Olivie Blake Books in Order
Browse Olivie Blake books in order, from The Atlas series to standalones and story collections, with quick summaries and easy where-to-start tips.
Last updated: July 4, 2026
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases (at no extra cost to you).
Publication Order
22 books
Alpha
by Olivie Blake
2017
Told she is perfect but never why, a young woman in a world where humans are weapons begins to learn what role she was built to play. This short graphic opener is driven by mystery, control, and a dangerous future.
Alpha, Volume II: Rising
by Olivie Blake
2017
The mission is clearer, but loyalty is not. As secrets pile up and the struggle over who can be Alpha sharpens, this follow-up pushes the graphic series into riskier territory with more intrigue and emotional fallout.
Fairytales of the Macabre
by Olivie Blake
2017
This first collection gathers four dark fairy tales full of romantic noir, twisted fate, and seductive danger. Revenge, cursed choices, and gothic atmosphere run through stories that feel both playful and sharp-toothed.
Lovely Tangled Vices
by Olivie Blake
2018
The Locke sisters are the last of a fading witch line in magicless Knot's Landing. As one is drawn toward a suspect ally and the other toward a sinister sorority, family loyalty and buried secrets start a dangerous war.
Masters of Death
by Olivie Blake
2018
Viola Marek is a vampire realtor trying to sell a haunted house, and Fox D’Mora is a medium with ties to Death himself. Their ghost problem turns into a strange, funny, tender mystery packed with immortals, monsters, and unfinished love.
Midsummer Night Dreams
by Olivie Blake
2018
The second Fairytale Collections volume offers more modern fairy tales, from magical bridges and wandering fools to huntresses, poets, and bloodthirsty loves. The mood is wistful, whimsical, and just eerie enough.
La Petite Mort
by Olivie Blake
2019
After inheriting a house in the New Orleans French Quarter, Marisa Marrero finds herself caught between an alleged alchemist, a predatory vampire, and powers she barely understands. Trust comes hard in this moody paranormal novella.
One For My Enemy
by Olivie Blake
2019
In magical Manhattan, two rival witch families run criminal empires and keep old grudges alive. A chance connection between enemies turns love and revenge into the same problem, and no one escapes the fallout cleanly.
The Lovers Grim
by Olivie Blake
2019
This third collection leans into magic, romance, and mayhem, with stories about devils, finfolk, strangers pulled together by fate, and endings that might still be rewritten. Blake keeps the fairy-tale mood, but makes it stranger and looser.
Alone With You in the Ether
by Olivie Blake
2020
In Chicago, Regan, a bipolar counterfeit artist, and Aldo, a mathematician obsessed with routine, meet by chance and cannot quite let go. Their six conversations become an intimate, searching story about love, illness, and connection.
The Answer You Are Looking For Is Yes
by Olivie Blake
2020
Drawn from Witch Way Magazine, this anthology mixes paranormal romance, adventure, humor, and general bad decisions. Expect other realms, fake dating, monsters, luck gone strange, and people finding magic in very inconvenient places.
The Atlas Six
by Olivie Blake
2020
Six unusually gifted magicians are invited to compete for five places in the Alexandrian Society, a secret order guarding impossible knowledge. The reward is power and prestige, if they can survive a year of rivalry, seduction, and betrayal.
Sacred Hospitality
by Olivie Blake
2022
This short Atlas story spends extra time with Libby, Nico, Tristan, Reina, Parisa, and Callum before the second novel. It is a small but sharp look at the frayed relationships, bad manners, and dangerous chemistry holding the cohort together.
The Atlas Paradox
by Olivie Blake
2022
Five initiates are now inside the Society, but the real choice has only begun. Alliances splinter, hearts break, and Atlas Blakely's larger plan starts to show its world-changing shape.
Grow Your Own Optimist!
by Olivie Blake
2023
This follow-up anthology returns to the strange corners of the Witch Way world with stories of demons, devil's advocates, dystopia, and dating. The tone shifts from sweet to sly, but the magic is always close at hand.
Januaries
by Olivie Blake
2024
This collection brings together new and older stories about love, magic, betrayal, death, and revenge. Fairy-tale logic, contemporary weirdness, and Blake's taste for longing all sit side by side.
The Atlas Complex
by Olivie Blake
2024
The surviving Alexandrians return to a bargain that was always built to break them. With old loyalties shattered and outside forces closing in, they have to decide what limitless power is worth, and who gets destroyed for it.
