Beth Brower Books In Order

Publication Order of The Books of Imirillia Books

Publication Order of The Unselected Journals Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Beth Brower
Just like many of her siblings, Beth Brower would sneak out of bed, slip out into the hall, and grab her favorite books out of the book closet. She read her way through the bottom shelf, then the next shelf up, and the shelf above that, up until she could climb up to the very top shelf, stacked two layers deep and two layers high, and read the titles of all the classics. Her desires to create stories only grew as she was learning how to read them.

She spent her time scribbling in her numerous notebooks instead of listening to the math lectures at school.

Beth graduated with a degree in literary studies, and works on the novels that continue to pound on the doors of her mind, since none of her characters are all that patient to just wait their turn. She lives with her wonderful chemist husband, and books in each and every room of the house.

When she was 16 years old, sitting in Geology class, she was thinking about a chess term she’d heard. A Queen’s Gambit. Such an interesting phrase. And basically it means that you sacrifice your queen so that you can win the game. She had her writing book in hand, obviously, filled with stories and scribbles, and on the left hand side of the page she outlined this typographically poor title, promising that she’d write this book someday. She carried the thought and the queen around with her for several years as she wrote the stories about other characters.

However then, this one fall, as she worked at Rivendell she was thinking about Eleanor, her queen, and her country, and she met this young traveler called Wil. He just stepped foot into Aemogen and right onto the map of Beth’s mind. The moment they shook hands, she knew his full back story. And she knew the time to start writing the novel had begun.

She learned how to write through writer’s block by telling herself she had to write every single day. So she would come home from work so exhausted from a long day and would sit down, pull her laptop onto her lap, and go. Sometimes you just cannot get into the manuscript that you are writing, like it is locked from you and you have fumbled about for the key. It’s here that she will make a judgment call: Does she need to be writing something else? Or does she need to sit down and pound this scene here out. Both are appropriate.

Beth, when she is stuck, will see her favorite author’s books, run her eyes along their body of work. And realize she’s got so many books just waiting to get out, and it’s time to get going.

“The Queen’s Gambit” is the first novel in the “Books of Imirillia” series and was released in 2016. The rules of war had been changed, and Queen Eleanor wanted to know why. Eleanor (the young queen of Aemogen) is faced with the greatest threat that her country has ever faced before: surrender Aemogen’s sovereignty over to the treacherous Imirillion Empire or she’ll endure this impossible and devastating war. Now she will be forced to decide if she’s going to forfeit her people’s liberty or fight it out.

Once Wil Traveler, a disenchanted Imirillion soldier, steps foot into her country, Eleanor takes a gamble of asking him about training her ill-prepared men for war, despite suspecting him of being a spy.

Eleanor battles questions about conquest and war, and fights to protect her people while Wil challenges her way of life, all as he keeps the secrets of his violent past a mystery.

“The Ruby Prince” is the second novel in the “Books of Imirillia” series and was released in 2016. The city of Zarbadast was this dragon that was sleeping in its own embers.

Queen Eleanor’s gambit was successful. Aemogen has been spared from the ruthless Imirillian army, at least for now. However Eleanor still remains a prisoner, and Prince Basal is taking her into the North. While Eleanor gets swept through the deserts of Imirillia off to the magnificent city of Zarbadast, she starts understanding the contradictions Basal has to negotiate underneath the reign of the sadistic Emperor Shaamil.

Prince Basal, having returned back home, finds himself at war again with his own conscience. Under his dad’s scrutiny, the pressure of his brothers, and this fierce loyalty to his own people, he doubts his own ability to fulfill such an impossible promise to Aedon: to aid Eleanor in escaping.

“The Ruby Prince” is a rich telling of choice, culture, and ritual, and draws on the complexity of what honor means to both Basal and Elanor, who find themselves together, but are set against each other, in the enigmatic court of Zarbadast.

“The Wanderer’s Mark” is the third novel in the “Books of Imirillia” series and was released in 2016. Basaal screamed, lifted up his black sword way above his head, and rode right into the tumult of war.

Eleanor, with a daunting desert spread out before her, still believes that she can return back home and help her people defend Aemogen from the Imirillian invasion. However she finds that there are impossibilities and some bitter fates she just cannot control.

Now that Eleanor is out of his reach, Basaal has to face the demons of his dad’s conquest. With the Emperor Shaamil’s choice to ensure victory personally, Basaal is swept off into the war that he had been trying desperately to prevent.

“The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion” is the first novel in the “Emma Lion” series and was released in 2019. The year is 1883 and Emma M Lion has just returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. However Emma’s plans to live a studious and charmed life get sabotaged by her formidable Aunt Eugenia, her eccentric Cousin Archibald, and those slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.

Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they might be, which comprise a series of novella length volumes. They are armed with wit and this sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.