Michelle West

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1995
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Burning Crown

1 - Hunter's Redoubt (Nov-2023)
2 - The Wild Road (Jun-2025)

The House Wars

1 - The Hidden City (Mar-2008)
2 - City of Night (Feb-2010)
3 - House Name (Jan-2011)
4 - Skirmish (Jan-2012)
5 - Battle (Jan-2013)
6 - Oracle (May-2015)
7 - Firstborn (Feb-2019)
8 - War (Jun-2019)

Hunters

1 - Hunter's Oath (Oct-1995)
2 - Hunter's Death (Jun-1996)

The Sun Sword

1 - The Broken Crown (Jul-1997)
2 - The Uncrowned King (Sep-1998)
3 - The Shining Court (Aug-1999)
4 - Sea of Sorrows (May-2001)
5 - Riven Shield (Jul-2003)
6 - The Sun Sword (Jan-2004)

Books in Order: 34 titles

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  • The Wild Road

    The Burning Crown - 2

    The second novel in Michelle West's The Burning Crown. THE WILDERNESS IS WAKING Stephen has never left the kingdom of his birth. But the possible cure for his huntbrother's shattered memories cannot be found in Breodanir. It might be found ...

  • Hunter's Redoubt

    The Burning Crown - 1

    THE SHINING COURT IS RISING The Lord of the Hells has damaged the barriers between the ancient wilderness and the world of man, and that wilderness has begun to seep into mortal lands. His war to rule the entirety of the mortal world has begun.&...

  • Flight

    A short story of a 7k words, original published in Return of the Dinosaurs, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg.A fossil—a bone—arrives in Peter’s mail. He understands what this means: The father from whom he’s been...

  • The Law of Man

    A short story of 9.5k words, originally published in Elf Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Larry SegriffAn elderly woman walking the old ways comes to the Faerie circles to die—so that the child she carries, the last of her kin, might ...

  • Turn of the Card

    A short story of 10k words, originally published in Tarot Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Lawrence Schimel.Shelagh was a mother, living in a small home, on the edge of the rest of her life with a husband she adored.Now, she lives alone. ...

  • War

    The House Wars - 8

    The eighth and final book in the epic fantasy House War series closes this chapter in a beloved world of magic and political intrigue, where new threats are stirring.When the Sleepers wake.   Once, that phrase meant: never. The Sleepers were a m...

  • Firstborn

    The House Wars - 7

    The seventh book in the epic fantasy House War series returns to a beloved world of magic and political intrigue, where new threats are stirring. Jewel ATerafin has never wanted to be a power. What she truly wants, she built in the streets of the ...

  • Oracle

    The House Wars - 6

    Beneath the streets of Averalaan, capital city of the Essalieyan Empire, lie the three Princes of the firstborn, doomed to sleep until the end of days. When gods walked the world, they feared the Sleepers. They fear them even now. If the Sleepers wak...

  • Battle

    The House Wars - 5

    The weeks since Jewel Markess ATerafin has been acclaimed ruler of her House have not been peaceful; four assassination attempts have been made on her life, and one of the most important members of her House Council has been forced to retire, leaving...



  • Memory of Stone and Other Stories

    In the Hunter Kingdom of the Breodani, the golden-eyed son of Bredan is born to the Lord and Lady of Maubreche. In their lands, at the heart of the Maubreche gardens, a living tapestry, carved across the Maubreche hedge-maze, is about to reach its en...

  • Enter the Nother Realm

    Join Sebastian as his imagination takes him on an incredible journey to a place where things aren't quite what they appear to be. Loaded with colorful characters and tons of tongue twisting rhyming action, this book is sure to be a bedtime favorite....

  • Skirmish

    The House Wars - 4

    At long last, Jewel is preparing to announce her candidacy to become the next Terafin and claim the House Seat. But it is a decision that has her targeted by demons who will stop at nothing to destroy Jewel and her allies as the House War begins......

  • The Memory of Stone

    Novella of 21k words.The Guild of Makers has long been the most powerful guild in the Empire. Gilafas ADelios, the man who rules it, is therefore one of the most powerful men in the land. But he has never been confident in his ability as an Artisan, ...

  • Warlord

    Novelet of 12k words.Avandar Gallais is a domicis, and he has served Jewel ATerafin since she was sixteen. Long before he was a servant, he was known as The Warlord. He built and ruled empires--but there are reasons he chose a life of service. Those ...

  • The Black Ospreys

    The Black Ospreys were a war-time unit, created in the heart of the Dominion of Annagar at the behest of one of the Empire’s three Commanders. They did what the rest of the army couldn’t -- or wouldn’t -- do and their colors became the only col...

  • Echoes

    Kallandras is a Master Bard trained in the famous Senniel College. He is often sent by the Bardmaster into war zones - because he always survives. There is a reason for this; the training he received in the Bardic College was not the only training to...

  • Huntbrother

    An old story: Girl who must marry for duty falls in love with boy who cannot fulfill that duty. The boy goes away to war, and war takes him; he never returns.But this history is slightly different. The boy was given leave to return, in the casement o...

