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The last installment of The Phoenix Feather martial arts epic, which readers are acclaiming as a spiritual cousin to The Goblin Emperor, puts the entire Afan family in action.

Once hiding on an obscure island, the elders are drawn into empire affairs, the parents, in seeking their children, as the emperor seeks them. Muin’s skills as a commander...

In this first in a series set in the world of the Phoenix Feather quartet, Bu is twelve and near-sighted, an unwanted daughter sent to a music audition. If she fails, she’s on her own. Elderly Granny Zim, who knows that soon she must retire as head of the music academy, is fascinated by YinYin, a student who might not be human. YinYin and Bu...

Set in the tumultuous, magic-filled history of the Phoenix Feather quartet…

How did scholarly, modest Lan Renti, lowest ranking of the troubled imperial clan, rise to become the Sage Empress, first woman ruler in the long history of the Empire of a Thousand Isles?

Aware of how the official records embellish (or sidestep) the truth, she’s...

Set in the tumultuous, magic-filled history of Tribute and the Phoenix Feather quartet…

The second half of the story of sixteen-year-old Lan Renti’s rise to the phoenix throne begins literally in the air, as she returns to her ship of wanderers, crying hard after leaving the brother she sought for four years. But her brother sees her as a young...

The final book in the Phoenix Feather and Sagacious series, Sagacious Blade brings the story full circle.

It would be difficult to find two boys more unlike.

Friendly, animal-loving Ki Mek, youngest of a sprawling family of gallant wanderers, was born with Essence talent—much to the dismay of the Kis, who only believe in the skills of their...

Sherwood Smith’s media happy place tends toward braided tales, with characters growing and changing in a world both breathtaking and strange, where striving to become the best one can be matters. She found that in Chinese and Korean historical dramas, which kicked off years of immersion in East Asian history, literature, art, and language.

In...

NOVEMBER 2025: REWRITTEN FOR EBOOK EDITION, WITH NEW MATERIAL.

Smith and Trowbridge describe the flavor of their five-book retro-futura space opera Exordium as a cross between Star Wars and Dangerous Liaisons by way of the Three Stooges.

With its fast-moving blend of humor and horror, of high-tech skiffy and the deep places of the human heart, ...

Ie wants only to rescue his father. But everyone wants a piece of him. The chase is on.

Dave and I describe the flavor of our five-book retro-futura space opera Exordium as a cross between early Star Wars and Dangerous Liaisons by way of the Three Stooges. Further blurb stuff: With its fast-moving blend of humor and horror, of high-tech skiffy...

Returned to supposed safety, Brandon finds himself fighting a battle of symbols, his only weapon his wits as he strives to win the allegiance of the navy in time to rescue his father, the Panarch . . .

Rewritten with new material added, in this third volume of the space opera EXORDIUM, The Rifters are imprisoned, and Brandon finds himself, as...

In this rewritten fourth volume of the series Exordium, the Panarchy is in shambles, coalescing at the military base Ares. Brandon has inherited not only this political tinderbox, but also must face the escalating threat from the invading Dol’jharians and their Rifter allies before they can power up the ancient artifact they call the Suneater.

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CCompletely revised for ebook release, in this last volume the desperate fight to recover the Panarchy of the Thousand Suns is about to commence. Brandon hai-Arkad's throne remains in the hands of his enemy, Jerrod Eusabian of Dol’jhar. The fleet has been gathered, bolstered by the once outlawed Rifters; it's a race against time, before the...

A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, Stranger captures the excitement of The Hunger Games, the immersive world of Shadow and Bone, and the special powers of The Darkest Minds.

“A first-rate page-turner”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

In the post-apocalyptic world of the Change, people with mutant talents are powerful and hated, and even the trees...

The second book in the thrilling post-apocalyptic series. In a world of mutant powers and deadly creatures, the most terrible danger of all is a man bent on vengeance...

Against all odds, Las Anclas defended itself from Voske, the tyrant king of Gold Point. But he's not done with Las Anclas. Voske wants revenge... and to use Ross's unique power...

The third book in the thrilling post-apocalyptic series. In a world of mutant powers and deadly creatures, the greatest peril threatening Las Anclas comes from inside its walls...

The tyrant king Voske has been defeated, but all is not peaceful in Las Anclas. Ross’s past comes back to haunt him, Jennie struggles with her new career, Mia faces her...

In the darkness of defeat, can hope catch fire?

The greatly anticipated final book in the Change series. In a world of mutant powers and deadly creatures, one small town faces its worst nightmare…

In a single shocking night, Las Anclas is conquered. Voske rules the town, remaking it in his image. He brings Opportunity Day to Las Anclas, with its...

These days anxiety seems to be the new fashion that nobody wants, but it’s all around us. So we put together an anthology meant for a single purpose: sheer escapism.What suggests escapism more than the pageantry, elegance, and panache of a ballroom? Be it a house party for diplomats and thieves or Almacks in a side-universe in which the...

In 1799, all of Europe is at war.

In Palermo, sixteen-year-old singer-in-training Anna Maria Ludovisi is married by her dying father to Captain Henry Duncannon, the Perennial Bachelor. Minutes after the wedding he sets sail.

The threat of French invasion causes Anna to flee to Paris. At the end of the Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte is...

This light-hearted Regency folly stars Miss Clarissa Harlowe who wants a quiet life—but falls in love with a smuggler, the marquess of St. Tarval. Tarval’s sister, Lady Kitty, is determined to write a dramatic Gothic to save her brother’s mortgaged estate—if she can reach London. Clarissa’s much-pursued cousin, Mr. Philip Devereaux, is...

One Jane Austen’s best-loved books is Persuasion, and of the characters in it, among the most popular are Sophy and Admiral and Croft, dashing Frederick Wentworth’s sister and brother in law.In this short novel, Sherwood Smith takes a look at what the Wentworths’ lives might have been like before they met the Elliots, and Sophy’s view of Anne...

Jane Austen herself, according to her family, used to speculate on the future of her characters. In “The Poignant Sting,” a line from EMMA inspired a novelette. MANSFIELD PARK inspired two alternate sequels, both involving characters from other books, and finally, a fantasia about Miss Austen herself, supposing she had been able to travel to...