Thomas K Carpenter Books in Order

Reality hacker Zel Aurora can reshape the digital world but cannot cure her daughter's illness. A deal with a crime lord sends her against rival realities, accompanied by a bodyguard immune to her powers.

Inventor Heron accepts a mysterious patron's payment to investigate the burning of Alexandria's Great Library a century earlier. Hoping to escape her brother's debts, she uncovers a mystery with consequences for the Roman Empire.

Gabby and the Frags escape LifeGame's rules only to encounter dangerous, unfamiliar Freelands. Internal divisions threaten their group while approaching war obscures the trail to Zaela, forcing Gabby to rethink how she can find her friend.

Gabby DeCorte excels in a society where everyday activities earn LifeGame points, but her artistic friend Zaela struggles. A mysterious group's warning about the fate of losers forces Gabby to question the system she knows.

An old enemy takes control of a spreading digital religion, threatening global conflict. Stranded in Greenland, Zel joins a repentant celebrity and a vengeful orphan, discovering that manipulating reality cannot solve every human problem.

Determined to reach Zaela before war begins, Gabby asks the Coders to send her into the Southlands as a spy. An enemy who knows her weaknesses turns the mission into a struggle for survival.

Zel Aurora accompanies the Quicksilver Spider on a search for his origins while climate disasters and digital plagues spread. When danger reaches her family's refuge, protecting her daughters conflicts with confronting an enemy and saving a friend.

A Roman fleet threatens Alexandria while rivalries undermine the city's defenses. Heron searches for a surviving heir of Alexander the Great, hoping the discovery can prevent a naval blockade from becoming the city's destruction.

Heron plans an immense pyramid to fulfill Alexander's legacy while Agog seeks Parthian allies against Rome. Escalating demands and hidden opposition threaten both her construction project and the fragile city-state's efforts to avoid isolation.

Rome prepares to destroy technologically advanced Alexandria. As Agog marches north with steam chariots, Heron investigates rumors of devastating ancient weapons, seeking a way for their forces to withstand the power of the Roman legions.

Left to manage the Roman Senate, Heron faces mounting enemies and an untrustworthy benefactor. Investigating Julius Caesar's century-old assassination becomes essential as a dangerous vote threatens to restore Roman control over the fledgling Alexandrian Empire.

Heron returns to find Alexandria controlled by Lysimachus, a priest claiming mastery over death. With the city against her, she seeks allies and a way to rescue Sepharia from the crocodile cult's grip.

Recovering from severe injuries, Heron travels aboard Hoth the Black's iron ship while the surviving Roman navy pursues them. Encounters with creatures of ancient legend force her to question what she believes about the world.

A strange cauldron and a dead thief in Benjamin Franklin's parlor leave exiled princess Katerina Dashkova under suspicion. With damaged memories and Franklin missing, she investigates amid political tensions that threaten another American war.

Asked to investigate a bloodless murder, Katerina Dashkova becomes entangled in a prophecy predicting her death at the winter solstice. Shifting loyalties and a dangerous former friend complicate her efforts to protect Philadelphia from ancient evil.

Monsters descend on Philadelphia despite Katerina Dashkova's growing magical powers. Investigating their origin brings a mysterious benefactor, a threat to the Transcendent Society, and an unexpected opponent whose connection to her past complicates the crisis.

Exiled Russian princess Kat Dashkova finds refuge with Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. When an official loses his clothes and two years of memories, their investigation points toward supernatural forces threatening the city's apparently civilized order.

Dark magic kills Thomas Jefferson's longtime companion, and Kat Dashkova and Benjamin Franklin must identify the murderer before Federalists exploit the death. Meanwhile, a rusalka's demand tests Kat's loyalty to her adopted country.

To confront Veles, who threatens Russia and the wider world, Kat and Benjamin Franklin travel through dreams in Baba Yaga's hut. The witches' extraordinary vehicle contains forgotten dangers that their magic may accidentally awaken.

Stranded in Siberia, Kat and Benjamin Franklin must cross the frozen wilderness to reach Moscow and oppose Veles. Encounters with a figure from Kat's imperial past and a legendary creature complicate their already perilous journey.

Prophecies threaten the multiverse while competing gods pursue power. Kat and Benjamin Franklin decide to confront Veles directly, but revelations during the conflict jeopardize their plans and force Kat toward a choice with consequences beyond their world.

Orphaned sisters Aurie and Pi Silverthorne seek admission to the Hundred Halls magical university. Pi's search for a lost artifact to secure sponsorship draws them into rival pursuits and secrets connecting their family to the school's future.

