Kenneth McDonald

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  • Bibliography:
    54 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2010
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Colors of Fate

1 - Black Shadows Gather (Oct-2013)
2 - Green Hearts Weep (Nov-2013)
3 - Red Vengeance Rising (Jan-2014)
4 - Faded Yellow Dreams (Mar-2014)
5 - Blazing White Stars (May-2014)
6 - Shiny Golden Schemes (Feb-2015)

Daran's Journey

1 - Heart of a Hero (Sep-2010)
2 - Soul of a Coward (Mar-2012)
3 - Will of a Warrior (May-2012)
4 - Courage of a Champion (Aug-2012)

Godswar

1 - Paths of the Chosen (Oct-2010)
2 - Choice of the Fallen (Feb-2011)
3 - Fall of Creation (Dec-2011)

Grimm Trilogy

1 - Grimm's War (Jan-2013)
2 - Grimm's Loss (Apr-2013)
3 - Grimm's Love (Aug-2013)

Soul Weapons

1 - Soul of the Sword (Jan-2015)
2 - Wizard's Stone (May-2015)
3 - Tales of the Soul Weapons (Aug-2015)

Book List in Order: 54 titles

  • The Labyrinth

    This fantasy novella (19,000 words) tells the story of a young wizard who participates in a magical contest that goes fundamentally wrong, pitting him and his fellow competitors against a deadly maze in a desperate struggle for survival. Student mag...

  • Of Spells and Demons

    Something dark is stirring on the edges of the mage-kingdom of Sacreth. The ruling Mage Council, complacent and divided, is stirred to action by the attack of a rampaging demon on one of the valley’s outlying settlements. The young but talented wiz...

  • Heart of a Hero

    Daran's Journey - 1

    Heart of a Hero begins the story of an improbable hero. Forced to become a fugitive by circumstance, Daran’s questionable morals and dubious choices lead him deeper and deeper into trouble. Those choices culminate in him being hanged for murder, bu...

  • Paths of the Chosen

    Godswar - 1

    “We’re not supposed to kill her, you fools!” Izandra Colton and her brother Ezran come from a tiny village in the middle of nowhere, but those words mark the beginning of an unexpected adventure that will take them far from the little barony of...

  • Choice of the Fallen

    Godswar - 2

    In Book 2 of The Godswar trilogy, the Compact that separates mortal reality from the realm of the gods is weakening. The gods’ chosen agents are scattered and vulnerable, and even as they begin to unravel the details of the evil god Hailidel’s pl...

  • Fall of Creation

    Godswar - 3

    In the final book of The Godswar trilogy, the mad god Hailidel is nearing the fruition of his plan to undo the work of the Creator and seize the greatest power of the universe for himself. But even as Hailidel moves his mortal pawns into position for...

  • Wizard's Shield

    Sovereign is a magical shield that gains awareness in a wizard’s laboratory, imbued with consciousness but without any knowledge of who or what it is. Given to a warlord seeking power over the chaotic northern lands, the shield struggles to come to...

  • Soul of a Coward

    Daran's Journey - 2

    Gifted -- or cursed -- with a unique ability to cheat death, Daran’s life has followed a tumultuous course since he was forced to flee the village of his birth. In this sequel to “Heart of a Hero,” Daran is living under the protection of the Kh...

  • Will of a Warrior

    Daran's Journey - 3

    In the third volume of "Daran's Journey," the rival baronies of Evros and Aldrem continue their headlong rush toward war. Drafted into the army of Evros, Daran finds himself trapped in the role of reluctant warrior on the front lines of that brewi...



  • Courage of a Champion

    Daran's Journey - 4

    The finale of the "Daran's Journey" series. The armies of the barony of Aldrem, augmented by dark magic, have invaded deep into the lands of its rival Evros. But behind the front lines of the war a far more serious threat is gathering. Daran &...

  • Grimm's War

    Grimm Trilogy - 1

    Eldwen Grimm and Miranda Hael come from different worlds. He a newly-trained Border Warden, she a Shield Mage of the Order, they share a common bond in service to the mage-kingdom of Sacreth. This unlikely pair is thrown together on a mission beyond ...

  • Grimm's Loss

    Grimm Trilogy - 2

    For generations, an uneasy peace has persisted between the mage-kingdom of Sacreth and its southern neighbor and rival, the Sokhal Empire. For Border Warden Eldwen Grimm, "peace" has been a relative term. Having spent his adult life protecting the...

  • Grimm's Love

    Grimm Trilogy - 3

    Retired Border Warden Eldwen Grimm lives a quiet life, alone with his regrets. He has spent a long career in service to Sacreth and the Order of Mages that rules it, but his own life has been a story of personal disaster. First he lost his consort, a...

  • Black Shadows Gather

    Colors of Fate - 1

    Hauflin farmer Jaron Feldergrass has had enough of the world outside his village, a world dominated by the violent humans and populated with monsters. But when his brother Jayse is murdered by bandits, Jaron must take up his bow and knife and leave ...

  • Green Hearts Weep

    Colors of Fate - 2

    After clashing with a band of vicious bandits near Whiteridge, hauflin scout Jaron Feldergrass returns home to his village of Fairhollow to find that the raiders bear grudges. Jaron and his off-kilter cousin Beetle join with a company of human sol...

