The Complete Ruarnon Trilogy (ebooks)

Book #1: Manipulator's War

Nonbinary Ruarnon is determined to prove their worth as heir to Tarlah’s perfect King. Things get complicated when their parents are abducted and they’re left ruling Tarlah in the shadow of impending war, with absent allies.

Neighbouring King Kyura has no intention of invading Tarlah. But his warmongering subjects long for the glory of expansion. When Kyura rejects their calls for war, assassins threaten his family and mutiny threatens his reign.

Stranded Aussie Linh is desperate to return to her family in Australia. But the only transport to her gateway home is Ruarnon’s absent allies, sailing to Tarlah’s aid.

Monsters at sea threaten everyone. Linh’s monster observations could save Kyura’s people, and clear her homeward path. If she risks her life aiding Ruarnon. But to secure peace with Kyura’s unruly subjects, Ruarnon’s ultimate test as heir risks betrayal and Tarlah’s bloody defeat.

Trilogy Content Warnings: can be viewed on the author's website: Ruarnon Trilogy Page.

Book #2: Secrets of the Sorcery War

With the damars vanquished, Heir Ruarnon thought they'd secured Umarinaris' eastern seas. But Nartzeer's murderous creatures are back, their handlers are more worrisome and both bar Ruarnon's path to allies needed to recover their abducted parents.

The handlers are Linh's chance to confirm her gateway home (to Australia) —and that sorcerers able (and hopefully willing) to operate it— lie in Umarinaris' dangerous West.

Pursuing allies and answers, Ruarnon and Linh clash with evolving, ever more dangerous damars. They learn magic is still wielded on Umarinaris, some of the Sorcery War's deadliest weapons survived and Nartzeer has plans for them.

Friendship and teamwork become crucial to their success and place them in ever greater danger.

Book #3: War in Sorcery's Shadow

Myth says the Guardians ended the Sorcery War by draining sorcerers of their powers (or killing them). Then the Guardians vanished —and so did magic. The myths are wrong. Sorcerer King Nartz is recruiting sorcerers who lived on in hiding, in a world that hates and fears their power.

Terrorised by Nartz's pre-emptive strike, Ruarnon's Guardian-descent-claiming allies set sail to annihilate Nartz. Ruarnon hopes to free their family from Nartz's clutches first, but Ruarnon's uncle won't abandon the army he commands to slavery.

Meanwhile Linh is using her role as Ruarnon's envoy to potential allies to track down sorcerers to open her magic gateway home. She learns that Nartz is rallying a sorcery army, while his neighbours mobilise against him, and that sorcerers Nartz's ideology undermines, the dreaded God Kings, are stirring.

With sorcerers on all fronts marching towards mutually assured destruction, Linh and Ruarnon race to reach Nartz with the truth of magical ancestry and allegiance, hoping to unite people who are not so different, before they utterly destroy each other.