Eburosi Chronicles
14 primary works
Book 1
My secret could save my people.
It will also destroy my life.
My name is Carivel. I was born female, but I've been secretly living as a boy in my adoptive village of Draebard, doing a job the elders insist could never be done by a woman. My life is complicated enough already, so the last thing I need is to fall for not one, but two unattainable men—a fierce warrior and a reluctant wolf-shifter with a horrific past.
Now, with the powerful Alyrion Empire poised to invade our lands, I must choose whether to keep my secret or reveal it… not only to the men I love, but also to the powerful female ruler whose army could help protect Draebard during the coming war.
Either way, strife is coming to our island.
Win or lose, things are about to change irrevocably for the three of us.
Book 2
Andoc, Senovo, and I have defied convention by declaring our love for each other.
I’ve become a pariah—a female who’s been quietly living as a man. Meanwhile, Senovo has been hiding his shape-shifting curse, believing the wolf inside him to be a vicious killer. When our secrets are finally revealed to the village elders, we fear dragging Andoc down with us.
Next in line to become Draebard’s tribal chieftain, Andoc endangers his position by continuing with such an unorthodox relationship. But when Senovo and I are captured by the enemy, to save our lives he’ll have to risk more than his own future prospects.
To get us back, he’ll be risking the fragile peace between Eburos and the Alyrion Empire.
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The Horse Mistress by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan is a 2016 Rainbow Award winning LGBT fantasy romance series.
Book 3
Senovo, Andoc, and I have refused to let circumstances tear us away from each other.
Draebard’s tribal chieftain does not approve of Andoc’s decision to continue our unconventional three-way relationship. Now, on top of everything else, war is looming after the combined forces of Draebard and Meren destroyed the Alyrion Empire’s military outpost in northern Eburos.
Senovo and I have long relied on Andoc to be our rock. Our touchstone. But when Andoc's future is shattered by betrayal and life-changing injury, it will fall to us to give our big-hearted warrior a new reason to live.
For love to overcome despair, it’s going to take all three of us.
Book 4
War is coming to the island of Eburos.
Andoc, Senovo, and I can no longer live quietly in the shadows of the village of Draebard. As tribal Chieftain, High Priest, and Horse Mistress, it now falls to the three of us to organize a defense against the terrifyingly powerful Alyrion Empire.
Senovo—a shape-shifter—has a desperate plan to save us all.
But if he succeeds, it just might end up tearing our triad apart forever.
Book 5
The gods promised her a savior.
The gods are a bunch of lying bastards.
Instead of delivering Kathrael from a life of slavery, they ripped away everything she ever cared about.
Now, she must choose. Lie down and accept her fate, or risk her life and try to change the future.
Destiny is calling, but she won’t face it alone. She has a gentle Seer, a crazy lion-shifter, and the ghost of her dead best friend on her side. Of course, none of them have the faintest clue what they’re getting themselves into. But that’s all right. Because Kathrael of Rhyth has chosen to fight for freedom.
And as far as she’s concerned, the gods can either step in line, or get the hell out of the way.
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The Lion Mistress by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan is a 2019 Rainbow Award winning medium-burn reverse harem fantasy romance trilogy with heavy M/M content.
Book 6
One of them is going home.
One of them is leaving the only home he’s ever known.
One of them is returning to a place that wants him dead.
Kathrael, Favian, and Ithric are traveling back to Rhyth—a city in the grip of chaos and rioting, teetering on the verge of full-blown rebellion. There, they hope to make a difference by lending their unique talents to the mysterious leaders of the slave underground.
But with Favian having prophetic dreams, Ithric fighting his inner lion, and Kathrael questioning her sanity as the ghostly voices around her grow ever more consuming, can their fragile new relationship survive in a city that takes no prisoners?
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The Lion Mistress by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan is a medium-burn reverse harem fantasy romance trilogy with heavy M/M content.
Book 7
For the revolution to succeed, he’ll have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Favian of Draebard has been a Seer since he was thirteen. His visions are never wrong.
Now, he’s leading a slave revolt along with a crazy shapeshifter, a ghost with an attitude problem, and the most stubborn, amazing woman he’s ever met.
The good news is, it looks like they might succeed. The bad news is, he’ll have to die before they do.
But if Favian tells the others what the future holds, he knows they’ll move heaven and earth to stop it happening—even if doing so sentences untold thousands to subjugation and slavery at the hands of an evil tyrant.
He'd always suspected that destiny could be one seriously cold-hearted bitch. Now he's sure of it.
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The Lion Mistress by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan is a medium-burn reverse harem fantasy romance trilogy with heavy M/M content.
Book 8
They’re the last five dragons in existence.
To survive, they must form soul-bonds with five noble humans.
Too bad they’re stuck with us instead.
The angry drunk. The shameless womanizer. The coward who ran away and got his comrades killed. The ice-cold assassin for hire. And me, the foreign girl with abandonment issues as deep and wide as the Southern Sea.
My four knights in tarnished armor are all that stand between the dragons and a corrupt ruler intent on hunting them to extinction. A ruler, I might add, whom I managed to personally offend by escaping his harem of unwilling concubines. So… yeah. Let's just say that so far, this experience hasn't lived up to my childhood dreams of travel to exotic faraway lands.
I left home in search of adventure. Instead, I stumbled into the middle of a desperate struggle for survival.
Five people. Five mythical beasts.
If we manage to get through this mess, it’s going to be a miracle.
