Wine of the Gods Books in Order

Eight rebel wizards have spent centuries imprisoned as goats by a tyrant's spell. When an old wizard in Ash loses control of them, the village faces powerful men whose desire for revenge has survived their captivity.

Three stories follow genetically altered exiles building lives on a dangerous parallel world. Their struggles span the first settlement, later city states and political conflicts, and a distant future shaped by thieves, horses and disasters.

Earth once abandoned genetically engineered people on a hostile parallel world, expecting them to die. Thirteen centuries later, renewed contact brings Earth face to face with their descendants and a society it no longer understands.

Sixteen-year-old Wolfgang Oldham escapes a company that claims ownership of him as a genetically engineered child. After his recapture, training designed to make his psychic abilities useful creates dangers his captors have failed to understand.

Six short stories and a novella revisit Ash and the wider Wine of the Gods universe. Oscar, Bran, spies and visitors face magical complications surrounding an approaching comet, its aftermath, and the unusual legacy of Ba'al.

Young witch Rustle Neverdaut struggles with bullies, high society and her formidable family while learning magic in Ash. Meanwhile, an approaching comet and a later, larger threat force the world's magicians to prepare for disaster.

Earth and the Empire of the One claim the same parallel world, whose inhabitants reject both powers. Ash's magicians and royal intelligence officers monitor foreign spies as competing ambitions threaten another conflict across the dimensions.

Exhausted and stripped of much of her magic after saving her world, a woman escapes through a dimensional gate. A town offers her refuge, but an attack forces her to reconsider what strength she has left.

Four stories follow young people growing up with magic on Comet Fall, including a god's son, a farm boy, an orphan and a prince. Their unusual abilities complicate the choices that will shape their adult lives.

After her roommate takes her boyfriend, a young woman spends Saturday night at home. The unexpected arrival of a very strange man interrupts her disappointment in this short story set in the Wine of the Gods universe.

Prince Staven Negue survives an attack that kills his brother, the heir to the throne. With an assassin threatening the royal family, he must discover who commissioned the killings and whether the danger comes from within.

Young wizard Xen Wolfson and Prince Garit Negue begin the customary two years of army service in the Kingdom of Ash. Their training becomes urgent when the Empire of the One returns with ambitions of conquest.

Presidential guard Rael Withione is recovering from an assassination attempt when her brother-in-law's murder draws her into an investigation. Her search exposes blackmail, drug smuggling and political corruption alongside the demands of her own rehabilitation.

Intelligence agent Jaime Felis joins a mission to Comet Fall to study its genetically derived magic. When war between Earth and the Empire leaves him stranded, his own limited abilities complicate the struggle to get home.

After an attack through a dimensional gate, Xen Wolfson infiltrates the Empire of the One under an assumed identity. He and his fellow spies need information that could prevent a new war between their worlds.

Raised for military command, Prince Staven must rethink his future after his brother's death and his own crippling injury. Becoming heir to the crown brings political responsibilities and social expectations he never wanted or prepared for.

Princess Rior, an agent assigned to influence a foreign ruler, is tricked into adultery and divorce. Handed to another husband and driven out of town, she faces a personal crisis alongside the collapse of her mission.

Fean Withione begins her first science assignment for the Exterior Directorate after a difficult internship. Collecting animals on a parallel world where the Nazis won the war proves more complicated than her optimistic expectations allow.

Two Warriors of the One shelter surviving dependents in a dimensional bubble as their fort falls. When they emerge a thousand years later, their wartime training clashes with a society that has changed beyond recognition.

The God of Just Deserts realizes that his wife is aging while he remains unchanged. A young magician may offer help, but the possibility forces him to consider the price of altering her future.

Seventeen-year-old mage Falco Newton shelters from a comet inside dimensional bubbles in the God of Art's museum. A thousand years later, he and his friends face an unfamiliar world and problems carried over from their past.

Naval intelligence officer Kara Kitha needs to deliver a list of traitors to her superiors in the Cove Islands Navy. Her determination leads her to seek help from the God of Spies in this novella.

The God of Just Deserts sends his three mischievous sons on the traditional two-year military tour. Away from home, the triplets must confront responsibilities and experiences that demand more maturity than their usual antics require.

Three stories and additional outtakes follow magical potions as they disrupt several lives. A desperate divorcee, an aspiring God of Thieves, a poor rural family and a young officer each encounter their far-reaching effects.

Wizard and spy Xen Wolfson attempts to bring Earth and the Empire of the One into diplomatic talks. Preventing another war becomes more difficult when a criminal gang operating across dimensions also demands his attention.

Paer Withione competes for a place on the Paris Division's Olympic show jumping team. With three riders tied and magic forbidden in competition, she suspects someone is willing to interfere beyond the show ring.

Four stories follow criminals who escape a raid on their headquarters at Embassy. Some pursue further violence while others try to change, with separate tales involving assassins facing an invasion and a gang of bank robbers.

Two novellas follow Rael Withione through official orders, home renovations and wedding preparations. She investigates the motives behind her instructions in one story and an attempted murder surrounding her sister's planned marriage in the other.

Heliotrope is adapting to life at a medieval university on a parallel world when witches abduct her infant daughter. She must confront the Black Island Pyramid, whose members steal children to build their magical power.

An ancient catastrophe sent the Helaos world drifting through the multiverse toward a collision with another planet. Xen Wolfson attempts to prevent the disaster, even though saving the wandering world appears impossible to everyone else.

