Leanna Renee Hieber Books in Order
Browse Leanna Renee Hieber books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, reading order help, and clear tips on where to start with each series.
Last updated: July 7, 2026
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Publication Order
22 books
Dark Nest
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2008
Chief Counsel Ariadne Corinth learns her former lover has died just as tensions between the Light Nest and the Dark Nest turn dangerous. To save her people from betrayal and possible genocide, she must uncover the truth fast.
The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker / Strangely Beautiful
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2009
Ghost-seeing Percy Parker arrives at Athens Academy in Victorian London and discovers it hides the Guard, an ancient order fighting evil. With Jack the Ripper and something worse on the loose, hiding who she is becomes impossible.
The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2010
Percy Parker's strange destiny is only beginning. As dark omens multiply and a spectral war threatens London, Percy and the Guard must face the growing power of the Whisper World before everything they love is overrun.
Darker Still
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2011
In 1880s New York, Natalie Stewart becomes obsessed with a portrait of Lord Denbury and learns his soul is trapped inside it. To free him and stop the horrors linked to his body, she must step into the curse herself.
Reckoning
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2011
Captain Temesia Elysse survives one disaster only to face a larger one. With her psychic people marked for genocide, she must hold her crew together, rescue the living, and decide how far justice should go.
The Perilous Prophecy of Guard and Goddess / Perilous Prophecy
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2011
In 1860s Cairo, Beatrice leads a young Guard gifted by their Goddess to battle evil spirits in the streets. Doubt, duty, and a rising darkness force them toward a prophecy none of them can afford to ignore.
Miss Violet & the Great War
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2012
Violet Rychman has dreamed of a vast war since childhood, and now World War I has arrived. Guided by ghosts and burdened with new powers, she must try to stand against death on an overwhelming scale.
The Twisted Tragedy of Miss Natalie Stewart
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2012
Natalie wants an ordinary life, but Lord Denbury is wanted for murder and darker forces are closing in. Possession, resurrection, and dangerous whispers test her trust, her courage, and her hold on her own soul.
Too Fond
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2012
Eloise Browne, a shy Victorian hair jeweler, is unsettled when mill owner Mr. McGill enters her world. Pity, attraction, and her unusual gift soon draw both of them toward something far stranger than romance.
The Double Life of Incorporate Things
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2013
Natalie Stewart and Lord Denbury thought the worst was behind them. Instead, the Master's Society unleashes fresh horrors, and the fight stretches from Manhattan to Denbury's estate, where terrible sacrifices may be required.
The World of Tomorrow Is Sadly Outdated
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2013
In 1889, a band of inventors glimpses a ruined New York a century ahead. In 2089, the survivors they tried to help must decide whether hope, memory, and what was left behind can still change their future.
The Eterna Files
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2015
In 1882 London and New York, a British paranormal task force and an American clairvoyant chase the secret of the Eterna Compound, rumored to defeat death. Ghosts, politics, and grief turn the hunt into something far more dangerous.
A Christmas Carroll
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2016
Headmistress Rebecca Thompson and Vicar Michael Carroll are given a hard-won second chance at love when the spirit world intervenes. This holiday novella brings warmth, regret, and ghostly pressure to the Strangely Beautiful world.
Eterna and Omega
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2016
Clara Templeton hides vital knowledge about Eterna while Harold Spire's Omega Branch closes in on New York. As body snatchers, occultists, and rival loyalties collide, both sides begin to suspect the truth is bigger than immortality.
The Eterna Solution
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2017
The American Eterna Commission and Britain's Omega Department finally unite, only to find a new darkness spreading across the United States. What they thought was the key to immortality may instead be the only shield they have left.
The Spark
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2018
New Orleans spiritualist Louis Dupris joins New York's secret Eterna Commission to help conquer death. A forbidden romance, an unreliable twin, and a dangerous magical breakthrough quickly turn his new life into a crisis.
The Spectral City
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2018
In 1899 New York, medium Eve Whitby leads the Ghost Precinct, a secret team that solves crimes with help from psychics and spirits. When ghostly allies begin vanishing, Eve must protect both the living and the dead.
