Barbara Underwood books in order

In the ancient, mystical past when an idyllic Atlantis-like civilization flourished, its people with exceptional powers could build giant stone structures like the Pyramids, and transform elements such as sand to stone and metal to gold with concentrated energy of the mind.

This utopian Atlan Empire is rocked when one of its most preeminent Masters rebels and seeks to subvert the ideals of Atlan society. Roaming the countryside in a black robe, misusing his powers on innocent people, he becomes known as the dreaded Dark Master.

On a distant and isolated island on the fringes of the Atlan Empire, a young girl named Rhuna comes of age when she meets a man from Atlán and learns that her father was an Atlan Master who was killed in his attempt to destroy the Dark Master.

Journeying across oceans and ancient worlds, Rhuna learns to master her inherent mental powers, transforming elements and summoning visions by means of the Gazing of the Waters. Unlike her peers, however, Rhuna discovers she has an extra power, namely the ability to summon visions mentally, without incantations or powders.

When the Dark Master’s activities become a threat to the peaceful Atlan Empire, the Atlan Masters come to realize that they cannot defeat him without Rhuna’s special visionary powers to observe the Dark Master’s activity and whereabouts.

Rhuna: Crossroads is set in exotic Ancient Egypt and features unforgettable characters and a riveting adventure.

Some years have passed since Rhuna helped to defeat the Dark Master in her new home of Atlán, and now Rhuna has a teenage daughter who accompanies her on an assignment in Ancient Egypt to investigate some disturbing reports.

She soon discovers an astonishing underground network of the Dark Master's followers, along with the secret group of Atlans dedicated to stopping them. In the process of trying to carry out her assignment, Rhuna is confronted with enormous challenges that could drastically change her entire life and everything she has ever believed in!

 As strange and frightening curses plague the population, Rhuna discovers the underground organization that performs this uncanny new magic, but she can only combat it with the help of her long-lost father. Having learned from her father amazing new skills to empower her on the Astral Plane, Rhuna once again strives to preserve peace and harmony in the idyllic Atlan civilization.

Far more challenging than fighting powerful Dark Forces, however, is Rhuna’s personal anguish when her daughter becomes involved with the leader of the Black Magic movement, and the once-perfect Atlan society based on utopian principles begins to crumble all around her. Shocking events escalate Rhuna’s world to a breathless climax as she and her family undergo a momentous upheaval, and she is forced to make great personal sacrifices for her loved ones.

After sacrificing a life of comfort and security for her daughter’s sake, Rhuna and her family go into exile and start a new life in the former Atlan colony of Varappa. This faraway land is a frontier of new technology such as air travel, loops in time and a society apparently flourishing without a governing body of any kind.

On the surface, everyone appears to thrive in this liberated society, but this kind of free thinking is fertile ground for the Dark Master and his followers. Just when Rhuna and her family settle into their beautiful new lakeside home, strange things begin to happen. Powerful conjurers cause upheaval with their sinister magic, driving people from their homes.

An isolated society claiming to adhere to the ways of the First Atlans, appear to be fighting a losing battle against these followers of the Dark Master. While attempting to find a diplomatic solution to the escalating conflict, Rhuna faces great challenges in her personal life. Aradin’s love for her has cooled off inexplicably, and Lozira’s emotional wellbeing teeters on a precarious threshold. 

In desperation, Rhuna combines her magical powers and Varappan technology to do the unthinkable. What she does, however, is forbidden, and brings about a rift between her and her own father. Rhuna may have headed down a path from which there is no turning back…

Rhuna is a woman living in the mystical past of highly advanced civilizations like Atlantis, when pyramids and other megalithic structures were made with technology now lost and forgotten. This ancient legend tells of people with special abilities who can transform elements, such as sand to stone and lead to gold, with the concentrated power of the mind. They could also summon mental visions of faraway places and events, and call upon cosmic, solar, lunar and earth energies.

