Molly Harper Books in Order
See Molly Harper books in order, from Half-Moon Hollow to her mysteries, with series background, short summaries, and clear where-to-start help.
Last updated: July 1, 2026
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Publication Order
61 books
Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
by Molly Harper
2009
New vampire Jane Jameson is trying to figure out her maddening relationship with Gabriel while helping with her best friend's wedding. A suspicious new fiancé in her grandmother's life makes everything even messier.
Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
by Molly Harper
2009
After losing her library job, Jane Jameson gets mistaken for a deer, shot, and turned into a vampire. Adjusting to undeath would be hard enough, but someone in Half-Moon Hollow also seems determined to frame her for murder.
Nice Girls Don't Live Forever
by Molly Harper
2009
Jane's romantic getaway goes sideways when Gabriel's secrets and strange notes leave her wondering if she has been dumped without warning. Back home in Half-Moon Hollow, heartbreak turns dangerous fast.
And One Last Thing ...
by Molly Harper
2010
Lacey Terwilliger publicly exposes her husband's affair in a company newsletter and blows up her own life in the process. Suddenly she's a small-town scandal, facing a lawsuit and trying to build a future from the wreckage.
How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
by Molly Harper
2011
Mo Wenstein flees to Alaska for a clean start and finds a naked man with a bear trap on her porch. He is her infuriating neighbor Cooper, and he may or may not be the werewolf behind a string of attacks.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
by Molly Harper
2011
Pack alpha Maggie Graham is supposed to scare off an outsider poking around werewolf territory near Grundy, Alaska. That plan gets complicated when the snooping researcher turns out to be smart, stubborn, and very kissable.
A Witch's Handbook of Kisses and Curses
by Molly Harper
2012
Irish witch Nola Leary comes to Half-Moon Hollow chasing family magic and four hidden artifacts. Her quest would be easier if her handsome, half-dressed neighbor Jed Trudeau were not such an irresistible distraction.
Driving Mr. Dead
by Molly Harper
2012
Miranda Puckett takes a job driving a fussy vampire across the country and quickly learns that Collin Sutherland is not an easy passenger. Road trip disasters, sharp banter, and mutual attraction make the miles fly by.
My Bluegrass Baby
by Molly Harper
2012
Sadie Hutchins loves promoting Kentucky's quirkiest attractions and expects to land a top tourism job. Then polished newcomer Josh Vaughn becomes her competition, and their winner-takes-all rivalry starts looking a lot like chemistry.
Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors
by Molly Harper
2012
Jane's unlife is finally settling down, right up until she accidentally turns a dying teenage acquaintance into a vampire. Now she has wedding plans, council trouble, and a newborn vamp who comes with a lot of responsibility.
The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires
by Molly Harper
2012
Iris Scanlon makes a living running daytime errands for vampires, which means she knows better than to trust one. Then a wounded ancient vampire drags her into a dangerous mystery, and their forced partnership starts getting very personal.
Undead Sublet
by Molly Harper
2012
Chicago chef Tess rents a quiet house in Half-Moon Hollow because she badly needs a break. Finding a gorgeous vampire already in residence turns rest and relaxation into an accidental-roommates disaster.
How to Run with a Naked Werewolf
by Molly Harper
2013
Anna Moder witnesses a shooting, loses her car, and rescues a wounded stranger who turns out to be a werewolf. Traveling with Caleb Graham might help her survive, but she is not sure she can trust him or his work.
I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas
by Molly Harper
2013
Gigi Scanlon heads home for her first Christmas since her sister joined the undead, hoping for a normal holiday. Between vampire relatives and one unforgettable kiss, normal is not really on the menu.
Rhythm and Bluegrass
by Molly Harper
2013
Bonnie Turkle wants to restore an old Kentucky music hall and preserve a piece of local history. Instead she walks into a town divided over jobs, progress, and what the future should look like.
Better Homes and Hauntings
by Molly Harper
2014
Landscaper Nina Linden takes a job on a private island to save her struggling business and ends up at a crumbling haunted estate. The owner is appealing, the house is not welcoming, and the ghosts have opinions.
Burned
by Molly Harper
2014
Another Facile Restaurant pairing hits the heat fast as service, stress, and attraction collide. This short installment keeps the focus tight on one charged connection during a very busy night.
Poached
by Molly Harper
2014
This Facile Restaurant short serves up another fast, flirty romance set in the middle of restaurant chaos. The appeal is the same sharp format: one couple, one shift, and very little room to hide feelings.
