Havenwood Falls

Welcome to Havenwood Falls, population: rather more than the census admits. Tucked into a box canyon high in the western Colorado mountains, the town keeps four honest seasons, one quaint main street, and a great many secrets — because a fair share of the neighbors are witches, shifters, vampires, sirens, angels, and gargoyles, and the old founding families have spent generations keeping the human world from ever quite noticing. It is a small-town shared world: many hands, one map, one set of rules, and a fresh story arriving nearly every month. The catalog spreads across four lines. The flagship Havenwood Falls runs adult paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and supernatural mystery; Havenwood Falls High hands the same streets to its teenagers in young-adult key; Legends of Havenwood Falls reaches back into the town's deeper history; and Sin & Silk turns the lights down for darker, more explicit fare — with themed Collections gathering the shorter work. Kristie Cook (Ang'dora Productions) founded the world and keeps its canon, but the byline changes book to book: Belinda Boring, E. J. Fechenda, Morgan Wylie, Amy Hale, and many more, each bringing a family, a species, a love story. What binds it is not one long saga but a place — the same festivals, the same secret-keeping, the same charm-and-menace of a town where everyone is hiding something and most of it has teeth. Nearly every book stands alone, a romance or mystery you can finish in an evening, so there is no wrong door. Read in whatever order curiosity picks; Kristie Cook's founding entries in the flagship line are the surest place to first cross the town line.