The Moonlight Books in Order
Part ofML Hamilton Books in OrderFind The Moonlight trilogy by ML Hamilton in reading order, with brief summaries, series background, and where to start with Breanna Perry.
Last updated: July 1, 2026
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The Moonlight books in publication order
3 books
The Moon Thief
by ML Hamilton
2018
Breanna Perry, a psychiatrist at San Quentin, thinks Cassius Teran is delusional until a near-fatal crash and a strange stalker shake her certainty. Suddenly, the impossible starts looking real.
The Moon Walker
by ML Hamilton
2021
After the night she almost died, Breanna's old life stops making sense. As new powers and dangerous players close in, she has to learn the rules of a world she never believed existed.
The Moon Mage
by ML Hamilton
2022
Breanna's supernatural awakening leads to a final showdown in San Francisco. With rival forces closing in, she must protect the people she loves and decide how much of herself she is willing to surrender.
The Moonlight books in chronological order
The Moon Thief
by ML Hamilton
2018The Moonlight, Book 1
The Moon Walker
by ML Hamilton
2021The Moonlight, Book 2
The Moon Mage
by ML Hamilton
2022The Moonlight, Book 3
Series background & context
The Moonlight books take place in a version of modern Northern California where the supernatural is real, but most people do not know it yet. At the center is Breanna Perry, a San Quentin psychiatrist who starts the series with a practical job, a recognizable life, and no reason to think magic, immortality, or hidden creatures belong in her world.
That changes fast. In The Moon Thief, Breanna's work brings her into contact with Cassius Teran, a man who seems unstable until the evidence starts pointing somewhere much stranger. A near-fatal accident pushes Breanna even farther out of ordinary life, and by the time The Moon Walker and The Moon Mage arrive, she is no longer deciding whether the supernatural exists. She is deciding how to survive inside it.
Things get strange fast.
What helps the trilogy stand out is Breanna herself. She is not written as a starry-eyed fantasy heroine. She is educated, skeptical, and used to dealing with damaged people in a hard institutional setting. That gives the books a grounded feel even when the plot moves into near immortality, unusual powers, and men who want to control far more than one city. Her reactions stay human, even when the circumstances stop being human at all.
San Francisco matters here much the way Lake Tahoe matters in Avery Nolan. The city is lived in, not just visited. Breanna's tiny apartment, her medical background, her work at San Quentin, and her family ties all make the trilogy feel local and specific. When larger supernatural conflicts start pressing in, the stakes are not abstract. They threaten her routines, her relationships, and the people she wants to protect.
The ongoing arc is the real engine. The Moonlight trilogy follows Breanna as she becomes entangled in a struggle between powerful men who want control and have the ability to destroy what stands in their way. If you like urban fantasy that mixes mystery, character drama, and escalating supernatural danger, The Moon Thief, The Moon Walker, and The Moon Mage work best read close together.
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