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SJ West Books in Order

Browse SJ West books in order, with short summaries, series lists, reading order tips, and help choosing where to start in her fantasy worlds.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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48 books

Blessed

by SJ West

2012

Lilly finally learns why Lucifer has been shielding her and why so many forces want her dead. The answers bring her closer to the mastermind behind her near-deaths and the truth about her fate.

Cursed

by SJ West

2012

Lilly starts college expecting normal problems, not two dangerous love interests and repeated attempts on her life. As Brand and Will circle her, she learns their secret is tied to a war between Heaven and Hell.

Forgiven

by SJ West

2012

Lilly and Brand prepare for their wedding while hunting for the last clues to Lucifer's plan. To protect both Earth and Heaven, Lilly must step into the final battle between good and evil.

Ascension

by SJ West

2013

Jess finally sees the shape of Lucifer's plan for humanity. With Mason and the vessels beside her, she has to make one brutal choice that could save the world or doom it.

Broken

by SJ West

2013

Jess Riley has spent years with the Watcher Agency searching for parents stolen by the Tear. When Mason recruits her for a larger mission, she discovers her role in saving the world may be central.

Dawn

by SJ West

2013

Lucena Day tightens her hold in the final battle of the trilogy. With Jace beside her, Skye fights to end the queen's power and bring a true new dawn to the world.

Devoted

by SJ West

2013

Caylin and Aiden's bond is pushed harder as the princes of Hell keep closing in. Their romance deepens, but so does the cost of protecting the future they were promised.

Harvester

by SJ West

2013

In a post-nuclear future divided between immortal Harvesters and the last humans, Skye lives on the run with Ash. When Ash is taken, she and Jace head south through a broken America to get him back.

Hope

by SJ West

2013

Skye reaches the Southern Kingdom expecting safety, only to find new lies and fresh danger. As old enemies close in, she has to decide what really separates a human from a Harvester.

Kindred

by SJ West

2013

Jess and Mason dig deeper into the Tear and the forces gathering around it. As loyalties shift and old secrets surface, their growing bond is tested from every side.

Oblivion

by SJ West

2013

A search for Faison leads Jess and Mason into a world turned upside down. At the same time, Jess's connection to Lucifer changes in ways that leave her facing a mission she may not survive.

Timeless

by SJ West

2013

Caylin has known for years that Aiden is her soul mate, but destiny comes with a price. When one of Hell's princes targets her, young love turns into a fight for the future.

Vankara

by SJ West

2013

Shifter Sarah Harker is asked to take the dying queen's place in plague-stricken Vankara. Thrust into court politics and a conspiracy over the outbreaks, she must become a ruler before the kingdom collapses.

Aiden's Story

by SJ West

2014

Before marrying Caylin, Aiden writes the story of his life from War Angel to Watcher to fallen soul fighting his way back to grace. It is both confession and redemption.

Anna

by SJ West

2014

As Anna's true place in the larger struggle comes into focus, love and duty start pulling in different directions. Cirrus politics and Hell's reach leave her very little room for mistakes.

Dragon Alliance

by SJ West

2014

Now wearing a queen's face, Sarah has to defend Vankara from the Fae and their dragons. To win the war, she must chase uneasy alliances and uncover deeper truths about herself.

Lucifer

by SJ West

2014

The focus turns more directly toward Lucifer and the past that made him what he is. Anna is forced to see both the man and the threat behind the name as the fight over the seals grows darker.

Malcolm

by SJ West

2014

Anna grows up in the cloud city of Cirrus believing her future is already chosen. Meeting Malcolm changes everything and pulls her into the war against the princes of Hell.

Redemption

by SJ West

2014

Anna must recover the remaining seals while Helena tempts her toward darkness. Malcolm stands beside her, but Anna alone has to decide who she wants to become.

Cataclysm

by SJ West

2015

Jess and Mason finally gather the last traveler they need to return to alternate Earth. What waits there is a world sliding toward apocalypse, with Hell's princes already tightening their grip.

