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See Tanya Huff’s books in order, with series background, short summaries, and guidance on key entry points for her military SF and fantasy.

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Child of the Grove

by Tanya Huff

1988

Young Crystal inherits a magical bloodline linking Ardhan’s royal family to the immortals of the Sacred Grove. When a surviving dark wizard threatens the kingdom, her emerging abilities may be the only power capable of resisting him.

A young woman who perceives supernatural beings, a street musician, and a homeless woman join an adept of Light in modern Toronto. Their unlikely alliance confronts a growing darkness that threatens to spill into the ordinary city.

The Last Wizard

by Tanya Huff

1989

After saving Ardhan, Crystal struggles to find purpose as the world’s last wizard. A chance rescue renews her connection with humanity and sends her on a search for a hidden treasure, testing what comes after a hero’s great victory.

The Fire's Stone

by Tanya Huff

1990

A thief, a dissolute prince, and a princess trained in wizardry form an uneasy alliance after a protective talisman is stolen. Recovering the Stone of Ischia means facing pirates and magic before the city’s volcano destroys it.

Blood Price

by Tanya Huff

1991

Former homicide detective Vicki Nelson investigates a Toronto murder that appears to involve a vampire. Her search introduces Henry Fitzroy, an actual vampire, and forces her to reconsider the supernatural while working around her deteriorating night vision.

Blood Lines

by Tanya Huff

1992

An ancient being escapes the protections surrounding a museum sarcophagus and begins influencing Toronto’s residents. Vampire Henry Fitzroy’s disturbing visions draw Vicki Nelson into an investigation that overlaps with Mike Celluci’s inquiries into mysterious deaths at the museum.

Blood Trail

by Tanya Huff

1992

A werewolf family living quietly on an Ontario farm becomes the target of systematic killings. Vampire Henry Fitzroy seeks Vicki Nelson’s help, relying on her ability to work by daylight as they race to identify and stop the murderer.

Blood Pact

by Tanya Huff

1993

Vicki Nelson travels to Kingston after learning that her mother has died, only to discover the body has vanished. Her search leads toward university experiments in life after death, turning grief into a deeply personal supernatural investigation.

Sing the Four Quarters

by Tanya Huff

1994

Annice renounces royal privilege and promises to remain childless so she can train as a bard. Years later, pregnancy and a treason accusation send her fleeing with her unborn child’s father, using elemental song to survive political danger.

Fifth Quarter

by Tanya Huff

1995

Sibling assassins Vree and Bannon attempt an apparently straightforward killing, but their target steals Bannon’s body. Trapped together inside Vree, they face a coercive bargain that pits recovering their separate lives against loyalty to the Empire they serve.

Scholar of Decay

by Tanya Huff

1995

Scholar Aurek Nuiken ventures into Richemulot’s underground passages in search of a spellbook that might save his wife. His quest draws him and his younger brother into competing attractions, sibling rivalries, and the schemes of dangerous wererats.

No Quarter

by Tanya Huff

1996

Vree carries Gyhard’s soul north to Shkoder, hoping its bards can give him a body without another death. Distrust of their violent histories obstructs that search, while animated corpses and Gyhard’s past create a new threat in the mountains.

Edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, this anthology explores queer characters and relationships through fantasy. Its stories consider love, loss, identity, and altered realities, with contributors including Tanya Huff, Ellen Kushner, and Robin Wayne Bailey.

Blood Debt

by Tanya Huff

1997

A ghost forces vampire Henry Fitzroy into a nightly question game in which wrong answers cost innocent lives. He calls private investigator Vicki Nelson for help uncovering the deaths behind the haunting before its demand for revenge claims more victims.

Summon the Keeper

by Tanya Huff

1998

Keeper Claire Hansen arrives at a rundown guesthouse and finds herself trapped with responsibility for its supernatural dangers. Her outspoken cat, an attractive handyman, and a ghost complicate the task of preventing the building’s troubles from threatening the universe.

Stealing Magic

by Tanya Huff

1999

Two linked collections follow Magdelene, an exceptionally powerful but reluctant wizard, and Terizan, a highly capable thief. Their adventures turn fantasy conventions into comic predicaments, as formidable abilities fail to spare either woman from awkward demands and complications.

The Quartered Sea

by Tanya Huff

1999

Bard Benedikt can sing only water, a limitation that separates him from his peers. After volunteering for an exploratory voyage, he is shipwrecked abroad and caught between political and religious rivals who want to exploit his elemental gift.

What Ho, Magic!

by Tanya Huff

1999

Fifteen stories range through magic, supernatural encounters and familiar Blood-series characters. Vicki, Henry and Mike investigate uncanny trouble alongside other fantastic tales, including a novella centered on a vengeful spirit associated with Lake Nepeakea.

