M.C.A. Hogarth

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  • Bibliography:
    93 Books (14 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2000
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Alysha Forrest

1 - Second (Oct-2010)
2 - Who Is Willing (May-2017)
3 - Sword of the Alliance (Jul-2018)
4 - Either Side of the Strand (May-2015)
5 - Faith in the Service (May-2019)
6 - In Good Company (Feb-2022)

Blood Ladders

1 - An Heir to Thorns and Steel (Jul-2015)
2 - By Vow and Royal Bloodshed (Jul-2015)
3 - On Wings of Bone and Glass (Jul-2015)

The Books of Kherishdar

1 - The Aphorisms of Kherishdar (Apr-2010)
2 - The Admonishments of Kherishdar (Jul-2014)
3 - Black Blossom (Oct-2012)

The Dreamhealers

1 - Mindtouch (Jul-2013)
2 - Mindline (Jan-2014)
3 - Dreamhearth (Jul-2017)
4 - Dreamstorm (Apr-2018)
5 - Family (Nov-2011)

The Godkindred Saga

1 - Flight of the Godkin Griffin (Jun-2012)
2 - The Godson's Triumph (Nov-2013)

Her Instruments

1 - Earthrise (May-2013)
2 - Rose Point (Oct-2013)
3 - Laisrathera (May-2014)
4 - A Rose Point Holiday (Nov-2016)

Iskadi Kherishdarem

1 - Conversations with the Ai-Naidar (Mar-2020)
2 - Further Conversations with the Ai-Naidari (May-2020)

Jubilee Summer

1 - Healer's Wedding (2019)
2 - Farmer's Crown (Mar-2019)

Lisinthir's Heirs

1 - Dragons' Fealty (Aug-2021)
2 - Scions' Flight (Aug-2021)

Princes' Game

1 - Even the Wingless (Sep-2011)
2 - Some Things Transcend (Jul-2014)
3 - Amulet Rampant (Feb-2016)
4 - Only the Open (Jun-2016)
5 - In Extremis (May-2017)
6 - From Ruins (Dec-2017)

Shieldmatron

1 - An Exile Aboard Ship (Jul-2023)

The Stone Moon Trilogy

1 - The Worth of a Shell (Apr-2010)
2 - Pearl in the Void (Apr-2013)
3 - A Bloom in the North (Apr-2013)

Twin Kingdoms Romances

1 - Thief of Songs (Jan-2015)
2 - Cantor for Pearls (Sep-2016)

Zafiil

1 - FireBorn UnPainted (Jul-2022)
2 - FireDancer's Hand (Aug-2022)

Book List in Order: 93 titles

  • Alysha's Fall

    What is the definition of strength? At what point is there nothing more to learn than the limits of endurance? When is darkness no longer contrast to light but a suffocation, and how close to that line can a person walk before she risks her soul? Ten...

  • The Aphorisms of Kherishdar

    The Books of Kherishdar - 1

    For the Ai-Naidar, a species of slim, gracile aliens, caste and tradition are not the shackles that imprison the spirit but the silences that make sense of the music of their lives. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar collects 25 short tales about what it is...

  • The Worth of a Shell

    The Stone Moon Trilogy - 1

    Born to a harsh world, we Jokka have evolved three sexes to survive: neuter, male and female. Twice in our lives we may change from one to another. A change we accept with grace... or resignation. It was our way. ...until one female defied all tradit...

  • Butterfly

  • Dark Lighthouse

    After ferrying supplies to thirty-nine space stations, First Commander Taylitha Basil of the UAV Stardancer is ready to move on to something less dull. but it turns out the station commander at their final stop is a great swo...

  • His Neuter Face

    The night that Tafeth's House ejected it without fanfare, it expected to go to a life of uselessness. But that was before a strange male dropped into its life, and challenged the young neuter: Will you be what your house and so...

  • Money for Sorrow, Made Joy

    Ekanoi is one of a train of neuters running the caravans that keep the few cities of the Jokka supplied. It and its leader long for a chance to explore the distant forests, in hopes of bringing better goods back to the cities....

  • Stormfront

    Captain Isidore Wyatt, new transfer to the Alliance Fleet from the Terran Space Navy, is still getting used to having engineered aliens for officers when he's called to investigate a possible pirate vessel. Except not everything is what it seems,...

