James Logan Books In Order

Publication Order of The Last Legacy Books

James Logan is a successful published author.

He was born in Surrey, England. There he grew up on all of the classic cartoon shows of the eighties as well as Commodore 64 computer games. Books were also a big part of his life, as Puddle Lane and Time and the Hidden People by Sheila McCullough making a big impact on him. This left a huge imprint and a long lasting love for everything having to do with fantasy and everything that is fantastical.

It was the purchase of Return to Firetop Mountain by Ian Livingstone which kicked off an obsession with heroic fantasy and the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. He had a passion for Warhammer that quickly came after and this resulted in him actually being kicked out of an English lesson for reading a Space Wolves codex book.

James was not deterred by this series of events, however. He kept on playing Warhammer and reading fantasy novels, and The Sword of Shannara was his original gateway to the world of adult epic fantasy. He read all of the works of Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan and Raymond E. Feist and after doing that he decided with teenage confidence that he would sit down and write a fantasy novel of his own and it would be brilliant (but it did not turn out that way).

The effort was titled The Flames of Hope and took on classic fantasy tropes or even was a close ripoff of many bestselling books of the time. The manuscript was ended after just a few chapters, and while the ones that came after did not do much better it did not matter as James was hooked on writing stories.

But for the time being, he decided that writing would have to wait. He had a passion for rock music when he was a teen and had dreams of becoming a professional musician and a rock star. Logan would spend Friday nights hanging out with his band and jamming and they recorded demos and played gigs, including one show where the band was kicked out by a landlord before the gig had even begun.

There was a huge amount of fun in all of this and James eventually realized that his dreams of rock and roll were giving way to the reality that he was likely going to have to attend university. So he went to university and got an undergraduate degree in Cardiff as well as a postgraduate degree in Manchester.

A series of boring administrative jobs came after that. It was around this time in 2006 that the author found his love for writing again and it slowly grew from being a passion to being a dream as well as an escape from the tedious nature of reality. He eventually realized that he was going to either be fired or lose his mind with frustration and so decided to leave his job and relocate to the city of London and take on a job in publishing, thinking that editing fantasy books might be the next best thing in place of writing them himself.

Today he works in publishing and resides in the city of London. His debut novel to come out was The Silverblood Promise, the first book in his The Last Legacy series of fictional novels.

He retained the ambition to write. In January of 2015 he began typing out The Silverblood Promise, which was sold in 2023 as part of a 3-book deal, with the North American rights being sold later that year at auction. The book came out in April 2024 in the United Kingdom and May of 2024 in North America.

It was longlisted for the 2025 Goldsboro Glass Bell Award. The book has also been translated into many different languages. The second book in the Last Legacy series The Blackfire Blade came out to rave reviews with other people loving the story, and Kirkus even describing it as the type of book that you stay up all night to read.

The Silverblood Promise is the first book in The Last Legacy series of novels by James Logan. If you love a good original fantasy type book that will keep you entertained from start to finish, this might be the book for you.

Main character Lukan Gardova is an academy dropout, a cardsharp, and the disgraced heir to an older noble house. The content of his days belongs to drinking cheap wine, playing rigged card games, and thinking about ways that he might be able to get back the very same life that he chose to throw away.

Then Lukan finds out that his father has been killed in mysterious circumstances. Once he discovers this, he discovers fresh purpose in his life. He might not have the chance to make up for his mistakes but he vows that he is going to find out the real reason behind why his father died.

Looking for answers will take him to Saphrona, an old city of merchant princes. There anything is able to be purchased if you just have the coin. Lukan is just looking for the truth, but despite this, he ends up discovering secrets and danger when it comes to every shadow. Everything has a prince is Saphrona, and it may just turn out that the price that comes with truth is the deadliest. Get a copy of The Silverblood Promise to follow along with every word and find out what happens in the end.

The Blackfire Blade is the second book in The Last Legacy series by James Logan. If you thought that the first book was good then check out this sequel and see what you think of it.

Winter’s come early to the City of Spires in Korslakov. Lukan Gardova has come along with the season. The majority of the visitors to this city of artifice are looking for technological marvels or else alchemical ingenuity. Lukan just wants the legacy that his father left behind for him in the Blackfire Bank’s vaults.

However, it’s just a matter of time before his past catches up and gets in the way, leaving the vault key in the hands of the thief known as ‘the Rook’. Can Lukan recover the key with the assistance of Lady Marni Volkova, a woman with her own secrets? Or could enlisting her as an ally turn out to be his greatest mistake? Read this second book in The Last Legacy series to find out!