The Recurring Cast
Reading order · 2 books · 2014 · Set in China and England

Heart of Blade Books in Order

The Heart of Blade books follow Catherine Blade, a half-English girl raised in China and trained as a fighter, in the late nineteenth century.

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Series facts

Books
2
Published
2014
First book
The Hidden Blade
Latest
My Beautiful Enemy (2014)
Setting
Set in China and England

The reading order

Every Heart of Blade book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.

2 books · Set in China and England
  1. 1The Hidden Blade2014With Catherine BladeIn Peking in the 1880s, Catherine Blade, the daughter of an English father and a Chinese mother, is secretly trained in the martial arts.Buy on Amazon
  2. 2My Beautiful Enemy2014With Catherine Blade and Leighton AtwoodCatherine Blade meets Leighton Atwood, the English spy she once loved, as an old enemy returns.Buy on Amazon

Do you need to read them in order?

Read The Hidden Blade first, then My Beautiful Enemy.

Who appears in which book

The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.

Who appears in each Heart of Blade book
BookCatherine BladeLeighton Atwood
1 The Hidden BladeLLead
2 My Beautiful EnemyLLeadLLead

Characters in the Heart of Blade books

2 characters from Sherry Thomas’s chart, with the number of Heart of Blade books each appears in.

CharacterBooksFirst in this series
Catherine BladeHalf-English swordswoman2The Hidden Blade 2014
Leighton AtwoodEnglish gentleman spy1My Beautiful Enemy 2014