Nina Bangs Books in Order
Explore Nina Bangs books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple advice on where to start with her vampire and time-travel romances.
Last updated: July 9, 2026
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Publication Order
23 books
An Original Sin
by Nina Bangs
1999
In a future where men are extinct, Fortune MacDonald designs customized males for other women. Then she wakes up beside Leith Campbell, a flesh-and-blood man who shatters everything she thought she knew about desire and her world.
Night Bites
by Nina Bangs
1999
Cindy Harper runs the quirky Woo Woo Inn and prefers problems she can solve with ice cream. Thrain Davis changes that fast, because inviting an ancient vampire inside means facing danger, desire, and truths she would rather avoid.
Night Games
by Nina Bangs
2002
Brian Byrne escapes a future where sex is a televised sport and lands in present-day Ireland. There he meets recently divorced author Ally O'Neill, who needs a tutor in pleasure and may end up changing both their lives.
The Pleasure Master
by Nina Bangs
2002
New York hairdresser Kathy Bartlett is flung back to 1542 Scotland and lands in the path of Ian Ross. He plans to seduce the one woman no man can win, but Kathy refuses to make it easy.
Game Master / From Boardwalk with Love
by Nina Bangs
2003
Secret agent rookie Camryn O'Brien heads into her first mission with three retired spies and more chaos than backup. This playful spoof throws her against the villainous L.O.V.E.R. and lets the absurdity fly.
Master of Ecstasy
by Nina Bangs
2004
Blythe travels from the year 2339 to 1785 Scotland hoping to prove herself on the job. Instead she meets vampire Darach Mackenzie and lands in a deadly struggle where business, time travel, and desire all get tangled together.
Wicked Nights
by Nina Bangs
2005
Talk-show host Donna Nolan comes to the Castle of Dark Dreams looking for a bizarre story and finds Eric McNair instead. The mysterious vampire is trouble, but Donna can't ignore the heat or the secrets surrounding him.
A Taste of Darkness
by Nina Bangs
2006
Reinn Mackenzie arrives at a New Jersey inn ready to enforce vampire law and kill a clan traitor. Then he meets Kisa, a shapeshifter with every reason to hate him, and the mission turns messy fast.
Hot Summer Bites: A Castle of Dark Dreams Novella
by Nina Bangs
2006
Reporter Kristin Hughes checks into the Castle of Dark Dreams hunting a career-making story. Vampire Taurin Veris needs to keep the castle's supernatural secrets buried, even as the sparks between them make that job much harder.
One Bite Stand
by Nina Bangs
2007
Harpy Daria sees her shot at glory when she is ordered to deliver vampire Declan Mackenzie to Tartarus. It should be a clean capture, but love and divided loyalties make the job far more dangerous.
Wicked Fantasy
by Nina Bangs
2007
Conall O'Rourke has spent centuries cursed to protect the last Kavanagh. That would be fierce paranormal hunter Gerry Kavanagh, and fighting beside her at the Castle of Dark Dreams quickly turns duty into something far more dangerous.
Wicked Pleasure
by Nina Bangs
2007
At the Castle of Dark Dreams, cursed pleasure-demon Brynn McNair finally meets a woman who wants no part of the supernatural. Demon hunter Kim Vaughn wants a normal life, but their attraction pulls them into danger.
Eternal Pleasure
by Nina Bangs
2008
Kelly Maloy thinks she's just picking up a passenger at the Houston airport. Instead she is pulled into a hidden war, an ancient prophecy, and a dangerous attraction to Ty Endeka, one of the lethal men called the Eleven.
Eternal Craving
by Nina Bangs
2009
Al is a barely controlled killer with the soul of an ancient predator and a world-ending threat closing in. Jenna sees the man beneath the beast, but loving him may be as dangerous as the enemy hunting them.
My Wicked Vampire
by Nina Bangs
2009
Cinn expects staged fantasies at the Castle of Dark Dreams, not a chained vampire and a goddess on her trail. Joining forces with angry, dangerous Dacian may be her only chance to survive what is coming.
Eternal Prey
by Nina Bangs
2010
Utah wants vengeance after vampires kill his brother. Teaming up with Lia to stop rogue bloodsuckers and the power behind them forces him into a dangerous alliance, where the biggest risk may be letting himself care.
Color Me Wicked
by Nina Bangs
2012
Amanda Harcourt returns to Galveston to redesign the Castle of Dark Dreams and runs straight into Conleth Maguire, the man she never forgot. Old desire flares fast, even while magic, oddball coworkers, and clashing visions complicate the job.
