Amelia Atwater Rhodes Books in Order
Explore Amelia Atwater Rhodes books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple advice on where to start reading her fantasy worlds.
Last updated: July 12, 2026
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Publication Order
22 books
In the Forests of the Night
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
1999
By day Risika sleeps in Concord, and by night she hunts New York as a centuries-old vampire. When someone begins leaving black roses tied to her human past, she realizes old horrors have finally found her again.
Demon in My View
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2000
Jessica hides the fact that she is a published author of vampire fiction, until two strange new students arrive at school. One of them seems unnervingly close to the villain she thought existed only on the page.
Shattered Mirror
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2001
Sarah Vida is a witch, a vampire hunter, and used to seeing the world in absolutes. Then her feelings for vampire Christopher Ravena and the return of his infamous twin Nikolas make everything messier and far more dangerous.
Midnight Predator
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2002
Turquoise Draka hunts the creatures that shattered her old life, and her newest target is the vampire Jeshikah. To get close enough to kill her, Turquoise must enter Midnight disguised as a human slave.
Hawksong
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2003
Danica Shardae is heir to a war-torn avian throne and willing to do the unthinkable to end the killing. Her answer is a political pair bond with Zane Cobriana, leader of the enemy serpiente, if she can learn to trust him.
Snakecharm
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2004
Peace between avians and serpiente is still new when Zane and Danica face a claim that one of the powerful falcons is hidden among them. Family secrets and fear over a mixed-blood heir threaten everything they built.
Falcondance
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2005
Nicias has never fully belonged in Wyvern's Court, and his dreams keep pulling him toward the falcon homeland of Ahnmik. Sent there at last, he is drawn into dangerous magic, court intrigue, and a choice between duty and destiny.
Wolfcry
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2006
Oliza should inherit a hard-won peace between avians and serpiente, but old prejudice is still alive. When one suitor is attacked and Oliza is kidnapped into wolf territory, leadership stops being an abstract duty.
Wyvernhail
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2007
Hai has always been an outsider, caught between falcon and cobra blood, unstable magic, and frightening visions. After her cousin gives up the throne, Hai sees only ruin ahead and may have to betray friends to stop it.
Persistence of Memory
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2008
Erin Misrahe wants an ordinary life, but stress brings out Shevaun, a violent alter ego she cannot remember. Then a friend insists Shevaun is a real vampire tied to Erin, and severing that bond may be deadly.
All Just Glass
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2010
Sarah Vida is now the very thing she was raised to destroy, a vampire cut off from her witch family. When her sister Aida is sent to hunt her down, love and duty crash together over one brutal day.
Token of Darkness
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2010
After a car accident ruins his future, Cooper Blake wakes to find a ghost named Samantha at his side. With Delilah and telepath Brent trying to help, he has to learn whether Samantha needs saving or fearing.
Poison Tree
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2012
Alysia comes to SingleEarth hoping for calmer work, while tiger shapeshifter Sarik is still running from grief and a brutal past. When violence reaches Haven #4, both women are forced back into dangerous loyalties.
Promises to Keep
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2013
A wrong turn and a crashed party pull young vampire hunter Jay into a widening fight among SingleEarth, the Bruja guilds, and Midnight. To stop a rising slave empire, he has to prove he is more than everyone expects.
Bloodwitch
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2014
Vance Ehecatl has been raised to trust the vampires of Midnight, until Malachi Obsidian tells him he is a bloodwitch being controlled. As friends fall ill and loyalties split, Vance must decide whose version of the world is true.
Bloodkin
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2015
Kadee has carved out a hard life inside the outlaw Obsidian guild and refuses to bow to Midnight or the shapeshifter royals. But old loyalties, buried guilt, and the price of rebellion begin closing in fast.
The Rebel
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2015
Haunted by memories she has tried to bury, sixteen-year-old Kadee confronts the hurt behind her hard edges. This short prequel adds depth to her role in Bloodkin and the wider Maeve’ra struggle.
