Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How It’s Supposed to Be | 2021 | T.S. Joyce | Buy |
| 2 | How It Has to Be | 2021 | T.S. Joyce | Buy |
| 3 | How It’s Meant to Be | 2021 | T.S. Joyce | Buy |
| 4 | How It Is | 2021 | T.S. Joyce | Buy |
| 5 | How It Will Be | 2021 | T.S. Joyce | Buy |
| 6 | How It Was | 2021 | T.S. Joyce | Buy |
| 7 | How It Started | 2021 | T.S. Joyce | Buy |
| 8 | How It Needed to Be | 2021 | T.S. Joyce | Buy |
Oath of Bane is an eight-book series published entirely in 2021, following a group of shifters connected by a binding supernatural oath. The titles form a sequence, from How It’s Supposed to Be through How It Needed to Be, that mirrors the emotional arc of the overarching story.
Each book centers on a different couple while the consequences of the oath play out across all eight installments. Joyce published the entire series within a single year, letting readers follow the complete story without waiting. The binding oath provides a strong structural thread that ties the individual romances together more tightly than the loose crew connections in some of her other series.