A Complete Reading Guide to the Matching Series
Where to start, what each book is about, and how all the shifters connect.
Welcome to the Matching universe — a world of shifters, destiny, found family, and the kind of love that chooses you long before you ever choose it back.
If you’re new to the series (or returning and trying to remember where everything fits), this guide will walk you through the reading order, the major shifter groups, and the feel of each book — without spoiling the magic.
Let’s begin.
✨ The Recommended Reading Order
The Matching Series is made up of connected stand-alone romances, each focusing on a different shifter group. You can read them in any order — but this is the order that gives the best flow:
1. Matching Feathers – Wingai Bird Shifters
2. Matching Foxes – Fox Shifters
3. Matching Fire – Wingai Bird Shifters (The Story of Ember and Coal.)
4. Matching Bears – Bear Shifters
5. Matching Cats – Cat Shifters
6. Matching Coyotes – Coyote Shifters
7. Matching Wolves – Wolf Shifters
Each book is clean YA fantasy romance, filled with magic, hope, and emotional truth.
✨ Book-by-Book Guide
🐦 Matching Feathers – Wingai Bird Shifters
The Matching Series is made up of connected stand-alone romances, each focusing Where the series begins.
Bird shifters with vibrant wings, destiny markings, and a race on the edge of change.
Themes: leadership, courage, fate vs. freedom.
🦊 Matching Foxes – Fox Shifters
The foxes are healers, farmers, and fiercely loyal.
Their magic runs deep — and their secrets even deeper.
Themes: chosen family, healing, forgiveness, quiet strength.
🔥 Matching Fire – Wingai Bird Shifters
A story focusing on Coal and Ember. The story of the bird shifters continues.
Themes: Strength with disabilities, healing, family, love
🐻 Matching Bears – Bear Shifters
Warmth, protection, and a tight-knit den where family is everything.
A human girl is on the run from a mob of librarians — and discovers the bear shifters and her world is forever changed.
Themes: belonging, bravery, self-worth, found family.
🐈 Matching Cats – Cat Shifters
Mysterious, magical, and deeply instinctive.
Three sacred roles — Alpha, Guardian, Spirit Guardian — hold their world together.
And Miracle Meadow has no idea she’s the missing piece.
Themes: identity, destiny, trust, growing into your purpose.
🌀 Matching Coyotes – Coyote Shifters
Mysterious, magical, and deeply instinctive.
Three sacred roles — Alpha, Guardian, Spirit Guardian — hold their world together.
And Miracle Meadow has no idea she’s the missing piece.
Themes: identity, destiny, trust, growing into your purpose.
🌀 Matching Wolves – Wolf Shifters (coming soon)
A wolf with a destiny.
A girl fighting cancer.
A bond neither of them can ignore.
Themes: hope, courage, soul-connection, healing, devotion.
✨ How the Shifter Groups Connect
All six shifter groups live in the same world, and their territories overlap:
- Wingai live in Soaring Heights
- Foxes farm the land west of them
- Bears live in their cozy mountain den
- Cats live in Tillamook Forest.
- Coyotes live next to the foxes with fire-based magic
- Wolves live in a hidden town called Wolf Falls
Each group has its own culture, magic system, and traditions — but their stories often weave together through friendships, alliances, and dreams.
If you read the books in order, you’ll catch small cameos and hints connecting each world, but every romance stands on its own.
✨ Frequently Asked Questions
✨ Welcome to the Matching Universe
Where destiny is real.
Where magic finds you.
Where love chooses you long before you ever realize why.
Wherever you begin your journey, I hope you fall in love with these worlds the way I did.
And as always —
may your reading be magical. ✨
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