Carole Nelson Douglas Books in Order

This character-driven standalone centers on a woman determined to stand on her own feet. Family, love, and social pressure all push back as she works out what independence really costs.

Douglas follows a woman trying to shape a life that is actually her own, not one handed to her by habit or expectation. Career, love, and self-respect all come under pressure.

Irissa, the last of the Torlocs, and Kendric, a disgraced swordsman, are forced into an alliance in a world where magic is fading. Their survival may be the only hope left for the realms.

A wedding should be a happy ending, but Douglas turns it into the start of a dangerous puzzle. Romantic tension and murder collide as the characters race to learn whom they can trust.

A bold heroine is swept into a historical adventure full of disguises, divided loyalties, and constant motion. Douglas mixes romance and suspense with a refusal to let her lead play safe.

Irissa and Kendric are separated and tested in harsher ways as exile, captivity, and failing gates threaten their world. The sequel deepens the saga's sense of loss, danger, and uneasy partnership.

This standalone romantic suspense tale pairs attraction with uncertainty and danger. As secrets rise around the central relationship, trust becomes as hard to hold as quicksilver.

Jane Doe is a cloned woman created by aliens and sent to Earth with powers and hidden purpose. Psychologist Kevin Blake becomes her protector, and together they uncover just how dangerous her origins are.

Set in a world where status and access can hide ugly truths, this standalone blends ambition, attraction, and suspense. Douglas keeps asking what being on the inside is really worth.

Irissa and Kendric move deeper into the wider fate of their world as Edanvant's old powers and political dangers come into play. Douglas broadens the scope without losing the personal friction between her leads.

In 1893, Amberleigh Dunne heads to an Irish estate to help an old friend and finds a house thick with secrets and Gothic dread. To save anyone, she has to learn what is truly haunting Carnhaven.

Jane Doe and psychologist Kevin Blake are fugitives now, hunted by a government agency and threatened by the aliens who made her. Clones, manipulation, and survival turn this sequel into a tense chase.

Irissa and Kendric are drawn toward the buried power and peril of Rengarth as a dangerous wizard reaches for what was lost. The series grows larger here, but the partnership at its center still matters most.

Irissa and Kendric face one more major reckoning as age, legacy, and old powers converge around the Seven of Swords. Douglas closes this arc with high fantasy stakes and hard-earned emotion.

At the Crystal Phoenix in Las Vegas, romance and danger arrive together while Midnight Louie prowls the edges as unofficial house detective. Sabotage, attraction, and hotel intrigue set the tone for these early linked tales.

This companion volume follows more Crystal Phoenix entanglements, including cardsharp Jill O'Rourke, a famous singer, and a Kansas tourist caught up with the mysterious Solitaire. Louie keeps an eye on love and peril alike.

Douglas reimagines Irene Adler as an opera singer and detective whose adventures intersect with Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Bohemia, and Sherlock Holmes himself. Nell Huxleigh's narration gives the whole thing extra sparkle.

Minnesota journalist Allison Carver escapes to a lakeside island and instead falls into the fantasy world of Veil. There she wins the Cup of Earth and becomes the Taliswoman, whether she wants the job or not.

Reported dead, Irene Adler is very much alive in Paris and enjoying the joke until a drowned sailor and a strange tattoo pull her into a new mystery. Sarah Bernhardt and Sherlock Holmes both enter the picture.

Temple Barr chases a cat through a Las Vegas booksellers convention and stumbles over a dead publisher. With missing mascot cats, too many suspects, and Louie nosing in, Douglas launches the series in style.

A poisoned stranger collapses at Nell Huxleigh's feet and draws Irene into a plot that reaches from Paris to Baker Street. Assassin cobras, Dr. Watson, and international treachery keep the case moving fast.

Allison Carver returns to Veil and learns that taking the Cup of Earth helped bring a blight on the land. With Rowan Firemayne, she sets out on a new quest that grows darker and more complicated.

Temple lands at a striptease convention and quickly finds muscle, glamour, and murder in equal measure. As Savannah Ashleigh and the Divine Yvette are endangered, Louie leaves no rhinestone unturned.

Someone is stalking prize-winning cats at the Las Vegas cat show, and Louie is on the scent. Temple, meanwhile, starts digging into Matt Devine's past and finds blackmail, extortion, and murder waiting there.

Douglas turns to swashbuckling historical adventure here, with a spirited heroine caught up in piracy, betrayal, and danger at sea. The romance is lively, but freedom and survival matter just as much.

Hoping for peace at last, Irene instead becomes a couture model for Charles Frederick Worth and walks straight into danger. The trail leads back to Prague and the King of Bohemia she most wants to avoid.

