Cidney Swanson

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2011
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Payback Society

1 - The Payback Society (Jan-2019)
2 - The Payback Letters (Apr-2019)
3 - Payback Royale (Jul-2019)

Ripple

1 - Rippler (Jun-2011)
2 - Chameleon (Oct-2011)
3 - Unfurl (Feb-2012)
4 - Visible (Feb-2014)
5 - Immutable (Jul-2014)
6 - Knavery (Dec-2014)
7 - Perilous (Apr-2015)

Saving Mars

1 - Saving Mars (Aug-2012)
2 - Defying Mars (Dec-2012)
3 - Losing Mars (Apr-2013)
4 - Mars Burning (Aug-2013)
5 - Striking Mars (Dec-2013)
6 - Mars Rising (Apr-2014)

Shadow of Mars

1 - So Dark the Sky (Aug-2020)
2 - So Bright the Stars (Sep-2020)
3 - So Still the Dawn (Jan-2021)

Thief in Time

1 - A Thief in Time (Nov-2016)
2 - A Flight in Time (Mar-2017)
3 - A Sword in Time (Feb-2018)
4 - A Crown in Time (Jul-2018)
5 - A Duel in Time (Dec-2019)
6 - A Brush in Time (Mar-2020)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Rippler

    Ripple - 1

    Samantha Ruiz has a freak gene that makes her turn invisible, or ripple. She can’t control it, and it’s getting worse. Afraid of becoming a lab-rat, Sam keeps her ability secret, until fellow runner Will Baker sees her vanish into thin air. Will ...

  • Chameleon

    Ripple - 2

    Sixteen-year-old Samantha Ruiz has a lot on her mind. The crush who kissed her but changed his mind. The BFF who thinks Sam is in an abusive relationship. The geneticist who wanted Sam dead but now wants her ALIVE. And of course, Sam’s still dealin...

  • Unfurl

    Ripple - 3

    Against all expectations, Samantha Ruiz has survived attacks by two of Helmann’s deadliest assassins. She’s alive, but she’s far from safe. Helmann is planning a second Holocaust and wants Sam to play a starring role. Will, meanwhile, separated...

  • Saving Mars

    Saving Mars - 1

    • Kirkus Reviews, starred
    • Summary: When the food supply of Mars' human settlement is decimated, seventeen-year-old Jessamyn Jaarda, the best pilot Mars Colonial has ever seen, flies to Earth to raid for food. Earth-Mars relations could...

  • The Star We Call Home

    This title is a special anniversary edition of the book previously released as SAVING MARS.In this sweeping coming-of-age saga, disaster threatens the Mars colony's survival, and a seventeen-year-old pilot might be Mars's last hope. But when Jessamyn...

  • Defying Mars

    Saving Mars - 2

    Jessamyn has escaped Earth with food for her starving world, but her troubles are just beginning. She must rebuild her life without Pavel, the Terran boy whose kiss haunts her. Her success is further tainted by the loss of her beloved brother. Ethan ...

  • Losing Mars

    Saving Mars - 3

    Jessamyn has survived a terrifying crash but lost her ship, joining Pavel, Ethan, and others in the dissenter settlement of Yucca. Now, Chancellor Lucca Brezhnaya believes Jess is out to destroy the Terran government, and Lucca will stop at nothing t...

  • Mars Burning

    Saving Mars - 4

    Chancellor Lucca believes Jess and Pavel are dead, and now she's deadly determined to make certain Mars never interferes with her or her world again. Meanwhile on Mars, Mei Lo pleads with the Raiders to finish their second mission: disabling the Terr...

  • Striking Mars

    Saving Mars - 5

    Fleeing for their lives, Jess and Pavel make it to the Moon, narrowly avoiding the attack on Space Station 92-AE. They should be safe and happy, but they discover they are not alone on Tranquility Base. The stranger they encounter seems uniquely qual...



  • Visible

    Ripple - 4

    Gwyn Li survived assault and abduction in UNFURL, and now she's more than ready for a little happily ever after with her seventeenth century crush, Chrétien de Rochefort. As Chrétien spins tales from his background as Cinderella's original princ...

  • Mars Rising

    Saving Mars - 6

    In the breathtaking conclusion to The Saving Mars Series, Jessamyn prepares to sacrifice her future with Pavel when Lucca invites her to Budapest to prove she's from Mars. Jess knows she's walking into a trap, but if Jess can't convince Terrans the M...

  • Immutable

    Ripple - 5

    Seventeen year old Martina, raised as part of Helmann's elite Angel Corps, wants nothing more than to rebuild the life she lost because of Helmann's lies. In a single afternoon, she discovers the truth about the woman who raised her and the boyfriend...

  • Knavery

    Ripple - 6

    Skandor Dusselhoff uses his ability to vanish purely to make mischief. After he takes a security job with Geneses, though, he meets other ripplers -- including one very beautiful girl held prisoner by Fritz, and now it’s time for Skandor to decide ...

  • Perilous

    Ripple - 7

    Sam wants to hold onto the community she's found in Las Abuelitas, but Georg has plans to change the world forever. While Skandor seeks clues to find Katrin, people are vanishing, and Sam and Will must take action before their peaceful life in Las Ab...

  • Siren Spell

    All Giselle Chekhov cares about is securing the principal role in the ballet for which she was named, but her Russian grandmother warns that the ballet, featuring cruel siren-like maidens, will draw the vain creatures back to town. Every decade or so...

