Patty Jansen Books in Order

These eighteen fantasy and science fiction stories explore unfamiliar worlds, strange creatures, and unexpected turns in human experience. Previously published in magazines and anthologies, the collection ranges from dragons and alien encounters to unsettling journeys through space.

Ten-year-old Cory Wilson overhears a plan to bomb a human-alien conference aboard Midway Space Station. When adults dismiss his warnings and a teacher traps him in class, he must find a way to stop the attack.

Artificial-soldier instructor Melati discovers a student may carry the mind of a fugitive scientist. Searching New Jakarta Station for his missing body pits her military loyalties against her family and community, while dangerous knowledge threatens to bring war to their home.

Tandor reactivates an ancient machine beneath the City of Glass, hoping to restore his persecuted people’s power. The young queen and a fugitive apprentice resist his plans as the magic he unleashes grows beyond his ability to control.

Young diplomat Cory Wilson survives an assassination that threatens relations between Earth and the extraterrestrial powers controlling interstellar travel. With military confrontation looming, his knowledge of alien society may be the only way to uncover the truth.

Jaded soldier Izramith accepts a security contract in Barresh while searching for an uncle who vanished in neighboring Miran. Discovering that his disappearance belongs to a wider pattern draws her toward a rescue unlike any mission she has undertaken.

Mikandra’s hoped-for apprenticeship with an influential trading family collapses when its money disappears. Traveling to Barresh to investigate, she uncovers layers of betrayal that force her to reconsider the people she once trusted and the future she wanted.

Ellisandra runs Miran’s state theater under a tyrannical regime. Without weapons or an army, she must rely on language and a public performance of a classic play to challenge the ruler whose power threatens her country.

Merchant's daughter Johanna agrees to dance with a prince whose father desperately wants a suitable wife to support his succession. Dangerous magicians attending the royal ball have other plans for a kingdom already weakened by grief.

Johanna and her companions reach Florisheim, where displaced nobles resist her marriage to their new king. As hostile magic spreads through the refugees and violence closes in, she must find a way to lead them out.

Captured by bandits, Johanna and her companions must find a way to escape while Loesie’s increasingly strange behavior threatens their plans. Their journey brings them closer to a powerful duke rumored to be behind Saardam’s destruction.

A generation ship missing for fifty thousand years returns with unfamiliar technology and uncertain intentions. Diplomat Cory Wilson tries to prevent conflict while rival delegates and military leaders maneuver for advantage before the vessel reaches inhabited space.

Cory Wilson brings the captain of an ancient generation ship to diplomatic headquarters, hoping to open negotiations. The visitor's contempt for modern civilizations and his vessel's reawakening push rival forces closer to war.

Johanna returns secretly to Saardam, where Fire Wizard Alexandre rules through terror and persecution. Joining an underground resistance, she knows their limited magic cannot match his power, but discovery forces them toward a confrontation before they are ready.

Fifteen science fiction and fantasy novellas and novelettes explore new worlds and the histories behind familiar characters. The collection includes This Peaceful State of War, Charlotte’s Army, and Looking for Daddy, alongside stories connected to the author’s larger fictional settings.

After ten months of siege, Melati helps interrogate an escapee whose memories appear to have been erased. He may be an enemy trap, or the only hope for thousands of civilians facing suffocation aboard the station where her family remains.

Newly crowned Queen Johanna must rebuild a bankrupt kingdom while foreign traders arrive offering gold and dragon magic. Religious opposition and the Red Baron’s approaching army leave her balancing desperately needed allies against the distrust of her own people.

A shipment of alien weapons discovered in Djibouti draws Cory Wilson into a crisis spanning northern Africa. Familiar criminal suspects are absent, and a powerful extraterrestrial fleet prepares to intervene before he can identify the real threat.

A message in a bottle interrupts Cory Wilson's hunting trip and points toward missing human tourists. Following an illegal off-world holiday operation leads him into dangerous waters, territorial disputes, and trouble beyond a simple rescue.

Twenty years after its source was destroyed, deadly icefire returns, bringing drought and displacement. As patrols disappear and a neighboring kingdom prepares for war, two meteorology students uncover knowledge that might save their world if anyone will listen.

Queen Johanna invites neighboring rulers to negotiate investment in Saardam’s damaged infrastructure, hoping to avert a war she cannot win. The gathering brings hostile magicians who see her infant daughter as the means to seize control of the kingdom.

Stranded on an alien world after a plane crash, Jessica searches for a way home. Two men offer help but give her reason to distrust them, while her struggle to escape uncovers a disturbing truth about her own identity.

New graduate Jonathan Bartell considers himself fortunate to become a quarantine officer aboard an orbital station. Doctor Gaby Larsen’s fear of revealing what she knows soon suggests that the greatest hazards of his new posting come from other people.

A practical guide to distributing independent books across multiple retailers and international markets. Jansen examines the business approach behind selling widely, encouraging writers to build a sustainable readership rather than depend on a single platform.

Jansen explains how independent authors can establish a mailing list and use it to reach readers and sell books. The guide places direct reader relationships within a broader plan for making a sustainable living from fiction.

Jonathan and Gaby reach a lunar research base for a secret project, but their contact fails to appear. A debt-driven smuggling operation and a mysterious capsule buried in a crater threaten the station while frightened witnesses refuse to speak.

A guide to the first stages of self-publishing, emphasizing business judgment and an author’s approach to building a career. Jansen discusses beginning an independent publishing practice as part of a longer plan for sustainable writing income.

Cory escorts an alien witness to Earth for a murder case involving a powerful business cartel. Bugged rooms, restricted movements, and a dead lawyer reveal that the investigation reaches well beyond a fatal surfing trip.

