Order of the Lily, the Complete Series Book Reviews

Order of the Lily, the Complete Series by Cait Ashwood Book Summary

This is the boxed set of books 1-4 in the beloved Order of the Lily series by Cait Ashwood. If sassy female leads, snarky assassins, and dark, forbidding places are your thing, you’ll love traipsing through time with the Order of the Lily.

Book one, The Seekers:

A woman from the past. Hunters from the future. A planet in the balance.

Life without her husband is less-than-fulfilling for Audrey. When the hitchhiker she helped the day before saves her from an attack in the park, she quickly learns his interest in her is far from academic. Hound wants her for the power coursing through her veins, a power long extinct in his own time: the ability to heal the planet.

Finding herself a millennium in the future, life here is barely hanging on. Fields once maintained by the Order have trouble producing even a small crop, and the legendary women have been missing for the past sixty years. Wrestling with the appearance of new powers would be hard enough, but the more Audrey does, the more obvious it becomes that she’s not the average healer. With the shadows drawing tighter around her, a single misstep could find Audrey sharing the fate of the very Order she came to replace.

Book Two: Order of the Lily

Survivor. Mother. Leader.

Audrey struggles to adapt to life after surviving the attack on the Institute. Living on the run with her twins, she manages to stay ahead of their pursuers--barely. Fate comes calling when Audrey is asked to interrogate a prisoner of war, and the woman reveals the Order Audrey has been fighting to restore was never truly gone in the first place. They've spent the last sixty years under the heel of a man named Zaddicus, withering away in captivity.

The Seekers' numbers are down and planning a rescue mission is daunting at best, but Audrey’s determined to let nothing distract her. Not her babies. Not their father, Ace. And especially not Hound, the tainted Seeker she marked with her intimately protective magic. Before it’s all said and done, Audrey will have to face the hard truth that sometimes you must choose between your duty, your family, and yourself.

Book Three: Children of the Lily

What dangers lurk beneath the surface?

An uneasy peace has brought about a new era. Sixteen years after their rescue, the half-breeds of the Order have proved themselves to the world and earned their place in society. Not everyone is at peace within the Order’s walls. The children of the Lillies are bound by birth to their destiny—carrying on the bloodline to ensure the future of humanity. While most accept this, the burden doesn’t sit well with everyone.

Unhappy children are the least of the Order’s problems. Zaddicus, the mastermind behind the Order’s disappearance all those years ago, is still at large. His new plans threaten to blow open everything the Surfacers think they know about the world, and this time, he has children of his own.

Book Four: The Watchers

The river feeding the farmlands is tainted, destroying all it touches. Brana and the Order’s considerable abilities are having little effect on the poisoned waters. Zeche’s rag-tag band of Watchers struggle to keep the peace as dwindling water supplies throw the populace into a panic. 

As all-out war with the Dwellers looms, the Surfacers are fighting for their world with everything they have. Brana and the half-breeds search for a cure for the river, while Stryker and the Watchers develop a hail-Mary plan that may not actually work. Hound starts a resistance in Paxi to undermine Zaddicus’ control from within. They’ve been fighting for decades, yet all they’ve managed to do is lose ground.

Zaddicus has out-played them, and this time, maybe for good. The villain has gotten bolder, sending his heir to the surface to take down the resistance—and her brother—once and for all.

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