MCA Hogarth Books in Order

Before becoming a decorated Fleet captain, Alysha Forrest faces the experiences that shape her path through the Academe and into military service. This prequel follows her struggle with endurance, trauma, and the personal cost of strength.

Twenty-five brief tales explore the Ai-Naidar of Kherishdar, an alien society organized around caste, tradition, and mutual dependence. Through everyday encounters and reflections, the collection considers duty, belonging, leadership, and the values that sustain civilization.

In Kherishdar, those who commit crimes become identified with their wrongdoing until they can be corrected. Twenty-five narrators recount their experiences under the priest of Shame, revealing how this alien society understands punishment and restoration.

Thenet, a guardian committed to Jokka tradition, recounts a relationship with Dlane, a runaway female who refuses her expected reproductive role. Their bond challenges a society where changing sex and losing one's mind shape every life.

Keshul earns his living as a fortune teller among the Jokka, disguising practical judgment as supernatural wisdom. A patron seeking the guidance of the Void challenges his certainty that his supposed powers are merely a fraud.

Kediil hopes to remain neuter and study herbs alongside beloved Mardin, but a second puberty turns Kediil female. The change forces a difficult choice between the family's prescribed reproductive role and a forbidden alternative.

Ensign Taylitha Basil arrives at an officer training retreat expecting uncomfortable outdoor exercises and difficult peers. Meeting Alysha Forrest begins a lasting partnership, but their leadership exercise becomes far more dangerous than its planners anticipated.

Order processor Adrienne Carrera discovers a powerful executive is interested in her boss, disappointing her own romantic hopes. Preparing the department holiday party throws them together, giving an unexpected office encounter room to become something more.

Retired Marine Magda Guitart returns to front-line service as humanity and its alien Fiddler allies face the advancing Crabs. Older than her squad and unfamiliar with powered armor, she must adapt to a depleted fighting force.

Newly transferred from the Terran Space Navy, Captain Isidore Wyatt is adjusting to engineered alien officers when he investigates a suspected pirate vessel. The encounter challenges his assumptions, revealing ambitions that extend beyond ordinary criminal activity.

Angel Asrial opposes Michael's planned war against the Fallen and is expelled from Heaven to a Jesuit school's parking lot. Joining a priest, a demon, and two students, she seeks to avert the Apocalypse.

Six stories explore the Pelted Alliance, whose genetically engineered peoples escaped Earth and built societies of their own. Comic misunderstandings and more serious questions about inherited identities reveal how these diverse cultures navigate life centuries after leaving their human creators.

Seven stories follow the Jokka, an alien species whose members can change among three sexes during two puberties. Diviners, storytellers, travelers, and healers confront social taboos and biological pressures while trying to make sense of their world.

Lisinthir Nase Galare becomes the Alliance's thirteenth ambassador to the brutal Chatcaavan Empire after twelve predecessors fail. The prince, duelist, and esper must challenge treaty violations while surviving a court sustained by cruelty and torture.

Imperial investigator Pathen Ures-emodo is ordered to evaluate the new head of House Laisira and act if necessary. What initially appears to be incompetence may conceal a deeper transgression, testing his judgment and obligations.

Calligrapher Farren accompanies Kherishdar's troubled high priest of Shame to the House of Flowers, where human influence has disrupted society. He must help the priest recover while confronting a threat to the household's culture and stability.

Veteran commander Angharad Godkin's retirement is interrupted by an assignment to govern conquered Shraeven. Its rival societies, rebellious inhabitants, and interfering gods force her into unfamiliar political struggles, complicated by an ex-lover serving as her deputy.

Drawing on four completed Kickstarter campaigns, Hogarth explains how to develop a project, plan rewards, run the fundraiser, and fulfill promises. Checklists and cartoons accompany practical guidance for independent creators working from idea to delivery.

Fugitive enforcer Pathen inherits a weakened rebellion and tries to hide its survivors within the Stone Moon Empire. Meanwhile, emperor Roika and Thenet travel north seeking an answer to the mind-death that afflicts their species.

