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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2005
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Guildmaster Saga

1 - Seamaster (Dec-2017)
2 - Stonemaster (Nov-2019)
3 - Skymaster (Sep-2021)
4 - Sunmaster (Nov-2022)

The Heartstrike Chronicles

1 - Atlantis Fallen (Apr-2016)
1.5 - From Coffin to Grave (Jul-2019)

The Inheritors' Cycle

1 - The Queen's Bastard (May-2008)
2 - The Pretender's Crown (May-2009)

Lara Jansen

1 - Truthseeker (Sep-2010)
2 - Wayfinder (Sep-2011)

The Lovelorn Lads

1 - Bewitching Benedict (Sep-2017)

The Negotiator

1 - Heart of Stone (Nov-2007)
2 - House of Cards (Mar-2008)
3 - Hands of Flame (Sep-2008)

The Rising

1 - Them Shoes (Apr-2020)
2 - Keys (Jan-2020)
3 - Siryn (Jul-2019)

The Torn

1 - Practical Boots (Jun-2021)

The Walker Papers

1 - Urban Shaman (Jun-2005)
1.5 - Banshee Cries (Nov-2005)
2 - Thunderbird Falls (May-2006)
3 - Coyote Dreams (May-2007)
4 - Walking Dead // Cauldron Borne (Sep-2009)
5 - Demon Hunts (Jun-2010)
6 - Spirit Dances (Mar-2011)
7 - Raven Calls (Feb-2012)
8 - Mountain Echoes (Mar-2013)
9 - Shaman Rises (Jul-2014)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

Roses in Amber (Feb-2017)

Book List in Order: 47 titles



  • Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the crypti...



  • In Banshee Cries, ritual murders under a full moon lead Jo Walker to confront a Harbinger of Death. Maybe this "gift" she has is one she shouldn't ignore -- because the next life she has to save might be her own!...



  • IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD...AGAIN. For all the bodies she's encountering, you'd think beat cop Joanne Walker works in Homicide. But no, Joanne's a reluctant shaman who last saved mankind three months ago -- surely she deserves more of a break! Yet...



  • MUCH OF THE CITY CAN'T WAKE UP. AND MORE DOZING OFF EACH DAY. Instead of powerful forces storming Seattle, a more insidious invasion is happening. Most of Joanne Walker's fellow cops are down with the blue flu--or rather the blue sleep. Yet there's ...



  • WHAT SECRETS LIE SHROUDED IN DARKNESS? Okay, so jogging through Central Park after midnight wasn't a bright idea. But Margrit Knight never thought she'd encounter a dark new world filled with magical beings--not to mention a dying woman and a myst...



  • A covenant broken. A hell unleashed... New York City's only legal counsel to the fabled Old Races, Margrit Knight is levelheaded in all matters extraordinary. But when she's summoned to negotiate a peace treaty among rival factions, her own mortal...



  • In a world where religion has ripped apart the old order, Belinda Primrose is the queen's secret weapon. The unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the first queen to sit on the Aulunian throne, Belinda has been trained as a spy since the age of twelve...



  • MARGRIT KNIGHT HAS BLOOD ON HER HANDS. War has erupted among the five Old Races, and Margrit is responsible for the death that caused it. Now New York City's most unusual lawyer finds herself facing her toughest negotiation yet. And with her gargoyl...



  • Fiercely intelligent, beautiful, and ready to claim her birthright, she navigates a dangerous world torn between war and witchpower. Seduction and stealth are Belinda Primrose's skills -- weapons befitting the queen's bastard daughter, a pawn of e...






  • SEATTLE'S A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE...IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE UNDEAD. For once, Joanne Walker's not out to save the world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and...



  • THIS NEXT CASE S WAY OUT OF HER JURISDICTION... Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she's ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. Literally. She's proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a ...



  • Here There Be Dragons!

    What is the deal with virgins?
    Why would a dragon want to swallow the moon?
    Is a bed of treasure really to be desired?

