Katharine Kerr Books in Order

In the rugged kingdom of Deverry, young Jill travels the long road with her mercenary father and crosses paths with Nevyn, an immortal sorcerer bound by an ancient oath, and exiled lord Rhodry, drawing them all into a web of fate and forgotten lives.

Banished from his brother's court, Rhodry rides the roads as a silver dagger with Jill at his side, unaware that dark dweomer workers are scheming to steal the Great Stone of the West and unbalance Deverry's kingship while Nevyn struggles to guide events from the shadows.

Civil unrest spreads through Deverry as rival lords maneuver for power, and Jill, Rhodry, and Nevyn find their fates entwined with prophetic visions, elven meddling, and a looming battle that will test loyalties on both the physical and astral plains.

On the desert world Hagar, a murdered alien diplomat throws shabby Polar City into crisis, forcing weary police chief Al Bates, telepath Mulligan, and streetwise fixer Bobbie Lacey into an investigation that uncovers contagious bio weapons, political assassins, and schemes that could spark interstellar war.

When Rhodry is kidnapped and taken across the sea to Bardek, Jill and the elven wizard Salamander attempt a perilous rescue, while Nevyn uncovers a master of dark magic whose influence reaches from distant shores back into every corner of troubled Deverry.

Half elven lord Rhodry fakes his own death and leaves Deverry behind to live among his Westfolk kin, even as flashbacks reveal how Nevyn's first apprentice once made the same choice, tying past and present exiles to a coming conflict between humans, elves, and restless Guardians.

While Jill and Salamander sail south in search of lost elven tribes and deeper dweomer lore, omens multiply across Deverry and the Westlands, and Rhodry finds himself hunted by the mad Guardian Alshandra, whose interest in his dragon marked ring threatens both worlds.

Combat pilot Tiffany barely remembers the fiery crash that killed her, or the cutting edge medical procedure that brought her back. In a coastal rehab center she meets two unsettling messengers who insist reality is not what it seems and demand a choice that could cost her newly restored life.

In the peaceful Rhiddaer, ratcatcher's son Jahdo stumbles onto a secret meeting and is swept into a journey that leads him to Deverry, where Jill and an elven mage battle a goddess gone mad and send berserker Rhodry to seek a dragon whose help may be the kingdom's only hope.

The Horsekin, driven by the fanatical Guardian Alshandra, lay siege to the city of Cengarn in a bid to murder a pregnant princess whose unborn child carries a dangerous soul, while Jill, Rhodry, and their allies fight on both physical and astral battlefields to save Deverry's foretold future.

This anthology edited by Katharine Kerr gathers more than twenty fantasy stories that riff on Shakespeare's plays and life, from ghostly hauntings and alternate histories to wry backstage tales, offering a sideways tour through the Bard's world as seen by modern speculative writers.

When Maggie Corey literally throws the Devil over her shoulder in 1960s San Francisco, she sets off a chain of strange events whose consequences unfold through her descendants over the next century in a mosaic of linked stories about family, fate, and possible alien visitations.

On the planet Palace, capital of a region of space called the Pinch, a Lep outcast is hired to assassinate Arno, heir to the Cyberguild, and Vida, a young woman destined for the Pleasure Sect, just as Arno uncovers dangerous anomalies in the Map, the cyberspace grid that underpins their world.

Edited by Katharine Kerr, this collection presents original fantasy tales about thresholds and crossings, where characters step through shimmering doors, mysterious gateways, or subtle boundaries into other worlds and discover that passage always comes with a price.

During Deverry's brutal Time of Troubles, young Lillorigga is forced by her cruel mother Merodda to use her budding dweomer talents for treason, even as Prince Maryn prepares to seize his rightful throne and Nevyn works in secret to break a curse that will echo through later lives.

Set in the same far future universe as Palace, this sequel by Mark Kreighbaum returns to the Pinch to follow the long fallout from earlier conspiracies, as new revelations about the system called the Eyes of God reshape politics, faith, and power on and beyond the world of Palace.

Centuries after the Time of Troubles, the soul of Merodda returns in Raena, a priestess devoted to a false goddess, while her daughter from that earlier life is reborn as Nevyn's new apprentice, and in snow bound Dun Cengarn Rhodry and Dallandra brace for the awakening of an old evil.

