Lian Hearn Books in Order

Years later, warrior monk Arai Sunaomi is pulled between clan duty and the spirit world as he searches for his missing friend Masao. Joined by his Tribe cousins Kiyoko and Kichizo, the sibling assassins, he must face ghosts, pirates and a final Otori reckoning.

In the aftermath of war, young brothers Sunaomi and Chikara are spared execution and hidden as novice monks at Terayama. Haunted by his Tribe blood and strange gifts, Sunaomi is drawn into deadly politics that link his fate to ghosts, warlords and the Otori legacy.

In this final Shikanoko tale, the rightful emperor is lost and unrest tears through the Eight Islands. While tengu spirits treat human lives like stones on a go board, Shikanoko must decide how much he will sacrifice to restore the Lotus Throne and end the chaos.

In a fractured realm called the Eight Islands, the boy Kazumaru is betrayed by his uncle and remade as Shikanoko, a masked warrior bound to a stag spirit. As rival lords scheme over the Lotus Throne, Shikanoko becomes the wild card in a dangerous imperial game.

Condemned to live half man, half deer, Shikanoko vanishes into the haunted Darkwood as lords across the Eight Islands grow sick, suspicious and cruel. A girl named Hina and the ruthless Spider Tribe each chart their own paths toward the same bloody struggle for power.

This short tale, set in Maruyama during Brilliance of the Moon, follows Takeo as he confronts the feared Tribe families on their own ground. Determined to prove his ruthlessness, he makes a chilling choice that tests what kind of ruler and man he intends to become.

Shikanoko, shaken by failure, drifts between loyalties while the Autumn Princess hides the true emperor in enchanted forests. As earthquakes, famine and the rise of the Spider Tribe unsettle the realm, destinies tighten around a looming war for the Lotus Throne.

In 1884 Tokyo, aging storyteller Akabane Sei fears his art is being left behind by a rapidly modernising city. As his three daughters' marriages unravel and a dangerous love triangle unfolds next door, Sei turns their tangled lives into the most daring story he has ever told.

In the turbulent 1860s, Tsuru, the daughter of a provincial doctor, refuses a quiet domestic life and trains to practice medicine. Drawn into radical politics, forbidden love and the violence of civil war, she witnesses Japan's painful transformation from samurai rule to modern nationhood.

This sweeping prequel follows Lord Otori Shigeru from boyhood through brutal training at Terayama and the disastrous battle of Yaegahara. As he encounters the Hidden, the Tribe and Lady Maruyama, Shigeru patiently plots against Iida Sadamu until fate brings him to a boy named Takeo.

Sixteen years after the original trilogy, Takeo and Kaede rule a fragile peace across the Three Countries while raising three gifted daughters. Foreign traders, vengeful Tribe leaders and ambitious warlords close in, forcing their family to confront prophecy, betrayal and the true cost of power.

In the second episode of Brilliance of the Moon, Kaede and her sisters become virtual prisoners in Lord Fujiwara's house while Takeo faces storms, treachery and two converging armies. Victory may unite the Three Countries, but the scars it leaves will shape the Otori forever.

Newly married, Takeo and Kaede move to claim their lands as a prophecy promises peace bought with five battles. This first Brilliance of the Moon episode follows Takeo's campaign toward Maruyama and Kaede's fight to secure her inheritance as enemies gather on every side.

As winter closes in, Takeo flees the Tribe across snowbound mountains, guided by outcasts and a troubling prophecy about his future. Meanwhile Kaede tightens control over her lands through a fragile bargain with Lord Fujiwara, their choices pulling them both toward war and reunion.

Takeo, seized by his mentor Kenji, is forced into the Tribe's world of covert training and assassination, even as he clings to his Otori identity. Far away, Kaede returns to a ruined home and enters a perilous alliance with the charming, manipulative Lord Fujiwara.

Takeo and Kaede, now married, try to unite their lands while honouring a prophecy that promises peace only through five hard fought battles. As they confront Arai Daiichi, Tohan remnants and the relentless Tribe, love and ambition collide against a backdrop of war and betrayal.

Bound by his oath to the Tribe, Takeo is trained as an assassin even as he longs to avenge his adoptive father and return to Kaede. Kaede, pregnant and newly independent, fights to reclaim her estates, facing treachery, famine and an uneasy bargain with Lord Fujiwara.

After his Hidden village is destroyed, Tomasu is rescued by Lord Otori Shigeru and renamed Takeo, only to discover uncanny hearing and other Tribe talents. Amid warring clans and a deadly nightingale floor that sings at every footstep, he falls in love with the noble Kaede.