Holly Lisle

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    November 2018
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Full Series List in Order

A Cadence Drake Novel

1 - Hunting the Corrigan's Blood (Jan-1997)
2 - Warpaint (Dec-2012)

Devil's Point

1 - Sympathy for the Devil (1996)
2 - The Devil & Dan Cooley (Sep-1996)
3 - Hell on High (Apr-1997)

Faia Rissedotte

1 - Fire in the Mist (1992)
2 - Bones of the Past (1993)
3 - Mind of the Magic (May-1995)

Moon & Sun

1 - The Ruby Key (Apr-2009)
2 - The Silver Door (May-2010)

A Novel of Korre

Talyn (Aug-2005)
Hawkspar (Jul-2008)

Secret Texts

1 - Diplomacy of Wolves (Nov-1998)
2 - Vengeance of Dragons (Oct-1999)
3 - Courage of Falcons (Oct-2000)
Vincalis the Agitator (May-2003)

Tales from the Longview

1 - Born From Fire (Jan-2017)
2 - The Selling of Suzee Delight (Aug-2014)
3 - The Philosopher Gambit (Jan-2017)
4 - Gunslinger Moon (Dec-2017)
5 - Vipers' Nest (Jul-2018)
6 - The Owner's Tale (Nov-2018)

The World Gates

1 - Memory of Fire (May-2002)
2 - The Wreck of Heaven (Apr-2003)
3 - Gods Old and Dark (Apr-2004)

Multi-Author Series List

Bard's Tale

8 - Curse of the Black Heron (Mar-1998)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Fire in the Mist

    Faia Rissedotte - 1

    Faia Rissedotte, young hill woman, releases powerful magic and alerts the mages of a distant college to her presence -- but her uncontrolled spell also releases an ancient evil....

  • Bones of the Past

    Faia Rissedotte - 2

    Foraging through the Wen jungles in search of the lost City of the First Folk, barbarian scholar and ex-headhunter Medwind Song remembers an old Hoos warning too late and disrupts the very-much-alive ancient civilization. Reissue....

  • Minerva Wakes

    NOT YOUR ORDINARY VICTIM He has an off-key dragon singing off-color ditties in his bedroom. She's stuck on the wrong side of an alternate universe. Their kids are kidnapped, both the good guys and the bad guys want them dead, and all of this start...

  • Mind of the Magic

    Faia Rissedotte - 3

    Trouble just seems to follow Faia Rissedotte. She's a powerful mage, perhaps the most powerful Arhel has ever seen. But she's never really learned, how to follow the rules and, more importantly, never truly realized her potential for magical power. A...

  • Mall, Mayhem and Magic

    Learning of an imminent collision between the human and mythical worlds, bookseller Jim Franklin seeks assistance from a book of genuine spells, a group of larcenous elves, and a two-centuries-old virgin. Original....

  • Armor-Ella

    in Chicks in Chainmail

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Sympathy for the Devil

    Devil's Point - 1

    Nurse Dayne Kuttner puts her soul on the line to bargain with God for amnesty for Hell's damned.  But when God not only listens, but takes the deal she offers literally, her world turns upside-down.

    Plagued by pushy reporters, devilish doctor...

  • The Devil & Dan Cooley

    Devil's Point - 2

    Meeting an ambitious and upwardly mobile devil named Puck, radio disk jockey Dan agrees to help the devil become a gentleman if Puck will help boost his ratings, but Dan's subsequent promotion involves an unsuspected catch. Original....

  • Hunting the Corrigan's Blood

    A Cadence Drake Novel - 1

    When professional locater Cadence Drake is violently warned to stay away from a prospective job, she and her partner Badger become determined to recover a stolen hyper spaceship, and they encounter smugglers, thieves, and killers...



  • Hell on High

    Devil's Point - 3

    In Devil's Point Amusement Park, customers flock to the site of such unusual attractions as the Extinct Species Petting Zoo, the waterpark and its real mermaids, and Desire Point, which requires a special fee for admittance. Original....

