Colleen Houck Books in Order
Browse Colleen Houck books in order, with quick summaries, Tiger's Curse and Reawakened series guides, and clear tips on where to start reading.
Last updated: June 30, 2026
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Publication Order
14 books
Tiger's Curse
by Colleen Houck
2011
Kelsey Hayes thinks she has taken a summer circus job. Instead, she is drawn to Ren, a white tiger who is really a cursed Indian prince, and into a dangerous quest to break a centuries-old prophecy.
Tiger's Quest
by Colleen Houck
2011
Back in Oregon, Kelsey tries to forget Ren and rebuild her life, but danger pulls her back to India. Traveling with Kishan, she faces new tests, old feelings, and the growing cost of breaking the tiger's curse.
Tiger's Voyage
by Colleen Houck
2011
Ren no longer remembers Kelsey, but the quest cannot stop. As she, Ren, and Kishan face dragons and fresh betrayals, the curse draws them deeper into magic, danger, and a love triangle that keeps getting harder.
Tiger's Destiny
by Colleen Houck
2012
With only one prophecy left, Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race Lokesh to find Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire. The last quest tests their loyalties, their love, and who they are meant to become.
Tiger's Promise
by Colleen Houck
2014
Before Kelsey, there was Yesubai, a girl raised under Lokesh's cruel control and promised to a prince for political gain. Hiding her own powers, she becomes the key to a plot that could destroy a kingdom.
Reawakened
by Colleen Houck
2015
During spring break at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lily Young meets Amon, an Egyptian prince awakened after a thousand years. Bound to help him raise his brothers, she is swept into a globe-spanning fight against the god Seth.
Recreated
by Colleen Houck
2016
After Amon vanishes into the Netherworld, Lily refuses to let him suffer alone. Guided by their bond, she heads into darkness to rescue him and stop chaos from swallowing both the mortal world and the divine one.
Reignited
by Colleen Houck
2017
This prequel novella goes back to Heliopolis, where sibling rivalry, forbidden love, and the fading Waters of Chaos shape Seth's fall. It adds mythic backstory to the larger conflict behind the Reawakened books.
Reunited
by Colleen Houck
2017
Lily wakes on her grandmother's farm with no memory of Amon or the battles she survived. Changed in body and fate, she must reclaim her past, master new powers, and face Seth in the series finale.
The Lantern's Ember
by Colleen Houck
2018
Jack, a cursed Lantern who guards portals to the Otherworld, has spent centuries keeping monsters in check. When stubborn young witch Ember crosses into that realm, he chases her through a dangerous supernatural world before both realms fall into chaos.
Tiger's Dream
by Colleen Houck
2018
Kishan is stranded in a place and time he never wanted, serving the volatile goddess Durga while trying to protect Kelsey. As old curses return and time starts to unravel, he must choose between love, loyalty, and sacrifice.
Terraformer
by Colleen Houck
2020
Astra wakes early on a mission to colonize Crillain IV and finds her mother missing, her father dead, and danger already loose on the ship. On the new world, family secrets, murder, and whispered voices make trust almost impossible.
Tiger's Tale
by Colleen Houck
2024
Twin princesses Veru and Stacia reject a stranger's bargain to save their dying mother and unleash a terrible curse. Driven from home, they begin a dangerous quest that will reshape their futures and their empire.
Tiger's Trek
by Colleen Houck
2025
Veru, Stacia, and their uneasy allies are pulled into the dreamworld, where shadowy creatures and the Death Draughtsman threaten both empire and plain. To survive, they must face their deepest fears and decide what they are willing to sacrifice.
Where should I start?
If you want the main tiger saga: Tiger's Curse → Tiger's Quest → Tiger's Voyage → Tiger's Destiny
If you want a newer tiger-world adventure: Tiger's Tale → Tiger's Trek
If you want Egyptian mythology and romance: Reawakened → Recreated → Reunited
If you want a spooky standalone fantasy: The Lantern's Ember
If you want YA science fiction: Terraformer
Author bio
Colleen Houck grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and writing was not her first plan. She was a big reader from the start, drawn to action, adventure, romance, and the kind of stories that open a door into another world. Before books took over her working life, she was headed in a very different direction, one that looked a lot more practical and a lot less magical.
She took community college and University of Arizona classes with the goal of becoming a teacher, but her path shifted toward American Sign Language. She worked as an ASL interpreter for 17 years, and that work also took her to California and Oregon. The long stretch in another career seems to matter here. Houck did not arrive as a teenage prodigy. She wrote after living a lot first.
The turning point came in 2008. After reading Twilight and learning more about Stephenie Meyer and J.K. Rowling, Houck had a simple thought: maybe ordinary people could write books too. She started Tiger's Curse the very next day and finished the manuscript in about eight months. It was a quick leap, but not a careless one. She had found the lane that let her mix romance, myth, monsters, travel, and big feelings in one place.
That one decision changed the shape of her career.
Houck first self-published Tiger's Curse and Tiger's Quest as ebooks in 2009. A few months later, sales jumped sharply, and that early momentum led to interest from publishers, an agent, and eventually a traditional deal. The tiger books went on to hit major bestseller lists and gave her a path into writing full time. Tiger's Curse introduced readers to Kelsey Hayes, the white tiger Ren, and the cursed prince world behind him. The books clicked with readers who wanted sweeping quests, a strong dose of romance, and mythology threaded through every obstacle.
She kept building that universe with Tiger's Voyage, Tiger's Destiny, Tiger's Promise, and Tiger's Dream, and later returned to it with Tiger's Tale and Tiger's Trek. Across those books, readers tend to come for the love triangle and stay for the globe-trotting adventures, magical trials, and ancient prophecies. Houck's other big series, Reawakened, shifts to Egyptian-inspired fantasy and follows Lily and the sun prince Amon through tombs, rituals, and cosmic danger. It scratches a similar itch, but with mummies instead of tigers.
She has also stepped outside her two main myth-heavy worlds. The Lantern's Ember gives The Legend of Sleepy Hollow a darker fantasy twist, full of witches, portals, and creatures from the Otherworld. Terraformer moves into science fiction, following a young woman on a colony mission to a distant planet. Even when the setting changes, Houck keeps coming back to the same things: high stakes, emotional loyalty, strange magic, and characters forced to grow up fast.
Mythology, adventure, and romance are the clear through lines.
These days, Houck lives in Salem, Oregon, with her husband and what she has described as a huge assortment of plush tigers. She has said she still enjoys chatting with one of her six siblings, watching plays, and shopping online when she is not writing. That mix feels about right for her books too. They are earnest, imaginative, busy in the best way, and happiest when everyday life suddenly collides with something ancient and impossible.
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