Marla Mason Series by T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

3.91 · 144 ratings
  • Bone Shop (Marla Mason #0.1)
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    Bone Shop (Marla Mason #0.1)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2009

    A prequel novel about sorcerer Marla Mason, heroine of a series of novels by T.A. Pratt published by Bantam Spectra from 2007-2009, including Blood Engines, Poison Sleep, Dead Reign, and Spell Games. Bone Shop explores Marla's early days in the city of Felport and her rise to power. Originally serialized online from June-October 2009, available as an e-book for the first time.

  • Haruspex (Marla Mason #0.2)
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    Haruspex (Marla Mason #0.2)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2011

    Before she was the witch queen of Felport, Marla Mason was just a freelance mercenary sorcerer with a knack for doing nasty jobs exceedingly well. This gritty novelette pits Marla and her magical cloak against a supernaturally-powerful serial killer targeting the city's magical elite, in an early tale featuring the heroine of the novel series that began with Blood Engines and continued with Poison Sleep, Dead Reign, Spell Games, Broken Mirrors, and Bone Shop... more

  • Pale Dog (Marla Mason #0.3)
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    Pale Dog (Marla Mason #0.3)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2011

    "Pale Dog" is the first published story about sorcerer Marla Mason, the notorious witch queen of Felport, and star of the urban fantasy series by T.A. Pratt. Marla and her right-hand man Rondeau track down a treacherous sorcerer who refuses to stay dead, with help from an adorable white dog... who may, possibly, be a hound from hell. Oh: and there's also a haunted zoot suit.

  • Mommy Issues of the Dead (Marla Mason #0.4)
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    Mommy Issues of the Dead (Marla Mason #0.4)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2011

    This short story chronicles an early adventure of Marla Mason, when she was a young mercenary sorcerer doing dirty jobs in exchange for secret knowledge. The subterranean sorcerer Viscarro hires Marla to steal a certain item from one of his rivals... who just happens to be his brother. Soon Marla finds herself entangled in a dysfunctional family feud of epic proportions, and in danger of dying herself.

  • Blood Engines (Marla Mason #1)
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    Blood Engines (Marla Mason #1)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 2007

    Meet Marla Mason--smart, saucy, slightly wicked witch of the East Coast. . . .Sorcerer Marla Mason, small-time guardian of the city of Felport, has a big problem. A rival is preparing a powerful spell that could end Marla's life--and, even worse, wreck her city. Marla's only chance of survival is to boost her powers with the Cornerstone, a magical artifact hidden somewhere in San Francisco... more

  • Grander Than the Sea (Marla Mason #1.5)
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    Grander Than the Sea (Marla Mason #1.5)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2011

    Marla Mason, chief sorcerer of the coastal city of Felport, is called to the Blackwing Institute, a hospital for criminally insane magic-users. One of the patients tells her the world is going to end soon, when a great eldritch god rises from the ocean. Sure, there's a good chance the god is entirely imaginary... but that doesn't mean its cultists won't kill a lot of people trying to usher in its arrival... more

  • Poison Sleep (Marla Mason #2)
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    Poison Sleep (Marla Mason #2)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2008

    The bad girl of the magical underworld is back and badder than everSomeone wants Marla Mason dead. Usually that’s not news. As chief sorcerer of Felport, someone always wants her dead. But this time she’s the target of a renegade assassin who specializes in killing his victims over days, months, or even years. Not to mention a mysterious knife-wielding killer in black who pops up in the most unexpected places... more

  • Dead Reign (Marla Mason #3)
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    Dead Reign (Marla Mason #3)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 2008

    Death has come calling, and one womanhas what he wants most of all... As chief sorcerer of Felport, Marla Mason thought she’d faced every kind of evil the magical world had to offer. But she’s never faced a killer like this. He’s dark, glib, handsome as the devil—and exactly who he says he is. Death—in the flesh. He’s arrived in Felport with a posse composed of a half-insane necromancer and the reanimated corpse of John Wilkes Booth, and he isn’t leaving until he gets what he came for... more

