Below is the complete list of Alisha Klapheke’s Kingdoms of Lore books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Kingdoms of Lore Books
Publication Order of Kingdoms of Lore: Underworld Books
About Kingdoms of Lore
Alisha Klapheke’s Kingdoms of Lore series is a collection of interconnected fantasy romances set in a shared world of humans, Fae, elves, dragons, elemental magic, enchanted forests, and rival kingdoms. Unlike a traditional fantasy saga built around one protagonist, the main Kingdoms of Lore books shift to a different romantic couple with each installment. The stories share geography, magical history, and occasionally overlapping characters, but each central romance reaches its own resolution, making the series closer to a sequence of connected standalones than one continuous quest.
Enchanting the Elven Mage establishes that structure through Aury, a human princess raised among the Fae who discovers both her true identity and an unexpected talent for water magic. Her arranged marriage to Filip, an elven warrior prince, links personal independence with the political needs of two kingdoms. The novel sets several patterns that continue through the series: powerful heroines learning what they can do, romantic partners divided by culture or circumstance, magical conflict, banter, and relationships developing against broader threats.
The focus changes with Enchanting the Fae Prince. Rhianne is an ostracized cobbler whose attempt to discover her fated match unexpectedly connects her to Prince Werian. Their story revolves around the Matchweaver, magical fate, and a growing darkness threatening Lore. Because the couple and immediate conflict are new, readers receive a complete romantic arc while gaining a wider view of the same fantasy world.
Enchanting the Dragon Lord brings dragon magic more prominently into the series. Brielle, a princess fascinated by ancient artifacts, encounters Dorin after a rune stone summons a dragon who can shift into human form. Political hostility between their kingdoms complicates their attraction, while Dorin’s unexplained transformation provides the central magical mystery. Characters encountered elsewhere in the series give the novel additional continuity without making previous romances prerequisites for understanding the main story.
The fourth principal standalone, Enchanting the Dryad Prince, moves to the hidden world of the dryad elves. Isa survives a shipwreck and encounters Viridi, a dryad prince raised to become the Thorned One, a powerful protector whose expected transformation may be far more dangerous than his people understand. Their fated connection again combines romance with questions of magical inheritance, family expectation, and the cost of accepting a role chosen by others.
Klapheke later extended this world through the Kingdoms of Lore: Underworld duology. Stolen by the Shadow King and Rise of the Fire Queen follow Maren and Kynan rather than introducing separate couples in each book. Maren’s connection to spirits and the Underworld draws her into a crisis involving failing magic, while Kynan is the shadow-elven king whose fate becomes bound to hers. Because their relationship and conflict continue directly across both novels, these books operate differently from the four earlier standalones and are best understood as a connected subseries within the wider setting.
Kingdoms of Lore also belongs to Klapheke’s larger Realm of Dragons and Fae, alongside related fantasy series such as Dragons Rising and Bound by Dragons. That shared-world design allows familiar magical concepts and peoples to recur without requiring every series to be read as one enormous sequence.
What holds Kingdoms of Lore together is therefore not a single overarching protagonist but a consistent romantic-fantasy framework. Each story approaches the world from another kingdom, culture, magical tradition, or relationship, gradually making Lore feel larger while preserving the satisfaction of individual romantic conclusions. The result is a flexible series built for readers who enjoy connected worlds but prefer each major couple to have a distinct story of their own.