RJ Barker Books in Order

Apprentice assassin Girton Club-foot is sent to protect a prince rather than kill him. As he searches for the would-be murderer in a castle full of deception, an approaching civil war makes every alliance uncertain.

Fleeing a bounty, Girton Club-foot returns to a kingdom divided between three competing kings, including his old friend Rufra. An assassination plot forces him to search for a traitor while his increasingly uncontrollable magic threatens his survival.

Girton accompanies King Rufra to the capital as Rufra pursues the vacant High-King's throne. Years of political maneuvering and murder converge around them, leaving Girton to navigate shifting allegiances and threats to those he cares about.

Two warring nations build fleets from the bones of dragons thought long extinct. When a living dragon is sighted in distant waters, both sides pursue a creature whose capture could change the balance of their prolonged conflict.

The return of dragons brings further conflict to the Hundred Isles. After dying enslaved people are discovered aboard a ship, Shipwife Meas and the Tide Child crew uncover a plot that tests their loyalties and threatens their lives.

With his Shipwife gone, Joron Twiner leads a shrinking black fleet in attacks on his enemies. Illness and a prophecy linking him to the world's destruction narrow his choices as returning sea dragons offer an uncertain possibility.

Irody Hasp reads the final thoughts of the dead, surviving on unwanted work in a city of spirits and sleeping gods. When his apprentice is murdered, suspicion forces him to investigate a conspiracy reaching powerful and dangerous enemies.