Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acquainted With the Night | 2011 | Michael Lee West / Piper Maitland | Buy |
| 2 | Hunting Daylight | 2013 | Michael Lee West / Piper Maitland | Buy |
The Acquainted With the Night series by Michael Lee West, written under the pen name Piper Maitland, is a two-book paranormal series published between 2011 and 2013. The first book, Acquainted With the Night, follows historian Caro Clifford as she discovers that vampires are real and that her own family has a hidden connection to their world. The story moves across European settings and mixes history, romance, and horror.
Hunting Daylight (2013) continues the story, deepening the mythology and raising the stakes for Caro and the people she loves. The series is a noticeable shift from West’s Southern fiction, trading small-town humor for Gothic atmosphere and conspiracy. Readers who enjoy vampire fiction with a historical bent, similar to Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches, will find common ground here.