Amir has existed; predates the naming of the lands
Wintermoon
Timeline
In the world
What happened, earliest first.
Mother Fate creates the Bailey coven — “the first coven on earth, created by Fate herself. Our job was to oversee humans and the other covens that formed, to keep balance on earth.” Members:…
Aya is entrusted with the ancient spell book containing all spells including dark magic, and with its only key, worn on her wrist. The rule: “the book was only to be used to protect…
Amir is present — “Did you know I was there when it happened? Watched Adam and Eve stumble”
King Amir born, of the Bailey witch bloodline — “the oldest civilization on record”; “his age is a mystery.” Earliest date of the scrolls in Damon’s and Micah’s libraries
Aya turns to dark magic; “Like Adam and Eve, Aya’s defiance cast us out of paradise” — the Baileys lose the Sanctuary
Amir is killed by Aya — “I tried to stop her… I was no match for dark magic. I died that night. The second death on earth”
Mother Fate resurrects Amir as something new — “it would take darkness to destroy dark magic. So, I became a creature of the night.” He can shift into almost any animal; the sun does…
Amir creates the shifters. First Zorah — a dying young man whose family had been murdered, who had “a connection with wolves” — the first shifter, a wolf, and founder of House of Zorah,…
Amir turns the first member of the House of Zorah bloodline
Amir shifts for the first time, and the line that every shifter house traces back to begins.
Overpopulation; the Nephilim; humans thought them fallen angels
Fate and the human God join forces and cleanse the earth (Noah’s ark referenced). Fate lets Amir save only the House of Zorah, who become the seed of Wintermoon
Fate’s new law: all supernaturals may love only one in a lifetime — one fated mate, “based on Zorah’s loyalty to his mate.” Amir re-seeds the shifter species imitating Noah’s ark
Aya’s first attempt to curse House of Zorah out of existence with the *Lunaris Exilium* chant — “Through blood and bone, I sever the tie, / No moon, no beast, by this curse you…
Aya casts “a millennium of purgatory” on the Baileys; Asma and Alina become “prisoners to their own sister”
King Amir hosts the first Community Trials
Stormscale’s era of pre-eminence — highest rank among the dragon clans; commands storms; guides Mer migrations and protects them from human ships and hunters; the Mer scout in return
House of Zorah and the Mer lose touch
Damon born; a Roman soldier in Rome’s conquest of Egypt
Damon turned into a vampire
Time passes
Zorah takes the elder seat. Amos takes his people north and the houses split for good.
Damon feeds on and slaughters an entire battlefield at Actium, “Roman and Egyptian soldiers alike”; then “fell into the shadows with King Amir right after that”
Damon’s turning placed instead in “the Roman Empire” (he was a Roman soldier and keeps Roman coins) and at “the Fall of Rome”
Reign of Emperor Hadrian, whose profile is on Damon’s denarius
Damon is “over two thousand years old” — “Amari, he waited over a thousand years. Damon, two thousand”
Amos, Levi’s uncle, leaves House of Zorah at coming-of-age to found House of Amos (settled in Cameroon)
The Bouda–Zohar Pride alliance begins; the two “shared a border” for a thousand years
Ahmal has gone without a fated mate
Kane is ~300 years old — “I’m three hundred years old and I won’t age anymore until I’m paired with my fated mate”
King Amir “planned this war for thousands of years”
Time passes
The war that ended the pretending. Wintermoon stopped hiding what it was and never went back.
