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Lauren Kate Books in Order

Browse Lauren Kate books in order, from Fallen and Teardrop to White Lights, with short summaries, series guides, and simple where-to-start advice.

Last updated: July 5, 2026

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16 books

Fallen

by Lauren Kate

2009

After a mysterious fire kills a boy, Luce Price is sent to Sword & Cross, a reform school in Savannah. There she is drawn to the distant Daniel Grigori and discovers a dark world of fallen angels, old secrets, and a love cursed to repeat.

The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove

by Lauren Kate

2009

Natalie Hargrove has built her whole life around becoming Palmetto Princess, and she will do almost anything to protect that dream. When a cruel prank goes fatally wrong, blackmail, scandal, and guilt start tearing apart her perfect image.

Torment

by Lauren Kate

2010

Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the California coast for students with unusual gifts, while he hunts the Outcasts who want her dead. As Luce learns to use the Shadows and glimpse past lives, she starts to question both Daniel's secrets and her fate.

Passion

by Lauren Kate

2011

Luce dives into her past lives, hoping the truth of her long history with Daniel will finally break their curse. Her search turns into a chase across centuries, with angels, Outcasts, and Daniel himself racing to stop her from changing everything.

Fallen in Love

by Lauren Kate

2012

This romantic companion gathers four interconnected love stories from the Fallen world, all unfolding on Valentine's Day in medieval England. It gives Daniel and Luce, along with several fan-favorite side characters, more room to shine.

Rapture

by Lauren Kate

2012

Luce and Daniel face their final race against Lucifer, who plans to rewrite history by undoing the Fall. The series finale turns private heartbreak into an epic battle, with love, sacrifice, and the fate of the world all on the line.

Angels in the Dark

by Lauren Kate

2013

This short digital collection offers bonus scenes, deleted moments, and quick glimpses into the Fallen world. It is a fun extra for readers who want more of Luce, Daniel, Arriane, Miles, and the series' dark romantic atmosphere.

Last Day of Love

by Lauren Kate

2013

This short companion to Teardrop adds extra atmosphere and backstory to the series' romantic mythology. It is best read as a quick return to Lauren Kate's world of dangerous emotion, secrets, and storm-heavy longing.

Teardrop

by Lauren Kate

2013

Eureka Boudreaux is grieving her mother's death and living under one impossible rule, never cry. When the mysterious Ander enters her life, she is pulled toward an Atlantis prophecy where her tears could wash away everything she loves.

Waterfall

by Lauren Kate

2014

After Eureka's tears flood the earth, Atlantis begins to rise and its king, Atlas, steps into the open. Eureka must learn how to fight, trust her allies, and survive devastating truths if she wants any chance of stopping him.

Unforgiven

by Lauren Kate

2015

Cam takes center stage in this dark spin-off, trading on a bet with Lucifer to win back the only girl who matters to him. He has fifteen days to make Lilith love him again, or lose far more than his heart.

The Orphan's Song

by Lauren Kate

2019

In 1736 Venice, two orphans at the Hospital of the Incurables dream of freedom and find each other through music. But heartbreak, family secrets, and the city's hidden life pull Violetta and Mino into a sweeping, risky love story.

By Any Other Name

by Lauren Kate

2022

Romance editor Lanie gets the chance of a lifetime when she is assigned to help bestselling author Noa Callaway through writer's block. The job could change her career, but it also forces her to rethink everything she thought she knew about love.

What's in a Kiss?

by Lauren Kate

2024

Liv's reunion with Jake, the prom date who once humiliated her, takes a wild turn when one impossible moment drops her into an alternate version of her life. Suddenly she has to weigh the love she missed against everything that changed without it.

The Spirit of Love

by Lauren Kate

2025

Fenny is finally close to directing the TV show she has worked on for years, until the new man at work looks exactly like the stranger she fell for on Catalina Island. The result is a magical, twisty romance about identity, healing, and second chances.

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White Lights

by Lauren Kate

2026

After a violent attack leaves her brother in the hospital and her under suspicion, aspiring filmmaker Dez follows the mysterious Rafe de la Cruz to Acheron, an elite film school hiding dangerous secrets. Ambition, attraction, and cosmic stakes collide almost immediately.

Where should I start?

If you want angel romance first: FallenTormentPassionRapture
If you want Atlantis and Southern fantasy: TeardropLast Day of LoveWaterfall
If you want contemporary romance: By Any Other NameWhat's in a Kiss?The Spirit of Love
If you want historical drama: The Orphan's Song
If you want her newest fantasy world: White Lights

Author bio

Lauren Kate was born in Ohio and raised in Plano, in the Dallas area, and that mix of movement and reinvention seems to have stayed with her. She studied creative writing and French literature at Emory in Atlanta, then went on to earn a master's degree in fiction from UC Davis. Her books often feel shaped by that wide map, Southern settings, old stories, and people who are pulled hard by love and fate.

Writing was not her first big dream.

As a teenager, she wanted to be a ballerina, until she was told she did not have the right feet for it. After that, she threw herself into writing instead. She wrote poems, songs, diary entries, and stories, and by high school she was already leaning toward fiction as the form that fit best.

Before her own novels found readers, Kate worked in New York as an editor at HarperCollins Children's Books. That job gave her a close-up look at how books are built, especially in revision, but it also meant long hours. She has said that graduate school gave her one thing a lot of writers need more than anything else, time.

There were plenty of rejection letters along the way.

The spark for Fallen came from a brief biblical image that caught her imagination, angels falling in love with mortal women and paying a price for it. She saw a love story in that idea, but also a way to ask messy questions about devotion, memory, good, evil, and what people will risk for one another. That mix of romance and mythology became one of her signatures.

Her breakout came fast. The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove introduced readers to her taste for dark emotion and high-stakes choices, and Fallen pushed that even further with Lucinda Price, Daniel Grigori, cursed love, and a whole world of angels and ancient loyalties. Readers who click with Kate usually like the same things: moody atmosphere, longing turned up loud, and characters who feel caught between desire and danger.

She stayed in that supernatural lane with Torment, Passion, Rapture, and later Unforgiven, then built a different myth-heavy world in Teardrop, where grief, water, and Atlantis shape the story around Eureka Boudreaux. After that, she widened the range again. The Orphan's Song moved into adult historical fiction with eighteenth-century Venice, while By Any Other Name turned toward contemporary romance and publishing-world tension. Her newer novels, including What's in a Kiss?, The Spirit of Love, and White Lights, show how comfortable she is blending romance with fantasy hooks, alternate paths, and secret worlds.

Across all of it, certain themes keep returning. Kate likes characters with hidden histories, settings that feel a little haunted, and love stories that ask whether fate is something to trust or fight. Even when the premise gets big, angels, Atlantis, cosmic stakes, the emotional center tends to stay personal.

She now lives in Los Angeles with her family.

That seems to suit her. Her books often feel cinematic, whether they are set in Savannah, coastal California, the Louisiana bayou, or Venice. She writes stories that move quickly, lean into atmosphere, and make room for both swoon and trouble.

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