Kel Carpenter Books in Order
Browse Kel Carpenter books in order, with reading guides, series overviews, short summaries, and simple tips on the best places to start her fantasy worlds.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
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Publication Order
37 books
Beyond the Winter Kingdom
by Kel Carpenter
2025
Beyond the Winter Kingdom continues the Faeted Seasons duet as the mortal thief and her fae king fight to break the curse strangling their realm. Political enemies, old grudges and the cost of their fated bond all rise to the surface in this concluding volume.
Beneath the Cursed Veil
by Kel Carpenter
2025
An artifact hunter takes a job from a notorious leprechaun and discovers too late she’s stealing a fae prince, not an object. Dragged through the veil into a frozen kingdom ruled by the cursed King Vareck, she finds herself tied to the icy ruler who has haunted her dreams for years.
Premonition of Peace
by Kel Carpenter
2024
In Premonition of Peace, the final act of Natalie’s story, fragile visions of a better future collide with the brutal reality of gods, demons and witches at war. To claim any kind of peace, she has to decide what, and who, she is willing to sacrifice.
Mate Me
by Kel Carpenter
2024
As guardian of a cursed god’s stolen soul, the heroine of Mate Me has always known she was living on borrowed time. When he tears open a portal from Tartarus and claims she is his fated mate, she strikes a desperate bargain, agreeing to six months in his underworld court pretending to be his queen in exchange for her cousin’s life.
Worship Me
by Kel Carpenter
2023
In Worship Me, an immortal antihero is cursed to fall for the same woman lifetime after lifetime, and to kill her every time. When she’s reborn with no memory of him, he must win her trust, unravel the curse and prove history does not have to repeat.
Stalking Reapers and Other Failed Dates
by Kel Carpenter
2023
Salem finally tracks down her brother’s killer by becoming his next victim, and dying again. Back from the grave for a second time, she investigates why she still isn’t staying dead, even as stalking rogue reapers and surviving succubus sorority parties becomes her new normal.
Kissed by Chaos
by Kel Carpenter
2023
Born into a powerful line of black witches who treated her like a tool, Natalie survives by fixing other people’s problems from the shadows. When she tries to save the Devil and instead binds his soul to hers, she ends up entangled with Lucifer, a treacherous ex-fiancé and a sinfully arrogant incubus who all refuse to let her walk away.
Hunting Werewolves and Other Bad Dates
by Kel Carpenter
2023
Dying on the way home for her brother’s funeral should have been the end, but Salem wakes up inconveniently not-dead and very confused. Teaming up with her late brother’s brooding best friend, she dives into a world of werewolves, sex-vampires and the murder that started it all.
Covet Me
by Kel Carpenter
2023
A mafia princess raised as a bargaining chip, the heroine of Covet Me is promised to whichever contender wins a deadly election to rule Earth and Emerald. Her unwanted suitors include a demon mate who once rejected her, a fae criminal and a haunted hybrid shifter; instead of playing prize, she decides to compete for her own freedom.
Bonded by Death
by Kel Carpenter
2023
After binding the Devil’s soul to her own, Natalie’s life is only getting more complicated. Bonded by Death pushes her deeper into the Magic Wars universe as new enemies surface, old secrets about her family come to light, and her three dangerous lovers become impossible to resist.
Battling Monsters and Other F'd Up Dates
by Kel Carpenter
2023
A surprise reunion with her long-lost twin forces Salem to confront what being Death’s daughter really means. While council tensions turn ugly and an ancient monster stalks her, she has to master her wild powers, stop a brewing war and maybe squeeze in one more disastrous date.
Reject Me
by Kel Carpenter
2022
Cursed with a broken shift, the heroine of Reject Me has always been the weak link in her shifter House. When she rejects her childhood bully as a mate and is cast out, survival means faking a queen-bond with the ruthless vampire king who offers her protection at a very personal price.
Hades
by Kel Carpenter
2022
Hades is a dark paranormal romance set in a myth-inspired underworld, following the dangerous attraction between the ruler of the dead and a heroine pulled into his realm by a bargain she cannot easily escape.
Forged by Fury
by Kel Carpenter
2022
With New Chicago on the brink of a new era, Piper has finally stepped into her role as queen, witch hunter and rage demon all in one. When a powerful enemy arrives to challenge her rule, every sacrifice she’s made is tested in a final battle for the city’s future.
White Raven
by Kel Carpenter
2021
After a rogue shifter bite, Fury becomes something no demon or angel has seen before. While hunting for answers with a misfit team and juggling three possessive mates, she must outplay a scheming angel and a bloodthirsty daughter who wants her dead.
