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Charlotte McConaghy Books in Order

Explore Charlotte McConaghy's books in order, with series lists, summaries, and guidance on where to start with her fantasy sagas and climate-driven novels.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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The Pearl

by Charlotte McConaghy

2005

First in The Strangers of Paragor, The Pearl follows six teenagers who leap through a mysterious portal into a world of warring kingdoms, gods, and monsters. As prophecy awakens, the new arrivals must unite against a rising sorcerer or be swallowed by darkness.

The Shadows

by Charlotte McConaghy

2012

Felix and Leila are Children of the Waves, raised on a storm-battered coast and bound to each other and the sea. When tragedy tears them apart, both are drawn into a rebel war that forces them to face their shared past and the price of freedom.

Avery

by Charlotte McConaghy

2013

Avery opens the Chronicles of Kaya in a land where bonded lovers die together. After her partner Avery is murdered, Ava survives and vows revenge on Pirenti’s queen, only to be captured by prince Ambrose and stranded with him on a lethal island.

Fury

by Charlotte McConaghy

2014

Fury introduces Josephine Luquet, a teenager who wakes naked and covered in blood whenever the red moon rises in a world where anger has been chemically erased. Hunted by secret police, she and enigmatic Luke race to uncover what her uncontrollable fury really means.

Fury: Episode 1

by Charlotte McConaghy

2014

The opening Fury episode follows Josi inside an asylum where the state studies those who failed the Cure. As blood-moon blackouts grow worse and a mysterious boy named Luke appears, she begins to suspect her missing memories hide a far more dangerous truth.

Fury: Episode 2

by Charlotte McConaghy

2014

Episode two pushes Josi out into a ravaged landscape, running from both Luke’s affection and the trail of deaths she cannot explain. While Bloods close in, Luke’s own hidden past threatens to destroy the fragile trust growing between them.

Fury: Episode 3

by Charlotte McConaghy

2014

In the final Fury episode, Josi is trapped with the people she most wants to protect as the blood moon approaches. To save her from becoming a mindless killer, Luke must reveal who he is and risk everything to challenge the Cure itself.

Thorne

by Charlotte McConaghy

2014

In the second Chronicles of Kaya novel, reckless cliff-climber Finn joins a quest to find a rumored cure for the deadly lovers’ bond. Crown Prince Thorne, fighting the violence in his blood, is drawn to her as rebellion and war threaten both their homelands.

Melancholy

by Charlotte McConaghy

2015

Freed from the blood moon’s control but desperate to save a comatose Luke, Josi journeys west into the harsh world of the resistance. There, fury is prized, hope is rationed, and she must choose how far she’ll go to stop a new Cure for sadness.

Isadora

by Charlotte McConaghy

2016

Rebel leader Isadora hunts monsters in a conquered Kaya while exiled emperor Falco is forced to rise against her as the deadly Sparrow. Bound so that the death of one means the death of both, they confront a rising evil that threatens Kaya and Pirenti alike.

Limerence

by Charlotte McConaghy

2016

Deep in the tunnels beneath a ruined city, Josephine Luquet and the last resistance fighters face both the regime that erased human anger and the terrifying Furies it created. To win, Josi may have to embrace the blood-soaked monster she fears becoming.

Limerence: Episode 1

by Charlotte McConaghy

2016

The first episode of Limerence drops readers into the tunnels where the last rebels hide from Bloods and Furies. As the Cure begins to strip love itself away, Josi feels the blood moon changing her into something both monstrous and necessary.

Limerence: Episode 2

by Charlotte McConaghy

2016

Josi returns to the tunnels a stranger even to herself, driving the resistance toward sharper, riskier attacks while hiding what the Cure has done to her. Luke’s missing memories and her new ruthlessness strain fragile alliances as secrets tighten underground.

Limerence: Episode 3

by Charlotte McConaghy

2016

In the final Limerence episode, the blood moon is rising and Josi’s inner Fury is almost impossible to contain. With the tunnels under siege, she and Luke must decide how much of their humanity they are willing to sacrifice to end the Cure.

