Cassie Palmer Books in Order
Part ofKaren Chance Books in OrderThis page lists the Cassie Palmer books by Karen Chance in order, with short summaries, series background, crossover notes, and where to start.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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Publication Order
15 books
Touch the Dark
by Karen Chance
2006
Cassie Palmer can see the future and talk to ghosts, which makes her valuable to all the wrong people. When the vampire mobster she escaped comes hunting again, she has to seek protection from the vampire Senate, at a steep price.
Claimed By Shadow
by Karen Chance
2007
Newly named heir to the Pythia, Cassie is stuck with power she barely understands and enemies on every side. Vampires, mages, and fey all want control, while a magical claim from Mircea makes her personal life even messier.
Embrace the Night
by Karen Chance
2008
Cassie wants one thing, freedom from the spell binding her to Mircea. To break it, she has to chase the Codex Merlini into the past, and risk bringing back magic that could threaten far more than her own heart.
Curse the Dawn
by Karen Chance
2009
Being Pythia has not made Cassie safer, it has made her a bigger target. With the Vampire Senate demanding alliances and Apollo himself coming after her, she has to fight for her life and the world's.
Hunt the Moon
by Karen Chance
2011
Cassie should be preparing for her coronation, not racing through time to stop sabotage before it starts. When an enemy strikes at her mother before Cassie is even born, the battle for the Pythian throne turns deeply personal.
Tempt the Stars
by Karen Chance
2013
Cassie is still learning what it means to be a half-goddess Pythia, and the learning curve is brutal. Between a dangerous burglary, a friend in terrible trouble, and acolytes who could unleash disaster, her day only gets worse.
Masks
by Karen Chance
2014
In fifteenth-century Venice, newly made vampire Mircea Basarab is a fallen prince trying to survive among predators. Service, seduction, and an old vendetta pull him into a hunt for an assassin and the truth behind the city's glittering masks.
Reap the Wind
by Karen Chance
2015
Cassie dives through time to rescue John Pritkin after his soul is scattered across the ages. With Pritkin's dangerous father in tow and timeline guardians closing in, even a simple rescue could end in catastrophe.
Ride the Storm
by Karen Chance
2017
Cassie has spent the series playing catch-up as the supernatural world's chief seer. Now ancient powers are rising, war is brewing, and she may be the only one who can pull enough allies together to stop disaster.
Brave the Tempest
by Karen Chance
2019
Cassie has only been chief seer for a few months, but the supernatural world is already splintering around her. To stop catastrophe, she must hold together an uneasy alliance of vampires, mages, and demons before it tears itself apart.
Skin Deep
by Karen Chance
2019
War mage Lia de Croissets stumbles into a nightmare when Weres start turning up skinned and her lover disappears. Her best lead is a living dragon tattoo on her own body, and it has plans of its own.
Shatter the Earth
by Karen Chance
2020
As time begins to split between Earth and Faerie, Cassie finally gets the advantage she never asked for. A war between worlds is coming, and she, Mircea, and Pritkin will need more than power to survive it.
Ignite the Fire: Inferno
by Karen Chance
2022
Kidnapped in Faerie by the light fey king Aeslinn, Cassie is offered a brutal bargain involving John Pritkin's life. To save him and stop Zeus, she may have to challenge the king of the gods himself.
Hijack the Seas: Seismic
by Karen Chance
2024
John Pritkin is fighting for a light fey throne, and Cassie knows losing is not an option. Helping him survive court politics would be hard enough without an old enemy showing up with revenge on the agenda.
Hijack the Seas: Tsunami
by Karen Chance
2025
Thrown fifty years into a ruined future, Cassie finds Earth under the gods' control and her own power gone. Her only chance is to reach her heir, outwit a pantheon, and get back in time to undo it all.
Series background & context
Cassie Palmer enters this series already in trouble. She can see the future and talk to ghosts, which would be enough to complicate anybody's life. In Karen Chance's world, those gifts also make her valuable to vampires, mages, and other supernatural players who are always looking for an edge. By the time Touch the Dark begins, Cassie has already escaped one dangerous vampire, only to get pulled into something much larger.
Then the job offer from hell arrives.
Cassie is tapped to become the Pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural community. That sounds impressive until you remember she has almost none of the training that usually comes with the office, and nearly everyone with money, magic, or fangs wants to control her. The series gets a lot of mileage out of that pressure. The Vampire Senate wants influence. The Silver Circle, the main magical organization, has plans of its own. The fey are never far away. And Cassie is stuck learning what she can do while people keep trying to manipulate, recruit, or kill her.
The setting starts in a modern urban fantasy world, with Las Vegas as a major home base, but it does not stay in one lane for long. Cassie moves through vampire courts, mage politics, haunted spaces, Faerie, and more than one stretch of history. Time travel is not just a flashy extra in these books, it is part of the engine. A problem in the present can begin centuries earlier, and a desperate fix can leave behind a whole new disaster.
A lot of the long-running tension comes from who Cassie can trust. Mircea Basarab, a powerful vampire senator, wants to protect her, but his motives are not always simple. John Pritkin, a war mage first sent to kill her, becomes just as important for very different reasons. Around them is a big cast of allies, rivals, ghosts, vampires, fey, and mages who are useful, dangerous, or usually both. The romance matters, but it never floats free of the plot. It is tied up in power, loyalty, and survival.
That is what gives the series its particular kick.
If you like urban fantasy that moves fast and keeps widening the board, this is what you can expect. The early books are about Cassie trying to stay alive long enough to understand her office. Later books open the story into supernatural war, ancient gods, broken timelines, and the question of what kind of power Cassie actually wants to become. Even when the scale gets huge, the core stays personal. She is always trying to protect the people she cares about while figuring out how to stay herself inside a role everyone else wants to define for her.
Start with Touch the Dark and expect a connected, fast-building arc. The Cassie books also cross over with the Dorina Basarab series, so readers who enjoy a shared world with extra side roads will find plenty to dig into.
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