Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bull Moon Rising | 2024 | Ruby Dixon | Buy |
| 2 | By the Horns | 2025 | Ruby Dixon | Buy |
The Royal Artifactual Guild series by Ruby Dixon represents a new direction for an author best known for self-published alien romance. Published by Berkley (a Penguin Random House imprint), Bull Moon Rising arrived in 2024 as Ruby Dixon’s first traditionally published novel and her first full fantasy romance. The story follows Aspeth, a treasure hunter in debt, who teams up with a minotaur-like artificer named Liam to recover artifacts from dangerous dungeons.
The second book, By the Horns, followed in 2025. The series has a cozy, adventure-driven feel that sets it apart from Dixon’s steamier sci-fi work, though it still delivers on the romance front. Bull Moon Rising became a bestseller and introduced Ruby Dixon to a new audience of fantasy romance readers who might not have encountered her self-published catalog.