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Marilyn Foxworthy Books in Order

Explore Marilyn Foxworthy books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and clear suggestions on where to start across her fantasy and sci-fi worlds.

Last updated: July 5, 2026

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The Edge of Harmony

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

Ronan's road gets wider and more dangerous as new allies and new threats test the balance he is trying to build. The second Guardian Maidens book keeps the action moving while deepening the bonds around him.

The Heart of the Falcon

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

Ronan's adventures continue with harder choices, stronger loyalties, and another step deeper into the world beyond his clan. The stakes grow larger, but the story stays close to character and companionship.

The Start of Time

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

Following clues hidden in old Barsoom stories, a man crosses to the Red Planet and starts over with a simple plan, find water, make a weapon, and learn the language. Pulp adventure and survival drive every page.

The Wanderer

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

In the far future, a traveler moves through the eight villages of a broken world and starts piecing together a much older family history. It is the opening move in a long post-cataclysm saga.

The Watchman

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

Guarding what matters becomes the real battle as threats gather around the growing family and its fragile order. The fourth Nogud book mixes vigilance, travel, and the pressure of leadership.

The Wizard

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

The second Nogud book pushes the far-future story into stranger territory, where old knowledge and unusual talents begin to matter more. The world grows larger as the legacy at its center comes into focus.

The Wooden Sword

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

A nameless novice Adventurer Monk leaves home with only a carved wooden sword and a flint. His first rescue begins Ronin's long fight against monsters, cruelty, and the limits of his own inexperience.

The Wounded

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

Survival becomes more personal when the group must protect the hurt and vulnerable while danger closes in. This installment leans into recovery, loyalty, and the cost of living in a harsh world.

Desert Trading Post

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2019

Courtney jumps into Dave's car to escape the men chasing her, and the two head into the desert together. Their instant connection feels real, but escaping Courtney's past will take more than good chemistry.

First Recruits

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2019

An ordinary man is pulled out of familiar life and dropped into the opening ranks of Eevona Space Command. The result is a crash course in spacefaring adventure, strange companions, and learning new rules fast.

Island Cultural Center

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2019

A blunt confession, she is divorced, opens the next Honest Attractions story. In an island setting full of awkward honesty and fresh possibility, two bruised people have to decide whether trust is worth the risk.

Jungle Nymphs, Lost at Sea

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2019

The Sea Nymphs story widens from island wonder to open-water trouble. Survival, travel, and the threat of hostile forces keep the second book moving.

The Cave Girl

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2019

After a glider crash leaves him stranded on a beach, a man spots a fur-clad girl speaking a language he cannot understand. Survival, attraction, and the shock of being out of time drive this island adventure.

The Dark Atoll

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2019

Eighteen years after a cataclysm, a betrayed traveler wakes injured on a beach with danger moving in the trees. To survive, he must protect the vulnerable people caught in the wreck of a shattered world.

The Warrior

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2019

Ready to leave the eight villages behind, the hero heads for the ruined cities of a 30th-century world. The journey becomes a search for lost family history, buried technology, and whatever still survives beyond the frontier.

Tom vs. the Volcano God

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2019

Tom gets swept into a tropical adventure where island myths, sea nymphs, and danger all feel very real. It is a playful but risky opening to a coastal branch of Foxworthy's larger saga.

Alice Non-Biological

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2020

Robby and the girls move up to the owner's residence on the hill, where Alice is waiting for them. Her arrival pushes the story deeper into questions of family, technology, and what being human really means.

Elves for Cupcake

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2020

Robby and Alice uncover plans that pull the household in a new direction. The third book widens the family circle and adds more magic, mischief, and complicated affection to life on the hill.

Shards of Separation

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2020

This far-future adventure hints that several Foxworthy worlds may connect in ways readers have only started to see. It blends big-scope mystery with the feeling that lost history is finally beginning to line up.

Starting a New Paige

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2020

Robby meets Page and learns that their connection comes with hidden instructions and a larger plan already in motion. It is the start of a warm, odd, and increasingly magical family story.

