Kelley Armstrong Books in Order

Kelley Armstrong is the New York Times bestselling author of the Women of the Otherworld urban fantasy series, which sparked the creation of the Bitten TV show featuring Laura Vandervoort as Elena Michaels. The author has written numerous urban fantasies in series like Darkest Powers, The Darkness Rising, and Cainsville, to name just a few.

She has also started writing mystery and thriller novels in the Nadia Stafford and Rockton series.

Here are the Kelley Armstrong books in order for her numerous novels in the various genres she has contributed to over the years.

New Kelley Armstrong Books

Alone in the Wild (Rockton #5), 2020

Wolf’s Curse (Kate and Logan #2), 2020

The Gryphon’s Lair (A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying #2), 2020

Women of the Otherworld Series

Urban fantasy series in the Otherworld Universe

1. Bitten, 2001
2. Stolen, 2002
3. Dime Store Magic, 2004
4. Industrial Magic, 2004
5. Haunted, 2005
6. Broken, 2006
7. No Humans Involved, 2007
8. Personal Demon, 2008
9. Living with the Dead, 2008
10. Frostbitten, 2009
11. Waking the Witch, 2010
12. Spell Bound, 2011
13. Thirteen, 2012

Kate and Logan Series

features the teen children of Elena & Clay

• Wolf’s Bane, 2018
• Wolf’s Curse, 2020

Otherworld Tales Series

1. Men of the Otherworld, 2009
2. Tales of the Otherworld, 2010
3. Otherworld Nights, 2014
4. Otherworld Secrets, 2015
5. Otherworld Chills, 2016

Otherworld Stories

short stories in the Otherworld Universe

1. Becoming, 2010
2. Chaotic, 2012
3. Angelic, 2009
4. Counterfeit Magic, 2010
5. Hidden, 2011
6. Forbidden, 2012
7. Amityville Horrible, 2012
8. Brazen, 2013
9. Forsaken, 2014
10. Driven, 2015

Darkest Powers Series

set in the Otherworld Universe with new characters

1. The Summoning, 2008
2. The Awakening, 2009
3. The Reckoning, 2010
4. Darkest Powers Tales, 2015

Darkness Rising Series

sequel to the Darkest Powers series

1. The Gathering, 2011
2. The Calling, 2011
3. The Rising, 2013

Cainsville Series

1. Omens, 2013
2. Visions, 2014
3. Deceptions, 2015
4. Lost Souls, 2016 (novella)
5. Betrayals, 2016
6. Rituals, 2017
7. Rough Justice, 2018 (novella)
8. Cruel Fate, 2019 (novella)
9. Portents, 2018 (short Cainsville Tales)

Age of Legends Trilogy

1. Sea of Shadows, 2014
2. Empire of Night, 2015
3. Forest of Ruin, 2016

The Blackwell Pages Series

fantasy series for children co-authored with Melissa Marr

1. Loki’s Wolves, 2013
2. Odin’s Ravens, May 2014
3. Thor’s Serpent, May 2015

A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying Duology

fantasy series for children

1. A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying, 2019
2. The Gryphon’s Lair, 2020

Nadia Stafford Series

crime thriller series

1. Exit Strategy, 2007
2. Made to Be Broken, 2009
3. Wild Justice, 2013
4. Double Play, 2016 (novella)
5. Perfect Victim, 2017 (novella)

Rockton Series

1. City of the Lost, 2016
2. A Darkness Absolute, 2017
3. This Fallen Prey, 2018
4. Watcher in the Woods, 2019
5. Alone in the Wild, 2020

Other Kelley Armstrong Books

• The Masked Truth, 2015
• The Unquiet Past, 2015 (part of the Secrets series)
• Missing, 2017
• Indigo, 2017, co-authored with Christopher Golden, Charlaine Harris, Tim Lebbon, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, James A Moore, Mark Morris, Cherie Priest and Kat Richardson
• Aftermath, 2018
• Wherever She Goes, 2019

Kelley Armstrong Biography

Credits: Sara Reyes

Kelley Armstrong was born in 1968, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, as the oldest of four siblings. She loved reading horror and fantasy novels, writing stories from a very young age, all on the rather morbid side. Most of the girls featured in her early stories were all undead, and the dolls were evil. This love for the supernatural remained with her forever, which translated later into numerous urban fantasy stories.