  • House Name

    The House Wars - 3

    The House War series centers on the most popular character in The Sun Sword series: a young woman named Jewel, who survives both the everyday perils of being an orphan in the slums of the city of Averalaan, and the demonic dangers of the Undercity, a...

  • City of Night

    The House Wars - 2

    The House War is the story of the battle for control of the most powerful of the ruling Houses in the Essalieyan Empire -- House Terafin. But it is also the tale of Jewel Markess. Rescued from her precarious existence as an orphan in the slums of the...



  • The Hidden City

    The House Wars - 1

    Orphaned and left to fend for herself in the slums of Averalaan, Jewel Markess-Jay to her friends-meets an unlikely savior in Rath, a man who prowls the ruins of the undercity. Nursing Jay back to health is an unusual act for a man who renounced his ...

  • The Weapon

    in In the Shadow of Evil

    TIM WAGGONER * JEAN RABE * RUSSELL DAVIS ISAAC SZPINDEL * RICK HAUTALA JULIE E. CZERNEDA * JANE LINDSKOLD BROOKS PECK * MICKEY ZUCKER REICHERT JODY LYNN NYE * GREGORY BENFORD TANYA HUFF * MICHELLE WEST * FIONA PATTON The struggle between goo...

  • Dime Store Rings

    in The Magic Shop

    SUSAN SIZEMORE * P. N. ELROD JODY LYNN NYE * INDIA EDGHILL LAURA RESNICK * ELIZABETH GILLIGAN MICHELLE WEST * BRADLEY H. SINOR JOSEPHA SHERMAN * BILL McCAY KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * MEL ODOM GARY A. BRAUNBECK * VON JOCKS ROSEMARY EDGHILL Eve...

  • The Sun Sword

    The Sun Sword - 6

    THE SWORD MUST BE DRAWN.... The armies of Alesso di'Marente and Valedan kai di'Leonne are massing in the Terrean of Averda for the battle that will at last determine the rule of the Dominion. The Sun Sword is about to be delivered by Serra Diora t...

  • Riven Shield

    The Sun Sword - 5

    DANCE OF WAR.... Valedan kai di'Leonne, last survivor of the ruling clan of the Dominion, has forged an alliance with his people's ancestral enemies, the Northern armies of the Essalieyan Empire. Though young and untried, he has also won the supp...

  • Speaking With Angels

    Within these twelve stories are heroes, both real and imagined, characters so real it seems they're sitting beside you, and themes and emotions so resonant that they speak to every fantasy reader. With a new introduction by Tanya Huff, and story note...

  • Legacy

    in Familiars

    KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * JODY LYNN NYE LAURA RESNICK * P. N. ELROD * VON JOCKS JEAN RABE * ANDRE NORTON * BILL MCcAY LAURA ANNE GILMAN * DIANE A. S. STUCKART GARY A. BRAUNBECK * SUSAN SIZEMORE JOSEPHA SHERMAN * JOHN HEIFERS MICHELLE WEST The...

  • Sea of Sorrows

    The Sun Sword - 4

    THE CALL TO ARMS! In the Essalieyan Empire, the armies are gathering, ready to champion the cause of Valedan kai di'Leonne, last survivor of the ruling clan of the Dominion. But Valedan himself must take a different road to war, sealing what Domin...

  • Deja vu

    in Single White Vampire Seeks Same

    The personals ads are certainly a prime source for people's private fantasies, some of which end in happiness, while others turn into total disasters. But what if there was something "special" about either the placer of the ad or the one who answered...

  • The Shining Court

    The Sun Sword - 3

    IN THE DOMINION -- those allied with the demons of the Shining Court feared the bargain they'd made. For to the kialli betrayal was a way of life, and every action was a means to gain greater power. And as the Festival of the Moon approached, the de...



  • The Uncrowned King

    The Sun Sword - 2

    THE KING'S CHALLENGE -- Failure to earn the title of King's Champion would not deprive Valedan of either his Dominion or Essalieyan allies, but winning would announce to the world that he was no callow boy, no mere pawn in the games of power. And ...

  • The Broken Crown

    The Sun Sword - 1

    TOR LEONNE -- the heart of the Dominion of Annagar, where the games of state are about to become a matter of life or death--and where those who seek to seize the crown will be forced to league with a treacherously cunning ally....Tor Leonne, ancest...

  • Hunter's Death

    Hunters - 2

    AVERALAAN -- that most ancient of cities, had long been the home of magics both dark and bright. For the site where this most civilized city of mortals now stood had once been a dread place indeed, a citadel of evil ruled by the Lord of the Hells. O...

  • Hunter's Oath

    Hunters - 1

    HUNT MAGIC When the covenant was made with the Hunter God, all who dwelt in Bridanir swore to abide. The hunter Lords - and the hunting dogs to which their minds ere specially attuned - would seek out game in the god's woods to provide food for th...

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    A short story of 9.5k words.Set in the expansive universe of Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar, this is about a young woman who works in an inn. She's yearned and waited much of her life for a companion to walk past the gates, choose her, and carry her into...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michelle West has published 34 books.

Michelle West does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wild Road, was published in June 2025.

The first book by Michelle West, Hunter's Oath, was published in October 1995.

Yes. Michelle West has 4 series.
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