Rhuna has been gifted with more of these superhuman abilities than most, and as her powers grow, she faces ever greater challenges, both on a personal level and in far-reaching issues that affect everyone around her. Her nemesis, known as the Dark Master, is a man with similar exceptional powers who has chosen to use them for sinister purposes.

In this fifth adventure set in the ancient world, Rhuna travels to the Land at the Top of the World in desperate hope that the Masters of Ancient Wisdom can undo what the Dark Master has done to her husband and daughter. She is devastated when they refuse to help, and horrified when they claim her youngest child as one of their own due to her ability to foresee the future.

Rhuna's last hope is to reach The Ascended Ones who live on a higher spiritual plane, but her journey is fraught with peril. A frightening entity called a tulpa, created from concentrated imagination, is determined to kill her before she reaches her goal. Did the Dark Master survive Rhuna's attempt to destroy him, and is he after revenge by controlling this murderous tulpa?

The Valley of Immortals, known as Shambhala, holds many secrets, and only when Rhuna helps the Masters of Ancient Wisdom solve the mystery of continually changing history in the Depository of Archival Texts, is the shocking truth finally revealed…

Rhuna is faced with the greatest challenge yet as her nemesis, The Dark Master, eludes his pursuers by building a time portal and stepping eight centuries into the past where his devious plans have no bounds. He establishes a city in a remote part of the world, but everything he does in the past has terrible and far-reaching consequences in Rhuna’s present time.

Together with her family and friends, Rhuna attempts to learn more about the Dark Master’s Black City, and find a way to stop both him and the horrible fall-out of his selfish and ruthless rulership. But even with the help of several representatives sent by the High Council of Atlán in an attempt to thwart the Dark Master’s sinister threat to the peaceful known world, Rhuna realizes the only solution will be a very drastic one.

As Rhuna develops her skills to read people’s auras and learns the Great Secrets of the First Atlans, she is confronted by the possibility of losing a member of her family. At the same time, a strange new threat emerges from a distant land that affects Rhuna directly, distracting her from seeing a way to end the death and violence in the Black City.

Book Six in the series, Rhuna: A Quest for Ancient Wisdom can also be read as a standalone novel. In the mystical past, a highly advanced civilizations like Atlantis built pyramids and other megalithic structures with technology now lost and forgotten. This ancient legend tells of people with special abilities who can transform elements, such as sand to stone and lead to gold, with the concentrated power of the mind. They could also summon mental visions of faraway places and events, and call upon cosmic, solar, lunar and earth energies.

Rhuna has been gifted with more of these superhuman abilities than most, and as her powers grow, she faces ever greater challenges, both on a personal level and in far-reaching issues that affect everyone around her.

Yarqi believes she has finally found true enlightenment when she joins the Order of Pure Power, and she is thrilled when The Master himself approves of her progress in summoning visions, creating illusions and performing an act of Sympathetic magic that nearly kills a man. Despite her fast rise in the ranks of the Order, Yarqi is plagued by self-doubt and reminders of the secret traditions of her mother’s people.

The beautiful, open city of happy people changes drastically as mysterious and powerful people called The Conjurers cause frightening illusions to scare people out of their homes, while rumors persist of another group of people causing mysterious deaths. Yarqi is so engrossed in her own activities and saving a young woman from an abusive relationship that she fails to see the danger all around her.

Only the supernatural help of an old friend can save Yarqi from completely succumbing to The Master’s devious plan, but they must first escape a city conquered by the Conjurers.

This box set features the first three books in the thrilling Fantasy Series, Rhuna: A Quest for Ancient Wisdom (Book 1: Rhuna, Keeper of Wisdom, Book 2: Rhuna: Crossroads, Book 3: Rhuna, The Star Child)

Set in the ancient, mystical past when an idyllic Atlantis-like civilization flourished, and its people had exceptional powers to transform elements such as sand to stone and metal to gold with concentrated mental energy.

