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Hades Hangmen Books in Order

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See the Hades Hangmen series by Tillie Cole in order, with dark biker-romance summaries, series background, trigger notes, and simple guidance on reading order.

Last updated: December 23, 2025

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10 books

1

My Maddie

by Tillie Cole

2020

Flame and Maddie finally have the quiet life they once thought impossible, but peace does not erase their childhood nightmares. When a new enemy targets the Hangmen and old memories resurface, Flame spirals toward madness, and Maddie must fight to pull her husband back and prove they deserve their future.

2

Darkness Embraced

by Tillie Cole

2019

Tanner Ayers was raised to inherit his father’s Ku Klux Klan empire, taught that violence and hate were holy work. Adelita Quintana is the daughter of a powerful Mexican cartel boss. Their mutual loathing sparks into forbidden desire, forcing Tanner to walk away from everything he was bred to be.

3

Crux Untamed

by Tillie Cole

2018

Ky’s sister Sia has built a quiet life on her Texas ranch, far from the cartel violence that once nearly destroyed her. When old enemies resurface, she is forced back under the Hangmen’s protection and into a complicated, healing relationship with Cajun brothers Hush and Cowboy, whose own scars run just as deep.

4

Beauty Found

by Tillie Cole

2018

Shane “Tank” Rutherford runs from his abusive father straight into the arms of the Texas Klan, then spends years imprisoned for their cause. Newly released and disillusioned, he picks up runaway beauty queen Susan-Lee on the side of the road, and together two broken drifters slowly build a life and love of their own.

5

I Do, Babe

by Tillie Cole

2017

This novella revisits Styx and Mae as their long-awaited wedding approaches. Styx would burn the world for his wife, yet he still struggles to say the words she deserves to hear, and both must face lingering insecurities before they can step fully into their hard-won happiness.

6

Damnable Grace

by Tillie Cole

2017

Once the head seductress of the New Zion cult, Phebe is trafficked to a violent gang leader and starved of hope. Xavier “AK” Deyes, the Hangmen’s sniper, infiltrates her hell to pull her out, but saving her forces him to confront his own buried guilt and addiction.

7

Deep Redemption

by Tillie Cole

2016

After betraying the Hades Hangmen in the name of his twisted faith, Prophet Cain now finds himself imprisoned by the very cult he once served. Sharing a cell block with a captive woman who sees the man beneath the title, he must decide whether he will cling to doctrine or fight for redemption.

8

Souls Unfractured

by Tillie Cole

2015

Maddie has survived years of abuse at the hands of a cult leader, convinced she is cursed. Flame, the Hangmen’s most volatile member, believes his touch harms everyone he loves. Their fragile friendship slowly becomes a love story as they test whether two deeply traumatised people can ever feel whole together.

9

It Ain't Me, Babe

by Tillie Cole

2014

Raised inside an isolated religious commune, Salome has been taught that the outside world is deadly sin. When she escapes and collapses on the land of the Hades Hangmen motorcycle club, president River “Styx” Nash recognises her from a single childhood meeting and risks everything to protect her.

10

Heart Recaptured

by Tillie Cole

2014

Ky, vice president of the Hades Hangmen, has always taken what he wants without apology. Delilah, once a prized “cursed” beauty inside the cult, only knows shame and fear. When the club rescues her, Ky’s rough patience and fierce loyalty challenge everything she believes about herself and about sin.

Series background & context

The Hades Hangmen books sit at the extreme end of dark contemporary romance. The series follows an outlaw motorcycle club in the American South whose brutal world collides with women raised inside an apocalyptic religious cult, and it never shies away from violence, trauma, or faith gone wrong.

It all begins in It Ain't Me, Babe, when Salome, a young woman who has been taught since childhood that the outside world is evil, runs from her commune and literally falls into the path of River “Styx” Nash, the club’s young president. Years earlier they met through a chain-link fence, and that childhood moment becomes the seed of an obsessive, adult connection neither of them understands.

Later novels widen the focus to Styx’s brothers in the club. Heart Recaptured pairs vice president Ky with Lilah, another so-called “cursed” woman whose beauty was weaponised against her inside the cult. Souls Unfractured brings together Flame, the club’s most volatile member, and Maddie, a survivor who slowly shows him that his touch is not the poison he was raised to believe. Deep Redemption, Damnable Grace, Crux Untamed, Beauty Found, Darkness Embraced and My Maddie keep circling the same core family, giving damaged bikers, ex-soldiers and former cult members room to fall in love.

Across the series, the club’s wars with the cult and with violent white supremacist groups keep the stakes high. There are forced confinements, torture, trafficking rings, and long, painful journeys toward recovery. The books are packed with inked, battle-scarred men, women learning to claim their own bodies and desires, and a found family that is as ruthless toward its enemies as it is protective of its own.

Because the emotional arcs and external conflicts build on one another, the Hades Hangmen novels work best in publication order, starting with It Ain't Me, Babe and then moving through the numbered books and novellas. The shorter pieces, like I Do, Babe and Beauty Found, act as bridges and bonus epilogues for couples whose main stories are told elsewhere.

If you are looking for gentle or low-angst romance, this probably is not the place to start, but for readers who want unapologetically dark, high-stakes love stories, the Hangmen world is its own intense universe.

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