Fish Tales Books in Order

The Fish Tales series is Suanne Laqueur's contemporary trilogy about Erik "Fish" Fiskare and Marguerite "Daisy" Bianco, two young artists whose lives are split open by violence. It begins in a college theater world full of rehearsals, friendships, rivalries, and first big love. When a gunman enters the campus theater, the event becomes the fault line for everything that follows.

From there, the series stretches across years rather than weeks. Fish and Daisy are not just dealing with whether they love each other, they are dealing with what trauma does to memory, trust, guilt, anger, sex, and loyalty. Their circle of friends matters just as much as the central couple, especially Will Kaeger and John Quillis, because these books are as interested in friendship and chosen family as they are in romance.

The arts setting gives the series much of its texture. Dance, backstage work, touring, rehearsal discipline, and the strange intimacy of creative communities all shape how these characters see themselves and each other. As the story moves beyond college, the books widen into adult life, with careers, distance, old wounds, and the long work of figuring out whether healing means moving on or finding a way back.

This is not a light, tidy love story.

What carries the series is emotional honesty. Fish is trying to understand what kind of man he wants to be. Daisy has to face the harm she has caused without losing herself completely. The people around them are complicated too, sometimes generous, sometimes selfish, often both in the same scene. Laqueur keeps the focus on aftermath, not spectacle, so the books feel rooted in consequences rather than shock.

If you like relationship-driven fiction, this is where the series lives. The main trilogy runs through The Man I Love, Give Me Your Answer True, and Here to Stay, then The Ones That Got Away works as a companion volume filled with early chapters, cut scenes, and extra material from that world. Read in order for the full emotional build. The payoff depends on staying with these people for the long haul.