Jess Mountifield Books in Order

Two fantasy stories follow young women seeking a place in an unforgiving world. Bronwen leaves home after her parents die, while Liza struggles within a winged society whose expectations threaten to determine her future before she can choose it.

Living among humans proves harder than the elf Narway expected, leaving her isolated without her father's guidance. As she struggles to establish an independent place in society, two possible futures demand sacrifices she must weigh for herself.

Ishtar has spent her life working as a slave in castle kitchens, until her owner’s decision brings her into the king’s household. The elf must adapt to unfamiliar expectations while finding the faith to face her changing circumstances.

With Utopia established, Sherdan faces diplomats eager to uncover the secrets protecting his new nation. Meanwhile, Anya struggles to resume her former life and questions whether leaving him was right, as faith draws her toward another uncertain decision.

After her tribe disappears, Aneira spends years wandering in search of somewhere to belong. An encounter with a dragon and the consequences of helping others challenge her habit of running away from connections that might offer a home.

Driven from the nation he created, Sherdan is hunted by Britain’s government and Utopia’s new ruler. Anya must keep him alive and persuade reluctant allies to help, while both question the cost of reclaiming his country.

Captain Dylan needs more hands aboard his ship but questions whether buying slaves can ever be justified. Auraylia, an orphan facing a future in a wealthy man's harem, hopes to persuade him to offer her an escape into space.

Short of money before Christmas, private detective James Wilson accepts a case involving a murdered cat that inherited a fortune. Attraction to the animal’s financially troubled human relative threatens his ability to investigate her possible involvement objectively.

With Earth’s population dying and her small kingdom unable to protect its people, Princess Kendra secures passage to a lunar colony. The journey offers a new beginning, but reaching it may demand more sacrifice than she can bear.

The new Guild of the Eternal Flame seeks paid work to fund its future, but a missing woman and a priest’s sudden departure complicate their mission. Five inexperienced adventurers must determine what lies behind the seemingly ordinary requests.

A snowstorm strands five mismatched adventurers at an inn, where missing supplies and attacks on livestock threaten the town. The strangers must overcome their differences to investigate, joined along the way by a sentient fireball.

Waitress Aella discovers a dragon egg and becomes a fugitive protecting its vulnerable hatchling. Help from unlikely strangers reveals hidden mythical communities and unanswered questions about her own family, leaving her searching for somewhere safe to belong.

Still recovering from captivity, Aella faces a cult determined to open a portal to the elven homeworld. New discoveries push her beyond the limits of her training as she fights exhaustion and another threat to her friends.

Aella and her dragon flee with a glowing orb and a few trusted companions, searching for an elusive sanctuary. Their journey offers hope of safety, but the agency pursuing them refuses to accept its earlier defeats.

Framed for murders, Aella and Zephyr must prove their innocence under public scrutiny. A relentless agency adversary threatens both them and the people nearby, forcing Aella to seek an unlikely ally while uncovering his hatred of mythicals.

After the mythical world is exposed, Aella and the Sanctuary remain targets of Jacobs and his agency. Public scrutiny complicates her efforts to protect vulnerable creatures, while unexpected allies and a daring rescue reveal that the struggle is far from over.

Open portals bring Earth into contact with a tyrant ruling the elven world. Aella must decide how far to risk herself helping refugees while his forces move to stop her from undermining his control.

A seemingly simple journey to help new friends sends the Guild of the Eternal Flame into fresh trouble. Accompanied by a wolf and a sentient fireball, the adventurers must fight their way back before a friend’s time runs out.

With the elven world enslaved and Earth’s defenders stretched thin, Aella considers opening another portal to seek allies. Her growing power cannot remove the risk, and she must decide whether leadership means gambling everything on one more chance.

With the Sanctuary under attack, Aella must defend mythical creatures while a powerful agency manipulates the public against her. New allies and developing elemental powers may help, but saving others without harming her human opponents demands careful choices.

Attempts to reopen the elven portals raise fears that an ancient dark ruler still lives. Exhausted and needed in several places at once, Aella tries to stop the gateways opening before a threat reaches the human world.

Kirdash hunts Aella and her mythical allies as multiplying portals expose both worlds to danger. She must choose between trying to seal the gateways and facing the powerful dark elf directly to protect everyone she loves.

Aella and her friends hope for peace after defeating an enemy, but some elves want to overturn humanity’s dominance. Targeted by a new faction, she must judge her allies and work to unite a deeply divided people.

