Below is the complete list of Cassandra Clare’s The Wicked Powers books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of The Wicked Powers Books
About The Wicked Powers
Cassandra Clare’s The Wicked Powers is the planned final trilogy of The Shadowhunter Chronicles, designed to bring the long-running saga that began with The Mortal Instruments toward its concluding conflict. The series begins with The Last King of Faerie, followed by The Last Prince of Hell and The Last Shadowhunter. Unlike companion collections or side stories within the Shadowhunter world, The Wicked Powers is positioned as a major mainline arc, carrying forward characters and unresolved tensions from The Dark Artifices while drawing on the broader history of demons, angels, faeries, Shadowhunters, and Downworlders.
The trilogy’s central figures are Kit Herondale, Ty Blackthorn, and Drusilla Blackthorn. That immediately ties the series to the emotional aftermath of The Dark Artifices, where Kit and Ty’s relationship was left painfully unsettled and Dru was still coming into her own within the Blackthorn family’s complicated world. The Wicked Powers is expected to move these characters into more prominent adult or near-adult roles, giving them the kind of narrative weight that Clary, Tessa, Emma, Cordelia, and other earlier Shadowhunter protagonists carried in their own eras.
Kit Herondale is especially important because of his layered identity. His connection to the Herondale line, the faerie world, and the First Heir mythology gives him a place in several strands of Shadowhunter history at once. He is not simply another young Shadowhunter stepping into battle; he carries a legacy that links him to family names, political danger, and magical inheritance. His separation from Ty after the end of The Dark Artifices gives the opening of The Wicked Powers a strong emotional fault line, because their reunion is not just a matter of plot, but of trust, grief, and everything left unsaid.
Ty Blackthorn brings a different kind of intensity to the trilogy. His intelligence, grief, and bond with his twin sister Livvy were central to The Dark Artifices, and the consequences of that story continue to matter. Ty’s path has always involved both brilliance and vulnerability, and his connection to Kit gives the new series one of its most anticipated emotional threads. Clare’s strongest Shadowhunter books often turn on relationships that are shaped by love, law, secrecy, and supernatural consequence, and Kit and Ty’s story sits firmly in that tradition.
Dru Blackthorn’s role is equally significant because she represents a younger Blackthorn stepping out from the shadow of older siblings who have already endured war, exile, loss, and political upheaval. Her connection to Faerie and to Ash Morgenstern gives the trilogy another major line of tension. Ash himself is a complicated figure because his existence carries the legacy of Sebastian Morgenstern and the unresolved danger of power shaped by inheritance. Through Dru and Ash, The Wicked Powers can explore whether a person born from dark history must repeat it or can become something different.
The trilogy also appears set to return the Shadowhunter world to its largest mythic scale. Earlier series focused on different historical moments, family lines, and political crises, but The Wicked Powers is framed around a final massive conflict involving the sides of demons and angels. That gives the series a sense of culmination rather than simple continuation. The Mortal Instruments opened the modern Shadowhunter world; The Infernal Devices and The Last Hours deepened its past; The Dark Artifices exposed its institutional fractures; The Wicked Powers is where those accumulated legacies are expected to converge.
The series is best understood as the endpoint of a long interconnected fantasy universe. Its appeal will depend not only on new danger, but on the emotional history readers bring to Kit, Ty, Dru, the Blackthorns, the Herondales, Faerie, and the unfinished consequences of earlier books.