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Highlander
The Highlander series by Karen Marie Moning has 8 known books (8 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Beyond the Highland Mist (1999).
- Books
- 8 known books (8 novels)
- Published
- 8
- First published
- 1999
- Status
- completed
- Last checked
Start here: Beyond the Highland Mist (1999) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Beyond the Highland Mist
Beyond the Highland Mist opens Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series, published in April 1999 at 392 pages. Rather than one continuous plot, the series that follows is a run of loosely connected standalone romances sharing recurring characters and a shared Fae mythology; this opener is followed here by To Tame a Highland Warrior.
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To Tame a Highland Warrior
To Tame a Highland Warrior is the second book in Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series, published in November 1999 at 416 pages. It follows Beyond the Highland Mist and precedes The Highlander's Touch.
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The Highlander's Touch
The Highlander's Touch, published in August 2000, is the third of Karen Marie Moning's Highlander novels. It follows To Tame a Highland Warrior and precedes Kiss of the Highlander.
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Kiss of the Highlander
Kiss of the Highlander is the fourth book in the series, published in July 2001 at 396 pages. It follows The Highlander's Touch and precedes The Dark Highlander.
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The Dark Highlander
The Dark Highlander, published in July 2002, is Karen Marie Moning's fifth Highlander novel. It follows Kiss of the Highlander and precedes The Immortal Highlander.
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The Immortal Highlander
The Immortal Highlander is the sixth and, at 480 pages, longest book in Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series, published in August 2004. It follows The Dark Highlander and precedes Spell of the Highlander.
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Spell of the Highlander
Spell of the Highlander, published in August 2005 at 307 pages, is the seventh book in the series. It follows The Immortal Highlander and precedes Into the Dreaming.
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Into the Dreaming
Into the Dreaming is the eighth and, as of this catalogue, final book in Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series: a shorter, 112-page entry published in August 2006. Moning has not returned to the series since. It follows Spell of the Highlander as the series' closing volume.
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About the Highlander series
Before she sent MacKayla Lane to Dublin, Karen Marie Moning made her name with this run of Scottish time-travel romances. Each novel pairs a modern or otherwise displaced heroine with a formidable Highland warrior -- often centuries out of his own time, cursed, immortal, or bound by ancient Fae magic -- and works through the culture clash and slow-burning attraction that follows. Beyond the Highland Mist opens the series by flinging a stubborn, practical-minded woman back to 16th-century Scotland and into the orbit of a legendary, hot-tempered laird; later books widen the cast and the mythology, introducing the Tuatha De Danaan, the shape-shifting druid Adam Black, and a recurring cursed-immortal figure (Circenn Brodie, then Cian, then Christopian MacKeltar) who anchors several installments.
Moning builds the same interests that define her later work: Celtic myth and folklore, a dangerous and morally ambiguous Fae world sitting just alongside the human one, and heroines who start out overwhelmed and end up transformed by what they learn. The books are loosely connected through recurring side characters and a shared Fae mythology rather than a single continuous plot, so most stand alone reasonably well, though the MacKeltar-focused later entries reward reading in order. Moning has said the series' world quietly underpins the Fae mythology she later expanded in the Fever series -- readers who love Barrons and the Unseelie princes will recognize where some of that darkness started.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series?
Eight novels, from Beyond the Highland Mist (1999) to Into the Dreaming (2006).
What order should I read the Highlander series in?
Publication order, starting with Beyond the Highland Mist. Most books stand alone as individual romances, but the later entries -- The Immortal Highlander, Spell of the Highlander, and Into the Dreaming -- follow the same characters in sequence.
Is the Highlander series connected to the Fever series?
Not directly through plot or characters, but they share the same underlying Fae mythology -- Moning has described the Highlander books as building the world that the Fever series later darkens and expands.
Is the Highlander series complete?
Yes. It ran for eight books between 1999 and 2006 and Moning has not added to it since; her subsequent work moved to the Fever series and, more recently, the standalone Watch Hill Trilogy.
Do I need to read the Highlander books before the Fever series?
No. They're not required reading -- the Fever series stands completely on its own -- but fans of Fever's Fae mythology often enjoy going back to see its earlier, gentler form.
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