Valor's Choice

by Tanya Huff

2000

Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr’s platoon is assigned to escort a diplomatic mission courting the warlike Silsviss. What appears to be ceremonial duty becomes dangerous as Confederation politics and the possibility of enemy interference place her marines at risk.

The Second Summoning

by Tanya Huff

2001

Claire Hansen wants to protect her ordinary human companion Dean from the hazards of her work as a Keeper. Their relationship instead produces unexpected cosmic complications when an angel and demon appear in Ontario, alongside interference from her younger sister.

The Better Part of Valor

by Tanya Huff

2002

After antagonizing a general, Torin Kerr is separated from her platoon and assigned to protect scientists exploring an enormous derelict spacecraft. An unreliable commander and the vessel’s uncertain origins turn the expedition into a potentially deadly military puzzle.

Long Hot Summoning

by Tanya Huff

2003

Newly active Keeper Diana Hansen receives her first summons at a shopping mall where Darkness is attempting a takeover. Her sister Claire and their talking cats provide backup, but crossing into the mall’s supernatural counterpart reveals far greater complications.

Relative Magic

by Tanya Huff

2003

Seventeen stories revisit thief Terizan and characters from the Blood novels alongside other fantastic settings. New and previously published adventures bring theft, vampires and magic together, with introductions explaining the background of each tale.

Smoke and Shadows

by Tanya Huff

2004

Television production assistant Tony Foster notices shadows moving independently on the set of a vampire detective show. A death and the discovery of a real wizard pull him back into supernatural danger, requiring help from his vampire ex, Henry Fitzroy.

Smoke and Mirrors

by Tanya Huff

2005

Wizard-in-training Tony Foster accompanies a television crew to an isolated historic mansion, expecting ordinary production headaches. Instead, ghosts and reenacted murders expose the house’s deadly history, trapping cast and crew overnight while Tony struggles to keep them alive.

Smoke and Ashes

by Tanya Huff

2006

Tony Foster’s wizard training competes with his demanding television job until a stuntwoman reveals a demonic threat to Vancouver. Protecting his coworkers and city becomes increasingly difficult as supernatural attacks collide with a production schedule that refuses to stop.

Finding Magic

by Tanya Huff

2007

Seventeen stories move between vampire encounters, fairy tales transformed by skateboarding and imagined worlds ruled by magic. Familiar supernatural figures enter unexpected settings, bringing desires and challenges that shift between everyday life and fantastic possibilities.

The Heart of Valor

by Tanya Huff

2007

Torin Kerr accompanies a recovering major to the Marine training planet Crucible for what should be a routine field test. When simulated combat turns lethal, she must protect the major, his doctor, and inexperienced recruits while investigating the disaster.

Blood Bank

by Tanya Huff

2008

This collection follows Vicki Nelson, vampire Henry Fitzroy, and police officer Mike Celluci through additional supernatural mysteries. Alongside the stories, it includes Huff’s screenplay for the Blood Ties episode Stone Cold and an introduction discussing her television work.

Valor's Trial

by Tanya Huff

2008

Presumed dead after a devastating battle, Torin Kerr awakens in an underground prison that should not exist. She organizes a way out for herself and fellow marines, while the camp raises troubling questions about the Confederation’s enemy and war.

The Enchantment Emporium

by Tanya Huff

2009

Alysha Gale inherits her grandmother’s Calgary junk shop and welcomes a chance to escape her powerful family. Its magical stock and unusual customers soon reveal hidden dangers, while her grandmother’s disappearance complicates Allie’s attempt to build an independent life.

The Truth of Valor

by Tanya Huff

2010

Torin Kerr leaves the Marines to share a salvage ship with Craig Ryder, but civilian work proves dangerous. When pirates kidnap Craig and abandon her, she calls on former comrades to mount a rescue and uncover the attackers’ purpose.

February Thaw

by Tanya Huff

2011

Seven contemporary fantasies uncover strange forces within recognizable surroundings. An imperial dragon appears in Toronto's Chinatown, Jack and the Beanstalk becomes a heavy-metal tale, and ancient gods reveal family dysfunction, making everyday settings unexpectedly magical.

Eight heroic fantasies travel from Camelot and ancient Egypt to fairy-tale landscapes and dangerous seas. Resourceful heroines navigate demanding adventures, while the author's annotations explain the origins and background of the stories collected here.

The Wild Ways

by Tanya Huff

2011

Musician Charlotte Gale travels to a Celtic festival in Nova Scotia, where stolen sealskins are being used to pressure selkies into supporting offshore drilling. Helping them means confronting a rival magical power and reconsidering her own family’s expectations.

The Silvered

by Tanya Huff

2012

When an invading empire captures five women from Aydori’s Mage-Pack, novice mage Mirian Maylin and werewolf Tomas Hagen pursue them. Their rescue mission takes them deep into enemy territory while the kingdom’s defenders remain occupied at the border.

