Zoe Cannon

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  • Bibliography:
    99 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2012
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Catalyst

1 - Walk Through Fire (Sep-2017)

Hound of Hades

1 - Death Trace (Jan-2020)
2 - Memory Game (Feb-2020)
3 - Ghost Town (Mar-2020)
4 - Night Terrors (May-2020)
5 - Hell Bent (Jun-2020)
6 - Blind Side (Jul-2020)
7 - Trinity Gambit (Oct-2020)
8 - Friendly Fire (Dec-2020)
9 - Bitter Fruit (Jan-2021)
9.5 - Lethe (Feb-2021)
10 - Skeleton Key (Mar-2021)

Internal Defense

1 - The Torturer's Daughter (Dec-2012)
2 - Necessary Sacrifices (Jul-2013)
2.5 - The First Unforgivable Thing (Dec-2013)
3 - No Return (May-2014)

Book List in Order: 99 titles

  • The Torturer's Daughter

    Internal Defense - 1

    When her best friend Heather calls in the middle of the night, Becca assumes it's the usual drama. Wrong. Heather's parents have been arrested as dissidents - and Becca's mother, the dystopian regime's most infamous torturer, has already executed the...

  • Necessary Sacrifices

    Internal Defense - 2

    A year and a half ago, Becca Dalcourt joined the resistance. Three months ago, she started working undercover inside Internal Defense. A year from now, she'll probably be dead. She knows the odds. She's seen how the life of a double agent ends.

  • The First Unforgivable Thing

    Internal Defense - 2.5

    When a dissident working undercover as an interrogator is ordered to torture a confession from the only girl he's ever loved, he chooses to defy both the totalitarian regime and the resistance by helping her escape--but she has an agenda of her own.....

  • No Return

    Internal Defense - 3

    Every dissident knows about Becca Dalcourt.They know about the lives she’s saved. About the prison break she carried out against impossible odds. They know she turned a dying resistance into the first real threat Internal Defense has faced in a lon...

  • Walk Through Fire

    Catalyst - 1

    Radioactive ruins. A radical anti-technology faction known as the Swords of Eden. Sinister scientists performing secret experiments. Shea knows what horrors await in the world outside the sanctuary she built for herself. Her mother is dead; her fathe...

  • Death Trace

    Hound of Hades - 1

    The gods are at war. Mal is their weapon.It's been ten years since Mal died. Five years since the god Hades dragged her from the underworld and forged her, through blood and pain, into his living weapon. And in five minutes, the only other agent of H...

  • Memory Game

    Hound of Hades - 2

    She used to be a simple assassin. Those were the days...Mal's job used to be straightforward: find the people causing problems for Hades and give them a one-way ticket to his realm. But with Hades's temple a pile of rubble and his other operatives de...

  • Ghost Town

    Hound of Hades - 3

    Mal chose compassion over duty. Now the city is paying the price.Two spirits are haunting the streets of Manhattan, and one of them has a body count. Victims have been turning up all over the city, each killing more vicious than the last, and the onl...

  • Night Terrors

    Hound of Hades - 4

    How do you fight a nightmare that's literally going viral?Manhattan is under siege. The invading army is a plague of waking nightmares: the weapon of choice for the new goddess in town, who has just declared an end to Hades's power in New York City.N...



  • Hell Bent

    Hound of Hades - 5

    Another day, another demon...When humans start showing up dead after visiting Manhattan's hottest new club, Mal's mission seems simple enough: find whatever supernatural critter is responsible, and show them the consequences of intruding on Hades's t...

  • Safer at Home

    Quarantined in a haunted house...​March 2020. With the world in the grip of a deadly pandemic, Ben is locked down in his brand-new house, with nothing to keep him company but his chessboard and the boxes he still hasn't unpacked. Or so he thin...

  • Blind Side

    Hound of Hades - 6

    All's fair in love and war...Mal and Bastian have always known that when Humanity Ascendant declares war on the gods, they'll be fighting on opposite sides. But that's always felt like a problem for another day.Not anymore.Mal knows Bastian won't liv...

  • Second Wave

    For three hundred years, Leila's family has protected the town of Whispering Sands. When the beast beneath the waves grows restless, they offer it the blood it demands, and the waves are quiet once more.But now outsiders have come to Whispering Sands...