Atomic Age Librarian

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2021

Tim lives in a shiny retro-futurist world of high-rises and skycars, until his fixation on a department store mannequin raises deeper questions. Beneath the playful setup is a story about control, desire, and free will.

Cognito Sum

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2021

In a crowded tavern, an elusive man sits down with a veiled woman who is clearly hiding what she is. Their tense conversation opens a fantasy of secrecy, danger, and old powers waiting just beyond sight.

Do Not Feed After Midnight

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2021

Jake thinks he is meeting an unusual woman for coffee, then realizes she believed it was a paid appointment. The crossed wires turn into an offbeat romance about curiosity, candor, and a connection that resists labels.

Second Chance Snack Bar

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2021

At a gathering he does not want to attend, one man notices three women who seem just as out of place as he is. The chance meeting grows into another Foxworthy story about misfits, honesty, and unexpected possibility.

The Enclave

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2021

As society starts to break down, Alex Mason holes up in an abandoned military bunker and begins building a strange new household. Survival matters, but so does deciding what kind of community is still worth saving.

The Start of Eden

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2021

After becoming a hero on Barsoom, the narrator faces a harder choice, stay in paradise or return to Earth for his son. The sequel keeps the alien adventure while adding more responsibility and heart.

Vital Bond

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2021

A Delver exploring ancient ruins finds Shakini almost dead and saves her, creating a bond that changes both their lives. Together, a ruin diver and a monster hunter face a far-future world full of buried threats.

An Accidental Wizard in Blackmoth

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2022

Carl falls through a quantum rabbit hole into a world where everyone expects him to have a tail and maybe some magic. Trapped among suspicious locals, he has to survive long enough to understand the rules.

Enchanted Empire

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2022

Robby Jensen and his household are settling into life at the resort and the estate when someone spots a weakness. Family politics, outside pressure, and determined resistance drive the next stage of their story.

Ward and Estate

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2022

After his grandfather dies, a man flies out to hear the will and learns the inheritance comes with a startling condition. He may have to marry the young woman everyone wrongly thought was Grandpa's widow.

Accidental Time Travelling Coeds

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2023

Tim suddenly finds himself back in his college-era car, forty years younger, with an old friend just as baffled beside the window. The book turns a time-slip do-over into a warm, messy story about second chances.

Dar The Ogress

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2023

After days in a cell, a captive fighter is thrown into a bare-handed arena match against an ogress. The brutal setup quickly proves there is more here than simple monster-versus-man spectacle.

No Monetary Value

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2023

Paul's son and daughter-in-law have a plan, and money is clearly not the real issue. The book turns practical questions into a more personal test of worth, trust, and connection.

An Accidental Guardian of The Queen

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2024

A man lands in a stone room full of bodies and reaches a screaming woman just as four attackers move in. The portal premise is instant, brutal, and action-heavy from the first page.

Inherited Traits

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2024

A newly wealthy young man asks his older mentor for an impossible favor, take his late father's widow off his hands. The premise is funny and uncomfortable at once, and Foxworthy uses it to explore grief, loyalty, and desire.

Submitted For Your Approval

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2024

A sixty-year-old bachelor shows up to a couples-only pool party and is introduced to his assigned wife for the evening, the younger and sharper-than-expected Connie Claire. The odd setup opens into a playful mystery about age, attraction, and reinvention.

Tremors Art and Coffee

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2024

Janice thinks the narrator is her blind date from a matchmaking service he did not even know he had joined. That mix-up leads to coffee, sparks, and another sideways look at how people find each other.

An Accidental Gunslinger in Washmarsh

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2025

An engineer expecting a normal day instead wakes in an Old West-like town with strange species, no resources, and no plan. If he wants to survive, becoming a gunslinger may be the best bad option.

Arrival of the Space Kittens

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2025

Three years after ten thousand Katons arrived on an interstellar ship, one man enters a government matching program to meet a companion. The setup mixes alien integration, cross-cultural awkwardness, and lighthearted sci-fi curiosity.

