Janet E Morris Books in Order

On a far-future world shaped by infertility, hierarchy, and strange mental powers, a young woman begins a myth-sized quest for self-knowledge. It is bold, unsettling, and unlike most space fantasy.

Estri's gifts deepen as prophecy, desire, and the forces around Silistra tighten their hold. The sequel expands both the world and the cost of the power she carries.

Estri, Chayin, and Sereth move toward the foretold struggle over the Sword of Severance. The Silistra quartet closes with prophecy, divided powers, and a final reach toward light out of darkness.

Earth-born Shebat is swept into the Kerrion family's vast empire and named an heir almost on a whim. Abduction, rebellion, and power politics teach her fast what it costs to survive among rulers.

Washington is vaporized, panic spreads, and diplomat Marc Beck must move through the wreckage of a nuclear strike. The novel mixes political thriller pressure with the nightmare speed of catastrophe.

Shebat, heir to the Kerrion Empire, finds that the man she loves may be her enemy and a sentient cruiser may be her truest ally. Space opera, dynastic plotting, and artificial intelligence all intertwine here.

The Kerrion Empire trilogy ends with Shebat caught between Earth, deep space, and a civilization changing faster than its rulers can control. Politics, technology, and desire all come due at once.

Morris retells the life of the Hittite king Suppiluliuma as a tale of conquest, palace intrigue, and private longing. It is a historical novel that treats the ancient world like living politics, not museum glass.

Estri's journey grows larger and more dangerous as love, power, and prophecy keep tightening around her. The third Silistra book pushes its heroine toward gods, rulers, and hard choices.

In an alarming near-future America, Soviet intelligence has pushed one of its own into the White House. Two operatives race to expose the plot before the country is lost from within.

This anthology imagines what survival might look like after nuclear war, from ruined cities to altered beliefs and brutal new routines. Morris edits a grim, idea-driven set of postwar futures.

Tempus leads the Stepsons beyond Sanctuary and into a harder, stranger war against archmages, demons, and empire. It is the opening move in Morris's gritty military fantasy trilogy.

Tempus rides into Tyse, a city so mean and magic-soaked that no side looks clean for long. New allies, old enemies, and the cost of victory all press in at once.

The northern campaign reaches its breaking point at the Festival of Man. Assassination, treachery, and imperial politics turn celebration into a last, hard test for Tempus and the Stepsons.

Dead does not mean done. In this shared-world opener, famous figures from myth and history land in Hell and immediately resume their feuds, bargains, and power plays.

In West Berlin, intelligence officer Amy Brecker learns the Soviets may be staging a fatal accident in orbit. One missile, one desperate interception, and one anti-satellite weapon stand between crisis and catastrophe.

The troublemakers of history refuse to accept damnation quietly. Rebels, outcasts, and power players stir up fresh chaos in Hell's already crowded streets.

Famous dead collide at the entrance to a very political afterlife. Morris and Cherryh turn Hell into a crowded arena of rivalries, plots, and ancient grudges.

The series turns its eye upward as fallen powers, heavenly grudges, and damned ambitions collide. Even in Hell, the angelic question only makes politics messier.

Holy war does not calm down just because everyone is already dead. Zealots, warriors, and opportunists drag new campaigns into the infernal streets.

A bioengineered plague is unleashed inside the United Nations complex on the moon. Security officer Sam Yates must stop a massacre before the infection wipes out entire bloodlines.

Hell gets a royal problem when conquerors, rulers, and legends turn the underworld into a battlefield. As the Second Trojan War flares, old ambitions refuse to stay buried.

Seen largely through Nikodemos, this linked collection follows Tempus and the Sacred Band through some of their defining early adventures. It is the best doorway into the Stepsons before the larger novels open wide.

Trace Rand and Kate Brittany, members of a covert CIA task force, are pulled into a new U.S.-Soviet struggle over space. Their search for a killer exposes a deeper war already under way.

Warlocks, priests, and old enemies crowd a city where time itself feels unstable. Tempus and his allies are forced to fight on ground where politics, magic, and destiny keep changing shape.

Homer is given a travel pass through Hell and a job from Satan himself. What follows is a sly, story-rich tour of the underworld, with love and disaster never far apart.

Hell's factions stop posturing and start fighting in earnest. Historical titans and old enemies turn the afterlife into open conflict.

Visionaries, truth-tellers, and frauds all have something to sell in the underworld. Prophecy becomes just another weapon in Hell's endless contest for advantage.

An alien reaches the moon seeking asylum, and that should be only the beginning of the problem. Its hunters are close behind, and anyone nearby becomes fair game.

