Emily Goodwin Books in Order
Browse Emily Goodwin books in order, with series guides, quick summaries, and easy starting points for her romance, paranormal, and horror novels.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
45 books
Contagious
by Emily Goodwin
2014
Down on her luck and newly back in Indianapolis, Orissa Penwell thinks life cannot get worse. Then a virus turns people violent and hungry, and she is forced to decide whether to save others or look only after herself.
Contagious Chaos
by Emily Goodwin
2014
With supplies running low and their compound under pressure, Orissa and the survivors are forced back into the wasteland. What they find is a human enemy so dangerous it makes the zombies look simple.
Deathly Contagious
by Emily Goodwin
2014
Survival gets even more brutal as Orissa and the others keep moving through a world overrun by the infected. Zombies are terrifying, but desperate people may be the greater threat.
Stay
by Emily Goodwin
2014
A college student looking forward to a normal summer is kidnapped after witnessing something she should not have seen. Trapped in a brutal world, she has to decide whether the man closest to her is a path out or a deeper kind of danger.
The Truth is Contagious
by Emily Goodwin
2014
Orissa and the people around her are running out of safe places and easy answers. In a world already broken by the outbreak, the hardest part may be facing what survival has cost them.
Never Say Never
by Emily Goodwin
2015
A contemporary romance about old rules, hard choices, and the fear of wanting something that could change everything. The closer these two get, the harder it is to keep pretending the answer is still no.
Outside the Lines
by Emily Goodwin
2015
A clumsy coffee-shop collision throws quirky computer expert Felicity into the path of irresistible artist Ben. What seems like a sweet accident soon forces her to question the life and limits she has built for herself.
First Comes Love
by Emily Goodwin
2016
One reckless night with her older brother's best friend leaves a woman facing a future she never planned. Noah has never looked like husband material, but nine months is a long time to rethink everything.
One of Many
by Emily Goodwin
2016
A dark, unsettling story about control, secrecy, and the danger of losing yourself inside a relationship built on power. The deeper the heroine is pulled in, the harder it becomes to tell devotion from manipulation.
Then Comes Marriage
by Emily Goodwin
2016
After catching her fiancé with another woman, a heartbroken bride decides to take the honeymoon anyway. A chance run-in with brooding detective Derek Turner turns a tropical escape into something far more complicated.
Bad Things
by Emily Goodwin
2017
Still bitter after a canceled wedding, a guarded man buries himself in work and swears off romance. A new project puts him close to a woman he cannot stop wanting, even when he knows it could blow up badly.
Battle Scars
by Emily Goodwin
2017
A woman hiding from an abusive past is not looking for another chance at love. But the more time she spends with a new man, the harder it becomes to believe healing is out of reach.
Hot Mess
by Emily Goodwin
2017
A single mom who has no time for romance ends up caught between her off-limits boss and the bartender brother who is much harder to resist. What starts messy only gets messier once feelings get involved.
One Call Away
by Emily Goodwin
2017
When drifter Chase Henson returns to Summer Hill, he finds a reason to stay in grieving bookseller Sierra Belmont. Their connection feels real, but the past Chase has outrun for years is finally catching up.
Twice Burned
by Emily Goodwin
2017
After love and a devastating fire leave him wrecked, a man moves in with his estranged brother and promises himself no drama. Then he falls for the same woman, and every rule he made for survival starts breaking.
Cheat Codes
by Emily Goodwin
2018
Archer has spent years wanting Quinn Dawson and telling himself he can never have her. One night changes everything, and the fallout forces them to face feelings they can no longer hide.
End Game
by Emily Goodwin
2018
Quinn's pregnancy should bring her and Archer closer, but distance, pressure, and ghosts from his past threaten the life they are trying to build. Loving each other is easy, keeping it all together is not.
Free Fall
by Emily Goodwin
2018
A man haunted by the woman he let go gets a second chance when Nora comes back into his life four years later. The pull between them is still strong, but so are the wounds that drove them apart.
Side Hustle
by Emily Goodwin
2018
Scarlet takes a nanny job expecting wealthy parents and lands instead in the home of brooding single dad Weston Dawson. She is hiding a past of her own, which makes falling for him a risky move.
