Giana Darling Books in Order
Browse Giana Darling books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start with her dark, angsty, high-heat romances.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
The Affair
by Giana Darling
2016
Before starting over in New York, young artist Giselle Moore agrees to one reckless week in Cabo with the older, enigmatic Sinclair. It feels like a self-contained escape, until she realizes desire can follow her home.
The Secret
by Giana Darling
2016
Giselle tries to rebuild her life in New York, reunite with family, and focus on her art, but Sinclair appears where she least expects him. Suddenly their private affair could hurt the people she loves most.
Lessons in Corruption
by Giana Darling
2017
Cressida Irons is trying to put her life back together when she falls for King Kyle Garro, her eighteen-year-old student and the heir to a criminal biker club. Their taboo romance is tender, reckless, and far more dangerous than either of them can afford.
The Consequence
by Giana Darling
2017
Giselle and Sinclair try to imagine a future together in Paris, but tragedy drags them back into family judgment and old wounds. The final book asks whether forbidden love can survive what it has broken.
Good Gone Bad
by Giana Darling
2018
After killing a man, Harleigh Rose does not call her biker family. She calls Lionel Danner, the cop who once vanished from her life, and one violent night throws them back together on opposite sides of an old war.
Welcome to the Dark Side
by Giana Darling
2018
Lou was a rule-following good girl until cancer made her question what she wanted from life. When Zeus Garro, the much older biker who once saved her, offers to show her the dark side, she says yes and there is no easy way back.
Enamoured
by Giana Darling
2019
On the day she is meant to marry, Cosima stands at the edge of escape and ruin. Alexander comes for her anyway, forcing both of them back into a brutal fight for freedom, survival, and the love they cannot kill.
Enthralled
by Giana Darling
2019
On her eighteenth birthday, Cosima Lombardi is sold to Alexander Davenport, a British earl with terrifying plans for her. What begins as captivity becomes a dark, obsessive bond shaped by power, danger, and secrets.
Sloth
by Giana Darling
2019
Rush Dempsey moves through privilege with apparent indifference, until rot inside St. Augustine gives him a reason to care. His revenge plan pulls him toward sheltered Isabelle Savoie and into a secret-society game that is darker than it first looks.
After the Fall
by Giana Darling
2020
King has tried to build a cleaner future with Cressida, but devastating loss drags him back toward the outlaw life he thought he could outrun. It is a bruising, emotional continuation of one of the series' central love stories.
Dead Man Walking
by Giana Darling
2020
A young woman becomes dangerously drawn to Priest McKenna, the cold Irish enforcer for the Fallen MC. When a serial killer starts targeting women in town, Priest's darkness turns into her only real protection.
Fallen Son
by Giana Darling
2020
This Christmas novella drops in between larger Fallen Men books and finds Zeus and Lou enjoying hard-won happiness, until a discovery in the woods changes their family overnight. It is a brief, emotional side story with real heart.
Inked in Lies
by Giana Darling
2020
Lila cannot forget the older man next door, even after trying to move on. When the Fallen MC needs help, she offers more than she should, and Nova has to decide how much he is willing to risk to save her.
King of Iron Hearts
by Giana Darling
2020
This poetry collection follows King Kyle Garro through youth, longing, love, and loss. It can be read alone, but it carries extra weight if you already know his Fallen Men story.
Bad Dream
by Giana Darling
2021
This short prequel introduces Bianca as she struggles to keep her little family afloat, and Tiernan Morelli as the powerful stranger who changes everything. It lays the emotional groundwork for the Dark Dream duet.
Beautiful Nightmare
by Giana Darling
2021
Bianca has finally reached the glittering world she was pushed toward, but safety there proves fragile and full of lies. As Tiernan closes in again, love and revenge become impossible to untangle.
Dangerous Temptation
by Giana Darling
2021
After her mother's death, Bianca Belcante learns the dangerous Tiernan Morelli is now her guardian. What looks like salvation quickly turns into a revenge plot, and Bianca finds herself trapped between protecting her family and resisting the man who wants to own every part of her life.
Fallen King
by Giana Darling
2021
Set after a devastating loss, this Fallen Men novella finds the club grieving when an impossible visitor appears at Zeus's cabin and reopens old wounds. It is a short, emotional bridge between major books in the series.
When Heroes Fall
by Giana Darling
2021
Elena Lombardi is an icy, ambitious lawyer determined to win the trial of the decade, until her client turns out to be Dante Salvatore, a dangerously magnetic mafia boss. Their battle of wills turns into a dark attraction that threatens everything she thought she wanted.
When Villains Rise
by Giana Darling
2021
With enemies closing in, Dante takes Elena to Italy and makes one ruthless choice after another to keep her safe. The second half of their story raises the stakes with marriage, mafia politics, and a love that refuses to stay under control.
