J Bree Books in Order (Updated March 12, 2026)

J. Bree writes across two clearly separate lanes. One is the Mounts Bay World, a connected dark contemporary setting that includes Hannaford Prep, Queen Crow, The Butcher of the Bay, and Angel Unseen. The other lane is fantasy romance, split between the completed The Bonds That Tie series and the still-unfinished The Mortal Fates sequence.

That separation matters. If you want the strongest continuity experience, start with Hannaford Prep for Mounts Bay and Broken Bonds for fantasy. If you only want one side of her work, you can stay inside that continuity without reading the other.

The cleanest way to read J. Bree

Path A: you want the Mounts Bay books

Read them this way:

1. Just Drop Out
2. Make Your Move
3. Play the Game
4. To the End
5. Make My Move
6. All Hail
7. The Ruthless
8. Queen Crow
9. The Butcher of the Bay: Part I
10. The Butcher of the Bay: Part II
11. Angel Unseen

That order keeps the shared-world material tidy, puts the direct sequel series in the right place, and leaves the more side-angle stories until after the core Mounts Bay arc.

Path B: you want the paranormal fantasy series

Read them this way:

1. Broken Bonds
2. Savage Bonds
3. Blood Bonds
4. Forced Bonds
5. Tragic Bonds
6. Unbroken Bonds
7. Broken Ties
8. The Scepter
9. The Sword
10. The Crown of Oaths and Curses
11. The Throne of Honor and Blood

This keeps the completed series together first, then moves into the newer unfinished fantasy sequence.

Continuity map

Mounts Bay World

These books share a world. Hannaford Prep is the strongest entry point, Queen Crow is the clearest follow-on, and The Butcher of the Bay plus Angel Unseen are best treated as connected side branches rather than replacements for the main route.

The Bonds That Tie

This is a separate paranormal romance continuity. Read it straight through in numbered order. Broken Ties is additional POV material tied to book one, so it is optional for basic plot order and best saved until after the main six novels.

The Mortal Fates

This is a separate epic fantasy romance continuity. The two short prequels come before the main novels in-world and in publication sequence, but the core reading path is still the two full novels after them. The series is not complete yet.

J Bree publication order by series

Mounts Bay World

Hannaford Prep

This is the best place to start if you want J. Bree’s interconnected dark contemporary books.

1. Just Drop Out (2019): A scholarship student enters Hannaford Prep and immediately collides with the school’s violent social order, setting up the power struggles that drive the whole series.
2. Make Your Move (2019): The second year deepens the school politics and criminal pressure around Lips, making it clear the series is expanding beyond campus humiliation into bigger territory.
3. Play the Game (2019): With relationships and loyalties more established, the story shifts from survival at school to survival inside a wider network of enemies and obligations.
4. To the End (2020): The stakes turn openly deadly, paying off the long pressure built through the first three books and closing the main Hannaford Prep arc.
5. Make My Move (2021): This is a guys’ POV companion to earlier events, so it adds perspective and texture but is not the place to begin the series.

Queen Crow

This is the closest thing to a direct follow-on from Hannaford Prep, so it works best after that series.

1. All Hail (2020): Lips moves out of the high-school phase and into recovery, family fallout, and a more adult Mounts Bay power struggle.
2. The Ruthless (2021): The second book pushes deeper into loyalty tests and leadership pressure as the criminal world reshapes around returning characters.
3. Queen Crow (2021): The trilogy payoff turns the personal damage of the earlier books into a full struggle for control and legacy in the Bay.

The Butcher of the Bay duet

This is part of Mounts Bay but works more like a side-route inside the same world.

1. The Butcher of the Bay: Part I (2020): A violent fixer’s job goes wrong in the most personal way possible, opening a darker and more intimate thread inside the Mounts Bay setting.
2. The Butcher of the Bay: Part II (2020): The rescue-and-revenge momentum of part one turns into a full retaliation arc, with shared-world connections rewarding readers who already know the Bay.

Angel Unseen

Officially presented as a standalone in the Mounts Bay World.

