The Stand Alones

These books fill in the gaps between the series. They are meant to be read in the order listed on the "Master List" page.

The Again-king

Tom finally has a family, adopted from his life of drudgery and whippings into a loving home full of laughter there is nothing more that Tom could want. But when he finds out that his newfound father is helping the cruel and despotic emperor regain the throne he stole from the current king tom suddenly finds himself in a topsy turvey world where nothing is what it seems and love no longer seems to be enough.
Ence 443

The Golgi

A cocky young missionary goes to convert the heathens of Akow only to find that there is a difference between presumption and faith.
Akow 497

Leannore

History tells of the dying queen who abdicated in favor of her son, but one brave woman made a record of what really happened and the time has come for Tolamay to know the truth.

Tolamay 545

At the Master's Feet

Docia is preparing for the games, the academy is preparing for the end of year exams, but at the master's feet one boy is learning a skill that will change Jarece forever.
Jarece 550

The Timekeeper

"One again find that which the serpent took" it is an old proverb and one every time keeper hopes to be the fulfiller of, but the search for truth may go to far and when one timekeepers findings threaten the essence of Lempii itself the time-worshipers are certain that the snake has woken at last.
Akow 563

The Guide of Royal Albert

Peter has Abdicated and Albert can't seem to do anything right, with the people becoming more and more angry and rebellion threatening on every side, Albert does the unthinkable: calling in a tramp painter to advise his out of his mess.
Tolamay 582

Liberated

The war is over, King Laretes is dead and now the Parti and lempi are killing the christians. As the "Liberation" draws closer and closer the ever dwindling group of christians must rely on God to save his remnant alive.
Selkin 599

The Peaceweaver

Riuda wants nothing more that to be queen. Her brother will not make a good king she knows, and her own sills are many, with war threatening Tolamay how much longer can she stand her brother's fumbling?
Tolamay 881

Rhob en Hood

The mysterious band is again making their presence known and Jarece is apprehensive, for the friendly tricksters interference can only mean one thing, trouble is coming. The nation holds its breath as danger stalks ever closer.
Jarece 881

Queen Mother

A princess lost in the palace, a queen who cares nothing for her daughter from her first marriage, and a maze of a city so huge that even the rats get lost.

Ence 887

Explorer

Word of Akow's astounding resources has reached the ears of the Tolimen king and he sends an expedition to investigate. The natives are barbarians everyone knows that, they deserve to be put in subjection. Or at least that's what the explorer's have been told.
Akow 890

Pirate Treasure

His father killed by Pirates a young seaman joins the new war Jarece is waging against the Gerinitchi Pirates, a quest that forces him to face his own fears and that tests his beliefs to the breaking point.
Jarece 907

Secole

Blonde hair brown hair. He said he would always love her no matter what people said. He said he didn't care that her ancestors were traitors. he said all he cared about what her. He said he loved her.

Can it last?
Selkin 1002

Roofers

The roofers have always lived their own way, like orphans scrabbling to get by in the chimneys and on the roofs of that great city which is Ence. Now a princess's ideas for reform and child protection threaten their way of life and the highway of the sky cannot help them. It is up to the roofers to save themselves before it's to late and they find themselves washed and fed and given a roof over their heads instead of under their feet.
Ence 1025

Cockscrow

King at the age of fifteen Miles longs to see his ten year old nation become a shining example to the world. But being king means that everything is on your shoulders. At the cockscrow of this new Selkin can Miles guide his nation through the troubles ahead?

Selkin 1034

The Missing Years

There are two hundred and one years of Tolimen history that no one knows what happens in. Now a young student finds that the lives of his estranged family depend in what happened in those missing years.

Tolamay 1038

Tibiri

The plague rips through Akow destroying hundreds of lives. In Selkin it is rumored that they know a cure but the outside is forbidden. Only one Tibiri dancer is brave enough to make the trip.
Akow 1039

Treason

Unless the traitor comes forward and confesses the entire village will be burned.
Jarece 1041 

Phoenix

Mera has waited for twenty five years. Now the time is at hand and the Phoenix will rise. But it seems as if the protege is doomed to make the same mistakes Grassa did....despite Mera's warnings of the greatest mistake of all.
Selkin 1049

Swasher

A professional Swasher must overcome his own incredulity when a chance comes to make Tolamay what it once was and restore the now legendary Camelot.
Tolamay 1099

The Princess

Witty powerful women always fall in love with quiet ungrasping men don't they? The sea never takes more than thrice, right? And devil's powder is just a rumor, isn't it? 
Ence 1105

The Lion

Determined to kill the beast that destroyed her chance for happiness Niila sets off to find the lion but the wilderness is huge and soon Niila is lost. Lost and maimed in the wilds of that island that none has ever been able to fully explore.
Akow 1130

The Husband Choosing

The people are not happy with the princess's choice of a husband. But since she loves her throne more than she loves Listus the princess prepares to marry Bas Alvern the people's darling. Listus of course is not happy.
Jarece 1157

The High Prince

The old tradition lives again. Like Maguire and Roddy before him Davie begins the terror of highway robbery. But it sound romantic to Rebecca and she can't help but listen to the tales of the

High Prince that Davie tells.
Selkin 1160

The Pickpocket's Apprentice

Guilty. One word and Sophie has betrayed her family's honor.  Locked in the prison kingdom and forced to live with the people she has been raised to hate it's to late to wish that she never obeyed the lure of the easy purses.
Ence 1168