Tales of the Citadel Books in Order

Brenawyn builds a life teaching at the Citadel after a Sector Guard rescues her from a dangerous planet. When he returns injured and needing her healing, an invitation to join his base raises questions about her freedom.

Iris uses dreams to locate missing people and animals, then hunts them with knives that stun. A Citadel assignment sends her into an alien jungle with Venin, an ancient shapeshifter whose instincts complicate their partnership.

Reported for possessing a talent, Ikari is taken from her farm and confined in a restrictive suit. A transfer to Teklan offers freedom and courier work, alongside a partner who has long anticipated her arrival.

Col hides her ability to fly on a world where talents are forbidden. Thrown from a roof during a museum robbery, she must expose her secret or die, drawing the attention of retrieval specialist Ysyr.

Naka's talent causes tremors, leading to confinement and a troubled transfer away from home. On Piq, a stolen moon and an endangered planetary consciousness create a crisis that may demand more than she can safely give.

Citadel instructor Syrella learns that she is the last heir to an ancient throne and must leave immediately. Accompanied by the bodyguard she has long admired, she faces death threats, ambitious nobles and a dangerous grandmother.

Rejected on her homeworld because of her talent, Dev joins the Citadel seeking acceptance elsewhere. Physician Helsin recruits her for a new base, where Sector Guard training prepares her for assignments involving crises and difficult living arrangements.

Drugged into hallucinations for four years, Erinii struggles to distinguish reality from the fantasies surrounding her imprisonment. A familiar face and a Citadel representative suggest escape may be possible, but she cannot trust her own perceptions.

After eight years confined in a restrictive suit, Hahvi is transferred to the Citadel. Dream master Rackon believes her abilities could save his people's city, but releasing her power safely presents a danger to everyone nearby.

Banished by her own people, Zeyan trains at the Citadel until a psychic plague forces her home. The illness breaks the connection between mind and body, while telepath Orenn sees both her power and a possible future together.

Alda-Xeri's gift lets her relieve suffering, but attending a dying duke changes her life. An assignment takes her into the hands of Raiders, where helping victims of experiments tests her hopes of gaining the freedom she was promised.

After centuries in stasis and years at the Citadel, Wiali loses her stellar father and faces life alone. A transfer brings her to Braenar, an Avatar who expects them to work together through dangerous assignments among the planets.

After ten years confined in the Dome, Kiiki accepts the Citadel's offer of freedom and work. Her new partner, Harken, can change his cloudlike body into any shape, making trust difficult as she begins using her powerful talent.

Aliiva accepts her ability to read thoughts but struggles with training at the Citadel, where combat instructors avoid her. Baengar takes her on as an apprentice, and a shared mission brings their growing attraction into their working relationship.

A tragedy opens Veera's mind to overwhelming telepathic contact, forcing her into isolation. Shapeshifter Stanik offers a mental link that could let her live openly again, but sharing minds also brings a new personal connection.

Kescu uses her heat talent to skate supplies between settlements beneath Wanlio 6's ice. Meeting botanist Lorvik offers a connection and the prospect of another life as her frozen home becomes increasingly painful.

When peace ends her life as a general, Jiska is assigned to protect a hostage negotiator at the Citadel. Deskin needs her skills, but working with him challenges both her patience and her habit of denying herself.

An alien beast's attack changes Priina and sends her away from her home world. Years of Citadel training prepare her for duty, but partnering with her rescuer forces her to confront instincts she has resisted.

Yavil absorbs everything she sees and can make students understand her lessons directly. Recruited by the Citadel, she catches the attention of instructor Hosh, who sees a new future for her unusual teaching abilities.

Rain returns to recover a weather machine she created centuries earlier, now used to damage Jarko's natural order. A Citadel member offers help, but reclaiming the invention and its memories will come at a price.

Vexaniali spends her life isolated on an empty world until Burn offers her work with the Citadel. Using her control of air to deliver a cure creates new purpose, exhaustion and an unexpected source of support.

Hidden infiltrates an archaeological team searching for an ancient weapon and discovers a woman with deadly powers. Awakened after a thousand years, Rathi must choose whom to trust while investigating what happened to her world.

Astral investigator Wiyra returns from an assignment to find her body, home and family missing. Unable to recover them alone, she turns to Master Tracker Burin at the Citadel, knowing his help will carry a cost.

Yohwen can let the dead speak to their loved ones for a night. The Citadel asks her to investigate a world where her entire species has died, bringing dangerous work and a connection with Scorcher Orkill.

Lieta can use the talents of anyone she touches, and the Citadel recruits her to stop others of her powerful species. An unexpected partnership with a former prisoner complicates her work against beings demanding worship.

Leyhara uses her ability to melt rock against attackers on Resicor, then leaves to find work suited to her power. Bohrvin recognizes the woman he has awaited for centuries, but courting her requires care.

Kidnapped from her home, Gwiette is tortured as her electrical power is drained for an unknown purpose. Nyral, a man who can stop time, rescues her and becomes involved in her recovery as well as her future.

After years as a royal bondservant, Iara escapes and continues her training at the Citadel. Her gift brings peace to others, but sharing a ship with Sector Guardsman Lock tests the calm she usually maintains.

Riasa helps the resistance protect talented people from surveillance on Resicor. Rescued and taken to Citadel Teklan, she senses something wrong in her new refuge, while a flyer named Natu becomes part of her changing life.

Separated from her sister, Noma finds purpose among people rejected by their society. As she helps shape a new Citadel, her training on Resicor offers a way to aid other talents, while a new man draws her attention.