Returning to work after a failed assassination attempt, Rael Withione studies the legendary abilities of the Warriors of the One. Among tales of invisibility, telepathy and battle magic, the possibility of flying particularly interests her.

Adopted by the Emperor at twelve, Prince Primus Warric Menchuro receives an education in governing Arbolia. He must conceal his magical talent, knowing that discovery could place him under the control of priests as a god.

An interim committee orders Rael Withione to kill Xen Wolfson after President Orde faces a confidence crisis. Her reluctance collides with pressure from the One, while a bonus story brings a film production to Government House.

Presidential guard Scar spends his ordinary days patrolling hallways and trying to find a date. An investigation into a politician's poisoning becomes personal when the chief suspect is the woman he has been hoping to approach.

Directorate agent Ajha returns home to find a local political campaign turning deadly and his sprawling family entangled in the trouble. Religious tensions and interdimensional diplomacy complicate his effort to identify a murderer before further killings occur.

New External Relations director Izzo must tackle corruption and nepotism while negotiating peace over the disputed Granite Peak Colony. Pressure from interdimensional authorities and complications at home make his first year in office increasingly difficult to manage.

Xen and his friends try to prevent an interdimensional disaster that threatens billions of lives. Eldon, weary of gold mining and missing ordinary pleasures, becomes crucial to protecting the Empire of the One from the Helios Cannibals.

Rael prepares to meet Xen's formidable family, including the God of War and the witch responsible for dimensional gates. The visit becomes awkward when powerful relatives and royal connections suspect that she has arrived on an assassination mission.

Multidimensional criminal Eldon Denison escapes the unwanted consequences of heroism by entering another parallel Earth. Landing in a woman's car brings a fresh encounter and new trouble, undermining his attempt to leave his latest adventures behind.

Sixteen-year-old Arno sees an opportunity when explorers discover a world that diverged from his own sixty years earlier. With a few days available and a plan in mind, he sets out to rescue a prophet.

Teenage twins Ryol and Arno join other children of Xen Wolfson who need training in unfamiliar magic. Meeting their father brings family tensions, while the world devoted to interdimensional diplomacy presents problems beyond an awkward reunion.

Lucky Dave must adapt to life a thousand years beyond his own era while continuing to protect his commander, a nearly mythical Prophet. A violent presidential race soon adds another endangered friend to his responsibilities.

Witch Fair remains trapped in Scandia, a city enclosed in a dimensional bubble to survive a comet impact. Two stranded army officers offer a possible way forward, but escape depends on persuading everyone to work together.

Badly wounded Captain Dave tries to escape enemy territory with his brother and commander using a dimensional bag that distorts time. Elsewhere, Rael's help with her daughter's school project becomes unexpectedly connected to their struggle for safety.

Dimensional wizard Xen awakens in the wilderness without his magic or any memory of how he arrived. While he struggles to survive, his friends investigate kidnappings that threaten to develop into a war between worlds.

Analyst Ice receives orders to investigate his best friend Dog as a possible foreign agent. Dog simultaneously gets the same assignment concerning his mentor, turning their friendship into a tangle of mutual suspicion and divided professional responsibilities.

Government agent and new mother Rael begins teaching at the Directorate's university school, where established faculty resent her arrival. Questions about her predecessor's supposed murder soon threaten to turn her career change into another dangerous investigation.

Leo Stone describes himself as an oversized, friendly dog rather than a werewolf. Finding the answers he sought has placed him in danger, and he must now run for his life instead of enjoying that discovery.

A collection of interdimensional stories includes graduate student Peter Rhodan's discovery of a portal connecting many worlds and a diplomatic city. His own world's hostile interest in contact threatens the possibilities opened by his unexpected scientific find.

Wizard and former criminal Eldon encounters a bodyguard fleeing through a dimensional portal with a prince and princess. Their world faces conquest by cyborgs, and his determination to protect endangered children pulls him into the conflict.

Lieutenant Scarlet Magana and her crewmates reach a distant planet aboard a damaged colony ship and discover evidence of earlier arrivals. Her scouting training becomes essential as dragons and a serial killer complicate the expedition's survival.

Eight stories follow Exzy, a young redheaded wizard whose growing magic creates encounters with intelligent rats, cats, and a crow. Family adventures, friendships, bullies, foals, and a prince’s rescue complicate a childhood filled with unusual possibilities.

Political analyst and trained warrior Ice faces another election year in the Empire of the One. When an old flame enters the presidential contest, assassins, deadly duels and an approaching threat make his desk job dangerously complicated.

Dismissed from the Directorate, Ice juggles three part-time jobs while encountering foreign spies and corrupt politicians. Without superiors directing him, the trained warrior must choose his own response to problems he cannot bring himself to ignore.

Axel Vinogradov travels between worlds while trying to make Siberia Max self-sufficient. His apparent agricultural research conceals tangled obligations involving foreign contacts and a friend's son, drawing him deeper into dangerous laws, customs and personal loyalties.

Ice undertakes a sabotage mission against the Cyborg Empire, but the operation leaves him stranded on an enemy world after a gate closes. With capture and a brain implant threatening him, rescuers must reach him in time.

Kit and Antoine escape foster care by hiding in a truck, only to cross a gate into another world. Their journey through the multiverse brings encounters with children in worse circumstances and opportunities to help them escape.

Destiny develops magic late and flees her mother’s pressure to seek help from Uncle Xen. On an enemy world, a cyborg police officer and an intelligence student offer friendship, complicating the divisions that should make them adversaries.