  • Curse of the Black Heron

    Bard's Tale - 8

  • Diplomacy of Wolves

    Secret Texts - 1

    WOLVES IN THE FOLD For four centuries, the great Houses of Sabir and Galweigh have battled for control of Calimekka--while each clans wizards, the Wolves, plot in shadows to revive the hellish necromancies that once destroyed the world. Then at...

  • Vengeance of Dragons

    Secret Texts - 2

    THE MIRROR OF SOULS Fugitive Kait Galweigh battles the despotic Crispin Sabir for an ancient artifact called the Mirror of Souls. Kait believes the Mirror's magic will restore life to her massacred kin; Crispin believes the object will make him a ...

  • Courage of Falcons

    Secret Texts - 3

    THE FINAL BATTLE The Falcons, a band of fugitive wizards that includes skinshifters Kait Gaiweigh and Ry Sabir, struggle in their desperate battle against the immortal, soul-devouring necromancers called the Dragons. Meanwhile, a thousand tribes o...

  • The Secret Texts

    A magical war challenges the ingenuity of even the bravest of heroes in this thrilling saga of destruction, devastation, and disaster. When Hardin fails to destroy this new threat, the Calimekkans bring back the few surviving Wolves who know the mag...

  • Memory of Fire

    The World Gates - 1

    THE MIRACULOUS BEGINNINGS OF AN EPIC ADVENTURE OF MULTIPLE UNIVERSES, SHARED DESTINIES. MAGIC AND DRAGONS...AND DOOM Lauren Dane discovers a doorway to another reality in Cat Creek, North Carolina--and she crosses over, driven by a strange compuls...

  • The Wreck of Heaven

    The World Gates - 2

    There are doors into other worlds -- and those who cross over are changed forever ... Two women have discovered the way into a new reality -- one so close to Earth that events there have shattering repercussions here. On Oria -- a wondrous paradis...

  • Vincalis the Agitator

    Secret Texts

    GLORY OF THE DRAGON Based on a science of sorcery called Dragon magic, the Hars Ticlarim is a miraculous place of magnificent mansions and luscious gardens. But this incomparable-beauty hides a dark core: Dragon magic draws its power from the agon...

  • Gods Old and Dark

    The World Gates - 3

    Live magic has returned to the Earth -- as the demons of every universe gather to destroy it ... The World Gates offer passage into countless realms, dimensions, and nightmares, changing forever those few with the courage to cross over. Lauren Dan...



  • Midnight Rain

    YOU CAN RUN... Phoebe Rain's sadistic ex-husband lies in a coma a thousand miles away--a coma she put him in the last time he tried to kill her. Yet Phoebe knows the voice on the other end of the phone belongs to the twisted man who vowed he'd never...

  • Last Girl Dancing

    Someone's watching every move she makes... SHE GAVE HERSELF TO AN OBSESSION. Ever since her sister Ginny disappeared thirteen years ago, Atlanta detective Jess Brubraker has been obsessed with discovering what happened. Now is her chance to do it...

  • Talyn

    A Novel of Korre

    In a world where technology is magic, and war is the only way of life, Talyn is a soldier... ... raised from birth to fight for her people and her country. She long ago embraced her fate: to die in battle. So when a shocking peace sweeps her land,...

  • I See You

    HAUNTED BY A NIGHTMARE For paramedic Dia Courvant, each day brings the possibility of facing blood and death. But nothing can match the horror of the day she was dispatched to the scene of a terrible car accident and rescued the sole survivor--onl...

  • Night Echoes

    Artist Emma Beck returns to her southern hometown to discover the truth about her secret family history. With the help of Mike Ruhl, the contractor she's falling in love with, Emma finds that her legacy is more chilling and unexpected than she ever d...

  • Hawkspar

    A Novel of Korre

    You have been chosen by the Hawkspar Eyes of War to become the new avatar, the new Goddess of War made flesh. From this day forward, you sacrifice all that you are to Vran Vrota and the good of the Order. Vran Vrota has chosen you; and we, vessels of...

  • Light Through Fog

    in The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance

    Fall in love with the otherworldly If love transcends all boundaries, then paranormal romance is its logical conclusion. From the biggest names around, here are 24 tales to take you to another time and place. Let Alyssa Day, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Chey...

