Richard Lee Byers

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Richard Lee Byers is an American fantasy novelist from Columbus, Ohio, currently residing in the Tampa Bay area. He holds a master's degree in psychology and worked for over a decade in an emergency psychiatric facility before leaving the mental health field to become a full-time writer. He has authored over forty fantasy and horror novels, primarily within the Forgotten Realms franchise, including the Year of Rogue Dragons trilogy, the Haunted Lands trilogy, and the Brotherhood of the Griffon series. Byers is also an accomplished game designer, having written material for Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks and adventures in addition to his novel-length fiction, and his Forgotten Realms work spans multiple campaign eras of the setting.

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Books

• The Halls of Stormweather (2000) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Shattered Mask (2001) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Dissolution (2002) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Black Bouquet (2003) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Rage (2004) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Queen of the Depths (2005) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Rite (2005) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Ruin (2006) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Unclean (2007) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Undead (2008) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Unholy (2009) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Captive Flame (2010) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Whisper of Venom (2010) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Spectral Blaze (2011) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Masked Witches (2012) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• Prophet of the Dead (2013) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Reaver (2014) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 40 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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