This Scepter'd Isle
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 672
- ISBN-13
- 9780743498890
- Type
- novel
About this book
This Scepter'd Isle is the novel that opens The Doubled Edge series, co-written by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis, published in 2004 at 672 pages. It precedes Ill Met by Moonlight in the reading order. The series ran from 2004 to 2008 across 4 books.
Key facts about This Scepter'd Isle
This Scepter'd Isle is a novel by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis. Readers have had it since 2004. It runs to 672 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of This Scepter'd Isle. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780743498890 to find the main one.
This Scepter'd Isle is book 1 of 4 in The Doubled Edge series. The series has 4 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Mercedes Lackey writes The Brainship Series, Heralds of Valdemar and Vows and Honor, plus 23 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, fantasy and urban fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, The Cyprian is the latest published Mercedes Lackey book on file, from 30 December 2025.
About Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey is one of the most prolific authors in modern fantasy, best known for her Valdemar novels, an interlocking mega-series that has run since 1987 across dozens of trilogies and standalones set in a single shared kingdom. See every Mercedes Lackey book in order.
Its place in The Doubled Edge
This Scepter'd Isle is book 1 in the The Doubled Edge series. It is followed by Ill Met by Moonlight. See the full The Doubled Edge reading order.
A historical fantasy departure co-written with Roberta Gellis, the Doubled Edge series reimagines Elizabethan England as a world where the fae realm of Underhill exists alongside the human one, and where historical figures — young Elizabeth I among them — have hidden fae allies shaping the political and magical stakes of the era. Where Lackey's SERRAted Edge books transplant elves into modern car culture, Doubled Edge goes the opposite direction: elves and human history colliding in richly-researched Tudor and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780743498890