Deborah J. Ross

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2008
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Seven-Petaled Shield

1 - The Seven-Petaled Shield (Jun-2013)
2 - Shannivar (Dec-2013)
3 - The Heir of Khored (Jun-2014)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Lace and Blade

    Norilana Books proudly presents the debut title of our new romantic fantasy imprint Leda...

    Introducing LACE AND BLADE -- an original new anthology series of elegant romantic fantasy, edited by Deborah J. Ross, premiering on Valentine's Day 2008....

  • Lace and Blade 2

    LACE AND BLADE, an original anthology of elegant romantic fantasy, edited by Deborah J. Ross, appears on Valentine's Day... In the spirit of classic period swashbucklers, Zorro, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and D'Artagnan, brimming with romantic courtly in...

  • The Feathered Edge

    Magic, Swords, and Romance...Want a taste of romance in your swashbuckling adventure? Sparkling verbal repartee in your heroic quest? A lover swain spun of dreams and moonlight? A rescue from an Algerian brothel? Swords that would rather make love th...

  • Beyond Grimm

    Not your grandmother's fairy tales...From the far-ranging imaginations of Book View Café authors comes this delirious collection of classic tales newly twisted into dark, dangerous, and occasionally hilarious re-tellings. From the golden isles of Gr...

  • The Casket of Brass

    Maridah was a scholar in Samarkhand, but she was also heir to the throne of Khazarand, so she returned to Khazarand when her grandmother, the current Princess of Khazarand, was near death. Her grandmother told her to take the contents of the brass ca...

  • Fire and Fate

    Hired to assassinate a renegade wizard, swordswoman Cinnabar resents having to bring the Duke’s son along so he can claim credit for her work. He doesn’t know he’s been infected with treachery spells…and she doesn’t know she’s going to fa...

  • Remembering

    Their only hope lies across the sea: escaping a brutal witch-hunt and the flaming ruins of the city, Eliane gathers the frightened orphans onboard the last ship. But the ocean holds its own perils… and the secret to Eliane’s past.This story first...

  • Acurrhir Todo; Nada Perdonad

  • Midwife

    Sometimes a career path can lead through the Hellers, complete with an unanticipated detour.This story was originally published in the Darkover anthology FREE AMAZONS OF DARKOVER, Dec 1985....



  • Wasteland

    Rorie had been taught that his laran was flawed and useless, but it would take a different kind of talent to survive the haunted Tower.This story was originally published in the Darkover anthology RED SUN OF DARKOVER, Nov 1987....

  • The Price of Silence

    The crew of the spaceship Juno expected to find a fertile planet ready for colonization. Instead, they discovered a fiery grave and a space station filled with corpses. What had happened here? A natural disaster... or an alien weapon capable of destr...

  • The Seal Hunt

    Her brother's marriage to the Ice Witches offered the best hope of peace for both their peoples. But when black sorcery threatens the alliance, Tabitha must turn from scholar to sleuth to save the fates of two kingdoms.This story was originally publi...

  • The Seven-Petaled Shield

    Seven-Petaled Shield - 1

    Elemental magic existed before mankind was born, and for good or ill, some of this magic seeped into the world, eventually coalescing into a monstrous entity of Fire and Ice, a threat to all humanity. Aided by his six brothers, a legendary king fo...

  • Mad Science Cafe

    From the age of steam and the heirs of Dr. Frankenstein to the asteroid belt to the halls of Miskatonic University, the writers at Book View Café have concocted a beakerful of quaint, dangerous, sexy, clueless, genius, insane scientists, their...

  • Azkhantian Tales

    Across the Azkhantian steppe, warrior women ride to battle against foes both human and supernatural. From the world of The Seven-Petaled Shield come four fantasy tales, originally published in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress.Prophecy link...

  • Shannivar

    Seven-Petaled Shield - 2

    Shannivar is a young warrior, skilled in horsemanship and archery and raised by her uncle, the clan chieftain. When all the other young warrior-women have set aside their bows and arrows for husbands, she still dreams of glory. Desperate to resist...

  • Stars of Darkover

    Return to the world of the Bloody Sun Over fifty years ago, master story-teller Marion Zimmer Bradley introduced readers to a compelling new world. Darkover, a distant planet circling a red sun, was home to telepaths and rebels, lovers and rivals, no...

  • The Heir of Khored

    Seven-Petaled Shield - 3

    For Shannivar, warrior of the Azkhantia Steppe, the future is grim. She faces twin threats: the mighty Gelon empire, ruthessly conquering independent nations like her own, and the malevolent entity of Fire and Ice, unleashed from its prison in the Fa...

  • Gifts of Darkover

    Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover remains one of the longest-running and best-loved series of all time, one that has touched the hearts and fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Now Darkover comes alive as never before in the hands of ta...



  • Transfusion and Other Tales of Hope

    The vampire has known only evil since he was made, until a Jewish doctor reconnects him with life… Two women mourning two dead mothers tread the boundaries between grief and obsession… A ghoulish spirit haunts a refugee in Renaissance Venice… A...

