Elizabeth A Reeves Books in Order
Browse Elizabeth A Reeves books in order, with quick summaries, connected series guides, and simple tips on where to start across her fantasy worlds.
Last updated: July 13, 2026
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Elizabeth A Reeves books in publication order
43 books
Adrift
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2012
After her father's death leaves her alone and broke, Meg drives until the road ends in Trinity, Newfoundland. The sea draws her in, and meeting Devin Horan changes everything she thought she knew.
Doubletake
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2012
Jessica and Kristin care about their horses more than anything, until a racing scandal puts those horses, and the girls themselves, in real danger. Barn secrets and bluegrass suspense drive the story.
How (Not) to Kiss a Toad
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2012
Magical baker Cindy Eller has a curse, every man she kisses turns into a toad. When she meets Timothy, he seems perfect, but love gets complicated fast once magic, secrets, and the Council of Magic get involved.
Running
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2012
Seventeen-year-old Tess has run away from home because she can feel everyone else's emotions and fears she is losing her mind. On the streets, escaping her gift may be impossible.
The Dangers of Black Magic
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2012
In the magical land of Sundala, races that have lived apart for centuries must unite against a common enemy. Sent on a quest for the Black Diamond of Akhura, Kyraen discovers just how high the price may be.
Baehrly Alive
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
Goldie is building a preserve for endangered magical creatures while caring for her family and planning a wedding she barely has time for. Then a mysterious illness forces her to choose between love and the greater good.
Baehrly Beginning
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
This short prequel introduces Goldie Locke, a bold witch devoted to rescuing rare and endangered magical creatures. Goldie risks everything for them, and trouble follows her as naturally as magic.
Baehrly Bitten
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
A were bear bite leaves Goldie caught between witch and were just as a kidnapping case lands in her lap. Vampires, old legends, and brutal murders make this one much more than a rescue job.
Baehrly Breathing
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
Goldie Locke is trying to be taken seriously as a magical environmental lawyer when a case involving unusual remains drags her into danger. Between New England secrets and a new dragon, life gets hectic fast.
Cost of Found
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
Kandice Kayne likes her quiet life, even with the occasional ghost. Then a murder makes her a witness, and she is swept into the Monster Witness Protection Program whether she is ready or not.
How (Not) to Kiss a Gargoyle
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
Cindy's hard-won peace does not last. Another round of magical trouble pulls her back into danger, forcing her to protect the people she loves while balancing bakery life, family chaos, and Faerie-sized stakes.
How (Not)to Kiss a Beast
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
Timothy is missing, Cindy's magic is misbehaving, and every attempt to find answers keeps failing. When she learns her mysterious father is involved, the search turns personal and dangerous.
How (Not)to Kiss a Ghost
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
Just when Cindy's life starts settling down, Timothy's long-dead mother appears and Cindy's sisters begin disappearing. To save her family, Cindy has to stop the demon behind the kidnappings.
How (Not)to Kiss a Prince
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
Cindy has two weddings to bake for and a boyfriend who is not thrilled when a mysterious man appears claiming she must marry him. Magical mayhem hits fast, and Cindy's love life gets even harder to manage.
How (Not)to Play With Magic
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
In this Cindy Eller prequel, Cindy is trying to build her baking career while hiding her magic from her roommates. Her twin sisters have other ideas, and trouble is never far behind them.
Life's a Witch
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013
Amber likes her quiet life just fine until she learns she is a hereditary witch, not an only child, and suddenly part of a much larger magical story. Karma is about to change everything.
First Kisses, Near Misses
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2014
This short story collection returns to Cindy Eller's magical world for awkward first kisses, disastrous dates, and family tales that are sweeter, stranger, and far messier than fairy tales promise.
How (Not) to Kiss a Were Bear
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2014
This crossover throws Cindy and Goldie into the same crisis as Faerie's barrier to the mortal world comes under threat. A magical plague spreads, old rules buckle, and both women have far too much at stake.
