14 Best Penelope Douglas Books

When nineteen year old Jordan and her unreliable boyfriend move in with his hardworking father Pike, the easy roommate arrangement slowly turns into crackling, forbidden chemistry. Sharing a house forces them to question loyalty, age gaps, and whether a second chance at love is worth the fallout.

Childhood friends Tate and Jared are now enemies in their small-town high school, where his relentless bullying has made her a target. After a year abroad, she returns determined to fight back, forcing them both to face what really turned love into hate.

After her famous parents die, emotionally numb Tiernan de Haas is sent to live with her step-uncle Jake and his two sons in an isolated Colorado mountain town. Cut off by winter storms, she confronts grief, desire and a tangle of taboo relationships in their remote cabin.

Blind since childhood, Winter Ashby believes sending Damon Torrance to prison was the only way to be safe. When he returns as the new man of her house, his calculated revenge campaign forces them to confront their shared past and a terrifying, magnetic bond.

Pen pals Misha and Ryen have shared anonymous letters since fifth grade, promising never to meet. When he recognizes her online and slips into her high school under a different name, the perfect girl he imagined collides with the cruel reality he finds.

Madoc Caruthers and Fallon Pierce once shared a secret, forbidden affair as teenage step-siblings. Now she is back for one explosive summer, intent on revenge, and their war of pranks and barbed words quickly reignites the chemistry neither can forget.

Kai Mori spent three years in prison and wants answers about a legendary abandoned hotel called The Pope. Streetwise Banks knows the truth about its hidden guest and twelfth floor, pulling them into a dangerous tug of war between loyalty, desire, and long buried sins.

Erika Fane has spent years half fearing, half obsessing over Michael Crist, her boyfriend’s older brother and the leader of a reckless crew. When the men he once ran with leave prison, they turn Devil’s Night into a twisted game of revenge around her.

After a scandal blows up her carefully planned college life, K.C. Carter is forced home for community service and lands next door to Jaxon Trent, the trouble she never wanted. Their simmering attraction collides with buried secrets and the weight of their pasts.

Exiled to Blackchurch, a remote estate for the rich and ruined, Will Grayson is meant to cool off out of sight. Instead, he ends up trapped there with Emory Scott, the sharp tongued girl tied to his worst mistakes, and their history turns into a dangerous siege.

This companion to Bully retells Tate and Jared's story from his point of view, tracing the summer that broke him, the anger that turned him into a tormentor, and the slow, messy fight to win back the girl he never stopped wanting.

Easton Bradbury, a former tennis star turned private school teacher, is determined to outrun a painful past. When her most challenging student’s father, ambitious businessman Tyler Marek, starts crossing lines, their attraction ignites a secret, high risk affair in New Orleans.

From the rich side of town, Krisjen Conroy is drawn to the chaotic Jaeger house on the swampy edge of Sanoa Bay, where five brothers live by their own rules. Tangled desires, class divides and dangerous nights test what home and love really mean.

At elite Marymount girls’ school, polished cheer captain Clay Collins hides that she only wants girls, not the boys who chase her. Working class outsider Liv Jaeger is her favorite target, until one late night clash turns their rivalry into a secret, addictive F/F romance.