  • Spell Games (Marla Mason #4)
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    Spell Games (Marla Mason #4)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2009

    Brain-eating fungi, wannabe sorcerers, long-lost relations–does even a hard-core witch stand a chance?Mad sorcerers, psychic vampires, an army of vengeful demons, Marla Mason would rather face them all than a flesh-and-blood ghost from her dysfunctional family past: her con artist brother, Jason. As Felport’s chief sorcerer, Marla would ordinarily consider it her duty to protect her town from such an unscrupulous ne’er-do-well. As his sister, things are a lot…trickier... more

  • Broken Mirrors (Marla Mason #5)
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    Broken Mirrors (Marla Mason #5)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2010

    Serialized online novel which continues the story of Marla Mason in T.A. Pratt's urban fantasy series.Sorcerer Marla Mason has never been afraid of a fight, but she's about to face her greatest challenge: herself. Or, at least, an alternate-universe version of herself, a woman who succumbed to the evil power of a cursed artifact and become a monstrous villain. Now this dark doppelganger is loose in Marla's world... and she has an agenda even more terrible than Marla can imagine.

  • Shark's Teeth (Marla Mason #5.5)
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    Shark's Teeth (Marla Mason #5.5)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2010

    Marla, bored in her forced exile in Hawaii, goes looking for trouble (and finds it).

  • Little Better than a Beast (Marla Mason #5.6)
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    Little Better than a Beast (Marla Mason #5.6)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2011

    Marla Mason has faced a lot of tough adversaries in her years as chief sorcerer of Felport, but in this short story her city is menaced by a monster from the past: the legendary Beast of Felport, a creature that slaughtered the city's original settlers hundreds of years before, has returned. But the Beast isn't the only refugee from the past -- the city's first chief sorcerer, the ruthless Everett Malkin, has traveled through time as well. He's none too pleased with how Marla's running things.. more

  • Grim Tides (Marla Mason #6)
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    Grim Tides (Marla Mason #6)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2011

    Marla Mason, ousted chief sorcerer for the city of Felport, is languishing in exile on the island of Maui with her best friend, the psychic (and rather hedonistic) Rondeau. She's making a living of sorts as an occult detective, but for the most part, she's just marking time. Driven from the city she loves, Marla is adrift, nearly friendless, and stripped of almost all her power and resources.Obviously, it's the perfect time for old enemies to try and kill her... more

  • Bride of Death (Marla Mason #7)
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    Bride of Death (Marla Mason #7)

    T.A. Pratt, Tim Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2013

    Marla Mason has been a mercenary, chief sorcerer and protector of an entire city, and an occult detective, and now she's a goddess of Death... but only part-time. She gets to spend six months a year living as a mortal woman on Earth, and she's decided to devote those months to hunting monsters for fun and personal redemption... more

  • Lady of Misrule (Marla Mason #8)
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    Lady of Misrule (Marla Mason #8)

    T.A. Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2015

    Marla awakens for her month on Earth and finds her allies missing, and an old enemy causing trouble in her home city of Felport, where Marla once ruled as chief sorcerer. Meanwhile, a rather charming gentlemen who happens to be a monstrous exile from beyond our multiverse has decided that murdering gods might be a fun pastime, and he figures he'll start with Marla... more

  • Queen of Nothing (Marla Mason #9)
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    Queen of Nothing (Marla Mason #9)

    T.A. Pratt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2015

    When a vile spirit awakens in the underworld, only sorcerer (and part-time death god) Marla Mason can save the world from devastation.

  • Closing Doors (Marla Mason #10)
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    Closing Doors (Marla Mason #10)

    T.A. Pratt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2017

    Marla Mason has been a runaway, an apprentice sorcerer, a magical mercenary, ruler of a city's supernatural society, an exile, an occult detective, and a freelance monster hunter—and now, in her final adventure, she's the god of Death, facing off against a malevolent cosmic force that threatens all life on Earth. Oh, and she has to choose a mortal consort to rule the underworld by her side, so while the planet is being threatened, she also has to go on first dates... more

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