Merchant captain Reese Eddings struggles to keep the Earthrise and its small crew solvent. Repaying an old debt requires rescuing an Eldritch prince from slavers, drawing her into dangers far beyond routine trading voyages.

Jahir begins a demanding xenotherapy residency far from his university friends, struggling with hospital work and his esper abilities. Vasiht'h follows to support him as an approaching storm tests their emerging mental link and partnership.

Jahir, an inexperienced Eldritch esper, leaves his secluded homeworld to study xenopsychology at Seersana University. Fellow student Vasiht'h helps him navigate a multicultural campus, where personal doubts and cultural differences complicate their developing friendship.

Charlatan seer Keshul distrusts the Stone Moon's emissaries when they offer improvements to his community's wells and crops. Resisting their imperial ambitions raises a difficult question: whether their oppressive plans may also protect the Jokka from extinction.

When Hirianthial develops extraordinary powers, Reese Eddings takes him home to seek training and advice. Their visit to the Eldritch court exposes her crew to a xenophobic society and a world with problems beneath its beauty.

Angharad Godkin's efforts to govern Shraeven draw her into conflicts between local gods, politicians, and her own monarch. Facing the Godson turns her unwanted provincial assignment into a confrontation with consequences far beyond the territory.

Reese Eddings's promised future on the Eldritch homeworld is threatened when enemies betray the planet to conquering shapechangers. She, Hirianthial, and the Earthrise crew must confront hostile rulers, divided loyalties, and their own unresolved pasts.

University student Morgan Locke conceals a debilitating illness until two emissaries announce that he is prince of a nation of mythical creatures. Hoping magic might heal him, he begins a journey into forgotten history and dangerous obligations.

Morgan Locke returns to Troth seeking knowledge at Vigil's legendary athenaeum to release the elves from an enchantment. Demons and their armies of the dead approach, leaving his companions little time to find a solution.

Alysha Forrest's crew discovers abandoned native ruins during a planetary mapping expedition. When the sea takes a senior officer, evidence suggests the civilization is still present, forcing the Stardancer to confront an unexpected test of its values.

Driven from Vigil as demons approach, Morgan Locke and his companions race to unravel the curse restricting their allies' magic. The prospect of rising dead makes their search urgent, with their country and world at risk.

Three jaguars embody the Artist, Marketer and Business Manager as they tackle the problems of earning a living through creative work. Their comic exchanges explore contracts, investment and competing priorities, with additional material accompanying the original webcomic’s complete run.

Composer Amet gives away his music to defy the lowland rulers he resents, then discovers their royal composer plans to perform it anonymously. Traveling east to demand recognition introduces an attraction that complicates his quest for justice.

Reese prepares to renovate Rose Point Castle and marry while learning the Eldritch's demanding holiday customs. Gifts, decorations, and distrustful tenants make celebrating the new year another challenge in building a home among her adopted people.

Queen Ransomed governs the Chatcaavan palace while the Emperor fights rebels, unaware that a trusted ally is a traitor. Meanwhile, Lisinthir's reunion with his cousin reveals a potential weapon capable of changing the approaching conflict.

Always Falling is summoned to the harbor city that once exiled it and must travel with composer Amet, its beloved's new partner. Returning home brings old injustices and unspoken emotional needs into their developing relationship.

Betrayed by the courtiers he trusted to reform his empire, the Chatcaavan Emperor flees into exile. Lisinthir and his allies must protect him while seeking to prevent the fractured Empire and Alliance from entering a catastrophic war.

A dying spy, a rebel emperor, a transforming shapechanger, and a woman advancing beside former enemies face an imminent interstellar war. Eldritch, Chatcaavan, and Pelted allies must coordinate their efforts as their worlds approach disaster.

