Suggested Book Reading Order and List of Works we Have Planned.
Book Release Order and Suggested Reading Order:
Heirs of Vanity Series; Roland’s Path – Published 03/2019
HoV; Roland’s Vow – Published 07/2019
HoV; Roland’s Triumph – Published 11/2019
Lords of Order and Chaos Series; Fires that Forge – Published 4/06/2020
Bloodlines Reforged Short Story; Death of a City, Birth of a Curse – Published 3/25/2020
BRSS; Morosse, the Spike Thumb – Published 3/25/2020 (only available to Newsletter Subscribers)
LOC; Bloom of Blood and Bone – Published 4/17/2020
LOC; Whetstones of the Will – Published 5/4/2020
LOC; Stalking Shadows – Published 10/31/2022
HoV; Roland’s Sorrow – To Be Announced
BRSS; Depths of Nolcavanor – Published 3/25/2020 (only available to Newsletter Subscribers)
HoV; Roland’s Search – To Be Announced
LOC; Perils of the Blue Tower – To Be Announced
HoV; Roland’s Song – To Be Announced
LOC; In the Names of Our Grandfathers – To Be Announced
Orphan’s Blade Series; Octavion’s Race – To Be Announced
OB; Octavion’s March – To Be Announced
OB; Octavion’s Crisis – To Be Announced
HoV; Roland’s Burden – To Be Announced
HoV; Roland’s Reunion – To Be Announced
HoV; Roland’s Redemption – To Be Announced
Templar’s Rebellion Series to be announced.
Future Books and the Overall Tale
The Audiobook for Roland’s Path is in the works now available!, and narrated by the talented Michael Badger.
The Audiobook for the first trilogy in this series, Heirs of Vanity, is now at Audible.com and Amazon with the remarkable Terry Self narrating. It includes the first three books with a run time in the neighborhood of 25 hours! an audio sample from the boxset can be found below.
The audiobooks of Fires That Forge, Bloom of Blood & Bone, and Whetstones of the Will (the first three books in the Lords of Order & Chaos Series), also narrated by Terry Self, are also available at Audible.com and Amazon.
RJ’s son, Alex Hanson, is a burgeoning actor in his own right. RJ hopes that one day he will also narrate tales from Bloodlines Reforged.
The over all story arc, Bloodlines Reforged, will be comprised of several series with overlapping characters and adventures. The first three books of the Heirs of Vanity, Roland’s Path, Roland’s Vow, and Roland’s Triumph, are available now with several more works in that series planned and outlined. The first three books (Fires that Forge, Bloom of Blood and Bone, and Whetstones of the Will) from the second series, Lords of Order and Chaos, are also available now There are four more books in that series planned and outlined. The third series, Orphan’s Blade is planned for some time in 2022. A fourth series, The Templar’s Rebellion, surrounding the adventures of Lady Illsa is also planned and being co-authored by RJ and his daughter, Kaity.