Tanya Huff

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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1988
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Circle, Light & Fire

1 - Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light (Nov-1989)
2 - Fire's Stone (Oct-1990)

Confederation of Valor

1 - Valor's Choice (Apr-2000)
2 - The Better Part of Valor (Mar-2002)
3 - The Heart of Valor (Jun-2007)
4 - Valor's Trial (Jun-2008)
5 - The Truth of Valor (Sep-2010)
6 - A Confederation of Valor (Feb-2015)

Gale Women

1 - The Enchantment Emporium (Jun-2009)
2 - The Wild Ways (Nov-2011)
3 - The Future Falls (Nov-2014)

Keeper's Summoning Chronicles

1 - Summon the Keeper (May-1998)
2 - The Second Summoning (Mar-2001)
3 - Long Hot Summoning (May-2003)

Peacekeeper

1 - An Ancient Peace (Oct-2015)
2 - A Peace Divided (Jun-2017)

Quarters

1 - Sing the Four Quarters (Dec-1994)
2 - Fifth Quarter (Aug-1995)
3 - No Quarter (Apr-1996)
4 - The Quartered Sea (May-1999)

Smoke

1 - Smoke and Shadows (Apr-2004)
2 - Smoke and Mirrors (Jun-2005)
3 - Smoke and Ashes (Jun-2006)
4 - Blood Wrapped (Sep-2007)

Victory Nelson's Blood Investigations

1 - Blood Price (May-1991)
2 - Blood Trail (Feb-1992)
3 - Blood Lines (Nov-1993)
4 - Blood Pact (Nov-1993)
5 - Blood Debt (Aug-1997)
6 - Blood Bank (Sep-2006)

Wizard Crystal of the Grove

1 - Child of the Grove (May-1988)
2 - The Last Wizard (Mar-1989)

Multi-Author Series List

Ravenloft

12 - Scholar of Decay (Dec-1995)

Valdemar

Live On (Dec-2008)

Book List in Order: 59 titles

  • Child of the Grove

    Wizard Crystal of the Grove - 1

    Now available in a new ebook edition, the first novel published by Tanya Huff -- author of the acclaimed Blood Books series -- a tale of magic and betrayal in a realm where once-powerful magic is fading… and a girl whose gifts may be the key to ove...

  • The Last Wizard

    Wizard Crystal of the Grove - 2

    BY POWER CURSED -- She was Crystal, the one true child of the seven goddesses, created by them and raised to become the nemesis of Kraydak, who for countless centuries tormented the world with his evil sorcery. Now Kradak was dead, and Crystal's pu...

  • Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light

    Circle, Light & Fire - 1

    THE WILD MAGIC was loose in Toronto, for an Adept of Darkness had broken through the barrier into the everyday mortal world. And in this age when only fools and innocents still believed in magic, who was there to fight against the invasion by evil? ...

  • Fire's Stone

    Circle, Light & Fire - 2

    THIEF, SWORDSMAN, AND WIZARDESS AARON, Clan Heir, he had fled his people when his beloved was slain by his own father's command, abandoning his training, duty, and beliefs to become a thief. A master of his trade, he now dared the odds in Ischia, ...

  • Blood Price

    Victory Nelson's Blood Investigations - 1

    NIGHT STALKER It began with blood-and death amid the streets of late-night Toronto. Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto's homicide detail, now a private investigator, witnessed the first attack by the force of dark magic that would soon wreak its re...

  • Blood Trail

    Victory Nelson's Blood Investigations - 2

    SILVER BULLETS -- For centuries, they had peacefully coexisted with ordinary humans in Canada. But now death had invaded the peaceful retreat of their London, Ontario farm. For someone had learned their most closely guarded secret. Someone knew th...

  • Blood Lines

    Victory Nelson's Blood Investigations - 3

    WHEN EVIL WAKES -- Sealed away through unending centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, he had patiently waited for the opportunity to live again, for the chance to feed on the unwary and grow strong. Now, at last, the waiting had com...

  • Blood Pact

    Victory Nelson's Blood Investigations - 4

    THE RESTLESS DEAD It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get, the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. Mrs. Nelson's coworker at the Queen's University Life Science Department told Vicki that the cause of...

  • Sing the Four Quarters

    Quarters - 1

    TO CALL THE KIGH was the height of bard's magic. Only those born with the gift could learn to Sing these spirits of earth, air, fire, and water into doing their bidding, and even someone as gifted as the Princess Annice must spend years studying at ...