All Manner of Thing Shall Be
by Olivie Blake
2025
A group of bickering immortal housemates in a Santa Monica Victorian start to feel trapped in a loop of déjà vu. This short story turns vampires, time travel, and old grudges into something odd, funny, and uneasy.
Gifted & Talented
by Olivie Blake
2025
After the death of tech titan Thayer Wren, his magically gifted children circle the family empire and each other. What follows is a sharp family drama about inheritance, ambition, grief, and the kind of power that ruins people from the inside.
Girl Dinner
by Olivie Blake
2025
Sophomore Nina Kaur and adjunct professor Sloane Hartley are drawn into the rituals of an elite sorority whose version of wellness comes with bloody costs. Blake turns campus ambition and womanhood into a dark, biting satire.
Clara & the Devil, Volume 1
by Olivie Blake
2026
Clara thinks her life is planned out, until the devil arrives in her small seaside town asking for a library card. Over one hot summer, temptation, desire, and power begin to pull apart everything she thought she wanted.
Dreamland
by Olivie Blake
2026
As girls are murdered across a heat-struck Los Angeles, aspiring actress Anya Morris is invited into the orbit of a powerful film dynasty. Inside their Hollywood hills villa, desire, ambition, and an occult family curse become impossible to separate.
Where should I start?
If you want dark academia and big ensemble tension: The Atlas Six → The Atlas Paradox → The Atlas Complex
If you want an intimate, brainy love story: Alone With You in the Ether → La Petite Mort
If you want witty supernatural fantasy: Masters of Death → Januaries
If you want witches, rivalry, and sharper romance: One For My Enemy → Lovely Tangled Vices
If you want dark satire in a modern setting: Girl Dinner → Gifted & Talented
Author bio
Olivie Blake is the pen name of Alexene Farol Follmuth, an author who writes adult speculative fiction as Olivie Blake and young adult fiction under her legal name. She was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, grew up primarily in Pleasanton, is a first-generation American of half-Filipino descent, and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.
Before writing became the main job, she took a much less obvious route toward it. She earned a master's degree in urban planning, worked at a public defender's office, and went to law school with plans to build a practical career. Then that careful plan gave way to fiction, and the work she had been circling for years finally moved to the center.
That detour changed everything.
Blake built her early readership online, first through fan fiction and then through self-published original work. That background still explains a lot about her books. They tend to be emotionally intense, full of sharp dialogue and complicated dynamics, and very interested in the way people think themselves into trouble. Even when the premise is big and strange, the emotional machinery is usually personal.
The title that changed her reach the most was The Atlas Six. She originally self-published it in 2020, and after it caught fire online it was republished traditionally and grew into a bestselling trilogy. Readers who find her through that series usually stay for the same reasons, the dark academia mood, the morally messy ensemble, the battle between ambition and intimacy, and the sense that power is never just power. It is always tied to ego, loneliness, or hunger.
But her range is wider than one viral fantasy series. Alone With You in the Ether is intimate and searching, built around two people whose minds move through the world in uneasy, exacting ways. Masters of Death takes vampires, ghosts, and Death itself and turns them into something funny, weird, and unexpectedly tender. One For My Enemy leans into rival witch families in Manhattan, while Girl Dinner and Gifted & Talented show how comfortably she moves toward satire, family damage, and social ambition without losing her taste for the uncanny.
Under the name Alexene Farol Follmuth, she also writes young adult novels like My Mechanical Romance and Twelfth Knight. The split between names makes sense. Olivie Blake books often live in adult speculative territory, while the Alexene books aim younger, but both sides of her work share the same interest in desire, identity, and the awkward business of figuring out who you are when other people keep trying to define you first.
Smart people talking themselves into trouble is one of her recurring specialties.
Across her work, certain patterns keep returning. She writes a lot about power, longing, self-invention, mental strain, and the cost of getting what you thought you wanted. Cities matter in her fiction too, whether that means magical Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, or an impossible archive hidden behind a secret society. Her characters are often gifted, damaged, ambitious, lonely, or all four at once, which gives even the most fantastical books a very human pressure point.
These days she lives and works in Los Angeles. She has shared that she trains in boxing, and that detail feels oddly fitting once you have read a few of her books. The prose can be thoughtful and talkative, but it also likes a clean hit. Whether she is writing about witches, scholars, immortals, lovers, or people making very bad choices under supernatural pressure, she keeps coming back to the same question from different angles, what it means to be human, and what love, power, and survival ask us to become.
Edited by
Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.
Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.








































Comments
Did we miss something? Have feedback?
Help us improve this page by sharing your thoughts