Tim Akers Books in Order
Browse Tim Akers books in order, with quick summaries, series background, and simple where-to-start tips for The Burn Cycle, Knight Watch, and more.
Last updated: July 13, 2026
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Tim Akers books in publication order
31 books
Heart of Veridon
by Tim Akers
2009
After surviving a second zepliner crash, disgraced former pilot Jacob Burn inherits a mysterious cog that every powerful faction in Veridon seems ready to kill for. His hunt for answers drags him through the city's church, underworld, and buried machinery.
The Horns of Ruin
by Tim Akers
2010
Eva Forge, last paladin of the dead god Morgan, watches her cult crumble as kidnappings and murders spread through the City of Ash. To stop the conspiracy, she must face old wounds, new allies, and the truth behind her god's fall.
Dead of Veridon
by Tim Akers
2011
Jacob Burn saved Veridon at a brutal cost, and the city repays him by cutting him loose from both law and criminal protection. To survive, he has to uncover the forces still using the city as a machine and him as fuel.
Blood of the Moon
by Tim Akers
2013
This Pathfinder player supplement explores lycanthropes, skinwalkers, and moon-touched character options. It mixes setting lore with rules, traits, and tools for building heroes who live close to the curse.
Bones of Veridon
by Tim Akers
2013
This collection gathers the short fiction that first shaped Veridon, adding more of the city's grime, magic, and machinery. It is the best way to see how Jacob Burn's world grew before and around the novels.
Memories of Copper and Blood
by Tim Akers
2013
Set in the same broader world as Wraithbound, this darker novella turns on war, memory, and the price of power. It asks what people will sacrifice when victory demands not just blood, but the very souls of the dead.
The Quiet Front
by Tim Akers
2013
Lt. Samuel Obern, a warmage in America's Army Arcane, is sent into wartime Europe on a secret mission where every order hides another lie. Between occult threats and a risen god, survival may cost more than obedience.
Blood of the Elements
by Tim Akers
2014
This Pathfinder player supplement focuses on geniekin ancestries and elemental magic. It offers lore, gear, spells, and character options for players who want air, earth, fire, or water at the center of a build.
People of the River
by Tim Akers
2014
This Pathfinder player supplement covers the River Kingdoms, Numeria, and characters shaped by life along major waterways. It adds regional lore, archetypes, traits, and other options tied to river-based adventuring.
The Pagan Night
by Tim Akers
2016
Tenumbra is breaking under old hatred, church rule, and gods that refuse to stay quiet. As war closes in, an inquisitor, a pagan survivor, and a scarred veteran are drawn into a conflict bigger than any of them expected.
The Iron Hound
by Tim Akers
2017
War between north and south turns savage fast, but human hatred is only the start. As ancient forces rise and creatures spread ruin across Tenumbra, old enemies have to face a threat that could consume the whole island.
City in the Lion's Eye
by Tim Akers
2018
General Pythareus is ready to push Taldor into open war from the fortress-city of Zimar. Even with the Lion Blades on their side, the heroes have to outmaneuver a brutal military conspiracy before thousands die.
Crownfall
by Tim Akers
2018
A celebration in Taldor's capital turns into a deadly succession crisis when blood runs through the senate halls. The heroes must escape, protect the heir, and try to stop a civil war before it tears the empire apart.
Songbird, Scion, Saboteur
by Tim Akers
2018
To strengthen Princess Eutropia's claim, the heroes infiltrate the decaying county of Meratt and move against the corrupt Count Lotheed. It is a campaign of public charm, private sabotage, and local problems left to rot for too long.
The Reaper’s Right Hand
by Tim Akers
2018
Evidence that the royal bloodline may be illegitimate throws every noble claim into chaos. To prove Eutropia's right to rule, the heroes must seek the First Emperor's blessing in a stranger, more dangerous realm.
The Six-Legend Soul
by Tim Akers
2018
With their patron struck down, the heroes face the secret society behind Taldor's latest disaster and a past that refuses to stay buried. Ending the war means confronting six resurrected emperors and the empire's oldest sins.
The Twilight Child
by Tim Akers
2018
In Yanmass, soldiers vanish, bandits grow bolder, and nightmares spread through the city as the civil war worsens. The deeper the heroes dig, the more the mysterious Twilight Child and his followers seem tied to the chaos.
The Winter Vow
by Tim Akers
2019
On the eve of battle, armies splinter, alliances fail, and a terrifying new power rises from slaughter with the dead at its command. Malcolm Blakley and his allies must decide what can still be saved before the war ends everything.
Bulletproof Air
by Tim Akers
2020
Joan Dark is a sword-for-hire in Durham Arcology, a hard future of bulletproof air and engineered killers. When the city's violence closes in, survival means cutting through layers of tech, power, and very human desperation.
Knight Watch
by Tim Akers
2020
John Rast expects a mock fight at the Ren Faire, not a real dragon. That one impossible duel pulls him into Knight Watch, the hidden order protecting the modern world from monsters, magic, and disasters no one else can even see.
Lonely Power Armor
by Tim Akers
2022
The war is long over, but one forgotten suit of power armor never got the message. When a young girl befriends it, that impossible bond threatens her village and could reshape the world around them.
Valhellions
by Tim Akers
2022
John Rast's latest assignment turns into a race against a necromancer, a weapon born from Nazi occult experiments, and Valkyries bent on apocalypse. To clear his name and save the world, he has to survive the strangest corners of Knight Watch.
