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The Bound and The Broken Books in Order

by Ryan CahillScience Fiction & Fantasy

4 books and 4 novellas from Of Blood and Fire (2021) to Of Empires and Dust (2025). Rated 4.6 across 4,302 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. The Fall

    Novella 0.5 2026 4.5 (13)

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  2. Of Blood and Fire

    Book 1 2021 4.3 (1.1k)

    Born in fire. Tempered in blood. Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the South squabble and fight, only kept in check by the Dragonguard, traitors of a time long past, who serve the empire of the North.

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  3. Of Darkness and Light

    Book 2 2022 4.6 (1k)

    Heroes will rise. Nations will fall. Behind the towering walls of Belduar, Calen Bryer and his companions stand in defense of the city and its new king. In over a thousand years, Belduar has never fallen. It has stood as a bastion of hope.

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  4. The Exile

    Novella 2.5 2023 4.7 (300)

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  5. Of War and Ruin

    Book 3 2023 4.8 (853)

    Solian ata’yar. Dauv ata’yar. Nur temen vie’ryn valana. Live as one. Die as one. For those we’ve lost. The city of Kingspass burns and Calen Bryer’s world has been shaken to its core.

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  6. The Ice

    Novella 3.5 2023 4.7 (237)

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  7. Of Empires and Dust

    Book 4 2025 4.8 (710)

    I'ldryr viel asatar. I sanvîr viel baralun. In fire, we are forged. In blood, we are tempered. In the Aravell woodland, Calen Bryer grapples with the fallout from the Battle of Aravell.

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  8. The Truth

    Novella 4.5 2026 4.9 (33)

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Bound and The Broken is also the best order to read them in. Novellas and short stories sit between the novels they follow, numbered the way the publisher numbers them (0.5 comes after book 0). They are optional — you can skip them without missing the main story. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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