Temple is hired to help clean up the Crystal Phoenix's image, but the hotel is under attack from saboteurs. Between ex-priests, reporters, feds, and pastel-suited mobsters, Louie has another lot to untangle.

Temple escapes to a romance writers' convention with male-model theatrics and a shoe-themed pageant, only to find murder waiting there too. Missing Cinderella shoes and a dead hunk keep Louie busy.

Temple and Louie think a cat-food commercial will give them a break from crime, but a comic actor is shot before long. Temple's search into a stalker and a possible secret daughter sends the case in darker directions.

Temple and Louie head to New York for Christmas and find murder under the tinsel. A company Santa lands in deep freeze, romance complications multiply, and Louie has to play detective and Cupid.

Temple is dragged to a Halloween seance meant to raise Houdini, and instead a famous psychic winds up murdered. Louie smells fraud, fear, and something worse in a room full of possible suspects.

A corpse rises from the Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel, and Temple realizes the victim is tied to both of her best beaux. Louie prowls through family tension, old grudges, and desert glamour.

This anthology gathers pet-centered mystery stories and lets animal eyes lead the way through crime and mischief. It is a playful extension of Douglas's long-running fascination with clever creatures.

A hotel renovation is stalled by rumors that Elvis is haunting the place, then a dead Elvis turns up and the joke stops being funny. Temple and Louie dive into impersonators, ghosts, and Vegas mythmaking.

Lieutenant Molina finds a dead woman near the Blue Dahlia, where she sings on the side, and soon another body appears. Temple and Louie are pulled into a serial case marked by the chilling words she left.

Nicky Fontana hires Van von Rhine to run the renovation of an aging Las Vegas hotel, but sabotage and danger quickly follow. Midnight Louie watches the sparks fly while someone works hard to make the project fail.

Shy writing student Darcy McGill and her buttoned-up professor are drawn into the risky world of Darcy's showgirl sister, Sirene. When a spurned suitor turns dangerous, Midnight Louie is not about to sit this one out.

While Temple and Max investigate magical murder on a university campus, Louie follows Siamese beauty Hyacinth into the giant science fiction convention TitaniCon. A killer has excellent cover in a crowd like this.

Tourist Gayle meets the mysterious Solitaire at the Crystal Phoenix and is swept into a chase through Las Vegas and the desert. Hit men, hidden motives, and Midnight Louie keep this early adventure moving.

Cardsharp Jill O'Rourke supports her desert-rat grandfather with her poker winnings, a risky way to make a living in Vegas. When singer Johnny Diamond attracts a stalker, love and danger land at the same table.

Temple needs bailing out, and another cat is in danger of being blamed for murder. Big-game hunters, animal-rights tensions, and one very strange victim make this a wild Las Vegas case.

Two courtesans are murdered in Paris, and Irene Adler is drawn into a case that echoes the Whitechapel killings. Holmes is nearby, but this grim and dangerous investigation belongs to Irene and Nell.

Irene is hunting Jack the Ripper while her husband and closest friend disappear into separate dangers. The search leads from Paris to Bohemia to a remote Transylvanian castle, where long-feared truths finally surface.

Louie goes after the Synth, a shadowy group of renegade magicians making life dangerous for Max Kinsella and everyone around him. Vegas feels especially noir here, full of tricks, menace, and divided loyalties.

Douglas edits this anthology of White House-set mysteries told from the pets' point of view. It is an inventive premise, and a good fit for readers who enjoy crime stories with animal witnesses.

A hot new Vegas club is tied to the sinister Synth, and Temple's circle is once again in danger. Louie prowls through greed, murder, and stalker trouble in one of the darker entries in the series.

An alarming message from Nellie Bly pulls Irene back toward the American past she has tried to hide. With her mother under threat and murders mounting, Irene must face the most dangerous mystery of all, herself.

A shorter Midnight Louie caper, this one sends the feline investigator after a mystery that is, in every sense, suspiciously fishy. It is a quick taste of Louie's wit and prowling style.

Temple thinks life has briefly calmed down, then a feng shui celebrity and a deadly decorating world prove otherwise. Louie and Midnight Louise work the case while old enemies and old suspicions close back in.

Irene Adler is drawn back to America, where Nellie Bly and Sherlock Holmes help her chase the truth of her own birth. The trail runs through murder, politics, lost treasure, and the long shadow of the gold rush.

Temple goes undercover in a teen beauty and reality-show world, complete with sabotage, celebrity judges, and a punk makeover. The assignment turns deadly when a killer starts targeting young women.

Temple is promoting an exhibition of Russian imperial treasures when murder hits the opening. Art thieves, political enemies, and a perilous aerial act give Louie one more ornate mess to untangle.

