Sherwood Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    67 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1990
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

CJ's Notebooks

Over The Sea (Dec-2007)
Mearsies Heili Bounces Back (Jan-2009)

Crown Duel

1 - Crown Duel (1997)
2 - Court Duel (1998)
3 - Inda (Jul-2005)
4 - The Fox (Aug-2007)
5 - King's Shield (Jul-2008)
6 - Treason's Shore (Aug-2009)

Dobrenica

1 - Coronets and Steel (Sep-2010)
2 - Blood Spirits (Sep-2011)
3 - Revenant Eve (Nov-2012)

Lhind

1 - Lhind the Thief (Nov-2013)
2 - Lhind the Spy (Jun-2015)
3 - Lhind the Firebird (May-2020)

The Norsunder War

1 - Ship without Sails (Sep-2022)

The Phoenix Feather

1 - Fledglings (Sep-2021)
2 - Redbark (Oct-2021)
3 - Firebolt (Jan-2022)
4 - Dragon and Phoenix (Mar-2022)

Rise of the Alliance

1 - A Sword Named Truth (Nov-2015)
2 - The Blood Mage Texts (Nov-2021)
3 - The Hunters and the Hunted (Jan-2022)
4 - Nightside of the Sun (Feb-2022)

Sasharia En Garde

1 - Once a Princess (Jun-2008)
2 - Twice a Prince (Aug-2008)

Wren

1 - Wren to the Rescue (Sep-1990)
2 - Wren's Quest (Apr-1993)
3 - Wren's War (Mar-1995)
4 - Wren Journeymage (Oct-2010)

Multi-Author Series List

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda

6 - Paradise Drift (Nov-2005)

Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict

4 - Augur's Teacher (Aug-2001)

Book List in Order: 67 titles

  • Wren to the Rescue

    Wren - 1

    All her life Wren has hoped for an adventure. Now she has one—with a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician. What does it matter if the princess is only Tess, her best friend from the orphanage; if the prince is a youngest son...

  • Wren's Quest

    Wren - 2

    Yearning for adventure, Wren journeys to find her family, but her travels are threatened by an assortment of shady characters, as well as by her traveling companion's preoccupation with magic. Reprint....

  • Wren's War

    Wren - 3

    Wren and her friends, Connor and Tyron, assist Princess Teressa through civil war and assassination attempts and through enchantments, transformations, and other magicks that change their kingdom forever. Reprint....

  • Crown Duel

    Crown Duel - 1

    Young Countess Meliara swears to her dying father that she and her brother will defend their people from the growing greed of the king. That promise leads them into a war for which they are ill-prepared, which threatens the very people they are tryin...

  • The Borrowers

    Based on the novels by Mary Norton, a fun-filled movie novelization recounts the adventures of the Borrowers who live beneath the floorboards of the Lender home, which is slated for demolition by the evil Ocious Potter to make way for a slum called P...

  • Court Duel

    Crown Duel - 2

    Young Countess Meliara swears to her dying father that she and her brother will defend their people from the growing greed of the king. That promise leads them into a war for which they are ill-prepared, which threatens the very people they are tryin...

  • Journey To Otherwhere

    "By believing, one sees." Bradford Ellis believes in progress--and in fixing other people's problems. His latest case study, a poor seamstress named Lucy Beale, resents his meddlesome attempts to improve her life. But when a small, stately ship--t...

  • Augur's Teacher

    Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict - 4


    Cece Robin is a simple fourth-grade schoolteacher. A chance meeting with a splinter group of the Resistance changes her life. She would never dream of getting involved in their plot to assassinate the Taelon leader Zo'or she'd never kill anyone-n...

  • Beyond the Last Star: Stories from the Next Beginning



  • The Emerald Wand of Oz

    Meet Em and Dori, two modern-day descendants of Dorothy Gale (yes, THAT Dorothy), who follow in her famous footsteps to the magical land of Oz -- and adventure.

    Dori loves reading all of the wonderful old Oz books, imagining what it would be...

  • Inda

    Crown Duel - 3

    THE FATE OF THE SAECOND SON Indevan-Dal was the second son of the Prince of Choraed Elgaer. Tradition dictated that when his older brother Tanrid inherited the realm, Inda would be his brother's Shield Arm -- his military champion. Tanrid,'as heir, ...