The Last Migration / Migrations

by Charlotte McConaghy

2020

In a near future emptied of wildlife, wanderer Franny Stone hitches a ride on a fishing boat to follow the last Arctic terns on their migration. As the voyage turns perilous, her buried past and a devastating crime surface with the collapsing seas.

Once There Were Wolves

by Charlotte McConaghy

2021

Biologist Inti Flynn arrives in the Scottish Highlands to reintroduce wolves to a hostile landscape, bringing her mute twin sister and a past full of hurt. When a local man disappears, Inti must shield her wolves and face the violence humans carry.

Wild Dark Shore

by Charlotte McConaghy

2025

On the sinking island of Shearwater, Dominic Salt and his three children guard a vital global seed vault as rising seas and violent storms close in. When a mysterious woman, Rowan, washes ashore, buried family grief and sabotage threaten their fragile refuge.

Where should I start?

If you want climate-focused literary fiction: The Last Migration / MigrationsOnce There Were WolvesWild Dark Shore
If you love romantic epic fantasy: AveryThorneIsadora
If you prefer dystopian YA with romance: FuryMelancholyLimerence
If you are curious about her earliest YA fantasy: The PearlThe Shadows

Author bio

Charlotte McConaghy writes stories about people standing at the edge of the wild. Her novels blend intimate character work with big questions about extinction, climate change, and how much of ourselves we are willing to risk for love. She is best known for Migrations (published as The Last Migration in some countries), Once There Were Wolves, and Wild Dark Shore, a trio of literary novels set in fragile, threatened landscapes.

Born in Darwin, Australia, in 1988, McConaghy spent her childhood moving around the country with her family, living in more than twenty houses by the time she reached her early twenties. For a kid who was always the new girl, books became the constant, and she read widely across fantasy, science fiction, and literary fiction.

As a teenager in Armidale she began to write her own stories. An English teacher encouraged her to try a full length book, and at fourteen she started drafting what would become her first published novel. By seventeen she had a fantasy adventure in print, the beginning of what would grow into The Strangers of Paragor trilogy.

Through her twenties McConaghy built a career in young adult speculative fiction. She wrote portal fantasies about teenagers stepping through a gateway into the war torn realm of Paragor, romantic epics in The Chronicles of Kaya, and the dystopian Cure books, where a government program strips citizens of anger and a girl called Josi Luquet discovers that her own rage might be the thing that saves them.

Those early books are full of big feelings, violent worlds, and characters who keep choosing love even when it hurts.

Alongside the novels, she studied screenwriting at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, completing both a Graduate Degree in Screenwriting and a Masters in Screen Arts. Her background in film shows in the way she builds scenes: clear, visual, and paced like a thriller even when the emotional notes are quiet.

A trip to Ireland and Iceland helped nudge her toward writing for adults. Travelling through harsh, beautiful landscapes and reading about collapsing ecosystems, she began drafting Migrations, the story of Franny Stone, a restless woman who talks her way onto a fishing boat so she can follow what may be the last migration of Arctic terns from Greenland to Antarctica. Published internationally in 2020, the novel was praised for its blend of climate fiction and intimate character study and went on to appear on multiple best of the year lists.

She followed it with Once There Were Wolves, in which a biologist leads a rewilding project to return wolves to the Scottish Highlands and finds herself blamed when a man goes missing. The book became a bestseller and won major Australian crime and fiction prizes. Her 2025 novel Wild Dark Shore moves even closer to the brink, trapping a family and a mysterious stranger on a sinking subantarctic island that houses a global seed vault and asking what we choose to save when the water starts rising.

Many of McConaghy’s protagonists are wanderers or outsiders, people who love fiercely but are unsure where they belong, mirroring in fictional form the rootlessness of her own early years. Again and again she returns to the bonds between humans and wild creatures and to the grief of watching habitats disappear. She now lives in Sydney with her partner and children and works full time as a novelist, while her books are translated around the world and adapted for film and television. For readers, her work offers something rare: climate driven stories that do not look away from loss, yet still hold space for tenderness, connection, and a little hard won hope.

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17 Charlotte McConaghy Books in Order (Complete List 2026)