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“Kings are a bad habit. Let’s break it.”

It’s fifteen years after the Norsunder War. David, one of Detlev’s boys, is a man in his early thirties, teacher and guide at the new dyranarya school, revived after a four thousand year hiatus—and also a highly-trained military strategist.

His last student having gone off to a new life, he agrees to check...

“Lily and Crown” proves that diplomacy is war by other means as character dance on a break-neck reel through power-plays, treachery and clashing cultures, leading to changes for two powerful kingdoms and the birth of a third.This is the origin story of Colend, a setting featured in many of Sherwood Smith’s novels about Sartorias-deles.

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The first book in the acclaimed Inda series, now in a...

OK, Bitches, anyone here like diversity? Kickass female characters? Rich, detailed worldbuilding? Of course you do! And I have got the series for you! Allow me to tell you absolutely everything about it. Buckle up, this is gonna take awhile. (Smart Bitches, Trashy Books Keeper Shelf)

As the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer,...

Acclaimed Inda series within Sherwood Smith’s epic fantasy Sartorias-deles universe • Military fantasy woven with courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and diverse characters

For nearly nine years, Inda has been at sea, living under a new name and forcing himself to never think of all he had lost. He created a new life, for the military skills...

Acclaimed Inda series within Sherwood Smith's epic fantasy Sartorias-deles universe • Military fantasy woven with courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and diverse characters

After nine years of exile on the sea, Inda returned home to protect his country from attack by an ancient enemy. His boyhood best friend Evred, a formerly powerless younger...

In a time of change and danger, peace sparks to war, and sons disguise as daughters...

It’s nearly a century after the death of Inda, the unbeatable Marlovan commander.

Danet and Arrow, content in their arranged marriage, just want to live in peaceful obscurity and raise their family. But when a treaty sends them to the royal city to meet the heir...

In a time of rising danger, women go to war, and ghosts walk the walls...

In the second volume of TIME OF DAUGHTERS, a few years have passed since the Night of Four Kings, when the least expected candidates for rulership found themselves in charge of a disintegrating kingdom.

Threats from the border become raids, led by an idle noble with an eye...

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"Banner of the Damned is a damned good book." --REACTOR.COM

Standalone novel of Sherwood Smith’s epic fantasy Sartorias-deles universe • follow-up to acclaimed military fantasy Inda series • courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and diverse characters

“Smith should rank high on any list of military writers.... A first-rate author...

12-year-old aristo Lilah asks, Why are the kingdom’s magic spells are fading? But her uncle the king only wants a stronger army. Why are the kids outside the palace gates ragged and hungry?

But the king keeps raising taxes. Her older brother Peitar, the king’s heir, spends more time writing mysterious letters than talking to her. And her father...

CJ and the gang of girls from Mearsies Heili like their adventures fun and villains to be defeatable by a well-thrown prune pie. In fact, they laughed at the very idea of stories about kids who have to Save the World . . .

Until it happens to them.

Written when Sherwood Smith was a teenager, this is the story of the M girls up against the toughest...

In this fantasy prequel to A STRANGER TO COMMAND, the kids on the good side are united in one thing: regarding Senrid as a villain.

So what do you do when you’re fifteen, supposedly king of one of the most powerful kingdoms in the world, but all you have on your side are wit, will, and maybe a few skills?

And what if the people you like best are...

In this sequel to The Spy Princess, Lilah, still trying to get used to her new status, teams up with Atan, the last descendent of the rulers of Sartor, the oldest country in the world. At fifteen, she has to free the kingdom from a century of enchantment.

This is Atan's origin story.

Capture, escape, a forest beyond time, ancient beings,...

First written when Sherwood Smith was a teen, the series called CJ's Notebooks feature a gang of girls around thirteen-year-old Queen Clair of Mearsies Heili. The M girls, as they come to be known, prefer their villains silly, their throwing pies gloppy, and their adventures fun. But villains don't ask first if the girls want to be dragged into...

Siamis said, “Your young friend Liere is not going to enjoy the trap she’s walking into, I fear. But you figured that out, did you not? Why didn’t she listen to you?”

“To snap her fingers under your nose,” Senrid retorted.

“Irresistible.” Siamis smiled gently. “But it’s going to cost.”

Fifteen-year-old Senrid is newly king of the difficult...

This prequel to Crown Duel is about the early life of Vidanric Renselaeus, Marquis of Shevraeth, who as a courtly, well-mannered teen coached in the noble art of dueling, finds himself thrown into the infamous cavalry command academy in Marloven Hess. There, instead of reading theories about statecraft, he is forced to learn about command from...

“With music you can tell the truth about human experience.”

In this romantic fantasy set in the same world as Crown Duel, Flian is an ordinary princess who would rather be left with her music, but gets abducted not once, not twice—three times.

What is a civilized princess to do? Especially when she can’t tell which prince is the hero and which the...

Over their father’s deathbed, young Meliara Astiar and her brother Branaric promise to lead their people against the evil King. The impoverished count and countess discover that even when the cause is right, leading a war is much tougher than it appears. When Meliara falls into the hands of the elegant Marquis of Shevraeth, the enemy commander,...

Untested young rulers must join forces to defeat a dark-powered kingdom in this epic fantasy trilogy set in the wildly popular Inda universe!

“The world creation and characterization within Inda have the complexity and depth and inventiveness that mark a first-rate fantasy novel.” —Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game

Set in the beloved...

Over the course of five books, Sherwood Smith has enthralled readers with the world of Sartorias-deles. First in the military action of the Inda series, then in the Time of Daughters duology, and finally in the magic-based cultural drama of Banner of the Damned, Smith’s books are a tour-de-force of deadly high politics, incredibly engaging...