Jaye Wells Books in Order
Explore Jaye Wells books in order, with series guides, short summaries, and simple advice on where to start with Sabina Kane, Prospero's War, and more.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
20 books
Red-Headed Stepchild
by Jaye Wells
2009
Sabina Kane is a mixed-blood assassin in a world that distrusts her on sight. When a new job threatens the fragile peace between vampires and mages, she has to decide where her loyalty really belongs.
The Mage in Black
by Jaye Wells
2010
Sabina arrives in New York to meet the mage side of her family and immediately lands in trouble. Mage politics, old enemies, and the Black Light District force her to question everything she was taught to hate.
Green-Eyed Demon
by Jaye Wells
2011
Sabina races to New Orleans after her sister is taken and the dark races inch toward war. With Adam and Giguhl beside her, she faces werewolves, vampires, and the ghosts of her own past.
Violet Tendencies
by Jaye Wells
2011
Sabina heads to Los Angeles to find her kidnapped sister with Adam, Giguhl, and a Vanity demon named Valva in tow. Lying low is the plan. Predictably, that plan does not last long.
Blue-Blooded Vamp
by Jaye Wells
2012
Sabina Kane goes to Italy hunting Cain, the father of the vampire race, and the answers that might finally stop him. Instead she finds old secrets, dangerous allies, and an enemy obsession that reaches far back into dark history.
Silver-Tongued Devil
by Jaye Wells
2012
Peace between vampires and mages is finally within reach, then a string of brutal murders threatens to wreck it. Sabina Kane dives into the case and starts finding reasons not to trust anyone around her.
Meridian Six
by Jaye Wells
2013
In a future ruled by vampires, Carmina Sargosa, known as Meridian Six, escapes the captors who used her as both blood slave and symbol. Freedom is not simple when the rebels think she may be just as dangerous as the Troika.
Rusted Veins
by Jaye Wells
2013
Halloween in New Orleans turns ugly when Brooks asks Sabina Kane to find a missing mage. The case is even messier because the woman is one of Adam Lazarus's old flames, and her disappearance could upset a hard-won peace.
The Art of Loving a Vampire
by Jaye Wells
2013
Museum curator Sydney Worth never expects the handsome man from her favorite painting to walk into her museum. Logan Murdoch needs her help, but hiding his family's vampire secret may be harder than resisting their very obvious attraction.
The Taming of the Vamp
by Jaye Wells
2013
After one rebellion too many, Raven Coracino is ordered to learn vampire etiquette or face exile. Her crash course comes from Callum Murdoch, a proper vampire who annoys her almost as much as he attracts her.
Cursed Moon
by Jaye Wells
2014
A rare Blue Moon throws Babylon's magic badly out of balance just as a rogue wizard steals dangerous potions. Kate Prospero has to stop a possible dirty magic bomb while keeping her own secrets from blowing up first.
Dirty Magic
by Jaye Wells
2014
Kate Prospero knows dirty magic from both sides of the law. When a deadly new blend hits the streets, she pushes for a place on the Magical Enforcement Agency, only to learn the case leads straight back to the life she fled.
Fool's Gold
by Jaye Wells
2014
In the 1970s, a young Sabina Kane gets paired with Slade Corbin on a job that could prove her worth as an assassin. To stop a blackmailer from exposing vampires, they have to work together without killing each other first.
Deadly Spells
by Jaye Wells
2015
A murdered coven leader drags Kate Prospero and the Magical Enforcement Agency into a volatile case with citywide consequences. As a reporter digs into Kate's past and the covens edge toward war, the investigation turns personal fast.
Fire Water
by Jaye Wells
2015
Before she joins the Babylon police for real, rookie Kate Prospero has one last training assignment on river patrol. Then a routine shift turns into a brush with a floating dirty magic lab and very real danger.
The Uncanny Collection
by Jaye Wells
2015
This short story collection moves from werewolf horror to New Orleans ghosts to a journalist digging into an old church murder. It is a compact showcase for Wells at her darkest and weirdest.
