- Status
- Ongoing series
- Published books
- 5
- Commitment
- Medium series
- Audience
- Adult / Crossover
An ongoing historical fantasy about witches, vampires, scholarship, family, and forbidden love.
The original trilogy resolves its central manuscript arc, but later novels continue the same families and supernatural world.
Best if you want
- Adult paranormal fantasy where research and romance share the plot.
- A relationship that expands into family history and supernatural politics.
Think twice if you need
- Fast action or concise worldbuilding.
- A completed overall series or romance kept secondary.
Across the books
How the series changes
The series widens from one manuscript mystery into family history, time travel, and supernatural governance.
- Political intrigue
- StartsCreature rules surrounding one discoveryLaterInstitutional conflict across generations
- Plot complexity
- StartsA mystery and forbidden relationshipLaterSeveral family and historical threads
Outside the score
Reader context
Series information guides suitability and commitment. Matrix scores remain attached to individual books.
Reader advisories
- Violence
- Sexual content
- Grief and loss
Books in this series
Compare the individual volumes.
1 of 5 published books currently have a full Matrix profile.
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
Historian Diana Bishop calls up a lost alchemical manuscript at Oxford and becomes the focus of witches, vampires, and daemons with competing plans for its secrets.