Naughty Fairytales Books in Order
Part ofTara Brown Books in OrderSee the Naughty Fairytales books by Tara Brown in order, with short summaries, series background, reading order help, and where to start.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Naughty Fairytales books in publication order
3 books
Cinder Ella
by Tara Brown
2014
This darker retelling gives Cinderella sharper edges and far less innocence. Ella is an orphan being pushed into a marriage she does not want, and one stolen night changes everything.
Beauty's Beast
by Tara Brown
2015
Belle flees into the woods to save herself and her father, only to end up captive in a dark castle. What she finds there is not just a beast, but a house full of secrets she cannot stop watching.
The Club
by Tara Brown
2015
Fresh off a brutal divorce, Hannah accepts a reckless invitation to a secret club. She expects a wild night and finds something stranger, rawer, and far more dangerous than that.
Naughty Fairytales books in chronological order
Series background & context
The Naughty Fairytales books take familiar setups and push them into adult territory. These are not sweet retellings with a playful wink. Brown, writing under Sophie Starr, uses the language of fairy tales and fantasy wishes, but the stories themselves are built for readers who want something darker, hotter, and much less tidy.
That is the whole point.
Cinder Ella reworks Cinderella into the story of an orphan trapped by other people's plans and pushed toward a future she does not want. Beauty's Beast keeps the eerie castle and the dangerous host, but leans into curiosity, captivity, and sexual tension. The Club moves furthest away from a classic fairy-tale frame, using desperation, divorce, and an underground invitation to build a story that feels more contemporary and more openly taboo.
The books are loosely connected by tone more than by plot. You do not come here for one big continuing mythology. You come for atmosphere, heat, and the fun of seeing recognizable story bones turned into something riskier. Brown clearly enjoys the gap between what a reader thinks they know from childhood and what she can do with those same shapes in an adult book.
Expect power imbalances, temptation, messy choices, and stories that are more interested in desire than in moral neatness. These books are quick, direct, and designed to provoke a reaction.
If you are browsing Brown's work and want to see the side she keeps separate from her science fiction, fantasy, or suspense writing, this series is a clear lane of its own. It is darker, sexier, and built on the idea that a familiar tale can still surprise you once the rules change.
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