This anthology gathers speculative short fiction and poetry by Canadian writers, spanning science fiction, fantasy, horror, and magical realism. Tanya Huff contributes an introduction to a collection exploring alternate realities and the social, technological, and environmental questions they raise.

Terizan's successful break-in at the Thieves' Guild gives her an unwanted reputation as Oreen's finest thief. In five tales, that status brings troublesome expectations involving mercenaries, royal families, ghosts, gods and wizards who complicate her work.

The Future Falls

by Tanya Huff

2014

An approaching asteroid threatens humanity, sending Charlotte Gale in search of a magical solution. With much of her powerful family unable to intervene directly, she relies on her guitar and dragon prince Jack while navigating complicated feelings and family pressure.

An Ancient Peace

by Tanya Huff

2015

Former Marine Torin Kerr assembles a team for missions the authorities cannot officially undertake. When ancient grave goods appear on the black market, they must stop looters from recovering buried weapons capable of destroying planets and reigniting interstellar war.

Third Time Lucky

by Tanya Huff

2015

Magdelene possesses more magical power than anyone else but would rather relax than accept responsibility. These seven stories follow her reluctant encounters with apprentices, demons, dragons and bureaucratic demands, accompanied by the author’s notes about their origins.

Three stories return to the Quarters world, following assassins Vree and Bannon through a dangerous assignment and an unconventional holiday. A third tale sends young bard Evicka to spy on Vree and Gyhard, with introductions from Huff.

A Peace Divided

by Tanya Huff

2017

Torin Kerr helps organize former military personnel into Justice Department strike teams suited to a troubled peace. When archaeologists are taken hostage on a restricted planet, her team must attempt a rescue while navigating the dangers of protecting civilians.

The Privilege of Peace

by Tanya Huff

2018

Torin Kerr has found purpose as a Warden, but the return of an alien ship tied to the former war unsettles her new life. With the Silsviss testing Confederation unity, preserving peace requires confronting the military past she left behind.

Edited by Brian Thomas Schmidt, this space opera anthology combines new stories from established fictional universes with work by earlier genre writers. Contributors include Tanya Huff, Becky Chambers, Jack Campbell, and Orson Scott Card, exploring conflict, discovery, and humanity beyond Earth.

Blood Shot

by Tanya Huff

2020

These stories revisit Vicki Nelson, Henry Fitzroy, Tony Foster, and others from the Blood universe. Their cases involve a kidnapped policeman, a dangerous siren, malicious wish-granting, dimensional travel, and supernatural trouble surrounding a missing child and a school.

Into the Broken Lands

by Tanya Huff

2022

The Heirs of Marsan must cross a landscape devastated by ancient mage wars to save their people. Their survival depends on an uncontrollable guide whose existence challenges their beliefs, testing family bonds, friendship, and their understanding of magic’s consequences.

Torin Kerr and her comrades face captured worlds, besieged cities and uncertain alien encounters in these Confederation stories. Familiar soldiers must balance loyalty, judgment and survival when difficult missions reveal dangers that conventional orders cannot fully address.

Direct Descendant

by Tanya Huff

2025

A missing visitor brings a private investigator to Lake Argen, whose prosperity depends on an ancient bargain with a dark force. Baker Cassidy Prewitt must manage the town’s supernatural crisis while developing feelings for the outsider investigating its secrets.

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Saved by the Spell

by Tanya Huff

2026

Teachers at a magical high school recognize a potential Hero among their new students and realize a Villain must be emerging too. While maintaining lessons and test scores, they must identify the threat and keep their charges alive.

He Said, Sidhe Said

by Tanya Huff

Seven contemporary fantasies approach loyalty through dogs, sea serpents through cats and relationships through mythical encounters. Ordinary commitments and unexpected supernatural complications test the characters, mixing painful choices with humor and the question of how to live well.

Blood and Smoke books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Blood Price"

    Blood Price

    by Tanya Huff

    1991Vicki Nelson, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Blood Lines"

    Blood Lines

    by Tanya Huff

    1992Vicki Nelson, Book 3
  3. Book cover for "Blood Trail"

    Blood Trail

    by Tanya Huff

    1992Vicki Nelson, Book 2
  4. Book cover for "Blood Pact"

    Blood Pact

    by Tanya Huff

    1993Vicki Nelson, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Blood Debt"

    Blood Debt

    by Tanya Huff

    1997Vicki Nelson, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "Smoke and Shadows"

    Smoke and Shadows

    by Tanya Huff

    2004Smoke Trilogy, Book 1
  7. Book cover for "Smoke and Mirrors"

    Smoke and Mirrors

    by Tanya Huff

    2005Smoke Trilogy, Book 2
  8. Book cover for "Smoke and Ashes"

    Smoke and Ashes

    by Tanya Huff

    2006Smoke Trilogy, Book 3
  9. Book cover for "Blood Bank"

