Ring Keepers and the Quest for the Dragon Stone
Three kids from a dying Iowa town inherit a power the world spent a thousand years trying to bury.
Adult Literary Fantasy
L.J. Borland
Worlds that remember what the rest of us would rather forget.
For readers of Patrick Ness, Susanna Clarke, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Eight titles · available now
The Saga
Ring Keepers
Three books, one descent. Best read in order.
Ring Keepers and the Webs Beneath the Veil
Beneath the forest’s hush, something patient has been waiting a very long time to be found.
Ring Keepers and the Hand of Hollow Hearts
To stop the thing that feeds on memory, they will each have to give up something they can’t get back.
Standalones
The Novels
Five worlds that stand entirely on their own.
Sci-Fi Epic
A Field of Sleeping Doors
Humanity opened a door that should have stayed shut — and found a field of others, each one waiting its turn to wake.
Epic Fantasy
The King’s Winter
A broken king, an endless winter, and a kingdom that has forgotten his name.
Historical Fantasy
The Bones of Skeleton Canyon
Drawn from the true legends of Cochise County, Arizona.
Dark Fantasy
The Monsters We Keep
Some monsters are kept. Some are chosen. A few are simply inherited.
Occult Fantasy
The Allotment
Every name written in the ledger was promised to someone — and the accounts are coming due.
About
L. J. Borland
L. J. Borland writes adult literary fantasy from the high desert of southern Arizona — stories where the mythic presses up against the ordinary world, and neither comes away unchanged.
Over two decades in the making, the Ring Keepers saga sits alongside a shelf of standalone novels that range from frontier legend and occult ledger to the long cold of a forgotten king, and a science-fiction epic at the threshold of the unknown.
The next one
New releases, occasionally. Nothing else.