A Sanctuary of Spirits
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2019
A missing mortician draws Eve Whitby and the Ghost Precinct into the mysterious Ghost Sanctuary, where the dead may hold vital answers. A gifted mesmerist, growing backlash, and fragile trust make every clue feel risky.
A Summoning of Souls
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2020
Eve Whitby faces an enemy who wants to wipe New York's ghosts away for good and turn her own psychic power into a weapon. To stop him, the Ghost Precinct must risk everything they have built.
A Haunted History of Invisible Women
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2022
This nonfiction book looks at the real women behind America's most famous female ghost stories. It untangles myth, misogyny, folklore, and history to ask why these spirits still haunt the national imagination.
Ghosts of the Forbidden
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2022
Lillian Anders heads to Glazier's Gap for a writers conference and walks straight into a Gothic nightmare. Ghosts, a haunted mountain town, and a love story echoing across centuries make escape anything but simple.
America’s Most Gothic
by Leanna Renee Hieber
2025
This nonfiction study explores the real histories behind American Gothic fears and legends. Haunted houses, family curses, vanished women, and unsettling folklore all reveal how often reality proves stranger than fiction.
Where should I start?
If you want Gothic fantasy first: Strangely Beautiful → Perilous Prophecy → Miss Violet and the Great War
If you want paranormal detectives: The Spectral City → A Sanctuary of Spirits → A Summoning of Souls
If you want haunted romance and occult danger: Darker Still → The Twisted Tragedy of Miss Natalie Stewart → The Double Life of Incorporate Things
If you want a bigger Victorian conspiracy: The Spark → The Eterna Files → Eterna and Omega → The Eterna Solution
If you want modern Gothic atmosphere: Ghosts of the Forbidden
Author bio
Leanna Renee Hieber grew up in rural Ohio, where ghost stories were not just something to read, they were something to make. Long before she published novels, she was already drawn to the eerie corners of history, old houses, and the strange pull of the past. That mix of curiosity and theatrical flair still runs through nearly everything she writes.
She studied theatre at Miami University, with a focus on the Victorian era, and then began her professional life on stage. She worked with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, adapted 19th-century literature for performance, and wrote one-act plays that went on to be produced around the country.
She did not come to fiction by accident.
Her first published fiction was Dark Nest, a futuristic novella about psychically gifted humans under siege in space. Not long after that came The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, the book that introduced many readers to her signature blend of ghosts, romance, mythology, and gaslit danger. Readers who fall for Hieber's work often mention the same things: rich period atmosphere, big feelings, unusual heroines, and stories where the supernatural is woven right into everyday life.
That style carried into Darker Still, a Gothic tale set in 1880s New York, where a haunted painting, a cursed nobleman, and a determined young woman turn a love story into a fight for survival. Then came The Eterna Files, which opens the lens wider, mixing Victorian London, New York, espionage, spiritualism, and the search for immortality. In The Spectral City books, she returns to New York with a secret Ghost Precinct, a team of female spiritualists, and mysteries that involve both the living and the dead.
Ghosts matter in her work, but so do the living.
Again and again, Hieber writes about women who are underestimated, misread, or pushed to the edges of polite society. She likes found families, damaged cities, old grief, and people who have to decide whether fear will rule them. Even when the plots involve demons, hauntings, or occult conspiracies, there is usually a strong thread of hope running through them.
Her interests also led her into nonfiction. In A Haunted History of Invisible Women, she turned her attention to real American ghost lore and the women whose stories were twisted, flattened, or forgotten. She followed that with America's Most Gothic, a book that looks at the real histories behind American Gothic fears and legends. Those books feel like a natural extension of the fiction. The same fascination is there, only now the haunted material comes straight from history.
Outside the page, Hieber has kept one foot in performance. She is an actress, playwright, audiobook narrator, and lecturer on Gothic fiction and paranormal themes. She helped found Lady Jane's Salon in New York, a long-running reading series centered on romance, and she has appeared on television discussing Victorian spiritualism and ghostly history.
These days she lives in New York City, where she also works as a licensed ghost tour guide. That detail feels almost too perfect, but it fits. Hieber's books come from someone who clearly enjoys the overlap between story, history, performance, and the things that linger after dark.
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