Stephen Zimmer

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2009
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Chronicles of Ave

1 - Into Glory Ride (Dec-2011)
2 - Land of Shadow (Dec-2011)
3 - Lion Heart (Dec-2011)

Fires in Eden

Dream of Legends (Dec-2010)
Spirit of Fire (Jun-2012)

The Rising Dawn Saga

The Exodus Gate (Feb-2009)
Crown of Vengeance (Nov-2009)
The Storm Guardians (Jun-2010)
The Seventh Throne (Aug-2011)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • The Exodus Gate

    The Rising Dawn Saga

    The Exodus Gate, by Stephen Zimmer, is an epic urban fantasy novel that is the first release in the Rising Dawn Saga. The story unfolds around Benedict Darwin, host of a popular late night radio show that deals with the paranormal. Benedict comes in...

  • Crown of Vengeance

    The Rising Dawn Saga

    On a night that begins no different from any other, strange mists engulf Janus Roland, Erika Laesig, Mershad Shahab, and several others going about their lives in a quiet midwestern town. When the mist dissipates, they all find themselves looking up ...

  • The Storm Guardians

    The Rising Dawn Saga

    Storms break out across the world and the realms beyond, as the Convergence seeks to advance its worldwide agenda, and Diabolos unleashes great powers from the depths of the Abyss. The Fallen Avatar Beleth’s legions pour across the boundaries of Pu...

  • Dream of Legends

    Fires in Eden

    Dream of legends, and soar across the world of Ave…For Janus and the other exiles from a modern world, finding themselves in the fantastical lands of Ave was just the beginning. The assault upon the Kingdom of Saxany and the tribes of the Five Real...

  • Parker's Colt

    Parker Smith and Joe Dan Peters are fourteen-year-old cowboys and best friends. They are out of school for the summer and looking forward to many cowboy adventures in the New Mexico ranch country that is their home. Parker’s summer begins with the ...

  • The Seventh Throne

    The Rising Dawn Saga

    The epic saga advances, as the shadows deepen ... Friedrich accompanies the powerful Avatar Enki into the depths of the Abyss. They seek to discover the fate of Erishkegal, who crossed the Veil to spare a horde of outcast Nephilim ages ago. The quest...

  • Into Glory Ride

    Chronicles of Ave - 1

    In this short story from the Chronicles of Ave collection, you are invited into Trogen lands. A brave young warrior of the Sea Wolf clan, Marragesh, sights the approach of an Elven raid while on a scouting foray along the cliffs of the northern coast...

  • Land of Shadow

    Chronicles of Ave - 2

    In this short story from the Chronicles of Ave collection, the reader is invited to take an adventure into the Shadowlands. When a band of hardened Avanoran mercenaries take up an offer to search out a favorable site for a fortress, they are well awa...

  • Lion Heart

    Chronicles of Ave - 3

    In this short story from the Chronicles of Ave collection, the reader is invited to explore the lands of the Amazu and meet Sigananda, one of their greatest, legendary warriors. In this story, Sigananda is shown as a young man, just coming of age. Wh...



  • Temples Rising

    In this short story from the Annals of the Rising Dawn collection, the reader ventures back into an ancient world when demonic entities and humans have bred a race of monstrous creatures. In league with Fallen Avatars that have taken on flesh and blo...

  • Spirit of Fire

    Fires in Eden

    A maelstrom of war engulfs the lands resisting the designs of the Unifier to bring about a new order, of a kind that has never existed within Ave. Battered by a massive invasion force from Gallea, the tribal people of the Five Realms and their Midrag...

  • Cowboy Days, Stories of the New Mexico Range

    This book is a collection of exciting stories about working cowboy adventures in the big ranch country of northeastern New Mexico. Set in a land far removed from modern urban life, the cowpunchers in these stories ride the range much as their predece...

  • Chronicles of Ave

    In this short story from the Chronicles of Ave collection, you are invited into Trogen lands. A brave young warrior of the Sea Wolf clan, Marragesh, sights the approach of an Elven raid while on a scouting foray along the cliffs of the northern coast...

  • Chronicles of Ave, Volume 1

    Escape into the wonders of Ave in this first collection of short stories featuring the fantastical world from the Fires in Eden Series from Stephen Zimmer. "Into Glory Ride" tells the story of a young Trogen Warrior who is called to go up against ins...

  • Desert War

    “Desert War” tells the story of Saif, a man from the Order tasked with getting an ancient, powerful artifact out of Libu before those serving the Convergence can take it themselves. The nation of Libu is crumbling fast around him, as militant re...

  • Hellscapes

    Return to the nightmarish, shadowy realms of Hell in the latest installment of the Hellscapes series by Stephen Zimmer. Six brand new, macabre tales of the infernal await you … but be that you only visit these realms, you do not want to share the f...

  • Hellscapes, Volume 1

    Journey into realms of darkness and explore the regions where angels fear to tread! Welcome to the Hellscapes, featuring tales of the infernal in settings where the horror never ends and the inhabitants experience the ultimate nightmare. In "Blood Dr...

  • The Undying Light

    The Undying Light continues the cross-genre saga as the darkness of the Abyss spreads across a world in turmoil. Reeling from a pandemic, global economic instability and a war between the world's greatest powers, people of all nations look with hope ...

  • Heart of a Lion

    Rayden Valkyrie. She walks alone, serving no king, emperor, or master. Forged in the fires of tragedy, she has no place she truly calls home. A deadly warrior wielding both blade and axe, Rayden is the bane of the wicked and corrupt. To many others, ...



