Ministry of Supernatural Affairs Books in Order

Ministry of Supernatural Affairs moves Megan Frampton into a different lane without losing the things that make her romances feel like hers. The setting is 1851 London, but not the ordinary historical-romance version of it. In this world, supernatural species have emerged into public life after the Great Revelation, and the British government now has to deal with vampires, demons, djinn, selkies, and other beings as citizens, problems, and political facts.

The first book, Demons and Diplomacy, centers on Cora Hastings, a human government official whose job is to keep the peace between species and make the new rules of coexistence work in practice. That already gives the series a different texture from Frampton's duke romances. Cora is not navigating only ballrooms and gossip. She is navigating bureaucracy, law, prejudice, and a city that has been forced to admit the world is much stranger than it thought.

Then the Devil arrives.

More specifically, the Devil wants to visit London and see the Great Exhibition, and his son becomes part of Cora's already difficult assignment. That premise tells you a lot about the series tone. It is playful, a little wicked, and interested in the friction between official duty and very inconvenient attraction. There is a conspiracy threaded through the story as well, which raises the stakes beyond private scandal and gives the romance a more overt plot engine.

What makes this setting work is how grounded it still feels in systems and personality. Frampton has always liked smart women dealing with social rules, and here she gives that interest a fantasy shape. The ministry, the contracts, the negotiations, and the public unease all matter. So do wit, flirtation, and the question of who can be trusted when several kinds of power are in the room at once.

If you want romantasy with a historical backbone, a competent heroine, and a world where paperwork and hellfire can exist in the same chapter, Ministry of Supernatural Affairs is a strong starting point.