entangled in the life of an abused girl whose psychic power could shatter more than a family. Helping her means facing trauma, hidden magic, and danger that reaches across worlds.

Chrome Circle

by Elves On The Road

1994

Human mage Tannim thinks he has found the right girl, until he learns her father is a dragon and she is not human at all. Fast cars, romance, and unstable magic shove him into trouble from every side.

Elvendude

by Elves On The Road

1994

Adam thinks he is an ordinary teenager, but he was born an elven prince and hidden in the human world to save his life. When the past starts hunting him, he has to learn who he really is.

Killer Byte

by Elves On The Road

1994

Diana and Andre trace a threat lurking in the early online world, where malice can cross over into something supernatural. It is a short, tense case about obsession, vulnerability, and danger behind a screen.

Spiritride

by Elves On The Road

1997

Ghost biker Thorn still rides the skies trying to help the living when a new clash erupts between elven powers and drug-fed darkness. Two mortal bikers are caught in the middle, and Thorn may be their best hope.

Lazerwarz

by Elves On The Road

1999

Dobie thinks laser tag is just a game until Morrigan chooses him as her champion. Soon players are vanishing into a scheme to build an army for war in Underhill.

The Chrome Borne

by Elves On The Road

1999

This omnibus pairs Born to Run and Chrome Circle, following Tannim and the car-racing elves through two early SERRAted Edge adventures. It is a strong entry point to the series' mix of street magic, danger, and speed.

The Otherworld

by Elves On The Road

2000

This omnibus brings together Wheels of Fire and When the Bough Breaks. It follows the SERRAted Edge crew through a child rescue, a cult threat, and a psychic crisis with stakes for both Earth and Faerie.

Beyond World's End

by Elves On The Road

2001

Eric moves to New York hoping for a quieter life, only to land in a Guardian safe house and a plot involving psychic drugs. Dark elves and human researchers alike want to turn suffering into power.

Spirits White as Lightning

by Elves On The Road

2001

Eric is settling into Juilliard life when an old enemy returns with patience, science, and malice on his side. To stop the next strike, Eric has to juggle family, apprentices, and another brush with disaster.

Mad Maudlin

by Elves On The Road

2003

Eric discovers he has a younger brother, Magnus, a runaway now marked by the urban nightmare called Bloody Mary. Saving him means racing through New York before a story children whisper becomes a real killer.

This Scepter'd Isle

by Elves On The Road

2004

In an alternate Tudor England, rival Sidhe factions see very different futures for the realm. Young Elizabeth Tudor becomes the prize in a hidden war between court politics and dangerous magic.

Bedlam's Edge

by Elves On The Road

2005

This anthology opens the Bedlam's Bard world wider through stories by Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, and others. Elves, Guardians, and ordinary people collide in short tales where hidden magic brushes against everyday life.

Ill Met by Moonlight

by Elves On The Road

2005

Elizabeth is older, but no safer, as the dark Sidhe renew their effort to keep her from the throne. Court intrigue and hidden magic tighten around her childhood world.

Music to My Sorrow

by Elves On The Road

2005

Eric tries to win custody of Magnus, but their parents are tied to an evangelist serving the dark elves. If Magnus and his friend Ace are caught, obedience will cost them everything that makes them themselves.

By Slanderous Tongues

by Elves On The Road

2007

With Henry VIII gone and Edward VI on the throne, Elizabeth faces a new kind of danger. If her enemies can stain her name, they may not need magic to destroy her future.

And Less Than Kind

by Elves On The Road

2008

As Edward VI dies and Mary rises, Elizabeth's position turns deadly. Human schemers and dark elves alike are determined to make sure she never rules England.

A Host of Furious Fancies

by Elves On The Road

2012

This omnibus follows Eric Banyon through a pair of New York adventures where bardic magic, dark elves, and dangerous experiments keep turning ordinary life strange. It is a handy way to continue the series as the world gets bigger.

Magic 101

by Elves On The Road

2014

Young Diana Tregarde arrives at Harvard with talent, nerve, and more magical trouble than campus expects. These early adventures show her learning the hard parts of being a Guardian before the main novels begin.

Silence

by Elves On The Road

2016

Teenage Staci is dumped in the decaying Maine town of Silence to live with her alcoholic mother. The place feels cut off for a reason, and the darkness under it has been feeding on people for a very long time.

The Waters and the Wild

by Elves On The Road

2019

Depressed and isolated, Olivia follows charming Blake to an old Adirondack resort where something ancient waits under the lake. The real danger is not just the boy, but what the water wants from her.

Breaking Silence

by Elves On The Road

2020

Silence is starting to recover, but Staci now knows evil rarely leaves cleanly. As new elves arrive and fresh monsters surface, she and her friends have to defend the town's fragile future.

Where should I start?

If you want Roberta Gellis's Tudor fantasy arc: This Scepter'd IsleIll Met by MoonlightBy Slanderous TonguesAnd Less Than Kind
If you want the broader Elves on the Road world first: Burning WaterKnight of Ghosts and ShadowsBorn to Run
If you like music-driven urban fantasy: Knight of Ghosts and ShadowsSummoned to TourneySpirits White as Lightning
If you prefer a later, more self-contained entry: SilenceBreaking Silence

Author bio

Roberta Gellis was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, and she grew up there. She studied chemistry and English at Hunter College, then went on to earn master's degrees in biochemistry and medieval literature. That combination, science on one side, the Middle Ages on the other, tells you a lot about the books she would eventually write.

Her first career was in a lab, not a library.

For about a decade she worked as a research chemist in New York City. Then family life changed her direction. After her son was born, she left that job and started writing seriously, turning a long-standing love of history into fiction. Her first novels, including Bond of Blood and Knight's Honor, arrived before historical romance had settled into the shape many readers now recognize.

What made Gellis stand out was not grand speech or postcard history. She liked the machinery of everyday life. In her medieval and early modern novels, people worry about inheritance, household money, legal limits, childbirth, church rules, and what a bad marriage can do to an entire family. Books like Roselynde and The Sword and the Swan gave readers romance, but they also gave them texture, the feeling that land, law, and reputation mattered every single day.

Her characters rarely get to float above the period they live in.

She moved easily into other corners of historical fiction too. The Magdalene la Batarde mysteries, including A Mortal Bane, use twelfth-century England as a working world full of travel hazards, politics, and moral compromise. Later she even wrote a mystery around Lucrezia Borgia. Across genres, the pattern stayed much the same. Gellis liked capable women, complicated loyalties, and plots built from pressure rather than coincidence.

That practical streak helped when she turned toward fantasy. Magic in a Gellis novel does not wipe away the mess of ordinary life. It lands on top of it. That is a big part of why her collaboration with Mercedes Lackey works so well in the Doubled Edge books, beginning with This Scepter'd Isle. The Sidhe and their prophecies may be hidden behind Tudor history, but the court politics, household calculations, and danger around Elizabeth Tudor feel solid because Gellis knew how to make a past world breathe.

She also wrote a lot. More than fifty books, spread across historical romance, mystery, fantasy, and historical fiction, is a big body of work, and it gave readers plenty of different doors into her writing.

Gellis died in Michigan in 2016. Her books still feel lively because they are so grounded in human behavior. People scheme, love, misjudge each other, protect their place in the world, and sometimes surprise themselves. If you like historical fiction that remembers servants, contracts, family strategy, and the price of survival, she is still a rewarding writer to pick up.

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