Elemental Witch Books in Order
Part ofAnn Gimpel Books in OrderThis page shows the Elemental Witch series by Ann Gimpel in order, with quick summaries, series background, reading notes, and start-here help.
Last updated: July 12, 2026
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Elemental Witch books in publication order
3 books
Time's Curse
by Ann Gimpel
2018
Liliana and druid Sean get pulled into the Roskelly war as dark witches move across time and close in on Kat. The family curse is bigger, older, and nastier than anyone hoped.
Timespell
by Ann Gimpel
2018
Anthropologist Katerina travels to the Highlands and finds visions, undead witches, and an Arch Druid who knows more about her bloodline than she does. One wild escape hurls her centuries into the past.
Time's Hostage
by Ann Gimpel
2019
The war with the Roskelly witches reaches its sharpest point as time, bloodline, and dark magic knot together. Kat and the druids are running out of safe moves and safe eras.
Elemental Witch books in chronological order
Series background & context
Elemental Witch blends time travel, witches, druids, and Highland atmosphere into a series that feels both intimate and restless. The books begin with Katerina, an anthropologist whose trip to Scotland turns into a brutal family revelation when visions and old magic make it clear she is tied to a line of dangerous witches.
Arlen, the Arch Druid of Great Britain, is the first person to recognize the scale of the problem. The Roskelly witches are not safely in the past. They are active, violent, and focused on Kat. That gives the series its central tension almost immediately. Kat does not just have to learn who she is. She has to survive what her bloodline has dragged into the present.
Time travel gives the books their extra bite. Characters are pulled backward into older Scotland, forced to navigate clan history, buried feuds, and magic that is far more raw than anything the present can comfortably contain. By the later books, Sean, Liliana, and the wider fight against the Roskellys deepen the series into a generational struggle rather than a single awakening.
The romance is real, but so is the menace. This is not soft Highland fantasy. The dead do not stay quiet, and the past refuses to stay buried.
If you like stories where ancestry is both inheritance and curse, Timespell, Time's Curse, and Time's Hostage offer a strong mix of dark family magic, druid lore, and travel between eras. The Highlands are more than scenery here. They are part of the trap and part of the answer.
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