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Michelle Michiko Sagara (born May 5, 1963) is a Canadian author of fantasy literature, active since the early 1990s. She has published as Michelle Sagara, as Michelle West (using her husband's surname) and as Michelle Sagara West. Sagara has received two nominations for the John W. Campbell Award.She lives in Toronto and is employed part-time at Bakka-Phoenix, a local bookstore. Biography Sagara is the eldest child of Japanese immigrants. As a child, Sagara loved reading Nancy Drew mysteries as well as the works of Enid Blyton and J. R. R. Tolkien. She studied physics, then English, at the University of Toronto before dropping out to pursue writing. After she married in 1990, she began publishing under Michelle West. Her debut book, Into the Dark Lands was published in 1991. She has said, in a 2008 interview: "I submitted the first novel to Del Rey books in 1987. It was rejected, but with a phone call, and in the end I revised the manuscript and sent it back. The revision was passed on to Lester del Rey, who was alive at the time. He rejected it with a four-page single space letter [that] had all the trademark curmudgeonliness for which he was famed. But buried in that four-page letter was a very definite 'This flashback of 94 pages needs to be its own damn book, and it should be book one.' So... I wrote that novel, and I submitted that novel, and that's the novel they bought." Bibliography Novels The Sundered (as Michelle Sagara/Michelle Sagara West) A Tolkienesque tale of love, betrayal, and redemption. Previously out of print, the series was reissued by BenBella Books under the name Michelle Sagara West. Into the Dark Lands, 1991 Children of the Blood, 1992 Lady of Mercy, 1993 Chains of Darkness, Chains of Light, 1994The Sacred Hunt (as Michelle West, DAW Books) The Kingdom of Breodanir is facing a threat unlike any seen for centuries. An orphan boy and his adopted brother struggle against the ties that bind them together (and to their land) as they complete an impossible journey to save the world—at the risk of their own destruction. These are the first books set in the Essalieyan universe to be published. Hunter's Oath (October 1995) Hunter's Death (June 1996)The Sun Sword (as Michelle West, DAW Books) Sixteen years after the events of The Sacred Hunt, the Empire of Essalieyan and the Dominion of Annagar are at war due to machinations of the Kialli. The resulting struggle for power will define the lives of those who would bring an end to the Kialli threat. Events laid out in The Sacred Hunt are referenced, but are not necessary to follow the story. The House War series intersects The Sun Sword series in the Essalieyan universe. Michelle Sagara published a synopsis of The Sun Sword series to give necessary background to readers of The House War. The Broken Crown (July 1997) The Uncrowned King (September 1998) The Shining Court (August 1999) Sea of Sorrows (May 2001) The Riven Shield (July 2003) The Sun Sword (January 2004)The House War (as Michelle West, DAW Books) Set in the Essalieyan universe, The House War chronicles the story of Jewel and her rise in House Terafin. The first three novels return to the origin of Jewel and the discovery of her den. They also revisit some of the narrative from Hunter's Death, though told from different (and complementary) character perspectives. The Hidden City: A Novel of the House War, Book 1 (March 2008) City of Night: A Novel of the House War, Book 2 (February 2010) House Name: A Novel of the House War, Book 3 (January 2011)The concluding volumes, beginning with Skirmish, take place after events of The Sun Sword. Skirmish: A Novel of the House War, Book 4 (January 2012) Battle: A Novel of the House War, Book 5 (December 2012) Oracle: A Novel of the House War, Book 6 (May 2015) Firstborn: A Novel of the House War, Book 7 (Feb 2019) War: A Novel of the House War, Book 8 (June 2019)The Burning Crown (as Michelle West, self-published) Set in the Essalieyan universe, The Burning Crown is the final arc in the overarching series. Hunter's Redoubt (November 2023) The Wild Road (forthcoming, 2025/2026) Chronicles of Elantra (as Michelle Sagara, Luna Books) Kaylin is a young woman with a complicated history. Although taking place in a fantastical universe, this series has a strong tone of urban fantasy and a single character perspective. The books tend to be more procedural than the author's other novels, but with an underlying, driving plot. Cast in Shadow (August 2005) Cast in Courtlight (July 2006) Cast in Secret (August 2007) Cast in Fury (October 2008) Cast in Silence (August 2009) Cast in Chaos (August 2010) Cast in Ruin (October 2011) Cast in Peril (September 2012) Cast in Sorrow (October 2013) Cast in Flame (July 2014) Cast in Honor (November 2015) Cast in Flight (October 2016) Cast in Deception (January 2018) Cast in Oblivion (January 2019) Cast in Wisdom (January 2020) Cast in Conflict (June 2021) Cast in Eternity (November 2022) Shards of Glass (November 2023) Cast in Atonement (Forthcoming, August 2024)Cast in Moonlight is a novella that describes Kaylin's introduction to the Hawks of Elantra. It was first published in Harvest Moon, a short story collection released by Luna Books in 2010, and later became available as a stand-alone work.The Chronicles of Elantra have also been made available as audio books. The Wolves of Elantra (as Michelle Sagara, Mira Books) Multiple races carefully navigate the City of Elantra under the Dragon Emperor's wing. His Imperial Wolves are executioners, the smallest group to serve in the Halls of Law. The populace calls them assassins. This series is the backstory of the character Severn Handred introduced in Sagara's Chronicles of Elantra series. The Emperor's Wolves (October 2020) Sword and Shadow (February 2022) Queen of the Dead (as Michelle Sagara, DAW Books) Emma Hall is a high school student whose first (and only) boyfriend died in the summer in a car accident She spends far too much time in the cemetery at Nathan's grave and begins to see things she's never seen, and to hear things that no one else hears. Distinctly more "contemporary" urban fantasy than her other series. Silence (May 2012) Touch (January 2014) Grave (February 2017) Short stories "For Love of God" (1993) (in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Warriors) "What She Won't Remember" (1994) (in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Outlaws) "The Sword in the Stone" (1997) (in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Tyrants) "Dust" (2000) (in How I Survived My Summer Vacation, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer anthology) Speaking with Angels (as Michelle West) - a collection of short stories (2003)Other short stories by Michelle Sagara West have appeared in magazines and anthologies under a variety of surnames.The author has decided to release many, if not all, of her short stories as e-books, as her schedule permits. Additionally, the six stories specifically related to the .... Discover the Michelle Sagara popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Michelle Sagara books.

