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Tony Roberts Books in Order

Browse Tony Roberts books in order, from Casca to Kastania and Siren, with short summaries, series background, and clear starting points for each series.

Last updated: June 10, 2026

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Halls of Montezuma

by Tony Roberts

2006

Back in America and hunted on several fronts, Casca joins the U.S. Army as war with Mexico begins. Protecting an immigrant family leads him to the Marines and the assault on Chapultepec.

Johnny Reb

by Tony Roberts

2007

As the Civil War erupts, Casca fights for Virginia and turns raw recruits into soldiers. Battlefield danger is only part of the problem, because the Brotherhood is closing in and someone in his own unit wants him dead.

The Avenger

by Tony Roberts

2008

Casca returns to Constantinople bent on revenge against the Brotherhood of the Lamb. To reach the men he wants, he must fight his way through chariot racing, court intrigue, and imperial double-dealing.

The Confederate

by Tony Roberts

2008

From Sharpsburg to Gettysburg, Casca tries to keep his shrinking band alive as the Confederacy begins to break. The Brotherhood is still hunting him, and the war outside is not his only battle.

Napoleon's Soldier

by Tony Roberts

2009

Casca marches with Napoleon into Russia, where winter may kill faster than enemy fire. A murdered village, a stolen icon, and a killer nearby give him a second mission inside the campaign.

The Conqueror

by Tony Roberts

2009

After his Normandy farm is destroyed, Casca follows vengeance into William's invasion of England. Love, ambition, and one ruthless enemy pull him straight into the fight for 1066.

Devil's Horseman

by Tony Roberts

2010

Casca rejoins the Mongol Horde and is dragged into a brutal struggle over succession while Europe burns ahead of them. A stolen woman and a guarded coronation stone make the ride even bloodier.

The Anzac

by Tony Roberts

2010

Casca escapes discovery in Egypt by burying himself inside an Australian unit bound for Gallipoli. Between trench warfare, military police, and betrayal in the ranks, he has nowhere safe to stand.

The Minuteman

by Tony Roberts

2011

A rivalry over Rose Maplin turns vicious just as rebellion breaks out in British America. Casca ends up with the Minutemen and faces Sir Richard Eley from Bunker Hill to Trenton.

Roman Mercenary

by Tony Roberts

2012

Shaken by Rome's fall, Casca accepts what should be a simple rescue mission into barbarian-held territory. Gold draws a rough band around him, but one of his companions is hiding another agenda.

The Continental

by Tony Roberts

2012

Taken prisoner during the American Revolution, Casca endures a British prison hulk before making a desperate escape. Freedom gives him one last chance to settle his score with Sir Richard Eley.

Empire of Avarice

by Tony Roberts

2013

The Kastanian Empire is collapsing under war and corruption when general Astiras Koros makes a grab for power. Saving the realm means crushing rebellion, surviving court plots, and sending his family into danger.

Blitzkrieg

by Tony Roberts

2014

A murder inquiry in Berlin drives Casca to hide inside Germany's new panzer corps. War with Poland, Belgium, and France follows, while the law and older enemies close in behind him.

Prince of Wrath

by Tony Roberts

2014

The fall of one revolt does not save Kastania for long. As fresh rebellion grows and family tensions sharpen, Prince Jorqel races to rescue Sannia before his enemies turn an entire people into drugged pawns.

Sword Of The Brotherhood

by Tony Roberts

2014

The Brotherhood of the Lamb forces Casca into a mission he cannot refuse by threatening Ayesha. To save her and recover the Spear of Longinus, he must march with Emperor Heraclius into war against Persia.

The Crusader

by Tony Roberts

2014

Casca joins the First Crusade after agreeing to protect a helpless French noblewoman. Her hidden relic and the Brotherhood's arrival turn a holy war into a deeply personal fight.

The Longbowman

by Tony Roberts

2014

Casca steals a criminal's girl and escapes by joining Henry V's army for France. As siege, disease, and an assassin bear down on them, he marches toward Agincourt with nowhere else to go.

Barbarossa

by Tony Roberts

2015

As Hitler's armies drive into Soviet Russia, Casca rides with the German spearhead and battles across the Eastern Front. At the same time, the Brotherhood tightens its hunt with the help of the Nazi state.

Dark Blade

by Tony Roberts

2015

After her mother's death, half-dark elf Faerowyn is driven from the only home she knows. With only Markus beside her, she follows the trail left by her mysterious father and goes looking for where she truly belongs.

House of Lust

by Tony Roberts

2015

Princess Amne's unhappy marriage drives her into a reckless affair with an ambitious nobleman who wants power as much as passion. Her scandal threatens the dynasty just as Astiras uncovers a plot against his throne.

Scourge Of Asia

by Tony Roberts

2015

A desperate Byzantine emperor sends Casca east to find a warlord strong enough to break the Ottoman rise. His search carries him into Central Asia and into the orbit of the rising Timur.