Prophet of a Blind God
by Tim Akers
2023
Hunted by the Guild of the Wheel, Lohit Maast flees into the Mossmarch with a sword he barely understands and memories he cannot trust. A hidden cabal offers answers, but their prophecy may make him savior, weapon, or doom.
Servant of a Pale Sword
by Tim Akers
2023
Lohit Maast goes to the Temple of Absolution to cut away a terrible sin and wakes with his memories shattered instead. With only a strange sword and scattered clues, he has to decide whether his lost self was victim, hero, or monster.
Wraithbound
by Tim Akers
2023
Rae Kelthannis wants the power of a stormbinder, but one reckless act binds him to a murdered mage's wraith instead of an air elemental. Now assassins, demons, and the unraveling Ordered World are all coming for him.
Demon in the Dark Water
by Tim Akers
2024
Lohit's search for his lost memories takes him to the broken coast of the Feral Sea and an island hidden from mortal eyes. What he finds there deepens the mystery of who he was and what he may become.
The Eccentrics
by Tim Akers
2024
Clockwork horrors and mad science pull John Rast into an uneasy partnership with the airship-riding Eccentrics, led by the eighth incarnation of Nikola Tesla. To save both worlds, he has to survive a villain who wants to rewrite reality itself.
The Last Dragon Knight
by Tim Akers
2025
Corem Holt is an exiled warrior marked by the Crow and cursed with the Dragon's fury. When the past finds him again, he has to stand between the people he loves and the war that already destroyed his life.
The Memory and The Maze
by Tim Akers
2025
In Tomlui House, a place built in the shape of a memory, Lohit and Idrehi search for the pieces of his missing past. The maze-like sanctuary offers answers, but it may also break their purpose apart.
Knight of the Wyrm
by Tim Akers
2026
This short tale adds more of the old vows, battlefield cost, and dragon-marked duty behind Corem Holt's world. It deepens the larger saga by showing the kind of choices that make heroes and ruin them.
The Dragon in the Mists
by Tim Akers
2026
After saving Jotland and nearly destroying himself, Corem Holt goes into exile with the Dragon's fury still inside him. His road to redemption leads north, into mist-shrouded Vintand, where the source of a darker corruption waits.
Where to start with Tim Akers
If you want steampunk noir: Heart of Veridon → Dead of Veridon → Bones of Veridon
If you want epic fantasy war and religion: The Pagan Night → The Iron Hound → The Winter Vow
If you want modern monsters and a lighter touch: Knight Watch → Valhellions → The Eccentrics
If you want newer hard-magic adventure: Wraithbound → Servant of a Pale Sword → The Last Dragon Knight
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City in the Lion's Eye
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 4
Crownfall
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 1
Songbird, Scion, Saboteur
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 2
The Reaper’s Right Hand
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 5
The Six-Legend Soul
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 6
The Twilight Child
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 3
War for the Crown books in chronological order

Crownfall
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 1
Songbird, Scion, Saboteur
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 2
The Twilight Child
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 3
City in the Lion's Eye
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 4
The Reaper’s Right Hand
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 5
The Six-Legend Soul
by Tim Akers
2018War for the Crown, Book 6
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Author bio
Tim Akers was born on December 12, 1972, and grew up in rural North Carolina. He has described himself as the only son of a theologian, which feels fitting for a writer who keeps coming back to faith, doubt, old gods, and the people caught between them.
Chicago was the next big turn.
He moved there for college and stayed, building a life that runs on books, bad weather, and city energy. He has long made Chicago home, and he often talks about it with dry affection, the winters, the traffic, the hot dogs, all of it.
Before the novels took over, Akers was publishing short fiction and doing game work. The Veridon stories he started sketching in 2006 grew into his debut novel, Heart of Veridon, and later into the collection Bones of Veridon. That early path matters, because you can still feel it in his fiction: he likes worlds with history, systems, factions, and rules that push back.
He writes like someone who enjoys both maps and momentum.
Akers' books move around the fantasy and science fiction shelf, but they share a certain shape. The Horns of Ruin throws a fallen paladin into a city of dead gods, chain guns, and conspiracy. The Pagan Night, The Iron Hound, and The Winter Vow widen the lens into war, religion, and political fracture, but they never lose sight of the bruised people at the center.
Then there is his lighter, more openly playful side. In Knight Watch and Valhellions, he takes secret-war urban fantasy and runs it through Ren fairs, conventions, dragons, necromancers, and just enough absurdity to keep things lively. Readers who like fantasy that remembers to have fun tend to land there fast.
More recently, he has kept experimenting. Wraithbound opens the Spiritbinder Saga with hard magic, family disgrace, and a boy who binds himself to the wrong supernatural force. Newer projects like Servant of a Pale Sword and The Last Dragon Knight show the same love of high-stakes fantasy, but in a tighter, punchier mode.
He likes broken heroes, dangerous vows, and cities that feel one bad day from collapse.
Across the catalog, you see the same interests again and again: religion as a living force, old power colliding with new machinery, loyalty under pressure, and characters who have to fight their way through systems bigger than themselves. Even when the setup is wild, steampunk cogs, demon-haunted war fronts, soul-binding magic, the emotional pull is pretty direct. Somebody is in over their head. Somebody made a promise. The bill has come due.
These days he is still in Chicago with his wife, still writing, and still very much the kind of author who can move from epic fantasy to cyberpunk to game material without seeming lost. He has also mentioned hobbies like pewter miniatures and fountain pens, which tracks. His books often feel built by someone who enjoys both craft and mess, the careful structure, and the moment when everything catches fire.
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