T Kingfisher Books in Order

Goblin sergeant Nessilka and her hapless squad are hurled deep behind enemy lines when a battle‑field wizard misfires. Teaming up with an exhausted elven veterinarian, they must trek home through forests full of trolls, monsters, and that most alarming creature of all: a human.

Miller’s daughter Rhea is forced into an engagement with unsettling Lord Crevan and summoned to his isolated manor. There she discovers six trapped wives and a castle full of curses, and must survive a night of impossible magical tasks to win her freedom.

This collection gathers Kingfisher’s fairy‑tale retellings for adults, from sharp, funny riffs on familiar stories to quieter, melancholy pieces. Expect talking wolves, cursed princesses, and a title story where having toads fall from your mouth isn’t quite the punishment it sounds.

Practical gardener Bryony takes shelter from a snowstorm in an enchanted manor where a Beast and a very peculiar house are bound together. Armed with gardening shears and stubborn common sense, she must unravel dark magic before it devours them both.

When Gerta’s friend Kay is stolen away by the Snow Queen, she sets out across a perilous, frozen world to bring him home. Traveling with a sardonic raven and a fierce bandit girl, she discovers that love and loyalty don’t always look the way she expected.

Convicted forger Slate is offered a last chance at life if she joins a mismatched team sent to uncover the secret of the unstoppable Clockwork Boys. Their "suicide mission" through enemy lands mixes dark magic, espionage, and sharp, weary humor.

A wide‑ranging short story collection featuring pieces like Nebula‑winning Jackalope Wives and The Tomato Thief. Desert witches, stubborn grandmothers, and strange small gods walk through tales that blend folklore, magic, and everyday grit in Kingfisher’s dry, compassionate voice.

Exhausted by life with her anxious, overprotective mother, eleven‑year‑old Summer accepts a wish from Baba Yaga and lands in the strange world of Orcus. With only a pocket weasel and unlikely allies, she must face creeping rot and a distant queen to find what she truly wants.

A hybrid volume that pairs wry essays on classic fairy tales with the complete Toad Words story cycle. Part sly criticism, part original fiction, it’s ideal if you enjoy seeing beloved tales taken apart and rebuilt with humor and sharp observation.

Widowed housekeeper Halla inherits a fortune—and grasping in‑laws who lock her up until she agrees to marry. When she draws an old sword to end it all, she releases Sarkis, a warrior bound to the blade, and their flight for legal help becomes a perilous road‑trip romance.

Around a campfire in the mortal world, a handful of fae, a selkie, and a shapeshifting horse trade stories about Rose MacGregor—the mortal woman who once seduced each of them in turn and then cheerfully went home to marry the village blacksmith instead.

The second half of the Clocktaur War duology finds Slate, Caliban, and their dubious allies finally inside Anuket City, hunting the source of the clockwork siege engines. Their espionage turns into a desperate race through guild halls and catacombs to avert disaster.

Twelve‑year‑old Oliver only knows three spells and is allergic to his armadillo familiar, but he’s the village’s only mage. When drought threatens everyone, frightened neighbors send him alone to fetch distant rain‑wizards, forcing him to face ghouls, bandits, and his own fear.

Mouse, a freelance editor, agrees to clear out her late grandmother’s hoarder house in rural North Carolina and finds her step‑grandfather’s mad journal and something wrong in the woods. Twisted deer, impossible hills, and an old occult text turn the job into folk horror.

Fourteen‑year‑old Mona’s magic only works on bread—until she discovers a corpse on the bakery floor and realizes someone is hunting wizards. With a homicidal sourdough starter and gingerbread soldiers, she becomes her city’s last, very floury line of defense.

Former paladin Stephen is still reeling from the sudden death of his god when he crosses paths with Grace, a shy perfumer fleeing murderous zealots. Drawn into assassination plots and a string of strange murders, they stumble toward trust, healing, and love.

Freshly divorced Kara moves into her uncle’s eccentric taxidermy museum and discovers a hole in the wall leading to a bunker and an endless landscape of willows. The beings that live there hear thoughts, and the more you fear them, the stronger they grow.

Lich‑doctor Piper is used to speaking for the dead, not chasing killers. When mangled bodies begin washing up in the river, he’s paired with unstable paladin Galen and a gnole constable, uncovering an ancient horror alongside an unexpected, fragile connection.

Paladin Istvhan is tracking a supernatural killer when his path collides with Clara, a bear‑shifting nun searching for the raiders who destroyed her convent. Their journey across dangerous countryside and gladiator pits tangles monsters, conspiracies, and a wary, hard‑won romance.

Rosa Mandolini is the youngest artist in a family of magical illuminators whose painted charms keep their city running. When curiosity leads her to open a sealed box and release the Scarling, a monster that unravels enchantments, she must save her family and their craft.

Convent‑raised princess Marra is done waiting for a hero to save her sister from an abusive prince. To kill him, she must complete three impossible tasks and gather an odd fellowship—a grave‑witch, a bone dog, a knight, and a demon‑possessed chicken.

Retired Gallacian soldier Alex Easton travels to the decaying Usher estate after hearing an old friend is dying. Fungal blooms, uncanny hares, and a stagnant tarn point to something unnatural in the house—something willing to use the living as its scaffolding.

Archaeoentomologist Sam Montgomery returns to her North Carolina childhood home and finds the house stripped of warmth, her mother jumpy, and vultures circling the roses. Digging into old stories about "underground children," she uncovers a family bargain that never really ended.

Spy and information broker Marguerite Florian has finally angered someone powerful enough to kill her. Hiring solemn paladin Shane as protection, she dives into glittering courts, frozen frontiers, and a demon‑touched conspiracy that could upend the world’s economy—and both their lives.

Toadling has spent centuries tending a wall of thorns around a sleeping princess, determined to keep the world safely outside. When a kind but stubborn knight finds the tower, she must finally explain the curse—and decide what it means to protect people from the truth.

Fourteen‑year‑old Cordelia has spent her life tiptoeing around her brilliant, cruel mother, a sorceress who can seize control of her body with a word. In a quiet country village, Cordelia uncovers grim secrets, unexpected allies, and a chance to break her mother’s hold.

Hoping for rest after the Usher affair, Alex Easton retreats to a neglected family hunting lodge in Gallacia. Instead they find frightened servants, tales of a breath‑stealing spirit, and a creeping sickness that feels far too much like something hungry testing the walls.

Healer Anja survives by dosing herself with poisons so she can treat patients no one else can save. Summoned to cure dying Princess Snow, she follows a trail of cursed apples and alchemy into a deadly mirror‑world where the wrong choice could doom them both.

Fleeing an emotionally abusive fiancé, Selena drives to her late aunt’s desert house hoping for refuge. Instead she finds journals about a lover called the Snake‑Eater, a terrifying desert spirit who feeds on devotion—and has no intention of letting Selena walk away.

Answering an urgent summons from Dr. James Denton, Alex Easton travels to a remote West Virginia mining town where tunnels twist in impossible ways and miners vanish underground. As the mountain shifts and groans, something shapeless and ancient begins to hunt in the dark.

In 1899, out‑of‑work scientific illustrator Sonia Wilson accepts a job cataloguing a reclusive doctor’s insect collection at his North Carolina manor. Animals act wrong, locals whisper about "blood thieves," and Sonia slowly realizes her employer’s groundbreaking research is paid for in human flesh.