Four Ways to Fate Books in Order

Four Ways to Fate is Roethle in playful romantasy mode. Eva Nix works as a messenger who can cross the boundaries between magical realms, which already gives the series a built-in sense of movement. Then a devil tricks her into a contract, and her celestial blood turns from useful quirk into the most wanted thing in the room. From there the books lean hard into banter, magical politics, and romantic trouble.

Eva keeps the whole series lively. She is competent enough to keep moving, confused enough to ask the questions the reader wants answered, and stubborn enough to keep terrible situations more interesting. The bigger plot around her missing mother gives the series a genuine spine, but the voice stays light enough that the world never feels too heavy.

The love interests are part of the draw. Sebastian brings devil energy and dangerous chemistry. Mistral adds goblin prince charm. Gabriel and Crispin widen the emotional field even more. This is very much a why choose setup, but the relationships unfold inside a fantasy mystery, not away from it. Contracts, realm-hopping, poisonings, hidden identities, and the politics between magical factions all keep pressing forward.

The setting helps.

Roethle builds a city and surrounding realms where goblins, vampires, elves, angelics, and other supernatural beings feel close enough to collide constantly. That keeps the series cozy in one sense, because you stay near a core cast and familiar social spaces, but busy in another, because there is always some new problem climbing through the nearest doorway.

If you want something warmer, flirtier, and more openly romantic than Roethle's darker series, this is the obvious place to start. Begin with Wicked Little Tricks. Eva's magic, family mystery, and tangled relationships all build from book to book, and the promise is clear from the start, magical hijinks now, emotional payoff later.