Cameron Jace Books in Order
Explore Cameron Jace books in order, with series guides, short summaries, reading paths, and help deciding where to start.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
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Publication Order
31 books
I Am Alive
by Cameron Jace
2012
In a rigid future where teens are ranked for life, Decca is labeled a Monster and thrown into a televised fight to survive. Every six hours she has to scream that she is alive while trying to learn why the system marked her.
Snow White Blood Red
by Cameron Jace
2012
The so called Evil Queen tells her side of the Snow White story while old truths rot underneath the Grimm version everyone knows. It is a short, dark opening that reframes Sorrow's most feared mother and daughter.
Cinderella Dressed in Ashes
by Cameron Jace
2013
Snow White takes the lead as Loki falls under the Queen's control and becomes her enemy. A new Dreamory opens up the truth about Cinderella, her history with Snow, and the forbidden power linking them.
Insanity
by Cameron Jace
2013
After a deadly bus incident leaves her classmates dead, Alice Wonder wakes up in the Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum with almost no memory. A hookah smoking professor insists she is not just mad, she is the only one who can stop modern Wonderland monsters.
Pentimento
by Cameron Jace
2013
In a ruined future America, seventeen year old Iris Beaumont lives under a system that sacrifices one girl each week to the Beasts. When she falls for the possibly dangerous Colton Ray, rebellion and survival become tangled together.
Snow White Sorrow
by Cameron Jace
2013
Dreamhunter Loki Blackstar is sent to kill the girl locals call Snow White, only to find a furious immortal living inside the ruins of a castle. His mission turns into an unraveling of the fairy tale's darkest buried truth.
Figment
by Cameron Jace
2014
After her encounter with the Cheshire Cat, Alice can barely trust her own mind. When children start turning up murdered in grotesque ways, she and Professor Pillar are pulled into another killer's puzzle filled game.
Blood, Milk & Chocolate - Part 1
by Cameron Jace
2015
Fable, Axel, and Shew chase answers about the Lost Seven and the Huntsman's love for Snow White, while Lucy reads a dangerous diary about the Queen of Sorrow. The farther they dig, the worse the consequences become.
Circus
by Cameron Jace
2015
Still reeling from loss, Alice goes deeper into the Rabbit Hole to stop the Circus, a terrifying event that could hand the world to the Wonderlanders. The story blends grief, paranoia, and high stakes mind games.
Hookah
by Cameron Jace
2015
Alice and the Pillar race to stop a plague worse than death, unleashed by one of the strangest Wonderland monsters yet. The hunt widens beyond the asylum, and the series starts feeling bigger and darker.
Blood, Milk & Chocolate - Part 2
by Cameron Jace
2016
The diary of the Queen of Sorrow keeps unfolding, revealing how her kingdom rose and how love, grief, and ambition twisted into something monstrous. It is the lore heavy payoff to the Grimm Diaries central mystery.
Checkmate
by Cameron Jace
2016
A wave of endless sleep threatens the world, and Alice and the Pillar must solve a deadly global chess game before millions pay the price. The deeper Alice goes, the more the board starts revealing her own buried past.
Family
by Cameron Jace
2016
The madness gets personal when family secrets and old loyalties rise to the surface. As the wider conflict grows, Alice has to decide who she can trust and what she is willing to lose to protect her found family.
Wonder
by Cameron Jace
2016
Alice Wonder is forced to question who she really is as the line between memory, prophecy, and manipulation disappears. The fifth book turns inward without losing the series' strange murders, riddles, and Wonderland menace.
Increscent
by Cameron Jace
2017
After the first brutal test of survival, Decca has to choose what kind of life she actually wants. Secrets around Leo, Woo, and her own place in the system deepen as staying alive stops being enough.
Mushrooms
by Cameron Jace
2018
The Wonderland War is underway, the Pillar may be gone, and Alice is closer than ever to the Six Impossible Keys. As the Inklings scatter and regroup, the book digs into backstory while pushing the madness toward its endgame.
The Last Girl
by Cameron Jace
2018
After surviving a plane crash, June West wakes in a hospital with no memory and no one claiming her. Then a note tells her she has twenty four hours to save a daughter she does not remember having.
Looking Glass
by Cameron Jace
2020
The endgame arrives as Alice and her allies finally confront the truth behind Wonderland, Black Chess, and the disasters chasing them. The story closes with more riddles, shifting realities, and long buried answers.
Merry Christmas, Alice Wonder!
by Cameron Jace
2020
A Christmas side story turns into a major revelation for Alice Wonder as the truth about Black Chess starts coming into focus. Short, strange, and twisty, it pushes the Insanity mythos forward in a hurry.
RATTATTATA: The Worst Book of the Year!
by Cameron Jace
2020
Oxford student Maddy Bryce discovers a book written by the Devil's son, and her quiet life turns into a wild mess of cults, violence, weird history, and chaos. The novel leans into B movie energy on purpose.
Destiny
by Cameron Jace
2021
Destiny pushes the Queen of Sorrow closer to the role readers know, forcing painful choices between love, power, and fate. The series stays personal even as the future of the kingdom hangs in the balance.