  • A Trifold Spiral Knot

    Once upon a time the Jokka worshiped the three gods in their image: male, female, neuter. Years later, the worship of the trifold virtues-that all sexes have value and dignity-became the second-most dominant belief. B...



  • Unspeakable

    When Tanel's lover takes him to see the teller of naughty stories, he does not expect it to be a neuter, nor for it to challenge him to examine his own preconceptions, his fears. his ability to love. A story of aliens, origin...

  • Fire in the Void

    Keshul makes his money cloaking his common sense as fortune-telling for the Jokka of het Narel, and he would be the first to tell you it's all a sham. Or so he thinks, until a patron shows up asking for the wisdom of the Void....

  • Freedom, Spiced and Drunk

    Kediil wants only to remain neuter and learn the secrets of herbs from its beloved Mardin... but at its second puberty, it turns female, and is forced to decide between accepting its new roles among the family... or something unspeakable. Originally ...

  • Second

    Alysha Forrest - 1

    Ensign Taylitha Basil wasn't sure what to expect when her ship dropped her off at the officer training retreat at Quickwater Preserve. A hike up the mountain? She's not much of a hiker. A trip down it in a canoe? Even worse, she's not a great swimmer...

  • Broken Chains

  • The Elements of Freedom

  • New Stories

    When disease struck Serel's new settlement, it feared that its clan head would force them to resume their punishing nomadic life. That's when it heard tales of a madwoman in the hills. a madwoman with healing skills. But can...

  • Rosettes and Ribbons

  • Tears

  • The Blade to Your Hand



  • Season's Meaning

    Captain Alysha Forrest is taking advantage of leave to do a little holiday shopping at the largest mall in the Alliance's summer capital. when a little boy gets into a little trouble. A holiday feel-good story from the Pelted...

  • Skip-Leveling

  • Breaths Long as Years

  • A Divine Consistency

  • For the Love of Mortals

  • Not Now, Not Ever

  • Useless Tears

  • Bitter Apples

  • The Copper Bodice

  • Fire Queen, Dark Lady



  • The Perfect Totem

  • Snow in Summer, Flowers in Fall

  • Songs From a Conch Shell Whistle

  • Stone Moon, Silk Scarves

    ""Evaluate the new head of House Laisira, and if he seems unsuitable, deal with it." Such was Pathen Ures-emodo's unpalatable assignment. When he begins his investigation, he suspects nothing more than incompetence. But could Ho"...

  • Unknowable

    In this sequel to Reader's Choice Award "Unspeakable," Tanel, Nashada and Ekkuli return in a new city, having made themselves a comfortable home. a comfortable home, until an invader arrives and threatens once again to rearra...

  • The Smell of Intelligence

    Fatha Gesha-emodo is the most talented scent-maker in the north, but even it cannot save its House from catastrophe. until it meets an anadi witch, and learns a secret that will save its House, but change everything else. Wha...

  • Precious Things

  • Even the Wingless

    Princes' Game - 1

    The Alliance has sent twelve ambassadors to the Chatcaavan Empire; all twelve returned early, defeated. None of their number have been successful at taking that brutal empire to task for their violations of the treaty. None have survived the vicio...

  • A Rosary of Stones and Thorns

    When the angel Asrial discovers that the halos of the Fallen have been maintained in Heaven against their eventual return, she speaks out against Archangel Michael’s plan to make war on them on Earth. For her insolence, she is driven from grace and...

  • The Snow Maiden, or the Case with the Holiday Blues



  • Family

    The Dreamhealers - 5

    Vasiht'h always thought himself lucky to have befriended one of the rare and fascinating Eldritch, so when Jahir invites him home for a cousin's wedding, he's eager for the chance to find out more about these enigmatic aliens. Naturally, he...

  • Claws and Starships

    When the results of Earth's genetic experiments fled from their makers, they took their own name as they left humanity behind; centuries later, the Pelted have spread into a multi-world alliance of cultures and languages, cribbed from Terra or create...

  • Blades and Bitter Apples

  • Defense of the Fiddler

    Pollyanna meets Starship Troopers in this fast, screenplay-like novel about a 30-something Marine private called out of retirement to join the war against the crabs. But shattered morale is the least of her company's problems, and their survival may ...