Haunted by Shadows
by Kel Carpenter
2021
Piper used to hunt witches; now she lives with one, and someone wants her dead. While Ronan insists on locking her away for her own good, she refuses to sit still, diving into a conspiracy of corrupted magic that will make even demons think twice about crossing her.
Dark Horse
by Kel Carpenter
2021
Fury, a demon enforcer with the highest reform record in Hell, is promised retirement until a prophecy shows three men will end the world. Sent topside to break Roman, Ezra and Dorian before they break everything else, she finds the job might destroy her instead.
Blood be Damned
by Kel Carpenter
2021
After the Underworld burns and Lucifer falls, magic across New Chicago tilts out of balance. Humans riot, supernaturals choose sides, and Piper’s sister Bree seems determined to drag them all back to Hell. To stop a new war, Piper may have to become the very demon others fear.
Black Swan
by Kel Carpenter
2021
Fury’s attempt to rewrite fate has backfired, turning her into the catalyst for the apocalypse she was sent to prevent. With enemies closing in and everything she loves on the line, she has one last chance to stop the coming black swan.
Touched by Fire
by Kel Carpenter
2020
Supernatural bounty hunter Piper Fallon makes a living punching monsters for cash in post–Magic Wars Chicago. Hired to stop a demon summoning, she instead ends up magically bonded to the rage demon Ronan, turning one dangerous job into a lifetime connection neither of them planned.
Reaping Havoc
by Kel Carpenter
2020
Finding her brother’s killer should have brought Salem peace. Instead dying a second time only raises more questions about why she keeps coming back. As ghosts whisper that she’s something more than a reaper, she hunts a murderer who might know exactly what she really is.
Reaper Reborn
by Kel Carpenter
2020
In the final Grimm Brotherhood book, Salem’s bond to death and the Brotherhood’s darkest secrets collide. To protect the people she loves and stop a rising threat, she has to embrace what she has become, even if it means changing the world of reapers forever.
Long Live the Soulless
by Kel Carpenter
2020
Quinn died protecting the man she loved and woke in a dark god’s realm, pampered but cut off from everything she fought for. With Lazarus half-mad with grief and war consuming the continent, one last bargain could resurrect her, or shatter Siria beyond repair.
For King and Corruption
by Kel Carpenter
2020
After months away, Quinn comes back to Norcasta to find rebellion brewing and Lazarus’s throne under siege from the blood heirs. Caught between loyalty and her own brutal instincts, she must decide what kind of king Lazarus will be, and what she’ll destroy to keep him there.
Vessel of Destruction
by Kel Carpenter
2019
War, loss and betrayal have left Selena cracked but unbroken. With Daizlei in ruins, a new storm of gods and monsters gathers, forcing her to face the sister she once tried to save and the impossible choice between sacrificing herself or watching the world burn.
Twisted is the Crown
by Kel Carpenter
2019
Returning to her homeland of N’skara, Quinn expects simple vengeance. Instead she finds a country twisted by secrets and a Council that would rather see her dead than exposed. While Lazarus struggles to keep his court in line, Quinn learns just how much of her was forged in blood.
Reaper's Blood
by Kel Carpenter
2019
Salem died for Hostess cupcakes and came back without an explanation, or her snack. Guided by a tall, infuriating reaper named Graves, she discovers that monsters are real, her hometown hides a secret society, and her brother’s death was no accident.
Fortune Favors the Cruel
by Kel Carpenter
2019
Quinn Darkova escapes slavery with only one goal, to take bloody revenge on those who sold her. Instead she’s bound to Lazarus Fierté, a calculating lord who needs her terrifying magic to secure his kingdom and whose plans might save or ruin them both.
Brimstone Nightmares
by Kel Carpenter
2019
In the conclusion to Ruby Morningstar’s story, the fallout from her choices reverberates through both Earth and Hell. With apocalyptic forces closing in and the Horsemen at her side, she must decide what kind of Queen of the Damned she’s willing to be.
Blessed be the Wicked
by Kel Carpenter
2019
As Quinn’s power grows, some factions want to cage it and others want her dead. Serving as Lazarus’s right hand, she’s sent to court a pirate queen and distant tribes, only to find herself entangled in lies where one wrong choice could doom everyone she’s sworn to protect.
Wicked Games
by Kel Carpenter
2018
Now officially Lucifer’s Daughter and heir to Hell, Ruby wants nothing to do with ruling. Unfortunately her father’s enemies now see her as their main target. While juggling a possessive inner beast, four overprotective Horsemen and a missing friend, she has to learn Hellfire 101 on the fly.
Queen of Lies
by Kel Carpenter
2018
Selena survived her second year at Daizlei, but someone she loved did not, and grief has hardened into a hunger for revenge. As the Council’s war plans accelerate, she embraces the darkness inside her, even if it turns her from reluctant hero into something far more ruthless.