Forgotten Wardrobe: An Honest Attractions Adventure

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2025

In the middle of a crisis, one character drives to a woman's house and knocks, even knowing it is reckless. Her answer opens the door to a future neither of them expected.

Meringean Castoffs

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2025

The royal envoy of Meringea wakes to an innkeeper screaming and a maid inexplicably in his bed. The scandalous opening drops straight into a diplomatic fantasy full of embarrassment, court tension, and trouble.

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Dark Meringean

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2026

The envoy's job gets worse when Jasper Rochester Illsworth, a ruler who is truly mad, turns up inside Meringea's borders. Diplomacy, danger, and political cleanup collide fast.

Where should I start?

If you want her biggest linked family saga: Starting a New PaigeThe Start of TimeTom vs. the Volcano GodThe Cave GirlThe Wanderer
If you want sword-and-sorcery first: The Wooden SwordThe Edge of HarmonyThe Heart of the Falcon
If you want contemporary relationship stories: Desert Trading PostIsland Cultural CenterDo Not Feed After MidnightSecond Chance Snack Bar
If you want portal and alternate-world adventure: An Accidental Wizard in BlackmothAn Accidental Guardian of The QueenAn Accidental Gunslinger in Washmarsh
If you want science fiction with survival and strange companions: The EnclaveFirst RecruitsAtomic Age Librarian

Author bio

Marilyn Foxworthy writes fantasy, science fiction, and adventure with a clear love for old pulp storytelling. In the short notes she shares with readers, she describes herself as a student of classical mindfulness, practical philosophy, and martial arts. Those interests are not tucked away in the background. They sit right on the page, shaping the way her characters fight, think, argue, and fall in love.

She likes big premises.

A lot of Foxworthy's books begin with a strong hook and then keep widening from there. A stranded pilot meets a cave girl. A novice monk walks out into the world with a carved wooden sword. A man follows clues from old planetary adventure stories and finds himself on Barsoom. Another wakes up in a polished retro-future city and realizes that the smooth surface of life may be hiding something stranger underneath. Even when the setup is wild, the storytelling is usually direct and conversational.

She has said that curiosity is what gets her writing. She starts wondering about something, then follows the question until a story takes shape. In reader discussions, she has also described the process in a very plain way: the characters talk, she listens, and the book grows from there. That loose, exploratory feeling helps explain why her work moves so freely between sword-and-sorcery, post-cataclysm adventure, contemporary relationship stories, portal fantasy, and science fiction.

You can see that range in books like The Wooden Sword, The Wanderer, The Start of Time, and Desert Trading Post. The Wooden Sword opens her Guardian Maidens world with Ronin, a young Adventurer Monk heading into danger with almost nothing. The Wanderer starts a far-future family saga in the ruins of a broken world. The Start of Time leans into classic planetary romance. Desert Trading Post shifts into a more contemporary setting, where honesty, attraction, and odd first meetings drive the story instead of monsters or ancient ruins.

She also builds connections across series. Readers who dig into the order of the books quickly notice a larger timeline linking The Girls on the Hill, Shrine Maidens of Barsoom, The Sea Nymphs, Lost in Time, Honest Attractions, Zephyr Genesis, The Castaways, and The Nogud Legacy. On top of that, she has written collaborative books with Jack Coltrane, including An Accidental Wizard in Blackmoth, An Accidental Guardian of The Queen, and Jase and the Katon, which push further into portal adventure and offbeat science fiction.

She is prolific.

As of 2026, readers can trace more than fifty works across her solo and collaborative fiction. Her public comments suggest she still thinks in terms of stories that branch, overlap, and continue, even when a series pauses for a while. That helps explain why her bibliography feels less like a neat shelf and more like an expanding map.

Foxworthy keeps much of her personal life private, so the most revealing details come through the work itself and the way she talks about it. The tone is open, curious, and often a little playful. Even at their strangest, her books usually feel like they were written by someone having a real conversation with the reader, and that homemade sincerity is a big part of why people keep following her from one world to the next.

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