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7 Forbidden Arts Books in Order

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Browse the 7 Forbidden Arts books by Charmaine Pauls in order, with summaries, series background, and a clear place to start the paranormal romance.

Last updated: July 14, 2026

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7 Forbidden Arts books in publication order

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1

Aeromancist

by Charmaine Pauls

2015

What started in the previous book grows darker here as air-bound power, obsession, and secrets gather force. The story leans harder into the series' mix of eerie magic and romance under pressure.

2

Aeromancist: The Beginning

by Charmaine Pauls

2015

The series deepens here as forbidden power begins to stir in a new direction and hidden truths start moving fast. What starts as awakening quickly becomes dangerous when desire and the supernatural stop pulling apart.

3

Hydromancist

by Charmaine Pauls

2015

Water-linked power becomes the next dangerous gift in a world where magic always comes with a cost. Romance, suspicion, and supernatural danger rise together as the heroine learns what her ability can really do.

4

Pyromancist

by Charmaine Pauls

2015

As unexplained fires devastate a French fishing village, Clelia's sleepwalking starts looking far too connected to the destruction. Old desire, nightmares, and a dangerous power make this a moody paranormal opener.

5

Geomancist

by Charmaine Pauls

2016

Earth-linked power becomes the next dangerous gift in a series where magic always comes at a price. Romance, fear, and supernatural threat rise together as the stakes turn heavier and more intimate.

6

Necromancist

by Charmaine Pauls

2016

Death magic gives this installment a darker edge, along with bigger questions about what should stay buried. The romance stays central, but the danger here feels colder and harder to escape.

7

Chiromancist

by Charmaine Pauls

2017

A new supernatural gift opens up another path into danger, temptation, and hidden truth. The book keeps the series' mix of dark romance and unsettling power at the center of every choice.

8

Man

by Charmaine Pauls

2017

The final numbered entry brings the series' supernatural threads back to human weakness, longing, and choice. It is a darker close, with forbidden power still lurking under every emotional decision.

9

Scapulimancist

by Charmaine Pauls

2017

Another forbidden gift brings fresh danger to a world where power and desire are never cleanly separated. This installment keeps the series' eerie paranormal mood while pushing its romance into riskier territory.

7 Forbidden Arts books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Pyromancist"

    Pyromancist

    by Charmaine Pauls

    20157 Forbidden Arts, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Aeromancist: The Beginning"

    Aeromancist: The Beginning

    by Charmaine Pauls

    20157 Forbidden Arts, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Aeromancist"

    Aeromancist

    by Charmaine Pauls

    20157 Forbidden Arts, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Hydromancist"

    Hydromancist

    by Charmaine Pauls

    20157 Forbidden Arts, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Geomancist"

    Geomancist

    by Charmaine Pauls

    20167 Forbidden Arts, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "Necromancist"

    Necromancist

    by Charmaine Pauls

    20167 Forbidden Arts, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "Scapulimancist"

    Scapulimancist

    by Charmaine Pauls

    20177 Forbidden Arts, Book 7
  8. Book cover for "Chiromancist"

    Chiromancist

    by Charmaine Pauls

    20177 Forbidden Arts, Book 8
  9. Book cover for "Man"

    Man

    by Charmaine Pauls

    20177 Forbidden Arts, Book 9

Series background & context

7 Forbidden Arts is Charmaine Pauls in a darker paranormal mode. Instead of loan sharks, oligarchs, or crime families, the series builds its tension around supernatural gifts that are dangerous, hidden, and often impossible to separate from desire. The titles tell you a lot about the flavor: fire, air, water, earth, death, and stranger forms of seeing and knowing all become part of the emotional weather.

The opening book, Pyromancist, sets the tone well. Fires tear through a fishing village in France, and Clelia's sleepwalking starts looking far too connected to the destruction. Old feelings, nightmares, buried history, and unexplained power all start knotting together at once. That blend of gothic unease and romantic tension is the series' home base.

Magic is never treated as a neat gift here.

Across the run, the books keep circling the idea that power comes with fear, appetite, and a cost. Later titles suggest the focus broadens from fire to air, water, earth, death, and other forbidden ways of reading the world. The result is a series that feels less like one tidy paranormal romance and more like a dark chain of linked supernatural stories, each interested in what happens when desire and dangerous ability wake up together.

The tone matters as much as the premise. These are not bright, playful magic books. They are moodier than that, sometimes eerie, sometimes sensual, often both at once. The romance stays important, but the supernatural thread keeps raising the stakes in a way that ordinary contemporary conflict could not.

If you want to see Charmaine Pauls outside her crime-romance lane, this is an interesting branch to try. Start with Pyromancist and expect a world where attraction is tangled up with old wounds, strange gifts, and the sense that something hidden is always pressing closer.

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