  • Red Vengeance Rising

    Colors of Fate - 3

    Jaron Feldergrass has found the humans who have captured his people, but is too late to stop the kidnappers. While the general-turned-mercenary K'rol Vhael leads his strike team deeper into the mountains, Jaron and his cousin Beetle must find thei...

  • Faded Yellow Dreams

    Colors of Fate - 4

    Jaron Feldergrass has returned home with his people after the defeat of the human slavers and the Red priests that led them. But life in the hauflin village of Fairhollow has lost some of its appeal, and when some old companions arrive with an offer...

  • Blazing White Stars

    Colors of Fate - 5

    Carzen Zelos and Mara Lendoran weren’t looking for a war then they signed on to escort a merchant caravan across the mountains in Albestin. But caught in the middle of an orc invasion, they are drawn into a quest that might be the coastal kingdom...

  • Powerless

    Captain Kevan "Mac" McDougal chose a solitary life by choice, running freight across the vast empty reaches of interstellar space. But his self-imposed isolation from the rest of the galaxy goes an unexpected step further when his ship runs into a...



  • Soul of the Sword

    Soul Weapons - 1

    Dalevan Wolvren leads an interesting life. He gave up the power and wealth of a noble title to serve as the mercenary leader of one of the north’s most famed free companies, Dale’s Wolves. Having just completed the capture of a notorious bandit c...

  • Shiny Golden Schemes

    Colors of Fate - 6

    The Orc War is over and Albestin is safe, but Carzen Zelos and his friends find that settling back into their normal lives isn’t as easy as they thought. Carzen’s past will not leave him alone, while the warrior Mara must learn that having only h...

  • Wizard's Stone

    Soul Weapons - 2

    Valen Wolvren has done well for himself. At twenty-five he has everything he wants: wealth, love, and the prestige of leading one of the most famous mercenary companies on the continent. That prestige is only likely to grow as Valen’s Wolves return...

  • Tales of the Soul Weapons

    Soul Weapons - 3

    “Tales of the Soul Weapons” is a collection of novella-length stories about a mercenary company tasked with tracking down a deadly collection of quasi-intelligent magical artifacts. This book expands the story begun in my novels “Wizard’s Shi...

  • Overpowered

    Former spacer Kevan “Mac” McDougal has spent the last two years stranded on the frozen planet Crucible. The AI that held Mac and the other survivors of past crashes captive within a power-dampening field is gone, but the challenge of making a lif...

  • Balance of Power

    In this thrilling conclusion to the “Refugees of the Crucible” trilogy, planetary exploration and space battles combine in a deadly race against time to stop a nearly invincible intruder from another galaxy. For centuries, the descendants of a lo...

  • The Dwarf on the Mountain

    To her uncle and the other people of her village Violetta Usken is still just a child. She lacks the power to do anything to stop the bandits who come every year to take what they want and hurt those who dare to resist. But this year she has decided ...

  • Of Blood and Magic

    Two years have passed since Keric Olwyhn defeated the demon-summoning sorcerers of the Academy, and the scroll mage has been content to return to his quiet life of a professor at the University of Sacreth. But his radical theories about the nature...

  • The Graves Crew and the Restless Dead

    Graves has served in the Duke’s army for over a decade. His job is to put people in the ground, but only after someone else has done the hard work of killing them first. His crew of misfits and rejects is used to laboring without the prospect of we...

  • Of Steel and Sorcery

    Keric Olwyhn has survived demons, evil sorcerers, and the deadly perils of the Labyrinth. But in this final installment of the “Mages of Sacreth” series, Keric must confront a threat more dangerous than any he’s faced before.The plot of the Sok...



  • The Graves Crew and the Damned Dam

    After surviving a night when the dead rose from their graves to attack the living, building a dam shouldn’t have been much of a challenge. But Graves and his crew of misfits and rejects quickly learn that their new assignment is anything but simple...

  • The Graves Crew and the Firestar Amulet

    The war between the Duke and the rebel Baron grinds on. Graves and his crew of misfits and ne'er-do-wells has been assigned the task of building a fortress overlooking the town of Raviston, just captured by the army of the Duke. The local population ...

  • The Graves Crew and the Road of Doom

    The Graves Crew has split up. Without their leader, the men of the crew face what might be their toughest challenge yet: building a road up an almost sheer mountain. The job is hard enough, but something else waits for them atop the mountain, somethi...

  • The Graves Crew and the Magical Forest

    In this fifth entry in the “Graves Crew” series, the band of misfit laborers is united again, this time on a secret mission in search of a powerful source of magic. The White Order has come under direct attack by agents of the rebel Baron, and th...

  • The Graves Crew and the Mountain Fortress

    The Duke and the White Order believe that the rebel Baron is defeated, but the men of the Graves crew know better. With their leader captured, the gang of laborers defies orders to organize a rescue mission. Accompanied by a rogue mage, the crew trav...

  • Silent Gray Depths

    Still learning to cope with a crippling injury, Mara Lendoran has given up the life of a mercenary for a new career as a merchant trader. But the ways of her past life refuse to be left behind as she and the hauflin Feldergrass cousins bring their fi...