As a child, she never thought of a career in writing. In her family, writing was considered more of a hobby than something one could earn a full-time income with.

During high school, she also grew fond of computers. She attended The University of Western Ontario, from where she graduated with a degree in psychology. However, soon she realized that if she got a job as a counselor, she wouldn’t have enough time writing. So she next went to study computer programing at Fanshawe College, which allowed her more time to write books.

The first Kelley Armstrong book published in 2001 after it was sold in 1999 under the title Bitten, a title that many people know as the famous urban fantasy TV show with Laura Vandervoort in the role of Elena Michaels. The series was based on the author’s Otherworld series that took the world back in the early 2000s by storm.

The order of the Kelley Armstrong books in her series is best followed, as each story is closely related to the other – with the exception of her Darkest Power and Darkness Rising, which are set in the same universe but featuring completely different characters. While the books do diverge in that various books are told from other characters’ points of view and are set in a wider supernatural world, eventually, they do come together again, and readers might feel left out of the loop if they read them out of order.

In 2007, the Canadian author Kelley Armstrong switched gears from fantasy to crime mystery with Exit Strategy, the first book in the Nadia Stafford series, followed by City of the Lost, in 2016, as the first in the Rockton book series.

Several of the Kelley Armstrong novels were #1 New York Times bestsellers, including No Humans Involved and The Awakening.

Many of her urban fantasy books are mostly set in contemporary America in urban places, but include a large number of supernatural beings, such as witches, werewolves, necromancers, vampires, sorcerers, ghosts, shamans, and even demons. While these series are part of the fantasy genre, they also include elements of mystery with characters investigating issues presented or trying to find answers to unsolved questions. This is a world where the paranormal coexists with the normal.

In an interview, Kelley Armstrong mentioned that the idea for Bitten came to her from an X Files episode which dealt with werewolves. As she needed a story for the next writers’ group meeting, after watching X Files, she didn’t like the show’s take on werewolves being horrible beats with a hunger for blood, so she created a short story about a female werewolf, which would eventually become Elena Michaels in a full-length book.

It took the author 6-7 years to finalize the actual story because she was working full-time, had a family to take care of, and also because she was often told that books featuring werewolves would not sell well. As a huge folklore fan, the author took various bits and pieces that made sense out of the lore and put them together to create the world of Elena, and the rest of the werewolves in her books.

The author gets her ideas for stories from all sorts of places. For example, for Rockton, she got the idea for a town for people to escape to after she talked with her agent who mentioned to her that every year there are so many people missing that could fill in an entire town. This got her thinking about an actual town that could house all those who wanted to simply disappear.

In 2018, Kelley Armstrong returned to the world of the Women of the Otherworld book series with a new young-adult series, this time featuring the twins of Elena and Clayton.

Praise for Kelley Armstrong

It’s terrific. The heroine is the most appealing I have come across in ages. It’s clever, quirky, hip and funny, skating between genres with style and grace. More please! (Joanne Harris on Bitten)

[This] might be just the welcome diversion you need. (Charlaine Harris on Bitten)

Loki’s Wolves has everything–a fast-paced, exciting plot, endearing and honest characters, Norse mythology with a contemporary twist, and plenty of heart. I can’t wait to find out what happens to Matt, Laurie, and Fen (Ally Condie)

The prolific Armstrong is an adept storyteller . . . who makes the rather out-there idea of a small, protected community full of people with things to hide seem not only plausible but entirely believable. Fans of the author who have not yet checked out the Rockton novels should do so, pronto. (Booklist)

Action, danger, supernatural secrets, and a hint of romance–Armstrong’s world is one in which trusting the wrong person can have dire consequences. You’ll be desperate for a sequel. (Melissa Marr on The Summoning)

Smart, tough and relentlessly fast. Hard to put down. (Shari Lapena on Wherever She Goes)

References

• Kelley Armstrong author page
• Free online fiction by the author
• Author publisher page
• Author interview with Claudia Gray

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