Seared
by Molly Harper
2014
The first Facile Restaurant story drops readers into a hectic night where workplace tension turns personal. It is quick, steamy, and built around one couple trying not to let attraction derail the shift.
Snow Falling on Bluegrass
by Molly Harper
2014
Kelsey has the office winter retreat planned down to the minute, until a brutal snowstorm traps everyone at a lodge. With power problems, coworkers everywhere, and romance heating up, control gets a lot harder to keep.
Boiled
by Molly Harper
2015
A new couple takes center stage as the Facile Restaurant series keeps moving through one crowded, emotional night. It is brief, spicy, and driven by the pressure cooker atmosphere of the job.
Fangs for the Memories
by Molly Harper
2015
Before they became one of Half-Moon Hollow's favorite couples, Dick Cheney and Andrea were just two people circling each other at a werewolf wedding. This novella goes back to the start of their romance.
From Russia With Claws
by Molly Harper
2015
This short Jacey Conrad paranormal romance moves fast, mixing attraction, trouble, and a playful wink at spy-movie energy. It is a compact read built more on chemistry and momentum than a sprawling setup.
From Russia With Fangs
by Molly Harper
2015
The second From Russia story keeps the tone light and bitey, with supernatural complications arriving quickly. Expect another brisk, playful paranormal romance that does not overstay its welcome.
Grilled
by Molly Harper
2015
This installment returns to Facile for another short, steamy workplace romance. The restaurant is still in full chaos, and one more couple has to sort out chemistry before the night is over.
Sauced
by Molly Harper
2015
Another couple gets their turn under the bright lights and high stress of Facile Restaurant. The story moves quickly, leaning on banter, attraction, and the kind of trouble that can flare up in one shift.
Served
by Molly Harper
2015
The final Facile story circles back to the couples from earlier installments as their night winds down. It works like a last check-in, giving the series a warmer, more complete sendoff.
Sizzled
by Molly Harper
2015
This short entry keeps the Facile formula working: fast setup, one featured couple, and plenty of pressure from the restaurant floor. It is a brisk, steamy snapshot rather than a drawn-out romance.
Steamed
by Molly Harper
2015
Lee Broussard arrives at Facile on the worst possible errand and catches his girlfriend cheating. Sharp-tongued hostess Abby DuLane drags him into damage control, and the rescue gets surprisingly hot.
The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire
by Molly Harper
2015
Gigi is grown up, working at vampire headquarters, and trying to move past her first big heartbreak. Falling for a sexy, complicated vampire might be exactly what she wants, or a terrible idea.
The Single Undead Moms Club
by Molly Harper
2015
Libby Stratton chose vampirism after a cancer diagnosis because she refused to leave her young son behind. Now she has to navigate PTA life, custody trouble, and an afterlife that is not nearly as simple as promised.
Whipped
by Molly Harper
2015
Facile's long night keeps rolling with another compact romance built on tension, timing, and temptation. Like the rest of the series, it is designed as a quick hit of heat with just enough chaos.
Big Vamp on Campus
by Molly Harper
2016
Four-hundred-year-old vampire princess Ophelia Lambert heads to college and discovers that dorm life is its own special nightmare. Between humans, politics, and a truly awful roommate, campus becomes an unexpected test.
Where the Wild Things Bite
by Molly Harper
2016
Archivist Anna Whitfield is supposed to deliver a rare book to Jane Jameson, not survive a midair theft and a plane crash. Stranded in the woods with vampire Finn Palmeroy, she has bigger problems than attraction.
Accidental Sire
by Molly Harper
2017
Ben is just trying to save the woman he loves after a freak accident turns fatal. Turning her into a vampire keeps her alive, but living with that choice may be a whole different challenge.
Save a Truck, Ride a Redneck
by Molly Harper
2017
This Southern Eclectic prequel goes back to the relationship that helped build the McCready family story. It is a quick, funny look at love in Lake Sackett before the main series timeline begins.
Sweet Tea and Sympathy
by Molly Harper
2017
Big-city event planner Margot Cary lands in Lake Sackett, Georgia, and discovers a whole new branch of her family at a funeral home and bait shop. The town's handsome school principal makes staying even harder to resist.
Ain't She a Peach?
by Molly Harper
2018
Frankie McCready is a goth county coroner who fits her unusual family a lot better than the rest of Lake Sackett. Between work, family pressure, and Sheriff Eric Linden, her life refuses to stay uncomplicated.
