Cat Scratch Books in Order

The Cat Scratch series is a two-book science fiction story set on Risthmus, one of many worlds settled by humans. On this planet, the Guide Guild uses a virus to create telepathic links between people and animal species. The bonds can offer useful skills and a closer understanding of the world, but they also come with rules, status, and consequences.

Tsia enters the Guild hoping to earn a place among its Guides. Instead, she is matched with the wild cats, an animal group that people are not supposed to contact. What should have been a step toward a future becomes a dangerous problem that leaves her isolated from the system she hoped to join.

The cats are not a cute sidekick.

In Cat Scratch Fever, Tsia's unwanted bond pulls her into a harsh fight for freedom and survival. The book puts her in a society where technology is everywhere, yet power can still be used in very old-fashioned ways. Tsia has to decide whom to trust while the call of the cats becomes harder to ignore.

Cataract picks up with Tsia still trying to resist the connection that has made her a target. After an accident, a cougar cub refuses to leave her, and the bond she fears may be the only thing that can keep her alive. The sequel stays close to Tsia's viewpoint and keeps the stakes personal, even as the wider rules of Risthmus press in.

These are tense, sometimes dark books about belonging, control, and the difference between a chosen connection and one forced on you. Readers should begin with Cat Scratch Fever, since it establishes Risthmus, the Guild, Tsia's situation, and why a telepathic link with the cats is so dangerous. Cataract works best as a direct continuation rather than a separate entry point.