  • Fifth Quarter

    Quarters - 2

    THE SONG OF DEATH Bannon and Vree, brother and sister, they are assassins of the highest caliber who have long plied their trade for the Havalkeen army. But all their skill and experience cannot save them from a magic-sprung trap that will see the...

  • Scholar of Decay

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Ravenloft - 12

    When Aurek Nuiken travels to Richemulot to search for a spellbook that will save his endangered wife, little does he know that a beautiful woman, a family of wererats, and his own brother will cruelly conspire to turn the tables against him. As hideo...

  • No Quarter

    Quarters - 3

    SHE WAS A TRAINED ASSASSIN, HE KILLED SO HE COULD LIVE FOREVER-- It started with the bards, the kigh elementals, and a madman who could Sing the Fifth Quarter, who could Sing the dead out of their graves. But it really began with a brother and sis...

  • Blood Debt

    Victory Nelson's Blood Investigations - 5

    THE HAUNTING Henry Fitzroy, vampire, writer, and bastard son of Henry VIII, had survived for centuries by obeying the vampires' code. He did not slaughter needlessly, did not draw attention to himself, and never invaded another vampire's territory. ...

  • Summon the Keeper

    Keeper's Summoning Chronicles - 1

    THE CAT -- Austin was a black-and-white, far-from-young cat. Not just any cat, mind you, he was the Keeper's cat, a very outspoken feline with extremely strong opinions he was always willing to voice. After all, who knew better than Austin what was ...

  • Stealing Magic

  • The Quartered Sea

    Quarters - 4

    ONE QUARTER No one could deny that the young bard Benedikt was the most powerful Singer of water in the entire kingdom of Shkoder. But water was the only Quarter he could Sing. And without the ability to Sing air, he was isolated from his fellow bar...

  • Valor's Choice

    Confederation of Valor - 1

    STAFF SERGEANT TORIN KERR was a battle-hardened professional. So when she and those in her platoon who4d survived the last deadly encounter with the Others were yanked from a well-deserved leave for what was supposed to be "easy" duty as the honor...

  • Someone to Share the Night

    in Single White Vampire Seeks Same

    The personals ads are certainly a prime source for people's private fantasies, some of which end in happiness, while others turn into total disasters. But what if there was something "special" about either the placer of the ad or the one who answered...

  • The Second Summoning

    Keeper's Summoning Chronicles - 2

    CLAIRE HANSEN WAS A KEEPER... gifted--or cursed--with the job of being one of Earth's Guardians, "Summoned" to areas where anomalies existed, where rifts had opened--or had been opened. Such places were the world's danger spots where, if they weren'...



  • To Each His Own Kind

    in Dracula in London

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF COUNT DRACULA Brain Stoker's immortal tale of vampirism told the story of how Count Vlad Tepes came to London and met his demise at the hands of Abraham van Helsing's vampire hunters. But how did Dracula occupy his time when he ...

  • The Better Part of Valor

    Confederation of Valor - 2

    NEVER TELL A TWO-STAR GENERAL WHAT YOU REALLY THINK OF HIM.... That was the mistake Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr had made with General Morris. But as a battle-hardened professional, she took pride in doing her job and getting her troops back alive. S...

  • Long Hot Summoning

    Keeper's Summoning Chronicles - 3

    IT STARTED ON THE LAST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL... a day Diana Hansen had been anticipating for the last twelve years. Now her real life could begin.... For Diana, like her sister Claire, was a Keeper--gifted with the ability to reweave the possibilities o...

  • Smoke and Shadows

    Smoke - 1

    When Tony Foster relocated to Vancouver with vampire Henry Fitzroy, he knew it was his chance to get his act together. In an example of art echoing life, Tony landed a job as Production Assistant for the syndicated TV show "Darkest Night," a series a...

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Smoke - 2

    SMOKE AND MIRRORS is the second novel in a brilliant new contemporary fantasy series that reintroduces us to two characters from Tanya Huff's beloved Blood novels--vampire Henry Fitzroy and Tony Foster, a former street kid and "snitch" who is given a...

  • Women Of War

    In the real world, many women are still struggling for equality, but science fiction and fantasy provide a stage for the portrayal of women who have come fully into their own. Here, a talented group of writers has taken up the challenge of creating s...

