Marie Brennan Books in Order

Miryo is supposed to become a witch, but her initiation fails because her doppelganger is still alive. To claim her power she must kill Mirage, a deadly Hunter who was never meant to survive.

Miryo and Mirage's impossible union creates Mirei, a new kind of magic that could change Starfall forever. Some see salvation, others blasphemy, and the fight over her quickly turns into civil war.

An anthology of fantasy and science fiction stories chosen for beauty, strangeness, and surprise. Brennan appears alongside other writers in a volume built for readers who like the unexpected.

Beneath Elizabethan London, the faerie court of Onyx Hall mirrors the intrigues above. Mortal ambition and fae politics collide in a secret struggle where one wrong alliance can ruin a kingdom.

This second volume offers more short speculative fiction that is eerie, inventive, and hard to pin to one genre. It is the kind of anthology you read for discovery as much as immersion.

This Onyx Court novella slips back into hidden London for another tangle of faerie motives and human choices. It is a smaller story than the novels, but it sharpens the series' mix of history, magic, and consequence.

As the Great Fire tears through London, humans battle the flames while the fae face something worse, the living spirit inside the blaze. Saving the city means confronting a force that cannot be bargained with.

Years after the Great Fire, London faces the return of the fiery power the fae once cast into the heavens. Scholars, courtiers, and hidden powers scramble as old magic threatens the city again.

A third gathering of unusual fantasy and science fiction, with stories that lean weird, emotional, and structurally playful. Expect variety, but not safe or ordinary choices.

Seniade enters the brutal training grounds of the Hunters, hoping the Warrior will claim her at last. Surviving Silverfire means proving her strength before the order breaks her first.

Kim expected college divination to be hard, but not life-or-death hard. When a mysterious force targets her friend Julian, she must trust powers she does not fully control before the omens come true.

Kim arrives at Welton University ready for freshman-year chaos, then learns a wilder has joined the student body. Helping Julian fit in means facing fear, curiosity, and the strange rules of her psychic world.

Isabella refuses to let manners and marriage end her fascination with dragons. Her first great expedition takes her into the mountains of Vystrana, where science, danger, and scandal travel together.

Another volume of genre-crossing speculative fiction that favors the beautiful, unsettling, and off-center. The through-line is mood and imagination rather than a single theme or plot.

A practical craft guide for writers who want action scenes that are clear, believable, and tied to character. Brennan focuses on choices, consequences, and the story work a fight has to do.

A standalone fantasy about a woman shaped by duty, expectation, and forces larger than herself. The tension comes from whether necessity is truly fate, or just another kind of chain.

A darkly modern riff on old ballad material, this story follows a woman whose presence unsettles everyone around her. Brennan turns folk roots and a clinical setting into something eerie and sad.

Very short fairy-tale pieces turn towers, cottages, and ballroom strangers into something sharper and darker. It is a small collection, but it knows exactly how to twist a familiar story.

Now a widow and a scholar, Isabella heads to the continent of Eriga in search of dragons and hard evidence. The journey tests her nerve as much as her science.

Isabella joins a world-spanning voyage aboard the Basilisk, chasing dragon lore across oceans and empires. The farther she travels, the more politics, curiosity, and personal risk become tangled together.

After the crisis at Welton, Kim and Julian are pulled into a fight over the laws that keep wilders controlled. Personal loyalties and public politics collide as reform turns dangerous.

Twenty more stories push fantasy and science fiction into odd corners, strange shapes, and fresh emotional territory. Like the earlier books, it rewards readers who enjoy surprise.

A woman wakes with no memory and a command she cannot refuse. Crossing a hostile landscape in search of answers, she begins to uncover what she is, and why others fear her.

A short Lady Trent story told through letters to a newspaper. Isabella takes aim at bad scholarship, and the result is funny, prickly, and very satisfying.

In Akhia's deserts, Isabella studies dragon breeding grounds while gossip follows her every step. The expedition offers the chance for real discovery, if scandal and danger do not bury it first.

These historical fantasies range across centuries, from ancient worlds to Brennan's faerie London. Real places and figures meet the uncanny in stories that feel secret, sly, and carefully chosen.

An odd, quietly charming fantasy in which Eloise's connection to an elephant upsets the ordinary order of things. Brennan uses the strange premise to explore affection, responsibility, and disruption.

