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Shadow Grail
The Shadow Grail series by Mercedes Lackey has 4 known books (4 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Legacies (2010).
- Books
- 4 known books (4 novels)
- Published
- 4
- First published
- 2010
- Status
- completed
- Shelved under
- Fantasy
- Last checked
Start here: Legacies (2010) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Legacies
Legacies (2010) opens Shadow Grail, co-written equally by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill, introducing Loch Spartan, a teenage athlete who loses her memory in the car accident that orphans her and is sent to the secretive Oakhurst Academy.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Legacies - Book 2:
Conspiracies
At 342 pages, Conspiracies (2011) is the longest of the four Shadow Grail books, digging deeper into why Oakhurst Academy really exists as Loch Spartan and her wary, close-knit classmates keep uncovering more of what the school's staff won't explain.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Conspiracies - Book 3:
Sacrifices
Sacrifices arrived two years later, in 2013, at 304 pages, continuing to unravel what happened to the students' families as Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill's boarding-school conspiracy pushes deeper into Oakhurst's true, dangerous purpose.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Sacrifices - Book 4:
Victories
Victories (2014) closes the quartet at just 193 pages, its shortest entry, revealing the dangerous plan Oakhurst's leadership has for its magically gifted, mostly parentless students once their training is complete.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Victories
About the Shadow Grail series
Co-written by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill, this young-adult quartet follows Loch Spartan, a teenage athlete orphaned when her parents are killed in a car accident that also strips her of her memory. She's sent to Oakhurst Academy, a boarding school that turns out to train magically gifted, mostly parentless teens for a hidden purpose the staff won't fully explain. Legacies introduces the school and its close-knit, wary students; Conspiracies, Sacrifices, and Victories dig progressively deeper into why Oakhurst really exists, what happened to the students' families, and the dangerous plan the school's leadership has for its students once their training is complete.
The series leans into boarding-school-conspiracy territory more than either author's adult fantasy work, using Loch's amnesia and the uneasy trust among the student cast to keep readers as much in the dark as the characters until the later books.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in the Shadow Grail series?
Four novels: Legacies (2010), Conspiracies (2011), Sacrifices (2013), and Victories (2014), co-written by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill.
What order should I read the Shadow Grail books in?
Publication order, which is also the only order — it's a single continuous story following Loch Spartan and her classmates across all four books.
Is Shadow Grail young adult or adult fiction?
Young adult. The protagonists are teenage students at a boarding school, and the series is marketed and shelved as YA fantasy.
Is Shadow Grail connected to Bedlam's Bard or the SERRAted Edge?
No. Rosemary Edghill also co-writes Lackey's Bedlam's Bard novels, but Shadow Grail is a separate, unconnected setting with no shared characters or continuity.
Is there a fifth Shadow Grail book?
No. The series concluded with Victories (2014) and no further installment has been published.
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