Karen Marie Moning Books in Order
Explore Karen Marie Moning books in order, with reading guides, short summaries, series overviews, and where to start with the Fever and Highlander worlds.
Last updated: December 24, 2025
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Publication Order
21 books
The House at Watch Hill
by Karen Marie Moning
2024
Reeling from her mother's death and a run of bad luck, Zo Grey travels to the town of Divinity, Louisiana to claim an unexpected inheritance, a lonely Gothic mansion on Watch Hill where strange omens, buried secrets, and awakening magic wait.
Kingdom of Shadow and Light
by Karen Marie Moning
2021
Now High Queen of the Fae, Mac faces a revolt from those who want a pure blood ruler and a resurrected ancient enemy whose plans could reshape all of creation, pushing her to question every loyalty and risk everything to protect both realms.
High Voltage
by Karen Marie Moning
2018
Haunted by a brutal past and altered by immense magic, Dani O'Malley hunts new evils born from the Song of Making while wrestling with her changing bond to immortal Ryodan and the crushing price of saving Dublin one more time.
Feversong
by Karen Marie Moning
2017
With the Sinsar Dubh fully unleashed inside her, Mac becomes both weapon and threat, forcing sidhe seers, the Nine, and the Fae courts into desperate alliances as they race to stop black holes devouring Earth and to recover the lost Song of Making.
Feverborn
by Karen Marie Moning
2016
Earth itself is unraveling after the wall between Man and Faery falls, and only the mythic Song of Making might repair it, as Mac, Barrons, Ryodan, Jada, and the Keltar face new enemies and confront painful secrets in a transformed Dublin.
Burned
by Karen Marie Moning
2015
Back in Mac's voice, the war torn city simmers as old betrayals and new alliances collide, Dani returns changed in ways no one expects, and Mac must protect Dublin and the people she loves while the Sinsar Dubh's hold on her becomes more frightening.
Iced
by Karen Marie Moning
2012
Set after the walls between worlds have crashed, teenage sidhe seer Dani O'Malley races through a ruined Dublin to track a force that freezes streets solid, while dodging Unseelie princes, determined cops, and Ryodan, the ruthless owner of a dangerous nightclub.
Fever Moon
by Karen Marie Moning
2012
This full color graphic novel drops Mac and Barrons into a blood red Dublin, where the faceless Fear Dorcha stalks those closest to Mac. Armed only with the Spear of Destiny and Barrons, she must stop an ancient Unseelie killer before it erases her world.
Shadowfever
by Karen Marie Moning
2011
As Mac closes in on the truth about her own heritage and the Sinsar Dubh, she must decide who to trust in a maze of shifting loyalties, where every revelation about Barrons, the Fae courts, and her past raises the stakes for the entire world.
Dreamfever
by Karen Marie Moning
2009
Shattered by an attack she barely understands, Mac fights to reclaim her mind and powers while Dublin erupts with Fae violence, caught between Barrons and V'lane as the Sinsar Dubh's influence grows more intimate, unpredictable, and deadly.
Faefever
by Karen Marie Moning
2008
Mac pieces together desperate clues from Alina's journal while Dublin slides toward chaos, forcing her into uneasy alliances with V'lane and Barrons as All Hallows Eve nears and the walls between the mortal world and Faery grow dangerously thin.
Bloodfever
by Karen Marie Moning
2007
Still hunting her sister's killer and the lethal Sinsar Dubh, Mac is stalked by Fae assassins and shadowy human enemies, torn between seductive prince V'lane and ruthless Barrons, and pushed deeper into a war that threatens both human and Fae worlds.
Into the Dreaming
by Karen Marie Moning
2006
Aspiring romance novelist Jane Sillee has spent her life dreaming of a mysterious Highlander. When a magical tapestry pulls her back to fifteenth century Scotland, she must awaken tortured warrior Aedan MacKinnon from the Unseelie king's control before she loses him forever.
Darkfever
by Karen Marie Moning
2006
When carefree Georgia bartender MacKayla Lane flies to Dublin to investigate her sister's murder, she uncovers a hidden world of Fae, discovers she is a sidhe seer, and is forced into a dangerous alliance with enigmatic bookseller Jericho Barrons.
Spell of the Highlander
by Karen Marie Moning
2005
Archaeology student Jessi St James stares into an ancient mirror and sees warrior Cian MacKeltar trapped inside. Freeing him unleashes an eleven hundred year old Druid embroiled in a battle over Unseelie Hallows, dragging Jessi into a race to stop a catastrophic spell.
