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  • Bibliography:
    64 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2011
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Heroes and Villains

1 - Even Villains Fall in Love (May-2012)
2 - Even Villains Go To The Movies (Nov-2013)
3 - Even Villains Have Interns (Jan-2015)
4 - Even Villains Play the Hero (Aug-2015)

A Time & Shadows Mystery

1 - The Day Before (Apr-2015)
1.5 - Jane's Shadow (Nov-2015)
2 - Convergence Point (Jan-2016)
2.5 - Chasing Jane (Sep-2016)
3 - Decoherence (Nov-2016)

Book List in Order: 64 titles



  • When her partner calls her early Saturday morning to report a body in La Jolla Cove, rescue diver Kristin Castaño's only worry is losing sleep. Once she's in the water all that changes. REAL LIES is a microfiction short story (under 10 pages)...



  • After alien ships have invaded the human territories, destroying planets and sending the survivors fleeing to Earth, the Terran government orders the refugees to settle a new planet. One that has just been terraformed.Jeff Koenig, one of the few surv...



  • If you believe the rumors you know that Doctor Charm, the wickedly sexy super villain, retired in shame seven years ago after his last fight with the super hero Zephyr Girl. The fact that the charming Evan Smith -- father of four and husband of the t...



  • When Jeani crash lands on a backwater world, she knows she's in trouble. The slave trader Hothi is looking for her, and her bosses are going to eat her alive if she screws up another mission. Discovering she's half a world away from the planet's only...



  • When your mother is America’s Superhero Sweetheart and your daddy’s the Number One Super Villain, you grow up feeling a little conflicted. Angela Smith has superpowers -- nothing that will ever make her comic-book famous -- but her ability to psy...



  • It's Chicago's favorite city son vs Delilah, daughter of Dr. Charm. America's second city will never know what hit it. Bootleggers, drug dealers, crooked cops, and dirty politicians... Chicago has always had a reputation for indulging in the finer vi...



  • A body is found in the Alabama wilderness. The question is: Is it a human corpse or is it just a piece of discarded property? Agent Samantha Rose has been exiled to a backwater assignment for the Commonwealth Bureau of Investigation, a death kn...



  • We all have our favorite superhero stories â€" now it's the villains' turn to talk. Zephyr Girl broke into Dr. Charm's lab looking for the affair of the century; she found happily ever after instead. But now, seven years later, Tabitha walks away wit...



  • A brand new Time & Shadows Mystery!

    Agent Samantha Rose has already died once…and knows the exact date she’ll die again.

    Having taken down a terrorist organization bent on traveling through time to overthrow the government, Sam fig...






  • Agent Samantha Rose has already died once and knows the exact date she'll die again. Having taken down a terrorist organization bent on traveling through time to overthrow the government, Sam figured she was done dealing with the unbelievable. Fin...



  • Welcome! You have arrived at a portal to the galaxy. Enter, and you'll be introduced by award-winning authors to worlds beyond imagining, with heroes & heroines who dare to take it to the edge and beyond. Count on these adventurers to take their best...



  • Readers of Blake Crouch's DARK MATTER and Wesely Chu's TIME SALVAGER will love Liana Brooks' DECOHERENCE--the thrilling, time-bending conclusion to the Time & Shadow series!

    Samantha Rose and Linsey MacKenzie have established an idyllic life...



  • Samantha Rose and Linsey MacKenzie have established an idyllic life of married bliss in Australia, away from the Commonwealth Bureau of Investigation, away from mysterious corpses, and -- most of all -- away from Dr. Emir’s multiverse machine. B...



  • From the 'Darkness and Good' blog comes a collection of fans' favourite stories, all in one convenient volume. Come read about gods and monsters, unicorns and shapeshifters, magical worlds and galaxies far, far away! Head to our website, http://darkn...



  • A body at rest stays at rest unless acted on by an equal and opposite force.â€" Newton’s First Law of MotionSelena Caryll lost everything in the war--her ship, her crew, her family. Although technically on the winner's side, her lacks of crew makes...



  • Left for dead three years ago by the man she thought she loved, Lana can handle anything--even a sudden invasion by space pirates. What she can't handle? Discovering the leader is the man who left her for dead.

    Kaleb thought three years was...



  • Kaddy Chaak's career is in jeopardy, her social life is non-existent, and instead of spending the holidays at home with everyone she loves, she's in the hospital with her chronically-ill, probably-dying nephew Everett, wondering if her dead sister...



  • Blue lightning, red clouds, searing heat and a dwindling water supply: just a typical day on Spiral.

    Jessa watches the monitors daily, waiting for the return of the ice ship. Her family died in the last water rationing crisis--and she longs...



  • Andrea plays the Game--a massive, interstellar, virtual reality experience--as often as she can. And she plays well. Really well.

    ...Well, she cheats, actually, which she feels ambivalent about to be honest.

    Except on Level Nine. Bec...






  • The light of the city proper never reaches the under-city, past the jackal-headed guardians who keep the riffraff out. No one goes to the under-city willingly. No one except Rion, scion of the Tahtali house. If found, it might cost him his life. But ...