A new case of blackmail and murder pulls Polar City back into the crossfire of great powers, sending Bobbie Lacey and her allies from the dusty streets of Hagar to the Republic's capital as they uncover an interstellar plot that threatens the fragile balance between human and alien governments.

As Prince Maryn fights his final campaign to unite Deverry in the past, the present day sees Jahdo's return to the Rhiddaer and Rhodry's fateful clash with Raena in the city of Cerr Cawnen, where dragons, dweomer, and long laid plans converge in a battle that changes many lives.

On the planet Snare, descendants of stranded human colonists and the native Cha'Meech struggle to coexist while an exiled prince's possible return sparks a dangerous mission across purple grasslands, nomad camps, and religious enclaves in a story that blends far future politics with questions of faith and identity.

Orphaned by a Horsekin raid, Neb and his little brother are taken in by Salamander and a kindly tieryn, but Neb's emerging dweomer gift and his deep connection to Branna draw him into a looming war, as fanatical Horsekin followers of a dead goddess prepare to invade the Westlands and Deverry.

A mysterious black stone, a band of outcast Horsekin and mixed blood refugees, and a renewed threat from Alshandra's worshippers tie together dwarves, elves, and humans, while flashbacks to earlier centuries reveal how Salamander's childhood and past bargains complete the intricate pattern of the Deverry saga.

The reappearance of Haen Marn, the vanishing island, sends ripples through the Northlands as human, elven, and dwarven communities brace for Horsekin fanaticism, while Dallandra and other dweomer workers confront the deeper powers behind the conflict and a young man from Earth finds himself entangled in their world.

Horsekin armies mass along Prince Dar's northern border and push into the haunted Ghostlands, forcing a fragile Deverry alliance to rely on unexpected allies, as the Dwrgi folk and dragons finally enter the war in full and offer one last chance to end the Horsekin threat for good.

Psychic agent Nola O'Grady reluctantly returns to San Francisco and is partnered with blunt Israeli operative Ari Nathan to hunt a supposed werewolf killer, only to discover a real predator targeting shapeshifters, including Nola's own brother, and a Chaos driven conspiracy that could spiral far beyond one city.

Now heading the San Francisco branch of the Agency, Nola struggles to manage rogue waves that drown innocents, a resurrected Chaos cult, and Ari's haunted past, all while her brother drags them into a rescue mission in a radioactive alternate dimension that threatens the fragile balance between Order and Chaos.

A were leopard's accusation of theft is only the start of Nola O'Grady's problems when a trans world law enforcement group tries to recruit Ari, straining their partnership, and her brothers vanish into a dangerous deviant version of San Francisco where family secrets and kidnappers wait in the shadows.

Hounded by psychic squid like images and killers she cannot quite identify, Nola teams up with Ari to chase two fugitives into the alternate city of Terra Six, where terrorist plots, fanatical religions, and pieces of her own buried past force her to confront who is really trying to destroy her.

Art student Maya Cantescu hides a rare, deadly illness and an untrained gift for sorcery until a series of attacks on Tor Thorlaksson, an Icelandic runemaster in the Bay Area, draws her into a world of runic magic, blood, and secrets that could either cure or kill her.

This collection gathers three shorter pieces set in the world of Deverry, including stories of dangerous bargains, mysterious travelers from far away, and questions of honor among dwarves, offering compact glimpses of the wider tapestry behind the main novels.

After killing a man with magic in self defense, Maya faces human investigators and supernatural enemies, while Tor struggles with a predatory spirit tied to his family's dark past, forcing the pair to confront jealous ghosts, old curses, and the question of how much they are willing to sacrifice for each other.

In a later age of Deverry, scholar Alyssa vairc Sirra and Lady Dovina, daughter of a powerful gwerbret, set out to retrieve an ancient legal text that proves judges were once elected, racing against assassins and hostile lords while commoners and bards demand reform of a corrupt court system.

Once a decorated Fleet officer, Dan now lives on the streets of Gleam, selling himself for a drug called Haze, until former comrades recruit him for a mission to investigate failing hyperspace shunts, forcing him to face addiction, a motley crew, and a mystery that could strand whole civilizations.