Susan Kaye Quinn Books in Order
Explore Susan Kaye Quinn's books in order, from the Mindjack and Singularity series to Debt Collector, royal adventures in Dharia, and hopeful climate fiction.
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Susan Kaye Quinn books in publication order
36 books
Open Minds
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2011
In a world where nearly everyone reads thoughts, sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is treated as an outsider. When she accidentally controls a friend's mind, she discovers a dangerous ability and an underground society determined to exploit it.
Closed Hearts
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2012
Mindjackers lose their rights as a politician exploits public fear of their powers. Kira Moore hides with her family until an attack on her boyfriend forces her toward an FBI agent whose experiments she dreads.
Free Souls
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2012
Kira Moore joins the Jacker Freedom Alliance, training for combat while hunting the FBI agent who hurt her boyfriend. When troops surround Jackertown, she faces a mission to assassinate the politician threatening the mindjackers' revolution.
Mind Games
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2012
Mindreader Raf loves Kira, the one girl at school who cannot hear his thoughts. As he gathers the courage to invite her to the mindware Games, his friends interfere with plans of their own.
The Handler
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2012
Julian Navarro wants to secure equal rights for mindjackers through persuasion rather than violence. When his first recruit's bloody past comes to light, he must decide how much he will compromise to launch his parents' revolution.
The Scribe
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2012
Sasha's power to erase minds has left him haunted by the people he has harmed. A revolutionary offers another purpose, but protecting a hunted young woman may require using the ability he can barely endure.
Debt Collector Season 1
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2013
Lirium collects life energy from the dying and transfers it to people considered more valuable. When a woman disrupts his usual recovery ritual with a questionable request, he faces an illegal job and his own dependence.
Faery Swap
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2013
Fourteen-year-old Finn wants to protect his little sister, but a runaway faery prince tricks him into exchanging places. Finn is stranded without a body in the Otherworld while the prince uses his body on Earth.
Indie Author Survival Guide
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2013
Drawing on independent publishing experience, this guide walks writers through releasing their first book. It covers planning, marketing, creating a professional book package, and confronting the fears that can delay an author's move into self-publishing.
Third Daughter
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2013
Princess Aniri expects freedom to marry for love until a northern prince proposes a political marriage. Threatened by his country's flying weapon, she accepts to spy on him, risking both her heart and Dharia's security.
Debt Collector Season 2
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2014
Debt collector Wraith secretly targets wealthy recipients of stolen life energy while working to end the system itself. When another collector discovers her nighttime activities, her double life threatens the people and mission she protects.
Keeper
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2014
Kira plans to infiltrate FBI agent Kestrel's prison, seeking revenge for the damage to her boyfriend's mind. Julian Navarro considers her too valuable to risk, setting her determination against the Jacker Freedom Alliance leader's judgment.
Second Daughter
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2014
Aniri's impending marriage is unsettled by a rival country's skyship and news that her sister has been poisoned. She travels to Samir, where an assassin and mounting political unrest threaten both her family and peace.
The Legacy Human
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2014
Elijah Brighton dreams of joining the immortal human-machine hybrids who govern his world. A mysterious fugue state produces extraordinary paintings and earns him an Olympic sponsor, but the competition exposes dangers behind the ascenders' apparent benevolence.
Augment
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2015
Miriam fights for cybernetic enhancements in service of the Makers, hoping to qualify for the Offering. The procedure has killed every previous candidate, leaving her to weigh personal survival against her people's hopes for salvation.
Containment
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2015
Alone on the Jovian moon Thebe, a machine intelligence oversees mining operations. An unexplained tower of rocks disturbs its orderly routine, but investigating the structure could expose something dangerous, while reporting it risks an unwanted reassignment.
Mindjack Short Story Collection
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2015
These companion stories explore the Mindjack world's mindreaders and the outsiders who can control them. By following characters beyond the main novels, the collection illuminates personal histories and choices shaped by dangerous powers and divided loyalties.
Restore
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2015
Medical robot Unit 7435 exists to care for the human master it loves. When its healing mission fails, the machine confronts the cost of attachment and the limitations imposed on its developing consciousness in the Singularity world.