A Red Hat convention hits Las Vegas, and Temple's landlady Electra ends up accused of murder. Temple goes undercover among the hats and boas while Louie and Midnight Louise nose through the chaos.

Thirteen years after the world learned supernaturals are real, reporter Delilah Street arrives in a Las Vegas run by a werewolf mob. Between Ric Montoya, Quicksilver, and the gates of Hell, she is thrown in fast.

Delilah's search into two long-buried skeletons leads to vampires, celebrity zombies, a dangerous albino rocker, and evil under the desert. Vegas is crawling with supernaturals, but this case digs far deeper.

Temple's aunt Kit is heading for a lavish Vegas wedding, but the bachelor party is hijacked to a remote desert ranch. When a dead woman turns up, only Louie may be able to get the humans home alive.

Matt Devine joins a televised Las Vegas dance charity event, but someone is stalking the contestants. As Temple worries over Matt and young Mariah Molina, Louie works the edges of a very public danger.

Ric is fighting for his life, an ancient undead empire is closing in, and Delilah may need help from a chained death god. Vegas has never felt more apocalyptic, or more personal.

Temple's latest job is launching a Las Vegas mob museum-casino, a risky idea even before a buried safe yields a body in white tie and tails. Louie and the Vegas cat pack have plenty of suspicious humans to watch.

Delilah retreats to her Kansas birthplace with Ric and Quicksilver, only to find zombie cowboys, witches, mirror terrors, and a woman named Lilith who looks disturbingly familiar. Home is no safer than Vegas.

Douglas gives Dickens a modern financial makeover in this holiday novella. A hard-driving Wall Street life is interrupted by ghostly reckoning, sharp humor, and the chance, maybe, for a better ending.

Temple agrees to investigate the suspicious death of a handyman connected to Savannah Ashleigh's rich aunt. With greedy heirs circling and cats in the line of fire, Louie sees that the trouble is only beginning.

A darkly comic holiday fantasy, this novella twists familiar Christmas material into something stranger and sharper. Douglas has fun with greed, ghosts, and the possibility of redemption.

Delilah faces a dangerous robot simulacrum modeled after *Metropolis*'s Maria, and the machine has fixed on Ric Montoya. To stop a demonic scheme, Delilah may have to work with her own dark mirror-twin, Lilith.

Co-written with Diane Castle, this short mystery drops Alice into a game of bluffing, nerves, and shifting power. She may look outnumbered, but she is the one most likely to read the room right.

Temple travels to Chicago with fiance Matt Devine and quickly finds his family history is full of trouble. When Louie is catnapped and Max is pulled toward an old murder, several long-running threads tighten at once.

This shorter Midnight Louie outing gives Temple Barr and the feline sleuth an Egyptian-flavored mystery with danger lurking beneath the surface. Douglas keeps the pace brisk and the mood nicely spooky.

This slim collection gathers three noir-tinged tales featuring Delilah Street, Midnight Louie, and a Poe-inspired past-life adventure. It is a neat sampler of Douglas at her most playful and strange.

In post-Ripper London, Irene Adler joins forces with Sherlock Holmes to stop a blackmail scheme built around a new gramophone. The case runs from Baker Street to a high-society brothel, and Irene stays firmly in command.

A Las Vegas UFO attraction draws Temple Barr, Midnight Louie, and their circle into dead bodies, conspiracy talk, and unfinished business from the past. The aliens may be fake, but the danger around the project is very real.

Delilah Street is hired to clear a haunted hotel-casino overrun by old movie monsters and family bitterness. It is a shorter, bittersweet case that lets Douglas play with Hollywood horror and Las Vegas supernatural mayhem.

A holiday historical with a wounded rake, a hint of grace, and the chance of a better life. Romance and Christmas danger arrive together, along with the possibility of real change.

A reunion show by the oldies band Black and White stirs up rivalry, buried damage, and fresh danger at the Crystal Phoenix. Temple and Louie have to sort out which backstage grudges are headed toward murder.

Temple Barr and Midnight Louie try to clear their beloved landlady after she is tied to a bizarre murder with roots in old Vegas. At the same time, Irish secrets and dangerous choices close in on the wider cast.

The last main Midnight Louie novel sends Temple Barr, Matt Devine, Max Kinsella, and Louie into a sprawling Las Vegas conspiracy. Murder, terrorism, federal pressure, and life-changing decisions make this a true endgame.

Midnight Louie is back, and this time he teams up with Delilah Street in a crossover mystery set in Douglas's slightly surreal Vegas. Old friends, new allies, and a very fresh case put humans, cats, and dogs on the same dangerous trail.