    At long last a collection that delves in the lore on what lures a dragon. We bring you ninet...



  • ACROSS TWO EXTRAORDINARY WORLDS, TRUTH IS THE DEADLIEST MAGIC Gifted with an uncanny intuition, Lara Jansen nonetheless thinks there is nothing particularly special about her. All that changes when a handsome but mysterious man enters her quiet Bo...



  • For Seattle detective Joanne Walker, spring is about new beginnings. She's mastered her shamanic abilities (mostly), survived a cannibalistic serial killer (barely) and now she's facing the biggest challenge of her career -- attending a dance concert...



  • THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE -- IF IT DOESN'T KILL YOU FIRST Lara Jansen is a truthseeker, gifted -- or cursed -- with the magical ability to tell honesty from lies. Once she was a tailor in Boston, but now she has crossed from Earth to the Barrow...



  • Something wicked this way comes... Suddenly, being bitten by a werewolf is the least of Joanne Walker's problems. Her personal life in turmoil, her job as a cop over, she's been called to Ireland by the magic within her. And though Joanne's ski...



  • Before the Negotiator, there were the long-held covenants of the Old Races: Do not mate with humans. Never tell them of our existence. And never kill one of our own. For time immemorial, these laws were adhered to……except when they were not. Delv...



  • Discover where it all began...

    Never mate with humans. Never tell them of our existence. And never kill one of our own.

    For time immemorial, the Old Races adhered to these laws...

    ...except, of course, when they did not.

    <...



  • Margrit Knight has broken the long-held covenants of the Old Races. Ancient rivals are scattered, friendships are broken, and the dragons, djinn, selkies, vampires and gargoyles are beginning to step out of the shadows and into the light.But the new ...






  • Ancient rivals, worst of friends, best of enemies: dragonlord Janx and master vampire Eliseo Daisani are the threads upon which a tapestry of lives and loves are woven across the centuries. From the coldest Russian nights to the heat of Chicago's gre...



  • A Jane Yellowrock / Walker Papers CrossoverWelcome to the crossover event fans have been waiting for: Joanne Walker and Jane Yellowrock meet in a world not quite like either of their own, where they must find and defeat the magic that brought them th...



  • Recently widowed after nearly fifty years of marriage, Gary Muldoon had given up on adventure. Then shaman Joanne Walker climbed into the back seat of his cab, and since then, Gary has trifled with gods, met mystics, slain zombies and ridden with the...



  • You can never go home again Joanne Walker has survived an encounter with the Master at great personal cost, but now her father is missing-stolen from the timeline. She must finally return to North Carolina to find him-and to meet Aidan, the son sh...



  • Joanne Walker has two choices: Defeat the enemy...or lose her soul trying For over a year, Joanne has been fighting the Master -- the world's most abiding evil entity. She's sacrificed family, friendships, even watched potential futures fade ...



  • JUSTICE WILL BE DONE!Some girls languish under the weight of a broken heart, but not Amelia Stone. After a youthful encounter with the villain known as le Monstre aux Yeux Verts, Amelia is left with regrets -- and a stalwart determination to right th...



  • It is a truth universally accepted that well-bred members of Society are not beleaguered with magic. For Elsabeth Dover and her sisters, that truth means living in a perpetual state of caution, never using their sorcerous gifts in public. Elsabeth ch...



  • A city hidden for five thousand years.

    A man so ancient his early history is lost to time.

    A woman who has nothing to lose...

    Lorhen, oldest and most ruthless of the immortal Timeless, put aside the sword long ago for a quiet ...



  • Driven to save lives after her son's murder, Frankie Kemp has spent years as a non-powered vigilante whom the police choose to overlook, but when a virus releases super-powered potential in much of the population, "Chance" is left to face her chil...



  • There is a story of a beast, and a merchant's daughter, and a curse that must be broken. This is not--quite--that story.