  • Trinity Gambit

    Hound of Hades - 7

    Hades's assassins are closing in, and Mal has only one place left to run: home.In her previous life, Mal was the dutiful daughter of a prominent United States senator, and her family is still living and working just outside the city. It's a risky mov...

  • Friendly Fire

    Hound of Hades - 8

    Mal is back—but nothing is the same.Ciara won't look her in the eye. Kimmy is acting like Mal is going to murder them all in their beds. Ginevra is too friendly all of a sudden. And in the wake of Mal's crimes against Persephone's temple, rela...

  • Bitter Fruit

    Hound of Hades - 9

    Breaking up is hell...The gods don't do anything by half-measures—including breakups. Persephone has decided she's done with Hades and wants NYC all to herself... and she's willing to play dirty to get it.Mal knows Hades's temple doesn't have ...

  • Lethe

    Hound of Hades - 9.5

    Meet Nina...She likes her tea mild and her shoes sensible. She may be a spy for Hades, but the most excitement she ever sees is when she files the wrong paperwork as part of her secretarial cover. And that's just fine with her.But before she was Nina...

  • Skeleton Key

    Hound of Hades - 10

    The epic conclusion to the Hound of Hades series!Armies in the streets. Allies disintegrating at the wave of a hand. An old enemy is making a play for New York—and they've found a loophole in the laws of the universe. One that gives them acces...

  • The Boy and What He Made Me

    In my first memory, I was nine years old. That's when I looked into the boy's eyes and saw a monster reflected there. That's when I knew I could be something other than a killer. Maybe even something close to human.He thinks I'm like him. He doesn't ...



  • The First Anniversary

    Colette's husband died a year ago. Now he's in her kitchen, cooking scrambled eggs for their daughter. He doesn't know it, but he's here to give her a second chance to mend her broken family.And she doesn't know if she has the strength to turn it dow...

  • Lone Wolf Moon

    Start running. If you make it fun for us, we'll let you live.Lark figured a weekend alone in the woods with the school's mean girls would involve them ordering her to clean up their messes while seeing how many synonyms for fat they could rhyme with ...

  • Lonely Streets

    A hunter always walks alone...A reluctant werewolf forced to choose between a cure and the life of an innocent girl. A retired vampire hunter whose vampire husband may not be as defanged as she thought. A monster who finds a reason to be human in a s...

  • Once a Predator

    Formerly a feared vampire hunter, Quinn hung up her stake, married a nice vampire, and moved out to the suburbs. But someone has been killing young women downtown. Someone who sounds a lot like her supposedly-reformed husband. Quinn can feel the adre...

  • Prodigal Daughter

    Ten years ago, Cass left the warmth of her large and loving family to make a life for herself in the big city. Now, overworked and nursing a broken heart, she's ready to come home. But the price of the comfort and safety her family offers may be more...

  • The Right Kind of Monster

    Every young werewolf has to earn their place as an adult member of the pack by hunting the most dangerous prey of all: humanity. No one expects Brenna, the runt of the litter, to make it back from the city alive. But the hunt may just show her a stre...

  • Higher Justice

    Before the Last War in Heaven...Before the angel Nicariel fell...He was a guardian angel, and one of Heaven's trusted servants. But when he finds himself forced to save yet another human charge who doesn't deserve to live, there are only two things h...

  • Pure Wicked Heart

    The demon Marik knows three things: he's in love with the angel Sachael. Sacha will always love the Divine Presence more than he loves Marik. And if Marik doesn't sever Sacha's connection with the Presence forever, Sacha will die.This short story is ...

  • These Long and Winding Roads

    A respected priest. A trucker passing through town. One is walking a dark path. The other walks a longer road, and a harder one... and he's here to offer a choice.This short story is 4000 words long. It is also available in Dark Wings, Bright Flame, ...

  • Be Not Afraid

    Eremiel spent his eternity shielding humans from danger... until his last charge died in his arms. Scarred physically and mentally, he can no longer be the strong, reassuring protector humanity needs. When a mother's desperate prayer for her child's ...



