Book 1

The Awakening of Ren Crown

by Anne Zoelle

Published 9 August 2012

At the magic world's most elite school, time and glittering evil stalk Ren Crown's steps. In a world where layers of magic create worlds on top of our own--worlds where almost anything is possible--some rules still can't be broken, and Ren is desperate to overturn society's most sacred law.

On campus, animated creations, enchanted gadgets, and marvelous machines vie with the students themselves: mischievous engineers, diabolical tacticians, battle-hardened warriors, and terrifying roommates. But even amidst an eclectic and powerful student body, there is something off about Ren's magic...and the wrong people have started to notice.

Where art comes alive and the bonds of destiny are forged, Ren will find the answer to who and what she is.


Book 2

Barely surviving her first term at college, all Ren wants to do over break is relax and bond with her roommate—not get eaten by a sentient building or attacked on the street. But with increasingly open warfare brewing between the magical factions and Layers of the world, this time, Ren will not fail in making sure everyone she loves stays safe and protected.

That includes doing things like filling her parents' house with personal art heavily embedded with wards, bubble-wrapping her increasingly imperiled roommate, and even making sure that a certain sexy thorn-in-her-side continues to breathe free air.

Finding herself on duty protecting the entire university alongside campus god Alexander Dare...was not what she'd had in mind.

But this time it's not only her life on the line. And Ren will do anything to protect those she loves.

The Ren Crown series is a New Adult & College Fantasy series driven by a tenacious protagonist who seeks intellectual pursuits -- but ends up in frequent adventures involving magical metaphysics, science, and technology, all in the company of other extraordinary, delinquent, collegiate mages.


Book 3

The Rise of Ren Crown

by Anne Zoelle

Published 29 July 2015

Reeling from what the students at Excelsine University are calling "Bloody Tuesday," Ren is determined to regather her magical family. But the events of the attack were not without multiple costs. Magically broken and exposed, Ren is ripe pickings for multiple factions that want to use and chain her, and the Department is the scariest of the pack.

With only a limited amount of time to save her friend, and confined with the rest of the student body awaiting their fate, Ren stands a mere hairsbreadth from losing her freedom completely with each and every decision she makes.


Book 4

The Unleashing of Ren Crown

by Anne Zoelle

Published 5 August 2016

The rise always proceeds the fall...

After the events of winter term, Ren wants nothing more than to take a deep breath and be normal—spend some time with her friends, maybe enjoy the festival where shifts are continually unleashed to re-sort everything in the magical world, perhaps actually do something about a particular boy…

But the Department has started a sinister and highly effective campaign, one that threatens everything Ren has built. When unexpected faces and betrayal crop up from her past, she must do anything except engage.

But when a terrible secret is revealed, nothing will stop her from unleashing her destiny.


Book 5

The Destiny of Ren Crown

by Anne Zoelle

Published 13 November 2017

On the run with two of her most powerful—and quarrelsome—allies, Ren has to outwit the Department and all those who seek to exploit her powers as she fights for the lives of those she loves and the freedom to live in a world that fears her.

The Destiny of Ren Crown is the final book in the Ren Crown series.