1. Angel Unseen (2020): A biker-club romance that stands on its own, but reads more richly once you already understand how J. Bree uses Mounts Bay’s criminal ecosystem.

Fantasy and paranormal books

The Bonds That Tie

This is the cleanest fully completed J. Bree fantasy entry point.

1. Broken Bonds (2021): Oli is dragged back to the Bonded men she ran from, launching a six-book arc built on withheld history, mistrust, and escalating supernatural conflict.
2. Savage Bonds (2021): The second book turns the school and social hierarchy against itself as Oli’s power becomes impossible to ignore.
3. Blood Bonds (2021): What looked personal becomes much larger here, with the series widening from Bond drama into a more dangerous political and magical struggle.
4. Forced Bonds (2022): The conflict hardens into open war footing, pushing the cast out of reactive survival and into harder choices.
5. Tragic Bonds (2022): The cost of the previous books lands hard, making this the emotional breaking point before the finale.
6. Unbroken Bonds (2022): The final main novel takes the series fully into god-scale consequences and closes the primary arc.
7. Broken Ties (2024): This is an additional POV retelling tied to Broken Bonds, useful for fans who want extra character insight but not required before books two through six.

The Mortal Fates

This is the newer epic fantasy romance sequence and it is not finished.

1. The Scepter (2023): A prequel novella that introduces the witch-side history and the wounded world behind the main series.
2. The Sword (2023): A second prequel novella that broadens the background before the first full novel begins.
3. The Crown of Oaths and Curses (2023): The main series opens with a witch-and-fae conflict where destiny, war, and mutual hostility are all active from the start.
4. The Throne of Honor and Blood (2024): The second full novel deepens the political fracture and romantic tension, but it does not complete the larger story.

Recommended reading orders that make sense

Best overall starting point

Start with Just Drop Out if you want to see how J. Bree builds interconnected dark contemporary worlds from the ground up.

Best fantasy starting point

Start with Broken Bonds if you want the most complete and widely read fantasy/paranormal entry in her catalog.

Best “only one series” choice

Pick The Bonds That Tie if you want a finished six-book fantasy arc. Pick Hannaford Prep if you want the fullest doorway into the Mounts Bay books.

Do you need to read everything in strict publication order?

No. You do not need to alternate between Mounts Bay and fantasy books.

What matters is staying in order within each continuity. The safe rules are simple:

• read Hannaford Prep before Queen Crow
• treat The Butcher of the Bay and Angel Unseen as Mounts Bay side branches
• read The Bonds That Tie from book 1 to book 6 before touching Broken Ties
• read The Mortal Fates prequels before or alongside the main novels, but do not expect a finished ending yet

Latest release status

The most recent J. Bree title I could verify from the current official bibliography and Goodreads listings is Broken Ties, the additional POV entry in The Bonds That Tie. The most recent mainline full novel I could verify is The Throne of Honor and Blood (2024). I did not find a reliably confirmed 2026 release announcement for the next Mortal Fates novel on the official site, so that next-book status is still uncertain from the sources I checked.

FAQ

Where should new readers start with J. Bree?

Start with Just Drop Out for dark contemporary shared-world reading, or Broken Bonds for fantasy/paranormal romance.

Is Queen Crow a spin-off or a sequel?

It works like a follow-on series inside the same world, so it is best read after Hannaford Prep.

Can I read Angel Unseen by itself?

Yes. It is presented as a standalone in the Mounts Bay World.

Is Broken Ties essential?

No. It is additional POV material connected to Broken Bonds, so it is optional after the main six-book run.

Is The Mortal Fates finished?

No. The official site still presents it as incomplete.

Final answer

For the safest J. Bree reading order, split her work into continuities. Read Hannaford Prep first if you want Mounts Bay, then move to Queen Crow, with The Butcher of the Bay and Angel Unseen after that. Read The Bonds That Tie straight through in numbered order if you want fantasy romance, and treat The Mortal Fates as a separate unfinished series.