Mortal Follies Books in Order

Mortal Follies is a completed historical romantasy duology set in an alternate Regency England where the marriage mart is complicated by fairies, gods, curses, bargains, and the constant possibility that magic will ruin your evening before gossip does. If you like social comedy with a supernatural engine under it, this series hits a very specific sweet spot.

The first book, Mortal Follies, follows Maelys Mitchelmore, whose entrance into society is interrupted by a curse that starts as a public embarrassment and grows much more dangerous. Her best hope is Lady Georgiana Landrake, a woman shadowed by scandal and rumors of witchcraft. Their story mixes ballroom politics, magical danger, and slow building attraction, all in a world where reputation matters almost as much as survival.

The sequel opens the world out.

Confounding Oaths moves to 1815 and follows John Caesar, who is trying to manage his sisters' futures and would very much like life to be more orderly than it is. Instead, a wish gone wrong pulls his family into another supernatural mess. Enter Captain Orestes James, a soldier, rescuer, and extremely inconvenient romantic possibility. The second book keeps the series mix of danger and courtship, but broadens the social and magical world at the same time.

What makes these books work is the balance. Hall plays with the wit and structure of Regency romance, then threads in fairy logic, divine interference, and real peril. The magic is not just decorative. It shapes the stakes, the power dynamics, and the kinds of choices the characters are forced to make. At the same time, the books never forget to be funny, flirtatious, and a little mischievous.

Read this series if you want history with a crooked smile. It has gowns, gossip, longing, and plenty of heart, but it also has curses, bargains, and people discovering that love is every bit as destabilizing as magic. Because the series is a duology, you get a complete world without needing a huge commitment.