Stormbringer Books in Order

The Stormbringer trilogy picks up threads from Kerry Greenwood's earlier Three Days novels and spins them into a longer, more intricate young adult science fiction saga. The setting is a ravaged future Earth, ten years after a mysterious technology driven disaster burned great scars across the planet and shattered old nations.

In the ruins, pockets of humanity have rebuilt in very different ways. One of the strongest is simply called the University, a fortified community of scholars, technicians, and farmers that has only recently thrown off a brutal dictator. Outside its walls lie strange cities, dangerous wilderness, and remnants of high technology that no one fully understands.

The Rat and the Raven introduces Bran, a young man chosen to lead a mission to find former students who were sold as slaves during the University's dark days. His team is a mix of skills and temperaments: Mill the Hill with his great strength, the eerie twin girls Aethelflaed, a lock picker called Dismas who is courageous mainly when terrified, and Scathe, a transmitting empath whose mind can touch others across distance. Their quest takes them to a settlement known as Rat's Town, where they encounter the first hints of a device called the Stormbringer that can call down lightning with devastating force.

In Lightning Nest the group cannot settle back into University life. Bran is uneasy, Swart is haunted by family revelations, and a desperate petitioner arrives with news of an enemy who is using lightning as a weapon. The team heads out again, tracking rumours of a Tesla like construct, the Lightning Nest, that threatens whole regions. Along the way they must decide how much trust to place in allies, how far to push their own altered abilities, and whether the University's leadership is telling them the whole truth.

Ravens Rising opens with the apparent victory over the Lightning Nest, only for the heroes to return home and find the University deserted and its gates impossible to open from inside. A presence called Emmanuel seems able to slip into their thoughts and twist their perceptions, turning the safe heart of their world into a psychological battleground. Trapped in a tower, the group must fight not just for survival but for their sense of self, as Emmanuel seeks to become human by overwhelming them from within.

Across the trilogy, Greenwood blends post apocalyptic adventure with questions about authority, responsibility, and what it means to rebuild a decent society after catastrophe. The books move quickly, but there is room for humour, friendship, and small domestic details that keep the stakes grounded. Readers who liked the Three Days novels will recognise some echoes and references, but Stormbringer works as a self contained story about a small band of young people trying to stop both old machines and new intelligences from deciding humanity's fate.