The Great War is lost; setting of ‘s Prologue, in King Amir’s throne room
Aya destroys the dragon shifters’ mountain sanctuary, killing their women and children with an orb, and frames Amir — “she had the power to promise them a reunion with their mates.” The dragon clans…
Aldric, the Stormscale alpha, burns Valek’s parents alive with dragonfire while Sam and Valek watch, infant Claude in Valek’s arms
The dragons burn the battlefield within minutes. House of Amos annihilated but for Jacob; House of Zorah reduced to Levi, Kane, Gabriel and Micah; Levi’s father Zorah and his mother killed; the intended-alpha cousin…
Kade born in the Viking Age — a Viking witch who “turned on my coven a thousand years ago, and they killed me for it”; King Amir turns her the night they lose the…
Kade “switched sides at the eleventh hour”; Kade dies and Amir saves her soul
Tyrion exposes Aya Bailey’s crime to King Amir
Amir executes the dragon clans for treason — the Stormscale Clan turned to dust “with a snap of his fingers”; Aldric killed; only the Ash Clan survives. Tyrion spared: “You are not worthy of…
Claude’s father sends the young Ash Clan males to flee to the mountains; Claude’s mother leaves her children to reason with Stormscale and is killed. Valek, Sam and infant Claude survive; Ash Clan is…
Time-travelling future Anora breaks the observe-don’t-touch rule in a bear shifter village, is seen and nearly killed by a bear-shifter alpha with purple eyes; believing he had lost her, Amir annihilates the entire bear-shifter…
Aya Bailey’s curse falls: shifters locked in form, mates stolen, procreation stopped, aging halted. Jacob locked in wolf form. “There hasn’t been a rejected mate in a thousand years. Since the curse.” Claude is…
Kane, Tristian, Jabari and Meekah were cubs/pups; Tristian’s mother and father, Jabari’s father and Meekah’s parents all die in the war
No women in the Axel Clan for over a millennium; Ash Clan has no Luna for a thousand years; Sam, Valek, Meekah and Jabari begin ~1,000-year waits. Meekah is “over a thousand years old”
Levi and his pack live in a cave for a hundred years
Levi celibate for eight hundred years — “The first couple centuries after the curse… I broke once”
Jacob lives a thousand years in wolf form, latterly as alpha of a pack of natural wolves in Alaska, sheltering in a frozen cave; Kade visits once a season for centuries
Kade has “been doing the work for a thousand years”
Carla found as an abandoned infant and raised by enslaved adoptive parents under a lord and lady
Carla’s lord attempts to rape her, triggering her first magical outburst; she is abandoned by her foster parents when her arachnid connection shows
Carla flees into the forest; her egg sac hatches in a cave — she is “born” as a spider-mother; then centuries in the shadows
Carla is murdered by a human mob (an arrow through the chest); Tabatha resurrects her with a magical key and binds the spider-children to cloak her as the doorway to Limbo
Carla spawns “right after Amir falls into slumber” (i.e. ~600 years ago)
The original Blackwood coven grants Henry / Ibrahim al-Qurtubi (Abraham of Winchester) and his brother Nathaniel / Nasir immortality and a portion of Blackwood magic. Henry was born in Córdoba, captured in a Norman…
Tyrion begins his thousand-year rotation among human cities
The Community Trials fall dormant — “No one’s invoked them in centuries”
King Amir, in grief-madness after losing hope of finding Anora, enters a 600-year magical slumber in a tomb built by Levi on his island. The Master Coven is formed to maintain balance in his…
Gabriel steals Meekah’s elk — the origin of a six-hundred-year grudge
Frost Clan enters isolation — six hundred years / six centuries without human contact; reason never stated
Tristian’s celibacy begins — “six hundred years celibate”
Future Anora begins visiting Amir across time “since the dawn of time,” and eventually “messes with his mind” to induce the slumber: “He needed rest. A long rest.”
