Sharon Shinn

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1995
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

An Elemental Blessings Novel

1 - Troubled Waters (Oct-2010)
2 - Royal Airs (Nov-2013)
3 - Jeweled Fire (Nov-2015)
4 - Unquiet Land (Nov-2016)

A Novel of the Twelve Houses

1 - Mystic and Rider (Mar-2005)
2 - The Thirteenth House (Mar-2006)
3 - Dark Moon Defender (Oct-2006)
4 - Reader and Raelynx (Nov-2007)
5 - Fortune and Fate (Nov-2008)

Safe Keepers

1 - The Safe-Keeper's Secret (May-2004)
2 - The Truth-Teller's Tale (Aug-2005)
3 - Dream-Maker's Magic (May-2006)

Samaria

1 - Archangel (May-1996)
2 - Jovah's Angel (May-1997)
3 - The Alleluia Files (Apr-1998)
4 - Angelica (Mar-2003)
5 - Angel-Seeker (Mar-2004)
6 - Nocturne (Oct-2011)

A Shifting Circle Novel

1 - The Shape of Desire (Apr-2012)
2 - Still Life with Shapeshifter (Nov-2012)
3 - The Turning Season (Nov-2014)

Uncommon Echoes

1 - Echo in Onyx (Aug-2019)
2 - Echo in Emerald (Aug-2019)
3 - Echo in Amethyst (Aug-2019)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • The Shape-Changer's Wife

    Once there was a young man who wanted to be a wizard... Aubrey was a student, gifted in the fine art of wizardry. But the more knowledge he acquired, the more he wanted to learn. So he traveled to a faraway land in search of the greatest master...

  • Archangel

    Samaria - 1

    And so it came to pass .. . Through science, faith and force of will, the Harmonics carved out for themselves a society that they conceived of as perfect. Diverse peoples held together by respect for each other and the prospect of swift punishment...

  • Jovah's Angel

    Samaria - 2

    In Archangel, Sharon Shinn introduced readers to a beautiful, distant future where the fate of a world rested in the voice of an angel. Her novel garnered widespread praise and added to her reputation as a daring, award-winning new voice. Now Shin...

  • The Alleluia Files

    Samaria - 3

    It has been one hundred years since the Archangel Alleluia and the mortal Caleb discovered the truth about the god of Samaria. Legend says they left a record of that truth, though no document has ever been found. In time, an underground cult arose, s...

  • Wrapt in Crystal

    On a planet of barren beauty, two religions--as different as sun and shadow, joy and grief--are bound together by death... A serial killer is stalking the priestesses of both sects--and Interfed Agent Cowen Drake must immerse himself in an unfamil...

  • Heart of Gold

    SCIENTIST BY NATURE... he used his rational powers of observation to examine more closely the privileges he was born to enjoy--and the people he was raised to despise. REBEL AT HEART... she followed her fiercest passions in the struggle to overthr...

  • Summers at Castle Auburn

    She was a girl... ...with a talent for witchcraft and a taste for adventure. The illegitimate child of a royal lord, she longed for a man who could never be hers. And she lived for her summers at Castle Auburn. She is a woman... ...who has gr...

  • Jenna Starborn

    There is only one Jenna Starborn... A baby harvested from the gen-tanks on the planet Baldus. A girl scorned by the only family she has ever known. A woman bold enough to seek her own way, strong enough to stay true to herself, and brave eno...

  • Angelica

    Samaria - 4

    National bestselling and award-winning author Sharon Shinn makes her long-awaited journey back to the planet of Samaria, With a new tale of an earlier time... Two hundred years ago, in order to keep the peace in Samaria, the god Jovah created a le...



  • Angel-Seeker

    Samaria - 5

    The award-winning author returns to Samaria in this richly romantic tale that begins where Archangel left off. In that time, the women who craved the attention of angels were known as angel-seekers, a term used with awe by some--and scorn by others....

  • The Safe-Keeper's Secret

    Safe Keepers - 1

    "The most promising and original writer of fantasy to come along since Robin McKinley." -- Peter S. Beagle, best-selling author of The Last UnicormDamiana is safe-keeper in the small village of Tambleham. Neighbors and strangers alike come one by one...

