Reliquary Books in Order

Reliquary takes urban fantasy and shoves it into the back alleys, casinos, nightclubs, and black markets where people make bad decisions for understandable reasons. The series follows Mattie Carver, who starts out expecting a normal future, then loses any chance at normal when her fiancé is abducted and she learns that magic is real, addictive, and everywhere.

Mattie is not just another bystander who stumbles into the supernatural. She is a reliquary, someone who can carry large amounts of magic inside her body without detection. In this world, that is a rare and dangerous talent, which means Mattie goes from ordinary woman to valuable asset almost overnight. Her main guide into the underworld is Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer and sensor with charm, survival skills, and more emotional complications than either of them needs.

The first book, Reliquary, works like a rescue story crossed with a crime novel. Mattie wants her fiancé back. Asa wants answers, leverage, and maybe something he should not want at all. Then Splinter and Mosaic keep widening the map. The pair move through magical mob networks, eerie carnivals, black-market exchanges, and international trouble, while trying to decide whether partnership is a strength or a liability.

That criminal underworld is the thing that gives the series its flavor. Magic here is not polite or whimsical. It is traded, hidden, consumed, weaponized, and fought over. The people who control it are often gangsters, smugglers, and opportunists. Even the romance feels shaped by that pressure. Attraction is real, but trust always has a price attached.

If you like adult urban fantasy with a strong romantic thread, a lot of momentum, and a world that feels a little noir around the edges, Reliquary is a good fit. It is sexy, restless, and built around the idea that power changes hands quickly, but the consequences stick.