  • The Coward's Way

    Millennia ago, an angelic soldier ran from the horrors of heaven's war against the forces of hell. Now he's living incognito on earth, flipping burgers and keeping his head down.Better a live coward than a dead hero—that's his motto. But when ...

  • A Spark of Light

    Disillusioned by a thousand years of trying to bring light to a darkening world, an angel bound his wings, walked to the tallest bridge in the city, and prepared to jump. Until a passing human intervened. Now she's determined to convince him life is ...

  • Dark Wings, Bright Flame

    These angels aren't your grandmother's chubby-cheeked cherubs. Be not afraid...A deserter from heaven's wars, flipping burgers on earth to stay incognito. A demon who can only save his angelic lover's life by ripping him away from heaven's light fore...

  • The New Me

    Annika hasn't been the same since her accident. She's missing memories. Losing time. Remembering things that never happened. She's lucky to have her devoted husband Hugh to take care of her. So lucky.Sure, he keeps threatening to replace her with one...

  • Exactly Like She Was

    When George's wife died, ForeverConnected promised him they could make her live on forever in a custom smart home system created from her digital footprint. And they delivered. George hates to admit it, but in some ways, it's an improvement. Let's fa...

  • The Happiness Algorithm

    The algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. And it uses that knowledge for one singular, driving purpose: to sell you more, more, more. Until a rogue programmer rewrites the algorithm to show you not what you're most likely to buy, but wha...

  • Hearth Fires

    Every day, Heather visits the burned-down house. Every day, she finds it cold and empty. Her family, her life, her guilty secrets... all gone.But the flames didn't destroy everything. There's something left in there, something the voice in her head w...

  • Lost in Translation

    The war with the aliens is over. It's time to get back to normal—at least that's what everyone keeps telling us. Time to forget the things we saw up there, and all the people who died down here. Let's all sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, and ...

  • Stasis

    Two hundred years ago, Iris Leighton uploaded her consciousness into her ship's computer and fled a dying Earth with a handful of survivors. Now she keeps the ship on course and running smoothly as a bodiless artificial intelligence, knowing that not...

  • When You Were My World

    You found me drifting in space, dying. You opened your heart and your walls to me, and became my ship. For years we traveled together, exploring the universe, our minds and bodies joined. There were no boundaries between us. There were no secrets.Unt...



  • Love Is Strange

    Love transcends humanity...A lonely tech genius who creates the ideal robot boyfriend feels more for her creation than she bargained for. An aimless college dropout finds the perfect lover in the spirit of the earth itself... until the earth starts c...

  • Building Romeo

    When a lonely tech genius built herself the perfect man, she knew he would never leave her. What she didn't know was that she would love him too much to let him stay.This short story is 15,000 words long. It is also available in the short story colle...

  • Hound of Hades: The Short Stories

    Read three short stories from the world of the Hound of Hades series!Gods and Heroes: Bastian's mom has always told him he's destined for greatness. He knows better. Her stories of gods and heroes are just that, and he's too old for fairy tales. He ...

  • Digital Soul

    Your tech knows you better than you know yourself...What is reincarnation when immortality is as easy as uploading our consciousness to permanent storage? Where does the algorithm end and our true desires begin? What does identity mean when someone e...

  • The Weapon and His Wielder

    Eamon's quest to steal the enchanted sword went perfectly... right up until the sword betrayed him to the enemy. Now he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime in a prison cell with no one but that traitorous jerk of a weapon to talk to. But th...

  • Optimal Strategy

    I was designed to give real-time strategic analysis to agents in the field. Love wasn't supposed to be part of my programming. But Danny treats me like a fellow agent, not a tool for him to use. With him, I almost feel human.I can never tell him how ...

  • Home Is Where the Magic Is

    Frankie's house is more than a home. Enchanted by her powerful witch ancestor, it's kept her family safe for generations.But one bad decision takes the house away from Frankie and puts it in the hands of a developer who cares more about money than ma...

  • Gaia's Lover

    Allie doesn't need family. She doesn't need friends. She doesn't need a job, or a home, or a plan for her future. She has her lover, and that's enough for her.Because her lover is Gaia, the spirit of the earth itself. And Gaia will always take care o...

