Frederick Kirchhoff: 6 books

The Tritargon, Book Two of The Emperor's Library, follows the separate lives of the work’s four main characters. Entering the enemy's camp to spread false information, Jon finds himself carried back to Kar and drawn deeply into the inner circle of The Chosen. Zoë, too, undertakes a second journey,...

The Flight from Kar opens The Emperor’s Library series with seventeen-year-old Jon’s trial and expulsion from the only home he has known, the Valley of Women. In the larger world beyond the Valley, he finds a love that will change his destiny and unexpected allies among old and new friends, including...

Sixth and final volume in “The Emperor’s Library,” “The Guardians” is told by three of the main characters introduced in “The Chronophage”—Nan, Rake, and Lim—and takes place immediately after the events of that novel. It returns the reader to settings familiar from earlier books...

The sixteen-year-old Lim accepts a dare and crawls through a drainage tunnel to the beach, where he for the first time observes the life of the Masters who, with the Army, rule Gort. Threatened by a guard, he is rescued by Laurel, the niece of Master Jules, and thus begins a relationship across class...

The Game, Book Three of The Emperor’s Library, takes place twenty years after the events recounted in The Tritargon. When the story opens, Jon is living quietly in Kar, having withdrawn from the heroic stage he once occupied. With Dan, his lover and business partner, he deals in relics of the Empire,...

After the events of The Game, Jon and Sem traveled to Drom and brought back inventions that made Tarnak a wealthy city. Sem is dead, but, thanks to the tritargons, both Jon and Klei remain alive, although very old. Jon has become a recluse, refusing to see even his own servants, while Klei now lives...