Darklight Books in Order

The Darklight trilogy follows Lorelei MacAlister, a high school girl in a small New Mexico town whose life never really recovered after her parents vanished ten years earlier. Raised by her grandparents and propped up by best friends Brooklyn and Glitch, she is doing her best to stay under the radar and pretend that normal is still an option.

Normal vanishes for good in Death and the Girl Next Door. First the school’s resident loner, Cameron Lusk, starts shadowing Lorelei, insisting she is in danger. Then a new boy, Jared Kovach, transfers in, and the air between the two boys crackles with old hatred. Both of them seem to know far more about Lorelei and her missing parents than she does, and neither is eager to explain.

As Lorelei digs for answers she discovers that angels, demons, and beings in between have been circling her for years. Jared is tied to Death itself, Cameron has his own supernatural secrets, and Lorelei sits at the center of a prophecy that could trigger an apocalypse. The second book, Death, Doom and Detention, pushes her deeper into that war. She begins to develop frightening abilities, learns that something powerful and dark has taken up residence inside her, and realizes that her choices are putting the people she loves in the crosshairs.

In the final volume, Death and the Girl He Loves, the fight widens beyond her hometown. Lorelei is sent away to a boarding school in the hope of keeping everyone safe, only to find that enemies and watchers are waiting there as well. Her visions grow more catastrophic, showing scenes of destruction she may be helpless to stop. With help from the Angel of Death, a fiercely protective half angel, and a handful of stubborn human friends, she has to decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to rewrite fate.

Compared with Jones’s adult series, Darklight leans into teen concerns, crushes, and school rivalries, but it carries over the snarky dialogue and strong sense of friendship that run through her other work. The books tackle big ideas about destiny, free will, and forgiveness while still giving readers quippy banter and swoony moments. Read in order, the trilogy tracks Lorelei from anxious, grieving girl to someone who understands exactly how dangerous she is and chooses, again and again, to fight for the people and world she loves.