A.J. Cooper

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  • Bibliography:
    57 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2008
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Enchanted Forest

1 - Hag Hollow (Aug-2012)
2 - Big Black Dog (Aug-2012)
3 - Dead Man Talking (Oct-2012)
4 - Hagflight (Oct-2012)
5 - Invasion (Nov-2012)

The Imperial Chronicles

1 - Unconquered Son (May-2013)
2 - Red Empire (Jul-2013)
3 - Shadow and Flame (Oct-2013)
4 - Sons of Empire (Feb-2014)
5 - The Will of Imperium (Jun-2014)

The Ulfr Crisis

1 - Fell Winter (Jan-2014)
2 - High Queen (Nov-2012)
3 - Dragon's Son (Jan-2013)

Vampire Origins

1 - Army of Darkness (Jun-2013)
2 - Vampire Blade (Aug-2013)
3 - Crimson Throne (Sep-2013)
4 - Prince of Dread (Nov-2013)
5 - Day of Reckoning (Dec-2013)

Wind of Destiny

1 - A Hero's Calling (Jul-2016)

The Witch War

1 - Sword and Talon (Jan-2014)

Book List in Order: 57 titles

  • Blade of Prophecy

    The city of Thénai and the military alliance it leads resurge from the brink of destruction to become more powerful than ever.The hero Theron, Thénai's most famous citizen, has been gone for more than a decade, but rumors spread that his re...

  • Quest for a Hero

    The city of Thénai burns, and hopes for the military alliance it once led begin to falter.In the midst of the wreckage, rebels pick up the pieces and take the fight to their captors. Tasked with crushing the insurrection is Pereon, a foreigner w...

  • Swamp King

    For centuries, the bright, sunny Kalamar Forest and the dark, dismal swamps to its west have lived in relative peace.But as Pirosha, King of Kalamar, approaches his nineteenth year, trouble consumes his realm. Vanishings and rebellions are reported. ...

  • Nocturne, Son of the Night

    ""Seeing the great darkness within the elven prince's heart, the High God cursed his descendants with a thirst for blood."Nocturne, a descendant of Prince Gilden, is an outsider. He sees humans as more than bloodmeals"...

  • Jeana

    This short story originally appeared in ABANDONED TOWERS MAGAZINE.An important mission draws Jacq, a knight of Zarubain, to the notorious slums of Greenwater. Quickly after purchasing a room at a seedy inn, he falls in love with Jeana - a serving wen...

  • Big Black Dog

    Enchanted Forest - 2

    Ep. 2: Big Black DogIn the center of the Kalamar Forest lies the Sheeh, a forbidding region where trees have minds of their own and vines strangle passersby. The only settlement, Loxdon, exists precariously on its northernmost edge. Yet things are n...

  • Hag Hollow

    Enchanted Forest - 1

    In Kalamar, the line between the material world and the Otherworld is thin. Here, will o' wisps draw unwary travelers into quicksand; the lupine Firvalg hunt in packs; giant spiders trap victims in sticky webs; and the vicious Mandragora coils throug...

  • Dead Man Talking

    Enchanted Forest - 3

    Enchanted Forest: A New Short Story Series In the Kalamar Forest, the line between the material world and the Otherworld is thin. Here, will o' wisps draw unwary travelers into quicksand; the lupine Firvalg hunt in packs; giant spiders trap victims i...

  • Hagflight

    Enchanted Forest - 4

    Ep. 4: HagflightThe festival of All Hallows comes to Kalamar. Norgs don masks to honor Dibbhal, the Bogey Man. Meanwhile, Pirosha's friend Imowyn notices the full moon, shining bright.She promptly informs him that whenever All Hallo...



  • High Queen

    The Ulfr Crisis - 2

    The second novel in the Ulfr Crisis trilogy. Alysse Riverhall sails to her native land, vowing to return with an army of knights. While Sigmund sits on the throne, Kenna Wildsaber calls up spirits of darkness to aid her ambitions. The undead High Wit...

