The Baku-verse
Where to start
There are two doors into this world and neither one is wrong. It is built like Star Wars. The Baku Trilogy is the story as it happens now. Soulstealer is the four hundred years that led to it.
01
The front door
Start here if you want to be dropped into it.
Present day, Portland, Maine. A woman who came to be nobody, a demon who knows her name, and a necromancer who eats the dead. This is the order the books were written in, and the order the reveals are built for.
Read 1
The Infernal Games
A demon marked her soul. The only man who can teach her to fight it eats the dead.
Read 2
Dirge of the Dead
Stealing a soul back out of hell is possible. It is not survivable.
Read 3
Beyond the Mist: Dark Messiah
Every power in the world is certain it knows who the Dark Messiah is. All of them are wrong.
02
The back door
Start here if you would rather watch the monster get made.
1010 to 2020. The Templars, the Mayflower, four hundred years of exile. Chronological, and it ends exactly where The Infernal Games begins. Knowing Oxivius first changes what he is doing in the present, which some readers prefer.
Read 1
Soulstealer: Origins
The Templars went into the mountain looking for a weapon. They found something buried with the ghuls.
Read 2
Mistress of the Waterfall
A monster wants him to stop pretending. A woman thinks he could be more than what he eats.
Read 3
Exile
Four hundred years of being hunted, and the Church never once stopped paying for it.
Anywhere
Reads on its own
No prerequisites. Pick it up whenever.
The short answer
Read The Infernal Games.
If you like it, keep going in the order above. If you want more of the necromancer, go back to Soulstealer: Origins and come forward again.