  • Slow Poison

    in In the Shadow of Evil

    TIM WAGGONER * JEAN RABE * RUSSELL DAVIS ISAAC SZPINDEL * RICK HAUTALA JULIE E. CZERNEDA * JANE LINDSKOLD BROOKS PECK * MICKEY ZUCKER REICHERT JODY LYNN NYE * GREGORY BENFORD TANYA HUFF * MICHELLE WEST * FIONA PATTON The struggle between goo...

  • Smoke and Ashes

    Smoke - 3

    Tanya Huff’s supernatural fantasy Smoke series, with a gothic twist • Mix of ghostly mystery, paranormal horror, and dark humor • Lamba Award nominated
     
    Fans of the X-Files and Twin Peaks will love acclaimed master of contemporary f...

  • Blood Bank

    Victory Nelson's Blood Investigations - 6

    The Blood Books center around three main characters: Vicki Nelson, a homicide cop turned private detective, her former partner Mike Celluci, who is still on the force, and vampire Henry Fitzroy, who is the illegitimate son of Henry VIII and makes his...

  • The Heart of Valor

    Confederation of Valor - 3

    Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr's goal is to keep both her superior officers and her troops alive as they face missions throughout the galaxy. But she's been sidelined with endless briefings and debriefings for a while, so she jumps at the chance to go to ...



  • Blood Wrapped

    in Many Bloody Returns
    Smoke - 4

    Includes an original Sookie Stackhouse story

    "Clever...entertaining... excellent"(Library Journal) original vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and more.

    From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone's ...

  • Finding Magic

  • Valor's Trial

    Confederation of Valor - 4

    The fourth book in Tanya Huff's action-packed military sci-fi adventure Confederation seriesAfter surviving the perils of the Crucible, the Marine Corps planet where a routine training assignment had taken a deadly twist -- Gunnery Sergeant Torin Ker...

  • Music Hath Charms

    in Hotter Than Hell

    Beyond the boundaries of the everyday is an unseen realm where anything you imagine is possible. Your demon lover is waiting for you in the shadows, ready to fulfill your secret wishes and most dangerous fantasies. Here passion has a face and form bo...

  • Live On

    in Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar
    Valdemar

    Sixteen original stories set in mercedes lackey's valdemar universe Includes a new novella by Mercedes Lackey! Today's hottest fantasy authors visit Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world of Valdemar, adding their own special touches to the ancien...

  • The Enchantment Emporium

    Gale Women - 1

    From the author of the acclaimed Blood and Smoke novels. and The Keeper's Chronicles series comes. a brand-new urban fantasy featuring Alysha Catherine Gale, the kind of gutsy and caring heroine that is Tanya Huff's trademark. The Gales of souther...

  • No Matter Where You Go

    in A Girl's Guide to Guns and Monsters

    This collection contains 13 urban and paranormal tales of strong women, armed with weapons they are not afraid to use, as well as fists and feet of fury, who face monsters and bad guys--and are not above rescuing men in the process....

  • The Truth of Valor

    Confederation of Valor - 5

    Former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is attempting to build a new life with salvage operator Craig Ryder on his ship, the Promise. Turns out civilian life is a lot rougher than she'd imagined-salvage operators are losing both cargo and lives to ...

  • Third Time Lucky

    There's a lot of responsibility involved with being the most powerful wizard in the world, and Magdelene wants nothing to do with any of it. Lazy, lusty, and more likely to be found lying in the sun than casting runes or sacrificing unfortunate g...

  • Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy

    Explore uncharted territory in this collection of heroic fantasy shorts from Tanya Huff. Annotations provide background and insight on each story. Peppered with Huff’s trademark tongue-in-cheek wit and the brilliant, funny, wise, ruthless heroines ...



  • The Wild Ways

    Gale Women - 2

    Alysha Gale's cousin Charlotte is a Wild Power, who allies herself with a family of Selkies in a fight against offshore oil drilling. The oil company has hired another of the Gale family's Wild Powers, the fearsome Auntie Catherine, to steal the Selk...

  • February Thaw: And Other Stories of Contemporary Fantasy

    FEBRUARY THAW is the second e-collection by Tanya Huff and brings together some of the short fiction that helped define the field. From an Imperial Dragon in Toronto's Chinatown, to a heavy metal retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, to the realizatio...

  • The Silvered

    From the author of the bestselling Blood books, a brilliant new tale of shape-changers, mages, soothsayers, and a power-mad emperor. The Empire has declared war on the small, were-ruled kingdom of Aydori, capturing five women of the Mage-Pack, inc...