  • Invasion

    Enchanted Forest - 5

    Episode 5: InvasionThe prophecy of Nightshade, queen of the hags, comes true. An army of Big People invades from the south: the Necro-Lords, masters of death.The conclusion of the first volume.Enchanted Forest: A New Short Story Ser...

  • Dragon's Son

    The Ulfr Crisis - 3

    The Ulfr conquest is complete. The towns of Badelgard lie destroyed, abandoned, or suffering under the rule of Fell Lords and their dark ladies. Against all odds, Kai Riverhall -- the Dragon’s Son -- seeks to put an end to the Great Witch and her e...

  • Unconquered Son

    The Imperial Chronicles - 1

    The Empire teeters on the brink of collapse. A hedonistic teen assumes the throne under false pretenses while a slave rebellion erupts in the north. The southern King of Kings, sensing weakness, sets his eyes on his vulnerable foe.In the midst of the...

  • Army of Darkness

    Vampire Origins - 1

    "Seeing the great darkness within the elven prince's heart, the High God cursed his descendants with a thirst for blood..." The first vampires, driven from their home, find themselves locked in a struggle for survival. The King of the Elves sends an ...

  • Red Empire

    The Imperial Chronicles - 2

    “Trust no one. To survive to my age, you must judge men’s character well. Fear your enemies, yes. But fear your friends even more.”With the death of Claudio-Valens Adamantus, many fear the golden age will come to an end. In the Imperial Palace,...

  • Vampire Blade

    Vampire Origins - 2

    Seeing the great darkness within the elven prince's heart, the High God cursed his descendants with a thirst for blood...A century has passed since the vampire race settled in the arctic north. It seems all is well for Druthor the Great, King of the ...

  • Crimson Throne

    Vampire Origins - 3

    In the vampire nation, there are no heroes, only villains.Druthor, the ancient king of the vampires, sought to cheat death with alchemy but only quickened his demise. His sudden death throws Nardur into civil war as the lesser lords vie for the CRIMS...

  • Shadow and Flame

    The Imperial Chronicles - 3

    The Empire has reached its zenith of power and prosperity, but things are rarely as they seem.As shadow spreads across the world, the Revered Order of Hunters scours the provinces for demon shrines and their fiendish worshipers, all while an eerie si...

  • Prince of Dread

    Vampire Origins - 4

    From the ashes of civil war, the vampire nation emerges stronger than ever. Homar son of Homar, whom history will know as the PRINCE OF DREAD, musters his troops to avenge a nearly forgotten wrong.Caught in the wake of the vampire king’s ambition i...



  • Day of Reckoning

    Vampire Origins - 5

    “Seeing the great darkness within the elven prince’s heart, the High God cursed his descendants with a thirst for blood…”More than four hundred years after the vampire's curse first took hold among the Dark Prince’s children, the druen nati...

  • Fell Winter

    The Ulfr Crisis - 1

    An evil not seen in hundreds of years has awakened in the highland nation of Badelgard. The Ulfr - the original inhabitants of the land whose evil was matched only by their power over death - stir from their barrows... The dead walk again at the comm...

  • Sword and Talon

    The Witch War - 1

    The summer brings more than heat to Miere. From the five lake towns of the north-east to the deepest recesses of the Eldenwood, rumors spread of the reawakened Old Religion. Women of latent power dream of the Horned God, and their worried husbands re...

  • Sons of Empire

    The Imperial Chronicles - 4

    The Empire speeds toward a new century, anticipating new heights of prosperity and power but finding its triumphant march forced to a stumble. An official visit from the northman king, Gylles vis Bretagne, is laced with ulterior motives and may lead ...

  • The Will of Imperium

    The Imperial Chronicles - 5

    In a long-planned, perfectly executed coup, the Academies of Eloesus overthrow the Imperial government and transport a foreign army to the Empire's shores, intending to remake the nation according to their utopian vision. As cities fall and the natio...

  • Tide of War

    Set immediately after the events of “The Will of Imperium,” a story of omens, signs, and apocalyptic tremors…Fear grows in the feudal kingdom of Zarubain as an army gathers on the southern border. The lords, the ladies, and the fairy priestesse...

