A four-book epic · complete at last

The Halfblood
Chronicles

The elves rule the world. The child they fear was raised by dragons.

The classic epic-fantasy saga by Grand Masters Mercedes Lackey & Andre Norton — revised, illustrated, and complete at last with the finale by Mercedes Lackey & Ben Ohlander.

  • Complete four-book saga — for the first time
  • Two SFWA Grand Masters
  • 15,000+ Goodreads ratings
The four Halfblood Chronicles books stacked, Elvenbane in front, a dragon coiled around them

A sweeping epic fantasy of dragon lore, tyrant courts, and rebellion.

Worth the wait

A saga readers waited a generation to see finished.

For more than thirty years the Halfblood Chronicles stood unfinished — three books and a promised conclusion that never came after Andre Norton's death. Now it is whole. Mercedes Lackey completes the story with Ben Ohlander, in memory of Norton: four books, revised and newly illustrated, beginning to end. Start book one knowing the ending is already written.

Cover of Elvenbane, Book One of the Halfblood Chronicles
Serina, cast into the desert, reaches for a single green sprout in the cracked earth as carrion birds circle overhead

Book One · the hero of the saga

Elvenbane

The elves rule a world where humans are property. The one thing they fear is a child who is not fully human.

For a thousand years the immortal elven lords have bred, collared, and discarded their human slaves at a whim. They fear revolt — but they fear something worse: a halfblood child born with gifts no slave should possess. The elves have a name for such children. Wizards. They hunt them, execute them, erase them — because prophecy whispers that one of them will rise as the Elvenbane.

When Serina Daeth is cast into the desert for carrying her master's child, she dies giving birth beneath a merciless sun. Her daughter should have died with her. Instead the infant is found by Alara, a dragon shaman who carries the strange little creature home to the hidden lairs of the Kin.

“A splendid blend of the talents of two excellent storytellers!”

— Anne McCaffrey

“One of the season’s liveliest and most appealing fantasy epics.”

— Publishers Weekly

The complete reading order

Four books. One world. Read in order.

I On sale now
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Elvenbane

A dragon-raised halfblood becomes the prophecy the elves built their world to prevent.

II Pre-order
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Elvenblood

Rebellion spreads. A hidden wizard heir and a caged elven daughter must reach the outlaw Kin before the High Lords expose them.

III Pre-order
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Elvenborn

An underestimated elven lord who trains his slaves as soldiers becomes the weapon both sides need — and fear.

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Elvenbred

On the elves' dying first world, a fallen schemer is collared as a slave while a starving civilization claws toward the Gate. The long-awaited finale.

Begin the saga

One world. Four books. Complete at last.

Start with Elvenbane — $9.99