Captain Dante unites independent crews to confront injustice in the fringe colonies, drawing the attention of rival pirates. Newcomer Kit joins his rough-edged crew seeking freedom, but their growing alliance brings dangers neither can avoid.

Scarlet’s ordinary Los Angeles life collapses when her guardian disappears and supernatural creatures begin pursuing her. Forced to confront her own hidden nature, she must find her missing companion while learning to survive among dragons.

Scarlet finds friendship in the dragon city of Detaris, but her unexplained magic and unknown parentage leave her restless. Searching for answers draws her toward the demons pursuing her and raises doubts about her allies’ motives.

Settling into Detaris after losing Anthony, Scarlet studies his journals to understand what he died protecting. As new allies offer help, she must navigate dragon society and decide whom to trust with her search for answers.

As Earth’s magic fades, disillusioned dragon Grey sees little reason to obey the rules protecting an unsuspecting humanity. Meeting Kelsey draws an ordinary woman into his hidden world and gives them both a reason to confront its dangers.

Kelsey takes responsibility for Grey, a dragon whose repeated rule-breaking has exhausted his peers’ patience. His old companion Mags resists the changes she encourages, while new magical disturbances force Grey and Kelsey to investigate a threat to their dying world.

Kelsey and her companions hope to avoid attention after stopping a plot against Earth’s magic. An ancient dragon seeking revenge makes that impossible, forcing Grey and Mags to confront a damaged friendship before their divided group faces an apparently invincible enemy.

After taking a habitat from pirates, Dante tries to turn Corsera into a permanent home for his alliance. Leadership strains his instincts as a pilot, while Kit flies dangerous supply routes and displaced pirates plan their revenge.

Sheltering at a hidden lunar base after defeat, Dante struggles to keep his damaged alliance from surrendering. Kit must recover her confidence in flight and trust as the surviving crew considers whether it can reclaim Corsera.

Dante prepares to reclaim Corsera and become the governor his people need, backed by Kit and a stronger crew. The coming battle pits former allies against each other, forcing both sides to confront the cost of calling a place home.

Newly crowned queen, Scarlet must lead a reunited dragon nation through battles and political challenges. While humanity remains unaware of the danger, she searches for the knowledge needed to stop a demon breaking free.

A demon has escaped, and Scarlet must defend humans and dragons while the world scrutinizes her new reign. With attacks striking unpredictable targets, she struggles to anticipate the enemy and prove that dragons can protect humanity.

A second red dragon arrives just as Scarlet prepares to claim the throne, challenging her legitimacy and sense of duty. Their rivalry unfolds while a growing enemy threatens escape, making cooperation more urgent than either expected.

Dragons hostile to Scarlet’s presence hound her as supporters urge her to lead their realm. Confronting rival agendas and doubts about her heritage, she must find a way to unite them against a danger many still deny.

Scarlet and her allies face the demon’s final assault as the fate of their world hangs in the balance. Her growing magical strength offers hope, but victory depends on courage, strategy, and the loyalty of those beside her.

As demonic corruption spreads, human armies join Scarlet’s dragons in a fragile alliance. Their search for ancient artifacts could turn the war, but mistrust and an enemy gaining ground threaten their chance to defend the planet.

Kelsey, Grey and Mags escape to a realm where magic appears abundant and peaceful. Discovering familiar dangers beneath that promise, they search for allies and the truth about a magical system whose hidden problems may leave them trapped again.

Returning to Earth after finding other worlds endangered, Kelsey and her companions flee relentless stone dragons. With their allies dead or scattered, they must identify whoever controls the creatures before the theft of magic destroys dragons across the worlds.

Kelsey has nearly assembled a way to save Earth, but the conclave hunts her and her companions before they can complete it. With powerful enemies closing in, she must decide how much more she can ask her friends to risk.

Kelsey’s role in killing a dragon brings both admiration and fear from a conclave that believed its members immortal. She and her companions must face the political consequences of their desperate act while discovering whether the other dragons want understanding or revenge.

As dragons begin dying and a new leader takes control of the conclave, Kelsey and her friends lose their refuge. Searching for a way to restore Earth’s link to other magical worlds puts them against a hidden force directing events.

With the dragon controlling the flow of magic exposed, Kelsey, Grey and Mags try to unite different worlds against him. Their enemy refuses to relinquish his power, turning the effort to save Earth into a struggle for humans and dragons everywhere.

