Below is the complete list of Tessa Bailey’s Phenomenal Fate books in publication order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Phenomenal Fate Books in Publication Order
- Reborn Yesterday (2020)
- This Time Tomorrow (2020)
- Today Tomorrow and Always (2021)
About Phenomenal Fate
Tessa Bailey’s Phenomenal Fate series is a paranormal romance trilogy that mixes vampires, slayers, fairies, fated bonds, and comic chaos with the bold emotional intensity readers often associate with her contemporary romances. The series begins with Reborn Yesterday, continues with This Time Tomorrow, and concludes with Today Tomorrow and Always. Although the books move through supernatural territory, they remain unmistakably Bailey in tone: fast, flirtatious, high-chemistry, and built around characters who are overwhelmed by desire long before they have fully understood what fate is asking of them.
Reborn Yesterday introduces Ginny Lynn, a funeral home director whose ordinary night becomes anything but ordinary when the supposedly dead man on her embalming table wakes up. That man is Jonas Cantrell, a vampire whose existence is supposed to remain hidden from humans. The premise immediately sets the series’ balance of danger and absurdity. Ginny is not a battle-hardened paranormal heroine entering a world she already understands; she is a peculiar, tender, lonely woman pulled into a supernatural reality through an encounter that should have been impossible. Jonas, meanwhile, is bound by rules that tell him to erase her memory, even as his connection to her makes that choice impossible to treat as routine.
The second book, This Time Tomorrow, shifts attention to Roksana and Elias, giving the series a sharper enemies-to-lovers edge. Roksana is tied to the world of vampire slayers, while Elias is the vampire she is supposed to kill. Their story deepens the supernatural politics of the trilogy by bringing duty, family expectation, old attraction, and divided loyalties into direct conflict. Bailey uses the slayer-and-vampire setup for humor and heat, but the emotional tension comes from the way both characters are trapped by roles they did not entirely choose. Roksana wants approval and purpose; Elias carries the pain and longing of a bond that refuses to fade.
Today Tomorrow and Always widens the series again with Tucker, a cigar-smoking, ride-share-driving vampire, and Mary, a fairy whose life has been shaped by isolation and obligation. Their road-trip romance brings a more openly quest-like structure to the trilogy while keeping Bailey’s focus on misfits who feel unwanted, misunderstood, or inconvenient to the people around them. Mary’s blindness and powerful scream have made her seem like a burden within her own fractured family, while Tucker’s undead status does not erase the very human heart he still carries. Their connection gives the final book a softer, stranger, and more emotionally wounded energy.
Phenomenal Fate works because it does not treat paranormal romance as a complete break from Bailey’s usual themes. The supernatural elements are playful and dramatic, but the emotional concerns are familiar: loneliness, self-worth, forbidden attraction, family pressure, and the terrifying relief of being wanted exactly as you are. Vampires and fairies may shape the rules of the world, but the heart of the trilogy lies in characters who have spent too long believing they are too strange, too dangerous, or too difficult to love.
The series is compact, but each book changes the angle of the world. Ginny and Jonas introduce the hidden vampire society and the force of forbidden connection. Roksana and Elias complicate that world through slayer politics and duty. Tucker and Mary push the story into a broader supernatural conflict while giving the trilogy its most openly oddball pairing. Together, the books form a paranormal romance sequence that is humorous, intense, eccentric, and deeply interested in the messy miracle of finding love across impossible boundaries.