  • Power Play

    In this prequel to the 2014 novel Powerless, humanity is still in the early stages of its exploration of the galaxy. The groundbreaking technology of the Fordham Drive has allowed human ships to cover the gaps between stars in weeks instead of centur...

  • Secrets of a Lost Age

    Secrets of a Lost Age kicks off a new fantasy series, set in a world where the Three Kingdoms of elves, dwarves, and humans rule in the aftermath of the fall of a great empire. In this new age, much of the powerful magic of the past has been lost, an...

  • Warriors of Shadow

    In this second installment of the “Forgotten Lore” series, the four adventurers from Crosspath have finally arrived in the northern city of Adelar, ready to join the war against the monstrous horde of the warlord Kavel Murgoth. But instea...

  • The Shattered Key

    In volume three of the “Forgotten Lore” series, the battle for the future of Voralis spreads beyond the borders of the human kingdom of Arresh. In the aftermath being kidnapped by a secret cult, Bredan Karras learns that the source of his...



  • Mysteries of the Book

    Armed with a magic that he doesn’t understand and can barely control, Bredan Karras must lead an unlikely band of heroes halfway across the world to the untamed continent of Weltarin. The sentient artifact that granted him his powers, the myste...

  • The Road to Ironbridge

    The Road to Ironbridge is the start of a new story set within the world of “Forgotten Lore,” where the Three Kingdoms of elves, dwarves, and humans uneasily share the continent of Voralis among the ruins of a fallen empire.Apprentice wiza...

  • The Towers of Khormur-Dhain

    Apprentice wizard Ethan Tolyn survived the difficult journey to the town of Ironbridge, which marks the boundary between civilization and wilderness. But Ethan finds the reality of life on the frontier to be different than his expectations, and he ra...

  • Power Game

    The human-dominated League of Allied Systems and the bear-like Bulrazi have had a complicated relationship, ever since a hostile first contact led to a series of short but violent wars. Those conflicts ended in decisive defeat for the Bulrazi, but ev...

  • Trouble on the Borderlands

    A year after hunting the towers of Khormur-Dhain, Ethan, Bella, and Selenna have given up the adventuring life and each gone their separate ways. But the past will not let them be, and when Selenna is assigned a difficult mission into the conflicted ...

  • The Horror in the Wood

    After defeating the bandit threat in the Widash Valley, Ethan, Bella, and Selenna are asked by the elves of Tal Nadesh to investigate the origins of the magic that spawned the evil witch Suldress. Accompanied by old friends and new ones, the adventur...

  • The Streets of Li Syval

    This novella-length story is the first installment in a new series set within the “Forgotten Lore” world. Aris, Nails, and Ferret are three young people who have grown up in the poor South Docks district of the island city of Li Syval. Th...

  • Power Surge

    Trakhosk and Shevrek are bear-like Bulrazi, members of a spacefaring species that has had more than its share of tensions with the human-dominated League of Allied Systems. Shaped by a shared trauma, the two Bulrazi have chosen very different paths, ...

  • The Secrets of Li Syval

    The found family of Aris, Nails, and Ferret has been broken up, as Nails enlists in the service of the priesthood of the goddess Laesil in exchange for protection for his friends. Aris and Ferret continue in their service to House Leconta, but Ferret...

  • The Heroes of Li Syval

    Aris, Ferret, and Nails have each been honing their skills, trying to find their place within the tumultuous world of Li Syval’s ever-battling Houses. Aris and Ferret are sent as the representatives of House Leconta on a sea journey to the isla...



  • The Legacy of Li Syval

    Trouble with a rival House leads Stefan Leconta to leave Li Syval in a hurry, dragging a reluctant Aris, Ferret, and Kalo with him. At first glance, House Leconta’s rustic country cabin seems like the last place where one would be disturbed by ...

  • The Fate of Li Syval

    In this final installment in the “Gem of the Deep” series, set in the world of Forgotten Lore, the magical machinations of Zealla Alcuri and her criminal sponsor have unleashed an ancient eldritch horror upon Li Syval. As the city is cons...

  • The Dragon's Path

    The Dragon's Path is the third and final entry in the fantasy adventure series, The Storm Shore. The orc army led by the half-demon warlord Zhakrukk has been defeated, allowing the dwarves of the storm shore a moment’s respite. But the orc chie...

  • Gifts of the Ancestors

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    In the second book in the Storm Shore trilogy, set within the world of Forgotten Lore, the war between the Angyar Gyenn and the orc invaders is not going well for the embattled defenders. As the dwarves fall back on their final citadel at Caer Cargot...

  • Scourge of the Coast

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    Scourge of the Coast is the first entry in a new series set in the world of “Forgotten Lore.” The southeastern coast of the continent of Voralis is an isolated and harsh place. The Angyar Gyenn have long eked out a sparse existence in the...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kenneth McDonald has published 54 books.

Kenneth McDonald does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Dragon's Path, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Kenneth McDonald, The Labyrinth, was published in August 2010.

Yes. Kenneth McDonald has 5 series.
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