Caution to the Wind
by Giana Darling
2022
Years after falling for her best friend's father, Mei is still trying to atone for the damage she caused. When Axe-Man returns and finds her tangled up with the Vancouver triad, old hatred and old desire flare at the same time.
Asking For Trouble
by Giana Darling
2024
A late-night gas station robbery throws an ordinary woman into Aaron Clare's orbit, and what looks like a random rescue quickly turns into something much more dangerous. Fast, sexy, and tied tightly to the Fallen Men world, it is trouble from page one.
Serpentine Valentine
by Giana Darling
2024
After a devastating betrayal at Acheron University, Lex Gorgon sets her sights on Luna Pallas, the sheltered daughter of the powerful woman who failed her. This dark sapphic romance mixes revenge, obsession, and a very dangerous first love.
My Dark Ever After
by Giana Darling
2025
Back in Michigan, Guinevere wants distance from Raffaele and the lies between them. But danger follows her home, and Raffaele drags her back into his world, where family ghosts, violence, and love refuse to stay buried.
My Dark Fairy Tale
by Giana Darling
2025
Guinevere defies her father to spend a summer in Italy and falls hard for the magnetic Raffaele Romano. He feels like the answer to every romantic fantasy she has ever had, until she learns he is a ruthless Camorra boss.
The Moon & His Tides
by Giana Darling
2025
An ambitious Italian chauffeur dreaming of screen stardom becomes entangled with glamorous Savannah Meyers and her famous husband, Adam. Their scandalous invitation promises everything he wants, and opens the door to a far messier kind of love.
The Sun & Her Burn
by Giana Darling
2025
Ten years after a scandalous affair changed everything, blackmail pulls old lovers back into each other's lives. A marriage-of-convenience plan involving Linnea Kai only makes the emotional stakes wilder, riskier, and more intimate.
Where should I start?
If you want outlaw biker romance first: Lessons in Corruption → Welcome to the Dark Side → After the Fall
If you want forbidden family drama: The Affair → The Secret → The Consequence
If you want dark mafia tension: When Heroes Fall → When Villains Rise → My Dark Fairy Tale
If you want sweeping, unconventional romance: The Moon & His Tides → The Sun & Her Burn
Author bio
Giana Darling is a Canadian romance novelist who grew up in British Columbia and says she has been writing nearly every day since she was eight. She now lives on an island on the west coast of British Columbia with her husband and Golden Retriever, Romeo.
She came to publishing the long way around.
Before she was known for dark romance, Darling worked in a mix of very different worlds. She food blogged, briefly owned a wholesale pie company, and spent years as a serious athlete, playing soccer, basketball, softball, field hockey, and golf. She also coached high school soccer and basketball, which helps explain the competitive streak that shows up both in her public persona and in the stubborn, sharp-edged couples she likes to write.
She has also lived widely. Darling has said she lived in Toronto and Paris before settling back in her hometown, and that she traveled all over Europe, with Italy and the French Alps leaving a especially deep mark on her. That sense of place runs straight through her fiction. Her books do not happen in blank romance-land. They move through coastal British Columbia, Cabo San Lucas, New York City, Paris, the English countryside, and Italy, and those settings usually feel like part of the emotional weather.
That helps explain why her catalog feels broad even when the emotional DNA stays recognizable. In Lessons in Corruption and Welcome to the Dark Side, she drops readers into the rough, loyal world of the Fallen MC. In The Affair, The Secret, and The Consequence, she leans into a secret, destructive love affair that stretches from Mexico to New York to Paris. When Heroes Fall brings courtroom tension and mafia power into the mix, while Enthralled pushes much darker with a captor-captive setup. More recently, The Moon & His Tides shows her stretching into glamorous, unconventional celebrity romance.
What ties those books together is not one setting or trope. It is Darling's interest in messy love, morally grey men, and women who do not fold just because the hero is bigger, richer, older, or more dangerous. She has said romance has always been the backbone of her favorite books, and that tracks. Even when the setup is taboo or high-stakes, the stories keep circling back to devotion, choice, loyalty, and whether two damaged people can build something that lasts.
She likes the grey areas.
Darling also describes herself as a geek, and that comes through too. She has spoken about loving mythology, history, comic books, classic literature, art, TV, and film. She has even joked that her favorite book boyfriend is Satan from Paradise Lost, which tells you a lot about the kind of charisma she finds interesting on the page.
These days, she is still writing the kind of romance she has said she loves most, complicated, emotional, and a little dangerous. If you come to her work for biker books, mafia romance, forbidden love, or just a lot of feelings with your steam, you will probably find a corner of her backlist that fits.
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