Michelle Diener

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Class 5

1 - Dark Horse (Jun-2015)
2 - Dark Deeds (Jan-2016)
3 - Dark Minds (Jul-2016)
4 - Dark Matters (Oct-2019)
5 - Dark Ambitions (Jan-2021)
5 - Dark Class (Jan-2022)

Dark Forest

1 - The Golden Apple (Mar-2014)
2 - The Silver Pear (Oct-2014)

Regency London

1 - The Emperor's Conspiracy (Dec-2012)
2 - Banquet of Lies (Oct-2013)
3 - A Dangerous Madness (May-2014)

The Rising Wave

1 - The Rising Wave (Mar-2021)
2 - The Turncoat King (Jan-2021)
2 - The Threadbare Queen (Dec-2021)

Sky Raiders

1 - Sky Raiders (Dec-2016)
2 - Calling the Change (Aug-2017)
3 - Shadow Warrior (Jan-2018)

Susanna Horenbout

1 - In a Treacherous Court (Aug-2011)
2 - Keeper of the King's Secrets (Apr-2012)

Verdant String

Interference & Insurgency (Jan-2018)
1 - Breakaway (Jun-2018)
2 - Breakeven (Oct-2018)
3 - Trailblazer (Mar-2019)
4 - High Flyer (Jul-2020)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

Mistress of the Wind (Dec-2013)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • In a Treacherous Court

    Susanna Horenbout - 1

    AN UNCONVENTIONAL WOMAN. A DEADLY ENEMY. A CLASH OF INTRIGUE, DECEPTION, AND DESIRE... 1525: Artist Susanna Horenbout is sent from Belgium to be Henry VIII's personal illuminator inside the royal palace. But her new homeland greets her with an att...

  • Dangerous Sanctuary

    Available as an eBook, Dangerous Sanctuary is a short story set between In a Treacherous Court, the first novel featuring Susanna Horenbout and John Parker, the “King’s Blade,” and Keeper of the King’s Secrets, the second novel a featuring Su...

  • Keeper of the King's Secrets

    Susanna Horenbout - 2

    A priceless jewel. A royal court rife with intrigue. A secret deal, where the price of truth could come too high . . . The personal artist to King Henry Tudor, Susanna Horenbout is sought by the queen and ladies of the court for her delicate, skil...

  • The Emperor's Conspiracy

    Regency London - 1

    From nineteenth-century London’s elegant ballrooms to its darkest slums, a spirited young woman and a nobleman investigating for the Crown unmask a plot by Napoleon to bleed England of its gold. Chance led to Charlotte Raven’s transformation ...

  • Daughter of the Sky

    The Victorian Empire has declared war on the Zulus if they don't accede to their outrageous demands. The clock is ticking down to the appointed hour. With no idea why the British are marching three massive columns of men and guns towards them, one Zu...

  • In Defense of the Queen

    An artist never betrays her patron . . . especially one of the world's most powerful kings. Susanna Horenbout has learned this lesson from the cradle. But when she receives a letter from her father telling her to do just that, she faces a dilemma. Be...

  • Banquet of Lies

    Regency London - 2

    A SECRET TREATY AND A SECRET LIFE LONDON, 1812: Giselle Barrington is living a double life, juggling the duties of chef with those of spy catcher. She must identify her father’s savage killer before the shadowy man finds her and uncovers the exp...

  • Mistress of the Wind

    Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

    Bjorn needs to find a very special woman . . . The fate of his people, and his own life, depends on it. But when he does find her, she is nothing like he imagined, and may just harbor more secrets than he does himself. Astrid has never taken well to ...

  • The Golden Apple

    Dark Forest - 1

    Kayla's world has been turned upside-down . . . Her father has made her the prize in a deadly, impossible tournament, and Kayla has retaliated in the only way she knows how; by choosing her champion beforehand. But taking control of the outcome chang...



  • A Dangerous Madness

    Regency London - 3

    The Duke of Wittaker has been living a lie... He’s been spying on the dissolute, discontented noblemen of the ton, pretending to share their views. Now he’s ready to step out of the shadows and start living a real life...but when the prime minist...

  • The Silver Pear

    Dark Forest - 2

    An unlikely princess . . . Kayla is determined to master her new-found abilities as a wild magic witch. She's learning everything she can so she and her betrothed, Rane, can put a stop to the sorcerers who are recklessly gathering their power, buildi...

  • Dark Horse

    Class 5 - 1

    Some secrets carry the weight of the world. Rose McKenzie may be far from Earth with no way back, but she's made a powerful ally--a fellow prisoner with whom she's formed a strong bond. Sazo's an artificial intelligence. He's saved...

  • Dark Deeds

    Class 5 - 2

    Rescue might just be the death of her. Far from home . . . Fiona Russell has been snatched from Earth, imprisoned and used as slave labor, but nothing about her abduction makes sense. When she's rescued by the Grih, she realizes there'...

  • Dark Minds

    Class 5 - 3

    The mind is the most powerful weapon of all . . . Imogen Peters knows she's a pawn. She's been abducted from Earth, held prisoner, and abducted again. So when she gets a chance at freedom, she takes it with both hands, not realizing that ...

