Institute of the Storm Fae (Katerina Martinez) Books in Order

This listing centers on Queen of Storms, Katerina Martinez's collaboration in the Institute of the Storm Fae world. It is a dark academy fantasy with a rescue mission at its center, but the academy itself is anything but safe.

Cora is a fugitive fae witch who has spent her life hiding from people with more power than she has. When her friend Wren is taken by the Storm Fae, hiding stops being an option. Cora enters their institute under false pretenses, knowing that every test, ritual, and ranking system could expose her.

Her goal is simple. The path to it is not.

The Storm Fae academy treats training as a form of survival. Students are pushed through harsh trials, and the people in charge have little patience for weakness or disobedience. Cora must learn who can be trusted, protect the secret that keeps her alive, and find Wren before the institute's machinery closes around them both.

A dangerous dragon-blood fae complicates that plan. He is tied to the academy's violence and authority, which makes him a bad person to need, and an even worse person to want. Their uneasy connection gives the book its romantic tension without taking attention away from the central rescue plot.

The setting has a cold, storm-charged mood. Magic, hierarchy, and weather all seem to work against Cora, leaving her to fight for small advantages in a place built to control people.

Readers can start with Queen of Storms. It works as a focused fantasy-romance adventure while also offering a doorway into a larger supernatural world.