Leadra can see souls, a forbidden gift on Resicor that led to imprisonment. Now free, she trains to hunt the possessing spirit responsible for her family's deaths, with pilot N'ran helping her travel beyond familiar ground.

Resistance worker Amly Hyde hides talented people on Resicor until she herself attracts attention. Walking Shadow rescues her and escorts her toward the Citadel, convinced they belong together while she remains focused on staying alive.

Yllin leaves a privileged life to develop her sonar skills at Citadel Ohkhan. An archaeological assignment in a buried city brings unexpected excitement, while repeated journeys with her former flight instructor Nearing deepen their connection.

Telepath Skiria secretly moves government files to protect hidden talents on Resicor. An imposed promotion makes her a prisoner in a role designed to suppress the planet's awakening, putting her health and the people she helps at risk.

Resicor's awakening magnifies Wimsah's mental powers until a coma becomes her only safe refuge. Benliar, Avatar of Roden, agrees to help contain her mind, while the companion Spot watches for a chance to support her recovery.

After years of Citadel training, Winera begins her first mission as a Scorcher alongside Sector Guardsman Hyl. Her destructive heat meets his gift for creating life, while a small companion named Smudge also claims a place beside her.

Trala and her twin face plans to imprison a planet's mind within them. Separated from Noma, Trala must reshape her world's society and confront invasions, with a mysterious man of shadows watching her back.

Ainora's ability to diagnose repairs makes her a captive resource for Resicor's government. Her family arranges an escape with bodyguard Lyon, whose toxic spikes meet unexpected resistance from the woman he has been sent to rescue.

Kedna learns to control her weather powers on the empty world of Iskan. Working with a resentful Sector Guardsman tests her patience, and a later reunion brings attraction into a relationship built on hard-earned respect.

Water elemental Mora has spent years isolated underground in service to Resicor's government. Citadel technician Tranoth prepares a breakout, but freeing a determined woman with a fragile mind will take patience as well as planning.

Koara can predict social change, but using her gift once cost her a home. Settled at Citadel Lowel, she receives an assignment that challenges her assumptions and demands a new perspective before disaster takes hold.

Jimra's ancestry blocks the firefighting career she wants on her home world. Joining her father's Citadel offers a new role as a specialist, where helping former Negotiator Huros brings a personal connection into her work.

Illuma's mixed ancestry leads her into xenobiology and espionage, using her talent to alter other beings' appearances. After she helps his sister, Olwick seeks her out, hoping to build a connection beyond gratitude and their shared origins.

Minerva loses her wings defending her home, discovering a hidden talent while operating a damaged mech. During recovery and Citadel training, her growing friendship with Astien offers affection while raising questions she would rather leave unanswered.

Simry is assigned to reach a stranded Guardian's mind from worlds away and keep him from giving up. N'kad finds his unexpected mental visitor irritating and captivating while they wait for physical rescue to arrive.

Imgrace grows up without powers in a society where that means a short life and rejection. An experiment with the Guardians and training at the Citadel challenge everything she believes about herself, while Shadow waits for her.

Brenn gets one year away from her dangerous emperor father to design a Citadel. Determined to use her freedom well, she finds unexpected kindness in her Drai host while preparing for the return she fears.

Abitika spends five years confined after using her talent to help her sister. Rescued by the Citadel, she discovers new mental abilities, and risky training with Turnari opens possibilities that reach beyond her recovery and professional future.

Reeda's gift for spotting trouble draws a Citadel recruiter's interest, but her protective spider mother must agree to the move. Training introduces Guardian Bilro, whose departure leaves their growing attraction facing the distance between assignments.

Nathaly flees after her mother's arrest and her father's imprisonment threaten her family. Rescued by the Sector Guard, she reaches Station 13, where training could turn her passive talent into a weapon alongside the Guardian Bright.

Citadel recruiter Enher-Dahl is lent to the Sector Guard for an undercover assignment she feels unqualified to handle. Her contact, Enjel Guardian Ulises, is pursuing related objectives, leaving their working relationship tangled with unexpected attraction.

Zee's tightly organized mind makes her useful at the Citadel, but an undercover mission investigating missing minders demands more. Working with espionage specialist Ikappi puts her sense of self, sanity, and life at risk.

Zez has spent years confined because trauma can trigger her ability to freeze time. Recruitment by the Sector Guard pairs her with Immune, but fear of harming innocent people and distrust of her partner complicate their work.

Mechanic Niad conceals a talent she is forbidden to use for rescue work. When a fire forces her to intervene, a Guardian witnesses her actions, putting her freedom and carefully maintained private life in jeopardy.

Condemned to die for stealing, Salika survives with help from her sand dog, Saluk. Her ability to move sand offers a chance to leave her world, but a recruiter discovers there is more to her talent.

Aymin's forbidden talent and tattoo nanites make her an outsider. When her supporters disappear, she is kidnapped for experiments aboard a space station, where a possible rescue offers a chance to show what she can do.

Rescued after months of experiments, Addy awakens from stasis thirty years later. Alone on a base in a changed world, she must face the destructive power now stored in her cells and the consequences of using it.

Yna blames a Guardsman for arriving too late to save the people she loved. When he needs her help rescuing his sister from execution, she must use her performing skills to pretend she is in love.

After years of dangerous service, Kiala wants to retire from bodyguard work. A proposed role involving investigation and the Citadel offers another direction, but working as a liaison brings her into contact with a familiar face.

A failed experiment turns genetics researcher Lydra blue and leaves her powerless on her home world. She takes crime scene work at Guardian Base Vidiaro, where the experiment's continuing effects threaten to transform her life again.