
Elvenbane
A dragon-raised halfblood becomes the prophecy the elves built their world to prevent.
A four-book epic · complete at last
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.
A sweeping epic fantasy of dragon lore, tyrant courts, and rebellion.
Worth the wait
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.
Book One · the hero of the saga
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

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

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

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

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