  • Hellscapes, Volume II

    Return to the nightmarish, shadowy realms of Hell in the latest installment of the Hellscapes series by Stephen Zimmer. Six brand new, macabre tales of the infernal await you ... but be that you only visit these realms, you do not want to share the f...

  • Thunder Horizon

    A deadly menace stalks the shadows of the lands to the north, stirring the winds of war. Farther south, the power of the Teveren Empire spreads with every passing day, empowered by dark sorcery. Formidable legions bent on conquest are on the march...

  • Depths of Night

    After a harrowing end to a long sea journey, the famed northern warrior Ragnar Stormbringer and a force of warriors step ashore in the lands of the Petranni, a tribal people known for their workings in silver and gold. The search for plunder takes a ...

  • Blood of a Queen

    Traveling farther east, Rayden Valkyrie comes upon a city shrouded in fear and anger. A devastating drought has been followed by a nightmarish rash of brutal murders and disappearances that only occur after the sun goes down. A few witnesses speak of...

  • Dream of the Navigator

    "1984 and Brave New World meets Narnia"

    Cities have been replaced by technates. It is a world of soaring apartments, hundreds of stories high, where technology measures, monitors and rations to meet the needs of the greater populace. It is a...

  • When the Cold Breathes

    There are times when the cold breathes. Settlers from Ragnar Stormbringer's homelands are forging a new world in the far north, building villages where the icy lash of the winds is a reminder of the dangers lurking within a harsh wilderness. A season...

  • Winds of War

    The winds of war are stirring.The kings of Thrakkia and Samosia quarrel with each other as a wave of invaders from a powerful empire crashes upon the shores of the nearby Kingdom of Pargemon. Having finished a harrowing mission aiding the Thrakk...

  • The Sun's Caress

    At the edge of the world, far to the east, Rayden has joined with a band of pirates led by Timiko, the young widow of a great warrior revered for showing compassion and generosity to the powerless toiling in the fields and villages on the islands of ...

  • Across Desert Plains

    Only the foolish deem the desolate places of the world truly abandoned.Journeying to the Kingdom of Thrakkia, Rayden Valkyrie encounters a large contingent of nomadic Barradans. Knowing the routes through the great desert expanses and the numerous da...

  • The Rayden Valkyrie Tales

    A compendium that contains the first three stand-alone novellas featuring the warrior Rayden Valkyrie. Included in Volume I are Blood of a Queen, Winds of War, and The Sun's Caress. With diverse settings, action-driven plots, and an array of fears...



  • Altar of Gods

    Ragnar Stormbringer and a large band of warriors from his homelands find themselves stranded within a mysterious, dangerous land. Trapped, with no way home, and pitted against a fearsome chieftain's desire to see all of the northern warriors off...

  • The Ragnar Stormbringer Tales

    A compendium that contains the first three stand-alone novellas featuring the warrior Ragnar Stormbringer. Included in Volume I are Depths of Night, When the Cold Breathes, and Altar of Gods. With diverse settings, action-driven plots, and an arra...

  • Tears in the Snow

    Howling winds carry promises of doom across the far north where a jarl's people are falling prey to a horrific plight.Chilling tales describing hordes of ravenous wolves falling upon homesteads and slaughtering every living thing, including men, wome...

  • Prowling the Darkness

    Dark rumors and whisperings of unholy sorcery bring Rayden Valkyrie to the remote city of Sereth-Naga.There she finds a populace cowering in fear of the city's ruthless, mysterious rulers, who remain behind the high walls of their citadel.An even gre...

  • When Shadows Fall

    When shadows fall, the dominion of light reigns.

    Rayden Valkyrie and her companions enter the Imperial City, the heart of the rising Teveren Empire. Never before has her gaze taken in a city so vast, wealthy, and populous.

    Sensual del...

  • Darkness Enthroned

    In the heart of a frigid northern winter, Rayden Valkyrie takes refuge in the lands of the Sarvan people when a mounted column of Attun warriors is seen passing along the outskirts of their territory heading west.Far from their steppe domain in the e...

  • The Awakening

    Following the end of a brutal war, Ragnar Stormbringer travels across the sea channel to the west with the warrior Thorsalla to visit her brother's new settlement in the fertile lands of Ulstara.Coming upon a scene of total devastation, they find no ...

  • Hellscapes, Volume III

    Descend into the infernal realms with eight new tales of doomed souls awakening to an unending nightmare filled with unfathomable horror! The wicked may find a way to evade punishment here on Earth, often using their power, wealth, and influence...

  • All in a Day's Riding

    "The desire to convey authentic and credible portrayals of the western cattle range and its people in its formative years guided Steve Zimmer in choosing to collect and illuminate real, remembered experiences of times and places in the West that was....

  • Burning Skies

    The Magarian empire is falling under the shadow of the fanatical desert warriors of Adis Khan, who are raiding with impunity from the lands to the east. Wielding his great war axe Raven Caller in defense of the empire's borders, Ragnar Stormbrin...



  • A Moment In Eternity

    The people of his tribe call Hongvi the Shadow Walker. A great warrior and hunter with a traumatic past, his courage is unrivaled among the Shinumu people. When tales arrive of giants roving the plains to the east of the great canyons, wher...

  • Days of Darkness

    Ambrose awakens to find dense, rolling layers of ash-gray clouds spanning to the far horizon, shrouding the city beneath in a drab pall.  He begins his day, thinking it no different from any other. Though it is in the height of summer, an i...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Zimmer has published 41 books.

Stephen Zimmer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Days of Darkness, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Stephen Zimmer, The Exodus Gate, was published in February 2009.

Yes. Stephen Zimmer has 3 series.
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