    Amber Gryce believes in magic the way anyone does: as a thing of the past, marked now only by the long reign of an anci...






  • Benedict Fairburn does not quite need his ailing great-aunt's fortune, especially since he'll have to marry to get it. His family, however, thinks otherwise--as do many of the eligible ladies in London--and the pressure is mounting. An embarrassme...



  • Rasim is no stranger to bad luck. Orphaned at birth, he holds his place in the Seamasters' Guild by dint of quick thinking and sheer stubbornness. Possessed of little magic but a sharp mind, his greatest talent seems to be finding trouble--or perh...



  • July, 1945.Soldiers are coming home from the war...and monsters come with them.THE REDEEMERRosie wants to keep her job as a riveter, even with her boyfriend returning from World War II. But there’s defying convention, and then there’s executing a...



  • REVEL IN THE CHAOS OF THE AFTERMATH

    The laws that governed the Old Races for time immemorial have been broken. Ancient rivals are scattered. Friendships are ended. What was hidden begins to step out of shadow and into the light.

    And af...



  • A country ravaged by the hunger.A woman dying for a chance to live.A man who cannot quite leave well enough alone.Saoirse O'Cathain should have died on the coffin ship that took her from famine-torn Ireland to the dubious safety of the Canadian coast...



  • The waters have risen, leaving cities drowned and a future changed beyond recognition. And into that future, something new has been born--or perhaps something impossibly old has been released.She does not know how she came to be, only that the oceans...



  • It's good luck to earn the king's regard...isn't it?

    Seamaster journeyman Rasim's quick wits have helped to save his beloved home city and earned him the dubious honor of studying with the diplomatic Sunmasters. But not everyone is happy tha...



  • Not so very long ago came the Rising, and the death of the world as it was. There are old tales to be remade in this new future, and echoes of the past that resonate through time.Rich men survive in every era, and the wealthy baron they call Bluebear...



  • Ancient rivals, worst of friends, best of enemies: dragonlord Janx and master vampire Eliseo Daisani are the threads upon which a tapestry of lives and loves are woven across the centuries. From the coldest Russian nights to the heat of Chicago's gre...







  • Their love will soar again....Ten years ago Susan Connolly walked out on her boyfriend when she accidentally discovered the secret of his shapeshifting heritage. She's left regrets and romance in the past, holding on instead to the best thing he ever...



  • These boots are made for walking...The disappointing daughter of a Lord of the Torn, Cat Sharp was dumped in the shapeless Waste to prove herself or die. Seven years later, she's honed the Artificer magic that saved her in the Waste, and her courier ...



  • United States of America, 2053 A.D.

    There’s not a lot left for the last few cops of what was once New York City to do, these days. Officer Cera Cortez once dreamed of chasing down killers, but now she mostly just puts a friendly face on ...



  • Disaster follows Rasim al Ilialio wherever he goes. Ilyaran witches are prized by the slaving countries that surround Rasim's peaceful desert home, but the city's magical prowess has always kept them safe. The Northlands, however, are not so for...



  • United States of America, 2051 A.D.

    It has been twenty years since Eustace Fargo’s justice bill was passed. There are new weapons on the streets and vast city blocks rising to the sky, as the first human being sets out to visit another s...



  • Rasim al Ilalio doesn't mean to cause trouble wherever he goes, but a year of disasters lies in his wake. A war is brewing, but returning home to his beloved city of Ilyara isn't an option--not until he's brought a friend home again, and has warned t...



  • Some things do go bump in the night.Bounty hunting used to be the Cassidy brothers' bread and butter, but Chris encouraged his bright, sensitive little brother to abandon the family business for college. Unfortunately, sometimes what you want isn't w...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

C.E. Murphy has published 47 books.

C.E. Murphy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Through the Fire, was published in May 2023.

The first book by C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman, was published in June 2005.

Yes. C.E. Murphy has 9 series.