Alyxandra Harvey Books in Order (Updated March 10, 2026)

Alyxandra Harvey’s bibliography makes the most sense when you split it into two reading shelves.

The first shelf is her paranormal and YA fantasy work: The Drake Chronicles, Haunting Violet, The Lovegrove Legacy / Witches of London, plus standalones like Red and Love Me, Love Me Not. The second shelf is her newer historical romance line, where the series are separate from one another and do not connect back to the YA books.

That means there is no single continuity-spanning order you have to protect. The real rule is simpler: read each series in its own sequence, and do not mix the romance series into the YA shelf as if they are all one universe.

Where most readers should start

Start with Hearts at Stake if you want the Alyxandra Harvey book most people mean when they talk about her work. It opens The Drake Chronicles, which is still the clearest entry to her voice: romantic, fast-moving, funny, and full of supernatural family drama.

Start with A Breath of Frost if you want witches, Victorian and Regency atmosphere, and a more historical paranormal feel.

Start with How to Marry an Earl if you are here for the newer historical romance books and do not want YA at all.

The Drake Chronicles in order

1. Hearts at Stake (2009): Solange Drake’s sixteenth birthday should mark her blood change, but kidnappers, hunters, and vampire politics turn it into the opening crisis of the whole series.
2. Blood Feud (2010): Isabeau St. Croix’s revenge story collides with the Drake family’s growing danger, widening the series beyond Solange’s first-book turmoil.
3. Out for Blood (2010): Hunter Wild, trained to kill vampires, is forced into uneasy alliance with Quinn Drake when enemies hit both their worlds at once.
4. Bleeding Hearts (2011): Connor Drake and Christabel take the spotlight as the Blood Moon gathering brings old threats and new kidnappings too close to home.
5. Blood Moon (2012): Solange’s instability and Lucy’s hunter-school trouble push the family into one of the series’ messiest internal turning points.
6. Blood Prophecy (2013): The final Drake novel brings the family’s enemies, romances, and inherited danger into one last large-scale supernatural showdown.

This is the best Alyxandra Harvey sequence for new readers. It is also the shelf where order matters most, because the family dynamics, romantic pairings, and power shifts all build from book to book.

The witches-and-ghosts shelf

Haunting Violet

1. Haunting Violet (2011): Violet Willoughby, daughter of a fraudulent medium, discovers she can really see ghosts when a drowned girl demands justice.

This is a true standalone. It does not launch a series, and it works well as a one-book sample of Harvey outside vampires.

The Lovegrove Legacy / Witches of London

1. A Breath of Frost (2014): Emma Jane Holloway enters London society while discovering that her family’s world of rank, magic, and witchcraft is far more dangerous than it first appears.
2. Whisper the Dead (2014): Gretchen, Penelope, and Emma are pulled deeper into the Seven Sisters conflict as magic and family secrets stop looking remotely elegant.
3. In a House Made of Bones and Teeth (2016): This novella-length conclusion finishes the main Lovegrove thread and is best treated as the real ending to the trilogy.

Later editions also package this line as The Witches of London, using the titles The Secret Witch, The Whisper Witch, and The Bone Witch. For reading purposes, it is the same core sequence, just with some retitling and reissue history.

The standalone YA books

1. Red (2015): Kia Alcott is sent to stay with her grandmother in a town with a very strange forest, turning a Red Riding Hood setup into a fast paranormal thriller.
2. Love Me, Love Me Not (2016): Anastasia Vila has enough trouble being a swan-shifter without an old blood feud and a fox-shifter boy complicating everything.

These do not connect to each other or to the Drake books. Read them whenever you want a break from series reading.

The newer historical romance books

These belong to a separate phase of Alyxandra Harvey’s career. They are not YA fantasy follow-ups, and they are best read by series.

A Cinderella Society

1. How to Marry an Earl (2022): Persephone Blackwell would rather chase artifacts and treason clues than husbands, but Conall Hunter turns a practical mission into a romance with real risk.
2. How to Marry a Duke (2022): The second Cinderella Society novel keeps the same social circle while shifting to a new central couple and a new tangle of secrets.
3. How to Marry a Viscount (2022): The trilogy closes by giving another society heroine her own romance, while keeping the same playful, caper-friendly tone.

These are companion romances. Read them in order for the cleanest progression through the friend group.

The Dainty Devils

1. The Duchess Games (2023): Caitriona tries to steal a duke’s signet ring and instead ends up in a second-chance, high-chaos romance built on old attraction and present danger.
2. The Countess Caper (2023): Tessa’s marriage-of-convenience story keeps the series’ criminal-energy charm while raising the emotional stakes.
3. The Husband Heist (2023): Summer and an earl take the series fully into heist-romance territory, making this the most openly caper-driven of the three.

This trilogy is another separate historical-romance line. It does not continue A Cinderella Society.