Enemy
by Cameron Jace
2021
As loyalties crack and danger closes in, the Queen of Sorrow has to decide who her real enemy is. This episode leans into betrayal, fear, and the personal cost of power.
Prophecy
by Cameron Jace
2021
The Queen of Sorrow arc opens under the weight of prophecy, old wounds, and a future no one can escape. It sets the dark tone for a story about power, family, and the making of a fairy tale villain.
Sacrifice
by Cameron Jace
2021
The cost of power, survival, and love finally comes due. Sacrifice brings the Queen of Sorrow arc toward its emotional breaking point without losing its dark fairy tale mood.
Seven
by Cameron Jace
2021
Old truths around the Seven begin to surface, and the path toward tragedy becomes harder to avoid. This installment keeps building the lore while tightening the pressure on the Queen of Sorrow.
Voyage
by Cameron Jace
2021
A dangerous journey pulls the Queen of Sorrow deeper into old secrets and uncertain alliances. What begins as survival starts turning into a search for answers that could reshape Sorrow itself.
The Advocate
by Cameron Jace
2022
After The Fairytale Code, the mysterious Advocate heads to France to bargain over a secret powerful enough to shake church and crown alike. This short story sharpens the mythology and hints at who is really pulling strings.
The Fairytale Code
by Cameron Jace
2022
When a murdered girl is posed like a fairy tale clue, folklorist Anne Anderson is pulled into a killer's puzzle with detective David Tale. Their search sends them across Europe after secrets buried inside old stories.
Rabbit Hole
by Cameron Jace
2023
Rookie detective Alice Black is handed the Cheshire Killer case, the same killer who kidnapped her as a child and let her live. As she follows him into abandoned asylums and staged horrors, the hunt becomes brutally personal.
The Fairytale Plague
by Cameron Jace
2023
Anne Anderson and David Tale dig deeper into a conspiracy hidden inside fairy tales, only to find old stories pointing toward a plague and a frightening truth about human existence. The mystery grows from murder puzzle to something much larger and darker.
The Fairytale World
by Cameron Jace
2023
Anne and David race to understand a spreading threat tied to Rachel, the Pied Piper legend, and children scattered across the world. The final mystery pushes the series from historical puzzle into openly global stakes.
Where should I start?
If you want his dark Alice story first: Insanity → Figment → Circus → Hookah
If you want fairy tales turned inside out: Snow White Blood Red → Snow White Sorrow → Cinderella Dressed in Ashes
If you want dystopian YA: I Am Alive → Increscent
If you want a conspiracy thriller with folklore: The Fairytale Code → The Advocate → The Fairytale Plague
Author bio
Cameron Jace was born in Aachen, Germany, on November 13, 1988. He later made his home in San Francisco, and a lot of the details he shares about himself line up with the kind of books he writes. He studied architecture, collects out-of-print books, travels, and plays music when he is not working on stories.
Old stories clearly got to him early.
Jace started publishing fiction in 2012, and he did not ease in with something small or ordinary. His early work moved straight toward fractured fairy tales, dream logic, and modern settings where familiar characters return in stranger forms. That mix became his lane.
His first big world was The Grimm Diaries and its prequels, a dark YA fantasy project that pulls Snow White, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Prince Charming, and plenty of others into one connected mythology. Readers who click with those books usually like the sheer audacity of them. He is less interested in keeping the old tales tidy than in asking what they were hiding.
Then came Insanity, his long running Alice inspired series. It begins with Alice Wonder in an asylum and builds into a wild mix of serial killer mystery, secret history, Wonderland monsters, and questions about identity and memory. It is probably the clearest example of what Jace does well. He takes a story people think they know, drags it into the present, and lets it get weird.
He has also branched out from fairy tale retellings without really leaving his core interests behind. I Am Alive leans into YA dystopia, with a brutal ranking system and survival spectacle. The Fairytale Code turns his love of folklore origins into a conspiracy thriller, following professor Anne Anderson through murder scenes, puzzles, and old European story trails. Under the name Nick Twist, he also published The Last Girl, a psychological thriller about memory, danger, and a woman trying to understand who she is after a plane crash.
Research matters to him.
That shows up again and again in the way his books circle the Brothers Grimm, Lewis Carroll, folk belief, secret histories, and the gap between the story people repeat and the story that may have come first. He has described himself as being obsessed with the origins of folk tales and the storytellers who carried them forward, and that feels like the key to the whole body of work. Even when the plots go big, there is usually a question underneath them about where stories come from and why people keep needing them.
A few of his books have shown up on online customer favorite lists, but the better way to understand his appeal is probably simpler than that. Jace writes for readers who like their fantasy dark, their mythology remixed, and their plots full of riddles, hidden connections, and sudden left turns.
He has long described San Francisco as home. Between the architecture background, the old book collecting, the travel, and the music, he comes across as someone who likes patterns, atmosphere, and the things people leave behind. That makes sense. His fiction is full of hidden designs.
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