In the years that came before the ancient days, a brilliant inventor fabricated the lodestones—powerful artifacts that focus magical force.
While men and women walk the earth but a short while, the lodestones persist through centuries, even millennia. When they fall into the hands of mortals, history changes.
Follow the lodestones down through the ages as adventure follows adventure, and ordinary folk rise to meet extraordinary challenges.
The series proper includes just four tales—Skies of Navarys, Resonant Bronze, Rainbow”s Lodestone, and Star-drake.
But the lodestones, powerful change-makers, could not be contained so closely. They inspired another series-within-the-series: the Gael & Keir Adventures. The first book, The Tally Master, takes place just 10 years before Resonant Bronze. The second book, Sovereign Night, follows The Tally Master (still well before Resonant Bronze).
Then one of the lodestones inserted itself into yet another tale: A Talisman Arcane. Talisman currently stands alone, but I have three more stories planned, so it is really the start of another series, The Prince’s Djinn.
I think these three series—Lodestone Tales, the Gael & Keir Adventures, and The Prince’s Djinn—are best approached as separate entities, each containing Easter eggs for the others.
But they do have a definite chronology, if you chose to mix and match as you read.
Just as readers continue to argue about the best order for reading C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia—the order they were written? or their chronology within the history of Narnia?—my readers will likely disagree about the order in which the full panoply of Lodestone Tales might best be read. 😀
Their chronology within my North-lands is this:
Skies of Navarys
The Tally Master
Sovereign Night
Resonant Bronze
Rainbow’s Lodestone
Star-drake
A Talisman Arcane
The order in which they were written:
Rainbow’s Lodestone
Star-drake
Resonant Bronze
Skies of Navarys
The Tally Master
A Talisman Arcane
Sovereign Night
My recommendation? Read the Gael & Keir Adventures first. Next, A Talisman Arcane. And then circle back to the Lodestone Tales to learn how it all began.
I have quite a few more books with lodestones planned! I’ll email you when they release, if you’ve signed up for my newsletter. 😀
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