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  • The Black Ospreys synopsis, comments

    The Black Ospreys

    Michelle West

    The Black Ospreys were a wartime unit, created in the heart of the Dominion of Annagar at the behest of one of the Empire’s three Commanders. They did what the rest of the army cou...

  • Gifted synopsis, comments

    Gifted

    Michelle Sagara

    A short story of 5k words. The last of the Genies has lived for longer than he can remember, hiding from humanity to preserve his life; the third wish is always death to his kind. ...

  • Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 2 synopsis, comments

    Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 2

    Michelle Sagara

    CHRONICLES OF ELANTRA, VOLUME 2New York Times bestselling author Michelle Sagara sweeps readers away to the fantastical city of Elantra, where magic and adventure ensure that the l...

  • Chaos Born synopsis, comments

    Chaos Born

    Rebekah Turner

    A fresh and exciting debut novel introducing the Chronicles of the Applecross.Lora Blackgoat, smuggler and mercenary, has been laying low after a job gone bad made her a laughing s...

  • War synopsis, comments

    War

    Michelle West

    The eighth and final book in the epic fantasy House War series closes this chapter in a beloved world of magic and political intrigue, where new threats are stirring.When the Sleep...

  • Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 1 synopsis, comments

    Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 1

    Michelle Sagara

    New York Times bestselling author Michelle Sagara sweeps readers away to the fantastical city of Elantra, where magic and adventure ensure that the life of Private Kaylin Neya is n...

  • Touch synopsis, comments

    Touch

    Michelle Sagara

    Nathan died in the summer before his final year in high school, leaving behind a mother who was devoted to him and a girlfriend he loved. His mother and his girlfriend, Emma, are s...

  • When a Child Cries synopsis, comments

    When a Child Cries

    Michelle Sagara

    A short story of 6k words. Originally published in Phantoms of the Night, edited by Richard Gilliam & Martin H. Greenberg. A lone man enters a church to confess: he has murdere...

  • Winter synopsis, comments

    Winter

    Michelle Sagara

    Originally published in Deals with the Devil, ed. Mike Resnick, Martin H. Greenberg and Loren D. Estheman. Short story of 6k words. Wealth, fame, powerthese are the things out of w...

  • Shadow of a Change synopsis, comments

    Shadow of a Change

    Michelle Sagara

    A short story of 5k words. April Stevens works, day in and day out, in an office, part of the secretarial pool. There is nothing remarkable about her life; it is pristine, organize...

  • Choice synopsis, comments

    Choice

    Michelle Sagara

    A short story of 9.5k words. Set in the expansive universe of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar, this is about a young woman who works in an inn. She’s yearned and waited much of her life...

  • Birthnight synopsis, comments

    Birthnight

    Michelle Sagara

    Short story of 6k words On the night that Christ was born, he received many visitors, and among those, unchronicled, the vast host of the legendary creatures who still roamed the w...

  • Shards of Glass synopsis, comments

    Shards of Glass

    Michelle Sagara

    "This magical thrillride is a treat." Publishers Weekly on Cast in Wisdom The Academia, once an elite proving ground for the rulers of the world, has been frozen for centuries. Now...

  • Four Attempts at a Letter synopsis, comments

    Four Attempts at a Letter

    Michelle Sagara

    Originally published in Mike Resnick’s By Any Other Fame. 3k words. An alternate history, near the dawn of Israel, just after word of an assassination has arrived. Golda Meier must...

  • Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3 synopsis, comments

    Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3

    Michelle Sagara

    CHRONICLES OF ELANTRA, VOLUME 3New York Times bestselling author Michelle Sagara sweeps readers away to the fantastical city of Elantra, where magic and adventure ensure that the l...

