The Unearthly Books in Order
Part ofLaura Thalassa Books in OrderSee The Unearthly series by Laura Thalassa in order, with quick summaries, reading order, series background, and help choosing where to start.
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The Unearthly books in publication order
5 books
The Unearthly
by Laura Thalassa
2013
Gabrielle Fiori arrives at a supernatural boarding school hoping to fit in, then dies during the ceremony meant to awaken her powers. When she wakes in the morgue, she becomes the center of a deadly mystery involving vampires, devils, and her own soul.
The Coveted
by Laura Thalassa
2014
A drained body near Peel Academy pulls Gabrielle into a murder investigation that could shatter a fragile truce. To stop a serial killer, she has to work closely with vampire king Andre de Leon, no matter what that awakens.
The Cursed
by Laura Thalassa
2014
Sent to Romania to investigate a ritual killing, Gabrielle finds herself trapped between a vampire trial, a ruthless murderer, and the devil's growing claim on her. The case gets darker as fate keeps tightening the net.
The Damned
by Laura Thalassa
2015
Gabrielle is taken to hell and bound to the very power she has feared all along. Pulled between earth and the underworld, she has to decide who she is before a war of angels, demons, and gods tears everything apart.
The Forsaken
by Laura Thalassa
2015
A prophecy brands Gabrielle as a threat, and suddenly both allies and enemies want her dead. As her body begins to fail, Andre fights to save her from a fate that seems to lead straight to the devil.
The Unearthly books in chronological order
Series background & context
The Unearthly books begin at Peel Academy, an elite supernatural school on the British Isles, where Gabrielle Fiori hopes to learn what she is and maybe find a place to belong. Instead, the ceremony meant to awaken her powers kills her. When she wakes up in the morgue, still alive but very much changed, the story stops being a school fantasy and turns into something stranger.
Gabrielle never gets a quiet semester.
She is the last of the sirens, and from the start her life is tied to bigger forces than she understands. Andre de Leon, the king of vampires and the boy everyone warns her about, becomes one of the few people who can help her make sense of what she has become. That gives the series its central romantic pull, but the books are just as interested in supernatural law, old rivalries, and the way one impossible girl can throw an entire hidden world off balance.
Each book expands the radius of trouble. The Unearthly begins as a deadly awakening and a fight to survive repeated attempts on Gabrielle's life. The Coveted folds her into a murder investigation that threatens the truce between vampires and the supernatural authorities. The Cursed carries her to Romania for ritual killings and a vampire trial. By the time you get to The Forsaken and The Damned, the series is dealing with prophecy, hell, gods, demons, and the possibility that Gabrielle's fate could wreck far more than one school or one relationship.
What makes the series work is the mix of modes. Part of it is paranormal boarding school drama. Part of it is romance. Part of it is mystery, and later books lean harder into myth and apocalypse. Through all of that, Gabrielle stays at the center as someone who wants ordinary things and keeps getting handed cosmic problems instead. The hidden world around her feels crowded with vampires, supernatural police, devils, ley lines, and old pacts, so the stakes keep rising without the series losing its basic hook.
If you like YA and new adult paranormal stories that start at school but refuse to stay small, this series has that energy. It begins with lockers and rivalries, then keeps opening doors until Gabrielle is staring straight into the underworld.
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