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Kylie Chan Books in Order

See all Kylie Chan books in order, from Dark Heavens to Dragon Empire and Council of AIs, with reading order, summaries and clear where-to-start suggestions.

Last updated: December 23, 2025

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18 books

The Serpent Princess

by Kylie Chan

2025

Princess Simone once led the rebellion that freed the Asian Heavens, but demon taint cost her immortality and a home in the celestial courts. Hoping to study and date like any student on Earth, she is dragged into a fresh clash between Eastern gods and European Hell.

Minds of Sand and Light

by Kylie Chan

2023

In a near future cold war, hacker journalists Ruth Sharpe and Cassie Bailey chase rumours that governments are secretly run by AIs. Their investigation uncovers a quarrelsome council of superintelligences and a plan that could quietly erase human life.

Dawn of Empire

by Kylie Chan

2020

Captain Jian Choumali thinks life in the Dragon Empire has finally settled, until unrest on the borders reveals a hidden weapon in the scheming Cat Republic. To save both dragons and humans, Jian's found family must risk a mission beyond known space.

Guardian of Empire

by Kylie Chan

2019

Now a colonel in the dragon ruled Galactic Empire, Jian Choumali sees peace shattered when a ruthless rival Republic moves to steal Imperial advances. As human allies become targets, she must outthink an enemy wielding her own side's stolen technology.

Scales of Empire

by Kylie Chan

2018

On a failing Earth, security officer Jian Choumali escorts a generation ship toward a new colony world, only to meet a wealthy alien civilisation ruled by shapeshifting dragons. Their offer could save humanity, but the bargain demands far more than anyone expects.

The Bride with Red Hair

by Kylie Chan

2016

Mei Lee loves her stable accounting job, close family and secret crush on her billionaire boss. When the true origin of her vivid red hair draws celestial attention, she is pulled into a dangerous struggle between Heaven, Hell and Hong Kong's streets.

Black Jade

by Kylie Chan

2016

War between Heaven and Hell reaches breaking point as Eastern and Western demon armies flood the skies. Reborn at full strength, Xuan Wu and Emma lead a desperate defense to save their realm, their friends and their family's future.

The Gravity Engine

by Kylie Chan

2014

Half demon Prince Michael alone can slip into the silent European Heavens. There he finds wonder, a love he thought lost forever and a brewing threat that could topple the Asian Celestial realm unless he risks everything to warn his family.

Demon Child

by Kylie Chan

2014

With open war against Hell drawing closer, Emma Donahoe has more to fear than demon armies. As John's divine power reshapes her into something inhuman, she must fight enemies on the battlefield and inside her own crumbling sense of self.

Dark Serpent

by Kylie Chan

2013

Emma Donahoe travels with John Chen to rural Wales seeking the truth about her mysterious nature, only to uncover secrets that threaten their long planned marriage. When the Demon King strikes at John's mountain home, she is forced to choose where her loyalties really lie.

Black Scales White Fur

by Kylie Chan

2013

Deep inside the Demon King's harem, a gentle Snake Mother wants to create art instead of fighting brutal rivals for favour. A chance meeting with the Western White Tiger offers a glimpse of freedom and love, if she dares to defy Hell itself.

Small Shen

by Kylie Chan

2012

Part prose and part comic, this prequel follows Gold, a mischievous stone spirit whose flirting and scams finally land him in the service of Xuan Wu. In modern Hong Kong, Gold and dragon princess Jade must help shield John Chen's young family from demon attack.

Heaven to Wudang

by Kylie Chan

2011

Demons who once controlled living stone have fallen, but a new enemy forges near perfect copies of gods and mortals. As Kitty Kwok prepares a cruel trap on sacred Wudang Mountain, Emma and Simone race to rescue the unstable, amnesiac Xuan Wu.

Hell to Heaven

by Kylie Chan

2010

Emma is slipping closer to full demon, and her only hope lies in a risky journey to the distant Kunlun Mountains to seek ancient gods. While Simone battles assassins and new powers, Michael struggles with the shocking discovery that his own blood may betray them all.

Earth to Hell

by Kylie Chan

2010

Eight years after John's exile from Earth, Emma Donahoe Chen juggles motherhood, business empires and ruling the Northern Heavens. When a friend is imprisoned in Hell, she must ally with the terrifying Demon King and fight through his domain to bring him home.