How (Not) to Love a Hero
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2014
Cindy is already juggling bakery work and her duties in Faerie when her father disappears. Then she is forced toward a role she never wanted, one that could cost her everything she has built.
Shoes
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2014
This standalone fairy tale spins trouble out of one small, loaded detail: the shoes. Reeves turns a familiar magical setup into a shorter story about choice, consequence, and reluctant enchantment.
Baehrly Breaking
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015
With the barrier between Faerie and the outside world gone, Goldie Locke is left navigating a world in upheaval. When danger turns personal, she comes face-to-face with a very mortal kind of evil.
Cutthroat Chicken
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015
A sharp little supernatural tale where chicken-themed chaos turns unexpectedly dangerous. It has Reeves's usual mix of odd humor, fast trouble, and the sense that the world is stranger than it first appears.
Deathly Still
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015
As her eighteenth birthday nears, Antigone Baehr learns the strange feeling of being different was real all along. She is tied to something called unlife, and possibly to Death itself.
Hard as Flint
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015
Flint Renton has always obeyed his father, but he is starting to question everything he was taught. When he lands on Amber's doorstep, both of them get pulled deeper into dangerous family truths.
Haunting Karma
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015
Amber finally knows she has sisters, but that does not make life simpler. The haunting in Karma is growing stronger, and her new family comes with more trouble than she bargained for.
How (Not) to Spook a Spectre
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015
After ten quiet years, people across Faerie begin vanishing, especially women and children. Cindy and Timothy must uncover the truth behind a miller's daughter, a hidden ghost, and a fresh wave of heartbreak.
Amber Alone
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016
With Geoff trapped in a magical coma, Amber has to stand on her own. Even as others doubt her, she has no choice but to protect the triplets from a new enemy closing in.
Amber in Ashes
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016
Amber is building a future with Geoff and the three babies they have adopted when children start disappearing across Karma. The closer the danger gets, the more certain she is that she holds the key.
Diary of a Teenage Oracle
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016
A teenage girl is trying to survive ordinary life while carrying the burden of being an oracle. This YA fantasy mixes prophecy, secrets, and the messy reality of growing up under pressure.
Flint Lock
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016
Flint Renton hits his limit and heads for Salem with a plan to numb his pain. Then Winter Daize reveals a family truth that makes his father's past even darker than he feared.
How (Not) to Amuse a Muse
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016
Owen Dark is dead, but Faerie is still reeling from the chaos he left behind. When Cindy realizes reality may not be what it seems, she is pushed into a hero's quest she never wanted.
How (Not) to Soothe a Siren
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016
As winter closes in on Faerie, a strange mist begins stealing children. Cindy has to leave the people she loves behind and face a siren's magic before it costs her family, and her land, far too much.
Deathly Quiet
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2017
Antigone has found love, but her future still points toward Death. Refusing that destiny may save her own heart, or destroy the people she cares about most.
Midnight at the Salem Cafe
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2017
Lena never wanted to return to Salem, especially to the house where her mother was murdered before her eyes. Back home at last, she learns that whatever started that night may be coming for her now.
Spark of Life
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2017
Amber is struggling to keep magic hidden from Geoff's family while strange changes overtake Geoff after his brush with death. As old ghosts stir again, family secrets grow harder to keep.
How to Free a Firebird
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2018
Caught between the present and a future that may never happen, Cindy cannot forget her son Asher. To find him, she has to trust Owen Dark, the enemy who has ruined too much already.
Drawing Breath
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2019
After losing her job in Cindy's bakery, Iris Keshet joins a project tied to lost art in the restored Great Library. Her gift for bringing art briefly to life makes her useful, and dangerously visible.
In Shattered Places
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2020
Sylla belongs to a nomadic people who distrust the gods, but she has always wanted a blessing of her own. When that dream finally comes close, she uncovers darker truths about the world and her place in it.
Stinking Beauty
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2020
Grace is a reluctant fairy godmother in a world that uses fairy tales to keep magic contained. When a princess disaster turns catastrophic, she is dragged back into the job she never wanted.