Call of Night
by Emily Goodwin
2019
Vampire bounty hunters still want Callie, and her own coven is turning on her. While she and Lucas try to stay ahead of it all, an ancient evil beneath Chicago changes the scope of everything.
Cheap Trick
by Emily Goodwin
2019
Danielle needs a fake date for a family wedding, and Logan Dawson looks like the perfect answer. Pretending is easy at first, but the feelings between them start to feel a little too real.
Dark of Night
by Emily Goodwin
2019
The Vampire Council orders witches killed just as a dark force starts spreading through Thorne Hill. Callie is fighting for her life, her town, and the love that could destroy them both.
Dead of Night
by Emily Goodwin
2019
Callie saves a human from a vampire attack and ends up face to face with Lucas King, a man she absolutely should not trust. When witches start turning up dead, their dangerous attraction gets even more complicated.
Fight Dirty
by Emily Goodwin
2019
Charlie comes home after her engagement falls apart, only to run straight into first love and local heartbreaker Owen Dawson. He wants a second chance, and she is determined not to make the same mistake twice.
Hard Place
by Emily Goodwin
2019
Harper is a struggling single mom who cannot afford to walk away from a better job, even if it means working for cold, cocky Alexander Harding. A fake family weekend starts changing both of them faster than expected.
Hard Truth
by Emily Goodwin
2019
Harper is finally letting herself imagine a future with Alex when the father of her twins comes back into her life. The past refuses to stay buried, and her heart is suddenly being pulled in two directions.
Semester One
by Emily Goodwin
2019
After dying while stopping a soul-eating demon, Addison wakes up at a school in the afterlife that trains reapers. New friends, deadly classes, and missing students make it clear death is only the beginning.
Still of Night
by Emily Goodwin
2019
Callie is hiding more than a forbidden romance, she is hiding the truth of what she is. If that truth gets out, angels and demons alike could go to war over her.
Backup Plan
by Emily Goodwin
2020
A childhood promise to marry at thirty stops feeling like a joke when old friends meet again in Silver Ridge. Chloe wants to protect her heart, but Sam Harris has never really stopped mattering.
Curse of Night
by Emily Goodwin
2020
Callie will do whatever it takes to save Lucas, even if it means turning to help she does not trust. The closer she gets to revenge, the more dangerous her own darkness becomes.
Desperate Times
by Emily Goodwin
2020
Sam finally gets a real chance with Chloe, the woman he has loved for years, but the past still has sharp edges. Just when they begin to build something solid, a life-changing secret threatens to pull them apart.
Queen of Night
by Emily Goodwin
2020
Heaven wants Callie dead, Hell wants her on a throne, and new supernatural rivals are coming for Thorne Hill. Laying low is not an option when the town she loves is suddenly up for grabs.
Reign of Night
by Emily Goodwin
2020
Callie never meant to become Queen of Night, but Hell is falling apart without a ruler. While demons grow restless and old enemies strike, she has to decide what power she is willing to claim.
Rock Bottom
by Emily Goodwin
2020
Rory is out of luck, out of work, and trying to start over in a new town when one reckless night changes everything. Dean Dawson is just as bruised by life, which makes their chemistry hard to ignore and even harder to trust.
Heir of Night
by Emily Goodwin
2021
Callie has to break out of Hell, stop an apocalypse, and protect the family she would die for. With celestial enemies closing in, every sacrifice suddenly feels possible.
Nightfall
by Emily Goodwin
2021
Anora has spent her life seeing ghosts, but demonic bounty hunters make her realize there is far more to her story. As her memories unravel, a dangerous stranger named Ethan may be her only chance to survive.
Bitter Love
by Emily Goodwin
2022
After escaping a toxic past, a young mother inherits a struggling animal rescue and immediately clashes with a smug local veterinarian. The fight over the rescue turns personal fast, even as neither wants to give an inch.
Blood of Night
by Emily Goodwin
2022
Callie heads straight into the underworld to save Lucas and stop an apocalypse already in motion. But every bargain comes with a cost, and hiding from angels may be just as dangerous as facing Hell.
