J Kathleen Cheney: 25 books

SHORT STORY The HMS Fortitude falls in battle, but Lieutenant Davies' trials are just beginning. He doesn't know who he's fighting, where the ship is going, or what price he'll have to pay to keep his ship... Originally published in the Shimmer Magazine Pirate Issue, November 2007.

In the Novels of the Golden City, J. Kathleen Cheney created a “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly) realm where magic, history, and intrigue combine. Now, she presents a new world ruled by psychic talents and fatal magic... Shironne Anjir's status as a sensitive is both a gift and a curse....

SHORT STORY For Lieutenant Grey, after the loss of a leg, the Great War was over... leaving him fighting another war within. The Tin Noses Shop gave him purpose, but it wasn't home. What he needed was a little hope, and perhaps a little magic.

Bertrand Everslee has been sent to Paris to extract his younger brother from the clutches of a dubious woman, but when he meets her, he learns that she's not what his family expected. Something frightening has come to Paris, embodied in Anne DuBourg...

After the Great War, Alejandro Ferreira wandered across Europe, unable even to remember his name, until one night in Lisboa, a young woman recognizes him. She brings him home to his family--one he can't recall, but very much wants to keep.  His seer's gift has been as much of a trial as a...

Genoveva Jardim's father was a monster—a defrocked priest who used his healer's gift to murder instead. Determined to make amends for the deaths her father brought to the Golden City, she turned her back on her life among the aristocracy. She's chosen to work for the Special Police, learning how...

Imogen Hawkes is running out of time. To keep the bank from foreclosing on her farm, her horse must win the Special Stakes. But things keep going wrong, and it's soon clear someone is determined to stop her. As race day draws closer, Imogen finds unexpected sources of help...including the new stallion...

SHORT STORY Rhianyes has made the mistake of falling in love with a man who cannot forget her checkered past--literally. Every time he touches her skin, her memories flood into his mind, reminding him what she was before she met him. Can he love her despite the constant reminders left by her touch?

For the last year, Ellis Dantreon has worked to make a place for herself among the first class of cadets at the War College of Amiestrin. It's been a struggle, but she feels they've begun to accept her. But a plot that would have put Ellis' very life in danger unravels, and it seems that the Separatists...

Magical beings have been banned from the Golden City for decades, though many live there in secret. Now humans and nonhumans alike are in danger as evil stalks the streets, growing more powerful with every kill….   It’s been two weeks since Oriana Paredes was banished from the Golden City. Police...

For two years, Oriana Paredes has been a spy among the social elite of the Golden City, reporting back to her people, the sereia, sea folk banned from the city’s shores.... When her employer and only confidante decides to elope, Oriana agrees to accompany her to Paris. But before they can...

Rose has lived on the mountain as long as she can remember, but Grandmother Bear has a mission for her that will take her across the valley into unknown territory. What she finds there may change more than one life...

When Ellis Dantreon's father ordered her to become a soldier, she became the only female at the war college. Now she's graduated and has taken her place guarding the king. But the country Seers are still predicting a terrible possibility—that she might end up marrying the Duke of Perisen, Anton...

Ellis Dantreon is barely fifteen when she learns that her father--the king of Jenear--has decreed that she's to be trained as a soldier. Thrust in among the others at the newly reopened War College of Amiestrin, Ellis must earn the other cadets’ respect and trust. Not all of them are pleased at...