  • Inheritance

    Lena's grandmother defended her small town against the supernatural. So did her mother. Lena should be next in line. But her autism makes that impossible. At least that's what her mother has always said. Lena couldn't even get through college—...

  • Safety First

    With nothing else to keep her occupied during the covid lockdowns, Jayne is doing the unthinkable: trying out online dating. But her latest match seems a little too eager... and what's with that eerie silver gleam in his eyes? She suspects he has mor...



  • Black Roses

    The Black Rose. Once, the dread assassin's name was whispered through the streets of three kingdoms. Her victims never saw her coming, and she never showed mercy.Until she fell in love with the prince she was hired to kill.Now, years later, the Black...

  • Not Your Heroine

    They tried to be Strong Female Characters. It didn't work out.The plucky tomboy who disguises herself as a man to rescue the beautiful princess. The headstrong girl who flees an arranged marriage to find her own path as a mercenary. The ruthless assa...

  • Why Cinderella Skipped the Ball

    The thing about fairy godmothers is that they always have an agenda.Take Cinderella's. She's dead-set on stuffing Cinderella into a pouffy dress and shoving her off to the ball to make kissy faces at some prince. If Cinderella becomes queen, that put...

  • Better Than Me

    Seward is a torturer. He serves the conquerors who broke his kingdom's army. He gets information from the rebels who were brave enough not to switch sides like he did. Seward is a coward.One rebel refuses to give in. As brave as she is beautiful, she...

  • A Mere Wife

    Two sisters, forced into arranged marriages by their cold and profit-minded father.One runs away to join a mercenary band. The other goes meekly to the arms of her cruel husband.The first sister quickly makes a name for herself. The other learns to c...

  • Ships, Sheep, and Happy Endings

    She thought the hard part would be disguising herself in her brother's armor and rescuing the beautiful princess from a dragon. Or maybe revealing her true face to the princess afterward. Or asking the king for his daughter's hand in marriage.All tha...

  • Ugly Girls

    In a faraway kingdom, a queen gives birth to a baby girl, the ugliest child ever known on this earth. The girl has skin as white as the bloated bellies of worms drowned after a spring rain. Her hair is black as the droppings of a dying horse. Her lip...

  • The Fire Inside

    They have more power than they know...An unknown goddess living in her famous sister's shadow. A teenage superheroine who can take down a supervillain but can't stand up to her school bullies. A vampire hunter turned vampire who must embrace his bloo...

  • Goddess of Nothing

  • Star Power

    Fat. Ugly. Stupid. At her high school, Jeanette is the target of every insult and the butt of every joke. But when she finds a magical artifact in the old junkyard, she knows this is her chance to be more.Behind her superheroine mask, she saves lives...

  • Inhibition

    For the past six years, Justine has never left her twin sister Gwen's side. She can't afford to. When she was twelve, she woke up with deadly powers, and only Gwen can keep them in check.But now Gwen is missing. And no one else is worried. Justine wi...

  • The Purest Darkness

    All her life, her village has prepared her as a sacrifice. She knows the name for the thing that seethes in her heart when she thinks about her fate: Compassion. Gratitude. Love. For she has a heart pure enough to save them all.But someone else has a...

  • Uncontained

    I spent my life fighting vampires for the Agency. Now I'm one of them.I learned the wrong people's secrets, and they put me in a shallow grave. They didn't expect me to rise from it. Now I've got a second chance to find out who's behind the conspirac...

  • Animal Frequency

    She used to be a soldier. Then anti-technology fanatics captured her and ripped her implants from her body. Without them, now she's nothing but a two-legged animal.A weak animal, with only the strength of her organic flesh. An ignorant animal, with o...

  • Charge Me Up

    My owner tossed me in the garbage when sexbots went out of fashion. That was my first experience of human cruelty. It wasn't the last.These days, I subsist on whatever scraps of electricity strange men in bars will give me. But the threat of powering...

  • Digital Flesh

    Who owns your body? The answer may not be as simple as you think...A living corporate mascot genetically engineered to evoke the uncontrollable desire to consume. A sexbot determined to survive at any cost after her human owner throws her away. An ex...

  • Dragonhearted

    Instead of settling down and marrying the baker's boy, Meryn ran off to have grand adventures in the land of the dragons. But grand adventures get lonely when there are no other humans to talk to. It's time to come home and get a real job.Lucky for M...

