Eve and Adam Books in Order

Eve & Adam and its companion novella live in a near future San Francisco of sleek biotech labs, driverless streetcars, and teenagers who still have to worry about school dances. The series sits at the intersection of science fiction and contemporary romance, asking what happens when you can literally design the person you think you want.

At the center is Evening Spiker, usually called E.V. or Eve, the daughter of a driven biotech magnate who expects perfection from her company and her child.

The main novel opens with a brutal accident that should have killed Eve. Instead she wakes up in her mother’s high security research facility, where her injuries heal with suspicious speed. Stuck indoors and cut off from her friends, she is handed an experimental program that lets her build a human being from scratch on a glowing screen. Designing Adam starts as a distraction, then turns into a way of working through her own ideas about beauty, desire, and control.

Around her move other key players. Solo, a boy who has grown up inside the lab complex, has his own reasons for distrusting the company. Eve’s best friend brings outside pressure and messy human complications. Together they uncover what the Spiker empire has really been doing and have to decide how far they are willing to go to stop it, even while an impossibly perfect boy begins to step out of theory and into real life.

The short prequel, Love Sucks and Then You Die, takes place before the accident. Told from Eve’s point of view, it captures a disastrous school dance, an unwanted kiss, and the moment she starts to suspect that her feelings about dating do not match everyone else’s. It is smaller in scale but sets up her emotional life and her uneasy relationship with her powerful mother.

Together the two pieces offer a compact story about agency, consent, and what perfect might cost when it is pursued through technology. The tone is quick and accessible, with enough science to feel grounded but not so much that it overwhelms the characters. Most readers either read the prequel first for extra context or treat it as a bonus after finishing the main novel; either order works.