Fall of Granada / the Reconquista. Amari Al-Baqar, a Moorish nobleman, watches the burning of the University of Al-Andalus and its great library and the execution of Moorish scholars; he is turned by his…
Giorgione paints “La Tempesta” (later auctioned at Sotheby’s)
Ottoman sword techniques — the base of Selene’s fighting form
Andrew, a human servant at the court of King Henry VIII, is condemned for sodomy, castrated and left for dead, and turned by Kade
Andrew turned — he is “five hundred years old”
Carla survives an attempted hanging as an accused witch; her spider-children slaughter the mob in retaliation
Josiah Dupree born, Dupree plantation, St. Martinville, Louisiana — “during the expansion of the sugarcane industry”
Josiah sold away from his mother to the Beaumont plantation
Vivian Beaumont begins sexually abusing and raping Josiah; his son by her is fed to alligators by Thomas Beaumont
Josiah’s son born and murdered; Josiah kills Thomas Beaumont; sentenced to 100 lashes (“Fifty from the back and fifty from the front,” ten each from ten men) and beaten nearly to death as a…
Tyrion’s 400 years of celibacy — “I have been celibate for four hundred years, Claudia”
The flu pandemic, referenced by Jacob as the last comparable human panic
Alaric turned by Damon (~100+ years old as of the present)
Kael turned by Damon from a WWI trench, dying of gas poisoning; later beheaded by Selene on Amir’s order for betraying the Master Coven
Gabriel last sees Andrew — “which is just a few months in our timeline”
Sarah turned by Amari
Amir: “I was in my 600-year slumber during this period, but I could hear everything that went on”
Bobby turned by Amari in an Alabama alley after the KKK strung him up and left him for dead; he had worked five years to keep Fred Hampton’s legacy alive
Bobby’s pristine afro and black beret era
Amari hires Malcolm as Medina Corp’s head attorney
Tabatha’s deal with the Glen elders / Eric — dark magic, youth and long life in exchange for fathering a siphoner son
Infant Anora spawns in Carla’s nest; Carla leaves her at an orphanage under a cloaking/binding spell. (Anora has no bloodline — she was conjured by Mother Fate from three Blackwood witches’ sacrificed power)
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Angie has Aaron — “For the past ten years, it’s been me and my babies,” making Angie roughly 30 at
Eric abandons the family
Angie’s mother dies of cancer
Ellie drugs and traffics Leah; Kade rescues them both; Leah was still human then
Hazel raped at the Middleton Estate, Salem, by DeMarcus and nine other men
Hazel Bailey walks out of a portal in Alaska and recruits Jacob — she has just been raped by a human man, begs him to kill her, prays to Fate and receives an answer;…
The thousand-year curse lifts and supernaturals reveal themselves to humans. Attributed to Hazel Bailey at the cost of her coven and to “an unknown party, explicitly NOT Aya Bailey”
Supernaturals first settle Snowbush Falls, Mid-Michigan; abandoned as tensions rise with humans over the following decade
The Master Coven moves from Snowbush Falls to Wintermoon; Wintermoon founded by Kade, Leah, Damon and the Master Coven
The Axel Clan migrates to Wintermoon; the Ash Clan relocates at Kade’s urging; Kade visits the Frost Clan in the mountains to tell them about Wintermoon
Kade negotiates with the human government; it becomes a federal crime to kill or harm a supernatural. The Witching Glen’s spell over Wintermoon’s waters is the leverage
The Great Migration — supernatural relocation that revitalizes bankrupt Detroit/Michigan
Wintermoon Academy founded — “the first supernatural academy ever built,” converted from the orphanage
Alicia arrives as the Axel Clan’s first woman “in over a millennium”
The Witching Glen war — Angie, Amir, Kade and others force the Glen to seal all portals; Wintermoon is warded
Opening point of Ch1
Opening point of — “It’s been ten years since the curse lifted”; Tami “was only fifteen when supernaturals first revealed themselves.” Also : “When the curse was lifted ten years ago, we regained our…
Hazel releases Jacob from her service, gives him the key and sends him to Wintermoon. He guarded her eleven years
Book
Forgiving Levi
Taming Kane
Claiming Gabriel
Saving Jacob
Chasing Ebony
Stalking Lauren
Taking Amaya
Finding Claude
Loving Amir
Resisting Damon
Crowning Anora
Healing Hazel
Redeeming Nia
Craving Carla
Chasing Nicole
Surviving Josiah
Loving Amari
Snatching Jackie
Guarding Kendra
Freeing Nala
Choosing Aaron
Crowning Aaron
Claiming Aya
As published
The order the books came out. A prequel written later lands here out of sequence — that is the difference between the two tracks.