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The Paranormal Council

Laura Greenwood · 6 series · 3 novels · 25 novellas · 1 novelette · 2 short stories · 3 collections · 2017–2021

Every world needs someone to keep order, even the one where the werewolf next door files incident reports and the fae courts still nurse grudges older than the cities they hide in. The Paranormal Council is that someone: the governing body that keeps shifters, witches, vampires, necromancers, and fae from spilling their secret into the human world. Around it, Laura Greenwood has grown a warm, wry web of paranormal romances where the magic is real, the danger is manageable, and love tends to arrive with paperwork attached. The world fans out across half a dozen connected threads. The founding Paranormal Council series lays down the rules; The Fae Queen of Winter and Return of the Fae carry the colder intrigues of the courts; The Necromancer Council follows Cissy among the dead; Paranormal Criminal Investigations puts Cassie on the supernatural beat; and MatchMater, a dating app for the magically inclined, plays the whole premise for sweetness and comedy. Each series stands on its own, trading cameos and callbacks rather than cliffhangers. The register is cozy and quick: fated mates, found family, and a knowing wink where a grimmer book would reach for dread. It asks little and gives back comfort. Start with The Paranormal Council itself, then follow whichever creature you love best.

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Reading order

3 novels · 1 novella

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The Fae Queen of Winter is the one continuous-protagonist novel series in this world and forms the spine. The title series, The Paranormal Council, is itself an anthology of ten standalone creature-of-the-book novellas (a different character each time), and four further spin-off series (MatchMater, Paranormal Criminal Investigations, Return of the Fae, The Necromancer Council) follow other members of the council — all left out as independent side material.

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The Paranormal Council at the centre, 6 branches around it.

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34 works · 2017–2021 · busiest 2021 (9 works)

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3 novels · 25 novellas · 1 novelette · 2 short stories · 3 collections

1 author

reads like:fantasyvampiresour worldcontemporaryemotionaladult

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Bright and intense: 38% of this universe's placed works, the catalog's 44%.

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