  • Pearls of Fire, Dreams of Steel

    A magical pearl turns a young girl into warrior without pity… A dragon bound to an amulet of amber seeks the aid of a forest wizard… A bitter, crippled fairy plots revenge on her captors… A vampire stalks back alleys, seeking to turn the tables...

  • Realms of Darkover

    Marion Zimmer Bradley’s beloved world of Darkover encompasses many realms, from glacier-shrouded mountains to arid wastelands, from ancient kingdoms to space-faring empires. Now this all-new anthology welcomes old friends and new fans to explore th...

  • Masques of Darkover

    Orbiting a distant red sun, the planet Darkover was settled long ago by human colonists and then cut off from the rest of civilization. Over millennia of isolation, it gave rise to a rich culture ruled by a telepathic aristocracy, but was also home t...

  • Lace and Blade 4

    “The combination of love and blades is a match to be enjoyed in many highly diverse ways.” " SF Revue A decade ago, readers thrilled to the debut of a new series of elegant, romantic fantasy stories. Best-selling author Jacqueline Carey hailed ...

  • Crossroads of Darkover

    Darkover’s position on the galactic arm renders it strategically important, a crossroads in space. It’s also a place where cultures meet and clash, where strangers encounter one another, and where lives are forever transformed. Whether the tale ...

  • Lace and Blade 5

    From lands distant or nearby, familiar or utterly strange, historical or imaginary, from ancient times to the Belle Époque comes a treasury of luscious, elegant, romantic fantasy. Come with us on a journey through time and across boundaries, inspire...

  • Citadels of Darkover

    Strongholds of rock . . . fortresses of the spirit . . . a planet set apart . . . A castle high in snow-covered mountains beneath a ruddy sun, a place at once romantic and bleak, alien and richly nostalgic . . . a heart besieged and then re-awakened ...

  • A Heat Wave in the Hellers

    In 1985, Deborah J. Ross sold her first Darkover short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Free Amazons of Darkover. "Midwife" relates the adventures of a young woman who inadvertently becomes the surrogate mother of a banshee chick -- a smelly, sigh...

  • Four Paws to Light My Way

    The warlock's curse swept across the land, affecting each in a different way. Jian the swordswoman was left blind and in despair, but the Soldier God sent her a dog to act as her eyes. Now the king has summons Jian back into his service. Only a sword...



  • Sage Mountain

    Roseline's light flirtation with a stable boy almost lands her in an unwelcome marriage for her money and rank. Her only hope is to appeal to the Sage of the Mountain, but first she must negotiate her way past with an earnestly helpful but bumbling t...

  • The Poisoned Crown

    The king is dead, long live the prince, but not for long if his stepmother the Queen Regent has anything to say about it. So he appeals to the one person he can trust, his father's best swordswoman and the king's secret lover. Venise wants nothing mo...

  • The Fallen Man

    In magical Renaissance Italy, art not only captures reality but remakes it. Shadows gather within the duke's palazzo, threats that only the gifted young artist Rodiana can visualize through her painting. Danger lurks even closer, as a lecherous noble...

  • The Girl From Black Point Rock

    When her brother brings home a half-starved, half-wild girl, Reava decides the best thing to do is to raise her with the newborn puppies. As the girl grows, she manifests a preternatural affinity with her four-footed foster siblings, as well as the a...

  • Eagle's Beak and Wings of Bronze, or Something Unusual Happens to Allis

    When sweet, slow-witted Alis gets shipped off to be the bride of the Duke's son, she isn't quite sure what to make of her situation, especially the changes that happen to her during the full moon. Soon she's holding her own in conversation with a son...

  • The Hero of Abarxia

    The prince returns triumphant from a decisive battle, riding a superb, shimmering golden stallion, the prized steed of his vanquished foe. Even as the kingdom rejoices in the prince's victory, all is not well with the horse. It is rapidly wasting awa...

  • Among Friends

    In pre-Civil War Delaware, farmer Thomas Garrett is part of a network of Quakers who help escaping slaves headed north. When he shelters a runaway, a slave-catcher comes calling…only it's not human. The hunter is an automaton, relentless and i...

  • Bright Morning

    Vonda N. McIntyre preferred to keep her author's biography short and sweet: Vonda N. McIntyre writes science fiction. While true, this modest claim conceals accomplishments that earned her multiple accolades and an enduring place among the most i...

  • Jewels of Darkover

    For more than six decades, readers have fallen in love with Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover, a Lost Colony world of telepaths, swordsmen, intelligent alien races, and long-buried mysteries. From the glacier-shrouded Hellers Mountains to the arid Dry...

  • A Heat Wave in the Heller, and Other Tales of Darkover

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    In 1985, Deborah J. Ross sold her first Darkover short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Free Amazons of Darkover. For the first time, here are all of Ross's Darkover short stories, some of them previously unpublished, now collected in one volume. ......



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Deborah J. Ross has published 39 books.

Deborah J. Ross does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Jewels of Darkover, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Deborah J. Ross, Lace and Blade, was published in February 2008.

Yes. Deborah J. Ross has 1 series.
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