  • Sky Raiders

    Sky Raiders - 1

    When the people of Barit first saw the silver glint of sky craft, they felt awe. Then awe turned to fear. And they found a name for the mysterious newcomers. Sky raiders. Garek's one year of duty as a guard walking the walls of Garamundo was extended...

  • Calling the Change

    Sky Raiders - 2

    He rescued her despite impossible odds -- Garek has rescued Taya and the rest of his village from the sky raiders, but their return home doesn't bring easier times. The sky raiders aren't simply going to go away -- they still need the shadow ore they...

  • Interference & Insurgency

    Verdant String - 0

    The Verdant String SeriesThe seven planets of the Verdant String, the green, fecund sources of life spanning five solar systems, comprise the Verdant String Coalition. This is the setting for a new science fiction romance...

  • Shadow Warrior

    Sky Raiders - 3

    Taya and Garek have survived the worst of what the sky raiders and their own fellow Illians have thrown at them. But now, they’ll have to deal with both their enemies working together. As three of the Illian states close in on what they see as the ...

  • Breakaway

    Verdant String - 1

    Sofie lives in the shadow of Felicitos--the tethered way station built to funnel Garmen's mineral wealth to the top of the atmosphere, where it's loaded onto space ships. Because Garmen is a breakaway planet, not part of the Verdant String Coalition,...



  • Breakeven

    Verdant String - 2

    Dee had been fighting one war, only to find herself caught up in another . . .

    When circumstances leave Dee stranded on the Breakaway planet of Lassa, she has to choose--take the easy way out, or stand and fight an enemy much like the one s...

  • Trailblazer

    Verdant String - 3

    He's on a mission . . .

    She's running for her life . . .

    And if they get off-planet alive, she'll have to trust he won't reveal her darkest secret.

    Tally Riva is not what she seems, and even she's not happy about it. Infected, in...

  • Dark Matters

    Class 5 - 4

    The new instalment in the award-winning Class 5 series. DARK MATTERS . . . taking matters into her own hands A time bomb, waiting to go off . . . Lucy Harris is on the run, not sure where she can turn to for help, or if help is even available. ...

  • High Flyer

    Verdant String - 4

    Flying the head-of-planet around isn't a job for the faint of heart. Especially not on Faldine, the planet in the Verdant String whose magnetic fields actively fight against technology, bringing down the ships of the unwary or the incompetent.Hana th...

  • Warlords, Witches and Wolves

    Warlord, Witch, or Wolf: what's your poison? Whatever your fantasy, dive into 11 original stories from bestselling and new Australian authors for a limited time only.  Featuring rousing action, sizzling or sweet romance, and journ...

  • Dark Ambitions

    Class 5 - 5

  • The Turncoat King

    The Rising Wave - 2

    A thirst for revenge . . . Ava is committed to vengeance against the man responsible for the death of her parents. The same man, the Queen's Herald, kept her prisoner for two years, until she escaped with Luc, a warlord bent on vengeance just as ...

  • The Rising Wave

    The Rising Wave - 1

    A princess intent on escape . . . Ava has everything ready for her last chance at escape from her years’ long imprisonment. She knows if she doesn't succeed this time, she will die. When an injured warlord is thrown into her cell with her, ups...

  • Wave Rider

    About WAVE RIDER: Book 5 in the Verdant String SeriesIsolated . . . Verdant String scientist, Anja Farucci, is frightened. Her calls for help from her remote coastal research station have been going unanswered and strange things are happening with th...

  • The Threadbare Queen

    The Rising Wave - 2

    A conqueror's victory is never assured . . .The Rising Wave may have taken control of Kassia, but hot on the heels of their victory, Luc receives word from one of his spies that the Jatan, emboldened by the Kassian army's withdrawal, have crossed the...



  • Dark Class

    Class 5 - 5

    Waking up alone . . . Ellie Masters comes out of a coma to find herself the only inhabitant of an eerily empty moon station. She's not on Earth any more, she's not even in the right solar system. So when someone reaches out to her, tells her ...

  • Peace Maker

    Fliss knows all about her ancestors, the Travelers, who were forced to land on Fjern thousands of years ago, but when it comes to the Gyr-the enhanced warriors who protect the people of Fjern from the monsters that inhabit the planet-she's in the dar...

  • Fate's Arrow

    A dark force at workAva and Luc are asked to head north to Skäddar, a move necessary to save the alliance they have created with the mountainous country. Something terrible is killing Skäddar villagers and leaving messages behind with their...

  • Enthraller

    The planet Aponi sits at the outer edge of the Verdant String.For Wren Thorakis, working as an Aponian Special Forces artifacts consultant, it means interesting assignments and unusual discoveries. Being captured and held for ransom by a shadowy cult...

  • Ticket Out

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    • Buy Buy

    It's the summer of 1963 and Gabriella Farnsworth is a newly-minted London traffic warden. She's used to temper tantrums, swearing, and threats, but finding a dead body is an entirely new low.She isn't interested in getting more involved than she alre...

Award-Winning Books by Michelle Diener

Dark Horse
2016 RWA PRISM Award -- Futuristic
Sky Raiders
2017 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Futuristic Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michelle Diener has published 34 books.

Michelle Diener does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Enthraller, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Michelle Diener, In a Treacherous Court, was published in August 2011.

Yes. Michelle Diener has 7 series.
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