Changeling
by Molly Harper
2018
A 14-year-old outsider arrives at an elite school for magical young ladies under the name Cassandra Reed. If anyone learns who she really is, the careful life built around her could come crashing down.
How to Date Your Dragon
by Molly Harper
2018
Anthropologist Jillian Ramsay comes to a hidden Louisiana town to study how humans and supernatural creatures live together. Getting too curious about sheriff Bael Boone may uncover more than just local folklore.
Love and Other Wild Things
by Molly Harper
2018
Energy witch Danica Teel arrives in Mystic Bayou to investigate dangerous magical trouble near the rift. Working with bear-shifter mayor Zed Berend is complicated enough before something ominous starts stalking her.
Peachy Flippin' Keen
by Molly Harper
2018
A nasty prank war breaks out at the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop, and county coroner Frankie McCready is already stretched thin. The new sheriff is gorgeous, aggravating, and suddenly unavoidable.
A Few Pecans Short of a Pie
by Molly Harper
2019
Kyle Archer has one major goal: get his pregnant girlfriend Margot down the aisle before the baby arrives. Margot agrees in theory, but she also wants the wedding to go exactly right.
Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues
by Molly Harper
2019
Tree nymph Ingrid Asher wants nothing more than a quiet life and a peaceful ice cream shop in Mystic Bayou. Her handsome new neighbor keeps getting under her skin, and her past refuses to stay buried.
Fledgling
by Molly Harper
2019
Cassandra's first year at magic school is nearly over, but fitting in is only getting harder. As the world around her grows more dangerous, secrets about power and class become impossible to ignore.
Gimme Some Sugar
by Molly Harper
2019
Lake Sackett gets one more warm, messy Southern Eclectic romance, complete with family interference, small-town gossip, and old baggage that will not stay packed away. The McCreadys are in everybody's business, as usual.
Peace, Blood, and Understanding
by Molly Harper
2019
Meadow Schwartz is juggling council work and her own herbal shop when a slick vampire consultant rolls into Half-Moon Hollow. Their clashing personalities matter less once sabotage starts threatening the whole operation.
Always Be My Banshee
by Molly Harper
2020
Touch psychic Cordelia Canton comes to Mystic Bayou to investigate a mysterious artifact pulled from the rift. Working beside brooding male banshee Brendan O'Connor makes an already dangerous assignment much more distracting.
Nice Werewolves Don't Bite Vampires
by Molly Harper
2020
Tylene McClaine is tired of her werewolf pack running every detail of her life. Falling for vampire music teacher Alex Bonfils is risky enough before a vandal starts targeting local vampire businesses.
Selkies Are a Girl’s Best Friend
by Molly Harper
2020
Sonja Fong keeps Mystic Bayou's research center running, which gets harder when the magical rift starts unraveling. Fixing it means teaming up with returning shifter doctor Will Carmody, and the sparks are immediate.
One Fine Fae
by Molly Harper
2021
Fairy midwife Charlotte McBee comes to Mystic Bayou to help deliver a dragon-phoenix egg, which is already a stressful assignment. Then she meets Leonard, a charming local carrying an ancient fairy curse.
Pasties and Poor Decisions
by Molly Harper
2021
Anastasia Villiers has already hit rock bottom when this novella begins. Molly Harper gives her a sharp, funny chance to make different choices, even if the road back is anything but tidy.
A Farewell to Charms
by Molly Harper
2022
Mystic Bayou's final mystery pulls tough local Eva and League representative Alex Lancaster into close quarters. Suspicion, attraction, and the fate of the town all collide as the series heads for its finish.
Calling
by Molly Harper
2022
Sarah and her closest friends are out of school and on the run, hiding with magical children while they work out a plan. The farther they go, the clearer it becomes that their society cannot stay the same.
Shifters in the Night
by Molly Harper
2022
Lia Doe arrives in Mystic Bayou to oversee housing for new residents and expects a straightforward job. A midnight meeting with selkie shifter Jon Carmody makes it clear nothing here will stay simple.
A Proposal to Die For
by Molly Harper
2025
Proposal planner Jessamine Bricker heads to a mountain resort for a high-end engagement job and expects stress, not crime. When she spots suspicious behavior and then a death, her carefully planned world comes apart fast.
