7 Forbidden Arts Books in Order
Part ofCharmaine Pauls Books in OrderBrowse 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
9 books
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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

Pyromancist
by Charmaine Pauls
20157 Forbidden Arts, Book 1
Aeromancist: The Beginning
by Charmaine Pauls
20157 Forbidden Arts, Book 2
Aeromancist
by Charmaine Pauls
20157 Forbidden Arts, Book 3
Hydromancist
by Charmaine Pauls
20157 Forbidden Arts, Book 4
Geomancist
by Charmaine Pauls
20167 Forbidden Arts, Book 5
Necromancist
by Charmaine Pauls
20167 Forbidden Arts, Book 6
Scapulimancist
by Charmaine Pauls
20177 Forbidden Arts, Book 7
Chiromancist
by Charmaine Pauls
20177 Forbidden Arts, Book 8
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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