  • Mushroom War

    What is growing in the garden?Imowyn, herbalist extraordinaire, plants two seeds. Months later, they grow into beets. Eyes appear. The "vegetables" begin to stir... To move and then to talk.Who could imagine two baby sproutlings would start a war in ...

  • A Hero's Calling

    Wind of Destiny - 1

    In ancient times, the dark god Kronos crafted weapons of war in his fiery lair. His worship has long been eradicated, his followers driven into hiding... and yet he remains...Creatures of shadow are crawling through the land of Eloesus... they seek o...

  • A King's Gambit

    The cities of Eloesus are warring among themselves, as they have since the beginning. Locked in mistrust and rivalry, they fail to see the most powerful empire in the world setting the gears of invasion into motion. The King of Kings, padisha emperor...

  • A Prophecy's End

    The day of battle has arrived, but the alliance of Eloesian cities is already evaporating. Theron, the hero whom the Oracle has called, is failing at his task.Against all this, a wind of destiny blows... A wind from prophecy's holy mount.The third bo...



  • Rise of a Hero

    The tenuous alliance between the cities of Eloesus evaporates. With the nation divided into the Thenoan and Kersican Leagues, war has become inevitable.Out of the division, a new foe arises: the one called the Dark Captain. The Kersican League consid...

  • Wrath of the Demiurge

    The Demiurge’s legacy of evil has been largely forgotten; the memory of his reign of terror, almost vanished.Yet Gaia -- having bridged the gap between her world and his -- ushers him once again into the world of the living.As Eloesus slips into to...

  • War of Kings

    In the shadow of a mountain, Rogon, the Dark Captain - slain by his enemies - stirs to life. Bearing the Gauntlet of the Demiurge, he awakens more powerful than ever before. Not far away, Theron, hero of the Southron War, embarks on a quest...

  • Sword of a Messenger

    The doors to the Temple of Amara are sealed shut, leaving citizens of Thenai to wonder what lies inside. Abroad, the war effort flags and in the city itself, unrest has begun to spread. In the middle of it all, the amazon Khloe attempts desperately t...

  • The City of Light

    Danarion of the Seven Gates... one gate for leaving and one gate for entering. One for hoping and one for fearing. One for the dusk and one for the dawn. One for the way of the sea and the Sage's coming. The Sage arrives in the City of Light, or so i...

  • The Dark One's Hand

    A summons from a long-lost mentor thrusts Reev Nax, a boy of uncertain parentage, into a fateful journey of discovery. Reev learns that an ancient evil has reawakened in the world of Varda, and that two prophetic figures, one the Hand of Light and th...

  • The Doom of Qadirra

    Four to Naron Da, four warriors of light... four to Naron Da, in the shadows of the night. The Sage and his companions make their way to the Naron Da, the Dark Land, even as they are hunted by a fierce foe. Their journey will take them through hostil...

  • The Iron Mask

    War breaks out in Gallia, even as danger arrives closer to home. In the Dragonteeth Mountains, the spawning pits pour forth untold numbers of rokahn and dark tidings are visited upon the city far below. The heroes of what will become the Last Shadow ...

  • Order from Chaos

    Two to Naron Da, two warriors of light... two to Naron Da, in the shadows of the night. The Sage and his companion arrive at the outskirts of the Dark Land but are turned back. Fate drives them toward a vacant throne and an unfulfilled vow. Meanwhile...

  • Seven Against Seymus

    War once far has been brought near, to Gallia's doorstep. The Empire, the mightiest nation in Varda, has set its sights on Gallia. But a greater foe is at work, and the Dark One's Hand may soon be revealed. Against Seymus, the Dark One, seven have ar...



  • The Shadow of Lothan

    Summer falls over Gallia. Rumor grows of a Blight spreading across the South Weald. The heroes of what will become the Last Shadow War face tests of might and magic, the discovery of hidden gifts and surprising allies, and star-crossed love. But amid...

  • Telantis Reborn

    As the Last Shadow War begins, the Sage and his helper arrive in the Dark Land. Amid a land of shadow and danger, and crimes of the heart that echo to the present day, a people lay waiting for what was promised to them, an unending dawn and the rebir...

