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Crossroads Queen Books in Order

9 books from Dead to the World (2023) to Dead End (2025). Rated 4.7 across 1,535 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Dead to the World

    Book 1 2023 4.5 (282)

    Lorelei Clay isn’t like other people. She isn’t even like other supernaturals. Her specialties are the nightmares of the living, communication with the dead, and cooking bacon until it’s golden brown and perfectly crispy—no magic…

  2. Dead of Night

    Book 2 2023 4.7 (182)

    Reluctant ghost whisperer Lorelei Clay wants a working moat, which is the only reason she agrees to help with yet another supernatural situation....

  3. Dead Last

    Book 3 2023 4.7 (150)

    When a mage assassin asks for help with a delicate matter involving a ruthless vampire mobster, Lorelei agrees—for a price. Part of the deal is that Kane Sullivan can’t know. Yes, that Kane. Prince of hell. Demon to end all demons.

  4. Dead Wrong

    Book 4 2024 4.7 (199)

    Lorelei Clay has spent a lifetime keeping her secret. Now that Kane has discovered it, the prince of hell has cut her off but she has no idea why.

  5. Dead Weight

    Book 5 2024 4.7 (173)

    Lorelei Clay is determined to put down roots in the small town of Fairhaven no matter what the universe throws at her. After all, she’s invested her entire savings in the rundown monstrosity known as the Castle.

  6. Play Dead

    Book 6 2024 4.8 (156)

    In Fairhaven, there's no rest for the wicked, the weary, or anyone in between. This time, the Wild Hunt is on its way to town, commanded by its ruthless leader who has a score to settle with Lorelei's friend, the Night Mallt.

  7. Dead Heat

    Book 7 2024 4.8 (143)

    It isn’t easy being the liminal deity of a multirealm crossroads, as Lorelei Clay can attest. There are the typical issues, of course, like a wayward god stumbling into Wild Acres, and then there are the more pressing ones…

  8. Half Dead

    Book 8 2024 4.5 (112)

    Lorelei Clay wants to play offense for a change. She’s tired of hiding from the past she didn’t even know she had. With a promising relationship and new friends in a small town she loves, Lorelei wants to be free to live life on her terms,…

  9. Dead End

    Book 9 2025 4.8 (138)

    Lorelei never believed she would have a place to call home. She’d grown accustomed to hiding, to putting up walls and avoiding interaction with the world around her.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Crossroads Queen is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.