Best Paranormal Romance Books

The fourth Crave book, in which Grace is drawn into the dangerous politics of the vampire court as betrayals, power struggles, and the deepening romance raise the stakes for everyone.

The third Crave book, in which Grace grapples with a new reality and shifting loyalties as the supernatural politics of her world grow more dangerous and a love triangle complicates everything.

After the death of her parents, a grieving teenager is sent to a remote Alaskan boarding school populated by vampires, dragons, and witches — and finds herself drawn to its most dangerous student.

The second Crave book, in which the fallout of Grace's transformation, a deepening supernatural conspiracy, and a dangerous new player reshape life at Katmere Academy.

A Sicilian girl makes a dangerous pact with a demon prince named Wrath to uncover who murdered her twin sister in 1800s Sicily, weaving Italian folk magic and Dante's Seven Princes of Hell into a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers mystery.

The Infernal Devices reaches its devastating, then beautiful, conclusion. Mortmain's clockwork army threatens every Shadowhunter, but it is the question of Will, Jem, and Tessa — and whether love can survive impossible choices — that makes this ending one of the most discussed in young adult fiction.

The penultimate book in the Zodiac Academy series — the battle for Solaria reaches its most devastating point, and the cost of the throne becomes almost unbearable.

The final book in the Zodiac Academy series — the Vega twins face their ultimate destiny in a battle that will determine the fate of Solaria and everyone they love.

The London Institute is threatened with closure unless its leader can be vindicated. Will and Jem must uncover the Magister's true identity before a deadline expires — while Tessa finds her feelings for both of them becoming impossible to deny or resolve. The love triangle deepens into something that resists easy resolution.

Emma and Julian's investigation into the ritual murders leads them across the Atlantic to London and the Shadowhunter Academy, while the Cohort — a faction of Shadowhunter extremists — gains political power. The middle volume of the Dark Artifices trilogy expands the world's politics and brings back characters from across the Shadowhunter Chronicles.

The darkest instalment yet — as the prophecy surrounding the Vega twins comes into sharper focus, betrayals shake the alliances they have built, and the battle for Solaria approaches.

Alliances are forged and fractured as the Vega twins draw closer to claiming their throne — and the final confrontation with the forces threatening Solaria becomes inevitable.

The new novel from Nora Roberts, releasing November 17, 2026. Birth of the Witch launches the Coven of Three trilogy, blending romance with magic and the supernatural from one of the best-selling authors of all time.

Victorian London, 1878. Tessa Gray arrives from New York looking for her brother and is captured by demons. Rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, she discovers she has a rare power: she can transform into anyone she touches. Set a century before the Mortal Instruments, the Infernal Devices prequel trilogy begins here.

Los Angeles, five years after the events of City of Heavenly Fire. Emma Carstairs is a Shadowhunter obsessed with finding the truth about her parents' murders, and her parabatai Julian Blackthorn is hiding feelings for her that Shadowhunter law forbids. As a series of ritual murders echoes the killings that took Emma's parents, the first Dark Artifices novel opens a new chapter in the Shadowhunter world.

The Shadowhunter world is fracturing: the Cohort has seized control of the Clave, Emma and Julian's parabatai bond has become something that threatens to destroy them both, and an invasion from the faerie realm hangs over everything. The Dark Artifices concludes in Clare's longest single volume — 912 pages that resolve multiple series' worth of threads.

As the Vega twins strengthen their powers and their alliances, darker forces move against Solaria — and the cost of the throne they were born to claim becomes terrifyingly clear.

The Vega twins face their most dangerous challenges yet as the threat from the Shadow Beast grows and the complicated feelings between the twins and the Heirs can no longer be ignored.

Sebastian Morgenstern's endgame unfolds as he attacks the Institutes across the world, turning Shadowhunters into his Endarkened army. Clary and her friends must descend into the demon realms to stop him — and the cost of the final confrontation will reach into the very foundation of the Shadow World.

The Vega twins return to Zodiac Academy for their second semester — and the Heirs' campaign to break them intensifies even as unexpected alliances and undeniable attractions begin to complicate everything.

Leeds and Layla fall in love, but after a violent incident at a bed and breakfast leaves Layla with a changed personality, Leeds returns to the B&B alone. There he meets a ghost named Willow — and the situation becomes stranger and more morally complicated than he anticipated. Hoover's most genre-defying novel.