As Earth votes on joining the organization controlling interstellar travel, Cory Wilson discovers communications are being manipulated against membership. Exposing the forces behind the campaign takes him into the territory of a powerful and dangerous cartel.

Refugees from the destroyed City of Glass crowd into Tiverius, bringing dangerous contamination with them. While rival factions pursue the fleeing queen, Sadorius struggles to maintain peace and understand the malevolent force approaching a city that refuses to believe in magic.

A sudden rise in dangerous energy threatens Chevakia, but its senate refuses to act. As refugees flee the ruined City of Glass, a meteorologist, a pregnant fugitive, and an escaped queen confront a disaster their leaders are unprepared to contain.

At an asteroid-belt conference, Jonathan hears disturbing reports of unexplained events aboard a research station. A military gag order prevents discussion of their cause, leaving him to investigate who is suppressing the truth and what danger the discoveries may pose.

Fabio Velazquez arrives at a military base on Io knowing his memories were erased to protect a secret he can no longer recall. Hated by other soldiers and subjected to experiments, he becomes the target of competing powers determined to recover it.

Held in an Aranian king’s harem, scientist Lana must choose between a dangerous escape and bargaining for access to his library. Her discoveries could explain icefire, but approaching armies seem determined to destroy the forces sustaining their world.

Meteorology student Javes discovers ancient technology in a remote desert but cannot communicate what he has found. As icefire grows more dangerous, fellow student Lana is captured by Aranian soldiers, leaving vital knowledge beyond the reach of those who could act.

A missing scientist draws Cory Wilson to the hostile ice world of Tamer. Treatment side effects leave him unusually vulnerable to its darkness and cold, while team tensions and concealed enemies make the search even more dangerous.

Kitchen maid Nellie discovers a stolen box containing a dragon and tries to return it to the church. A nobleman's poisoning instead makes her a suspect, forcing her to flee with a creature that refuses to remain hidden.

Nellie and a group of refugees struggle through winter after rescuing the angry young Prince Bruno. His reckless use of power reveals their location to an enemy wizard, leaving little time to prepare a defense.

Nellie survives on Saardam's streets with an unruly dragon while the Regent's guards hunt her. When innocent people are imprisoned after a magical mishap, she organizes an escape and uncovers secrets about the city's future.

Jansen examines the emotional and practical challenges that follow publication, from professional setbacks to comparisons with other writers. The guide considers recovering from mistakes, managing jealousy, and avoiding burnout while building a sustainable independent writing career.

Cory travels to Asto for his induction into his wife's clan, hoping for a quiet visit before their child arrives. Surveillance, an attack, and evasive hosts reveal a longstanding conflict that his family cannot avoid.

On Miranda, Jonathan and Gaby discover thrill-seekers have entered an area contaminated with alien bacteria. Preventing infection from reaching human settlements becomes more complicated as personal rivalries and concealed motives cast doubt on the official response.

A visit to a Pengali homeland lets Cory investigate exploitation and smuggling in Ceren's forests. Discovering a neighboring tribe armed with hostile propaganda and off-world assistance turns an intended cultural excursion into a fight to escape.

Jonathan and Gaby’s transport diverts to assist Astoria Station, which answers only with automated messages. Drawing on their knowledge of disease and habitat failures, they investigate a disaster that others appear determined to conceal.

Running short of supplies after escaping Kelso Station, Tina brings her crew to a pirate-controlled outpost. Discovering that her daughter Evelle is imprisoned there forces her to risk their precarious safety in an attempt to free her.

Pressed by a creditor, Tina returns to the space station she fled fifteen years earlier to sell her ship. Her arrival exposes the continuing effects of a secret scientific project whose defenders, including her former husband, want her silenced.

Tina escapes a pirate-held station aboard a damaged warship with too few crew and her companions elsewhere. Unable to return or travel safely, she faces another danger when some aboard begin showing signs of a monstrous genetic transformation.

Arriving at the Federacy’s political center, Tina and her crew seek a cure for an infection that transforms people into violent mutants. Their investigation exposes a deeper abuse of power, bringing them into conflict with leaders determined to protect their secrets.

Taking two boys to Earth's historic theme parks gives Cory cover to investigate a vanished military group. Evidence of its activities leads across guarded borders toward an unexpected threat from the Southern California Air Corps.

Bullied schoolboy Florian learns his father is the king of Celestia and that its protective spell must be renewed within seven days. With an unwilling unicorn and three motorcycle-riding elves, the inexperienced prince sets out to complete the task himself.

Drone armies attack Earth while political obstruction prevents an effective military response. Cory and his team return to the damaged planet to locate its president and secure help, entering a government whose condition is deeply troubling.

A fisherwoman discovers an unexplained body while a desert traveler rescues a stranger who speaks no known language. As an ancient sect recruits young people and threatens civil war, an elderly court astrologer conceals evidence connecting the disturbances.

Ravi travels with a woman withholding secrets about a resurgent movement, while Tylve’s flight brings her into contact with a spy. Court astrologer Kotori investigates mysterious objects from the sky as hidden arrivals struggle to keep their identity and plans concealed.

Ravi uncovers horrors beneath a work farm while Javes follows a fleeing spy. At sea, Lana discovers a capsule containing four violently killed travelers, drawing the divided world closer to a forgotten civilization and the dangers pursuing its people.

Poverty leads Fenna to offer herself as Prince Caspar’s bride, but marriage traps her in a haunted palace under two curses. When her husband becomes a murderous beast, she must find a way to break the enchantment without impoverishing her family.