Sarah Fine Books in Order
Explore Sarah Fine books in order, with series guides, short summaries, and simple help on where to start across fantasy, sci-fi, romance, and thrillers.
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Sarah Fine books in publication order
28 books
Sanctum
by Sarah Fine
2012
After her best friend Nadia dies, Lela Santos crosses into the Shadowlands to rescue her soul. In the dark city she finds monsters, a deadly Guard named Malachi, and a mission far worse than grief prepared her for.
Captive: A Guard's Tale from Malachi's Perspective
by Sarah Fine
2013
This short story follows Malachi as he pulls a mysterious girl from the hands of one of his own Guards. She is no ordinary citizen of the dark city, and deciding whether to save her could cost him dearly.
Fractured
by Sarah Fine
2013
Back in Rhode Island, Lela tries to pass as a normal teen while hunting Mazikin with Malachi and a volatile new Guard team. When the monsters start targeting the people she loves, every mistake becomes personal.
Scan
by Sarah Fine
2013
After Tate Archer steals one of his father's inventions, mercenaries attack his school and his father is killed. On the run from human-looking aliens, Tate must uncover why the device matters before Earth pays the price.
Chaos
by Sarah Fine
2014
With Malachi trapped in hell and Juri in control, Lela dives into the Shadowlands again to bring him back. Teaming up with Ana, she enters the Mazikin realm, where shifting loyalties and brutal truths test everyone.
Of Metal and Wishes
by Sarah Fine
2014
Wen helps her father in a brutal slaughterhouse where an eerie Ghost seems to hear every desperate wish. Caught between the haunted Bo and the Noor leader Melik, she must choose whom to trust before the factory explodes.
Stories from the Shadowlands
by Sarah Fine
2014
This bonus collection expands the Shadowlands with Malachi's journal entries, a Jim novella, extra scenes, and glimpses of life after Chaos. It is a good stop for readers who want more history, perspective, and aftermath.
Vigilante
by Sarah Fine
2014
Freed from her years as a Guard, Ana should finally be safe in paradise. Instead she heads into the Wasteland to find Takeshi, the man she lost, and faces what love still demands after death.
Burn
by Sarah Fine
2015
With the scanner gone and enemies closing in, Tate and Christina race from safe house to clue trail in search of his father's final secrets. What they uncover points to an even bigger threat than the alien war already stalking them.
Claimed
by Sarah Fine
2015
Aislin Ferry and Jason Moros have only days to stop a supernatural crisis before the Keepers judge them. Mutiny, family fractures, and a plot to unleash Chaos force them into an alliance neither can afford to lose.
Fated
by Sarah Fine
2015
Scientist Galena Margolis is close to a vaccine that could save millions, until sabotage and murder make her a target. Declan Ferry steps in to protect her, but the threat circling them may tear fate itself apart.
Marked
by Sarah Fine
2015
Boston paramedic Cacy Ferry secretly ferries the dead to the afterlife when Fate marks them. As her attraction to partner Eli grows and her father's rule collapses, keeping souls and loved ones safe becomes one impossible job.
Of Dreams and Rust
by Sarah Fine
2015
A year after the slaughterhouse collapse, Wen works in a weapons-factory clinic while the Noor rebellion grows. To warn Melik's people of what is coming, she must walk into war and face what it has done to them all.
Of Shadows and Obsession
by Sarah Fine
2015
This prequel turns to Bo, the Ghost of Gochan slaughterhouse, before Wen's story begins. One night outside his hidden world gives him a glimpse of the living and leads to the moment that changes everything.
Magic and Mayhem: The Graphic Novel
by Sarah Fine
2016
In this graphic novel set in the Reliquary world, Asa Ward goes after a powerful relic and lands in the middle of a magical crime war. The job should be simple, until the only life he truly values is threatened.
Mosaic
by Sarah Fine
2016
Mattie and Asa are becoming an impressive magic-smuggling team when a black-market deal goes wrong. With Asa captured and enemies closing in, Mattie has to risk everything to get him back.
Reliquary
by Sarah Fine
2016
When Mattie Carver's fiancé is abducted, her search reveals that magic is real, addictive, and tied to a dangerous underworld. Her only guide is Asa Ward, a rogue dealer who wants her help as much as she wants answers.
Splinter
by Sarah Fine
2016
Mattie tries to leave magic behind, but betrayal drags her back into smuggling, mob violence, and a very unwelcome reunion with Asa. Carrying priceless magic through Chicago's underworld, she has to decide which future she can live with.
The Impostor Queen
by Sarah Fine
2016
Elli has spent her life preparing to inherit the queen's fire and ice magic, only to learn the power was never meant for her. Cast out and hunted, she uncovers a prophecy that could remake her kingdom.
Beneath the Shine
by Sarah Fine
2017
Marguerite's viral video helps launch a tech-for-all political movement, then drops her into an elite school on the other side of the divide. As revolution, privilege, and Percy pull against her, she learns change always has a price.
The Cursed Queen
by Sarah Fine
2017
Warrior Ansa has always fought for the Krigere, but a curse of fire and ice changes everything. As dark magic spreads through her body, she must choose between loyalty, love, and the future of her people.
Uncanny
by Sarah Fine
2017
Cora wakes with no memory of the night her stepsister Hannah died, even though her brain implant may have recorded everything. As suspicion grows and an AI counselor becomes her lifeline, the truth looks more dangerous than forgetting.