The Immortal Highlander
by Karen Marie Moning
2004
Once a smug immortal Fae, Adam Black has been stripped of his power and visibility, and only law student Gabrielle O'Callaghan can see him. Helping Adam reclaim his place in the fae court pulls Gabby into dangerous politics and a seduction she never expected.
The Dark Highlander
by Karen Marie Moning
2002
Possessed by thirteen ancient Druid souls, Dageus MacKeltar lives half in darkness until antiquities student Chloe Zanders steals a powerful manuscript and is drawn into his world, where time travel, cursed magic, and a fierce attraction put both their lives at risk.
Kiss of the Highlander
by Karen Marie Moning
2001
Tourist Gwen Cassidy tumbles into a hidden cave in the Scottish hills and wakes spellbound laird Drustan MacKeltar from centuries of enchanted sleep, then must help him return to his own century to save his clan and rewrite a dangerous past.
The Highlander's Touch
by Karen Marie Moning
2000
After a freak accident, twenty first century woman Lisa Stone is thrown seven hundred years into the past and into the bedchamber of immortal laird Circenn Brodie, whose vow to destroy the mysterious woman with a cursed relic clashes with a growing desire.
To Tame a Highland Warrior
by Karen Marie Moning
1999
Gavrael Grimm McIllioch, a warrior with berserker blood, hides under a new name to escape a violent destiny, but when he is summoned to guard childhood friend Jillian St Clair during a contest for her hand, old feelings and old enemies return.
Beyond the Highland Mist
by Karen Marie Moning
1999
Modern woman Adrienne de Simone is yanked from Seattle into sixteenth century Scotland and forced into marriage with Hawk, a legendary Highland laird famous for his conquests, where fae meddling, court intrigue, and unexpected passion complicate every choice she makes.
Where should I start?
If you want MacKayla Lane's story from the start: Darkfever → Bloodfever → Faefever → Dreamfever (then continue through the remaining Fever novels).
If you love Scottish time travel romance: Beyond the Highland Mist → To Tame a Highland Warrior → The Highlander's Touch.
If you want to follow Dani O'Malley: Iced → Burned → Feverborn → Feversong.
If you are curious about the new gothic series: The House at Watch Hill.
If you prefer a shorter stand alone taste: Into the Dreaming.
Author bio
Karen Marie Moning was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1, 1964, and grew up in a big Midwestern family with four siblings. She spent her early years in and around the city, then headed west to Purdue University to study how people and systems work.
At Purdue she earned a degree in Society and Law, along with courses in philosophy, creative writing, and theatre. That mix shows up later in her fiction, where questions about justice and power sit beside banter, stage ready dialogue, and carefully built mythologies.
Before publishing her first novel she cycled through a string of very down to earth jobs.
She worked behind a bar, in computer consulting, and for years in the insurance world, where she directed commercial litigation and arbitration. Those offices and late night shifts gave her a close look at how people behave under pressure, observations she quietly banked for later stories.
Her break into fiction came from a long running fascination with Scotland, Celtic legends, and the idea of falling in love across time. In 1999 she published Beyond the Highland Mist, the first of her Highlander novels, launching readers into a world of lairds, Druids, time travel, and meddling Fae. Over the next several years she wrote a full run of Highlander books that connected contemporary heroines with ancient warriors.
As she worked on those romances Moning became more drawn to the darker corners of Celtic mythology, especially the Tuatha De Danann, the Fae who walk between worlds. That curiosity pushed her toward urban fantasy and a new setting. With Darkfever in 2006 she shifted from medieval Scotland to modern Dublin and from mostly stand alone romances to a long running saga centered on bartender turned sidhe seer MacKayla Lane.
The Fever novels follow Mac as she hunts her sister's killer, uncovers a hidden society of women who can see the Fae, and becomes entangled with ruthless immortal figures like Jericho Barrons and the mysterious Nine. The series grew into an eleven book cycle, including Dani O'Malley focused volumes such as Iced and High Voltage and a graphic novel, Fever Moon.
Along the way Moning's work found a wide audience. Many of her titles have appeared on major bestseller lists, and Shadowfever reached the number one slot in the United States. In 2001 she won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Paranormal Romance for The Highlander's Touch, and later picked up audio and reader voted honors as the Fever books took off.
Across Highlander, Fever, and her newer Watch Hill trilogy, certain obsessions keep resurfacing.
She likes heroines who start in ordinary jobs and discover they are part of something much older and stranger. She mines Celtic and fae lore for monsters and magic systems, but grounds the action in specific places, whether that is the pubs and alleys of Dublin, wind beaten Scottish castles, or the witchy Louisiana town of Divinity in The House at Watch Hill. Today she lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the southeastern United States and writes full time, offering readers multiple doors into the same haunted, romantic universe.
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