Rachel Aaron Books in Order

A seaside break turns dangerous when Eli agrees to help a girl find her missing father. As Nico's forgotten past and the voice in her head come roaring back, the trouble grows far bigger than a simple rescue.

Still one step ahead of the law, Eli sets his sights on the supposedly thief-proof citadel of Gaol. But the job is a trap, Miranda has a new shot at catching him, and half the world seems to want him cornered.

Eli Monpress is a wizard, a thief, and determined to become infamous. His plan to raise the bounty on his head starts with kidnapping a king, but Spirit Court investigator Miranda Lyonette is already on his trail.

Rachel Aaron breaks down the process that helped her double her daily word count without giving up quality. It is a practical craft guide about plotting, editing, motivation, and making writing faster and more enjoyable.

Eli broke the rules and saved the world once, but the price is only starting to land. With panic spreading, old enemies circling, and Benehime moving her pieces, charm and clever plans may not be enough this time.

Years before Eli Monpress, young Miranda Lyonette is torn between Spirit Court ambitions and an arranged marriage she does not want. Her choice changes when she meets a caged ghosthound who needs her help as much as she needs his trust.

Josef's hidden past drags Eli into royal family trouble just as the Immortal Empress moves against the Spirit Court. To save his friend and stay alive, the world's greatest thief has to face a war that is suddenly very personal.

Mercenary Devi Morris takes a security job on the small trade ship Glorious Fool because danger pays. The crew's secrets, however, are far deadlier than extra combat experience, and one year aboard may cost her much more than planned.

With conspiracies closing in and human lives on the line, Devi stops running and decides to fight on her own terms. It is the moment when all the trilogy's secrets, loyalties, and impossible stakes come crashing together.

After a mysterious attack leaves holes in her memory, Devi tries to keep her head down and survive. Instead she gets pulled deeper into a crisis of hidden truths, dangerous alliances, and enemies who may be her only allies.

Julius Heartstriker is the smallest and nicest dragon in a ruthless clan, which his mother considers a problem. Sealed in human form and dumped into the DFZ, he has one month to prove he can survive like a proper dragon.

Julius barely survived his first test, only to learn that being useful to Heartstriker is even more dangerous. Caught in clan politics, seer games, and Algonquin's growing threat, he has to protect a family that would gladly eat him.

Julius thought taking control of his clan would make things safer. Instead, his siblings are plotting, old secrets are surfacing, and a looming war means the Nice Dragon may have to break Heartstriker open to save it.

Heartstriker's buried secrets finally come due when the dragons of China arrive to collect. Forced to choose between the sister who protected him and the clan he fought to save, Julius faces his hardest test yet.

Tina and James Anderson were stars inside their favorite VR game long before it became terrifyingly real. Stranded on opposite sides of a living world where death might last, they must use every scrap of skill to find each other.

Rosalie Dumarque rejects her protected life behind Wall Rose to join the garrison and fight Titans. What she finds is not just monstrous violence, but corruption, divided loyalties, and a world that punishes women who step out of line.

Bob's long game is ending, dragons are at war, and the Nameless End is getting closer. To save the people he loves, Julius must risk everything and prove that being kind is not the same as being weak.

Opal Yong-ae scrapes by in the DFZ as a Cleaner, salvaging magical junk from abandoned apartments. When she finds a corpse hiding a valuable secret, her debt problems turn into a dangerous race through the most chaotic city on earth.

The capital was supposed to be safety, but the Once King has other plans. Tina and James are pushed into a brutal choice between rescuing trapped players and protecting the new world from an undead disaster.

A dragon curse has turned Opal's life into a string of disasters, and she is done taking doom at face value. To get free, she has to outmaneuver magic, monsters, and the awakened city that never stops escalating.

A possible way home finally appears, but it forces Tina, James, and their allies to question what home even means now. Old bodies, new lives, and one last impossible fight collide in the trilogy's final showdown.

Opal is stuck caring for her literal dragon father while enemies line up from every direction. When a rival spirit targets her boss and threatens the DFZ, family drama becomes a city-wide magical emergency.

In 1877 Montana, Mary Good Crow guides miners through crystal caves that sing to her in ways they do not understand. One risky expedition could change her life, or unleash something that rewrites the West.

Lola is a changeling kept human by illegal magic and twenty years of service to blood mage Victor Conrath. When he vanishes, she has only days to find him before monsters, paladins, and fairy powers close in.

War rolls across the Great Plains as Mary, Rel, and Josie fight for the people they love. Bound together by crystal magic none of them fully understands, they have to survive long enough to build an unlikely alliance.

Lola survived Victor once, but the world still thinks her former master is humanity's savior. To stop him from turning fear into power, she must free her allies and unravel a plan no one fully understands.

Bex, a demon mercenary with a chaotic crew, signs on to protect witch Adrian Blackwood from Heaven's warlocks. The job starts as paid muscle and turns into the opening shot of a much bigger rebellion.

After an upset victory, Bex and Adrian finally have momentum, but declaring war on Heaven is easier than winning it. Their next move targets one of Gilgamesh's Anchors, deep in the heart of enemy power.

Victor believes he has made himself untouchable by becoming the hero and seizing the DFZ. Lola finally has allies, power, and a plan of her own, but ending his reign will cost everything she can bring.

Beaten down but far from finished, Bex takes the fight straight into Hell. To keep the rebellion alive, she has to survive a new front in the war and become even more dangerous than before.

Bex and her crew are pushing the rebellion forward, but Heaven has begun to push back with real force. The man who killed the gods knows what they are building, and he has no intention of letting it stand.

Tavin Sorrel has a lich in his head, shaky powers, and a lie big enough to get him killed. Then he bluffs his way onto Mana Runners, the deadliest dungeon-crawling spectacle in the world.

Bex and Adrian have come too far to back away now. In the final clash with Gilgamesh's regime, tearing down Heaven is the only path left, and failure would cost them everything they fought to save.