Balkan Mercenary

by Tony Roberts

2016

In the wreckage of Yugoslavia in 1991, Casca joins a covert Croatian mission to kill a war criminal before ethnic cleansing begins. Personal revenge drives him too, but his own team is hiding deadly secrets.

Emperor's Mercenary

by Tony Roberts

2016

Back in a divided Roman world, Casca fights for Emperor Honorius while hunting a priceless artifact behind enemy lines. The battlefield is dangerous, but imperial politics may be deadlier.

Path of Pride

by Tony Roberts

2016

War with Venn resumes as young prince Argan is pushed toward command, rule, and adulthood. His pride makes him vulnerable, and only Sasia sees how quickly rival houses could turn his promise into a fall.

Siren

by Tony Roberts

2016

Katie Long comes from a musical family, but asthma, allergies, shyness, and school bullying keep her world painfully small. Then a chain of events on her fifteenth birthday puts her dream of rock stardom within reach.

The Heir of Gorradan

by Tony Roberts

2016

Faerowyn returns to Gorradan to find a new ruler, a missing friend, and a kingdom full of hidden agendas. To win Captain Lace's freedom, she must hunt a lost heir through the dangerous Losingar Forest.

Okra's Tower

by Tony Roberts

2017

Faer's search for her father leads home again, then into a tower full of traps, monsters, and old fear. Worse, one of the people traveling with her is determined not to let her come back out.

Sirensong

by Tony Roberts

2017

Four years after Siren's breakthrough, success has hardened into pressure, drugs, and creative strain. Katie has to hold her band together while touring, bad decisions, and falling sales threaten to pull it apart.

The Cavalryman

by Tony Roberts

2017

A frontier vendetta pushes Casca onto the trail of a brutal gang and into the ranks of Custer's 7th Cavalry. His hunt for one last survivor ends at Little Bighorn.

The Viking

by Tony Roberts

2017

Trying to escape Charlemagne's wars, Casca is taken by Viking raiders and dragged north. He wins a place among them, but holding power in a settlement of rival jarls proves harder than taking it.

Throne of Envy

by Tony Roberts

2017

As Astiras ages and the question of succession grows sharper, brothers Istan and Argan both move to prove themselves worthy of the throne. Their rivalry unfolds against invasion, rebellion, and mounting family strain.

Faerowyns War

by Tony Roberts

2018

Faerowyn finds the first of her father's people hiding inside a corrupt, tense city. With only a handful of followers, she decides to turn unrest into power and start reclaiming what her house lost.

Katie

by Tony Roberts

2018

Katie wakes from a coma to find eight months missing, her health shattered, and her songwriting gone. Rebuilding her life means facing old family wounds and deciding whether Siren can live again.

The Austrian

by Tony Roberts

2018

Vienna is ringed by Ottoman forces, and Casca rides to the city's defense with an old score to settle. The siege is fierce enough on its own, but the Brotherhood is waiting inside the walls.

The Lombard

by Tony Roberts

2018

Living among the Lombards at the edge of Italy, Casca learns that his old enemy Narses has surfaced again. To reach him, Casca and the woman he loves must survive a land split by rival powers and old hatreds.

Gods of Gluttony

by Tony Roberts

2019

A new emperor should bring stability, but Jorqel finds priests, princes, and rival houses plotting to unseat him. To hold the empire together, he is forced into a darker kind of politics.

Siren's Return

by Tony Roberts

2019

A huge comeback single puts Siren back on top and sends the band roaring into a new era of fame. Then public backlash and a devastating personal revelation threaten to break Katie all over again.

The Black Island

by Tony Roberts

2019

Now ruling Selbis, Faerowyn sets out to recover family heirlooms sold long ago to corsairs. To reach them she must infiltrate the Black Island while her city faces monsters, enemies, and the threat of wider war.

The Commissar

by Tony Roberts

2019

Caught in the collapse of the Russian front in 1917, Casca throws in with the Red Army as civil war spreads through Ukraine. When communist brutality shows its true face, escape becomes as deadly as battle.

The Saracen

by Tony Roberts

2019

Cast ashore after a storm, Casca drifts into the violent world of crusaders and Saladin. A feud, a siege, and one woman in mortal danger force him to fight on both personal and historic fronts.

Love's Refrain

by Tony Roberts

2020

As tension with Paul deepens and the band edges toward fracture, Katie keeps fighting to hold Siren together. A buried personal tragedy finally surfaces, forcing her to choose between old pain and a chance to heal.

Sins of Sloth

by Tony Roberts

2020

Prince Istan's wounded pride curdles into withdrawal, and his neglect helps Bragal slide toward war again. As rebels, spies, and rival claimants move, the next battle for Kastania becomes dangerously personal.

The Last Defender

by Tony Roberts

2020

Constantinople is under siege, and Casca cannot watch the last remnant of Rome fall without a fight. He joins the desperate defense against the Ottoman armies in a battle that feels personal as well as historic.

