Gwenda Bond Books in Order
Browse Gwenda Bond books in order, from Lois Lane and Cirque American to Stranger Things, with summaries, series guides, and clear help on where to start.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
22 books
Blackwood
by Gwenda Bond
2012
Miranda Blackwood lives on Roanoke Island, where the Lost Colony legend never really sleeps. When 114 people vanish in the present day, including her father, she teams up with Phillip Rawling to face a mystery far darker than local folklore.
The Woken Gods
by Gwenda Bond
2013
In a Washington, D.C., reshaped by newly awakened gods, Kyra Locke is dragged into a fight over a dangerous relic after her father disappears. To save him, she has to navigate divine politics, family secrets, and a world that suddenly looks much stranger.
Girl on a Wire
by Gwenda Bond
2014
Jules Maroni finally gets her shot to shine at Cirque American, but old rivalry and strange bad luck threaten everything. To find out who is sabotaging her, she must trust Remy Garcia, the last person she should want at her side.
A Real Work of Art
by Gwenda Bond
2015
In a new high school art class, Lois notices that something about her teacher's paintings does not add up. This brisk prequel lets her do what she does best, sniff out trouble and investigate before anyone else sees it.
Cloudy with a Chance of Destruction
by Gwenda Bond
2015
Lois expects chemistry class to be boring, not dangerous. When tension between classmates starts to spiral and a school experiment looks ready to go bad, she has to think fast and keep a messy situation from turning disastrous.
Fallout
by Gwenda Bond
2015
New to Metropolis, Army brat Lois Lane wants to keep her head down for once. Instead she finds a bullied classmate, a sinister immersive game, and a mystery that pulls her toward journalism, danger, and an online friend called SmallvilleGuy.
Double Down
by Gwenda Bond
2016
Lois has started to settle into Metropolis, until a friend's family crisis pulls her toward the city's rougher edges. As she digs deeper, the mystery forces her to test her courage, her judgment, and her growing bond with SmallvilleGuy.
Girl in the Shadows
by Gwenda Bond
2016
Moira Mitchell has spent her life watching her famous magician father take center stage. A mistaken invitation gets her into Cirque American, where her stage tricks start feeling dangerously real and every illusion seems to hide a secret.
Girl Over Paris #1
by Gwenda Bond
2016
After a public fall, wire walker Jules Maroni heads to Paris hoping to reclaim her confidence and her spotlight. Instead she finds a glittering new stage, tension with Remy, and the first signs that something supernatural is stalking the show.
Girl Over Paris #2
by Gwenda Bond
2016
As Jules prepares a daring Eiffel Tower performance, the ghostly Harlequin steps out of the shadows. What should be a triumphant comeback becomes a haunting mystery that threatens both her career and her relationship with Remy.
Girl Over Paris #3
by Gwenda Bond
2016
Remy disappears, and Jules follows the trail into Paris's eerie undercity. The deeper she goes, the clearer it becomes that the Harlequin is after far more than a scare.
Girl Over Paris #4
by Gwenda Bond
2016
With Remy captive and the Harlequin closing in, Jules faces a final showdown high above Paris. To save the person she loves, she must outwalk, outthink, and finally understand the ghost behind the threat.
Strange Alchemy
by Gwenda Bond
2017
On Roanoke Island, 114 people vanish in a chilling echo of the Lost Colony. Miranda Blackwood and Grant Rawling race through family secrets, old grudges, and eerie history to stop the disappearances before they lose everyone they love.
The Lost Legacy
by Gwenda Bond
2017
When Stephen moves to a luxury New York hotel, he discovers the guests are actually monsters, or supernormals. After a magical artifact is stolen and he is blamed, Stephen and two new friends must clear his name before the hidden world turns on him.
Triple Threat
by Gwenda Bond
2017
Lois finally has friends, a real home, and a chance to meet SmallvilleGuy in person. Then mutant teens, a mad scientist, and federal hunters crash her plans, and Metropolis needs her sharpest reporting yet.
The Night of the Screaming Horses
by Gwenda Bond
2018
College radio host Mackenzie Walker digs into a decades-old murder after an anonymous tip suggests the wrong man took the fall. Her search leads straight into a Kentucky racing dynasty, buried secrets, and threats that are very much alive.
