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Leveling Up Books in Order

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Follow the Leveling Up series by KF Breene in order, with summaries, series background, and where to start if you want paranormal women’s fiction with a midlife twist.

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Leveling Up books in publication order

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14 books

1

Magical Midlife Dating

by KF Breene

2020

Jessie has accepted Ivy House’s magic and even grown wings, but she cannot figure out how to use them. Calling in a new gargoyle for help tangles her training with unexpected attraction, stirring jealousy, rivalry, and another layer of chaos in her already weird life.

2

Magical Midlife Invasion

by KF Breene

2020

Life at Ivy House is finally settling down when Jessie’s very non magical parents decide to visit. As she scrambles to hide gargoyles, shifters, and a lurking enemy who has breached her defenses, the real battle becomes keeping her two worlds from colliding.

3

Magical Midlife Madness

by KF Breene

2020

At forty, freshly divorced and an empty nester, Jessie takes a caretaker job for a creepy old house in a small mountain town. Ivy House turns out to be sentient and magical, and it has chosen her as its next heir whether she feels ready or not.

4

Magical Midlife Love

by KF Breene

2021

Ivy House needs a proper teacher for Jessie, and the magical summons she sends out attracts far more than mild tutors. As a powerful neighboring mage comes calling, Austin must confront his feelings for Jess, his past with his brother, and threats no shifter has faced before.

5

Magical Midlife Meeting

by KF Breene

2021

Elliot Graves has been poking at Jessie’s territory from afar. Now the Ivy House crew takes the fight to his doorstep. On his home turf, surrounded by traps and strange magic, Jessie has to lead her oddball team into a confrontation she may not be ready for.

6

When one of Momar’s agents slips into Austin’s territory looking for Jessie, it becomes clear their enemies are done playing. Invited into the dangerous basajaunak lands, Jessie must secure new allies without lying about the threat stalking her, or they will all pay the price.

7

Magical Midlife Alliance

by KF Breene

2023

Jessie tries to unite the gargoyles into an alliance capable of defending Kingsley’s pack. As the only female gargoyle, she challenges entrenched expectations while navigating unfamiliar leaders, uneasy loyalties, and a formidable enforcer whose attention creates further complications.

8

Magical Midlife Battle

by KF Breene

2023

Jessie and Austin rally their allies to defend Kingsley’s pack against Momar’s forces. Edgar’s secret weapon may help, but Austin’s return home brings unresolved history into a battle that could determine the future of the shifters.

9

With Kingsley temporarily safe, Jessie visits Los Angeles and confronts the painful history surrounding her former husband’s new relationship. Meanwhile, Niamh’s past threatens to intrude, and Nessa and Sebastian prepare a surprise that could unsettle the group’s hard-won calm.

10

Magical Midlife Flowers

by KF Breene

2024

Edgar’s enhanced flowers cause unexpected trouble while Jessie prepares for a visit involving her ex-husband’s new fiancée. Austin plans a perfect date, leaving Tom to manage the magical botanical disaster before the chaos overtakes their arrangements.

11

Magical Midlife Rescue

by KF Breene

2025

Jessie and Austin assemble shifter allies for a rescue while struggling to manage their unpredictable crew. Sebastian and Nessa pursue their own plans, but Momar’s proximity and the danger of underestimating him threaten to unravel everyone’s efforts.

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Magical Midlife Conclave

by KF Breene

2026

Austin and Jessie host the first major shifter gathering in years, bringing gargoyles and basajaunak into an already tense assembly. Old grudges, competing ambitions, and hostile outsiders threaten the alliance, making the effort to preserve peace a dangerous undertaking.

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Magical Midlife Rogue

by KF Breene

2026

Austin travels to recruit allies, but rumors of a violent rogue complicate the mission. Jessie’s group must navigate new loyalties and a meeting with a gargoyle cairn leader while Niamh’s provocations make already fragile relationships harder to manage.

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Coming Soon

Magical Midlife Mage

by KF Breene

2027

The Leveling Up series continues with its fourteenth installment.

Leveling Up books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Magical Midlife Madness"

    Magical Midlife Madness

    by KF Breene

    2020Leveling Up, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Magical Midlife Dating"

    Magical Midlife Dating

    by KF Breene

    2020Leveling Up, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Magical Midlife Invasion"

    Magical Midlife Invasion

    by KF Breene

    2020Leveling Up, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Magical Midlife Love"

    Magical Midlife Love

    by KF Breene

    2021Leveling Up, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Magical Midlife Meeting"

    Magical Midlife Meeting

    by KF Breene

    2021Leveling Up, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "Magical Midlife Challenge"

    Magical Midlife Challenge

    by KF Breene

    2022Leveling Up, Book 6

Series background & context

Leveling Up is KF Breene’s answer to a question that kept bothering her, what if the chosen one is forty, divorced, and wondering what comes next. The series helped kick off the Paranormal Women’s Fiction movement and shows why midlife heroines fit so well in magical stories.

Jessie has just watched her twenty year marriage implode. Her son is leaving for college. The life she built no longer fits, and she has no idea what to put in its place. When an opportunity arrives to caretake an old house in a small Sierra foothills town, it feels like equal parts escape plan and last resort.

The house is not just old. It is Ivy House, a sentient magical estate that has been quietly looking for a new heir. The town is not just quaint. It is packed with gargoyles, shifters, witches, and other beings hiding in plain sight. Jessie walks in expecting to mend a roof and repaint walls. Instead she finds a snarky, cape wearing butler, a bar run by an infuriatingly attractive alpha shifter named Austin, and a destiny she never signed up for.

Magical Midlife Madness starts with Jess trying to put her life back together and slowly realizing the house expects much more from her. Subsequent books, including Magical Midlife Dating, Magical Midlife Invasion, Magical Midlife Love, Magical Midlife Meeting, and Magical Midlife Challenge, follow her as she learns to fly in a very literal sense, assembles a crew of guardians and misfits, and tries to keep her mortal parents from discovering that her quiet new town is anything but.

The tone lands somewhere between sitcom and adventure story. Jess worries about knee pain and reading glasses alongside demon attacks and magical politics. Her friendships with other women in town, her growing crew of gargoyles and shifters, and her prickly slow burn relationship with Austin are just as important as any battle.

What makes Leveling Up stand out is the way it treats age as an asset. Jess brings life experience, boundaries, and a sense of humor you only get by living through things. The books let her be scared and unsure without ever reducing her to a joke. She gets to be the hero, the romantic lead, and the person who decides which risks are worth taking.

If you are looking for a place to start with paranormal women’s fiction or simply want monsters, magic, and second chances in the same series, Leveling Up is built for exactly that.

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