The Little Murder Maid
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2020
Grace hoped one magical disaster would be enough for one lifetime, but a murdered fairy godparent says otherwise. To solve the case, she must untangle a mermaid story where nothing is as simple as it looks.
The Voice of Bees
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2020
Kinley believes she is the last bee-witch, born into a calling that ends in madness and death. When old family secrets start stirring, she has to decide whether fate is fixed or still breakable.
Twelve Dancing Witnesses
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2020
Grace is supposed to be dead, but instead she ends up inside a kingdom where the story has gone badly off script. With twelve dancing witnesses and too many lies, she has one more knot to unravel.
What the Actual Cluck
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2023
Ophelia Mortimer is raising a powerful young necromancer on a hobby farm, which is already a lot to manage. When a ghost dog leads her to a body in the woods, things get much worse, and much stranger.
Where to start with Elizabeth A Reeves
If you want funny magical romance: How (Not) to Kiss a Toad → How (Not) to Kiss a Prince → How (Not) to Kiss a Beast
If you want creature-packed urban fantasy: Baehrly Breathing → Baehrly Bitten → Baehrly Alive
If you want darker magic and bigger consequences: The Voice of Bees → Deathly Still → In Shattered Places
If you like fairy tale mysteries with an older heroine: Stinking Beauty → The Little Murder Maid → Twelve Dancing Witnesses
If you want something spooky and quirky: What the Actual Cluck → Midnight at the Salem Cafe
Elizabeth A Reeves sub-series and character series
- Cindy Eller books in order
- Goldie Locke and the Were Bears books in order
- Jumping Into Danger books in order
- Karma's Witches books in order
- Last Selkie books in order
- Middle-Aged Fairy Godmother books in order
- Poultry and Poltergeists books in order
- The Bee Witch books in order
- Unlife books in order
- Witness Protection for Monsters books in order
Cindy Eller books in order
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How (Not) to Kiss a Toad
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Kiss a Gargoyle
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not)to Kiss a Beast
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not)to Kiss a Ghost
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not)to Kiss a Prince
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not)to Play With Magic
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Cindy Eller, Book 3
First Kisses, Near Misses
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Kiss a Were Bear
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Love a Hero
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Spook a Spectre
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Amuse a Muse
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Soothe a Siren
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016Cindy Eller, Book 11
How to Free a Firebird
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2018Cindy Eller, Book 13
Cindy Eller books in chronological order
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How (Not) to Kiss a Toad
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not)to Kiss a Prince
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not)to Play With Magic
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not)to Kiss a Beast
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not)to Kiss a Ghost
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Kiss a Gargoyle
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Love a Hero
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Kiss a Were Bear
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2014Cindy Eller, Book 8
First Kisses, Near Misses
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Spook a Spectre
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Soothe a Siren
by Elizabeth A Reeves
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How (Not) to Amuse a Muse
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016Cindy Eller, Book 12
How to Free a Firebird
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2018Cindy Eller, Book 13
Goldie Locke and the Were Bears books in order
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Baehrly Alive
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Goldie Locke and the Were Bears, Book 4
Baehrly Beginning
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Goldie Locke and the Were Bears, Book 1
Baehrly Bitten
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Goldie Locke and the Were Bears, Book 3
Baehrly Breathing
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Goldie Locke and the Were Bears, Book 2
Baehrly Breaking
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015Goldie Locke and the Were Bears, Book 5
Goldie Locke and the Were Bears books in chronological order

Baehrly Beginning
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Goldie Locke and the Were Bears, Book 1
Baehrly Breathing
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Goldie Locke and the Were Bears, Book 2
Baehrly Bitten
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Goldie Locke and the Were Bears, Book 3
Baehrly Alive
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Goldie Locke and the Were Bears, Book 4
Baehrly Breaking