Judgment

by SJ West

2015

Jess faces the fallout from a devastating last move as the conflict on alternate Earth reaches its breaking point. The final choices are personal, brutal, and impossible to dodge.

Uprising

by SJ West

2015

The battle for alternate Earth escalates as Jess and Mason push back against the forces now ruling it. Every victory costs something, and the war starts to threaten more than one world.

Awakening

by SJ West

2016

Anna and Malcolm are expecting twins while politics, demons, and the rise of a corporeal Hell pull the universe apart. Even with War Angels at her command, Anna wants change without surrendering to war.

Enduring

by SJ West

2016

Anna and Malcolm try to protect their growing family while threats close in from Cirrus and Hell alike. Helena is forced to choose between vengeance and a very different future.

Moonshade

by SJ West

2016

Sarah Marcel starts hearing a mysterious voice and losing her grip on ordinary life. Following the trail leads her to a hidden world of vampires, family duty, and one man who can calm the storm inside her.

Reckoning

by SJ West

2016

Helena finally has freedom in the living world, but keeping it means keeping Anna and her unborn children alive. Her uneasy plans grow more dangerous with every choice.

War of Atonement

by SJ West

2016

The war with the Fae reaches a harder, more personal stage as Sarah fights for Vankara's future. Old loyalties, dragons, and the cost of power all come due at once.

Conclave

by SJ West

2017

Sarah and Julian need help from the wider vampire community if they are going to break his curse. Bringing the conclave together only exposes more bloodshed, politics, and painful family secrets.

Sentinel

by SJ West

2017

Sarah is pulled deeper into Julian's world as old curses and supernatural politics close around them. What began as a strange inheritance becomes a fight over trust, power, and survival.

Sweet Devotion

by SJ West

2017

Mae Cole never forgot Tristan, the boy who marked her heart when she was young. When they reunite, she joins his desperate effort to save his brother's soul and maybe heal a broken family.

War Angel Contingent

by SJ West

2017

On the planet Sierra, bounty hunter Jules Grace collides with Helena and the War Angels hunting her. Caught between duty, grief, and mercy, Jules has to decide who deserves saving.

Between Worlds

by SJ West

2018

Jules and Ethan are drawn deeper into a conflict that stretches across worlds and old loyalties. As Helena's choices ripple outward, survival starts to depend on trust no one finds easy.

Cin d'Rella and the Golden Apple

by SJ West

2018

Cin's quest to free Briardale continues with another dangerous fairy-tale prize in play. Trust, old feuds, and her growing feelings for Coltan make every step more complicated.

Cin d'Rella and the Water of Life

by SJ West

2018

Cin d'Rella is one of the Thorns, sworn to wake Briar Rose and break the curse trapping Briardale. Her mission gets complicated fast when an enemy prince offers a path to the Water of Life.

Requiem

by SJ West

2018

The final book pushes Sarah and Julian to confront the full cost of the curse and the divisions around them. Love may survive, but only if they can outlast the forces closing in from every side.

Shattered Souls

by SJ West

2018

Helena must choose between building power for her domain and protecting the people she has started to care about. Around her, other desperate players race to stop the next catastrophe.

Cin d'Rella and the Lonely Tower

by SJ West

2019

Cin is sent deeper into Faloria and closer to the heart of the curse on Briardale. A new mission forces her to balance duty, danger, and a romance that never comes easy.

Cin d'Rella and the Messengers of Death

by SJ West

2019

With the last piece of her weapon gone, Cin can only reclaim it by keeping a dangerous promise. To save Briardale, she must face the angel of death and decide how much she is willing to lose.

Descending into the Abyss

by SJ West

2019

Loving Lucifer means following him into darker places and higher stakes than Amalie ever imagined. She has to decide how far she can go to save him without losing herself.