Wicked Edge
by Nina Bangs
2012
Sent to bring a little goodness to the Castle of Dark Dreams, the angel Passion is supposed to help trap a demon. Then she meets Edge, a man with a far darker past than she imagined, and the danger turns personal.
Wicked Whispers
by Nina Bangs
2012
Ivy wants a safe, drama-free life, not a job in an adult theme park full of trouble. But at the Castle of Dark Dreams she is drawn to Murmur, a seductive demon whose secrets could destroy them both.
Wicked Memories
by Nina Bangs
2013
Across from the Castle of Dark Dreams, Thorn Mackenzie opens a rival fantasy park and starts a private war with Sparkle Stardust. Spy Kay Stanley gets caught in the middle, where business, desire, and a larger threat collide.
Forever Wicked
by Nina Bangs
2017
After a bitter split, Sparkle Stardust races to find Ganymede before his grief and anger get him killed. Their reunion throws them back into danger, forcing them to fight for the castle, their lives, and each other.
Ties That Bind
by Nina Bangs
2021
Cassie Tyler agrees to cover a shift at a funeral home and walks into far more trouble than she expected. When a vampire rescues her from a violent attack, the night takes a very different turn.
Eternal Shadows
by Nina Bangs
2022
Rap is part ancient predator, part lord of darkness, and not sure which side will win. Selene claims she has switched sides, but with humanity in danger, trusting her could either save the world or destroy him.
Where should I start?
If you want sexy paranormal chaos: Wicked Nights → Wicked Pleasure → Wicked Fantasy
If you want darker end-of-the-world stakes: Eternal Pleasure → Eternal Craving → Eternal Prey → Eternal Shadows
If you want time-travel vampire romance: Master of Ecstasy → Night Bites → A Taste of Darkness → One Bite Stand
If you want a wild standalone: Night Games → An Original Sin → Game Master / From Boardwalk with Love
Author bio
Nina Bangs was born in San Antonio, Texas, but she spent most of her life growing up in New Jersey. She has said she was an only child who leaned hard on imagination, first as a horse-mad kid reading Walter Farley and dreaming about black stallions, then as a teenager pulled toward darker stories and mystery.
That shift mattered.
By high school she was deep into Agatha Christie and imagining a future full of danger and adventure. In college, she worked at a department store and quickly learned that accounting was not her calling. Literature was a better fit, even if her reading tastes briefly turned a little high-minded.
She graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in English literature. At that point, she still was not seriously writing fiction. What she did have was a strong sense of the kind of stories she loved, big emotion, memorable characters, and endings that did not leave her miserable.
Then life took her in a few useful directions before writing finally stuck. She taught second grade for several years and spent two years in Dublin, Ireland. During that stretch, she and a friend helped support themselves by singing folk songs in Irish pubs. It sounds like the setup to one of her own books, a little unlikely, a little funny, and full of personality.
After that she returned to New Jersey, taught elementary school again, and then kept moving, with stays in Arizona, California, and Texas. Along the way she fed another long-running passion, horses, especially Arabian mares. Somewhere between California and Texas, she also fell hard for romance novels. That was the turn. She finally decided to try writing the kind of books she most wanted to read.
That decision changed everything.
Bangs writes romance that happily ignores narrow boundaries. Wicked Nights and the wider Castle of Dark Dreams books mix vampires, demons, cosmic troublemakers, and a knowingly over-the-top Texas theme park setting. Eternal Pleasure and the Gods of the Night novels go darker, pairing apocalyptic stakes with heroes who are never fully safe, even when they are trying to save the world. The Mackenzie books, including Master of Ecstasy, lean into time travel, clan trouble, and dangerous attraction.
Readers who click with her work usually like the same things. The books are sexy, funny, and unafraid of weird premises. A future where sex is a sport in Night Games, or a heroine who designs customized men in An Original Sin, can sit right beside real emotional stakes. Bangs commits to the bit, but she also gives her characters honest wants and problems.
Cats matter, too. She once wrote that after falling in love with romance novels and cats, she made sure a cat crept into every story. That detail says a lot about her fiction. Even when the setup gets wild, there is usually a wink of humor tucked inside it.
Texas became her permanent home. She has described that as coming full circle, back to the state where she was born, with its fast horses and wide-open spaces. A long-running critique group also helped keep her going until publication, and she has spoken warmly about the writer friends who backed her early on. Her path to fiction was not sudden. It was built in small, human steps, teaching jobs, travel, beloved animals, and the late but very real realization that she should have started sooner.
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