Forces of Nature (Vivian Arend) Books in Order

Forces of Nature is one of Vivian Arend's more playful paranormal setups. The books are set in Jaffrey's Cove, a seaside town hiding a secret merfolk community with its own rules, leadership, and magical inheritance. The ocean is not just scenery here. It shapes the mythology, the sensual atmosphere, and the sense that the town is holding back truths from the people living in it.

The first book, Tidal Wave, starts with Alexia Colten returning home and inheriting a dolphin-etched medallion that marks her for far more than she expected. From there the series leans into hidden identity, community ritual, and desire that arrives with the force of a storm tide. Whirlpool keeps the world moving through another perspective inside the same coastal setting.

These books are shorter and hotter than some of Arend's other paranormal series.

They also experiment more openly with ménage dynamics and the push and pull between personal choice and supernatural expectation. That gives the series a very particular mood. It is beachy, secretive, and a little wild, but it still cares about character and community enough to keep the setup from feeling flimsy.

If you want the Arend books that feel most like a sensual hidden-world escape, this is a good corner to explore. Forces of Nature is small, strange, and committed to the idea that the sea can change a person's fate as quickly as it changes the weather.