Books written by Kate Elliott

Chaos and Cosmos Sampler, Part 1: Chaotic new sci-fi and fantasy from Tor and Tor.com Publishing

Includes free sample ebook chapters from authors Kit Rocha, Mary Robinette Kowal, Alaya Dawn Johnson, S. A. Hunt, Kate Elliott, and Ryan Van Loan.
Framing First Contact: From Catlin to Russell

Weir also contacted West Point professor emeritus Charles Leslie, residing in London, for period dress and referenced his own collection of artifacts to lend a sense of historical accuracy to his final composition. A letter from Leslie, ...
Cold Steel

Footsteps inthe hall brought me around with my sword half drawn. Brennan entered the room. “Magister, next time we'll bring you in through the stables so you don't putout all the fires. Canyou be ready to leave within thehour?” “No.
Cold Magic

“I'm Brennan.” As we walked down the main passage, he explained the young troll Caith's complicated kinship relationship to the ... Caith pattered away down the hall. I heard the door open. After a pause, Caith called out. “Brennan!
Cold Fire

“I'm Brennan.” As we walked down the main passage, he explained the young troll Caith's complicated kinship relationship to the solicitor Chartji. ... We all spilled intothe hallway, me with myhandonmy cane. If the others were armed, ...
Unconquerable Sun

First in a galactic-scale, gender-swapped space opera trilogy inspired by the life of Alexander the Great.
Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms

Featuring new tales by today's masters of SF&F: Tobias S. Buckell James L. Cambias Becky Chambers Kate Elliott C.C. Finlay Jeffrey Ford Theodora Goss Darcie Little Badger Jonathan Maberry Seanan McGuire An Owomoyela Dexter Palmer Cadwell ...
The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran, An Earthly Crown, His Conquering Sword, and The Law of Becoming

The braid fell. But Charles caught it before it could touch the floor. David saw how heavy it must be by the way it weighted down Charles's arm. “Seal the braid of fealty.” At that instant David understood. The braid of silver was the ...
Jaran

A braid of silver fire hung in the air. David saw the shift as gravity grabbed hold of its substance. The air stilled. The braid fell. But Charles caught it before it could touch the floor. David saw how heavy it must be by the way it ...
An Earthly Crown

A braid of silver fire hung in the air. David saw the shift as gravity grabbed hold of its substance. The air stilled. The braid fell. But Charles caught it before it could touch the floor. David saw how heavy it must be by the way it ...
The Burning Stone

He grips one copperskinned shoulder of the corpse and rolls it over to reveal the back of the neck: The braid is shorn free. He touches the braid now coiled around his right arm. After he cut it off Second Son, he bound it to his own ...
Shadow Gate: Book Two of Crossroads

Looking startled, the man dropped the girl's unfinished braid. "You're veiled to my sight. Yet you wear no cloak." "Eh?" Shai took a step back, into the prodding point of a spear. He eased forward off the pain. The man cocked his head, ...
Child of Flame

Somehow, between the hall and this chamber, her braid had come undone to reveal waistlength hair, still crinkled from its recent confinement in the braid. “You haven't changed,” she said as she crossed to sit on the edge of the bed, ...
The Gathering Storm

He found himself distracted by that long snake of a braid falling over her shoulder and across one breast, all the way down past her waist. He remembered the way the tip of that goldenbrown braid swayed along her backside when she ...
Prince of Dogs

Master Helvidius hobbled forward, Helen dragging on his robes. “My lord, if I may speak—” But the young lord went on, heedless. “Nay, Mistress, I won't let the Eika drive me away! Are there no old wisefolk here, who can braid a few ...
Spirit Gate: Book One of Crossroads

One of the painted men had an outlander's pale hair caught back in a trident braid, but none of the folk who'd come up to greet her had the look of foreigners. These were good, handsome Hundred folk, dark skin, black hair, brown eyes.
Poisoned Blade

As soon as we get over the wall and onto the streets, we hide behind the pillars of a portico so Menoë can strip from the towering architecture of her hair all the wire rods, pins, extra braids, and ribbons that have turned it into a ...
Throne of Eldraine: The Wildered Quest

... coats covered with green tabards, they all wore their hair long: the leader's black hair in box braids, the other man's straw-blond hair flowing and loose, and the woman's chestnut-colored hair fixed back in a single thick braid.
The Golden Key

In Tira Virte, art is prized for its beauty and as a binding legal record of everything from marriages to treaties.
The Golden Key

Fantasy set in a world where painter-magicians transcribe all official documents in oil on canvas - magical creations which give the ruling dynasty their power.