Tempus is pulled across time, myth, and even New York City while demonic forces threaten far more than one battlefield. The result is a wild Sacred Band adventure with cosmic stakes and culture shock.

Sgt. Det Cox and the ruined but stubborn Paige Barnett uncover the secret at the heart of a spreading colonial rebellion. What they learn is so dangerous that whole worlds may be silenced to contain it.

Tempus and his scattered companions face a strange future where gods are not welcome and old rules no longer hold. The story brings in their changeling son and pushes the saga toward dragons and transformation.

This nonfiction guide takes military mind-body training and adapts it for peak performance under pressure. It is part self-mastery manual, part look at the mental habits of elite warriors.

Test pilot Joe South is thrown five hundred years into the future and lands at Threshold Terminal, a rough-edged crossroads in space. Smuggling, shifting loyalties, and survival come at him all at once.

This nonfiction collection explores how American service members think about combat, duty, memory, and sacrifice. It draws on voices from World War II through Desert Storm.

Five centuries after his own time, Joe South still cannot outrun danger. The third Threshold novel tightens the series into a more claustrophobic chase through intrigue, obsession, and predatory threat.

History has been tampered with, and the Vietnam War has spread into China. The Anti-Revision Command rides the timeline to put the world back before the damage becomes permanent.

A Soviet time-travel project tries to rewrite the end of the Cold War and build a new empire. The ARC Riders have to stop a cleaner, deadlier version of history from taking hold.

Set in the wider Heroes in Hell universe, this novel follows damned souls through a fresh stretch of infernal conflict. Crossings are dangerous, loyalties are shaky, and no bargain stays simple for long.

Tempus and his company are drawn into a larger struggle that links them to the legacy of the Sacred Band of Thebes. It is heroic fantasy on a bigger canvas, full of war, fate, and fierce loyalties.

Contracts, loopholes, and infernal courtroom games take center stage. In Hell, the law is not about justice, it is about who can survive the argument.

Abarsis, slaughter priest of the war god, brings his Sacred Band to Tempus and dies in his arms. The result is a short, foundational tale about love, loss, and the birth of the Stepsons.

Killers, tricksters, outlaws, and charming liars seize the spotlight in a rowdy anthology of underworld schemes. The series leans hard into the pleasures of bad company.

This mosaic novel gathers and reframes Sacred Band tales around a dangerous northward journey. Old favorites return, new figures step forward, and the road keeps turning myth into immediate danger.

Satan plots, Shakespeare and Marlowe write, and the damned start dreaming of change. This volume turns the afterlife restless, theatrical, and dangerously hopeful.

Tempus and the Stepsons head toward Tyse and Wizardwall as the wizard war grows hotter. Along the way, loyalties blur and a boy's dangerous powers begin to wake.

Tempus and his fighters are drawn into a mystery shaped by older, stranger powers than ordinary war. It is a compact Sacred Band tale with sea-dark menace and a haunted mood.

A killing mist rolls into Sanctuary with Aškelon and Jihan, and nothing stays the same afterward. This pivotal Stepsons tale brings gods, dream magic, and fresh losses to Tempus's world.

Hell hosts the crookedest poetry festival imaginable. Bards, hacks, and famous dead writers compete for favor while words become weapons all over again.

Plagues spread through the underworld, doctors raise their fees, and the Babylonian plague god walks the scene. This one mixes dark comedy with genuine menace.

This Heroika anthology gathers original tales about one timeless problem, how to hunt, kill, and survive dragons. Each story takes the theme in a different heroic direction.

Daemon Grim, Satan's bounty hunter, tracks souls and monsters across the Heroes in Hell underworld. The book leans into gothic action, infernal politics, and a hunter who works for the wrong master.

Piracy comes to the netherworld in a themed anthology of raids, betrayals, and desperate swagger. On infernal waters, the damned keep stealing from one another and calling it freedom.

Hunter Caine is thrown into a kidnapping case where the line between ally and enemy keeps moving. To get out alive, she has to sort the lies fast and hit back harder.

The damned go looking for desire, reunion, revenge, and anything that feels like love. It is a sharp, often darkly funny volume about need that never quite goes away.

The second Heroika anthology shifts from dragon slayers to quick, lightly armed fighters. These stories favor mobility, nerve, and the kind of courage that works without heavy armor.

Witches, visionaries, occult meddlers, and the Devil's own agents stir up fresh trouble below. The series uses mysticism here as both wonder and trap.

Everybody lies in Hell, but some lies are works of art. This volume plays with deception, performance, and the damage truth can do when nobody wants it.

Mythic beasts and human monsters crowd the latest upheaval in the underworld. Old plot lines continue, new terrors arrive, and even Hell starts to feel unstable.