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015Goldie Locke and the Were Bears, Book 5
Jumping Into Danger books in order
Explore this seriesKarma's Witches books in order
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Life's a Witch
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Karma's Witches, Book 1
Hard as Flint
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015Karma's Witches, Book 3
Haunting Karma
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015Karma's Witches, Book 2
Amber Alone
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016Karma's Witches, Book 6
Amber in Ashes
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016Karma's Witches, Book 5
Flint Lock
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016Karma's Witches, Book 4
Spark of Life
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2017Karma's Witches, Book 7
Karma's Witches books in chronological order

Life's a Witch
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2013Karma's Witches, Book 1
Haunting Karma
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015Karma's Witches, Book 2
Hard as Flint
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2015Karma's Witches, Book 3
Flint Lock
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016Karma's Witches, Book 4
Amber in Ashes
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016Karma's Witches, Book 5
Amber Alone
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2016Karma's Witches, Book 6
Spark of Life
by Elizabeth A Reeves
2017Karma's Witches, Book 7
Last Selkie books in order
Explore this seriesMiddle-Aged Fairy Godmother books in order
Explore this seriesPoultry and Poltergeists books in order
Explore this seriesThe Bee Witch books in order
Explore this seriesUnlife books in order
Explore this seriesWitness Protection for Monsters books in order
Explore this seriesElizabeth A Reeves collections, short stories, and related book types
Standalone Elizabeth A Reeves books
Author bio
Elizabeth A Reeves writes the kind of fantasy that makes room for witches, ghosts, faerie politics, dangerous magic, and, quite often, something good to eat.
She was born in Massachusetts and moved to Arizona while she was still young. She has said that books and horses have been constants in her life, which helps explain why her stories so often mix old folklore, magical creatures, and heroines who would rather do something practical than wait around to be rescued.
Her family background shows up in the way she talks about stories.
Reeves has described her father as a professor and her mother as the creative force in the family. She also credits her mother with a line that feels like a mission statement for her work: if you cannot find the book you want to read, write it yourself. That spirit fits her fiction. Her books often feel built for readers who like fairy tales, urban fantasy, and paranormal romance, but want them warmer, funnier, and a little more offbeat.
A lot of readers first meet her through How (Not) to Kiss a Toad, the opening Cindy Eller novel. It introduces a magical baker whose kisses turn men into toads, and it sets the tone for much of Reeves's fiction: funny on the surface, busy with family drama underneath, and always ready to get stranger. From there, the world widens through books like How (Not) to Kiss a Prince, How (Not) to Kiss a Beast, and the later Cindy Eller adventures, where bakery life gives way to much bigger trouble in Faerie.
That mix of the cozy and the chaotic shows up elsewhere too. In the Goldie Locke books, starting with Baehrly Breathing, Reeves follows a fierce magical lawyer who rescues endangered creatures while getting dragged into murders, curses, and were bear trouble. In The Voice of Bees, she turns darker, building a story around Kinley, a bee-witch tied to spirits, family secrets, and a grim inheritance. And in Stinking Beauty, she takes fairy tale logic apart from the inside, using a reluctant middle-aged fairy godmother to ask what happens when the spellbook version of a happy ending goes badly wrong.
Food matters in these stories.
So does family. Sisters, parents, children, found families, and impossible love interests keep showing up, even when the plot involves ghosts, demons, or the end of the world as everyone knows it. Reeves likes women who are overwhelmed but capable, men who arrive with complications attached, and magical systems that come with real costs.
She has also written books outside her big connected fantasy lines. Adrift leans into selkie folklore and a cold Atlantic setting. Doubletake is a horse-centered mystery for younger readers. Deathly Still and Deathly Quiet follow Antigone Baehr, a girl caught in a deeply personal fight with fate and Death itself. Even when the subgenre changes, the through line is easy to spot: a young woman in trouble, a strange world just off to the side of ordinary life, and a plot that keeps moving.
Reeves keeps a fairly private public profile, but the details she has shared are memorable. She has written about knitting, weaving, hatching chickens, and chasing after her husband and four sons. That homey, handmade feeling sits right beside the bigger fantasy machinery in her books.
Which is probably why her stories feel so lived in. Even when someone is facing prophecy, murder, or a magical plague, there is usually still a kitchen, a family argument, a joke, or a stubborn act of care keeping the world together.
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