Rachel Vincent Books in Order
Explore Rachel Vincent's books in order, from Shifters and Soul Screamers to later thrillers, with series guides, summaries, and where to start.
Last updated: July 9, 2026
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Publication Order
40 books
Stray
by Rachel Vincent
2007
Faythe Sanders is a rare female werecat who wants a life outside her family's Pride, until tabby kidnappings force her home. When she becomes a target herself, independence has to wait for survival.
Rogue
by Rachel Vincent
2008
Back with her Pride, Faythe is trying to protect her territory and rebuild what she can with Marc when another killing throws everything off balance. To clear her name and stop the threat, she has to hunt a rogue enemy fast.
My Soul to Lose
by Rachel Vincent
2009
A trip to the mall ends with Kaylee Cavanaugh screaming uncontrollably and waking up in a psychiatric unit. As she begins seeing the signs of death around her, she realizes she may not be crazy after all.
My Soul to Save
by Rachel Vincent
2009
When a singer dies onstage and Kaylee does not scream, she knows the rules of death have changed. Digging deeper pulls her and Nash into a terrifying bargain over stolen souls.
My Soul to Take
by Rachel Vincent
2009
Kaylee can sense when someone nearby is about to die, and her body answers with a scream she cannot control. When girls at school start dropping dead, Kaylee and Nash have to uncover what is hunting them.
Pride
by Rachel Vincent
2009
Faythe is on trial for infecting and killing her human ex, charges that could end her life. At the same time, a rogue stray is hunting a wild teenage tabby, and stopping him may be Faythe's only shot at survival.
Alpha
by Rachel Vincent
2010
Faythe, Marc, and Jace are accused of crimes that could tear their world apart for good. To avenge a devastating loss and save the Pride, Faythe has to walk straight into a final showdown.
My Soul to Keep
by Rachel Vincent
2010
A deadly supernatural drug called demon breath is spreading through the human world, and one of Kaylee's friends is already hooked. To stop it, Kaylee and Nash have to trace the source before the damage becomes permanent.
My Soul to Steal
by Rachel Vincent
2010
Kaylee and Nash are already on shaky ground when Sabine transfers to their school. As a mara who feeds on fear, Sabine can make nightmares real, and she is not above using them to get Nash back.
Prey
by Rachel Vincent
2010
Faythe's Pride is under pressure from every side when a vicious ambush leaves Marc missing and her family exposed. To save the people she loves, she has to outfight enemies both inside and outside the Pride.
Reaper
by Rachel Vincent
2010
Before he was the sarcastic reaper everyone knows, Tod Hudson was an ordinary teen with a future. One crash changes everything, forcing him to choose between life, death, and something in between.
Shift
by Rachel Vincent
2010
As the first female werecat enforcer, Faythe is already carrying more than most of her kind. Now thunderbirds, political treachery, and old grief threaten the fragile future of her Pride.
Blood Bound
by Rachel Vincent
2011
Liv Warren can track by blood, a gift that makes her the best chance of finding a missing child. The search drags her back toward a former lover and into a violent underworld where every promise has teeth.
If I Die
by Rachel Vincent
2011
Kaylee's borrowed time is almost gone when a dangerously charming new teacher arrives at school. To save the girls he is preying on, Kaylee must work with an unlikely ally while her own clock runs out.
Before I Wake
by Rachel Vincent
2012
Kaylee died, but death did not end her problems. Back in school and trying to pass for alive, she is forced to reclaim stolen souls while an old enemy proves more dangerous than ever.
Never to Sleep
by Rachel Vincent
2012
Sophie Cavanaugh is tired of the fallout from her cousin Kaylee's strange reputation, until one scream sends her into a nightmare world. There, sleep itself becomes the most dangerous thing she can do.
Shadow Bound
by Rachel Vincent
2012
Kori Daniels can walk through shadows, but escaping the Tower Syndicate is much harder. Her last chance at freedom means recruiting, or killing, a man whose own secret mission could destroy them both.
Oath Bound
by Rachel Vincent
2013
Sera Brandt has spent years hiding her heritage and her rare power, until tragedy forces her into a fight for the Tower Syndicate itself. To survive, she will have to trust a man who has every reason to doubt her.
