It’s a twisted road to navigate but coffee helps . . .

I recently received a message from a reader asking if she should read any of the other series before she starts the second gen books.  Answering that question took a lot more effort than you might think.  In my defense, I was on my first cup of coffee and not firing on all cylinders.  

Midway through the cup, I had a possible solution.  By the time my first cup of life-giving bean juice was empty, I had an answer.  

Maybe.  

It should have been much easier to answer her than it was, but that’s all my fault.  I wrote the Time Served MC: Nomads series as a completely different universe without any connection to my other books.  But then I wrote my mafia series, The Four Families, which has an obvious connection to the Time Served world. 

As a palate cleanser, I started the Donovans series, but being who I am, I tend to complicate things without even trying.  There are references to my other series that readers wouldn’t have picked up on unless they’d read them already, but those who have read everything I’ve written caught them immediately.  (Case in point: Curl It Up, the fourth of The Donovans.  Dante and Jolie’s love story has so many easter eggs in it that you might begin to wonder if the Easter Bunny lives in Marlboro, Texas.)

So, after a lot of thought and a second cup of coffee, I came up with a reading order that I think works.

Rojo First Gen - follow the chronological reading order on the website

Springblood Books 1 and 2 - even if you’re not usually a paranormal fan, give them a try.  You’ll be pleasantly surprised, and it will make you question everything!

Time Served MC

The Donovans - perfect if you’d like a palate cleanser.  They’re a different universe, so it won’t affect anything if you skip them to read later or pop one in now and then.

The Four Families Books 1, 2, and 3

Time Served MC: Nomads Book 1

Rojo Second Gen - there are characters from Nomads, Springblood, and The Four Families sprinkled in, and they make a difference in the Rojo universe.

I always say that I’m going to keep my characters in their own universe going forward, and that works out well until I take a sudden left turn and write in an appearance of someone who wouldn’t otherwise belong.  Or when there’s a huge wedding that brings in characters from all over . . . and leaves ripples in every series.  That happened at Dub’s wedding, and it’s going to happen again in another book soon, but that’s a story for another day.  

Happy reading,

Cee

(aka The Easter Bunny)