  • The Ruby Key

    Moon & Sun - 1

    IN THE TWILIGHT REALMS OF THE NIGHT WORLDS, A DARK MAGIC IS ON THE RISE.... When Genna and her brother Dan learn that their village chieftain has made a dangerous deal with Letrin, ruler of the nightlings, offering the lives of his people in exchang...

  • The Silver Door

    Moon & Sun - 2

    A master storyteller transports readers back to the night worlds, in this enchanting second tale in the Moon & Sun saga. Genna is the chosen Sunrider and, under nightling protection, she must learn the ancient magic to end the war between slaves and ...

  • Warpaint

    A Cadence Drake Novel - 2

    No place to run, no place to hide...

    The job sounded simple enough; locate a space miner's missing wives. Quick. Easy. Painless. As a professional finder of lost things, Cadence Drake has learned in the hardest way imaginable that there's n...



  • Rewind

    Life Is Choice, Not DestinyAt the center of a dirt crossroad, on a hot summer night in the Deep South, a woman who has lost everyone she ever cared about buries the tokens of her damaged life and makes a deal with the darkness for one more chance to ...

  • Strange Arrivals

    YOU’VE TAKEN UP WITH DISTURBING COMPANIONSThere’s a fairy in the garden,A monster in the closet,An alien in the back yard,And a ghost by the refrigerator…One mirror lies,One dragon makes an ally,One ring bites…And they don’t make genies lik...

  • Enter the Death Circus

    MEET THE LONGVIEW - An Ancient Spaceship Resurrected To Transport Conspiracy

    Inhabited by a crew of misfits fleeing nightmare pasts, with a cargo of Condemned slated to die at the hands of the highest bidders, and with a passenger roster ma...

  • The Selling of Suzee Delight

    Tales from the Longview - 2

    MEET THE LONGVIEW - An Ancient Spaceship Resurrected To Transport Conspiracy Inhabited by a crew of misfits fleeing nightmare pasts, with a cargo of Condemned slated to die at the hands of the highest bidders, and with a passenger roster made up excl...

  • Born From Fire

    Tales from the Longview - 1

    When love is crime, who will save the guilty?MEET THE LONGVIEW - An Ancient Spaceship Resurrected To Transport ConspiracyInhabited by a crew of misfits fleeing nightmare pasts, with a cargo of Condemned slated to die at the hands of the highest bidde...

  • The Philosopher Gambit

    Tales from the Longview - 3

    When the mighty are monsters, what will monsters become?EPISODE 3: An exiled philosopher buys a pretty girl a dress for her execution, by doing so becoming a hunted, wanted man with a death sentence on his own head and killers on his trail. The secre...

  • Gunslinger Moon

    Tales from the Longview - 4

    When freedom is silenced, who speaks for it?Ex-PHTF slave WE-39R (This Criminal, from Episode 1), renamed Jex, is part of a team the Longview’s Owner has tasked with nding the meaning behind Bashtyk Nokyd’s enigmatic nal diagram. Drawing the mo...

  • Vipers' Nest

    Tales from the Longview - 5

    When betrayal comes home, where does home hide?When the Longview risked everything to save the life of the doomed courtesan Suzee Delight, Bailey's Irish Space Station stepped up and offered the ship sanctuary. But the Pact Worlds Alliance cannot and...

  • The Longview Chronicles

    When the trusted are monsters... one monster becomes a hero.In the vast reaches of Settled Space, everything is legal, or at least obtainable privately... for a price.Science has created near immortality, and the wealthy and powerfu...

  • The Owner's Tale

    Tales from the Longview - 6

    When the truth comes out, who is left standing?In this final episode of the series. the Longview reveals its secrets, Herog finds the path to protecting the City of Furies, and Melie discovers the truth about the ship she captains and the owner she s...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Holly Lisle has published 39 books.

Holly Lisle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Longview Chronicles, was published in November 2018.

The first book by Holly Lisle, Fire in the Mist, was published in January 1992.

Yes. Holly Lisle has 8 series.
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