  • The Case of the Poisoned House and Other Xenopsychiatric Studies

  • Flight of the Godkin Griffin

    The Godkindred Saga - 1

    On the eve of her retirement from the army, Mistress Commander Angharad Godkin finds herself re-activated and directed to replace the governor of the newly conquered territory of Shraeven. With its multitude of diverse societie...

  • Black Blossom

    The Books of Kherishdar - 3

    The high priest of Shame in Kherishdar is shattering-- --and the only thing between him and his ruin is the gentle Calligrapher, Farren Nai'Sheviet-osulkedi. When they are dispatched by the god of Civilization to Qenain, the House of Flowers, they f...

  • A Bloom in the North

    The Stone Moon Trilogy - 3

    The Stone Moon empire is ascendant... and so brutal it is forcing its own people into dissent. But when imperial enforcer Pathen Ures-emodo turns fugitive, he finds himself inheriting a decimated rebellion with a missing leader. There’s no winning ...

  • Pearl in the Void

    The Stone Moon Trilogy - 2

    When emissaries of the Stone Moon arrive in het Narel, Keshul, the charlatan seer of House Akkadin, is suspicious. Who are these prosperous, well-fed people, and why do they care whether the Houses of het Narel have better wells and healthier crops? ...

  • Earthrise

    Her Instruments - 1

    Reese Eddings has enough to do just keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to pay food for herself and her micro-crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slaver...



  • Mindtouch

    The Dreamhealers - 1

    Seersana University is worlds-renowned for its xenopsychology program, producing the Alliance's finest therapists, psychiatric nurses and alien researchers. When Jahir, one of the rare and reclusive Eldritch espers, arrives on campus, he's unprepared...

  • Rose Point

    Her Instruments - 2

    Reese is only just getting used to running the Earthrise in the black -- and with an Eldritch in her crew -- when a trip to a colony world gives rise to a whole new problem: Hirianthial is showing powers that even the Eldritch rarely have, and that o...

  • The Godson's Triumph

    The Godkindred Saga - 2

    Mistress Commander Angharad Godkin hates politics. so of course, her ruler the Godson sent her to replace the Governor of barely tamed Shraeven province. She hates religion, so naturally, the native gods began to plague her t...

  • Mindline

    The Dreamhealers - 2

    At the advice of Vasiht'h, his first and truest friend, Jahir Seni Galare has accepted one of the most coveted residencies in xenotherapy, even though doing so has severed him from all the relationships he's fostered since leaving his cloistered home...

  • Laisrathera

    Her Instruments - 3

    The Queen of the Eldritch has offered Reese Eddings a life out of a fairy tale, one beyond the imagination of a poor girl from Mars who’d expected to spend her life eking out a living with a rattletrap merchant vessel. Unfortunately, the day Reese ...

  • Anadi Dolls

    The last thing Jekun wanted to do was Turn neuter. She'd spent her life as a pampered breeder in the caverns of House Sadlan, a female prized for her intelligence and stamina. Changing this late in her life meant. loss. Heart...

  • In the Line of Duty

    When the UAV Scattersky answers a distress call, their captain is expecting a routine rescue operation and dispatches his first commander, Alysha Forrest, to manage the transfer of personnel. But naturally, things are never as...

  • Letters

  • Pantheon

  • The Admonishments of Kherishdar

    The Books of Kherishdar - 2

    n Kherishdar, when a person commits a crime, they become their sin. Suicide. Rape. Child Abuse. Addiction. Twenty-five crimes. Twenty-five stories. Twenty-five narrators. and one minister over them all, to judge, conv...

  • Some Things Transcend

    Princes' Game - 2

    Given a choice, Lisinthir Nase Galare would have stayed in the Chatcaavan Empire to help its reformed Emperor and Queen remake the worlds in their image. But when his presence proved a threat to the Emperor's attempts, he bowed...

  • Thief of Songs

    Twin Kingdoms Romances - 1

    The lowland conquerers have taken everything from him, or so the composer Amet Emendexte-ilye was taught: prestige, autonomy, wealth, and most importantly, magic. But when one of them steals his fiancee, Amet avenges himself on them all by writing mu...

  • Either Side of the Strand

    Alysha Forrest - 4

    When a routine mapping expedition uncovers what looks like ruins on the planet Theth-129, the crew of the Stardancer is thrilled to have something more exciting to do than catalog worlds only a terraformer could love. Their trip to the world's surfac...