  • Paradise Drift

    Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda - 6

    R and R Between a Rock and a Hard PlaceDylan Hunt and the Crew of the Andromeda Ascendant have been fighting the good fight to re-establish the Systems Commonwealth. They need some serious rest and relaxation. Fortunately, they arrive at Paradise Dri...

  • Trouble Under Oz

    Big trouble is brewing in Oz! Sinister clouds boil ominously over the Emerald City, Dorothy has gone missing, and there are rumblings of rebellion in the Nome Kingdom. So a desperate plea for help goes out from Princess Ozma to two resourceful sis...

  • The Fox

    Crown Duel - 4

    Attending the King's Military Academy had been Inda's greatest dream. But Academy reality is far from what he'd imagined-for by defending the second son of the king, Inda becomes embroiled in a vicious political struggle among the nobility that he ha...

  • Senrid

    SENRID is a story of swashbuckling boys and girls, royal stakes, mysterious villains, high adventure and strange magic, set in the universe of CROWN DUEL and INDA, in the tradition of Lloyd Alexander's WESTMARK and Megan Whalen Turner's THE THIEF.

  • Over The Sea

    CJ's Notebooks

    When Sherwood Smith was eight years old, a girl named Clair walked into her dreams, bringing hints of a world where girls could adventure, live on their own, and best of all, didn't have to grow up.

    Clair traveled about looking for girls who need...

  • The Trouble with Kings

  • A Posse Of Princesses

    A POSSE OF PRINCESSES

    Rhis, princess of a small kingdom, is invited along with all the other princesses in her part of the world to the coming of age party of the Crown Prince of Vesarja, which is the central and most important kingdom. When Iard...

  • Once a Princess

    Sasharia En Garde - 1



  • King's Shield

    Crown Duel - 5

    EXILE'S RETURN Indevan-Dal was the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer. It had been Inda's fate, as second son, to be his family's Shield Arm and spend his adult life protecting the lands his brother would one day inherit -- and ...

  • A Stranger To Command

    A STRANGER TO COMMAND

    In this much-anticipated prequel to CROWN DUEL, Vidanric Renselaeus, fifteen-year-old Marquis of Shevraeth, finds himself sent across the continent to a military academy in Marloven Hess, a kingdom known for its violent hist...

  • Twice a Prince

    Sasharia En Garde - 2

  • Mearsies Heili Bounces Back

    CJ's Notebooks

    "I am Princess Cherene Jennet Sherwood of Mearsies Heili, hater of evil, foe to all villains, and wielder of the prune pie of justice!"

    That's how CJ Sherwood introduces herself when she lands into her craziest adventure yet. In this, the second ...

  • Treason's Shore

    Crown Duel - 6

    Inda had been exiled to sea for ten long years -- the innocent victim of political vengeance against his noble family. But as a natural military prodigy, he had thrived in exile, establishing a life as the leader of a mercenary marine company. And at...

  • Coronets and Steel

    Dobrenica - 1

    In this new fantasy series, a young woman takes her own destiny by the hand-and the hilt. California girl Kim Murray is unsatisfied with grad school and restless in life. Modern men disappoint her, and she studies ballet and fencing because they r...

  • Wren Journeymage

    Wren - 4

    The first summer of peace brings Wren on her weekly visit to the young Queen Teressa, where she encounters the derisive, upsetting Hawk Rhiscarlan riding in! Wren races to warn Teressa, to discover he's expected, which causes the girls' first argumen...

  • Fleeing Peace

    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....

  • Blood Spirits

    Dobrenica - 2

    With the man she loves set to marry a look-alike princess, Kim Murray returns to California from the magical country of Dobrenica to heal her broken heart. But family politics soon have her leaving for London, where she is forced into a duel with a D...

  • Banner of the Damned

    Princess Lasva is about to be named heir to her childless sister, the queen. But, when the queen finally bears an heir, Lasva's future is shattered. Grief-stricken, she leaves her country of Colend and falls into the arms of Prince Ivandred of Marlov...



  • The Spy Princess

    SHE READ ABOUT ADVENTURES -- BUT THE ONE SHE HAD WAS THE BEST OF ALL. When bored and curious twelve-year-old Lady Lilah decides to disguise herself one night and sneak out of the palace, she learns more than she bargained for. One, the country is ...

