Alpha and Omega Books in Order

Alpha and Omega shares a world with the Mercy Thompson novels, but it shifts the spotlight to Anna Latham and Charles Cornick, a mated pair of werewolves at the heart of the Marrok's pack. Where Mercy often stumbles into trouble at home, Anna and Charles are the ones sent out to solve problems no one else can face.

The story begins with a novella in the anthology On the Prowl, where Anna has survived years of abuse in the Chicago pack without understanding that her strange calm is a rare Omega gift. When she calls the Marrok for help, he sends his son Charles, the quiet enforcer who handles the hard work of keeping werewolves in line. Their uneasy first meeting, full of fear, attraction, and culture shock, sets the emotional tone for the series.

In Cry Wolf and Hunting Ground the two of them are still learning each other while tracking a murderous rogue in the Montana wilderness and then representing the pack at a tense international summit about whether werewolves should reveal themselves to the public. Later books push them into different corners of the supernatural world, from hunting a serial killer who preys on the preternatural to confronting fae beings who steal children or entire communities that vanish from the map.

These are adventure stories, but they are also about recovery. Anna is not a fighter in the same way Mercy is; her strength is in how she reads a room, calms a pack on the edge of violence, and refuses to let trauma define her future. Charles carries the weight of centuries and the guilt of every life he has taken, and the books spend as much time on quiet, domestic moments as they do on magic and bloodshed.

The tone is a little more intimate than the Mercy books, with a stronger romantic thread and more focus on the internal politics of werewolf society. There is plenty of danger, witchcraft, and fae trickery, but the emotional center is a marriage that grows more complicated and solid as the series goes on.

You do not have to read Alpha and Omega to follow Mercy Thompson, yet the two series talk to each other in satisfying ways. Characters and consequences cross over, and events in one often explain background tensions in the other. If you want to understand how the werewolves function outside the Tri-Cities, and you like the idea of a committed couple at the heart of the story, this is the series to pick up.