With a number of books spread across multiple series — and several of those series taking place in the same shared world — it can be tricky to figure out where to dive in. Freshly updated for Winter 2022, this page is here to help.
The First STory
“And moments like that…well, they’re pure magic, in the metaphorical and the literal sense. The story made a mark. Left a scar across the entire universe, a scar that couldn’t heal.”
— Detonation Boulevard
Imagine a multiverse of countless worlds, parallel Earths like an endless string of pearls in a vast and infinite night. Some of these worlds look just like ours — close enough you might not even realize you’ve slipped sideways until it’s too late — and others are bizarre, twisted, and deadly. Some are battlegrounds. This is the continuity of the First Story.
The Daniel Faust series is fast and pitch-dark neo-noir, a tale of mobsters and magicians in the demon-haunted underworld of Las Vegas. Its companion series, Harmony Black, follows an outgunned and desperate team of government monster-hunters as they navigate a world of conspiracies and espionage. The four-volume Revanche Cycle takes place on an Earth next door; this epic Renaissance-inspired fantasy tale follows the struggle for control of a papal throne and lays the groundwork for later, cosmic-scale events. The Wisdom’s Grave trilogy is an epic crossover featuring characters from all three series as they intersect with the Witch and her Knight, heroines cursed to a cycle of endless reincarnation and death by the first story ever told.
Each series stands on its own; you won’t miss any crucial details if you only read one or two. However, if you read them all, you’ll find crossover characters, foreshadowed events, and Easter eggs galore.
Want to experience the whole thing, in the intended order? First of all, you’re awesome. Second, here’s the list:
The Complete Revanche Cycle *
The Long Way Down (Faust #1)
The White Gold Score (Faust #1.5)
Redemption Song (Faust #2)
The Living End (Faust #3)
A Plain-Dealing Villain (Faust #4)
Harmony Black (Harmony #1)
The Killing Floor Blues (Faust #5)
Red Knight Falling (Harmony #2)
The Castle Doctrine (Faust #6)
Glass Predator (Harmony #3)
Double or Nothing (Faust #7)
Cold Spectrum (Harmony #4)
The Neon Boneyard (Faust #8)
The Wisdom’s Grave Trilogy
Right to the Kill (Harmony #5)
The Locust Job (Faust #9)
Black Tie Required (Harmony #6)
Down Among the Dead Men (Faust #10)
* Stands alone in its own universe, can be read any time prior to The Castle Doctrine, where the bleed-over begins.
The Sisterhood of new amsterdam
“This is New York City, sir. All the hotels are haunted by someone or other. You just have to pick the one with the ghosts that suit you.”
— Ghosts of Gotham
The Sisterhood of New Amsterdam is its own continuity, separate from the overlapping worlds and series of the First Story novels. The Sisterhood is inspired by dark romanticism, drawing from literature and myth and centered around one of the most magical places in the world: New York City. There are witches in the shadows of New York, ghouls haunting colonial graveyards, and centuries of buried secrets waiting to be discovered.
