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Cathy Clamp Books in Order

Find Cathy Clamp books in order, from Sazi and Thrall to Luna Lake, with quick summaries, reading order notes, and simple advice on where to start.

Last updated: July 3, 2026

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16 books

Road to Riches

by Cathy Clamp

2003

Set during Colorado's silver boom, this historical novel follows the brutal race to bring the first railroad into Aspen in 1887. Sabotage, politics, and raw ambition turn a business contest into a fight over the future of the region.

Hunter's Moon

by Cathy Clamp

2004

Mafia hitman Tony Giodone survives an attack that leaves him blacking out every full moon. When Sue Quentin hires him to kill her and instead becomes his fated mate, Tony is dragged into the hidden world of the Sazi.

Moon's Web

by Cathy Clamp

2005

Former mob hitman Tony Giodone is now part of the secret Sazi world, but trouble finds him again fast. Something is abducting female shifters and draining their powers, and Tony may be the only one brutal enough to stop it.

Captive Moon

by Cathy Clamp

2006

Entertainer and Sazi councilmember Antoine Monier rescues tiger shifter Tahira Kuric from police custody, only to learn she belongs to a rival shapeshifter people. With hunters after Tahira's rare power, the enemies must trust each other to survive.

Touch of Evil

by Cathy Clamp

2006

After surviving a Thrall bite, psychic courier Kate Reilly is classified as Not Prey, but one dying queen wants Kate as her successor. Her best hope may be Tom Bishop, a firefighter, werewolf, and dangerously tempting new neighbor.

Howling Moon

by Cathy Clamp

2007

After a jaguar attack kills her parents and leaves her changed, Cat Turner lands in Boulder with danger on her trail. Raphael Ramirez, a veteran Sazi enforcer, must stop a vicious killer before Cat becomes the next target.

Moon's Fury

by Cathy Clamp

2007

Texas sheriff and wolf pack leader Cara Salinas is forced to work with Adam Mueller, the exiled leader of a transplanted pack. Their clash turns urgent when predatory Sazi raptors start hunting wolf children.

Touch of Madness

by Cathy Clamp

2007

Kate Reilly is on trial, hunted by killers, and under pressure from the parasitic Thrall. When the vampires promise help for her damaged brother, she agrees to investigate missing eggs while Tom's pack tries to split them apart.

Timeless Moon

by Cathy Clamp

2008

Legendary seer Josette Monier lives in exile, cut off by visions that make ordinary life painful. When attacks on Sazi seers begin, her long-lost husband Rick returns, and together they chase assassins, old enemies, and answers.

Touch of Darkness

by Cathy Clamp

2008

Kate Reilly and Tom Bishop should be planning their wedding, but the Thrall have other ideas. A clever new enemy strips away old rules, turns Kate into prey, and forces her to choose between her future and everyone else's.

Cold Moon Rising

by Cathy Clamp

2009

Tony Giodone is back, juggling pack trouble, mob enemies, and growing psychic visions. To stop a cabal of Sazi killers, he must work with Ahmad of the snakes and relive an ancient betrayal that could doom them all.

Fare Thee Well

by Cathy Clamp

2010

Lia Thantos expects a quiet summer job in the morgue. Then a corpse starts screaming, the ferryman Kharon comes looking for a missing soul, and Lia finds herself owing the underworld one very unusual summer.

Serpent Moon

by Cathy Clamp

2010

Eric Thompson's wolf howl can wreck electronics and bring planes down, so he lives alone by choice. When healer Holly Sanchez comes to pull him back into Sazi life, they find a deadly threat and a civil war closing in.

Forbidden

by Cathy Clamp

2015

In the isolated town of Luna Lake, wolf agent Claire Sanchez investigates missing Sazi children while fighting her own traumatic past. Another wolf, Alek, might help her, but their growing attraction complicates an already dangerous search.

Illicit

by Cathy Clamp

2016

A border dispute between bear clans threatens to expose the shapeshifters, so peace talks are called in Luna Lake. Owl shifter Rachel Washington and Wolven agent Dalvin Adway reconnect just as betrayal pushes the negotiations toward war.

Denied

by Cathy Clamp

2018

Bear shifter Anica Petrovic finally has a home in Luna Lake until a string of savage murders points at her own kind. Newcomer Tristan may hold the key, but his secrets are as dangerous as the ancient evil he is hunting.

Where should I start?

If you want the original shapeshifter saga: Hunter's MoonMoon's WebCaptive Moon
If you want a darker vampire arc: Touch of EvilTouch of MadnessTouch of Darkness
If you want a newer entry point into the Sazi world: ForbiddenIllicitDenied
If you want something outside the paranormal books: Road to Riches

Author bio

Cathy Clamp was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and she did not set out to become a novelist. For years she worked as a paralegal, writing the kind of clean, precise prose that keeps law offices moving. That background shows in her fiction, too. Even when the story involves werewolves, vampires, or ancient magic, the plots tend to move with a practical sense of cause and effect.

Writing came later.

Clamp has said she was in her mid-thirties before fiction really clicked for her. The turning point was meeting fellow paralegal C.T. Adams at work. They talked about books over lunch, then about story ideas, and before long they were testing what a partnership might look like. Clamp brought a knack for action and emotional heat. Adams brought a big, restless imagination and a taste for complicated plots.

Their first full-length collaboration was Road to Riches, a historical novel about the race to bring a railroad to Aspen during Colorado's silver boom. After that, they turned hard toward paranormal romance and urban fantasy. A short story grew into Hunter's Moon, the opening book in the Sazi universe, and that world of hidden shapeshifters became one of the pair's best-known creations.

Readers who start with Hunter's Moon, Moon's Web, or Touch of Evil usually find the same appeal: fast plots, a strong romance thread, and supernatural rules that feel lived in instead of decorative. Clamp's books like hidden societies, messy loyalties, and characters who have jobs to do even when magic is tearing up the plan. The later Forbidden opens the Luna Lake trilogy and shows that same habit of mixing danger, community politics, and emotional fallout.

She also wrote as part of Cat Adams, the joint pen name she and Adams used for the Blood Singer novels. Those books shift the spotlight to Celia Graves, a Los Angeles bodyguard dealing with vampires, sirens, mages, and a life that keeps getting stranger. It is a good example of Clamp's range inside the broader paranormal shelf. She can write shapeshifter pack tension, but she is just as comfortable with urban fantasy that runs on investigations, bodyguard work, and supernatural bureaucracy.

The monsters matter, but so do the people trying to pay rent, protect family, and make it through the week.

That balance is a big part of her voice. Her books tend to care about found family, loyalty, trauma, and what happens after survival. They can be dark, but they are rarely floaty. There is usually a sense that someone has to make a hard call, clean up a mess, or stand watch while the rest of the world sleeps.

These days Clamp lives in the Texas Hill Country with her husband and a lively collection of animals, including dogs, cats, and goats. It fits the feeling of her work: grounded, busy, a little chaotic, and never far from the nonhuman world. She came to fiction later than some writers do, but once she arrived, she built a shelf full of stories with claws, heart, and a lot of forward motion.

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