Cantrips Books in Order

The Cantrips books are not a traditional series of full-length novels. They are compilation volumes that gather Joey W. Hill's shorter revisit stories, bonus scenes, holiday pieces, and follow-up vignettes from across her wider fictional world. If you have ever finished one of her books and wanted just a little more time with the couple, this is where that wish usually gets answered.

That is the whole point of these collections.

The stories in Cantrips, Vol. 1 and Cantrips, Vol. 2 pull from several different series, including Vampire Queen, Nature of Desire, and the boardroom books. Some are romantic epilogues. Some are playful side adventures. Some fill in emotional beats, family moments, or special occasions that happen after the main novel's ending. You are not starting a new saga here. You are dropping back in on characters who already matter to you.

Because of that, these books work best after the novels they reference. A new reader could technically read them first, but a lot of the emotional charge would be lost. Hill usually assumes you already know who these people are, what they survived, and why a seemingly small scene, a holiday visit, a private joke, a hard conversation, means so much. These stories reward attachment.

They also show a softer side of her connected worlds.

That does not mean nothing happens. Some pieces are sexy, some tense, some funny, and some unexpectedly moving. But compared with the larger novels, the Cantrips volumes are more about deepening than building. They let readers see marriages, friendships, family ties, and aftercare moments that would not always fit inside the structure of a full romance arc.

Another nice thing about these compilations is how clearly they show the breadth of Hill's catalog. A single volume can move from vampires to corporate dominants to artists, witches, or club regulars. If you already read widely across her work, the variety is part of the fun.

So think of Cantrips as dessert, not the main meal. These are affectionate return visits, not entry points. For longtime readers, though, they can be some of the most satisfying books in the catalog, because they prove Hill is just as interested in what happens after the happily-ever-after as she is in how her characters get there.