Crave Series in Order: Tracy Wolff's Katmere Academy Books (2026)

Tracy Wolff’s Crave series became one of the defining paranormal-romance phenomena of the BookTok era — a supernatural boarding-school saga that has sold millions of copies and pulled in readers who came for the vampires and stayed for the slow-burn romance, the twisty reveals, and the found-family chaos of Katmere Academy. If you have just finished the first book and want to know where the story goes, or you are starting fresh and want the correct path through the whole saga, this guide lays out the complete reading order and what to expect from each book.

The short version: read them in publication order, starting with Crave. The series is a single continuous story, and every book ends in a way that makes the next one mandatory.

The Crave Series at a Glance

Best starting point: Crave — the foundation of the entire series; there is no other entry point.

Start Here: Crave

Crave opens with Grace Foster, a Southern California teenager whose world collapses when her parents die suddenly. She is sent to live with her uncle Finn — the headmaster of Katmere Academy, a remote boarding school buried in the snow near Healy, Alaska. From the moment she arrives, something is off. The students are strange, the building is full of secrets, and a beautiful, hostile boy named Jaxon Vega seems determined to keep her at arm’s length even as he keeps saving her life.

Katmere, it turns out, is a school for vampires, dragons, witches, and werewolves — and Grace has walked into the middle of a centuries-old web of supernatural politics with no idea what she is. Crave establishes the world, the rival factions, and the central slow-burn relationship between Grace and Jaxon, and it ends on the kind of reveal that sends readers straight to book two. Wolff’s voice here is fast, funny, and self-aware, leaning into the gothic boarding-school atmosphere while keeping the pages turning.

The Heart of the Saga: Crush, Covet, and Court

The middle three books are where the series deepens, complicates, and repeatedly upends its own status quo.

#2 — Crush (2020)

Crush picks up immediately from Crave’s cliffhanger, throwing Grace into the aftermath of the first book’s revelations. The stakes at Katmere widen from personal danger to the broader politics of the supernatural world, and the romance is tested by new complications — including the increasingly central role of Jaxon’s brother, Hudson. Wolff escalates the intrigue and the danger while keeping the banter and the boarding-school dynamics that made the first book so bingeable.

#3 — Covet (2021)

Covet raises the stakes again, pushing Grace deeper into the conflicts between the supernatural factions and forcing hard choices about loyalty, power, and the people she has come to love. The found-family ensemble — the friends Grace has gathered at Katmere — becomes more important, and the emotional and romantic tensions grow more tangled. This is the point where the series reveals just how much larger its plot is than the first book suggested.

#4 — Court (2022)

Court moves the conflict toward the wider supernatural world beyond the school, expanding the scope of the saga and raising the political stakes. The dangers facing Grace and her circle intensify, the lore deepens, and the romance continues to evolve through new obstacles. By this point the series has fully transformed from a boarding-school romance into a sprawling supernatural conflict with Grace at its center.

The Finale: Charm and Cherish

#5 — Charm (2023)

Charm drives toward the saga’s climax, tightening the central conflicts and deepening the relationships that have carried the series. The stakes are at their highest, and Wolff sets the pieces in place for the conclusion, paying off threads that have been building since Crave while keeping the emotional intensity high.

#6 — Cherish (2024)

Cherish brings the core Katmere Academy arc to its culmination, resolving the central conflict and the long-developing romance that have defined the saga across six books. For readers who followed Grace from her snowbound arrival at Katmere through the escalating supernatural war, Cherish delivers the payoff the series has been building toward.

How to Read the Crave Series

The Crave series is one of the more straightforward reading orders in romantasy: there are no overlapping timelines, no companion-series detours, and no debate about where to start. Read the six books in publication order — Crave, Crush, Covet, Court, Charm, Cherish — and you will follow the story exactly as it was designed to unfold.

Because every book ends on a cliffhanger and picks up immediately afterward, the series rewards binge-reading. Many readers find it best to have the next book ready before finishing the current one. The early volumes are lighter and funnier; the later books grow darker and higher in stakes as the supernatural conflict widens, so the tonal escalation across the series is part of the experience.

If You Love Crave, Read These Next

Once you have finished the saga, the natural next steps are the other pillars of BookTok romantasy. If you want the same slow-burn, enemies-adjacent romance at a higher heat level, try A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas or Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. For another YA fantasy with a competition structure and a sharp central romance, Powerless by Lauren Roberts is a strong match. And for dark, atmospheric vampire romantasy, The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent scratches the same itch.

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