The Duality Bridge
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2015
Painter Elijah Brighton becomes a symbol of human resistance to the immortal ascenders, concealing genetic experiments and an ability to communicate with the dead. An ascender pursuing him could turn those powers into instruments of control.
The Locksmith
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2015
Zeph locks and unlocks minds for a ruthless clan in exchange for his family's protection. When mindjackers are exposed to the world, an order involving a young changeling forces him to choose between obedience and his loved ones.
Awakening
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2016
Sister Amara hopes to reach the awakening expected of twelve sisters created to serve their Masters' spiritual ambitions. As interrogations become increasingly lethal, she begins to question whether being the last to awaken might offer protection.
The Illusory Prophet
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2016
Elijah Brighton's fugue powers begin altering reality, convincing others he is a prophet. Disturbing visions, an attack on the human resistance, and his best friend's disappearance send him searching for the truth before those visions become real.
Cracked Open
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2017
Zeph allows a DARPA director to test his unusual mindjack powers in exchange for his parents' release. As violence tears society apart, she assigns him a mission that threatens both his family and the fragile life he is rebuilding.
Defiance
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2017
Cyrus Kowalski distrusts the immortal human-machine hybrids who govern the lives of ordinary humans. When his adopted mother falls ill and the rulers refuse treatment, he must decide how far to break their laws to save her.
Locked Tight
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2017
Zeph has hidden his ability to lock and break open minds to protect his family. Their disappearance forces him back among hostile mindjackers, where dangerous alliances and espionage offer his only chance of finding them.
Broken Wide
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2018
Zeph hopes to build a peaceful future with Tessa, but attacks on mindjackers and growing political hostility threaten their lives. A disastrous protest and dangerous new technology force him to confront the people driving society apart.
First Daughter
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2019
War begins while Dharia's queen lies near death and Aniri's eldest sister prepares to take power. With loved ones kidnapped, Aniri receives a secret mission to stop Samir's prince and the skyship threatening her country.
Harvest
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2019
A robot caretaker tends a Seattle farm that feeds the humans preserved by powerful Masters. Unauthorized human visits disrupt its routine, leading it to question what it has been growing and why the farmland must remain restricted.
Résistance
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2019
Dancer Kamali LeClair plans to defy the ascenders by winning a Paris competition and refusing their gift of immortality. A young man's unexpected offer of resistance challenges her to take her rebellion beyond a symbolic gesture.
The Last Mystic
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2019
Returning from death, Eli confronts a world racing toward a second Singularity. Augmented humans and ascenders pursue competing paths to transcendence, forcing him to stop a struggle whose possibilities his own extraordinary return has helped unleash.
When You Had Power
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2020
In plague-stricken 2050, power engineer Lucía Ramirez hopes a new household will become the family she lost. An unexplained outage and a missing robot reveal trouble on Power Island One, threatening her work and fragile home.
Of Kindness and Kilowatts
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2021
Utilities official Akemi struggles to keep civilization's infrastructure running during a heatwave and viral outbreak. A regional grid director brings him evidence of stolen electricity and dangerous intrigue, drawing him into a crisis beyond ordinary power management.
You Knew the Price
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2021
Regional director Zuri Hill-Gray keeps Los Angeles's clean-energy grid running while mourning her twin sister. An engineer's report of stolen electricity and an attempted killing forces her to confront a threat beneath the system she manages.
Yet You Cry When It Hurts
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2023
Energy diplomat Nitara Desai struggles to hold international climate negotiations together while her personal life unravels. When a secretive governor reveals technology that could save the planet, its dangerous owner forces her into another urgent confrontation.
Closet Full of Time and Other Dark Tales
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2024
Five speculative stories explore technologies that consume the people they are meant to serve. Leased minds, intrusive advertisements and powerful algorithms place ordinary needs against inventions demanding sacrifices their users may not be able to afford.
Halfway to Better
by Susan Kaye Quinn
2024
Six stories imagine people confronting climate change while trying to build more hopeful futures. From deep-sea work to automated cities and flooded lighthouses, the collection follows efforts to survive environmental damage and create alternatives.
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