  • Danse de la Folie

    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 mortga...

  • Sartor

    In this sequel to The Spy Princess, Lilah, newly made a princess, teams up with Atan, the hidden princess of the oldest country in the world, Sartor, to free the kingdom from a century of enchantment.Capture, escape, a forest beyond time, ancient bei...

  • Revenant Eve

    Dobrenica - 3

    Kim Murray is happily planning her wedding when she finds herself pulled two centuries back in time. It's 1795, the rise of Napoleon, and Kim is now a guardian spirit for a twelve-year-old kid who will either become Kim's ancestor . . . or the timeli...

  • Barefoot Pirate

    With two bossy older sisters, Joe doesn’t like girls. Nan doesn’t have any friends. Joe and Nan would never have spoken if they hadn’t both reached for the same odd little book on a shelf in their favorite part of the library, the adventure sto...

  • Kronenduell

  • Whispered Magics

    As a child, Sherwood Smith was always on the watch for magic: no fog bank went unexplored, no wooden closet unchecked for a false back, no possible magical token left on the ground or in the gutter. In these nine stories, the impossible becomes possi...

  • Remalna's Children

    Together for the first time, two stories about Meliara and Vidanric's oldest children: "Beauty" in which Princess Elestra (the plain one) goes to look at a tree, and discovers a handsome villain, and "Court Ship" in which Prince Alaraec and his frien...

  • Lhind the Thief

    Lhind - 1

    Lhind has been on the run all her life. Stealing what she needs, using magic for disguise, she never stays anywhere long. Lhind even has secrets from herself, for she has few memories, and those are troubling. But life is good until she gets caught b...

  • Rondo Allegro

    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 invasi...



  • A Prison Unsought

    REWRITTEN FOR EBOOK EDITION, WITH NEW MATERIAL. In the third volume of Exordium, this swashbuckling space opera continues with Brandon and the Rifter crew of the Telvarna arriving at the Panarchic Navy’s headquarters. The Rifters are imprisoned, an...

  • Zapped

    There are secret powers that might get you locked up or spirited away. And then there are the secrets that get you shunned. The first kind are surprisingly un-useful at helping with the second.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold with...

  • Lhind the Spy

    Lhind - 2

    In this sequel to Lhind the Thief, Lhind has gone from castoffs to silks, back alleys to palace halls -- and is not having an easy time of it. That’s before she’s snatched by an angry prince she’d robbed twice, who is determined to turn her ove...

  • The Thrones of Kronos

    Completely 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 has been crowned Emperor, but his throne remains in the hands of his enemy, Jerrod Eusa...

  • A Sword Named Truth

    Rise of the Alliance - 1

    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 and then in the magic-based cultural drama of "Banner of the Damned," Smith's books are a tour-d...

  • Sky Pyrates Over Oz

    At long last! The finale to Sherwood Smith’s Oz trilogy is here! Journey back to Oz with Dori and Emma, along with old favorites like Scraps and Polychrome, as they travel through the skies over Oz. There’s a plot afoot with a dastardly villain w...

  • Poor World

    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. Writt...

  • Hunt Across Worlds

    CJ wrote up this adventure for her journal, though the M girls only come in at the end. It begins with two kids from Earth who discover a boy from another world being kept hostage. When they rescue him, they end up having to cross the USA before bein...

  • Time of Daughters I

    In a time of change and danger, peace sparks to war, and sons become 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 ob...

  • Time of Daughters II

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

    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.

    These y...



  • Lhind the Firebird

    Lhind - 3

    The dramatic conclusion to the Lhind young adult fantasy series!When Lhind's beloved Hlanan is taken by Shinjan slavers, she leaves her self-imposed exile to rush to the rescue. But first she must face a dragon, and learn world-changing truths about ...

  • Fledglings

    The Phoenix Feather - 1

    This four-volume feel-good pandemic project has earned praise from lovers of The Goblin EmperorIn the grand tradition of martial arts sagas, The Phoenix Feather's first volume begins with establishing how twenty-five years ago a pair of lovers ran fo...

