The Realm of False Gods Books in Order
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The Realm of False Gods books in publication order
13 books
Damaged but Powerful
by Steve Higgs
2020
Anastasia discovers unexpected magical powers when terrifying creatures attack her. Her ability attracts a demon's interest, forcing her to learn what she can do and why supernatural beings see her as useful in their coming struggle.
Demon Bound
by Steve Higgs
2020
Anastasia is trying to manage a new job and police attention when demons begin hunting her. An ancient secret may explain their interest, but surviving means turning her training and unexpected powers against those trying to control her.
Early Shift
by Steve Higgs
2020
Zachary enters a farming community looking for work and finds men threatening a little girl's livelihood. Protecting her draws him into a confrontation with an ancient supernatural force, making it harder to conceal his own secret.
Familiar Territory
by Steve Higgs
2020
Wizard Otto Schneider is trapped in hell, forced to serve a demon and kidnap people. To return to his wife and student in Bremen, he must find allies and break the magic holding him captive.
Live and Die by Magic
by Steve Higgs
2020
Children are disappearing in Paris, drawing a powerful wizard from the Supernatural Investigation Bureau. Joined by an old werewolf ally, he must confront an ancient creature whose strength makes even their combined magic seem dangerously insufficient.
The Armour of God
by Steve Higgs
2020
Anastasia searches for God's missing armor while carrying a magical hand cannon and divine sword. Pursued by the four horsemen of the apocalypse, she must find what the angels concealed while relying on a demon she cannot trust.
Unleashed Magic
by Steve Higgs
2020
Wizard detective Otto Schneider has one week before surrendering to a demon under the terms of a rescue bargain. Investigating murders that resemble werewolf attacks draws him across Europe while enemies and a secret organization complicate his remaining time.
Untethered Magic
by Steve Higgs
2020
Wizard detective Otto Schneider must escape captivity, enlist a werewolf, and enter a demon realm to rescue a girl. His investigation reveals an ancient curse weakening, allowing powerful beings to return and threaten humanity's place in the world.
Terrible Secrets
by Steve Higgs
2021
Three young sisters discover they are witches while living in a devout family in the American Midwest. A mysterious neighbor and a stalking woman complicate their secret, while their spells draw the attention of something ancient and dangerous.
Hellfire Hellion
by Steve Higgs
2022
A sixteen-year-old student is told she may be the mortal world's most powerful supernatural being. Struggling to resist using magic against cruel classmates, she faces the consequences when her carefully maintained control finally begins to slip.
Top Dog
by Steve Higgs
2022
Immortal werewolf Zachary possesses the shield of God, and Anastasia wants it for herself. Their competing claims bring two formidable supernatural figures into direct conflict, turning control of the powerful object into a potentially brutal confrontation.
Death Curse: The Final Battle
by Steve Higgs
2023
Demons and angels invade Earth after the death curse falls, leaving humanity caught between rival forces seeking dominion. A small group of wizards, shifters, and Anastasia must find a way to resist enemies conventional weapons cannot defeat.
Demon Horde Gambit
by Steve Higgs
2023
Humanity hopes the demons' withdrawal means the danger has passed, but wizard Otto Schneider knows better. Following the devastation in Croatia, he gathers allies for an attack that takes the fight directly to their formidable enemies.
The Realm of False Gods books in chronological order
Series background & context
The Realm of False Gods is an urban fantasy series built around an ancient separation that is beginning to fail. Powerful magical beings once governed humanity, but a death curse drove them into a parallel realm thousands of years ago. People continued without them, and the beings became part of legend. Now the barrier is weakening, and those who expect to reclaim their former authority are finding ways back.
Humanity doesn't know what is coming.
Steve Higgs follows several protagonists whose abilities and histories make them part of the response. Otto is a wizard, Zac is a werewolf, and Anastasia brings another source of power into the widening story. They aren't introduced as a ready-made team with a shared plan. Their separate experiences gradually connect, giving the series an ensemble structure in which individual struggles become parts of a threat larger than any one character initially understands.
Untethered Magic begins the sequence, followed by Unleashed Magic and Early Shift. The early books establish different strands of the story rather than restricting every event to a single viewpoint. Magic has survived in the mortal world, which means the returning beings may not face the unprepared opposition they expect. That possibility creates the central conflict: the power they once held doesn't automatically tell them what humanity or its unexpected defenders can do now.
The contemporary setting matters because its residents have built lives and institutions without knowing the old rulers were merely trapped elsewhere. Their return therefore threatens more than a few isolated victims. It challenges who controls the world and what the people living in it believe possible. The series combines supernatural action with revelations about a hidden past, allowing a character's immediate need to escape, fight, or understand an ability to lead into questions about the fate of humanity.
Read the books in publication order, beginning with Untethered Magic, so the overlapping stories and the larger threat develop together. Titles such as Familiar Territory, Damaged but Powerful, and Demon Bound continue the connected sequence as its different figures become more important to one another. These books suit readers who enjoy an expanding fantasy conflict with multiple protagonists rather than a detective solving an unrelated case in every volume. The ongoing question is how people who didn't choose the same path can recognize their shared danger and use what the returning powers have overlooked. Their differences are part of the story's structure, making cooperation a developing problem rather than an easy solution waiting at the beginning.
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