Restoration

by SJ West

2019

Lilith wakes in the Void with no memories and only one goal, reach the Black Castle alive. At the same time, Jered enters that realm to rescue his son and repair a shattered bond.

Surrendering the Dark

by SJ West

2019

Lucifer sees Amalie as one more trap set by God, but he cannot stay away from her. Amalie believes loving him might be the one thing that can lead him back from centuries of rage.

Atonement

by SJ West

2020

Lilith's desperate fight for freedom collides with Jered's rescue mission in the heart of the Void. Old sins, cruel rulers, and impossible choices make every step more dangerous.

Exodus

by SJ West

2020

Lilith and Jered keep fighting for a way home while the Void resists letting anyone leave unchanged. To survive, they have to carry more than themselves out of the dark.

Harbinger

by SJ West

2020

Lora leaves the Void to train at the new War Angel Academy as Levi's return looms. Between brutal preparation and her complicated draw to Kai Valeri, she has little time before war arrives.

Champion

by SJ West

2021

After Azrael is freed, Lora is named humanity's champion and told to prove why the world deserves saving. She and her allies head toward war knowing not all of them will make it back.

Nemesis

by SJ West

2021

As Levi's threat grows, Lora and her allies chase answers through the Void and beyond. What they uncover tests friendships, loyalties, and the academy itself.

Pandora's Gift

by SJ West

2021

El thinks she is living an ordinary life in a quiet Southern town until the women who raised her are exposed as liars. The truth about her past opens the door to a much stranger destiny.

Untouchable

by SJ West

2021

A cursed human thief becomes the key to two rival wolf kingdoms when their bloodlines begin to fail. Two alpha kings want her as queen, but touching her can kill them.

Where should I start?

If you want the core Watchers story: CursedBlessedForgiven
If you want the bigger, more adult Watchers arc: BrokenKindredOblivionAscension
If you want a next-generation romance: TimelessDevotedAiden's Story
If you want fantasy outside the Watchers universe: VankaraDragon AllianceWar of Atonement

Author bio

S.J. West was born on a cold winter morning in Seoul, Korea, and was brought to the United States as a child. She grew up in the Deep South, and that mix of beginnings still seems to sit at the center of how she talks about herself and her work.

She started writing early. Really early.

West wrote her first novel at the age of eight and kept returning to stories through her teenage years. In college she studied biology and chemistry, then went on to earn a master's degree in biochemistry.

For a while, science was the day job. She spent four years working in a laboratory at Cornell University, and that background in research and structure gives her fantasy a practical backbone, even when the stories are full of angels, curses, alternate worlds, and creatures that should not exist.

Eventually, she headed back South. She has said that homesickness, and a strong dislike of snow, pulled her away from New York and back to Mississippi, where she built her adult life with her husband and daughter, Caylin.

Her best-known books sit inside the sprawling Watchers universe. Cursed opens the door with Lilly, Brand, and a hidden war tied to Heaven and Hell. Broken widens the story through Jess Riley and the Tear, a rip in the sky that sends people into other realities. Timeless and Devoted move to the next generation, while Malcolm, Redemption, and the later Dominion books push the world into bigger questions about power, responsibility, and what redemption really costs.

But West has never stayed in just one lane. Vankara mixes plagues, politics, shapeshifting, dragons, and a neo-Victorian feel. Moonshade leans into vampire romance and family secrets. Cin d'Rella and the Water of Life shows her having fun with fairy-tale shapes, while Untouchable pulls paranormal romance into a harsher world of rival wolf kings and one very dangerous heroine.

A few things show up again and again in her fiction: soul mates, fallen beings trying to find their way back, families torn apart and pieced together, and characters who have to decide whether love can change what they were made to be. Her books move fast, but they also spend real time on faith, choice, guilt, mercy, and the long aftershocks of what people do to each other.

She's a science person and a fantasy person. That seems to suit her.

The short version of her story is simple. A child who loved making up stories kept at it, took a detour through biochemistry, and ended up building a very large fictional universe of her own.

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