Bloodtraitor
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2016
Malachi Obsidian has spent his life believing his prophecy will free his people and destroy Midnight. With his unstable sister nearing power and a risky plan in motion, he must choose between family loyalty and the truth.
Of the Abyss
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2016
When guard captain Hansa Viridian investigates a sorcerer's warning, he ends up accused of the very crimes he hunts. His only chance is an uneasy alliance with a half-Abyssi man and a journey into the Abyss itself.
The Prophet
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2016
This brief companion story lets Malachi tell his own past, tracing the pain, power, and choices that shape him before Bloodtraitor. It is a strong character piece for readers who want more of the Obsidian guild.
Of the Divine
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2017
Set decades before the other Mancer books, this novel follows seer Henna, Prince Verte, Naples, and Dahlia as Kavet edges toward disaster. Sorcery, royal ambition, and forces from beyond the mortal world start knitting the trap.
Of the Mortal Realm
by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
2018
Hansa, Umber, and Cadmia return from the Abyss to a Kavet on the edge of collapse. As old allies come back changed and war spills in from the divine and infernal realms, stopping it may cost everything.
Where should I start?
If you want classic vampire drama: In the Forests of the Night → Demon in My View → Shattered Mirror → Midnight Predator
If you want shapeshifter politics and romance: Hawksong → Snakecharm → Falcondance → Wolfcry
If you want deeper Den of Shadows continuity: Token of Darkness → Persistence of Memory → All Just Glass → Promises to Keep
If you want darker empire-and-rebellion fantasy: Bloodwitch → Bloodkin → Bloodtraitor
If you want adult fantasy: Of the Abyss → Of the Divine → Of the Mortal Realm
Author bio
Amelia Atwater Rhodes was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1984 and grew up in Concord, Massachusetts. Stories came early for her. Before she was old enough to worry about publication, she was already filling notebooks and computers with fantasy, science fiction, and vampire tales.
Writing was not a side hobby for her. It was how she made sense of the world.
She has said that she was always telling stories, and once she learned to write, she started trying to pin them down on the page. One of her early finished novels grew out of a summer project after fifth grade, and by middle school she was producing full-length manuscripts. A friend eventually bragged about her work to an English teacher who also happened to be a literary agent, and that small school moment changed her path.
That led to In the Forests of the Night, the vampire novel she wrote at thirteen. The book introduced readers to Risika, a lonely immortal whose past refuses to stay buried, and it also introduced one of Atwater Rhodes's lasting strengths: she likes characters who are dangerous, isolated, and more complicated than they first appear. She followed it with Demon in My View, another early Den of Shadows novel, where imagination and supernatural reality start bleeding into each other.
Teen success arrived early, but she kept building instead of standing still.
With Hawksong, she shifted from urban vampires to shapeshifter politics and war-torn courts. That series, later known as the Kiesha'ra books, gave readers avians, serpiente, falcons, uneasy peace treaties, and a lot of questions about loyalty, bloodlines, and what peace actually costs. Then, years later, Bloodwitch returned to the wider Den of Shadows world with another angle on power and control, this time through vampires, shapeshifters, and a boy raised inside an empire that has taught him not to question anything.
Her books change settings and species, but the pull is often the same. She writes outsiders. She writes people caught between families, between loyalties, or between the person they were raised to be and the one they might become. Readers who click with her work usually like the moody tone, the sharp emotional stakes, and the way her supernatural worlds feel lived in instead of decorative.
She did not stop with young adult fantasy. In the adult Mancer trilogy, beginning with Of the Abyss, she moved into a more openly political fantasy world shaped by forbidden magic, other realms, and adult relationships. Across her career, whether the story centers on vampires, witches, shapeshifters, or mancers, she keeps returning to questions of identity, freedom, trust, and the cost of survival.
Alongside writing, Atwater Rhodes has also worked as a teacher, something she has spoken about with real affection. That feels fitting. Her books have always had the energy of someone who loves stories from the inside out, not just as products, but as things people live with. Decades after that first teenage breakthrough, she is still returning to the worlds that made her readers care in the first place.
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