  • Warriors of Telantis

    The shipwrecked heroes find themselves in a strange land, in a city of highest civilization and lowest barbarism, a city of iron and blood. As an ancient conspiracy is slowly uncovered, and the Sage struggles to survive, new kinds of warriors may be ...

  • Agent of the Empire

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    Julia, the emperor's daughter, has now been missing for many months.But as the Red Hand cult takes root across Imperial City, more dangers arise and new threats present themselves. Publius Corvus, soldier of the Empire, can only linger a little while...

  • Among the Ruins

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    A desert tale. Court cartographer Alessandro finds himself assigned to discover new routes to the East, new ways to resume the trade of spices for the empire he serves. But in the desert lie dangers; in the midst of the sands are the ruins of a great...

  • Bug War

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    In the penultimate tale of Enchanted Forest, a grave threat has arrived in the Kingdom of Kalamar. Pirosha, whom some say will be called the greatest norg that ever lived, rallies his people against the threat, not knowing he speeds toward a portent ...

  • Covenant

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    Pirosha, King of Kalamar, now married, is at the height of his life, and his kingdom at the height of its prosperity, when a visitor comes to town. Her name? Unknown. Her demand? His firstborn son. A long-made covenant has now come due.Volume 5 of En...

  • Eschaton

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    The city of Pythia has long ruled over the kingdoms of the earth and the people called the Danaans. But for days, a storm has swirled above its skies, and rumor has spread of an act of horror committed in its temple.Cleon, a rebel slave, finds himsel...

  • The Halfling King

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  • Lorkdan

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    When Lorkdan, a foreign mercenary, arrives at a lonely inn down a dark road, he hopes for nothing more than a bed to rest his head and a meal to fill his stomach. But things are not well in the county called Valle, nor the kingdom at large; and as th...



  • Lorkdan: The Lost Chapters

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    Lorkdan, mercenary and sell-sword, once overthrew the Count of Valle and defeated thirty warriors at once. His mastery of the sword is legendary throughout the world — but a journey, thrust upon him, will teach him of dangers that steel cannot ...

  • The One True King

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    An invasion of the Big People threatens the Kingdom of Kalamar with destruction and the norgish people with ruin. Hither comes Pirosha Shortsprout, King of Kalamar, who will be called the greatest norg that ever lived.The seventh and final volume of ...

  • Rebellion

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    For centuries, the House of Bayne has ruled in the Kalamar Forest. Its many generations have lived in Bayne's fortress, and its sons have sat on Bayne's throne. But now, the household is dreaming vivid dreams, and an air of tension has spread through...

  • Scion of the Empire

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    In the Empire, in towns and villages, the Cult of the Red Dawn grows.Abroad, in the city of Eioli, the legions of the Empire lay siege.And underneath a red moon, as the battle endures, near Eioli’s temple where a monster dwells, a battle not ju...

  • The Showdown

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    Angrok the Destroying Avenger has left a trail of devastation throughout the kingdoms and principalities of the Southern World. When Mettius, an investigator, is tasked with bringing him to justice, he will find himself thrust into parts of the deser...

  • Soldier of the Empire

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    Publius Corvus, struggling with the worthiness of his cause, trains with the Imperial legion in the foothills. But as he questions the Empire and its goals, he finds himself sent on a secret mission in the mountains, a mission he increasingly does no...

  • Valley of Souls

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    Millennia ago, the Sons of Darkness were expelled from their ancestral home, turning into vile parodies of their former selves: the ghouls. Once banished to the far reaches of the desert, their leader — freed from his infernal prison — ...

  • Zealotry

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    Two cities lay on the edge of trade routes — two cities, threatening to erupt into war. Alexius, a government official, is sent by the emperor to calm tensions. War is threatened, war — over the pronunciation of their god’s name, ov...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A.J. Cooper has published 57 books.

A.J. Cooper does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Warriors of Telantis, was published in April 2024.

The first book by A.J. Cooper, Swamp King, was published in January 2008.

Yes. A.J. Cooper has 6 series.
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