Michael J Sullivan Books in Order

When a master dwarf craftsman is fired and vows revenge on the legendary towers of Drumindor, Royce and Hadrian are hired to stop him. A seemingly easy job in the luxury resort of Tur Del Fur becomes a race to prevent a catastrophe that could erase a city.

Long before he is the most feared wizard in the world, a boy named Esrahaddon is exiled, hunted by a fanatical priestess, and judged by a god. This novel follows his brutal youth and the choices that will one day make him either a monster or a savior in legend.

Born a spare heir in a long-lived imperial family, Farilane chooses scholarship and adventure over court life, becoming a hunter of forbidden books. Her obsession with the mythical Book of Brin leads her and a band of Teshlor knights into ruins, secrets, and dangers long buried.

After centuries of polite exile from his own legend, imperial heir Nolyn is abruptly sent to the front lines of the Goblin Wars on what looks like a suicide mission. Assigned to a misfit auxiliary squad, he must survive jungle battlefields and political betrayal to learn why.

The Fhrey gain the secret of creating dragons, turning the tide of war at a terrible cost. As rebellion brews within their own ranks, a mystic and a keeper fight to save both races, bringing the Legends of the First Empire to a climactic, world-changing conclusion.

Winter grips the land while the Fhrey race to master dragons and the humans search for a way across the deadly Nidwalden. Suri and a handful of companions take an unimaginable step into the realm of the dead, where success may be the only way the living can win.

When a storm reveals a hidden cave behind a waterfall, a young mystic’s apprentice and her wolf companion go exploring. Inside they find a chamber filled with human bones, and one impulsive decision helps shape the girl who will one day be known as Suri the Mystic.

The war stalls at the edge of the Fhrey heartland, leaving both sides bloodied and uncertain. When an offer of peace arrives inviting Suri alone into enemy territory, old prophecies, a forbidden key, and a dangerous legend threaten to upend everything the heroes have fought for.

Stranded on a brutal planet nicknamed Hell, survivors of the starship Peacemaker band together as Runners to stay alive. Jacob Prime, Kiri Ryder, and their crew must outrun lethal Warhawks and alien predators while searching for a way home before the world kills them.

Years of skirmishes finally erupt into open war between the Rhune and the Fhrey. As alliances fray and hidden agendas surface, Persephone fights to keep her people united while warriors and mystics face choices that will cost lives, loyalties, and the shape of the world to come.

Whiskey baron Gabriel Winter believes his daughter has been murdered and wants vengeance, not justice. He hires Royce and Hadrian to recover her or punish those responsible, drawing them into the mist-shrouded city of Rochelle where feuding nobles and ancient legends collide.

After defying the Fhrey, the human clans find that wooden spears and village grudges will not win a war. Persephone leads a small party across the sea to seek aid from the dour Dherg, while inventors and mystics race to give humanity new tools and weapons.

In a world where the immortal Fhrey are worshipped as gods, a single human stroke kills one of them and shatters that belief. Warrior Raithe, widow Persephone, and young mystic Suri are drawn into the first sparks of a war that will forge a new empire.

Riyria is hired to prevent the assassination of Nysa, the last noble of remote Dulgath, a countess who seems oddly indifferent to her own survival. In a coastal duchy filled with secrets and old superstitions, Royce and Hadrian uncover plots that touch Royce’s buried past.

When Royce and Hadrian accept a job hunting a jester’s legendary treasure, they end up trapped underground with strangers and a cruel set of choices. As water rises and tempers fray, the real test is whether greed, fear, or loyalty will decide who survives.

Royce cannot forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who once saved him, but when he and Hadrian return to Medford she shuts them out, terrified of a powerful noble’s revenge. Their attempt to help Gwen pulls them into deadly court intrigue and a plot against the crown.

Scholar Arcadius forces battle-worn Hadrian Blackwater to team up with cynical assassin Royce Melborn and steal a single journal from the impregnable Crown Tower. Their first mission together is part heist, part survival test, and the true beginning of Riyria.

Diagnosed with a terminal illness and estranged from his wife, Ellis Rogers finishes a homemade time machine and jumps two thousand years ahead. He lands in Hollow World, an underground society of near-identical post-humans, just as the first murder in centuries shatters their peace.

With elven armies crossing the Nidwalden River, humanity’s last hope lies in a perilous expedition to the legendary buried city of Percepliquis. Riyria joins a small band seeking an ancient artifact, facing buried horrors, lost history, and choices that will determine Elan’s future.

Facing terminal cancer, retired engineer Dan Sturges builds a time machine in his garage and gambles everything on a leap into the future. He finds an underground society of near-identical people and learns that the future has very different plans for him than he expected.

Years before they are known as Riyria, thief Royce Melborn and swordsman Hadrian Blackwater ride into a roadside con that leaves them broke and unexpectedly tied to a disgraced viscount. This early caper shows how their uneasy partnership begins to solidify.

On the high holiday of Wintertide, the New Empire plans a grim celebration: a forced wedding for the empress and public executions for Degan Gaunt and the Witch of Melengar. Royce and Hadrian finally locate the heir of Novron and move to ruin the Empire’s perfect day.

An intercepted letter warns that an imperial ship called the Emerald Storm could decide the war. Hadrian signs on for a final sea voyage to learn the truth, and Royce reluctantly joins him on a mission full of storms, spies, and old enemies he thought he had left behind.

War with the newly forged Nyphron Empire is crushing Melengar, so Princess Arista hires Riyria for a covert mission to seek allies among a peasant rebellion. As armies clash, Royce grows suspicious that the enigmatic wizard Esrahaddon is using them in a far larger game.

A desperate farm girl hires Royce and Hadrian to stop a monster that stalks her village from an ancient elven tower called Avempartha. To defeat it, they must reach a sealed blade atop the falls and confront both old magic and hidden motives.

Two thieves agree to steal a sword from the royal palace of Melengar, only to be framed for the king’s murder. With Princess Arista’s unlikely help, Royce and Hadrian flee with her brother Alric and a dangerous wizard, stumbling into a conspiracy that reaches far beyond one kingdom.