Melissa McShane Books in Order

Priestess Zerafine serves the God of Death by guiding ghosts to their final rest. Sent to ancient Portena to investigate spirits that vanish before judgment, she uncovers a mystery that could endanger the whole world.

Former queen Zara North hides a dangerous secret: she cannot age or be killed. These linked stories follow her long exile, her losses, and the quiet new life she tries to build far from the crown.

Warrior Imogen survives a brutal political marriage only to be sent to Tremontane as an ambassador. In a world of diplomacy, glittering ballrooms, and looming war, she must decide what kind of strength she truly has.

Bookish countess Alison Quinn is summoned to court and drawn into the orbit of Prince Antony North. What begins as reluctant service becomes a mix of romance, sabotage, and political danger centered on Tremontane's Royal Library.

Young magician Evon Lorantis is sent to investigate impossible fires burning hotter than anyone can create. His search leads to a mysterious girl, an ancient curse, and a legend that may stop a conquering warlord.

Ailanthe comes to the mysterious Castle Always hoping for a destiny that will let her return home. Instead the sentient castle traps her inside, and escape depends on unraveling secrets that may kill her first.

Princess Telaine North Hunter is the center of fashionable society and secretly one of Tremontane's best spies. When a sinister plot surfaces, she must go undercover on the frontier and outplay a dangerous baron.

When Elinor Pembroke discovers she can control fire, her family sees power and marriage prospects. She chooses the Royal Navy instead, taking her dangerous gift into a war of privateers, pirates, and high seas adventure.

Secret agent Piercy Faranter expects a simple assignment when he is asked to chaperone a foreign princess. Instead he is pulled into a deep old mystery with roots that stretch back a thousand years.

Disgraced after a battlefield failure, Lady Daphne St. Clair is sent to India instead of glory. A strange investigation in Madhyapatnam gives the Extraordinary Bounder one last chance to prove her courage.

With young King Felix safe in Eskandel, Willow must turn survival into strategy. Assassination attempts, cultural clashes, and her complicated past with Kerish force her to decide who she wants to become.

Willow North is a thief with a secret magical talent and no interest in politics. Then a child king and a murderous uncle drag her into a desperate flight that could decide Tremontane's future.

Sesskia is a thief and secret mage in a land where magic could get her killed. When she is thrown into another world where magic is welcomed, freedom finally seems possible, if she dares trust it.

Sesskia has gone from thief to empress-consort, but the crown sits on shaky ground. With enemies closing in, allies scarce, and assassination a constant threat, she must hold a fragile realm together.

Separated from her friends and husband after stopping the convergence, Sesskia struggles to find her way back. War, new magic users, and shifting loyalties force her to decide who she is willing to fight for.

Seer Sophia Westlake's career is destroyed when her warning against a powerful nobleman is dismissed. Determined to expose Lord Endicott, she hunts the truth so fiercely that she risks becoming like the man she hates.

Tremontane edges toward civil war as Willow tries to gather support for Felix's claim. But choosing the right king may matter more than simply winning the crown back from the wrong one.

Young wizard Sienne dreams of becoming a scrapper in the ruined Empty Lands. When she joins a ragtag adventuring team, treasure hunting quickly turns into a fight for survival and the start of far bigger troubles.

When Abernathy's starts giving false prophecies, Helena realizes she is responsible for a magical force she barely understands. Illusions, hidden enemies, and the risk of losing the oracle make this her toughest test yet.

Helena Davies thinks she has found an odd but ordinary bookstore job. Instead she inherits a living oracle, a murder, and a place in a hidden war against creatures from another reality.

Sixty years after faking her death, Zara North leaves her quiet exile and sails for a distant continent. Shipwreck, jungle survival, and a deadly magical secret force her to become a leader again.

Sienne's quest to free Alaric's people takes a dark turn into necromancy. Hunting a missing man with dangerous secrets, the companions awaken forces that blur the line between life, death, and something worse.

A new clue sends Sienne's company to Kalanath's lost homeland and then toward a city swallowed by the desert centuries ago. To finish their quest, they will have to face secrets buried deeper than the sand.

Family news and old enemies shake the bonds between Sienne and her companions. A seemingly simple ruin-clearing job in the eastern mountains turns messy fast, and the cost of choosing duty over loyalty may be deadly.

Blackmailed into taking a dangerous job, Sienne and her companions head north to recover an ancient stone artifact. Monsters, rival seekers, and a deserted castle hide a threat far worse than they expected.

Helena learns that traitorous humans are working with the creatures bent on destroying the world. Forced into secrecy while betrayal spreads through the magical community, she must decide whom she can still trust.

Bound monsters called familiars begin turning on their masters, pushing old magical divisions toward open crisis. Helena heads into a tense gathering of custodians while trying to survive rogue attacks and dangerous secrets.

Helena finally feels secure in her role at Abernathy's until a new threat strikes Portland's magical community. As monsters roam and faction tensions rise, she must solve the mystery before she becomes the next victim.

Fiona, burdened with illegal fire magic and a troubled past, wants a clean start. Instead she is swept into blackmail, infiltration, and a dangerous partnership that grows into something much harder to walk away from.

With their long quest nearly finished, Sienne and her companions prepare to challenge the wizard who enslaved Alaric's people. Then a shocking message reveals the wizard's newest hostage, and the final confrontation turns painfully personal.

Elspeth North expects a quiet life as a priestess, far from Tremontane politics. A sudden twist of law makes her queen instead, and she must learn to rule before the kingdom slips through her hands.

This companion volume gathers Tremontane stories, alternate scenes, bonus material, and the full text of Exile of the Crown. It is best for readers who want more time with Willow, Zara, Telaine, and the wider world.