With All My Soul
by Rachel Vincent
2013
Kaylee Cavanaugh is done letting hellions own her school and her life. But taking the fight to the forces behind the chaos means risking everyone she still has left to lose.
Hunt
by Rachel Vincent
2014
Years after surviving a brutal attack, Abby Wade has learned how to fight back. So when her college roommate is abducted from a remote campsite, Abby follows the trail into a deadly rescue mission.
Last Request
by Rachel Vincent
2014
Set during the final stretch of *With All My Soul*, this novella follows Tod and Nash as they try to grant the last request Kaylee never had the chance to make.
Lion's Share
by Rachel Vincent
2015
Abby Wade insists on joining a dangerous hunt in Jace Hammond's territory, even though her past has left scars she keeps hidden. In the werecat world, their growing attraction is almost as risky as the killer they are tracking.
Menagerie
by Rachel Vincent
2015
Delilah Marlow thinks she is human until a violent moment reveals her true nature and strips away all her rights. Sold into a traveling carnival full of cryptids, she has to survive long enough to understand what she really is.
The Stars Never Rise
by Rachel Vincent
2015
In demon-ravaged New Temperance, Nina Kane is doing everything she can to protect her younger sister from the Church and from hunger. When Mellie's secret draws deadly attention, Nina has to trust a rogue exorcist to keep them alive.
The Flame Never Dies
by Rachel Vincent
2016
Nina, Mellie, and Finn head into the badlands to find allies and keep Mellie's baby alive in a world running out of souls. But the road leads toward a demon city, and Nina may be forced to sacrifice more than she can bear.
100 Hours
by Rachel Vincent
2017
A spring break trip to an isolated beach in Colombia turns into a nightmare when six Miami teens are kidnapped and dragged into the jungle. With the clock ticking, survival depends on facing the truth about why they were taken.
Blind Tiger
by Rachel Vincent
2017
Robyn Sheffield wants her life back after a violent ordeal changed everything about her place in werecat society. But with powerful people watching her every move, freedom is going to be another kind of fight.
Brave New Girl
by Rachel Vincent
2017
Dahlia 16 is one of five thousand identical girls raised to serve the city of Lakeview. When a boy makes her feel unique, she starts to question everything, in a world where flaws are erased.
Spectacle
by Rachel Vincent
2017
Freedom does not bring safety for Delilah and the other cryptids. In the aftermath of *Menagerie*, they face new cages, shifting loyalties, and a wider fight over who gets to count as human.
Wild Card
by Rachel Vincent
2017
Kaci Dillon talks Justus Alexander into taking her to Las Vegas, where one reckless night leaves them married and cornered by even bigger problems. To get free, they will have to outrun the law, their pasts, and their own growing feelings.
99 Lies
by Rachel Vincent
2018
Back in Miami after their jungle nightmare, Maddie, Genesis, and the other survivors cannot escape the headlines or what they did to survive. The lies they carried home may prove even more dangerous than the kidnapping itself.
Fury
by Rachel Vincent
2018
Delilah's fight against cryptid captivity reaches far beyond one carnival in the final Menagerie book. Old enemies, fragile alliances, and brutal choices put her found family, and every hidden creature, at risk.
Strange New World
by Rachel Vincent
2018
Waverly Whitmore is a teenage celebrity with a perfect public life, until she learns she is not as unique as she believed. When she collides with Dahlia, the truth about clones, power, and identity turns deadly.
Every Single Lie
by Rachel Vincent
2021
When Beckett finds a newborn baby's body in her boyfriend's gym bag, her whole town turns on her in an instant. Everyone around her is hiding something, and the truth could wreck what is left of her life.
Red Wolf
by Rachel Vincent
2021
Adele Duval has always known the dark wood around Oakvale is dangerous, but she never knew it was tied to her family's secret. When she transforms into a guardian wolf, protecting her village may cost her the future she thought she wanted.
Living Dead Girl
by Rachel Vincent
2022
Alexandra Walker is a hard-edged retrieval specialist hired to recover missing cargo and a vanished copilot after a plane crash. The job pulls her into a deadly supernatural scramble, with a hellhound at her side and humanity in the balance.
No One Is Alone
by Rachel Vincent
2022
After her mother's sudden death, sixteen-year-old Michaela is forced to move in with the father who barely knew her, and with the secret family he never told her about. Grief, anger, and a new school make every step forward feel complicated.