  • Del hates Christmas. As a child, she spent too many Decembers on the streets after her parents abandoned her. As an adult, the enforced family focus, the clients who see the holidays as an excuse to get gropey, and the mistletoe her well-meaning c...



  • Rose got her happily ever after, complete with castle, prince and ornate banquets every night. But after four centuries, Rose can state definitively: happy endings suck. No concerts, no plays, no children or visits with friends... Not one single ...



  • Grandmother has a garden--cool, leafy, green, lush... and probably about to take over the world, at this rate. Jenny watches in awe, year after year, as Grandmother keeps nature at bay, taming it with her touch--and her machete.

    This year, ...



  • Grandmother has a garden—cool, leafy, green, lush… and probably about to take over the world, at this rate. Jenny watches in awe, year after year, as Grandmother keeps nature at bay, taming it with her touch—and her machete. T...



  • Rowena Lee lost the man she was supposed to marry, and with him, any hope for a happy future in the war. Now, five years later, with a suspicious kind of peace brokered between the sides, Rowena lives a half-life in emotional isolation. Neither her f...



  • No one survives Dark Dale. But when the demons summon, she goes-with her swords, and daggers, and iron-capped boots. The compromise to her independence chafes. But the pay? Worth it. And they better pay. Or she'll make them rue the day they called he...



  • She plays in the meadow, the only place safe to cry about her mother's death. He finds her there, the wide-eyed boy, thrown by his horse, lost in the woods. She guides him home, in the process finding the road out of her grief-and a friend. But then ...



  • Meet Venus, Goddess of Love and Romance. Not the goddess of self-restraint. And certainly not the goddess of patience.That causes a problem when the desk clerk loses her hotel booking and Venus considers changing her title to Goddess of War. It would...



  • The king announces a ball in order to end the war. His subjects? Overjoyed. Marian? Determined to stop it. Her sponsors need the war to continue. Looks like sabotage will feature at the top of tonight's menu. A Cinderella retelling for everyone who e...






  • Young Sophie dreams of being an artist. Of painting her mother's dreary, monochrome existence with color. But art? It's the one thing forbidden by her mother.Can clandestine art lessons lead Sophie to finding her dream-and her true self? A whimsical ...



  • Matron Rus, stern but kindly head of the orphanage, is vexed. A child is gone. Justice missed roll call-again-and this time, she can't find hide or hair of him on the orphanage grounds. She desperately wants him to give up his search for the family t...



  • Meet Meredith Kriesmas, forensic accountant who sharpens numbers the way killers sharpen knives-Chicago's very own Grim Reaper of the business world. Whole divisions close in her wake, and her clients pay handsomely for it. But ten minutes into a thr...



  • Jack and Rob have the witness to their crime all tied up. Literally. They just didn't expect her to the suggest that they murder her. Still. It provides a logical solution to their problem... Right? A twisty, cheeky crime story that proves brains alw...



  • Jazrin just wants to go home. But the persistent sales woman insists: she sells dream vacations for all budgets. Perfect vacations. Dream vacations that take absolutely no time at all. All she needs? One minute of Jazrin's trust. A sci-fi crime s...



  • Habitat? Earth. Not Prima, where the poor wind up. Not Stellar, the moon base where the wealthy and well-educated dwell. Just... Earth. Identity? Slot 37B-12D5. Housewife. Purpose? Nothing. Beyond merely existing, anyway. But secretly, she dreams of ...



  • Moira's platoon died taking over the Kanfir ships that threaten home. But Moira? Stuck on the last ship. The one headed for the sun.She needs to reroute it—and fast—but the ship only takes orders from a senior line officer. And the only o...



  • Leg bleeding, out of breath, stripped of wand and magic-oh, and hanging from the edge of the castle's upper ramparts. A vaguely-familiar princess arrives, someone he recognises from magic classes but never paid attention to.He regrets that now: r...



  • Hades searches the plague-cursed city for the mortal woman he loves. Sorrow feels different for an immortal, but still he mourns the woman whom, tomorrow, he loses. He thinks to lose her to marriage. He is wrong. A hopeful spin on the classic Greek m...



  • A dangerous journey, a tenuous plan, an impenetrable dungeon of treasure: only abject desperation could drive Trae and Kinni to do something so likely to end in disaster.But the prize at the end of this heist? Worth every danger they could imagine&md...






  • Horace Jones just wants a quiet life. But those pages lying there on the coffee table? They may spell disaster, the final spark to light the burning pyre of his privacy.A quirky, humorous story for everyone who ever dreamed of being famous—or h...



  • Meet Skeleton, usually from the pond, currently hiding out in the town library trying to 3D print a body. Humans tend not to take skeleton rights seriously otherwise, see. And this skeleton needs to defend their rights, or else pfft goes their pond. ...



  • She lives in a rowhouse between rehabilitated crack addicts, sex offenders, and pensioners raising grandkids—and she does jobs. At odd hours, odd jobs that mean a little bit of safety here, one less predator on the streets there. Toni...