  • Fallen Angel

    in To Weave a Web of Magic

    Four stories of fantasy and exquisite romance... A romantic fantasy anthology with four novellas from renowned authors of romance and fantasy... USA Today best-selling author Claire Delacroix gives readers a revisionist version of the medieval...

  • The Sorcerer's Assassin

    in Powers of Detection

    Investigations of a Different Kind Conjured from the minds of today's most innovative authors, Powers of Detection features a dozen tales of mystery and fantasy, set in worlds where sleuths may wield wands instead of firearms--and criminals may be...

  • Mystic and Rider

    A Novel of the Twelve Houses - 1

    Gillengaria seethes with unrest. In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to a dangerous level, though King Baryn has ordered that such mystics are to be tolerated. It is whispered that he issued the decree because his new wife us...

  • The Truth-Teller's Tale

    Safe Keepers - 2

    Innkeeper's daughters Adele and Eleda are "mirror twins"--identical twins whose looks are reflections of each other's--and their special talents are like mirrors, too. Adele is a Safe-Keeper, entrusted with hearing and never revealing others' secrets...

  • When Winter Comes

    in The Queen in Winter

    Now, these brilliantly gifted authors come together with four tales of adventure that are as enchanting as they are exciting...A gifted seer receives a vision of a man whom she was not meant to marry, but was meant to love...A man and an elven woman ...

  • The Thirteenth House

    A Novel of the Twelve Houses - 2

    National bestselling and award-winning author Sharon Shinn continues her epic chronicle of the Twelve Houses, as a beautiful shapeshifter finds intrigue and danger in the safest of havens... After joining an unlikely band of soldiers and sorcerers...

  • Dream-Maker's Magic

    Safe Keepers - 3

    Kellen’s mother has always insisted that her only child was born male, not female -- so Kellen has been raised as a boy. At school, she meets Gryffin, whose mind is as strong as his legs are damaged, and the two become friends and allies. A few yea...

  • Dark Moon Defender

    A Novel of the Twelve Houses - 3

    National bestselling and award-winning author Sharon Shinn continues her entrancing saga of the Twelve Houses with a story of hidden magics and forbidden love... The King's Rider Justin has been dispatched to watch any suspicious activity at the c...



  • General Winston's Daughter

    When seventeen-year-old heiress Averie Winston travels with her guardian to faraway Chiarrin, she looks forward to a reunion with her father, who is a commanding general, seeing her handsome fiance Morgan once more, and exploring the strange new coun...

  • Reader and Raelynx

    A Novel of the Twelve Houses - 4

    The final confrontation is here: the fourth book in the stunning fantasy series. In a world of secret sorceries and forbidden desires, the mystic Cammon must put aside his personal feelings for Princess Amalie and help her find a suitor, until he dis...

  • Bargain with the Wind

    in Elemental Magic

    From wizards to weathermen, many know the powers of the four elements-natural forces that can direct the fates, change destiny, and unite lovers in the most unexpected ways. Now, those magical elements-air, fire, water, and earth-come together in per...

  • Fortune and Fate

    A Novel of the Twelve Houses - 5

    Plagued by guilt for failing to protect her king, Rider Wren has fled the city of Gilengaria and given herself the penance of a life of wandering, helping strangers in need. But when chance brings her to the great estate known as Fortune, Wren will f...

  • The House of Seven Spirits

    in Unusual Suspects

    All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King...

  • Gateway

    As a Chinese adoptee in St. Louis, teenage Daiyu often feels out of place. When an elderly Asian jewelry seller at a street fair shows her a black jade ring and tells her that black jade translates to Daiyu, she buys it as a talisman of her heritage....

  • Quatrain

    National bestselling author Sharon Shinn presents four "enchanting" novellas, each set in one of her distinctive worlds.... FLIGHT To be chosen as the lover of an angel is the highest honor in Samaria, but Salome knows the hidden dangers of such a l...

  • The Wrong Bridegroom

    in Never After

    THE BONDS OF LOVE...THE BONDS OF MATRIMONY... THE BONDS BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE... SOME BONDS ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN. HERE, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, ARE FOUR STORIES BASED ON THE CLASSIC IDEA OF THE "FAERIE TALE WEDDING" -- EXCEPT THIS TIME, THE DA...

  • Troubled Waters

    An Elemental Blessings Novel - 1

    The author of the Twelve Hours series welcomes readers to a new fantasy world, where the elements rule. Zoe Ardelay receives astonishing and unwelcome news: she has been chosen to become the king's fifth wife. Forced to go to the royal city, she m...