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The Dragon Mistress by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan is a medium-burn fantasy romance series with dragonriders, where the heroine doesn’t have to pick one person at the end. It contains adult scenes.
Book 9
The survival of the last living dragons rests with me and my misfit friends.
So… yeah. No pressure.
Mind you, this whole thing would be easier if two of our number weren’t hell-bent on killing each other. Rayth and Nyx have both been hiding secrets for a very long time, but now they face a choice. Let go of their ugly pasts, or watch the future burn to the ground.
We won’t be able to hide five hungry, growing dragons in the mountains forever. As soon as someone catches sight of them, every soldier in Utrea will be after us. And there’s no way we can fight for our dragons’ survival when we’re this busy fighting amongst ourselves.
I’ve always been the queen of questionable life choices, but falling for four proud, stubborn, damaged men at the same time is a new benchmark even for me. What we’re building with the dragons—and each other—could be amazing beyond belief. It could also end in tragedy beyond measure.
If I want it to be the former, it looks like I need to start banging some heads together.
Otherwise, our hopes and dreams could well go down in flames.
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The Dragon Mistress by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan is a medium-burn fantasy romance series with dragonriders, where the heroine doesn’t have to pick one person at the end. It contains adult material.
Book 10
Book 11
We ran away, but it didn’t solve our problems. Now, we’re going back to fight for Aristede.
And oh, yeah—there’s also the small matter of toppling Rayth’s corrupt younger brother from the Utrean throne, so we can remove the bounty on our dragons’ heads. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
As the king’s eldest son, Rayth grew up expecting to rule. Instead, he ended up disgraced and exiled. When he unknowingly stumbled upon the last five dragon eggs in existence, using the creatures to take back his crown was the last thing on his mind.
All that changed after Rayth’s brother Oblisii murdered their father and stole the kingship. With that fateful blow, what started out as a simple rescue mission to find our lost comrade has become something much more.
We won’t be safe until Oblisii is dead, and dragons are once more protected in the land of Utrea. To make that happen, we’ll have to risk everything in a desperate gamble to control the throne. In the end, I just want my family back. I’ll do whatever it takes to make that happen.
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The Dragon Mistress: Book 4 by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan is the last installment in a medium-burn fantasy romance series with dragonriders, where the heroine doesn’t have to pick one person at the end. The story contains adult situations.
Book 12
An old soldier in search of redemption.
A condemned prisoner with the power to carve out his heart… or save it.
Caius Oppita has served the Alyrion Empire for more than half his life, watching with growing revulsion as the royal family descends ever deeper into corruption and depravity. Powerless to do more than stand by as the land he loves slides toward civil war and social upheaval, he longs for his days as a general on the battlefield rather than a tame palace lapdog.
When the execution of one of the emperor’s inconvenient bastard sons goes wrong, Caius has a choice to make—do his duty, or do what is right and spirit the innocent man away to safety.
It should have been simple—hide Decian in plain sight for a few days, then smuggle him out of the palace compound. Buy him passage on a ship sailing someplace far away from the capital city, and take quiet pleasure in fighting one single injustice among many.
Instead, the swirling undercurrents of politics and power struggles seem determined to drag them ever deeper into danger—even as Decian guilelessly slips past the armor surrounding Caius’ battered soul. Caius had never considered himself a fool… but only a fool would bed the emperor’s illegitimate son. Much less let the brash young idiot anywhere near his heart.
The problem with secrets is that they breed more secrets.
And betrayal only hurts when you cared in the first place.
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Master of Hounds: Book 1 is the first installment in an M/M epic fantasy trilogy by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan. It is set in the world of The Eburosi Chronicles, but stands alone. The book contains adult content.
Book 13
One man cannot take on an empire.
Or rather, he can try—but it should come as no surprise when he’s crushed by the vast powers arrayed against him. Caius Oppita knows this, but after what he’s seen, it suits him better to go down fighting than to crawl on his hands and knees.
The empire he’s served faithfully since he was a boy now wants him dead, and the lover he thought he could trust has betrayed him in the worst possible way. Maybe Caius can’t win the fight he’s about to undertake, but he’ll damn well drag the imperial family's corruption into the light of day if it kills him.
And if the battle takes him to the same underbelly of the capital where his former lover fled after ripping Caius’ world apart? Well, it won’t be the first time this hardened general has engaged in combat on two fronts.
Not all enemies are what they seem.
Sometimes the course of a war can turn on the smallest thing.
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Master of Hounds: Book 2 is the second installment in an M/M epic fantasy trilogy by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan. It is set in the world of The Eburosi Chronicles, but stands alone. The book contains adult content.
Book 14
Which is more important—loyalty to one's country, or loyalty to one's lover?
Despite decades spent in service to the Alyrion Empire, Caius Oppita has betrayed both Decian and the imperial family he purports to serve, all within the space of a few weeks.
With his honor already in tatters, he faces a new, unanswerable dilemma. If he allows Decian to become a figurehead for those who would see the current regime fall, the man he loves will be in unutterable danger. If he doesn't, the empire his family has served for generations will fall under the rule of either a sadistic schemer or a drunken madman.
Regardless, civil war is coming.
All Decian ever wanted was a quiet life of obscurity. All Caius ever wanted was to perform his duty faithfully.
But what does his duty entail, when all of the options are equally terrible?
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Master of Hounds: Book 3 is the final installment in an M/M epic fantasy trilogy by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan. It is set in the world of The Eburosi Chronicles, but stands alone. The book contains adult content.