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Rite World

Juliana Haygert · 6 series · 11 novels · 5 novellas · 1 collection · 2018–2021

Magic runs under the skin of the ordinary world, and only the Riteborn feel it move. Cross the wrong threshold on the wrong night and you learn the truth: vampires keep old bargains, warlocks trade in crystal and blood, wolves answer the moon, and a witch's power is a debt someone always means to collect. This is the Rite World, a modern paranormal-romance universe where danger and desire are the same current, and every heroine discovers she is more than she was told. Juliana Haygert writes it all, braiding self-contained series across a single hidden reality. The catalog gathers five threads: Rite of the Vampire, Rite of the Warlock, Rite of the Wolf, the fae-shadowed Blackthorn Hunters Academy, and the six-book Lightgrove Witches, with novellas laced between. Characters from one series surface in another; a face you loved returns as someone else's ally. Expect fast chapters, slow-burning romance turned fierce, courtly intrigue among immortals, and stakes that stay personal even when a whole coven or clan hangs on them. Newcomers are welcome at any series-opener, but Haygert's own recommended path begins with Rite of the Vampire, book one The Vampire Heir, where the bargains that bind everything else are first struck.

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17 works · 2018–2021 · busiest 2019 (7 works)

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