This utopian Atlan Empire is rocked when one of its most preeminent Masters rebels and seeks to subvert the ideals of Atlan society. Roaming the countryside in a black robe, misusing his powers on innocent people, he becomes known as the dreaded Dark Master.

On a distant and isolated island on the fringes of the Atlan Empire, a young girl named Rhuna comes of age when she meets a man from Atlán and learns that her father was an Atlan Master who was killed in his attempt to destroy the Dark Master.

Journeying across oceans and ancient worlds, Rhuna learns to master her inherent mental powers, transforming elements and summoning visions by means of the Gazing of the Waters. Unlike her peers, however, Rhuna discovers she has an extra power, namely the ability to summon visions mentally, without incantations or powders.

The first book in this extraordinary Urban Fantasy series lays the foundations of the Atlan Empire and Rhuna’s world, and even when the Dark Master appears to have been defeated, secret and sinister powers continue to threaten the ancient Utopia.

Books 2 & 3 are set in Ancient Egypt, where Rhuna journeys on an assignment to investigate strange reports of activities associated with the Dark Master. She soon discovers an astonishing underground network of the Dark Master's followers, along with the secret group of Atlans dedicated to stopping them. In the process of trying to carry out her assignment, Rhuna is confronted with enormous challenges that could drastically change her entire life and everything she has ever believed in!

This box-set contains books 4-6 of the RHUNA series.

Rhuna: New Horizons

Rhuna, The Snow Dreamer

Rhuna: Black City

Rhuna is a woman living in the mystical past of highly advanced civilizations like Atlantis, when pyramids and other megalithic structures were made with technology now lost and forgotten. This ancient legend tells of people with special abilities who can transform elements, such as sand to stone and lead to gold, with the concentrated power of the mind. They could also summon mental visions of faraway places and events, and call upon cosmic, solar, lunar and earth energies.

Rhuna has been gifted with more of these superhuman abilities than most, and as her powers grow, she faces ever greater challenges, both on a personal level and in far-reaching issues that affect everyone around her. Her nemesis, known as the Dark Master, is a man with similar exceptional powers who has chosen to use them for sinister purposes.

Rhuna is a woman who lives in the mystical past when a highly-advanced civilization like Atlantis spread knowledge across the world and built megalithic structures such as the pyramids. In Rhuna’s world, these intellectual people of an idyllic society are called Atlans, and many of them possess the ability to change matter with the power of their minds.

Although Rhuna is only part Atlan, she has inherited these Atlan abilities, not only to transform elements such as sand to stone and metal to gold, but also to summon visions of distant places and events.

The first book in the full-length novel series begins with Rhuna as a young adolescent, when she discovers her heritage and special powers. This time period is the setting for the mini novella, The Summer Sojourn.

In this short novella, Rhuna attends a special school on a lovely Pacific island, and during the summer break, she visits a nearby island where she mingles with the native residents. Everything appears fine on the surface until one terrifying night in which Rhuna and her group must flee from the island or be killed in a brutal uprising.

Rhuna and her fellow Atlans are shocked to learn about the lie and the events which led to this conflict between two very different groups of people.

Rhuna is a woman who lives in the mystical past when a highly-advanced civilization like Atlantis spread knowledge across the world and built megalithic structures such as the pyramids. In Rhuna’s world, these intellectual people of an idyllic society are called Atlans, and many of them possess the ability to change matter with the power of their minds. Although Rhuna is only part Atlan, she has inherited these Atlan abilities, not only to transform elements such as sand to stone and metal to gold, but also to summon visions of distant places and events.

This short story describes an event in Rhuna's life that takes place in the middle of Winter when the Atlan people celebrate a festival very similar to our modern-day Christmas. The time of this event is between the first full-length book (Rhuna, Keeper of Wisdom) and the second book (Rhuna: Crossroads) when Rhuna has a 10-year-old daughter. When heavy snow traps a group of people in the mountains near the City of Atlan, Rhuna discovers another aspect of her mental powers which can save them.