Hidden guardian Artemisia has protected Earth from corruption with only a sphynx for company. When attacks intensify, she must consider accepting help from Scarlet and the newly united humans and dragons before their world is overwhelmed.

After a disastrous defeat, Artemisia must rebuild her scattered forces and rescue a captured mentor. Stranded on Earth without a route to the enemy, she needs new mastery of portal magic and renewed trust in her allies.

Artemisia secures a portal but cannot stop the corruption from threatening those under her protection. As humans begin learning dangerous magic, she must unite a divided team whose members disagree about the risks necessary for survival.

Artemisia joins an opal dragon’s defense of another world, bringing an expanding army into the war against corruption. Their enemy learns from every battle, raising the risk that helping distant allies will expose Earth to renewed attack.

Artemisia’s success protecting three planets attracts the Protectorate’s attention and new orders. With a galaxy at war, she must balance obedience against loyalty to the human allies whose help has made her victories possible.

Artemisia must balance protecting those she loves with pushing back a relentless enemy. Although Penthia and the Protectorate bring reinforcements, a corrupted opal dragon targets her personally, threatening the strength she needs to keep everyone alive.

Artemisia leads Earth’s humans and dragons through a portal to confront the corruption at its source. Fighting on another planet tests their alliance and raises the danger that their offensive will lead a stronger enemy back home.

After liberating two planets, Artemisia faces an enemy learning from her victories. To protect more lives, she must gain the trust of wary allies, confront possible betrayal, and regain control of the portal linking her forces to Earth.

Investigating a missing artifact forces Yarlihn to revisit a past he hoped to conceal from his fellow guild members. Evidence points toward someone believed dead, testing the group’s trust as they face a dangerous voyage together.

The growing Guild of the Eternal Flame must decide whether to accept a dubious employer’s lucrative job. As their reputation hangs in the balance, Meera struggles to control her magic while caring for an unpredictable sentient flame.

Nearly losing her mentor forces Artemisia to rethink her reliance on brute force. As her allies struggle to govern reclaimed worlds, an ancient enemy waits for the mistake that could undo everything their war has achieved.

Penthia’s growing power saves settlements, but an enemy capable of passing through solid matter adapts to her tactics. Searching the Isle of the Ancestors, she confronts buried knowledge about the Protectorate and the dangerous legacy she is following.

Leading the effort to reclaim corrupted worlds, Penthia struggles with doubts and a promise to restore her battle-cat companion’s species. An evolving enemy gains new powers, forcing her to reconsider how much protection she can offer.

With the corrupted wearing down their defenses, Penthia searches neglected archives for ways to strengthen her magic. Buried knowledge about diamond dragons may offer salvation, but uncovering the Protectorate’s secrets could create a danger of its own.

Peaceful opal dragon Penthia receives command of a war against a force consuming entire planets. With an unusual battle-cat companion and unfamiliar responsibilities, she must unite magical races and human technology before the corruption overwhelms them.

Former princess Sahria has left her royal past behind, but the guild’s growing fame threatens her anonymity. Invited to help resolve a neighbouring region’s political crisis, she and Andorn confront unanswered questions surrounding a ruler’s death.

A monk arrives at the expanding Guild of the Eternal Flame carrying a baby and seeking her kidnapped husband. The adventurers agree to help, despite doubts about her story and dangers that may exceed their skills.

Dreams lead Penthia toward a mysterious figure older than the Protectorate who may know the origins of their enemy. Following its summons could unlock the power to end the war or draw her into an irreversible trap.

Penthia seeks lost knowledge while war forces her to test whether she can restore the dead. Her promise to save a nearly extinct species brings her into conflict with the council and the secrets it refuses to share.

Elliot accepts an invitation to learn from another druid grove, hoping to become the mentor his guild needs. Meera promises to help him, but enemies of the Guild of the Eternal Flame threaten both their journey and their responsibilities.

The Guild of the Eternal Flame has grown into a regional protector, but a resurgent cult threatens its home and recruits. Its founders must safeguard their sentient flame mascot from followers determined to revive a goddess and use its power.

Aella and her growing dragon Zephyr try to remain hidden in Los Angeles, where humanity still knows nothing of mythical creatures. Keeping themselves safe becomes harder when other creatures need protection from agents determined to hunt them down.

Sherdan creates a protected homeland for his enhanced followers, provoking Britain’s government. Anya, guided by a divine mission to prevent war, must choose between her country and the man whose political ambitions challenge both her faith and her loyalties.