Darkside
by Emily Goodwin
2022
When Ethan is arrested for a murder Anora knows a demon committed, she will do whatever it takes to clear his name. But saving him may force her to confront just how far into darkness she is willing to go.
Midnight
by Emily Goodwin
2022
The Grim Gate story pushes Anora and Ethan into an even darker fight with demons, buried truths, and the forces trying to control them. Love, magic, and survival all get tested at once.
Moonlight
by Emily Goodwin
2022
Ethan's ties to the Order put him and Anora on opposite sides of an old rule, and missing hunters threaten to start a war. If they cannot find the real enemy, witches and hunters may tear each other apart.
Starfire
by Emily Goodwin
2022
Anora is learning magic and starting to trust Ethan when deeper secrets begin to surface. The more she uncovers about her past, the more dangerous it becomes to rely on the one person she wants most.
Twisted
by Emily Goodwin
2023
A witch raised by demon hunters is handed over to a powerful vampire family because of an old bargain. Wren wants revenge and answers, but the deeper she goes, the harder it is to know who the real enemy is.
King of Night
by Emily Goodwin
2024
Callie is pushed to her limit as vampires, angels, and demons all pull the supernatural world toward war. To stop the apocalypse, she may have to choose between the life she wants and the power no one else can wield.
Wicked
by Emily Goodwin
2026
Wren is tied even more tightly to the Malus vampires, and every new truth makes the family around her look more dangerous. Love, loyalty, and survival start pulling in different directions as old enemies close in.
Where should I start?
If you want an addictive witch and vampire series: Dead of Night → Dark of Night → Call of Night
If you want ghosts, demons, and a faster paranormal mystery: Nightfall → Starfire → Moonlight
If you want small-town contemporary romance: Cheat Codes → Side Hustle → Rock Bottom
If you want zombie horror with a strong central heroine: Contagious → Deathly Contagious → Contagious Chaos
If you want a darker, more intense read: Stay
Author bio
Emily Goodwin is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who writes romance with a restless streak. Some of her books are packed with witches, vampires, demons, and ghosts. Others stay grounded in small towns, broken hearts, and second chances. Across more than forty titles, she has moved easily between paranormal romance, contemporary romance, zombie horror, and darker, more intense love stories.
She has long been based in Indiana and the Midwest, and she has said that spooky stories got to her early. As a kid, she loved shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. That mix of danger, magic, and big feelings still runs through a lot of her work.
Writing started young.
In an early bio, she described herself as a daydreamer with an active imagination. She studied psychology, later worked on nursing studies, and has often seemed drawn to the place where emotion, trauma, and survival all meet.
One odd dream helped kickstart a big part of her career. After dreaming about zombies, she turned the idea into Contagious, the book that launched her Contagium series. She has said she spoke with medical professionals while building that world because she wanted the outbreak details to feel grounded, even inside a fast-moving apocalypse story.
She brings that same research habit to other projects, too. Before writing Stay, her dark romance about abduction and trafficking, she said she talked with FBI agents to better understand the subject. Even when the books are highly emotional or supernatural, she usually wants the pressure points to feel real.
Readers who want paranormal romance often start with Dead of Night and the Thorne Hill books, where a witch named Callie and a vampire named Lucas get pulled into a much bigger supernatural war. Others come to Goodwin through her contemporary stories, like Cheat Codes, Side Hustle, Hot Mess, and Hard Place, which lean into forbidden attraction, single parents, off-limits crushes, and messy timing.
That range is part of what keeps her bibliography interesting. One series might give you ghosts and demon hunters. The next might give you a nanny, a single dad, and a farmhouse. The common thread is pace, emotion, and characters who have to decide whether love is worth the risk.
These days she describes a life that sounds busy in the best way. She lives in the Midwest with her daughters, a horse, and plenty of other animals, and when she is not writing she likes riding, hiking, reading, traveling, making costumes, and cosplay. That combination, romance fan, horror fan, and hands-on maker, feels very much in line with the books she writes.
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