Rigel Ailur: 33 books

The dilemma: abandon the past to save the future? Leaders plead with their tribe to flee rather than fight a tsunami of settlers surging toward their lands.

A powerful magical talisman brings its owner good luck—at great cost. Not the type of challenge jungle guide Amina Patel and her friend (and force of nature) Victoria normally face. Can they eliminate the curse and save the current owner?

Volcanoes, tsunami, earthquakes, wildfires. Mimion threatens to tear itself apart. The entire world will die unless the disparate races that live there work together to stave off disaster.

Slaves, Ebony and Etienne work hard to protect their two daughters. Nobles force them to work under lethal guard in the hazardous mines and reap all the benefits. Then Etienne makes a discovery that might save all of them.

A tug of war between past and future, between adhering to tradition or moving forward with progress. Can the people of Mimion incorporate technology into their culture without ruining the wilderness of their world? And who is willing to kill to stop them?

Huge fish, not just intelligent but telepathic—and a commodity to slavers who abduct the fish's children. The abductions threaten to derail the whole world's attempt to embrace its future instead of wallowing in the past.

People on Mimion cherish their aversion to technology. Only the tiniest minority lives in space. Can one scientist convince the ruler of the orbiting city of how much more progress they can make by having a university above their world as well?

One newly-departed spirit of a gigantic cat. Two souls still very much alive, yet completely lost and adrift. The feline ghost wants desperately to help them both if only they'll let him.

Fleetfoot: my four-legged feline friend, traveling companion and sometimes method of transport. At two thousand pounds, he normally protects me (his human) without the slightest difficulty. Until a pack of ravenous canines attempt to eat us for dinner. Injured in the attack, now Fleetfoot needs the help.

War and famine never touched the young princess—until the avaricious, tyranical regent of the neighboring queendom murders the princess's parents. Now queen of a besieged realm, she must rise to the challenge of protecting it or else see it fall into ruin.

I sneak. I spy. I use pretty much any method to gather information. I avoid fights—not like freelance warriors—women, unlike me, bulging with muscles. And I avoid falling in love—most especially not with a prince, the grandson of the queen.

When a two-tailed cat appeared in the neighborhood, only Alex paid any attention to her. Then she had kittens, and Alex was determined to get the bunch of them off the street and to safety.

Alex hides. From her family for over thirty thousand years. From an overly ambitious reporter determined to discover her life history. From the man who loves her. Can she let go of the past and quit hiding without losing herself?

The Patels: a family of globetrotting troubleshooters over several generations. Amina Patel inherited far more than just her name from her great-grandmother. Relying only on each other, Amina, her husband and their twins, race to prevent members of the ruthless Crimson Talon from unleashing the Demon Lord on the world.