  • Grave synopsis, comments

    Grave

    Michelle Sagara

    Grave is the concluding novel in the haunting Queen of the Dead paranormal trilogy.Emma and her friends have survived the Necromancers sent to the city to kill them. They...

  • Silence synopsis, comments

    Silence

    Michelle Sagara

    The haunting beginning to Michelle Sagara's young adult paranormal trilogy, Queen of the Dead.It began in the graveyard… Ever since her boyfriend Nathan had died in a tragic accide...

  • The Law of Man synopsis, comments

    The Law of Man

    Michelle West

    A short story of 9.5k words, originally published in Elf Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff An elderly woman walking the old ways comes to the Faerie circ...

  • Cast in Eternity synopsis, comments

    Cast in Eternity

    Michelle Sagara

    Dead men tell no tales When Corporal Kaylin Neya is assigned front desk dutya task hated by every Hawkthe only thing she can look forward to besides an endless stream of complaints...

  • Echoes synopsis, comments

    Echoes

    Michelle West

    Kallandras is a Master Bard, often sent by the Bardmaster of Senniel College into war zones because he always survives. Set during the trek through the Sea of Sorrows, this is the...

  • Oracle synopsis, comments

    Oracle

    Michelle West

    In this epic fantasy series for fans of George R. R. Martin and Robin Hobb, Jewel Markess must contend with deadly court politics, and visions of looming magical threats. Beneath t...

  • Huntbrother synopsis, comments

    Huntbrother

    Michelle West

    An old story: Girl who must marry for duty falls in love with boy who cannot fulfill that duty. The boy goes away to war, and war takes him; he never returns. But this history is s...

  • Hunger synopsis, comments

    Hunger

    Michelle Sagara

    A short story of 4k words When he first saw the starving foreign child, he was five years old; the next time he saw her, he was sixand she was a ghost. A ghost who came at the star...

  • The Memory of Stone synopsis, comments

    The Memory of Stone

    Michelle West

    Novella of 21k words. The Guild of Makers has long been the most powerful guild in the Empire. Gilafas ADelios, the man who rules it, is therefore one of the most powerful men in t...

  • For the Love of God synopsis, comments

    For the Love of God

    Michelle Sagara

    A short story of 4.5k words A young Henry. A young Thomas of London. One, by politics, determination, and birth, the King, and one, a commoner, and outsider at Court. We know how t...

  • The Weapon synopsis, comments

    The Weapon

    Michelle West

    A novella of 13k words. Emily Dontal is the godborn daughter of The Motherone of the only godborn children allowed to live in the Barony of Breton. One dark night, she prays to her...

  • The Riven Shield synopsis, comments

    The Riven Shield

    Michelle West

    The fifth novel of the acclaimed Sun Sword series returns to a wartorn world of noble houses divided and demon lords unleashed...Valedan kai di’Leonne, last survivor of the ruling ...

  • The Hidden Grove synopsis, comments

    The Hidden Grove

    Michelle Sagara

    A short story of 5k words, originally published in Witch Fantastic, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg. A young office worker overlooks a standing grove of weeping will...

  • Warlord synopsis, comments

    Warlord

    Michelle West

    Novelet of 12k words. Avandar Gallais is a domicis, and he has served Jewel ATerafin since she was sixteen. Long before he was a servant, he was known as The Warlord. He built and ...

  • The Sacred Hunt Duology synopsis, comments

    The Sacred Hunt Duology

    Michelle West

    For the first time in one volume, the two novels that began the epic tale of the Essalieyanese empire.Hunter's OathWhen the covenant was made with the Hunter God, all who dwelt in ...

  • Flight synopsis, comments

    Flight

    Michelle West

    A short story of a 7k words, original published in Return of the Dinosaurs, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg. A fossila bonearrives in Peter’s mail. He understands wh...

  • Firstborn synopsis, comments

    Firstborn

    Michelle West

    The seventh book in the epic fantasy House War series returns to a beloved world of magic and political intrigue, where new threats are stirring.Jewel ATerafin has never wanted to ...

  • Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 4 synopsis, comments

    Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 4

    Michelle Sagara

    CHRONICLES OF ELANTRA, VOLUME 4New York Times bestselling author Michelle Sagara sweeps readers away to the fantastical city of Elantra, where magic and adventure ensure that the l...

  • Turn of the Card synopsis, comments

    Turn of the Card

    Michelle West

    A short story of 10k words, originally published in Tarot Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Lawrence Schimel.  Shelagh was a mother, living in a small home, on the ...

  • The Queen of the Dead synopsis, comments

    The Queen of the Dead

    Michelle Sagara

    Now available in omnibus format, the Queen of the Dead trilogy tells the gripping tale of a teenage girl who discovers her powers of necromancy after the death of her boyfriend.It ...

  • Ghostwood synopsis, comments

    Ghostwood

    Michelle Sagara

    Originally published in Enchanted Forests, ed. Katharine Kerr and Martin H. Greenberg. A short story of 9k words A young man is visiting his sister at her cottagein the middle of a...