    Blood Bank

    by Tanya Huff

    2008Vicki Nelson, Book 6
  10. Book cover for "Blood Shot"

    Blood Shot

    by Tanya Huff

    2020Vicki Nelson, Book 7

Gale Women books in order

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  1. Book cover for "The Enchantment Emporium"

    The Enchantment Emporium

    by Tanya Huff

    2009Gale Women, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Wild Ways"

    The Wild Ways

    by Tanya Huff

    2011Gale Women, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "The Future Falls"

    The Future Falls

    by Tanya Huff

    2014Gale Women, Book 3

Keeper Chronicles books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Summon the Keeper"

    Summon the Keeper

    by Tanya Huff

    1998Keeper Chronicles, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Second Summoning"

    The Second Summoning

    by Tanya Huff

    2001Keeper Chronicles, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Long Hot Summoning"

    Long Hot Summoning

    by Tanya Huff

    2003Keeper Chronicles, Book 3

Quarters books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Sing the Four Quarters"

    Sing the Four Quarters

    by Tanya Huff

    1994Quarters, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Fifth Quarter"

    Fifth Quarter

    by Tanya Huff

    1995Quarters, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "No Quarter"

    No Quarter

    by Tanya Huff

    1996Quarters, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "The Quartered Sea"

    The Quartered Sea

    by Tanya Huff

    1999Quarters, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Three Quarters: A Quarters Collection"

    Three Quarters: A Quarters Collection

    by Tanya Huff

    2016Quarters, Book 5

Valor Confederation books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Valor's Choice"

    Valor's Choice

    by Tanya Huff

    2000Valor Novel, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Better Part of Valor"

    The Better Part of Valor

    by Tanya Huff

    2002Valor Confederation, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "The Heart of Valor"

    The Heart of Valor

    by Tanya Huff

    2007Valor Confederation, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Valor's Trial"

    Valor's Trial

    by Tanya Huff

    2008Valor Confederation, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "The Truth of Valor"

    The Truth of Valor

    by Tanya Huff

    2010Valor Confederation, Book 5

Wizard of the Grove books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Child of the Grove"

    Child of the Grove

    by Tanya Huff

    1988Wizard of the Grove, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Last Wizard"

    The Last Wizard

    by Tanya Huff

    1989Wizard of the Grove, Book 2

Standalone Tanya Huff books

  1. Book cover for "Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light"
  2. Book cover for "The Fire's Stone"

    The Fire's Stone

    by Tanya Huff

    1990
  3. Book cover for "Scholar of Decay"

    Scholar of Decay

    by Tanya Huff

    1995Ravenloft, Book 9
  4. Book cover for "Bending the Landscape: Fantasy"

    Bending the Landscape: Fantasy

    by Tanya Huff

    1997Bending the Landscape, Book 1
  5. Book cover for "Stealing Magic"

    Stealing Magic

    by Tanya Huff

    1999
  6. Book cover for "What Ho, Magic!"

    What Ho, Magic!

    by Tanya Huff

    1999
  7. Book cover for "Relative Magic"

    Relative Magic

    by Tanya Huff

    2003
  8. Book cover for "Finding Magic"

    Finding Magic

    by Tanya Huff

    2007
  9. Book cover for "February Thaw"

    February Thaw

    by Tanya Huff

    2011
  10. Book cover for "Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy"
  11. Book cover for "The Silvered"

    The Silvered

    by Tanya Huff

    2012
  12. Book cover for "Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing"

    Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing

    by Tanya Huff

    2013Imaginarium, Book 2
  13. Book cover for "Swan's Braid and Other Tales of Terizan"
  14. Book cover for "An Ancient Peace"

    An Ancient Peace

    by Tanya Huff

    2015Peacekeeper, Book 1
  15. Book cover for "Third Time Lucky"

    Third Time Lucky

    by Tanya Huff

    2015And Other Stories of the Most Powerful Wizard in the World
  16. Book cover for "A Peace Divided"

    A Peace Divided

    by Tanya Huff

    2017Peacekeeper, Book 2
  17. Book cover for "The Privilege of Peace"

    The Privilege of Peace

    by Tanya Huff

    2018Peacekeeper, Book 3
  18. Book cover for "Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers"

    Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers

    by Tanya Huff

    2019Infinite Stars, Book 2
  19. Book cover for "Into the Broken Lands"

    Into the Broken Lands

    by Tanya Huff

    2022
  20. Book cover for "The Shorter Parts of Valor"
  21. Book cover for "Direct Descendant"

    Direct Descendant

    by Tanya Huff

    2025
  22. Book cover for "Saved by the Spell"

    Saved by the Spell

    by Tanya Huff

    2026
  23. Book cover for "He Said, Sidhe Said"

    He Said, Sidhe Said

    by Tanya Huff

    Publication date unknown

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