  • By Vow and Royal Bloodshed

    Blood Ladders - 2

    Restored to a working body, Morgan Locke has returned to Troth to seek the legendary athenaeum at Vigil in the hopes it will produce a solution to the enchantment binding the elves. But elves are not the only creatures now stepp...

  • An Heir to Thorns and Steel

    Blood Ladders - 1

    Morgan Locke, university student, has been hiding his debilitating illness with fair enough success when two unlikely emissaries arrive bearing the news that he is prince to a nation of creatures out of folklore. Ridiculous! And yet, if magic exis...

  • On Wings of Bone and Glass

    Blood Ladders - 3

    Evicted from Vigil and faced with the impending descent of demons, Morgan Locke and his companions must unravel all the mysteries that are barring them from the salvation of their country and their world. Can they unbind the cur...

  • Amulet Rampant

    Princes' Game - 3

    A Tryst Turned Training. and a Desperate FlightIn an effort to stop a war and hold the Thorn Throne, the Chatcaavan Emperor has embarked on the bloody subjugation of the rebels who are tearing the Empire apart to serve t...

  • Only the Open

    Princes' Game - 4

    Greed. Power. Cruelty. These have been the watchwords by which Chatcaava of lesser means have been ruled for generations, and even the most valuable among them, the Slave Queen, has lived the whole of her life beneath their yoke. Only one male i...

  • Cantor for Pearls

    Twin Kingdoms Romances - 2

    For years, Always Falling has been content in the capital of the Twin Kingdoms, seeing to its beloved the imperial composer…and there the neuter might have stayed, had it not received an urgent message summoning it home. After the cruelties that sa...

  • A Rose Point Holiday

    Her Instruments - 4

    With the Eldritch civil war over, a castle to renovate, and a wedding to prepare for, the last thing Reese is thinking about is taking a break. But the new year is coming and the Eldritch take their holidays very seriously, so Reese decides it can't ...

  • In Extremis

    Princes' Game - 5

    An Eldritch Ambassador began the regeneration of a dragon, a regeneration that nearly ended in the harem of a Chatcaavan worldlord. Rescued before he could die, the Emperor now faces the nearly impossible challenge of assailing an empire intent on...

  • Who Is Willing

    Alysha Forrest - 2

    Alysha Forrest is looking forward to her assignment as the Songlance’s newest lieutenant, particularly when it gets her placed as the liaison to the ship’s water environment crewmembers. Interfacing with the mermaid-like Naysha and the alien Plat...

  • Dreamhearth

    The Dreamhealers - 3

    Jahir and Vasiht'h have earned their licenses as xenotherapists at last, and they have their hearts set on starting their practice in one of the Alliance's most exciting and cosmopolitan destinations: a sector starbase. But drea...

  • From Ruins

    Princes' Game - 6

    A spy dying on the wall of a palace. An Emperor turned rebel through the power of a psalm.A shapechanger on the cusp of an enormous discovery.A woman riding to battle in the vanguard of her enemies. The known worlds a...

  • Dreamstorm

    The Dreamhealers - 4

    Jahir and Vasiht’h have spent five years together in practice on Starbase Veta, and their life is everything they’d hoped: their practice is fantastic, their social standing great, and their domestic life a blissful routine. So when Vasiht’h di...

  • Sword of the Alliance

    Alysha Forrest - 3

    War is a serious violation of the Alliance's colony charters, so when the Stardancer is sent to investigate rumors of a conflict on the distant colony of Gledig, everyone is hoping to come up empty. They're certainly not expecting to be mired in a...

  • Girl on Fire

    A PELTEDVERSE NOVELA coming-of-age story in the style of Mercedes Lackey, set in a galaxy full of aliens and adventures....The Eldritch live hundreds of years, which means Sediryl Nuera Galare isn't going to inherit the management of her family's nob...

  • Healer's Wedding

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    Jubilee Summer - 1

    Nearly a year has passed since the conclusion of the Chatcaavan War... which means it's time for Jahir and Sediryl to marry, and Sediryl to kneel for the coronet of the imperial heir! All their allies are gathering to celebrate, from the expected, li...

  • Farmer's Crown

    Jubilee Summer - 2

    Sediryl has always yearned for responsibility--and power--and she was convinced she was ready for them... until the events of the Chatcaavan war demonstrated just how immense those responsibilities were, and just how parlous the power necessary to fu...