  • Swan's Braid: And Other Tales of Terizan

    A new short story collection from Tanya Huff. You can't belong to the Thieves' Guild if you can't break into the Thieves' Guild. When Terizan dropped out of the secret passage, past the net, and into the Inner Sanctum, she was astonished to discover ...

  • He Said, Sidhe Said

    In these seven contemporary fantasies from Tanya Huff, we see a dog's eye view of loyalty and a cat's eye view of sea serpents. We learn that some Brownies could use a shave â€" although cookies will still be sold â€" and that there are at least two ...

  • The Future Falls

    Gale Women - 3

    When Auntie Catherine warns the family of an approaching asteroid, the Gales scramble to keep humans from going the way of the dinosaurs. Fortunately for the world, they're wielding a guitar and a dragon. The Gale family can change the world with ...

  • A Confederation of Valor

    Confederation of Valor - 6

    In "Valor's Choice," Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr and her crew get yanked from a well-deserved shore leave in order to participate in an “easy” mission. They are to act as an honor guard for a diplomatic visit to the world of the Silsviss, reptilian...

  • An Ancient Peace

    Peacekeeper - 1

    Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr had been the very model of a Confederation Marine. But when she learned the truth about the war the Confederation was fighting, she left the military for good. But Torin couldn’t walk away from preserving and protecti...

  • Wizard of the Grove

    In the age of gods--dwarfs, centaurs, and other Elder Races roamed the lands freely, and the race of mortals was created as a mere plaything for Lord Death.   In the age of wizards--the power games of these immortal children of gods went too far,...

  • A Peace Divided

    Peacekeeper - 2

    Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr had been the very model of a Confederation Marine. No one who’d ever served with her could imagine any circumstance that would see her walking away from the Corps. But that was before Torin learned the truth about th...



  • The Demon's Den and Other Tales of Valdemar

    Tanya Huff delivers seven fantastical tales featuring the young Herald Jors, set in Mercedes Lackey’s legendary realm of Valdemar.

    In Valdemar, only the true of heart are Chosen to wear the Whites and become Heralds -- guardians who jour...

  • A Privilege of Peace

    Former space marine Torin Kerr returns for one final adventure to save the Confederation in the last book in the military science fiction Peacekeeper trilogy. Warden Torin Kerr has put her past behind her and built a life away from the war and eve...

  • Blood Shot

    Tanya Huff’s darkly thrilling Blood novels introduced readers to vampiric P.I. Victoria Nelson and her life amongst the paranormal. Here are some of Tanya’s best short stories featuring Vicki and other unforgettable characters from her world… I...

  • Blood Banked

    Tanya Huff’s darkly thrilling Blood novels introduced readers to vampiric P.I. Victoria Nelson. Here are Tanya’s best short stories featuring Vicki and other unforgettable characters from her world… Note: This ebook consists of 9 short stories...

  • Into the Broken Lands

    A band of heroes seeking a magical fire enters a perilous swampland full of deadly flora and fauna in this epic environmental fantasy from a master of the genre.“Tanya Huff is a long-time favorite read of mine.” -- Charlaine Harris, New York Time...

  • The Shorter Parts of Valor

    A collection of stories from bestselling author Tanya Huff’s Confederation universe, including both previously published and never-before-seen works, and the author’s own wry and insightful commentary. Read on for stories featuring • Torin Ker...

  • Last-Ditch

    Successful spies change history. Failures are never heard from again. From simple data theft or sabotage to protecting state secrets and last-ditch gambles that alter the tides of war, it's the spy—professional or amateur—who gets the j...

  • Direct Descendant

    This cozy horror novel set in modern-day Toronto includes phenomenal characters, fantastic writing, and a queer romance -- the perfect balance of dark and delightfulThis stand-alone novel from the bestselling author of the Peacekeeper novels mixes th...

  • Relative Magic

    • / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

    Meisha Merlin's second collection of Tanya Huff's short fiction, Relative Magic features four Terizan stories (3 previously published and one newly written especially for this collection), two stories from the Blood Series (one Vicky and one Henry), ...

  • What Ho, Magic!

    • / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

    Tanya Huff, the acclaimed writer of the Blood and Kigh series, is also a fantastic short story writer. What Ho, Magic! is a collection of fifteen of Tanya's short stories: "I'll Be Home for Christmas" "Word of Honor" "Shing Li-ung", "First Love, Last...

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Tanya Huff has published 59 books.

The next book by Tanya Huff, Direct Descendant, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Tanya Huff, Child of the Grove, was published in May 1988.

Yes. Tanya Huff has 9 series.
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