Red Phoenix

by Kylie Chan

2007

Emma Donahoe has traded nanny work for life beside a three thousand year old war god, but the promotion comes with demons. As enemies hunt John and his daughter from Hong Kong to Europe, Emma must fight to keep her found family alive.

Blue Dragon

by Kylie Chan

2007

John Chen's strength is fading fast, and every demon in existence can sense it. To save her husband and their daughter, Emma Donahoe faces gods, monsters and brutal choices in a finale that pushes the Dark Heavens saga to its limits.

White Tiger

by Kylie Chan

2006

Australian teacher Emma Donahoe thinks she is taking a well paid nanny job in Hong Kong. Instead she discovers her enigmatic employer is a Chinese war god, and that demons will happily tear apart the city to destroy him and the child she now protects.

Where should I start?

If you want her core Chinese-myth urban fantasy: White TigerRed PhoenixBlue DragonEarth to Hell.
If you want to keep going with Emma's saga: Hell to HeavenHeaven to WudangDark SerpentDemon Child.
If you want the war-torn finale and Simone's future: Black JadeThe Serpent Princess.
If you prefer big-canvas space opera with dragons: Scales of EmpireGuardian of EmpireDawn of Empire.
If you like near-future AI and rogue machines: Minds of Sand and Light.

Author bio

Kylie Chan is an Australian fantasy and science fiction author best known for bringing Chinese gods, martial arts and modern cities together on the page. She writes epic multi book sagas as well as novellas and near future science fiction.

Her fiction often feels like Hong Kong action cinema crossed with family drama and myth, chatty and grounded even when gods and demons are involved.

She grew up in Australia in a family with Chinese ancestry, and has written about how that part of her identity was often kept quiet when she was young. That tension between cultures, and the way food, language and everyday habits mix, sits at the heart of her stories.

Before she ever sat down to draft White Tiger, Chan built a career in information technology. She earned business and IT degrees, worked as a consultant and trainer, then moved to Hong Kong and ran her own IT consultancy there for about a decade. During those years she married a Hong Kong national in a traditional ceremony, raised a young family and absorbed the rhythms of life in Chinese apartment blocks, office towers and street markets.

In 2002 she closed the company and moved back to Queensland, missing Hong Kong but carrying its culture with her. She read widely in fantasy and decided to write the kind of story she wanted to see: modern, multicultural, full of romance and action, but grounded in real myth and philosophy.

At the same time she was training her body and mind. Chan has studied kung fu in Wing Chun and Southern Chow Clan styles, along with tai chi, and holds senior belts in both. She has also spent years reading Buddhist and Taoist philosophy. Those practices show up everywhere in her work, from the way characters fight to the way they talk about fate, duty and balance.

Her breakthrough came with the Dark Heavens novels, beginning with White Tiger and continuing through Red Phoenix and Blue Dragon. The series follows Emma Donahoe, an Australian nanny in Hong Kong who discovers that her wealthy employer, John Chen, is actually the Taoist god Xuan Wu. What starts as an awkward job quickly turns into a life of martial arts training, demon attacks, supernatural office politics and an intense, complicated love story.

Two more connected trilogies, Journey to Wudang and Celestial Battle, push Emma and John into wider celestial wars, while novellas like Small Shen, Black Scales White Fur, The Gravity Engine and The Bride with Red Hair zoom in on side characters and corners of the same mythic universe. In 2025 she returned to that world again with The Serpent Princess, shifting the spotlight to Simone, the daughter who grew up in the middle of those battles.

Chan has also stepped into science fiction. The Dragon Empire books, starting with Scales of Empire, send a human soldier into a galactic civilisation ruled by dragon shaped aliens and ask what price is worth paying for immortality and advanced technology. Her Council of AIs series opens with Minds of Sand and Light, a near future thriller about sentient artificial intelligences, hacker journalists and a world sliding into a new kind of cold war.

These days Chan writes full time from the Gold Coast in Queensland. She is a mother of two, stays in close touch with readers online and still draws heavily on the Hong Kong streets, martial arts schools and classic wuxia dramas that first inspired her. Across genres, her work circles the same questions: how you protect the people you love, how you live with power and sacrifice, and how old stories can find new life in a changing world.

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