The Spinster Society

1. The Scandalous Spinster (2024): Clara hides behind a wallflower reputation while secretly writing scandalous novels, until blackmail and a dangerous house party force her into action.
2. A Deal with the Devil (2025): Kitty steals from the wrong earl and turns a rescue plot into a romance built on blackmail, murder, and constant friction.
3. Seduced by a Scoundrel (2025): Sybil and Keir bring the trilogy to its finish with secret-society sabotage, neighbor tension, and a grumpy-sunshine pairing.

This is the newest completed Harvey series I could confirm.

A Society of Witches

1. A Lady’s Guide to Witchcraft (2026): Briar and Ethan headline a fantasy historical romance that appears to open a new witch-focused series rather than continue the earlier Regency romances.

Because this one is a new series opener, it is better treated as a fresh starting point than as “the next book” after The Spinster Society.

Best reading orders

Best overall reading path

1. Hearts at Stake (2009): The signature starting point.
2. Blood Feud (2010): Continue the Drake family story while the setup is fresh.
3. Out for Blood (2010): Keep the family-and-hunters arc together.
4. Bleeding Hearts (2011): Stay in the same continuity.
5. Blood Moon (2012): Read fifth for the late-series escalation.
6. Blood Prophecy (2013): Finish the Drake line cleanly.
7. Haunting Violet (2011): Then take the best standalone palate cleanser.
8. A Breath of Frost (2014): Move next to witches and historical fantasy.
9. Whisper the Dead (2014): Continue directly.
10. In a House Made of Bones and Teeth (2016): Finish that arc.
11. Red (2015): Add the standalone retelling when you want a shorter read.
12. Love Me, Love Me Not (2016): Finish the YA shelf with the fox-and-swan paranormal romance.

Best if you only want the fantasy books

Read The Drake Chronicles, then Haunting Violet, then The Lovegrove Legacy, then the two standalones.

Best if you only want the romance books

Read A Cinderella Society, then The Dainty Devils, then The Spinster Society, and then A Lady’s Guide to Witchcraft as the start of the next line.

Complete Alyxandra Harvey books in publication order

1. Hearts at Stake (2009): The Drake family vampire series begins with Solange’s dangerous birthday.
2. Blood Feud (2010): Isabeau’s revenge and Logan Drake’s romance drive book two.
3. Out for Blood (2010): Quinn Drake and Hunter Wild headline the third novel.
4. Haunting Violet (2011): A ghostly Victorian standalone with a murder mystery core.
5. Bleeding Hearts (2011): Connor Drake’s book arrives as the family hosts the Blood Moon.
6. Blood Moon (2012): Solange and Lucy face one of the series’ roughest stretches.
7. Blood Prophecy (2013): The Drake novels reach their finale.
8. A Breath of Frost (2014): The Lovegrove witches enter London society and magical conflict.
9. Whisper the Dead (2014): The same magical family story continues.
10. Red (2015): A Red Riding Hood-flavored YA paranormal retelling.
11. Love Me, Love Me Not (2016): A swan-shifter and fox-shifter romance with an old feud underneath it.
12. In a House Made of Bones and Teeth (2016): The Lovegrove conclusion.
13. How to Marry an Earl (2022): Historical romance series opener.
14. How to Marry a Duke (2022): Second Cinderella Society novel.
15. How to Marry a Viscount (2022): Cinderella Society finale.
16. The Duchess Games (2023): The Dainty Devils begins.
17. The Countess Caper (2023): Dainty Devils book two.
18. The Husband Heist (2023): Dainty Devils book three.
19. The Scandalous Spinster (2024): Spinster Society book one.
20. A Deal with the Devil (2025): Spinster Society book two.
21. Seduced by a Scoundrel (2025): Spinster Society book three.
22. A Lady’s Guide to Witchcraft (2026): Planned opener to A Society of Witches.

Do Alyxandra Harvey’s books need to be read in order?

Only within the individual series.

The Drake Chronicles absolutely work best in order. The Lovegrove Legacy should also be read in sequence, including the novella ending. The romance trilogies are more forgiving because they follow different couples, but publication order still gives the cleanest character progression.

Her standalones do not need any setup.

Latest release status

The newest completed Alyxandra Harvey series I could confirm is The Spinster Society, which ran through Seduced by a Scoundrel in 2025. The next book currently listed is A Lady’s Guide to Witchcraft, scheduled for March 12, 2026, and presented as book one of A Society of Witches.

FAQ

What is Alyxandra Harvey’s best-known series?

The Drake Chronicles remains the clearest answer. It is still the main series most readers associate with her name.

Is Haunting Violet part of a series?

No. It is a standalone.

Are The Lovegrove Legacy and The Witches of London the same series?

Yes, in practical reading terms. The books were later repackaged and retitled, but they follow the same core sequence.

What should I read first if I do not want vampires?

Start with Haunting Violet for a standalone, or A Breath of Frost for witches and historical fantasy.

What should I read first if I only want adult historical romance?

Start with How to Marry an Earl.