The oracle predicts its own end, and Helena's with it. As invaders strike city after city and the Wardens weaken, saving the world may demand more from Helena than she can survive.

With Helena's wedding approaching, peace almost feels possible. Then a strange shift in the oracle's space sends her into a new mystery that could shatter the Wardens' fragile calm.

Helena's life should finally be settling down, but a new enemy begins striking Warden strongholds. As the Mercy spread chaos, Abernathy's guards a secret Helena cannot yet decipher, and time is running out.

The Wardens prepare to take the fight directly to the enemy at last. But Abernathy's has other plans for Helena, sending her after four ordinary people whose gifts may decide the whole war.

As alliances deepen, Lamprophyre and Prince Rokshan face darker threats moving behind the scenes. Old suspicions, dangerous magic, and unseen enemies threaten to destroy the hope their fragile partnership has created.

Lamprophyre's new role as ambassador grows more dangerous as fear, politics, and hidden enemies test the fragile peace between dragons and humans. Trust is hard won, and one mistake could set both sides ablaze.

Another Extraordinary woman is drawn into the long magical war shaping Europe. In Melissa McShane's Regency world, duty, power, and social pressure collide, and the cost of using a rare gift keeps rising.

Knowledge is never neutral in Tremontane. When a scholar is drawn into royal politics, learning and loyalty become dangerous tools, and the wrong truth in the wrong hands could threaten the crown itself.

Dragon princess Lamprophyre would rather think about poetry than politics. But when humans enter dragon lands for the first time in centuries, her curiosity makes her the bridge between two suspicious worlds.

After a shipwreck off Peru, Bess Hanley is kidnapped into an Incan political struggle tied to prophecy and war. To survive, she must trust friends, strangers, and a man she has never actually met.

In a society that prizes magical talent and pedigree, inheritance can be as dangerous as any battlefield. This installment follows an Extraordinary heroine facing power, expectation, and choices that could reshape her future.

Postwar peace proves every bit as dangerous as war in this final Extraordinary adventure. Hidden motives, magical talent, and hard-won insight come together as another heroine confronts truths others refuse to see.

The struggle between dragons, humans, and an ancient evil reaches a breaking point. Lamprophyre must choose how far she will go to protect both peoples before war consumes the sky.

Home after Waterloo, Clemency, Countess of Ashford, secretly patrols London by night with her gift of flight. A wave of bombings forces her to face both a ruthless enemy and the wounds she thought she had buried.

This winter collection brings together seasonal stories set across Melissa McShane's fantasy worlds. Expect familiar characters, snowy magic, and short adventures that add a little warmth to colder days.

Ten years later, Helena Campbell has a family, a new oracular power, and a quieter life than before. Then Faerie's failing barrier and a hidden cabal pull her back into a dangerous magical war.

Ginnevra's uneasy new understanding of the world is tested by fresh danger and old fear. When darkness and disappearance close in, she and her werewolf ally must decide whom they are really fighting for.

Being a paladin is no longer as simple as following orders and slaying monsters. Ginnevra must decide what her calling really means as enemies gather and faith, duty, and truth pull in different directions.

The deeper Ginnevra digs, the less simple the old stories become. Buried history, divided loyalties, and the weight of everything she once believed threaten to overwhelm the path she has chosen.

Paladin Ginnevra Cassaline has been taught that werewolves are monsters beyond mercy. One encounter forces her to question that certainty, and the doubt opens the door to a far more dangerous truth.

Masks come off and old assumptions fail in this later Dark Goddess adventure. Ginnevra faces deception, danger, and the possibility that the story she was given was never the whole story at all.

Aderyn has waited years for the Call that will make her an adventurer. Getting the supposedly useless Warmaster class is not what she expected, but she is determined to prove everyone wrong.

Aderyn's team heads for the lawless city of Obsidian and bets everything on a strange dungeon that can transport adventurers across the world. Surviving it is only the beginning of their problems.

With the barrier to Faerie destroyed, Helena becomes the target of adepts who want someone to blame. Political conflict turns personal when one of them may be willing to kill her.

Helena cannot ignore the elves who want humanity destroyed, but the human Savants may be even worse. Their hunt for the oracle now threatens the people Helena most wants to keep safe, including her children.

Monsters and dungeons are one thing. Escorting an infuriating novice adventurer across the wilderness may be worse. Aderyn's patience and compassion are tested harder than any battle skill.

A stop in Finion's Gate leads Aderyn and her friends into a citywide competition full of duels, tiny dungeons, and roaring crowds. But darker forces are working behind the spectacle, and catastrophe is closing in.

Aderyn's new quest sends her north to the Repository, where dangerous knowledge points the way forward. Hostile companions, monsters, and a deadly dungeon make the trip anything but simple.

War with the orcs reaches its breaking point just as new clues about the Fated One quest appear. Aderyn must choose between leading armies and striking at the enemy's stronghold deep in the Blighted Range.

Helena has already lost too much in the war with the Savants. When imprisoned elves join the conflict and an innocent child changes what Helena thinks she knows, every alliance becomes more complicated.

Aderyn heads south to help stop an orc invasion, only to learn that politics can be deadlier than open war. To save a kingdom, she may have to brave the beautiful nightmare of the Ivory Palace.

A mysterious magical complex beneath the Lonely Tor may hold answers about Aderyn's quest. Rival adventurers, a dragon hunt, and dangerous old secrets turn the expedition into a race against disaster.

Aderyn's next quest leads her farther north than humans have gone in centuries. The Northlands are stranger than expected, and Stormwatch Citadel demands a sacrifice that may break the team.

Only two words remain to guide Aderyn at the end of the Destiny quest: enter Winterforge. A frozen wilderness, a ruthless rival team, and the truth behind the system push her toward her greatest trial yet.