Justin DePaoli Books in Order

Caval Ignolius discovers that someone wants him dead while occult experiments and a monstrous enemy threaten his world. Armed with enchanted chalk and magical pictures, he turns to an unlikely group of companions to unravel the growing conspiracy.

Assassin Astul accepts a contract to hunt a king slayer, expecting money and adventure. The trail instead reveals rulers losing their minds and kingdoms approaching catastrophic war, forcing him to confront the return of conjurers thought to have been destroyed.

When Astul finds his brother’s tomb empty, apparent grave robberies reveal a more terrifying purpose. Bodies are being gathered for an army that should never return to the living world, threatening everything the assassin has left after the conjurers’ attacks.

Assassin Astul discovers that gods he never believed in are preparing for civil war. With all creation at risk, he faces an extraordinary assignment: kill divine powers before their conflict destroys the living world.

Oriana Gravendeer sets out to reshape the world with a powerful kingdom, dragons, and sorcery behind her. Her planned conquest falters when allies turn against her and a new evil arrives, transforming ambition into a desperate struggle to survive.

Lavery Opsillian inherits a throne while grieving his father, only to be kidnapped and held for ransom. Discovering a forbidden magical gift, he must confront its frightening potential as sorcery returns and dragons threaten the world around him.

Lavery Opsillian searches an eternally frozen land for a necromancer who might avert disaster. Betrayal by those closest to him and a hostile goddess pursuing the same quarry force him to rely on a secret power of his own.

Hunted by dragons after discovering an egg, Valeria depends on mysterious powers that threaten her sanity. A search for answers leads her to a bloodwitch and unsettling revelations about herself, while humanity’s survival increasingly depends on what she can become.

After saving humanity, Valeria struggles with an affliction that is destroying her sanity as war threatens to return. Reports of rising dead and terrible blood magic send her searching for a cure and a way to stop an approaching harvest.

Dragon hunter Radek nearly dies confronting a creature thought absent from the South for generations. His survival brings him together with a feared Northerner whose dangerous ink magic and desperate request for help may hold the key to saving their world.

Valeria’s dragonsoul has helped protect humanity, but now time itself is breaking down. As past and future collide, she faces a danger beyond the wars she has survived: the possible destruction of every living thing in her world.

Orissa and Leon uncover a weakness that might end the Machines’ campaign to exterminate humanity. Exploiting it means venturing into an Earth transformed by hostile forces, where unexpected dangers threaten their fragile chance of survival.

Centuries after a rogue artificial intelligence devastates humanity, former soldier Leon Imus fights its machines as the apparent last human alive. A discovery in Pennsylvania offers a chance to prevent extinction, turning revenge into an urgent rescue mission.

Orissa and Leon gather unlikely allies for a final confrontation with the sentient Machines ruling Earth. Before their offensive can begin, another siege traps them, while an ancient enemy of the Machines prepares an intervention of its own.

Despised as godless, Varick Kronwall may be the only person able to stop an approaching catastrophe. He seeks answers among his ancestors’ graves, but a celebrated queen wants the same secrets, turning his search into a struggle against dangerous appearances.