Copper Snare
by Sarah Fine
2018
Prince Ace of Inferna is supposed to be building weapons for war, not falling for the enemy. This prequel novella tells a forbidden romance long before Arianna enters the story.
The Guardian
by Sarah Fine
2018
Still learning the rules of her new world, Ernie makes one bad bet and lands in another realm with a dangerous rogue Dealer. Family secrets, shaky alliances, and a war in the cards turn survival into something much bigger.
The Serpent
by Sarah Fine
2018
Ernie Terwilliger grabs the wrong deck of cards from the wrong stranger and stumbles into a deadly game between Immortal Dealers. To survive, she must outplay enemies who are more than happy to kill for the cards.
The True Queen
by Sarah Fine
2018
Kupari is crumbling, old enemies are closing in, and Elli and Ansa are each struggling to control what destiny has asked of them. To save the realm, both young women must face the cost of power and leadership.
Anything Between Us
by Sarah Fine
2019
Sasha allows herself one reckless night a year while spending the rest of her life caring for her father. When that stranger turns out to be Nate, a veteran with wounds of his own, their no-strings plan gets complicated fast.
The Warrior
by Sarah Fine
2019
Ernie and Gabe chase a mysterious artifact while a new Forger's plans threaten to twist chaos into catastrophe. The deeper they dig into the history of the Dealers, the closer the whole universe comes to breaking.
Where to start with Sarah Fine
If you want dark afterlife fantasy: Sanctum → Fractured → Chaos
If you want epic queens and magic: The Impostor Queen → The Cursed Queen → The True Queen
If you like gothic retellings: Of Metal and Wishes → Of Dreams and Rust
If you want fast sci-fi suspense: Scan → Burn → Uncanny
If you want adult urban fantasy romance: Marked → Claimed → Fated
Sarah Fine sub-series and character series
- Guards of the Shadowlands books in order
- Of Metal and Wishes books in order
- Reliquary books in order
- Reliquary Graphic Novels books in order
- Scan books in order
- Servants of Fate books in order
- Starving Artists books in order
- The Immortal Dealers books in order
- The Impostor Queen books in order
- Vampire Girl (Sarah Fine) books in order
Guards of the Shadowlands books in order
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Sanctum
by Sarah Fine
2012Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 1
Captive: A Guard's Tale from Malachi's Perspective
by Sarah Fine
2013Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 2
Fractured
by Sarah Fine
2013Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 3
Chaos
by Sarah Fine
2014Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 6
Stories from the Shadowlands
by Sarah Fine
2014Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 5
Vigilante
by Sarah Fine
2014Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 4
Guards of the Shadowlands books in chronological order

Sanctum
by Sarah Fine
2012Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 1
Captive: A Guard's Tale from Malachi's Perspective
by Sarah Fine
2013Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 2
Fractured
by Sarah Fine
2013Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 3
Vigilante
by Sarah Fine
2014Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 4
Stories from the Shadowlands
by Sarah Fine
2014Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 5
Chaos
by Sarah Fine
2014Guards of the Shadowlands, Book 6
Of Metal and Wishes books in order
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Author bio
Sarah Fine calls Indiana home, but her route there was a little scattered. She was born in California, lived in Maryland, Texas, and Toronto, and then grew up in the Hoosier state after her parents settled there.
That mix of places fits the way she writes. Her books move easily from small-town realism to haunted slaughterhouses, crumbling fantasy kingdoms, alien conspiracies, and magical underworlds. What ties them together is people under pressure, especially people carrying grief, fear, guilt, or desire.
Before fiction became her job, Fine trained as a psychologist. She earned a BA in psychology from Hope College, a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Delaware, completed a pediatric psychology internship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and later did a postdoctoral fellowship in early childhood at Brown University School of Medicine.
Writing came later.
By her own account, she did not have formal writing training. In her mid-thirties, after a birthday weekend and with no creative writing background, she sat down, wrote a first novel in about a month, realized it was bad, and kept going anyway.
That stubborn start turned into a long publishing career.
Teen readers often start with Sanctum, the opener to her Guards of the Shadowlands books. It takes a grief-stricken girl into a terrifying afterlife, and readers tend to like the dark setting, the urgency, and the slow-burn pull between Lela and Malachi. Others land on Of Metal and Wishes, a gothic retelling of The Phantom of the Opera set in an industrial world, or The Impostor Queen, where a girl raised to inherit immense magic learns the prophecy around her is not what it seemed.
She has also written sharp, high-speed science fiction. Scan, co-written with Walter Jury, throws a teenage boy into an alien conflict hiding in plain sight, while Uncanny mixes memory loss, brain tech, and a family death into a tense YA thriller. On the adult side, Fine built several urban fantasy romance series, including Marked and Reliquary, where magic is tangled up with crime, fate, and dangerous attraction.
Psychology shows up everywhere in her work, but not in a textbook way. She is drawn to scarred characters, to the bargains people make with themselves, and to the messy cost of survival. Even in her biggest fantasy worlds, the emotional questions stay close to the skin.
These days she also writes psychological suspense as S.F. Kosa. When she is not writing or, as she jokes, psychologizing, she enjoys hiking, cooking, and playing games with her husband and five children. She has described herself as firmly rooted on the East Coast now, which feels fitting for a writer who has spent years building worlds while keeping one foot in real human behavior.
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