Abby James Books in Order
Explore Abby James books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and where to start across her paranormal romance, fantasy, and urban fantasy novels.
Last updated: July 13, 2026
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Abby James books in publication order
18 books
Mountain Love
by Abby James
2017
Set against a mountain backdrop, this standalone romance pairs strong attraction with the emotional risk of starting over. It is a quick, intimate Abby James love story about trust, chemistry, and taking a chance.
Tropical Heat
by Abby James
2017
After being left at the altar, Ashlynn heads to Bali alone and plans to enjoy the honeymoon anyway. Instead she ends up sharing her luxury villa with Jaron, a wealthy stranger who is far too hard to resist.
Disturbed Mind
by Abby James
2018
This short Abby James story leans darker than her romances, with illusion and reality starting to blur. It has a compact, eerie setup and a more unsettling mood than her longer fantasy series.
Dragon Blood
by Abby James
2018
Embry's dangerous blood and the shifters' long war against a sorcerer drive the conflict into a darker second round. Revenge, attraction, and old secrets tighten their grip as survival gets harder for everyone.
Dragon Fire
by Abby James
2018
Five years after a Gate opened and released the worst of purgatory, Embry is being hunted for her blood. Four dragon shifters hunting an old enemy cross her path, and staying free gets much harder.
The Mage's Curse
by Abby James
2018
Orphaned Kenzie learns she is at the heart of a prophecy the king fears. With magic outlawed and four royal brothers sent to hunt her down, she has to discover who wants her saved, and who wants her burned.
Deadly Secrets
by Abby James
2019
Malachi is torn from her family and forced into a city built on lies and betrayal. While dark, powerful men circle closer, she has to get stronger fast if she wants to survive what is waking inside this world.
Death Contained
by Abby James
2019
Old loyalties and buried truths leave the heroine tied to a man she is supposed to hate. As enemies close in and trust starts to fray, she has to work out who the real threat is before everything breaks loose.
Death Eternal
by Abby James
2019
Saving a soul means making a dangerous bargain, and the afterlife's rules are only getting worse. With forbidden feelings and bigger supernatural stakes closing in, every choice pushes her nearer to disaster.
Death Sucks
by Abby James
2019
Death makes her his angel and drops her into a bizarre afterlife job full of reapers, souls, and supernatural trouble. Falling for a living man would break the rules, and maybe help trigger the apocalypse.
Death Unleashed
by Abby James
2019
The final Death's Angel book raises the stakes around souls, power, and the end of the world. Old enemies, forbidden love, and supernatural chaos collide as the series drives toward its biggest showdown.
Fatal Truths
by Abby James
2019
With danger closing in from the north and betrayal creeping closer to home, Malachi's world starts to tighten fast. Keeping her family safe may cost more than she can afford, especially when the truth gets uglier the deeper she digs.
Poisonous Lies
by Abby James
2019
As the darkness inside the four men grows, Malachi digs into the past and the Arena's hidden secrets. Outside forces threaten her family, and the men obsessed with her are becoming harder to trust, and harder to resist.
Queen of Spades
by Abby James
2019
A young woman whose only obvious gift is sensing power in others is accused of dangerous seam breaches. Hunted by a retriever, a sorcerer, and a skinwalker, she has to stay ahead of a dark magical world to protect her family.
The Curse Begins
by Abby James
2019
When a dead man attacks her, a young woman is dragged to Darkwells Academy, a school for dangerous supernaturals. She has to discover her ability, survive deadly tournaments, and stay away from the powerful men who keep pulling her in.
Wraith's Poison
by Abby James
2019
The second Fealty book pushes its dark bond into even riskier territory. Loyalty turns more complicated, danger presses closer, and the emotional cost of staying connected keeps rising.
Wraith's Whore
by Abby James
2019
This dark fantasy romance opens the Fealty series with dangerous loyalties and a bond that looks anything but safe. Abby James leans into shadowy power, hard choices, and attraction tangled up with threat.
Written in Blood
by Abby James
2019
A shocking truth about her father sends the heroine deeper into her mother's journal and Darkwells' secrets. As skurks attack again and Luca's past starts to surface, the danger under the academy becomes impossible to ignore.
Where to start with Abby James
If you want a romance-first starting point: Tropical Heat
If you want dark paranormal intrigue: Deadly Secrets → Poisonous Lies → Fatal Truths
If you want academy fantasy: The Curse Begins → Written in Blood
If you want dragon shifters and a rougher fantasy world: Dragon Fire → Dragon Blood
If you want a snarkier afterlife adventure: Death Sucks → Death Eternal → Death Contained → Death Unleashed
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Author bio
Abby James was born in Australia, and her public author bios make it pretty clear that ordinary life was never going to be enough for her. She writes paranormal romance and fantasy, and that blend of danger, desire, and larger-than-life characters runs through almost everything she publishes.
Before writing, she worked in a laboratory.
That detail helps explain why her move into fiction feels interesting. James did not come out of a tidy, all-I-ever-wanted-to-do-was-write story. She was a big reader from childhood, then found herself in a more practical line of work before books pulled her back in. She joined a local writers' centre, took a workshop on writing romance, and realized she was on the wrong career track.
From there, the shift seems to have happened fast. She went from factual work to invented worlds, and that jump shows in the stories she tells. Her books tend to begin with women under pressure, women who are cornered, hunted, accused, or dropped into worlds they do not understand, then forced to get tougher in a hurry.
She doesn't write small, tidy worlds.
Her debut novel, Tropical Heat, came out in 2017 and showed a lighter side of her work, a contemporary romance built around a honeymoon gone wrong, forced proximity, and a connection that catches both leads off guard. After that, much of her catalogue leaned hard into the supernatural. Deadly Secrets throws Malachi into a dark city built on betrayal and hidden power. Dragon Fire follows Embry in a world scarred by the opening of a Gate and the release of creatures from purgatory. The Curse Begins takes the academy fantasy route, with a heroine pulled into a dangerous school for supernaturals. Then Death Sucks goes in a different direction again, mixing afterlife bureaucracy, reapers, forbidden love, and a healthy amount of chaos.
That range is part of her appeal. Even when the subgenre changes, the core Abby James experience stays fairly steady. Readers can expect strong heroines, intense attraction, hidden magical systems, and love interests who are often as dangerous as they are helpful. Some of her books use reverse-harem dynamics, some do not, but tension is always doing a lot of the work.
Her stories also return again and again to a few favorite pressures. Survival comes first. Loyalty is rarely simple. Power always has a cost. The people her heroines fall for are usually tangled up in the very systems that threaten them, which gives the romance a sharper edge than a straightforward love story would have.
In her public bios, James describes herself as adventurous and openly uninterested in the mundane. That tracks. Her books are full of fantasy courts, vampires, dragon shifters, supernatural schools, hidden realms, and dark bargains. Even the contemporary stories tend to trap people together and see what sparks.
These days, she lives on several acres with her husband, children, and plenty of wildlife. It is a grounded picture for a writer whose fiction so often runs on danger, magic, and emotional mess. The contrast suits her work well.
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