  • A Thief in Time

    Thief in Time - 1

    HE CAN'T STAY -- SHE CAN'T LET HIM GO Halley’s world is full of hand-outs and hand-me-downs. Even her apartment bedroom is shared, with her distant and self-centered mother. Halley has only a battered blue truck to call her own -- until she meets E...

  • A Flight in Time

    Thief in Time - 2

    Jillian dreams of abandoning her business major and going to culinary school in Europe, but her parents’ expectations and a crippling fear of flying threaten to keep her grounded. To address her fear of flight, she travels to 1908 to meet Wilbur...

  • A Sword in Time

    Thief in Time - 3

    DaVinci has a job to do: travel back in time to save her house from demolition, which isn’t a problem except that in doing so, she ruins everything else in her life. Quintus, a hunk from 53 BC stuck in this century, has his own job: deliver a lette...

  • A Crown in Time

    Thief in Time - 4

    When Edmund is mysteriously returned to the seventeenth century, Halley must brave sickness without antibiotics, a second wife, and the Virgin Queen herself to save the man she loves before he's lost to her forever.

    ...



  • The Payback Society

    Payback Society - 1

    Smash the fratriarchy! At an exclusive island prep school in the PNW, Sylvester Sly Bennett dominates the lives of students through his loyal fratriarchy - until one student decides enough is enough. Embracing sisterhood and cooperation, Claire takes...

  • The Payback Letters

    Payback Society - 2

    Shy Fiona has had a crush on swoony Carter since fourth grade, but he doesn't have a clue. When Fiona's ex Sly Bennett attacks her family business -- and her ability to pay tuition at her pricey boarding school -- it's up to Fiona and the rest of the...

  • Payback Royale

    Payback Society - 3

    When Ming Chan meets Prince Thor of Eismark, all she sees is a snobby, entitled European playboy. But their families are in business, and the geography of attending the same boarding school means the two can't avoid each other, especially once con-a...

  • A Duel in Time

    Thief in Time - 5

    HUGE SERIES SALE-LIMITED TIMEDaVinci's younger sister Klee has always played second fiddle to her twin Kahlo, but all of that changes when Klee decides to secretly travel back in time to save Alexander Hamilton's son Philip from dying in a duel. Unfo...

  • A Brush in Time

    Thief in Time - 6

    When DaVinci's younger sister Kahlo visits the Bahamas with friends, Kahlo thinks her host Jules Khan is grumpy misanthrope. But when he offers her the chance to visit her idol the painter Maxfield Parrish in the past, Kahlo jumps at the opportunity...

  • So Dark the Sky

    Shadow of Mars - 1

    Some dreams deserve a second chance.Penny Wanjiru, second grade teacher and space enthusiast, no longer dreams of becoming a Mars Colony astronaut. But when fate intervenes, offering her a chance to travel to Mars, she must choose between staying on ...

  • So Bright the Stars

    Shadow of Mars - 2

    Penny Wanjiru learns that the red planet is no idyllic paradise when the colony's first serious crime investigation gets underway on the day she arrives. Penny immediately finds herself the target of anti-tourism sentiment, but it gets worse when a l...

  • So Still the Dawn

    Shadow of Mars - 3

    In the wake of devastating loss, Penumbra attempts to secure residency at the Mars colony, sending powerful anti-tourist sentiment in motion. Now Penny must choose what she's willing to lose, and who she's willing to fight for....

  • A Passage in Time

    Trouble brews when Quintus Valerius hears slander against Julius Caesar and wants to go back in time to fix things. DaVinci, of course, is having none of it. Meanwhile, another physicist is unlocking the secrets of time travel. When a trip to 1935 un...

  • An Empire in Time

    Jillian and Everett's wedding plans are upended when mysterious time-traveler Dr. Duval steps out of the shadows and into their lives. Removing the Eiffel Tower as part of an experiment, Duval inadvertently creates a new timeline where the United Sta...



  • The Fires We Quell

    This title is a special anniversary edition of the book previously released as MARS BURNING.Things are heating up on Earth and Mars. Chancellor Lucca believes Jess and Pavel are dead, and now she's deadly determined to make certain Mars never interfe...

  • The Ones We Save

    This title is a special anniversary edition of the book previously released as MARS RISING.In the breathtaking conclusion to The Saving Mars Series, Jessamyn prepares to sacrifice her future with Pavel when Lucca invites her to Budapest to prove she'...

  • The Shelter We Find

    This book is a 10th Anniversary edition of the title previously released as LOSING MARS.Jessamyn has survived a terrifying crash but lost her ship, joining Pavel, Ethan, and others in the dissenter settlement of Yucca. Now, Chancellor Lucca Brezhnaya...

  • The Skies We Watch

    This title is a special anniversary edition of the book previously released as STRIKING MARS. Fleeing for their lives, Jess and Pavel make it to the Moon, narrowly avoiding the attack on Space Station 92-AE. They should be safe and happy, but they di...

  • The Worlds We Defy

    This book is a 10th anniversary special edition of a previously released title, DEFYING MARS.Jessamyn has escaped Earth with food for her starving world, but her troubles are just beginning. She must rebuild her life without Pavel, the young Terran w...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cidney Swanson has published 34 books.

Cidney Swanson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Shelter We Find, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Cidney Swanson, Rippler, was published in June 2011.

Yes. Cidney Swanson has 5 series.
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