Series
Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin · 5 novels · 2019–2025
Shelby Mahurin's Serpent & Dove trilogy is set in the city of Cesarine, where witches live in hiding from a Church that hunts and burns them. It follows Louise Le Blanc, a witch concealing her identity, and Reid Diggory, a Church huntsman sworn to destroy witches, after the two are forced into marriage and must navigate duty against their growing feelings for each other. The story continues across Blood & Honey and Gods & Monsters.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- The Scarlet Veil(2 works)
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Serpent & Dove at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s1
- 2020s4
Shape
5 novels
1 author
reads like:fantasyforbidden lovesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedemotionalyoung adult
Mood
Grim and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Shadow Bridedarkest · calmest
- Gods & Monstersbrightest
- Blood & Honeymost intense