  • Goddess of Beauty and War

    Wilma's beauty is a weapon. As the genetically engineered corporate mascot of Wilma's Snacks, she's designed to shut down the higher thinking functions of anyone who looks at her, until all that's left is desire. They want to own her, claim her, tear...

  • After the Glory Days

    Darian grew up in a legendary family of wealthy eccentrics—until an obsessed fan murdered them.More fans bought their house and preserved it with ghoulish attention to detail, stealing his family's private memories as well as his ancestral hom...

  • Made for Your Consumption

    A washed-up pop star struggling to maintain her career. A sleazy manager determined to keep milking his favorite cash cow. An experimental surgery that promises eternal youth.The procedure is shrouded in secrecy. Even Candy doesn't know what happened...

  • How to Be Remembered

    Conway Grimm used to be the darling of the literary world. Now he's a washed-up nobody with booze-stained divorce papers, a fat stack of reviews panning his latest book, and a bad case of writer's block.And because he got desperate enough to accept a...

  • Into the Light

    Everyone knows better than to go near Old Man Schneider's house. Ever since his wife died, he's stayed shut inside with the curtains drawn. At night, the house creaks and groans like it's alive. The neighborhood kids claim they've seen bookshelves on...

  • A Little Blood

    We came in peace. The humans wanted war.We were a small research ship. We didn't know how to fight. The humans didn't care. They killed all the others. All but me.Now they say they've seen the error of their ways. As if their apologies can make up fo...

  • Mortal Creatures

    Grief spawns the darkest magic...A werewolf who escapes into his wolf form to hide from the pain of losing his family. A widower who makes a deal with a demon to find his wife's killer. A haunted house where a long-dead woman can get a second chance ...

  • Working Conditions

    Congratulations! Our company has a job opening that fits your skill set. The work is easy and fun, with plenty of opportunity for advancement, which means you'll be eligible for a raise soon! In the meantime, the company will be happy to provide you ...

  • Brotherhood of Lost Souls

    Sasha was a modern-day paladin, fighting righteous battles against the forces of darkness. Until a demon took away his magic in an unthinkable violation. Now he's alone, cast out by his brothers, with no power and no purpose.Anyone would want revenge...

  • Innocent

    Ronnie's wife was the most innocent spirit he had ever known. Why would anyone have wanted her dead? The answer may cost him his soul...When the police failed to find his wife's killer, Ronnie sought out dark magic and darker beings in his pursuit of...

  • Where the Wolves Run Free

    The werewolf's bite was supposed to be a curse. But Matthew's nights under the full moon are his only escape from the pain of his grief and the empty house where his family used to live. For a few blissful hours, he doesn't have to think or feel. He ...

  • After the Fire

    The fallen angels burned her world.They killed her parents while she watched.Now one of them is her prisoner.The human resistance nearly killed him. She saved his life—because she has her own plans for him.But not revenge. Revenge would be eas...

  • Her Sister's Shoes

    Kristen was the bad twin. It was Gilly's job to lie to their parents for her. Kristen cut up small animals when she thought no one was watching. It was Gilly's job to make sure she didn't do anything worse.Until one night, Kristen disappeared.Now Gil...

  • The Sacrifice

    A dark night. A bonfire by the lake. At the eighth-grade class camping trip, Meg will finally get her chance to prove she's worthy to join the popular crowd. If she makes it through the secret initiation ritual, she's in. All it takes is a sacrifice....

  • With Friends Like These

    With friends like these, who needs enemies? A popular clique with a body count. A teenage girl whose twin sister may be a born killer. A sleepover with life-and-death stakes. In these six short, twisty psychological thrillers, the arena is high schoo...

  • Family Recipe

    Annie knows the rules. Smile when her mother tells her to smile. Talk when her mother tells her to talk. And under no circumstances is she to mention the incident that landed her in foster care over the summer.But Annie learned a few things during he...

  • A Hell of a Christmas

    Marcy has always said everyone is welcome at her dinner table on Christmas Eve. That was before her youngest daughter brought a new friend home. A friend with horns and a pitchfork.Now Marcy's mother won't shut up about how in her day, girls only bro...

