Ashley Jade Books in Order
Explore Ashley Jade books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy where-to-start picks for her dark romance and new adult novels.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
19 books
Blame It on the Pain
by Ashley Jade
2016
Jackson Reid is in love, grieving, and convinced he crossed a line he can never come back from. Alyssa Tanner has secrets of her own, and their dark romance turns into a dangerous search for truth.
Blame It on the Shame: Part 1
by Ashley Jade
2016
Ricardo DeLuca is the son of a feared mob boss, and Lou-Lou belongs to the one man he should never cross. Their forbidden attraction starts a dark trilogy built on shame, danger, and impossible choices.
Blame It on the Shame: Part 2
by Ashley Jade
2016
Ricardo and Lou-Lou's relationship turns even more dangerous as lies, outside threats, and old demons close in. What began as forbidden attraction becomes a brutal test of loyalty, survival, and love.
Blame It on the Shame: Part 3
by Ashley Jade
2017
Ricardo DeLuca and Lou-Lou reach the most dangerous stretch of their story as love, violence, and family legacy collide. The trilogy finale forces them to face the darkness they have both tried to outrun.
Complicated Hearts 1
by Ashley Jade
2017
Breslin never expected to see Asher Holden again after he wrecked her heart. When he returns, and Landon complicates everything further, the result is a messy, emotionally charged start to an unconventional duet.
Complicated Hearts 2
by Ashley Jade
2017
The second book pushes Breslin, Asher, and Landon closer to the truth about who they are and what they want. Love, jealousy, and old damage make every choice harder and every feeling bigger.
Bluff
by Ashley Jade
2018
Three years later, Kit Bishop needs a husband and Preston Holden needs the money. Their deal should be simple, but old wounds, sharp banter, and feelings neither of them can control turn it into chaos.
Fold
by Ashley Jade
2018
Preston Holden knows Kit Bishop is his addiction, obsession, and greatest weakness. Their first book dives into betrayal, toxic chemistry, and the start of a love story that is anything but clean or easy.
The Devil
by Ashley Jade
2018
This dark prelude drops three damaged people into a world of temptation, obsession, and power plays. Everyone claims the devil used them, but the real danger is how badly they want to stay in the game.
Cruel Prince
by Ashley Jade
2019
Dylan returns to Royal Manor and Royal Hearts Academy only to find Jace Covington is no longer the boy she loved. He wants her gone, she refuses to break, and their history makes every clash worse.
The Devil's Advocate
by Ashley Jade
2019
Caught between one man in the spotlight and another in the shadows, a young woman is pulled deeper into revenge, desire, and manipulation. The sequel turns a dangerous bargain into an even darker game.
Broken Kingdom
by Ashley Jade
2020
Bianca is supposed to be happy, safe, and in love with someone else. Oakley knows better, and as her memories start pushing back, their second chance turns into a fight against the past.
Ruthless Knight
by Ashley Jade
2020
Cole Covington is Royal Hearts Academy's golden boy, Sawyer Church is the girl everyone overlooks. When a fake relationship pulls them together, both are forced to face the pain hiding behind their opposite reputations.
Wicked Princess
by Ashley Jade
2020
Bianca Covington wakes up with no memory of the terrible things everyone says she did. As she tries to piece together her past, her carefully built world starts to look very different.
All In
by Ashley Jade
2021
Preston Holden has already lost Kit Bishop once, and his secrets are a big reason why. The final book follows his attempt to win her back and prove their messy, painful connection is still worth betting on.
Hate Me
by Ashley Jade
2021
Her cruel stepbrother knows all her secrets and uses them to make life unbearable. Forced into close quarters, their hate starts to blur into something darker, messier, and much harder to escape.
The Words
by Ashley Jade
2022
Years after Phoenix Walker shattered her, Lennon gets pulled back into his orbit on tour. Revenge is the plan, but old chemistry, buried pain, and the truth of their past make that much harder than it sounds.
The Choice
by Ashley Jade
2023
Memphis Payne was the gifted guitarist who once kept a troubled small-town girl grounded, until she broke his heart. When he comes back needing her help, their off-limits past returns with all its old damage.
The Consequence
by Ashley Jade
2024
The second half of Memphis and Skylar's story deals with the fallout from every choice they made. With the world convinced she belongs to someone else, love stops being a dream and becomes a fight.
Where should I start?
If you want one big emotional standalone: The Words
If you want dark academy drama: Cruel Prince → Ruthless Knight → Wicked Princess → Broken Kingdom
If you want a twistier dark romance duet: The Devil → The Devil's Advocate
If you want messy, interconnected relationship drama: Complicated Hearts 1 → Complicated Hearts 2 → Fold → Bluff → All In
If you want star-crossed, music-heavy angst: The Choice → The Consequence
Author bio
Ashley Jade is an American romance author who writes across new adult, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, erotica, and darker corners of the genre. She has reached major bestseller lists, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. What stands out in her books, though, is less the label and more the feeling. She likes complicated people, bad decisions, and love stories that have to earn their way forward.
She grew up in the United States reading constantly and filling journals with her own stories. Writing was there early. So was the urge to push at edges and see how far a romance could go without losing the heart underneath it.
Then a strange dream nudged her into publishing.
That leap turned into the start of a career that began in 2016 and quickly grew into a long list of interconnected standalones, duets, and series. Early books like Blame It on the Pain and the Blame It on the Shame story line established her taste for intense emotion, dark turns, and characters carrying more damage than they first admit. She has also spoken about loving the freedom that comes with indie publishing, especially when a story wants to go somewhere a little darker or stranger than expected.
Readers who come to Ashley Jade for the first time often start with The Words, a rock star romance built around mistakes, forgiveness, and second chances. Others head straight for Cruel Prince and Ruthless Knight for the feverish drama of Royal Hearts Academy, or pick up Hate Me for a more volatile, taboo-leaning setup. Books like The Devil's Advocate and The Choice show another side of her catalogue, moodier, riskier, and full of people making choices that leave marks.
Her characters are rarely tidy, and that is the point.
Across her work, the same interests keep coming back in new forms. She writes about shame, grief, class, secrets, obsession, family damage, and the strange pull between love and self-protection. Music shows up a lot. So do elite schools, broken reputations, dangerous families, and people who have been badly misunderstood. Even when the setup is heightened, the emotional core usually comes from the same place: two flawed people trying to decide whether they can trust each other, and themselves, enough to stay.
She also brings a little personality to her public bio. She has described herself as a die-hard lover of oxford commas, music, coffee, and anything thought provoking, except math. She has said writing feels close to breathing, the thing that makes her feel most like herself. For a long stretch, she was open about balancing fiction with regular work and the less glamorous reality of paying bills and student loan debt while building a readership book by book.
These days, that mix of intensity and candor still feels like her lane. When she is not working or writing, she has said she is usually listening to music, spending time online with readers, and thinking about life a little harder than most people probably need to.
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