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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    May 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Dragon's Child

1 - The Dragon's Child (Aug-2011)
2 - The Dragon's Pearl (Jul-2012)
3 - The Eretik (Apr-2012)

The Horn

1 - Oathbreaker (Jan-2017)
2 - Original (Apr-2017)
3 - Overseer (Oct-2017)

The King's Daughter

1 - The Amiestrin Gambit (Mar-2018)
2 - The Passing of Pawns (Jun-2018)
3 - The Black Queen (Jul-2018)
3.5 - On Common Ground (Aug-2019)
4 - Knight and Nightrider (Sep-2020)

A Novel of the Golden City

0.5 - The Truth Undiscovered (Nov-2018)
1 - The Golden City (Nov-2013)
2 - The Seat of Magic (Jul-2014)
3 - The Shores of Spain (Jul-2015)
3.5 - The Seer's Choice (Mar-2016)
3.6 - After the War (Aug-2016)

Palace of Dreams

1 - Dreaming Death (Feb-2016)
2 - In Dreaming Bound (Apr-2019)
3 - Dreams from the Grave (Aug-2020)

Tales from Hawk's Folly Farm

1 - Iron Shoes (Oct-2011)
2 - Snow Comes to Hawk's Folly (Oct-2011)
3 - Snowfall (Jun-2012)

Book List in Order: 33 titles



  • Kseniya Ilyevna originally came to the mountain of the Dragon Wizard to protect her younger sister, but when she learns of the wizard’s true plans for his daughter, she vows to spirit the child away. In seizing freedom for the little girl -- her si...



  • SHORT STORYThe HMS Fortitude falls in battle, but Lieutenant Davies' trials are just beginning. He doesn't know who he's fighting, where the ship is going, or what price he'll have to pay to keep his ship. Originally publ...




  • For the first time, these three novellas are collected into one volume: Iron Shoes; Snow Comes to Hawk's Folly; and Snowfall. Iron Shoes Imogen Hawkes is running out of time. She must come up with enough money to prevent the bank from foreclosing on ...



  • (Tales from Hawk's Folly Farm #2) Imogen has the life she's always wanted. Her farm is thriving, as is her family. But a guest comes to the farm, bringing trouble in his wake. When Imogen's son disappears, how far will she go to get him back? Is it...



  • Ivanka is a healer, a gift that all the women of her family carry. But her so-called husband’s family has ruined her reputation, blaming his death on her. For the last six months she’s tended her family’s sheep in isolation on the mountainsid...



  • (Tales from Hawk's Folly Farm #3) Lourdes Medina has left everything she knows. Following a vision in a dream, she's gone north to Saratoga Springs to buy back the mare her brother sold out from under her. But the horse's new owner, Finn, makes he...



  • In three new stories, the Zheng family finds themselves still entangled in the affairs of dragons. In "The Legacy of Dragons", a dragon pursues them, expecting Yun-qi and Kseniya to fulfill a distasteful bargain made by his wizard father, Jiang-long....



  • For two years, Oriana Paredes has been a spy among the social elite of the Golden City, reporting back to her people, the sereia, sea folk banned from the city’s shores.... When her employer and only confidante decides to elope, Oriana agrees t...






  • Magical beings have been banned from the Golden City for decades, though many live there in secret. Now humans and nonhumans alike are in danger as evil stalks the streets, growing more powerful with every kill.... It’s been two weeks since Ori...



  • Even as the branches of peace are being offered, there are some who still believe those who are not human should be used as chattel. And they are willing to go to great lengths to retain their power. Newlywed siren Oriana Paredes has been appointe...



  • In the Novels of the Golden City, J. Kathleen Cheney created a realm where magic, history, and intrigue combine. Now, she presents a new world ruled by psychic talents and fatal magic... Shironne Anjir's status as a sensitive is both a gift and a...



  • From the world of The Tales of the Golden City, a new novella Genoveva Jardim's father was a monster -- a defrocked priest who used his healer's gift to murder instead. Determined to make amends for the deaths her father brought to the Golden City, ...



  • Maia is a young woman with only a small gift: the ability to watch others from afar. To cement a treaty between two clans, she married Arras, a young man she's known most of her life. But when her brother comes to visit, he reveals a shameful secret ...