New lieutenant Alysha Forrest welcomes her assignment working with the Songlance's aquatic crew until she encounters former antagonist Mike Beringwaite. A crisis forces them together, requiring her to reconsider forgiveness, cooperation, and whether she can trust him.

Cartoon guides representing artist, marketer, and business manager introduce the practical work of building a creative business. The book covers products, pricing, branding, networking, tracking results, and managing a day job alongside professional artistic ambitions.

Newly licensed xenotherapists Jahir and Vasiht'h open a dream-therapy practice on a cosmopolitan starbase. They have six months to prove their unusual treatment valuable to the community, requiring trust, compassion, and a viable professional partnership.

After five years of successful practice, Vasiht'h discovers Jahir has accumulated the qualifications for a different medical role. A trip to a resort planet for licensing exams prompts them to reconsider the future of their partnership.

Vasiht'h accompanies his longtime xenotherapy partner Jahir home for a family wedding, eager to understand the secretive Eldritch. The visit exposes concealed aspects of Jahir's background and brings dangers that threaten their friendship and lives.

Sediryl leaves her restrictive noble household to explore the alien worlds beyond the Eldritch homeworld. Finding love among other species forces the young woman to weigh family duty against personal freedom and her own desires.

The displaced Chatcaavan Emperor confronts the empire he once ruled while Sediryl infiltrates a pirate leader's inner circle. Their fragile network of spies and rebels struggles to hold together and prevent a ruinous war with the Alliance.

Lisinthir reluctantly leaves the Chatcaavan Empire when his presence threatens its reforming rulers. Escorted by xenotherapists Jahir and Vasiht'h, he faces exile, unwanted treatment, and enemies determined to prevent him from crossing the border alive.

This companion guide recaps the Princes' Game novels through detailed plot summaries, character lists, and discussions of political and personal consequences. Hogarth adds commentary, artwork, and explanations of titles for readers revisiting or approaching the series.

The Stardancer investigates reports of war on the colony of Gledig, uncovering pirates, a missing officer, and evidence implicating Fleet itself. Its crew must unravel the conflict while trying to protect the colony and restore Fleet's honor.

Hogarth revisits the Princes' Game series with book-by-book synopses, cast lists, and commentary on the war's repercussions. Sketches and reader highlights supplement the recaps, providing context for later stories set in the same fictional universe.

Alysha and Taylitha face separate crises during a routine refit and officers' retreat. While one threat undermines debate over Fleet's future and another opens space to outlaws, both must decide how much to trust their comrades.

Sediryl has less than a month to demonstrate that she deserves the imperial heir's coronet. With opposition from a former heir and pressure from every social class, her plans for the Eldritch future depend on agricultural reform.

Nearly a year after the Chatcaavan War, Jahir and Sediryl prepare to marry while their allies gather on the Eldritch homeworld. Unresolved personal questions and wider political problems complicate the wedding and Sediryl's approaching appointment as imperial heir.

Raised from casteless status to translate human languages for the Emperor, Haraa grows increasingly curious about Kherishdar's rigid social order. Contact with aliens prompts questions about its ruler, its priesthood, and the woman allowed to defy its rules.

Twenty-one stories explore overlooked people and moments surrounding the Chatcaavan War, from restaurant workers to imperial children. These companion pieces span the period before Even the Wingless through the eve of Jubilee Summer, expanding the Princes' Game setting.

Hogarth gathers seven years of imagined conversations with her Ai-Naidari characters to explore Kherishdar's language, customs, history, and psychology. Sketchbook notes accompany the exchanges, revealing how dialogue with fictional people shapes the creation of an alien culture.

Psychologist Armin Palland immigrates with his family to the Eldritch homeworld, only to discover no university can employ him. An Eldritch father and a persistent Glaseah draw him into challenges that force him beyond familiar routines.

This illustrated companion collects another six years of Hogarth's imagined exchanges with the Ai-Naidari. Conversations about language, biology, customs, and history deepen the Kherishdar setting, while notes, calligraphy, photographs, and drawings document the author's creative process.