  • Nocturne

    in Crimes by Moonlight
    Samaria - 6

    Tales of alpha angels...from four alpha authors. They soar through the night, unearthly creatures of legends and lore. Four masters of urban fantasy and paranormal romance explore the rapture of the heavens above, and the darkness below in four a...



  • The Shape of Desire

    A Shifting Circle Novel - 1

    For fifteen years Maria Devane has been desperately, passionately in love with Dante Romano. But despite loving him with all of her heart and soul, Maria knows that Dante can never give all of himself back-at least not all the time. Every month, D...

  • Still Life with Shapeshifter

    A Shifting Circle Novel - 2

    National bestselling author Sharon Shinn presents a passionate, heart-wrenching story of secrets and the lengths we’ll go to, to protect those we love... Melanie Landon and her half-sister share a unique bond. For her entire life, Melanie has h...

  • Royal Airs

    An Elemental Blessings Novel - 2

    Master storyteller Sharon Shinn created the thrilling and enchanting world of Welce in her acclaimed novel "Troubled Waters." Return with her to that elemental universe in this tale of secrecy, romance, and a battle for power... Josetta is a princ...

  • The Turning Season

    A Shifting Circle Novel - 3

    In national bestselling author Sharon Shinn’s latest Shifting Circle novel, a woman must choose between hiding her nature -- and risking her heart... For Karadel, being a shape-shifter has always been a reality she couldn’t escape. Even though...

  • Jeweled Fire

    An Elemental Blessings Novel - 3

    The national bestselling author of Troubled Waters and Royal Airs returns to her Elemental Blessings series with the story of a young princess who will need more than blessings to survive in a kingdom where everyone will do whatever it takes to claim...

  • Unquiet Land

    An Elemental Blessings Novel - 4

    In the latest novel in Sharon Shinn’s Elemental Blessings series, a woman is confronted with the past she left behind -- and an uncertain future... Leah Frothen has returned home to rebuild the life she’s avoided for years. But she can scarce...

  • Shattered Warrior

    It is eight years after Colleen Cavanaugh's home world was invaded by the Derichets, a tyrannical alien race bent on exploiting the planet's mineral resources.

    Most of her family died in the war, and she now lives alone in the city. Aside f...

  • Echo in Amethyst

    Uncommon Echoes - 3

    An Echo and an Original

    Lady Elyssa despises her echoes -- the creatures who look just like her and copy her every move. But it’s only the echoes that mark her as a high noble, someone elite enough to marry the king’s youngest son, Jordan....

  • Echo in Emerald

    Uncommon Echoes - 2

    A Misfit and a Mystery

    In the royal city of Camarria, a street urchin named Chessie lives by her wits, always attended by her two faithful friends, Red and Scar. What no one realizes is that the “friends” are really echoes, creatures who l...

  • Echo in Onyx

    Uncommon Echoes - 1

    A Murder and a Masquerade

    Brianna loves her new job as maid to Lady Marguerite. Like many high nobles, Marguerite is attended by echoes, silent creatures who look exactly like her and move in perfect synchronicity. News soon comes that Marguer...



  • Shadows of the Past

    Description: A writer who would rather live with ghosts than face her troubled marriage. A woman who receives calls over her cell phone from people who have recently died. A man who suddenly finds strange objects appearing in his life-and just as sud...

  • The Shuddering City

    ​In the city of Corcannon, everyone has a secret.Madeleine is planning her wedding to Tivol, but she's really in love with Reese.Jayla has become the guardian of a child named Aussen, but she knows that Aussen possesses a mysterious and dangero...

  • Whispering Wood

    The long-awaited new book in the Elemental Blessings series! Valentina Serlast has reluctantly traveled to the royal city to witness her brother Darien be crowned the king of Welce. A hunti woman with an affinity for the forest, Val is much more...

Award-Winning Books by Sharon Shinn

Angel-Seeker
2004 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Romantic Novel outside the Romance Genre
2004 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Science Fiction Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sharon Shinn has published 42 books.

Sharon Shinn does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Whispering Wood, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Sharon Shinn, The Shape-Changer's Wife, was published in October 1995.

Yes. Sharon Shinn has 6 series.
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