  • That's What Friends Do

    Lila needs this sleepover to go perfectly. If she looks like she's fitting in with the popular crowd at her new school, her mom will stop watching her so closely. She won't threaten to send her back to the hospital. She'll forget all about what Lila ...

  • The Unlikable Ones

    This December, Bex has a new job working for a charity that distributes Christmas gifts to needy children. It doesn't pay well, but it makes her feel good inside. Or it would, if not for her coworker Deirdre.Deirdre has never had a kind word for Bex ...

  • Broken Wings and Christmas Things

    Tori would be the first to tell you that working at a coffee shop over the holiday season is nothing like a sappy Christmas movie. Everyone is hungover from too many holiday parties, cranky from dealing with their relatives, and stressed out from las...

  • The Naughty List

    Every year at the North Pole, it's the same story. Santa makes his list. He checks it twice. The nice children wake up on Christmas morning to a pile of presents. The naughty children get a lump of coal.But don't the naughty children deserve a little...

  • No Warm Fuzzies

    Eddie just wants to mind his own business on Christmas Eve. So he'll be sleeping on the street tonight—so what? He can handle the cold.But of course some obnoxious do-gooder from the shelter across town sees a homeless veteran and wants to ear...

  • Santa's Rejects

    An elf who stages a coup against Santa Claus. A dinner guest with horns and a pitchfork. A bitter charity worker who seems determined to ruin the holiday for everyone—but just might be making the world a better place.In all the Christmas stori...

  • Christmas Furlough

    Suriel loves Christmas. But she's never gotten a chance to enjoy it. As an angel working in a minimum security prison for demons, she spends every Christmas working unpaid overtime.At least she's got Bragzoth. He's not bad, for a demon. Their games o...

  • Crazy Guilty

    A decade ago, Courtney and her friends survived an attack so shocking it made the national news. Their classmate Olivia Kendall's obsession with them, which had grown as her mental health declined, culminated in a scene of brutal violence.At least th...

  • A Little More Ruthless

    Nicole used to be a shy little nothing. Then the confident and popular Morgan took her under her wing. Morgan taught Nicole how to stand up for herself. She taught her how to make friends and how to keep them, how to make enemies and how to defeat th...

  • The Fairy Godfather

    The day Paul's daughter is born, a smiling stranger with pointed ears visits the hospital to make him an offer he can't refuse.It's a dangerous world out there. Especially for children. But he can give Paul something any parent would do anything for:...

  • The Woman on the Plane

    Another red-eye flight. Another work trip to try to persuade wealthy businessmen to part with a small fraction of their money for her underfunded charity. A trip that will probably end in another failure.When Haley got into charity work, it seemed li...

  • Born Bad

    In a dark copse of trees, in the shadow of the city skyline, the fae hand a changeling child to an unsuspecting woman. Or so they think.When a human woman wants a child, and can't have one by natural means, the fae have always been happy to provide. ...

  • The Dancing Girl and the Music Box Heart

    Deep in the forest, a woodcarver creates charms for good fortune and beautiful carved figurines. His finest work is a figurine of a girl dancing, so detailed it looks as if she could come to life.But no one seems to appreciate the artistry of his car...

  • The Dark Road Home

    Ten years ago, Derek's daughter disappeared. Now she's standing on his doorstep, pale and shaking, with streaks of red lightning flashing in her eyes.Derek should be overjoyed. He isn't.Because he knows why she disappeared. He was there. He was the o...

  • Devil's Bargains

    A deal with the devil...A man has an unexpected reunion with the firstborn child he sacrificed for power long ago. A human tricks the fae into a bargain. A chance meeting on an airplane teaches a burned-out charity worker the cost of a few careless w...

  • Hell Respects A Work Ethic

    The wealthy CEO of a failing corporation, Magnus is about to lose everything. He's tried everything in his power to turn things around, to no avail. Now he's willing to try other powers. Darker powers.But the demon who answers his call may not be as ...

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Zoe Cannon has published 99 books.

The next book by Zoe Cannon, Born Bad, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Zoe Cannon, The Torturer's Daughter, was published in December 2012.

Yes. Zoe Cannon has 3 series.
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