  • Redbark

    The Phoenix Feather - 2

    A generation ago, a sworn bodyguard and a reluctant bride fled an angry prince, married in secret, and vanished. That prince is now the emperor, with a very long memory.In this next volume of the epic martial arts adventure, the children of the missi...

  • Rise of the Alliance II

    Long-dormant magical forces are moving again in Sartorias-deles. In volume one, A Sword Named Truth, a shaky alliance made among young rulers brought too early to their thrones survived a first foray, commanded by Siamis, the handsome young Norsundri...

  • The Blood Mage Texts

    Rise of the Alliance - 2

    Long-dormant magical forces are moving again in Sartorias-deles. In volume one, A Sword Named Truth, a shaky alliance made among young rulers brought too early to their thrones survived a first foray, commanded by Siamis, the handsome young Norsundri...

  • Firebolt

    The Phoenix Feather - 3

    In the third volume of The Phoenix Feather epic martial arts adventure, the Redbark gang has broken up, taking different paths. Muin is rising in the imperial army; Yskanda lives day to day in the silken prison of the imperial court, hiding among his...

  • The Hunters and the Hunted

    Rise of the Alliance - 3

    Meet Detlev's boys.In volume one, A Sword Named Truth, a shaky alliance made among young rulers brought too early to their thrones survived an enchantment, commanded by Siamis, the handsome young Norsundrian. Siamis was defeated, and the world celebr...

  • Nightside of the Sun

    Rise of the Alliance - 4

    The climax to the Rise of the Alliance saga begins with Detlev's boys taking two prisoners as they retreat to their lair on Five, the sister world that has been lifeless for nearly five thousand years. Reviled by both sides, the one thing they can tr...

  • Dragon and Phoenix

    The Phoenix Feather - 4

    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.Inspired by the great Chinese epics such as Dream of Red Chamber as well as...

  • The Wicked Skill

    In this fantasy of manners we meet two displaced young kings, one shopkeeper's daughter who went away an ugly duckling and returns five years later a beautiful and highly skilled swan, and a young queen who is master of all she surveys . . . until sh...

  • Ship without Sails

    The Norsunder War - 1

    Nobody sane wants war.But what happens when war comes to you?In this first volume of The Norsunder War, the allies introduced in The Rise of the Alliance find their world invaded. For Atan, Queen of Sartor, preserving lives and knowledge come before ...

  • Marend of Marloven Hess

    In the recently defeated warrior-kingdom of Marloven Hess, two enemies, one a defeated king hunted by the conquerors, and the hunter who did the conquering, duel for the soul of a conflicted young teen. This short novel takes place between the events...

  • Seek to Hold The Wind

    PRAISE FOR THE SARTORIAS-DELES SERIES: The book is set in a world so intricate and real that it's hard to step out of and hard to forget. Filled with magic and glamour, it houses a culture unique for its openness and warlike ability.... Smith's rich...

  • All Things Betray

    In the third volume of The Norsunder War, the invaders' command structure is fracturing, but they are no less dangerous. Amid widespread and wanton destruction, it seems the world itself is fighting back. A pair of brothers, one on each side, begin a...

  • A Chain of Braided Silver

    Written with heart-piercing vividness and sly humor, a roller coaster of emotions!Consistently brilliant, this series showcases what fantastic worldbuilding can be.The long-awaited conclusion to The Norsunder War is also the culmination to the entire...

  • Let the Torrent Dance Thee Down

    Written with searing intensity, this story of the redemptive power of love amid the shambles of war and the re-emergence of ancient powers builds to a white-knuckle climax.The war is over, all but the cleanup. And the emotional recovery, with its sca...

  • Antiphony

    The last book in the Sartorias-deles series is here!The long series that began with Inda, continued through the Rise of the Alliance, Crown Duel, and The Norsunder War, comes at last to a resonant, deeply satisfying conclusion in Antiphony.Liere has ...

  • Tribute

    The first in a series set in the world of the Phoenix Feather quartet, Tribute is inspired by the great Chinese epics such as Water Margin and Dream of Red Chamber as well as wuxia and xuanhuan series such as Nirvana in Fire and Joy of Life.Bu is twe...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sherwood Smith has published 67 books.

Sherwood Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tribute, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Sherwood Smith, Wren to the Rescue, was published in September 1990.

Yes. Sherwood Smith has 9 series.
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