Hex Around and Find Out
by Molly Harper
2025
Cora Seaworth likes being practical, which makes her growing feelings for pastry chef Iggy especially inconvenient. Their romance unfolds while the magical trouble around Moonshadow Cove keeps getting worse.
Never Been Witched
by Molly Harper
2025
Alice Seastairs keeps ghosts and dangerous magic in line on Starfall Point, or at least she tries to. Helping Collin Bancroft restore a haunted historic hotel would be easier without family secrets and a much larger supernatural threat.
The Wrong Witch to Hex With
by Molly Harper
2025
Linney Seaworth is the youngest of three sea witch sisters guarding Moonshadow Cove from paranormal threats. When Gray Brockhurst arrives to run a ghost tour business, attraction and danger hit the island together.
A Cute Little Murder
by Molly Harper
2026
Forensic accountant Lainey Piper is dragged back into the spotlight when former teen-sleuth partner Harlow Drake needs help on a cold case. Their target is a decades-old disappearance tied to a crumbling island hotel.
Generation Hex
by Molly Harper
2026
The Moonshadow Cove trilogy comes to a head as the Seaworth sisters fight for their home, their magic, and the people they love. Romance is still part of the fun, but family and survival take center stage.
Where should I start?
If you want her signature vampire comedy: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs → Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men → Nice Girls Don't Live Forever
If you want small-town paranormal romance: The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires → Driving Mr. Dead → The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire
If you want shifters and snowy chaos: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf → The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf → How to Run with a Naked Werewolf
If you want magical town vibes: How to Date Your Dragon → Love and Other Wild Things → Selkies Are a Girl’s Best Friend
If you want a mystery first: A Proposal to Die For → A Cute Little Murder
Author bio
Molly Harper grew up in Kentucky and spent part of her childhood in Mississippi. She was a lifelong romance reader and the sort of kid who liked ghost stories, oddball humor, and making up plots long before she had the patience to type them out.
She studied print journalism at Western Kentucky University and graduated in 2000. After college she went into newspaper work, writing as a reporter and later as a humor columnist at The Paducah Sun. That background still shows up in her fiction. Her books move fast, the jokes land cleanly, and even the wildest paranormal setup is grounded in everyday details.
Then life shifted.
Wanting work that fit family life a little better, Harper left newspapering and took a job as a church secretary. The steadier schedule gave her room to try fiction at night. Instead of letting all those vampire movies, Southern family stories, and sarcastic inner monologues rattle around in her head, she started turning them into novels.
Her first book, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs, arrived in 2009 and introduced Jane Jameson, a Kentucky children's librarian who wakes up as a vampire after an absolutely terrible evening. Readers stuck around for the voice: funny, flustered, practical, and never too cool to be embarrassed. Harper kept building on that world with the Jane Jameson books and the wider Half-Moon Hollow stories, where vampires, werewolves, witches, and ghosts end up feeling less like mythic creatures and more like difficult neighbors and beloved cousins.
That turned out to be her lane.
From there she kept stretching without losing the spark that made the early books work. How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf moved the comedy to Alaska and traded vampires for a very different kind of supernatural mess. Sweet Tea and Sympathy showed how comfortable she is with contemporary small-town romance. How to Date Your Dragon opened the door to the creature-filled Louisiana world of Mystic Bayou. And Changeling took her into young adult fantasy, with magic school politics, class tension, and a smart heroine trying to figure out where she belongs.
She has also been happy to play with format. The audio-first Mystic Bayou, Starfall Point, and Moonshadow Cove stories are a natural fit for her style, because she writes lively dialogue and loves a growing cast of interconnected characters. Whether she is writing about witches on a Michigan island or sea magic on the far side of it, the appeal stays pretty consistent: capable women, patient men, found family, spooky complications, and jokes that arrive right when the tension needs breaking.
More recently, Harper added mystery to the mix. A Proposal to Die For was her first full mystery, followed by A Cute Little Murder. The shift makes sense. Her romances have always liked a little chaos, a little investigating, and at least one badly timed secret. Mystery just lets her lean a bit harder on the bodies.
Along the way, she earned an MFA from Seton Hill University, focusing on writing popular fiction. She has now written more than forty books across paranormal romance, contemporary romance, young adult fantasy, and mystery. These days she lives in Michigan with her husband and children. Even after moving north, a lot of her work still carries the rhythm of Kentucky speech, the charm of small-town life, and a deep affection for people who are trying their best while making a complete mess of things.
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