  • Faith in the Service

    Alysha Forrest - 5

    An internal threat aimed at derailing the debate about Fleet's future; an external one opening the way for the worst kind of outlaws in a new part of space. Alysha and Taylitha are on separate sides of the sector, holding down their ends of what's su...

  • Heartskein

    The day is finally here!For as long as he could remember, Vasiht'h planned on starting a family, a plan that surviving the war only made more urgent. The temple on Anseahla has summoned him at last to pick up his new kits, an errand he decides will b...

  • Conversations with the Ai-Naidar

    Iskadi Kherishdarem - 1

    Language and locations, culture and customs, biology, psychology, and history... worldbuilding an alien world for a fiction series can be a monumental effort involving notes, maps, drawings, and resources......or you can do it Jaguar-style, and just ...

  • Further Conversations with the Ai-Naidari

    Iskadi Kherishdarem - 2

    Return to Kherishdar in this second volume of backstage interactions between the author and her creations! In the first volume, we got to know the principal characters that made the setting clearer to the audience... this time, we ease deeper into th...

  • Fathers' Honor

    THREE HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE When his favorite student invites him to immigrate to the world of the fabled Eldritch, Armin Palland brings his wife and mother-in-law and all the unresolved issues he's been avoiding. That he arrives to a planet...

  • In the Court of Dragons

    Loose ends don't tie themselves Sweeping cultural changes sound very good on paper. But in the lives of normal people, even the ones who stand to benefit, those changes can be a challenge... one they might not have even asked for. In the Court o...

  • Dragons' Fealty

    Lisinthir's Heirs - 1

    A SPRING HOMECOMING When he attended their wedding in summer, Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli, Third of the Chatcaavan Empire, promised his cousins they would see him in spring for the birth of his heirs on Eldritch soil, and to attend the birth of t...

  • Scions' Flight

    Lisinthir's Heirs - 2

    A SEASON OF FLOWERS, A SEASON OF BLOODWhen the sacrifices of a princess and an alien turn the first attack into a victory for Lisinthir and his allies, their enemies resort to a new threat to disarm them. But they're not the only ones mobilizing in r...

  • To Discover and Preserve

    The ships of the Alliance's Fleet map the galaxy, police its hundreds of worlds, and run its diplomatic and scientific errands. It's also the backdrop for the lives of millions of Pelted, a complex work environment filled with opportunities for devel...

  • In Good Company

    Alysha Forrest - 6

    Trust Your peers......unless, of course, one of them is a rogue flouting Fleet's already lax regulations. But stowaways are the least of the Stardancer's issues when they are assigned to investigate a mysterious area of space at the behest of an alie...

  • FireBorn UnPainted

    Zafiil - 1

    The first historical novel set in the Peltedverse! Enter into the heart of an alien race... Thousands of years ago, the God of the Faulfenza promised His people He would send a messiah to lead them into a Golden Age, alongside the Others: a...

  • FireDancer's Hand

    Zafiil - 2

    The epic saga of the Faulfenza's third messiah continues in the second volume of Zafiil, FireDancer's Hand. Journey with Zafiil to the borders of the Alliance in her search for enlightenment, dive into her recent history as a student at the Hear...

  • To the Court of Love

    Sediryl Galare's first official function as the formally invested heir to the Eldritch Empire is to open the summer court, on Escutcheon and on the world of Chalice. But behind every big event are a myriad of stories—some smaller in scope, and ...

  • An Exile Aboard Ship

    Shieldmatron - 1

    ONE MOMENT, QUEEN... THE NEXT, OUTCAST Surela Silin Asaniefa was convinced she could rule the Eldritch people better than her enemy, Liolesa Galare, and for ten whole days following her coup, she made the attempt—and failed. Resigned to her dea...

  • Sleigh Bells and Starships

    Return to the Peltedverse for a heartwarming holiday with this collection of eight stories, including an all-new novella set in the Fallowtide! From the annals of history, hundreds of years past, through the captaincy of Alysha Forrest and on into th...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

M.C.A. Hogarth has published 93 books.

M.C.A. Hogarth does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sleigh Bells and Starships, was published in December 2023.

The first book by M.C.A. Hogarth, Alysha's Fall, was published in September 2000.

Yes. M.C.A. Hogarth has 14 series.
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