  • Dreams-Come-True Coordinator at the Merriton Pediatric Hospital: an emotional job at the best of times. But with Christmas fast approaching, Andrea needs help even more desperately than usual.In particular, she needs someone willing to cosplay The Po...



  • In retrospect, telling the prince that death surpasses marriage to him? Maybe a trifle theatrical…Now she stands at the edge of an ocean-side cliff in boggy, new-spring mud and a crown of ivy, hoping she can make the prince see reason.He says ...



  • Vivid blue skies. White sand. Emerald green water turned dark by sea grass: the perfect family holiday destination.Except for the two stunningly handsome men drawing curious glances under the bridge, threatening the safety of her family.She told them...



  • Vivid blue skies. White sand. Emerald green water turned dark by sea grass: the perfect family holiday destination. Except for the two stunningly handsome men drawing curious glances under the bridge. Threatening the safety of her family with the...



  • Esana just wants a private place to avoid the hubbub of the annual company party. What she finds? An assassination attempt on the son of the biggest of bosses.If anyone else finds out, her reputation - and his? At risk. Fatally.Not to mention her bes...



  • If we value the freedom of mind and soul, … then it's our plain duty to escape – Ursula K. Le Guin Nine short stories: nine teeny-tiny escape hatches from reality. A chance to run away from worries, to explore the distant stars, to ...



  • Running out of time to perfect the Dance that determines his future career and success, Dallon practices for hours on end. His sister Dasha watches and supports him—but longs to choose a Dance for herself outside the scope of those delegated to...






  • Grantupoemoeunanii's job in Hell? Quite heavenly, actually. And by all accounts, today looks set for more of the same: well-ordered paperwork, tidy schedules…Until an unusual co-worker appears, with a problem not quite standard. And not quite&...



  • Warm snow falling at Christmas in Florida? Don't touch it. Definitely don't lick it.But for Yalana, totally worth the risk to her life for a chance to hunt down what she seeks.Of course, in a dystopian wasteland, Yalana's two-week-old information hol...



  • Apparently, not believing in reincarnation means… well, nothing, actually. Whether you believe or not, you still have to do it.Of course, no one can stop you cheating a little along the way… Though it turns out that the rules? Yeah, tho...



  • A simple star? Dead easy to make. Only two pieces of paper, less than twenty steps… Yep. Literally anyone can make a star. Nothing can go wrong.…Right?A pair of cheeky micro stories about the perils of crafting and home-making when you'...



  • A simple star? Dead easy to make. Only two pieces of paper, less than twenty steps... Yep. Literally anyone can make a star. Nothing can go wrong. ...Right?A pair of cheeky micro stories about the perils of crafting and home-making when you're an imm...



  • Ninety-six-year-old Tilly's great grandchildren insist she try something new to keep her brain active. The cute little virtual game Hero's Journey seems harmless enough. And Tilly quite enjoys catching butterflies and swapping gifts with another play...



  • As a Goddess, interruptions go with the job description. Hence setting clear expectations early on that this Goddess would not manifest for every stubbed toe or missing ox.But this petitioner? Very insistent. Irritatingly so.The Goddess abandons her ...



  • Adopting a new identity before the internet? A cinch. Piece of cake. Barely meant moving towns.But these days? A much trickier proposition. One that takes planning. Careful planning.And not, say, ending up in the hospital, where nosy doctors ask prob...



  • Necromancy: shady, illegal, and totally ruining Detective Andi Kierzan's Saturday night as she attempts to interview the latest in a string of risen-corpses. A risen corpse who remembers his own name, and not much more. (The risen dead aren't known f...



  • Meet Iris Muhly, American star of the hit international TV show Shattered.Just kidding. Ingenue Iris definitely acts in the show, but the vibe? Less 'star' and more 'character the fans hate most'. Bad enough on a normal show. But on a show where fans...



  • For a member of a High Family on the matriarchal, gem-rich world of Tanar, marriage weeks mean celebration, with lavish gifts even for the servants - and the freedom to choose whichever suitor a girl desires.A shame that Zuli Yalsmon's family barely ...



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    Adopting a new identity before the internet? A cinch. Piece of cake. Barely meant moving towns.But these days? A much trickier proposition. One that takes planning. Careful planning.And not, say, ending up in the hospital, where nosy doctors ask prob...



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    The night gives her strength. Under the moonlight, her bruises disappear.The servants resent her; she should be grateful for her mother's attentions.But she knows the truth. She knows why her sisters died.And now, her mother calls.A short, chilling r...



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    A free groom and a half-price ring bearer with every wedding gown purchase: the perfect solution to Lisa's relationship problem.

    Now she just has to choose the right groom. Ah, what the heck: why not spring for a custom-made?

    Because...



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    Ravaged by war, the solar system has one hope left: the Dauphin terraforming project and its leader, Dr. Jeff Koenig.Jeff might have been saddled with Dr. Bella Lawson, whose tantrums would make anyone want to vent their oxygen, but failure? Not even...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Liana Brooks has published 64 books.

Liana Brooks does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Price Of The Mountain Lily, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Liana Brooks, Real Lies, was published in October 2011.

Yes. Liana Brooks has 2 series.