Start at the Coup: A Reader's Guide to the Moonfire Legacy

When readers ask me where to begin with the Moonfire Legacy, my favorite answer is: in the dark, at sixteen, running for your life. That is where Aria starts, and it is the perfect doorway into everything the series becomes.

The first book, Crown of Moonfire, is the origin and the love story at the core of the whole saga. A half-blood omega princess survives the coup that destroys her family, hides at Moonspire Academy, and finds her fated mate in Caelan Draven, the cursed alpha no one else will go near. It is hiding in plain sight, a slow and dangerous pull toward someone she is not allowed to want, and the beginning of a bond the old laws say should not exist. If you read only one, read this one. But you will not want to stop at one.

From there the world widens. Shadow of the Fae brings the Summer Court to her gates and a fae prince, Dain, who deals in glamour and temptation and wants her both for her crown and as a mate. Storm of Blood and Bone, arriving July 31, raises a rival queen and a wolf rebellion, and pushes Aria into the deeper resonance of her own bloodline. Then comes a siege in Ashes of the Moonspire, and finally an eclipse prophecy in The Last Eclipse that asks the hardest question of all: if fate says your love is meant to be sacrificed, do you obey, or do you break fate instead.

What ties it all together is one stubborn idea. Every force in this series, the court, the fae, the gods, they all believe the same thing, that an omega is something to be used and a bond is a weakness to exploit. They are all wrong, and watching them learn it is deeply satisfying.

Two books are out now, with the third landing at the end of this month, so you can fall in and keep going. Start at the coup. Start with Crown of Moonfire. Search Ravan Tempest on Amazon.