  • After the Great War, Alejandro Ferreira wandered across Europe, unable even to remember his name, until one night in Lisboa, a young woman recognizes him. She brings him home to his family--one he can't recall, but very much wants to keep. His seer's...



  • Bertrand Everslee has been sent to Paris to extract his younger brother from the clutches of a dubious woman, but when he meets her, he learns that she's not what his family expected. Something frightening has come to Paris, embodied in Anne DuBourg....



  • Irina’s family has come to the countryside to escape the summer heat of St. Petersburg, but she discovers a new worker has been hired to maintain her family’s aviary, a one-armed man who poses an intriguing mystery. Evgeny is hiding from a witch....



  • The chief of the Oathbreakers, Amal Horn is one of only a handful of people aware of the true power the abandoned underground Fortress of Salonen holds. The Cince Empire wants its secrets, though, and will do anything to get someone inside. When the ...



  • Before they even met. Mikael Lee and Shironne Anjir were tangled together in their need to solve murders. Mikael Lee, an aide to the king's brother, dreams his way into others deaths, and then follows the clues within back to the killer. Shironne Anj...






  • Amal, Lady Horn, has always been called rash. She makes decisions far too quickly for the elders of the Horn Family. Bringing home a mysterious foreigner -- one who has ties to her people’s ancient enemies, the Cince -- is bad enough, but now sheâ€...



  • A SHORT STORY: Rose has lived on the mountain as long as she can remember, but Grandmother Bear has a mission for her that will take her across the valley into unknown territory. And what she finds there may change more than her life......



  • SHORT STORYRhianyes has made the mistake of falling in love with a man who cannot forget her checkered past--literally. Every time he touches her skin, her memories flood into his mind, reminding him what she was before she met him. Can he love her d...



  • Those who hold the secrets of the Fortresses can remake the world... A new player has arrived at Horn Keep, and it’s up to Amal to decide whether he’s the key to keeping her people safe, or the threat they’ve feared the most. Aulis is, like Dal...



  • Ellis Dantreon is barely fifteen when she learns that her fatherâ€"the king of Jenearâ€"has decreed that she’s to be trained as a soldier. Thrust in among the others at the newly reopened War College of Amiestrin, Ellis must earn the other cadetsâ€...



  • Ellis Dantreon is sixteen now. For the last year she’s worked to make a place for herself among the first class of cadets at the War College of Amiestrin. It’s been a struggle, but she feels they’ve begun to accept her. But a plot that would ha...



  • When Ellis Dantreon's father ordered her to become a soldier, she became the only female at the war college. Now she’s graduated and has taken her place guarding the king. But the country Seers are still predicting a terrible possibility -- that sh...



  • SHORT STORYFor Lieutenant Grey, after the loss of a leg, the Great War was over... leaving him fighting another war within. The Tin Noses Shop gave him purpose, but it wasn't home. What he needed was a little hope, and perhaps a little magic....



  • A prequel to The Golden City…Before she arrived in the Golden City, the infante’s aunt -- known only as The Lady -- sought out a group of specialists from among the most powerful witches in the world. Inspector Miguel Gaspar of Cabo Verde held th...



  • What does it mean to be bound? Mikael and Shironne have known for a month now that they are bound, but neither truly knows what their future holds.When Shironne is kidnapped, Mikael uses the nascent tie between them to get her back, and to keep her s...






  • In this short collection of fiction, four tales from the world of The King's Daughter are brought together for the first time: The Nature of Demons, Whatever Else, The Arranged Marriage, and The Stains of the Past. NOTE: This volume includes two s...



  • Mikael Lee has dreamed of death for a decade now. He shares the last moments of murder victims, usually ones he's later fated to investigate. But one death has always eluded him: his father's murder. Now he's dreaming his father's murder again, ...



  • A country braces for war…The former cadets of the war college of Amiestrin know their king isn't just royal. He's a Seer of profound talent and, quite possibly, a madman as well. But for years now, the king and the other Seers have been predic...



  • Cristiano Tavares and Emilia Atkinson have been working for years to perfect the newest experimental craft for the Tavares Boatworks: their first submarine. The government is offering a contract to the boatmakers who can prove their worthiness by win...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J. Kathleen Cheney has published 33 books.

J. Kathleen Cheney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Beneath the Waves, was published in May 2021.

The first book by J. Kathleen Cheney, The Dragon's Child, was published in August 2011.

Yes. J. Kathleen Cheney has 6 series.