John Shors Books in Order

Princess Jahanara recounts the building of the Taj Mahal while navigating a brutal marriage and rivalries within the Mughal court. Her work with architect Isa offers forbidden love as the empire moves toward a dangerous struggle for power.

After a hospital ship is torpedoed in the South Pacific, a small group reaches a deserted island. A Japanese soldier and an American nurse find an unexpected connection while their fellow survivors confront war, trauma, and uncertain survival.

Two Americans, Iris and Noah, open a center for Vietnamese street children while trying to heal their own painful histories. Their work brings them into the children's difficult lives and challenges their understanding of responsibility, friendship, and hope.

Following his wife's death, Ian discovers her request that he take their daughter Mattie across Asia. Their journey retraces the couple's earlier travels, with wishes left in ancient trees becoming a way to express grief and hopes.

Thai resort owners shelter an American fugitive on Ko Phi Phi until his brother and the brother's girlfriend arrive. Family tensions and an unexpected attraction build as an approaching natural catastrophe threatens everyone on the island.

After the Cham conquest of his kingdom, Khmer prince Jayavar and his wife Ajadevi gather resistance from a hidden jungle camp. Soldiers, villagers, and captives face divided loyalties as they struggle beneath the shadow of Angkor Wat.

In sixteenth-century China, craftsman Fan is forced to work at the Great Wall, leaving his wife Meng behind. Disguised as a man, Meng undertakes a dangerous search while Chinese and Mongol armies prepare for conflict.

In 2171, Earth has become a prison for hostile alien criminals, and teenager Tasia hunts them as a Seeker. Her brother's illness forces a journey beyond familiar ruins, complicated by unexplained powers and an unexpected companion.

Captured by the demons she hunts, Tasia forms an alliance with another prisoner while struggling to escape. Meanwhile, Jerico and Aki cross the devastated American wilderness to rescue her, facing alien pursuers and hostile human gangs.

Tasia tries to unite humanity's remaining forces as the demons prepare to destroy Earth. Growing powers, human opposition, and the threat of betrayal complicate her plan to force a decisive confrontation in a ruined city.