Michelle West

Biography

I write novels for DAW books. There are 11 books in total, over three different, but connected series:

THE SACRED HUNT:
Hunter’s Oath
Hunter’s Death

THE SUN SWORD:
Broken Crown
Uncrowned King
Shining Court
Sea of Sorrows
Riven Shield
Sun Sword

THE HOUSE WAR:
Hidden City
City of Night
House Name
Skirmish
Battle
Oracle
Firstborn
War

Over the years, I’ve written novellas tied into the universe in which these novels are set, and all but one are out of print. So I’m here, in part, to at least make the stories available as epubs from here on :)

I *also* write novels as Michelle Sagara, for Mira & for DAW:

Where to find Michelle West online

Books

Flight
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,320. Language: English. Published: August 31, 2020 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
A short story of a 7k words, original published in Return of the Dinosaurs, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg. A bone arrives in the mail. News of his estranged father's death follows. Peter has a chance to discover why his father deserted he and his mother. But there's a risk he might follow in his father's steps, and make the same bitter choice.
The Law of Man
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 10,670. Language: English. Published: August 13, 2020 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
A short story of 9.5k words An elderly woman walking the old ways comes to the Faerie circles to die—so that the child she carries, the last of her kin, might live. The Fey take the newborn infant into the court of their Queen, but the child is mortal. The lands are changing; the old ways are dying. The time is coming when the Fey must reckon with the Law of Man.
Turn of the Card
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 10,410. Language: English. Published: July 29, 2020 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
A short story of 10k words, originally published in Tarot Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Lawrence Schimel. Shelagh was a mother, living with a husband she adored. Now, she lives alone. Her husband remains convalescent in a care facility, wordless and unable to walk. All of the promise of life, of future, is gone, and she wants n
Choice
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 9,920. Language: English. Published: July 11, 2020 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
A short story of 9.5k words. Set in the expansive universe of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar. Kelsey works in an inn. She’s yearned and waited much of her life for a companion to walk past the gates, choose her, and carry her into a heroic, useful life. This doesn’t happen. It never has. But she does meet a companion and her herald, Carris—the latter injured, with a mission
The Memory of Stone
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 21,770. Language: English. Published: August 5, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Fantasy » General
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Novella of 21k words. Gilafas ADelios, the man who rules the Guild of Makers, is one of the most powerful men in the Empire. Cessaly is its newest apprentice, a wild, fey girl with a gift for creation. On the eve of the failure of the two great artifacts given the Kings centuries past, the fate of the Empire rests on the shoulders of Gilafas and a girl who can hear the voices of ancient stone.
Warlord
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 12,650. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Fantasy » General
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
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 ruled empires--but there are reasons he chose a life of service. Those reasons are the core of this story, which takes place before and around the events of the novel House Name.
The Weapon
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 14,070. Language: English. Published: July 21, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Fantasy » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
A novella of 13k words. Emily Dontal is the godborn daughter of The Mother—one of the only godborn children allowed to survive in the Barony of Breton. She prays to the goddess for a child. But the child she is given in answer to her prayers is not godborn; she comes not from the goddess but from the barony's brutal rules.
The Black Ospreys
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 16,890. Language: English. Published: July 17, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Fantasy » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
The Black Ospreys were a war-time 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 couldn’t—or wouldn’t—do and their colors became the only ones feared by the Southerners. Framed by the events of the final battle in The Sun Sword, this is the story of the formation of the Black Ospreys.
Huntbrother
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 22,250. Language: English. Published: July 10, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
(5.00 from 3 reviews)
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 story is slightly different. The boy was given leave to return, in the casement of his god’s flesh, and the girl, leave to spend one night with him. The night was glorious. The morning was terrible. And after? This story.
Echoes
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 11,990. Language: English. Published: June 30, 2011 by Rosdan Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Kallandras is a Master Bard, often sent by the Bardmaster into war zones - because he always survives. Set during the trek through the Sea of Sorrows, this is the story of Kallandras’ youth, in the labyrinths of the Brotherhood of Assassins.

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