Holly Lisle: 13 books

* Write characters who are fascinating and believable. * Give your characters compelling needs that resonate with readers. * Use the seven critical areas of character development to prevent "cardboard characters" and address areas of your characters' lives you've never considered before. *...

**Your mother frames you for murder? ** Flee... Change your name... Build a new life far, far away. At least that's what you do until the survival of humanity depends on you, and the problem takes you back to the last place in the universe you want to go.  Home. Cady...

Winner of the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel A young shepherdess, drawn home from the fields by the haunted certainty that something is wrong, discovers her world utterly destroyed, and in the process unleashes depths of magic within herself not even she suspected.  Dragged...

When slavery is virtue, who will fight for vice? When Suzee Delight, famous Cheegoth courtesan, murders the five most powerful Pact Worlds' Administrators during a private summit, the owner of The Longview Death Circus struggles against conspiracy to win the bidding for her execution. Meanwhile,...

The Source of the World's Magic Has Gone Mad... To Faia Rissedote’s dismay, the use of magic in Arhel has gotten out of control, and even people who could never use magic before are suddenly building castles in the air. Unneeded, unwanted, Faia discovers facts about herself she never suspected. But...

When freedom is silenced, who speaks for it? Ex-PHTF slave WE-39R (This Criminal, from Episode 1), renamed Jex, is part of a team the Longview’s Owner has tasked with finding the meaning behind Bashtyk Nokyd’s enigmatic final diagram. Drawing the most undesirable assignment, Jex and an...

When the truth comes out, who is left standing? In this final episode of the series. the Longview reveals its secrets, Herog finds the path to protecting the City of Furies, and Melie discovers the truth about the ship she captains and the owner she serves. MEET THE LONGVIEW - An Ancient...

Sometimes the Mysteries of the Past Are Better Left Alone... A ragtag band of outcast children lead Faia Rissedote, Medwind Song, and a group of wizard researchers in search of Arhel's Lost City of the First Folk, long forgotten and thought to mythical. But before they can even hope to discover...

When the trusted are monsters... one monster becomes a hero. In the vast reaches of Settled Space, everything is legal, or at least obtainable privately... for a price. Science has created near immortality, and the wealthy and powerful are buying it to make themselves gods. But these...

Mistakes were made. Hindsight is 20/20, but when bloodsuckers attacking your spaceship's hull, that's not helpful. You can tell yourself, "Next time, accept the lap dance, and turn down the "easy" job. Cady did it the other way round, thinking that rescuing her client's...

The Cop Has a Secret... Getting through the interview is bad enough, but when Detective Jess Brubaker discovers that her temporary assignment to her dream job includes being saddled with a psychic, she almost walks out the door. But she has reasons for staying, reasons she’s keeping...

When paramedic Dia and detective Brig meet at the scene of a horrific accident on I-95 in steamy South Florida, neither is in the market for a relationship.  Dia's fighting to save lives while still haunted by the violent, tragic death of her husband. Brig's looking for the killer who's setting...

He swore he'd never let her go... When Phoebe Rain's monstrous ex-husband came after her with a shotgun, he did it in the school where she was teaching—and though she stopped him, she didn't do it fast enough. Tragedy ensued. Now, a thousand miles away and still in the coma she put...