The Mountains of Butchok

by Tony Roberts

2020

A traitor challenges Faerowyn's authority, sending her into dwarf country and the lost city of Dirakul. The journey offers another clue about her father, but the mountain is full of creatures and hostile schemes.

The Rough Rider

by Tony Roberts

2020

Casca joins Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders in Cuba and rides into the bloody fight for Santiago. The war is brutal enough, but a personal vow to protect a young woman pulls him into an even more dangerous private conflict.

The Killer

by Tony Roberts

2021

Fresh from Indo-China, Casca and his Legion comrades are thrown into the Algerian War. Fighting guerrillas, terror, and French brutality on every side, he earns a fearsome new name, al-Kattel, The Killer.

The Moor

by Tony Roberts

2021

Freed from a fifty-year burial under the Sahara, Casca reaches North Africa just as the Moorish push into Spain begins. Vengeance, new loyalties, and another decisive clash over Europe's future shape his path.

The Iron Duke's Man

by Tony Roberts

2022

After escaping the aftermath of Russia, Casca hopes for rest in the west. Napoleon's return ruins that plan, and soon he is marching under Wellington toward the final reckoning at Waterloo.

The Red Rose

by Tony Roberts

2022

After helping young noblewoman Genevieve Fitzroy, Casca is drawn into Beaufort service as the Wars of the Roses begin. Protecting her while loyalties shift and armies collide becomes his real test.

The Explorer

by Tony Roberts

2023

Restless in Egypt, Casca sails east with Ayesha and is wrecked on the coast of India. A local feud soon grows into a war between kingdoms, and getting out alive becomes its own campaign.

The Hunter

by Tony Roberts

2023

The war in Ukraine gives Casca a new battlefield, but his real mission is even darker. The Brotherhood is racing to recover a secret weapon abandoned at Chernobyl, and Casca has to stop them first.

Where should I start?

If you want the historical action series: Halls of MontezumaJohnny RebThe Confederate
If you want a medieval Casca arc: The CrusaderThe SaracenThe Last Defender
If you want empire politics and fantasy intrigue: Empire of AvaricePrince of WrathHouse of Lust
If you want a personal quest fantasy: Dark BladeThe Heir of GorradanOkra's Tower
If you want music, fame, and character drama: SirenSirensongKatie

Author bio

Tony Roberts is a British novelist whose work sits at the junction of action adventure, fantasy, and long-running series fiction. He is best known for continuing Casca, the historical fantasy saga about an immortal soldier, but his own shelves also include the imperial drama of Empire of Avarice, the quest-driven Dark Blade books, and the music story that starts with Siren.

He has built his career the steady way, one series at a time.

Roberts' path into Casca was unusual. In 2000 he created the official website for the series, and in 2005 he got in touch when the owners were looking for a writer to carry it on. That led to Halls of Montezuma in 2006, the first Casca novel under his name, and from there he became the writer most closely linked with the modern run of the immortal mercenary's adventures.

That beginning says a lot about him.

He came to a franchise as a reader, then stayed to do the hard work of keeping it alive. His Casca novels send the cursed soldier through very different parts of history, from the Mexican-American War in Halls of Montezuma and the American Civil War in Johnny Reb to the First Crusade in The Crusader, the fall of Constantinople in The Last Defender, Waterloo in The Iron Duke's Man, and even the war in Ukraine in The Hunter. Readers who like military action, shifting periods, and a hero who can walk into any century tend to find a lot to enjoy there.

But Roberts did not stop with inherited worlds. He also built his own fantasy settings. The Kastania books, beginning with Empire of Avarice, follow a weakening empire, the Koros family's rise, and the grind of war and court politics. The Faerowyn sequence, starting with Dark Blade, begins more intimately, with a half-dark elf trying to understand her parentage, before the story opens into larger battles over power, place, and survival.

Then there is Siren, which shows another side of his imagination. That series begins in Britain at the end of the 1970s with Katie Long, a shy, bullied girl from a musical family who dreams of becoming a rock star while dealing with illness and self-doubt. Later books such as Sirensong, Katie, and Love's Refrain turn that setup into a longer story about fame, band tension, recovery, family strain, and the stubborn work of keeping a creative life going.

Across all of these books, Roberts returns to a few clear interests. He likes characters under pressure. He likes long arcs instead of neat one-book closures. He likes systems under strain, armies, courts, families, bands, and the people trying to stay themselves inside them. Even when the setting changes completely, his stories keep circling questions of loyalty, endurance, identity, and what people become when events leave them with no easy choice.

His public biography is fairly spare, but his output is not. He has said he has been writing Casca since 2005, and his current author pages show him still publishing new Casca and Kastania books in 2026 while keeping his earlier fantasy and Siren titles in view. The picture that emerges is of a writer who likes worlds big enough to live in for years.

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