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Tangled Fates Books in Order

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Explore the Tangled Fates stories by MariaLisa DeMora in order, with summaries, series background, and a quick guide to this speculative trilogy.

Last updated: July 11, 2026

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Tangled Fates books in publication order

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1

Rules Are Rules

by MariaLisa DeMora

2019

What if rewriting history were possible, but not free? This second Tangled Fates story pushes deeper into the moral cost of trying to undo heartbreak and bend fate to human will.

2

The Gray Zone

by MariaLisa DeMora

2019

When every path forward feels wrong, hope becomes its own kind of burden. This finale leans into sacrifice, impossible decisions, and the painful space between what is right and what is necessary.

3

There Are Limits

by MariaLisa DeMora

2019

After devastating loss tears a life apart, this speculative romance asks what a person would risk to change the future. It's intimate science fiction built on grief, love, and impossible choices.

Tangled Fates books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "There Are Limits"

    There Are Limits

    by MariaLisa DeMora

    2019Tangled Fates, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Rules Are Rules"

    Rules Are Rules

    by MariaLisa DeMora

    2019Tangled Fates, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "The Gray Zone"

    The Gray Zone

    by MariaLisa DeMora

    2019Tangled Fates, Book 3

Series background & context

Tangled Fates is one of the clearest examples of how wide DeMora's range can get. These are speculative stories built around grief, regret, and the dangerous temptation to ask what would happen if fate gave you one more chance to change a terrible decision.

The premise is personal, not flashy.

That matters, because this is not a giant world-building series full of gadgets and jargon. The tension comes from intimate stakes. What do you do if you lose the people who matter most? What rules would you break to get them back? And if you could rewrite history, would the new version really be better, or just differently broken?

Each book pushes those questions a little further. There Are Limits begins with catastrophic loss and the frantic desire to hold a shattered life together. Rules Are Rules sharpens the moral problem by asking whether rewriting the past is something anyone should be allowed to do, even for love. The Gray Zone then moves into the hardest territory of all, the place where every option feels wrong and choosing still has to happen.

This is a quieter kind of suspense, but it is still suspense.

Readers who like character-driven science fiction, ethical dilemmas, and stories where emotion carries just as much weight as concept will probably find a lot to like here. The trilogy is compact, but the questions it asks are not small. It stays focused on consequence, which gives the whole thing a sharper edge than the page counts might suggest.

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