Aurie's second university year goes wrong when she releases magic-consuming thralls and struggles in the Grand Contest. Discovering the Cabal's search for power to control the Hundred Halls makes her academic problems seem increasingly secondary.

Students at the Hundred Halls begin losing their souls during Aurie's third year. As forbidden magic threatens even the professors, Aurie and her sister search for the thief before the university suffers an irreversible transformation.

Arcanium's patron, Semyon Grey, slowly recovers from damage to his soul, leaving his students unable to practice magic. The Silverthorne sisters seek a way to accelerate his healing before the Cabal and magical madness overwhelm them.

With civil war threatening the Hundred Halls, Aurie and Pi investigate Invictus's disappearance. Their search reveals connections between the university and their family, forcing them to reconsider their identities while trying to protect the city.

Zayn Carter enters the Academy of the Subtle Arts to free his family from the Lady of Varna. Learning assassination offers a possible solution, but killing the ancient oppressor would also doom everyone in his hometown.

A rogue assassin beheads victims across the Hundred Halls, threatening students and teachers alike. Zayn's investigation leads his team into the Black Council and Diamond Court, where dwindling leads demand a painful choice involving those he loves.

A strange building appears in a city protected by magic that reveals future attacks. While others consider it harmless, Zayn and his teammates suspect danger and must use deception to uncover its purpose before disaster strikes.

Without its head patron, the Hundred Halls faces a dragon invasion from the Circle of the Scale. Other threats emerge beneath the city, forcing Zayn to weigh protecting the university against safeguarding his own family.

Lily's missing brother was last seen entering a notoriously unbeatable dungeon while seeking a powerful artifact. Alex and her friends venture into the Citadel of Broken Dreams to find him and uncover the object linked to disappearances.

Alex enters the Warsong Plains after a lonely first year in Gamemakers Online. Discovering that rival clans have rigged the competition, she must lead a team to victory or face permanent expulsion from the Hundred Halls.

Experienced achievement hunter Alexandria Duke joins Gamemakers Online, finding no tutorials or safe beginner areas. Surviving its hostile creatures becomes more urgent as she uncovers secrets that make failure dangerous to more than her own life.

Zayn approaches his long-planned confrontation with the Lady of Varna, but betrayal undermines his preparations. Unwilling to sacrifice his teammates, he seeks unlikely help against an ancient enemy skilled at escaping even carefully constructed traps.

Alex searches for her friends in Gamemakers Online's dangerous depths. Reaching the daemonpits requires passage through the Isles of Dread, where pirates and unstable loyalties threaten to defeat the cunning she has relied on.

Moriganne must gain admission to a secret society or face banishment by her father. A death implicating the societies creates a conflict between pursuing justice and protecting her siblings and her place in the family.

New revelations reopen the tragedy of Solstice Charmer's death six years earlier. Moriganne investigates paranoid gang members, vengeful maetrie, and shifting family accounts, discovering that uncovering the truth may threaten the people closest to her.

Disgraced former pop star Minerva Sune enters a wealthy family ruled by a domineering patriarch. Unfamiliar magical studies, hostile professors, and treacherous friendships complicate her attempt to navigate the intrigues surrounding the Hundred Halls elite.

Moriganne and her siblings travel to Montanhas to rescue their family's business and compete for their father's approval. Their new acquisition conceals occult dangers, while limited escape opportunities and local unrest threaten to trap them.

Pax and her friends attend the opening of a zoo's Other Realms section, filled with dangerous supernatural creatures. One unusual animal disrupts the security systems, turning an anticipated celebration into a struggle to survive cascading failures.

Moriganne Charmer and her siblings lose their family's protection after defying their father. As his motives become clearer, they discover that stopping him is essential to more than their survival: the Hundred Halls and the wider world are threatened.

With the barrier to the demonic realm weakening, the Order of Merlin seeks alliances with powerful beings whose motives remain suspect. The young mages must address past wounds and internal conflicts while risking their futures to prevent an invasion.

After leaving the Hundred Halls, a group of young mages is reunited by Head Patron Invictus. Forming the Order of Merlin requires surviving his demands and learning to work together before an approaching demonic invasion overwhelms their world.

Demons invade the city, trapping the Order of Merlin amid chaos and endangering friends and relatives. The mages and their allies face escalating sacrifices as they attempt to halt an overwhelming advance before the Hundred Halls and their world are lost.