Ree is no longer just a weapon, but the truth of her origins still waits ahead. Her search leads through bloodshed, old magic, and choices that could define who she becomes.

Ten fantasy stories open doors into very different worlds, from mirrored cities to strange deserts and dragon-haunted histories. It is a traveler's collection, full of wonder, danger, and sharp shifts in perspective.

The age of the Onyx Court is ending, and London's fae must decide whether to flee, adapt, or fight. Their last gamble for survival could reshape both the hidden city below and the mortal one above.

Isabella's most notorious adventure takes her toward the highest mountains in the world and the secrets hidden there. It is the bold, dangerous finale her memoirs have been building toward.

These essays look at tabletop and live-action roleplaying from a story-first point of view. Brennan writes about character, rules, campaigns, and collaboration with a player's curiosity and a writer's eye.

The first volume of Brennan's worldbuilding essays digs beneath surface details and asks harder questions about culture, society, and setting. It is packed with prompts writers can actually use.

Thirteen flash-length fairy-tale retellings take familiar setups and push them sideways. The pieces are quick, sly, and darker than their starting points suggest.

This follow-up keeps expanding the toolkit, using topics like beauty, books, tattoos, and taboos to show how cultures generate story. It is thoughtful, practical, and easy to browse.

Togashi Kazue has finished her training, but the true test lies in understanding the tattooed power she now carries. This Legend of the Five Rings novella blends discipline, mystery, and spiritual danger.

This collection roams across a shared fantasy setting, from jungle spirits to cold northern waters and occupied courts. Each story shows a different face of the same wide, dangerous world.

Audrey Camherst thinks deciphering ancient Draconean tablets will make her scholarly reputation. Instead she uncovers a conspiracy that could ignite rebellion and war.

Seven urban fantasy tales peel back the surface of everyday life to reveal guardian spirits, shapeshifters, and older powers waiting nearby. The mood shifts from eerie to playful without losing its sense of wonder.

Worlds end, and their shattered remnants wash up in Driftwood. Through linked stories and the legend of a man called Last, Brennan builds a haunting place where loss is constant but hope refuses to die.

Brennan pairs fresh worldbuilding topics with advice on exposition and craft. The result is useful both for building settings and for figuring out how to get them onto the page.

From childbirth to dream interpretation, this volume looks at the everyday structures that make invented societies feel lived in. It is especially strong on social detail and cultural texture.

With one enemy house broken, darker forces start tightening their hold on Nadezra. Ren, Grey, and Vargo each see part of the trap, but escaping it will cost more than cleverness.

Ren comes to Nadezra intending to pose as a lost noble heir and steal a future for herself. Instead she gets caught in nightmare magic, aristocratic feuds, and secrets that could wreck the whole city.

Monarchy, democracy, war, disaster, gender, and language all get their turn here. Brennan shows how big systems and small habits can work together to shape a believable world.

Ren is juggling too many identities, too many loyalties, and too much dangerous magic to keep the balance forever. The trilogy's finale turns every mask into a risk.

This volume tackles subjects as heavy as slavery and crime and as playful as magic systems. Brennan keeps the focus on useful questions writers can build from.

Sekken and Ryotora arrive at Winter Court expecting politics, not another brush with the Spirit Realms. When guests fall into an unnatural sleep, courtly storytelling turns into a supernatural race against time.

Haunted bondsmaid Hervor flees slavery, ghosts, and her own berserker fury in search of a way to silence the dead. Brennan turns Norse legend into a bloody, driven tale of revenge and survival.

Sixteen stories inspired by myth and folklore move through revenge, grace, immortality, and loss. The collection ranges widely, but fire, memory, and reinvention keep returning.

Poverty, service, guilds, imperial rule, saints, and miracles all come into view here. It is another broad, idea-rich volume for writers who like building societies from the inside out.

On the brink of marriage, Sekken and Ryotora are dragged into a new mystery by a desperate message from an old ally. Their search leads to an ancient market and a bargain with a terrible price.

Ancient monuments, propaganda, eclipses, sex work, and other corners of social life all become tools for invention in this eighth installment. Brennan is especially good at turning research into story fuel.

In an alternate Spanish Golden Age where mapmakers help define reality, changeling Estevan and the human girl whose life he stole are pulled toward opposite sides of empire. Sea adventure, faerie politics, and sibling conflict drive the story.