Embassy Row Books in Order

Embassy Row is set in Adria, a fictional Mediterranean country whose capital city holds a single street lined with embassies from around the world. For most people, it is a picturesque place for receptions and photo ops. For Grace Blakely, it is a maze of memories and secrets she cannot quite untangle.

Grace is the granddaughter of the American ambassador and grew up spending her summers racing across embassy rooftops. When the series opens, she is sent back to live with her grandfather after her mother’s death in a fire that Grace insists was murder. Everyone around her gently suggests she is imagining things. Grace is certain she saw a scarred man pull the trigger.

In All Fall Down, that obsession with the scarred man drives Grace to break rules, test friendships, and push every boundary of embassy protocol. Her new friends on Embassy Row—Noah, Megan, Rosie, and others—try to help, but they all live under different sets of national rules, and every misstep risks an international incident. What starts as one girl’s search for the truth slowly exposes layers of history and conspiracy beneath Adria’s charming surface.

See How They Run and Take the Key and Lock Her Up raise the stakes from personal grief to political crisis. Grace uncovers secret societies, forgotten royal bloodlines, and deals that were meant to stay buried. Her older brother Jamie, her neighbor Alexei, and her friends are drawn into a fight where the wrong choice could destabilize an entire region.

The tone of Embassy Row is a little darker than Carter’s other YA series. Grace is prickly and traumatized, and the books spend real time on panic, guilt, and the long tail of violence. At the same time, there are moments of humor, friendship, and awkward crushes, because Grace is still a teenager living in a world of schoolwork and embassy parties.

For readers who want even more context, the short story Before the Fall: Arrival offers an extra look at Grace just as she returns to Adria, before the events of the first novel fully unfold. Taken together, the series feels like a spy story turned inside out, where the most dangerous place is not a battlefield but a marble hallway where every handshake might hide a threat.