Jo Clayton Books in Order

On a brutal world far from the centers of power, young Aleytys becomes bonded to a mysterious alien diadem. That moment starts a long, dangerous search for her mother, her heritage, and a place she can claim as home.

Sold into slavery on an alien world, Aleytys is chosen by an insectoid race as the bearer for a queen's successor. Only the strange power of the Diadem gives her any chance of survival or resistance.

Still bound to the Diadem, Aleytys reaches Lamarchos and gets tangled up with thieves, betrayals, and a world full of uneasy spiritual powers. She is chasing clues to her heritage, but the planet has plans of its own.

Aleytys lands on the forest world of Maeve, still hunting answers about her mother and her own people. The planet's strange cultures and dangers make the search even more complicated than before.

On a world under attack by brutal half-humans, Aleytys must use the Diadem against a mad enemy from her own ancestral race. Winning will take more than strength, because the battle is mental as well as physical.

Aleytys takes on a mission no other Hunter will touch, slipping onto a shielded world to rescue a massive insect queen. The price is a clue she desperately needs for her own long search.

Outcast turned warrior Serroi overhears a murder plot aimed at the Domnor during the dangerous season of Moongather. To warn him and face her own broken oath, she has to cross a land that seems bent on stopping her.

Aleytys is hired to catch a mysterious kidnapper haunting the resort world of Cazarit. The job gets complicated fast when she realizes she may already know the so-called ghost, and may not want to stop him.

Serroi stands between Ser Noris, an immortal wizard drunk on power, and the living forces of her world. To stop ruin, she has to face the man who helped shape her into a weapon.

Still searching for her mother and her own lost inheritance, Aleytys follows a dangerous lead into the traps and intrigues of Ibex. Every step forward brings her closer to the truth and to fresh danger.

Addictive crystals called Ranga Eyes promise bliss and escape, but they leave ruin behind them. Three people with personal reasons to hate the gems set out to find their source and stop the damage for good.

Serroi gathers unlikely allies for a final struggle against the forces that have been warping her world for too long. The fate of the land now depends on whether she can meet magical ruin head-on.

Brann is feared everywhere because she is bonded to twin demonic shape-shifters who hunger for life-force. To free her family from an evil king, she must cross a brutal magical world without losing herself entirely.

Aleytys is finally close to finding her mother and claiming her Vrya heritage. But the end of the search brings its deadliest enemy, and triumph could still turn into disaster.

Abandoned on a miserable backwater planet, rogue pilot Skeen stumbles through a gateway into a world contested by eight races. Getting home will take more than luck, because every path forward leads into fresh trouble.

Still on the run, Skeen is pulled into another dangerous stretch of the gate-world and the space beyond it. Every alliance is risky, and getting closer to freedom only seems to make her enemies more dangerous.

Skeen races against time through deep space, dangerous politics, and the remnants of older mysteries. To finish what she started, she has to gamble everything on one last search.

Brann's hard-won peace does not last. Strange magic, old enemies, and the burdens of her bond with the demon children drag her back into a new struggle where survival and freedom both come at a cost.

An orbiting superweapon keeps an entire planet obedient through fear alone. To challenge that power, Shadith has to move against an imperator whose control reaches from the ground to the sky.

The Chained God is desperate to escape dissolution and needs six talismans of power to break free. Brann and her allies are pulled into a brutal race that could either save their world or doom it.

When Shadith stumbles into something dangerous, she is kidnapped and pushed toward a role in a manufactured war. Refusing to follow the script may be the only way she and her fellow captives stay alive.

Still caught in schemes far larger than herself, Shadith faces enemies willing to spend a whole world for their own ends. She has to outthink people who treat lives, planets, and wars as disposable assets.

Shadith's struggle against the people who profit from manipulation and destruction reaches its breaking point. To survive and hit back, she has to turn all her stubbornness and hard-earned skill against a larger machine.

Young Faan is a mortal caught in a struggle between rival gods who use nature, worship, and human lives as pieces in their contest. It is the start of a mythic coming-of-age tale with very high stakes.

Separated from the only home she has known, Faan sets out to find her true mother, a sorceress trapped in magical sleep. The search pushes her deeper into divine conflict and toward truths that could remake her life.

After centuries of imprisonment, Serroi breaks free into a world that barely remembers her. A simple delivery mission soon turns into a test of survival as old powers wake and magic starts returning.

Faan reaches the land of her birth and finds both her mother and homeland trapped in a timeless sleep. Freeing them means stepping into a war of magic vast enough to threaten more than one world.

Awake after centuries of sleep, Serroi finds she can heal, but her changed world is haunted by a force that can twist life and death. To stop disaster, she has to gather allies and fight on a much larger scale.

Serroi keeps moving through a changed world where old powers are stirring again. As loyalties shift and danger closes in from several sides, survival becomes a complicated dance of magic, politics, and nerve.

Freed after centuries inside the Diadem, Shadith discovers she now has an empathic musical gift. A mission involving a musically communicating alien race gives her a chance at purpose, but also pulls her straight back into danger.

Now able to transfer her consciousness into another body, Shadith is a natural spy. What starts as a recovery job becomes a look at one of the worst crimes in the known galaxy.

Working as an empath for a private investigative outfit, Shadith is sent to recover a kidnapped creature. The job turns murkier when she realizes returning it would mean handing it back to people who plan to destroy it.

Strange signs show that Glandair and Iomard are drifting toward a dangerous overlap. Young Cymel begins seeing across worlds, and old watchers, hidden mages, and gathering chaos all point to a reckoning that could shatter both realms.

As the cycle peaks, the flow of Pneuma threatens to wreck both Glandair and Iomard. Cymel must protect Lyanz, the unlikely hero who may be the only person able to redirect the coming magical surge.

In the trilogy's posthumously completed finale, Cymel is trapped in a white bird's body while Breith and Lyanz race toward a last confrontation. If Glandair and Iomard cannot be brought back into balance, both worlds may come apart.