Children of Ash
by Jaye Wells
2016
Months after striking back at the vampires, Meridian Six and her rebels take on a rescue mission at one of the Troika's worst labor camps. Getting in may be possible. Getting the captured children out is another matter.
The Chosen Ones
by Jaye Wells
2017
This collection gathers three Sabina Kane stories, Violet Tendencies, Rusted Veins, and Fool's Gold, plus the Prospero's War prequel Fire Water. It is a handy way to read Sabina between the main novels.
Volatile Bonds
by Jaye Wells
2017
When a dirty magic lab explodes, Kate Prospero and Drew Morales find a murder hidden in the wreckage. Their hunt for the killer leads into new coven alliances and puts fresh strain on their already complicated partnership.
High Lonesome Sound
by Jaye Wells
2018
In Moon Hollow, Virginia, Decoration Day brings fresh graves, a stranger in town, and a mountain full of warnings. As old secrets rise, the dead refuse to stay buried and the whole town feels the strain.
Where should I start?
For her signature urban fantasy: Red-Headed Stepchild → The Mage in Black → Green-Eyed Demon
For gritty magical crime stories: Dirty Magic → Cursed Moon → Deadly Spells → Volatile Bonds
For darker dystopian vampires: Meridian Six → Children of Ash
For a Southern Gothic standalone: High Lonesome Sound
Author bio
Jaye Wells grew up in Texas in a family where books were always close at hand. She has said that her mother and her grandmother were booksellers, so reading was never treated like homework. It was just part of everyday life, along with a big imagination, a love of wordplay, and a taste for the strange.
Books were in the air early.
Even so, Wells did not spend her childhood confidently declaring that she would be a novelist. She wrote when she was young, but the work felt hard, and she took that as a sign that maybe writing was for other people. Instead, she moved into factual writing and worked as a magazine editor and freelance writer, a job that let her use words without fully stepping into fiction.
The turn came when she was around thirty. She signed up for a writing class at a local community college, heard a teacher say that writing is hard for everyone, and something clicked. What had felt like private failure suddenly looked like part of the process, and Wells was hooked.
She brought a strong academic background to that second start. Wells earned a B.A. in art history, with a minor in history, from Southern Methodist University. Later, after she had already built a publishing career, she completed an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. That fits the way she talks about craft, always learning, always stretching. Her publishing breakthrough came with Red-Headed Stepchild, after three completed manuscripts and several years of work.
That mix of persistence and curiosity became a signature.
Readers first got to know her through the Sabina Kane books, including Red-Headed Stepchild, The Mage in Black, Green-Eyed Demon, and Blue-Blooded Vamp. Those novels follow a half-vampire, half-mage assassin who is powerful, sharp-tongued, and never comfortably at home in any camp. People tend to like the series for its mix of supernatural politics, dark stakes, and humor that lands at just the right moment.
Wells followed that with the Prospero's War novels, starting with Dirty Magic, which shifts into a grittier police procedural mode. Kate Prospero is a cop with deep ties to the magical underworld, and the books use that setup to explore crime, addiction, power, and loyalty. Wells also moved into darker dystopian territory with Meridian Six, and then into Southern Gothic horror with High Lonesome Sound, a sign that she is comfortable pushing past the borders of one narrow shelf label.
Across those books, certain patterns keep showing up. Wells likes outsiders, women with complicated pasts, families that wound as often as they protect, and worlds where the official story is usually a lie. She also seems drawn to stories where humor and dread have to share the same room, which helps explain why a demon sidekick can fit so naturally beside darker material.
Now she balances writing with teaching and mentoring. She is a lecturer in Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction MFA program, leads workshops, and speaks regularly about craft and the writing life. She lives in Texas, and her current bio says that when she is not writing or teaching, she likes to travel, cook, and do things that scare her so she can write about them later.
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