Broken Wings
by Rachel Vincent
2023
Ainsley is a hunted nobody until a dragon bonds with her and changes her fate in an instant. To stay alive, she claims a royal identity and steps into a brutal struggle over power, loyalty, and survival.
Fat Cat
by Rachel Vincent
2023
Charley is one of the few female strays in werecat society, and she runs the only shifter bar in town while serving as marshal of her territory. When two outsiders come looking for justice, a murder case turns into a political mess.
The Alchemary
by Rachel Vincent
2026
Amber Fallbrook wakes up missing two years of memories, including everything she learned at the Alchemary of Aethermere. With deadly Trials looming, she has to relearn her craft and uncover who stole her past.
Where should I start?
If you want werecat urban fantasy: Stray → Rogue → Pride
If you want YA paranormal with banshees and reapers: My Soul to Take → My Soul to Save → My Soul to Keep
If you want dark fantasy and cryptids: Menagerie → Spectacle → Fury
If you want dystopian science fiction: Brave New Girl → Strange New World
If you want suspense without the supernatural: 100 Hours → 99 Lies → Every Single Lie
Author bio
Rachel Vincent writes the kind of stories that take a familiar life and then tilt it just far enough that nothing feels safe anymore. Sometimes that means werecats and banshees. Sometimes it means clone labor, demon-haunted cities, or a teenage girl finding a body in a gym bag. Across fantasy, paranormal romance, dystopian fiction, and suspense, she has built a bibliography full of pressure, secrets, and characters who have to grow up fast.
Before she was a full-time novelist, she studied English and worked as an English teacher. That background helps explain one of the things readers often notice first about her books: they move. Even when the worldbuilding is elaborate, the pages tend to turn quickly, and the emotional stakes are always easy to track.
She has also said that she writes about the things that scare her.
That idea fits her work surprisingly well. Her early breakout came with Stray, the first Shifters novel, which dropped readers into a werecat society shaped by scarcity, territory, politics, and family obligation. Faythe Sanders, the series lead, is funny, stubborn, impulsive, and constantly pushing back against the role other people want for her. Vincent kept that same energy in later heroines too. They may not all make the neatest choices, but they do feel like people with skin in the game.
Then came Soul Screamers, beginning with My Soul to Take, her young adult series about Kaylee Cavanaugh, a teenage bean sidhe who knows when someone nearby is about to die. Those books helped make Vincent a New York Times bestselling author, and they remain a favorite entry point for readers who like paranormal YA with romance, big feelings, and a strong supernatural hook. The series has banshees, reapers, hellions, and soul bargains, but it also has a very grounded streak about friendship, grief, and what loyalty really costs.
She likes a big premise, but she never loses sight of the person trapped inside it.
That shows up again in books like Menagerie, where a woman discovers she is not legally human and is sold into a traveling carnival full of cryptids, or Brave New Girl, where a teenage clone begins to suspect that obedience and safety are not the same thing. In The Stars Never Rise, Vincent mixes demons, a brutal church regime, and a fierce sister bond. In later suspense novels such as Every Single Lie and No One Is Alone, she drops the overt fantasy but keeps the tension, the hidden histories, and the sense that one revelation can change a whole life.
Her recurring interests are easy to spot once you have read a few of her books. She returns again and again to hidden identities, girls who have been underestimated, social systems built on unfair rules, and the moment when survival turns into resistance. She also writes strong sibling dynamics, fraught romance, and found-family bonds very well. Even when the stakes get huge, the story usually stays anchored to one painful human question: What do you do when the truth costs more than the lie?
And yes, there are cats.
Vincent lives in Oklahoma with her family. Publisher bios describe her as a former English teacher, a champion of the serial comma, and the author of more than twenty novels for teens and adults. She has also shared that she lives with her husband, her grown children, and several cats, which feels very on brand for someone whose books so often mix sharp danger with a dry wink of humor.
If you are new to her work, the range is part of the fun. You can start with urban fantasy, shift into YA paranormal, try a dark fantasy trilogy, or jump straight to her later thrillers. The through line is not genre. It is Rachel Vincent's interest in fear, pressure, and the exact second a character decides she is done letting other people define her.
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