Luck Books in Order

Catherine Cerveny's Luck books are science fiction romance with a crime and politics engine under the hood. The series follows Felicia Sevigny, a tarot card reader living in Nairobi in the year 2950, after climate disasters and wars have remade Earth. Humanity has rebuilt with advanced tech, body enhancements, longer lives, and colonies across the TriSystem, so the books always have one foot in personal drama and the other in a carefully engineered future.

It looks polished, but it is not exactly safe.

Felicia sits at the center of that tension. She makes a living reading cards, yet the series keeps asking whether what she can see is mysticism, luck, science, or some messy mix of all three. When Alexei Petriv, a powerful and feared crime boss, enters her life, her private talent becomes part of a much larger struggle involving One Gov, the Tsarist Consortium, and people who would like to turn human ability into something they can own, copy, or weaponize.

The setting matters a lot here. The Rule of Luck starts on Earth, where old disasters have pushed power into new places and everyday life runs through high technology and tight social control. The Chaos of Luck expands the story to Mars, a terraformed showpiece for the rich and powerful. Mars is not just a backdrop. It raises the stakes, widens the class divide, and makes the promise of a fresh start feel both tempting and suspicious.

The farther the story reaches into space, the more personal the choices feel.

Across the books, the continuing thread is Felicia's fight to hold on to her own agency. She wants love, stability, and a future she can trust, but every gain seems to come with a new price. The series plays with reproduction policy, genetic manipulation, cloning, organized crime, and political power, yet it keeps those ideas tied to character. Felicia and Alexei's relationship drives the emotional side of the story, while conspiracies and shifting loyalties keep the plot moving.

Tone is a big part of the appeal. These books are fast, glossy, and dramatic, but they also like ethical questions. If you want slow, hard-science speculation, this may not be the lane. If you want tarot cards, Mars luxury, criminal empires, future politics, and a heroine trying to read danger before it swallows her whole, the Luck series has a clear identity. It knows exactly what kind of fun it wants to have.