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Cate Tiernan Books in Order

Browse Cate Tiernan books in order, from Sweep to Balefire and Immortal Beloved, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy starting points.

Last updated: July 3, 2026

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23 books

Awakening

by Cate Tiernan

2001

After betrayal and loss, Morgan sees more clearly that Wicca can heal or harm. As her powers deepen, she has to decide who deserves her trust and what kind of witch she wants to be.

Blood Witch

by Cate Tiernan

2001

Morgan is learning fast, maybe too fast, and her new strength is starting to scare her. Shadows gather around her relationship with Cal as she tries to tell real danger from paranoia.

Book of Shadows

by Cate Tiernan

2001

Morgan Rowlands thinks she is an ordinary teenager until a new boy introduces her to Wicca. One ritual opens the door to power, first love, and a completely different idea of who she is.

Changeling

by Cate Tiernan

2001

Just when Morgan thinks she understands her bloodline, everything shifts again. New truths about her family force her to question her identity, her loyalties, and how far she will go for answers.

Dark Magick

by Cate Tiernan

2001

Morgan and Cal are bound by a dark secret that changes everything between them. Love, trust, and magick start to twist together as she realizes how little she truly knows.

Spellbound

by Cate Tiernan

2001

As Yule approaches, Morgan's magick is stronger and her circle seems steadier, but a hard choice waits ahead. One decision could change her future, her friendships, and the path of her power.

The Calling

by Cate Tiernan

2001

Morgan and Hunter head to New York to follow visions and dig into her family history. Their search puts them on the trail of a deadly conspiracy that is far from over.

The Coven

by Cate Tiernan

2001

Morgan's attraction to Cal pulls her deeper into witchcraft and into the truth about her own bloodline. As her powers grow, so does the fear that Cal is hiding something dangerous.

Eclipse

by Cate Tiernan

2002

Morgan knows a wave of destruction is coming, and the lies around her family are finally breaking apart. She cannot stop what is coming alone, but asking for help has its own cost.

Full Circle

by Cate Tiernan

2002

Alisa believes the worst is behind her, but the past reaches for her again. With Hunter nearby and Morgan still in her corner, she faces a lonely test of courage and identity.

Origins

by Cate Tiernan

2002

This book steps back into the past to trace the roots of the Woodbane line. Through Rose MacEwan's story, Morgan and Hunter finally see how old love, fear, and dark magick shaped the present.

Reckoning

by Cate Tiernan

2002

Alisa goes searching for the people who might finally explain her past. Instead of belonging, she finds danger, fear, and a choice that could reshape her future.

Seeker

by Cate Tiernan

2002

Hunter follows the first real leads to his missing parents while trying not to lose Morgan in the process. The closer he gets to answers, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

Strife

by Cate Tiernan

2002

Violent magical incidents start piling up, and suspicion turns toward Morgan. To clear her name, she has to find the real source of the danger before her own people turn on her.

Night's Child

by Cate Tiernan

2003

Years after Morgan's battles, her daughter Moira begins to sense that the family past is still dangerously unfinished. As painful truths surface, someone close to her may pay the price.

A Chalice of Wind

by Cate Tiernan

2005

After her father's death, Thais is sent to New Orleans and discovers a twin sister she never knew existed. Magic, old family secrets, and a powerful coven change her life overnight.

A Circle of Ashes

by Cate Tiernan

2005

Thais wants to test the limits of her new powers, while Clio struggles to share the life she once thought was hers alone. Together they may be stronger, but only if they stop pulling apart.

A Feather of Stone

by Cate Tiernan

2005

The twins are growing into their power, but they want very different things from it. As pressure mounts around a fated rite, outside enemies and inner division both threaten to destroy them.

A Necklace of Water

by Cate Tiernan

2006

Secrets finally break open as Thais and Clio face the full cost of power, love, and loyalty. What they learn about the coven and themselves could destroy everything they are trying to protect.

Immortal Beloved

by Cate Tiernan

2010

After centuries of reckless living, immortal Nastasya runs to a refuge for others like her and tries to start over. Then Reyn and a threat from her past make reinvention a lot harder.

Darkness Falls

by Cate Tiernan

2011

Nastasya tries to build a quieter life at River's Edge, but her family's dark history will not stay buried. When old friends return, she has to decide whether she is healing or falling back.

Eternally Yours

by Cate Tiernan

2012

After a deadly clash, Nastasya is done running from dark immortals and old feuds. The final showdown tests her magick, her nerve, and the love she has spent centuries trying not to trust.

Darkest Fear

by Cate Tiernan

2014

Vivi has spent years rejecting her jaguar-shifter heritage, but her parents' sudden deaths leave her with no escape. Family secrets, new loyalties, and real danger force her to face what she is.

Where should I start?

If you want classic YA witch drama: Book of ShadowsThe CovenBlood Witch
If you want New Orleans covens and twin tension: A Chalice of WindA Circle of AshesA Feather of StoneA Necklace of Water
If you want older, darker immortal fantasy: Immortal BelovedDarkness FallsEternally Yours
If you want shapeshifters and family secrets: Darkest Fear

Author bio

Cate Tiernan is the pen name of Gabrielle Charbonnet, a New Orleans born writer whose books helped define a certain corner of YA fantasy in the 2000s. She grew up in Louisiana, and that background still feels close to her work. Old houses, hidden histories, family secrets, and magic with rules show up again and again in her fiction.

She studied writing and Russian language and literature at New York University, then finished her degree in Russian at Loyola University in New Orleans. That mix of storytelling and language study makes sense when you look at her career. Her books tend to move fast, but they are also built around lore, ancestry, and the power of words.

Before she became widely known for witches and immortals, she worked in publishing.

In New York City she worked at Random House in children's publishing, and that job turned into a real writing life. While working there she wrote her first children's books, and she also assisted in editing L.J. Smith's The Secret Circle. It was a practical beginning, close to the machinery of books, and it gave her a firsthand look at how teen fantasy could pull readers in.

Under her own name, Gabrielle Charbonnet, she wrote children's books and series fiction. Under the Cate Tiernan name, she leaned harder into paranormal and fantasy stories for teens. Across names and projects, she has written more than 75 books.

For many readers, the book that opened the door was Book of Shadows, the start of the Sweep series. That series follows Morgan Rowlands as ordinary high school life crashes into Wicca, family revelations, romance, and danger. Readers who love Sweep usually come back to the same things, the quick pace, the coven drama, the emotional messiness, and the feeling that magic changes daily life instead of floating above it.

She kept building from there.

A Chalice of Wind took her back to New Orleans for a story about twin sisters, buried family history, and a coven with old power behind it. Immortal Beloved shifted to a more sardonic voice, following Nastasya, an immortal trying to step away from a reckless life. Then Darkest Fear turned toward shapeshifter fantasy, with Vivi forced to confront a jaguar heritage she never wanted. Different setup, same strength: Tiernan is very good at writing characters who inherit something huge before they know how to carry it.

That idea runs through a lot of her work. Hidden lineage, dangerous attraction, chosen family, and power with a real cost are all part of the package. Even when the premise is supernatural, the emotional questions are usually simple and human: Who am I, who can I trust, and what part of my past gets to decide my future?

Tiernan has also written beyond her own fantasy series and under other names, but she remains most closely linked with YA fiction that is moody, readable, and strongly character driven. She lives in North Carolina with her family, and her long career shows in the way her novels hook quickly and keep their secrets moving.

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