Vasiht'h travels to Anseahla to collect his new children, hoping for quiet time with Jahir. Their growing political responsibilities complicate the trip, while impending fatherhood challenges Vasiht'h to reconsider his supporting role and embrace greater leadership.

Eight stories follow the personal consequences of cultural upheaval after the Chatcaavan War. From the imperial harem to a new Eldritch newsroom, returning characters and newcomers adjust to changes that promise renewal while disrupting the lives they once knew.

Lisinthir returns to the Eldritch homeworld for the birth of his heirs and his cousins' children. Amid expanding travel networks and social renewal, a mistake from the previous summer resurfaces, dividing his loyalties and threatening their spring celebrations.

As Lisinthir and his allies prepare for their children's births, enemies devise another attack and discontent spreads among people excluded by their society. Political conflict threatens the peace promised after the Chatcaavan War and the families' hopes.

Zafiil trains to lead a galactic scout team, driven by her childhood dream of discovering the aliens promised by her people's god. First contact with the Pelted Alliance forces her to confront her place in an ancient prophecy.

Zafiil seeks enlightenment at the Alliance's borders while confronting memories of her studies and her difficult relationship with Daqan, the god's Voice. Returning to Qufiil, she faces the demands of her destined role and her people's expectations.

Nana's evolving class requires her familiar home to become an inn, leaving Haley reluctant to lose the place she has loved since childhood. The Questgiver must confront change while preparing to welcome the wider community of Refuge.

Haley embraces her new role in the magical system imposed on Earth, only to face an invasion of catfish. Helping her community means crafting quests and learning to let others solve problems she longs to tackle herself.

Haley finally receives a quest to create her first potion, just as an irritable teenage baker applies to work at the inn. Christmas preparations and competing demands test her concentration and patience, threatening to overwhelm a long-awaited personal challenge.

The system assigns Haley a Halloween deadline to build a starter dungeon for Refuge's adventurers. Uncomfortable with frightening things, she relies on Nana's guidance and an enthusiastic helper while designing challenges for her newly transformed community.

When aliens impose a game system on Earth, Haley hopes the apocalypse will let her become a wizard. Instead, an unexpected role sends her toward a different path, with her grandmother, baking, and community at its heart.

Assigned to investigate the mysterious Sargasso at an allied alien power's request, the Stardancer faces stowaways and uncertain loyalties. Its discoveries challenge the crew to reconsider Fleet's military purpose and their own responsibility for defending the Alliance.

After a failed coup, Surela accepts exile instead of execution and begins making cargo runs aboard a Terran freighter. Pirates, slavery and intergalactic war complicate her attempt to rebuild, offering a chance to help the people she once betrayed.

As spring approaches, Refuge confronts the true challenge behind the alien Trial. After months helping her town grow, questgiver Haley faces a decision no one can make for her, with consequences for both her own future and the community.

Holiday stories follow the peoples of the Peltedverse through celebrations, mysteries and the search for seasonal meaning. Familiar characters encounter Christmas traditions and winter festivities across the Alliance, with an additional novella joining previously published tales in this collection.

Sediryl Galare opens the summer court as heir to the Eldritch Empire, while seven stories explore lives unfolding behind the ceremony. Musicians, nobles and divided companions confront the social changes reshaping their world and the accommodations those changes demand.

Nearly a decade into exile, Surela enjoys life aboard Earthrise until the Empress assigns her an unwelcome mission. Searching unexplored space for a wayward Eldritch forces her toward a family hostile to her past and a journey that soon goes wrong.

Qora has always trusted his god to place him where he belongs, despite captivity and war among aliens. A new journey follows the trail of a lost prophet and a final messiah, testing the confidence that guided his life.

Nick needs an inexperienced gaming partner to enter a virtual-reality beta test, so he recruits his pregnant mother, Amanda. Rebuilding a ruined village together brings unexpected connection, while a hostile player threatens their progress and the world they are creating.