The Sphinx's Secret
by Gwenda Bond
2018
Stephen is still adjusting to life at the monster-filled New Harmonia when a stolen wand throws the supernormal world into chaos. To save the hotel, he and his friends must unravel a magical mystery that reaches all the way to the New York Public Library.
Suspicious Minds
by Gwenda Bond
2019
In 1969, Terry Ives volunteers for a government experiment in Hawkins and finds herself inside Dr. Brenner's secret world. This prequel traces the roots of the lab, MKUltra, and the story behind Eleven's mother.
Not Your Average Hot Guy
by Gwenda Bond
2021
Callie is supposed to be minding her family's escape room, not helping stop the apocalypse. When a cult summons Luke Morningstar, a leather-jacketed demon with his own secrets, she gets swept into a wild chase through love, Hell, and end-times chaos.
The Date from Hell
by Gwenda Bond
2022
Callie and Luke finally have the apocalypse behind them, but a quiet weekend in Hell does not last. Lucifer gives them three days to redeem a rogue soul, sending them on a globe-spanning quest that could reshape Heaven and Hell.
Mr. & Mrs. Witch
by Gwenda Bond
2023
Savannah Wilde and Griffin Carter think they are walking into a wedding, not a war. When the witch and the hunter discover their rival secret lives at the altar, they go on the run and start digging into the conspiracy behind both organizations.
The Frame-Up
by Gwenda Bond
2024
Dani Poissant is a gifted forger from a family of magical art thieves who has spent years regretting one betrayal. When her mother's old partner offers reunion in exchange for an impossible heist, Dani steps back into danger, old loyalties, and a very strange portrait.
Where should I start?
If you want a funny paranormal romance: Not Your Average Hot Guy → The Date from Hell
If you want teen superhero sleuthing: Fallout → Double Down → Triple Threat
If you want circus magic and danger: Girl on a Wire → Girl Over Paris → Girl in the Shadows
If you want spooky middle grade mystery: The Lost Legacy → The Sphinx's Secret
Author bio
Gwenda Bond grew up in Jackson County, Kentucky, the daughter of two educators, and stories got to her early. She has said she was the kid who wanted to be a writer before she could even read or write, which fits the career that followed.
She read widely as a child, starting with fairy tales and moving on to books like The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Narnia. Later came Stephen King, mystery anthologies, and Latin American magical realism, the kind of reading life that helps explain why her own books can feel spooky, funny, romantic, and a little strange all at once.
Bond studied journalism at Eastern Kentucky University, then spent 17 years working in public health communications for Kentucky state government. During that stretch she kept writing on the side, turning out articles, reviews, screenplays, and fiction while trying to figure out what kind of stories felt most like hers.
That answer came into focus gradually.
As an adult, she fell hard for young adult fiction and realized that was the space where she most wanted to work. She enrolled in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts while still holding down her day job, and by the time she finished, she had an agent and a much clearer sense of her voice. Blackwood, her debut novel, was the book that finally broke through after several earlier manuscripts did not sell.
She likes to joke that she was a long overnight success.
Since then, Bond has built a bibliography that moves easily between original fantasy, superhero stories, franchise fiction, middle grade adventure, and romantic comedy. Readers often find her through books like Girl on a Wire, Fallout, The Woken Gods, and Suspicious Minds, the first official Stranger Things novel. More recent books like Not Your Average Hot Guy, The Date from Hell, Mr. & Mrs. Witch, and The Frame-Up show the same taste for fast plots, clever heroines, mystery, and big feelings, just aimed at different kinds of readers.
Across all those projects, some things stay consistent. Bond likes secret worlds tucked beside ordinary life, found family, ambitious girls, and plots driven by questions that need answers. Even when the setting involves demons, ancient gods, or a circus full of danger, her characters usually feel like people trying to do their jobs, protect their friends, and keep up with a world that has suddenly become much stranger.
She has also written nonfiction and criticism for outlets including Publishers Weekly, Locus, Salon, and the Los Angeles Times. Alongside her solo novels, she co-wrote The Supernormal Sleuthing Service with Christopher Rowe and created Dead Air, a serial mystery told across prose and podcast form.
These days Bond lives in Lexington, Kentucky, in a hundred-year-old house with a very full complement of dogs and cats. She has also helped build literary community there, cofounding the Lexington Writer's Room and the charitable effort Creators 4 Comics.
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