Lucifer's Daughter
by Kel Carpenter
2018
Ruby Morningstar runs a tattoo shop in Portland, juggles a banshee best friend, a pet raccoon and a stalker ex, and thinks being a half-succubus is her biggest problem. Then a stranger bails her out of jail and reveals she’s Lucifer’s heir, and the true harbinger of the apocalypse.
Infernal Desires
by Kel Carpenter
2018
Accepting her demonic legacy has turned Ruby into a walking target. In New Orleans her chaotic magic grows wilder, her enemies multiply and the only way to keep herself and her allies alive might be to surrender control to the terrifying beast within.
Trial by Heist
by Kel Carpenter
2017
Johanna Kozak has spent a decade running from the half-breed past that got her parents killed. Framed for murdering her best friend and locked up by the Supernatural Council, she’ll need a risky prison break to survive long enough to clear her name.
Scion of Midnight
by Kel Carpenter
2017
Now a student at Daizlei Academy, Selena is the first of her kind in a thousand years and the only weapon able to kill demons. When the Supernatural Council blackmails her into their service for an impending war, she must decide how far she’ll go to fight back.
Heir of Shadows
by Kel Carpenter
2016
Selena Foster has spent years hiding what she is in a world where supernaturals must stay secret. When her sister exposes their magic, the girls are sent to Daizlei Academy, a school for dangerous beings, where Selena’s forbidden power makes her both target and weapon.
Where should I start?
If you like academy fantasy with a dark edge: Heir of Shadows → Trial by Heist → Scion of Midnight → Queen of Lies → Vessel of Destruction
For brutal, high-fantasy romance: Fortune Favors the Cruel → Blessed be the Wicked → Twisted is the Crown → For King and Corruption → Long Live the Soulless
If you want apocalyptic reverse harem chaos: Lucifer's Daughter → Wicked Games → Infernal Desires → Brimstone Nightmares
For gritty urban fantasy with demons and magic wars: Touched by Fire → Haunted by Shadows → Blood be Damned → Forged by Fury
If you prefer steamy, why-choose paranormal romance: Dark Horse → White Raven → Black Swan or start with Reject Me → Worship Me
Author bio
Kel Carpenter writes fast-paced fantasy and paranormal romance full of sharp-tongued heroines, monsters you probably should not trust, and romances that walk the line between danger and devotion.
She was born in Olympia, Washington, and grew up moving across the United States, cycling through more houses than she can easily count. All that changing scenery meant new libraries, new bookstores, and a lot of time disappearing into made-up worlds.
In high school she started sketching the story that would become Heir of Shadows. What began as a way to escape stressful classes and a noisy house slowly turned into a full novel about a girl at a very dangerous academy. When the book finally hit readers' hands in 2016, it gave Kel a clear answer to the restless question of what she wanted to do next.
College took her to Atlanta, where she studied English and Chemistry while drafting more stories between lectures and late-night study sessions. Balancing lab reports with worldbuilding was not always pretty, but it taught her how to treat writing like a real job long before she could leave other work behind.
Since then she has built a whole constellation of series. Supernaturals of Daizlei Academy follows Selena Foster through a brutal magical school and a war she never asked for. Dark Maji dives into a bloody, high-fantasy world where Quinn Darkova and Lazarus Fierté tear down empires as often as they save them. In Queen of the Damned, tattoo-artist Ruby Morningstar finds out she, not the Four Horsemen, is the real harbinger of the apocalypse. A Demon's Guide to the Afterlife and Magic Wars: Demons of New Chicago lean into demon politics, snark, and messy love stories set against looming catastrophe.
Readers come to her books for unapologetically strong women, complicated magic systems, and slow-burn relationships that spill over into reverse harem or why-choose romance. Her stories often circle the same questions: what power costs, what family means when blood fails you, and how far someone will go to protect the few people they finally trust.
Collaboration has become a big part of her career. She co-writes with Aurelia Jane on series like A Demon's Guide to the Afterlife, and shares worlds with other authors in projects such as Immortal Vices and Virtues. Those partnerships let her experiment with new corners of her universes, new tropes, and new shades of morally gray.
In recent years she has shifted from life as a college student in Atlanta to life as a full-time author based in Maryland. She shares her days with her husband, kid, and a small crew of fur-babies, and still carves out time to travel whenever she can.
When she is not drafting or editing, you can usually find her streaming genre shows, hunting for good tacos and gluten free pizza, or chatting with readers online. Her schedule is busy and her fictional worlds are crowded with demons, reapers, gods, and witches, but at the center there is always the same thing: a character who refuses to give up, no matter how many times the world tries to break her.
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