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Penelope Douglas Books in Order

Browse Penelope Douglas books in order with reading guides, summaries, background on Fall Away, Devil's Night and Hellbent, plus tips on where to start.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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23 books

Bully

by Penelope Douglas

2013

Childhood friends Tate and Jared are now enemies in their small-town high school, where his relentless bullying has made her a target. After a year abroad, she returns determined to fight back, forcing them both to face what really turned love into hate.

Until You

by Penelope Douglas

2013

This companion to Bully retells Tate and Jared's story from his point of view, tracing the summer that broke him, the anger that turned him into a tormentor, and the slow, messy fight to win back the girl he never stopped wanting.

Rival

by Penelope Douglas

2014

Madoc Caruthers and Fallon Pierce once shared a secret, forbidden affair as teenage step-siblings. Now she is back for one explosive summer, intent on revenge, and their war of pranks and barbed words quickly reignites the chemistry neither can forget.

Aflame

by Penelope Douglas

2015

Two years after Jared leaves town to race and rebuild his future, Tate has carved out her own life on the track. When he returns to Shelburne Falls, old hurt and lingering desire force them to decide whether their first love can survive as adults.

Corrupt

by Penelope Douglas

2015

Erika Fane has spent years half fearing, half obsessing over Michael Crist, her boyfriend’s older brother and the leader of a reckless crew. When the men he once ran with leave prison, they turn Devil’s Night into a twisted game of revenge around her.

Falling Away

by Penelope Douglas

2015

After a scandal blows up her carefully planned college life, K.C. Carter is forced home for community service and lands next door to Jaxon Trent, the trouble she never wanted. Their simmering attraction collides with buried secrets and the weight of their pasts.

Misconduct

by Penelope Douglas

2015

Easton Bradbury, a former tennis star turned private school teacher, is determined to outrun a painful past. When her most challenging student’s father, ambitious businessman Tyler Marek, starts crossing lines, their attraction ignites a secret, high risk affair in New Orleans.

Adrenaline

by Penelope Douglas

2016

This companion collection gathers bonus scenes, deleted moments, and extra epilogues from the Fall Away series, offering more pranks, races, late night conversations, and next generation glimpses for readers who want to linger with Tate, Jared and their friends.

Punk 57

by Penelope Douglas

2016

Pen pals Misha and Ryen have shared anonymous letters since fifth grade, promising never to meet. When he recognizes her online and slips into her high school under a different name, the perfect girl he imagined collides with the cruel reality he finds.

Hideaway

by Penelope Douglas

2017

Kai Mori spent three years in prison and wants answers about a legendary abandoned hotel called The Pope. Streetwise Banks knows the truth about its hidden guest and twelfth floor, pulling them into a dangerous tug of war between loyalty, desire, and long buried sins.

Next to Never

by Penelope Douglas

2017

Sheltered by her overprotective father and three older brothers, Quinn Caruthers quietly pines for family friend Lucas Morrow. A mysterious manuscript about her parents’ early relationship forces her to see her world differently and decide whether to keep waiting or finally move.

The Next Flame

by Penelope Douglas

2017

This omnibus pairs the novellas Aflame and Next to Never, giving Jared and Tate a final second chance chapter and handing the narrative to Quinn Caruthers as she uncovers her parents’ messy past and questions how boldly she wants to choose her own future.

Birthday Girl

by Penelope Douglas

2018

When nineteen year old Jordan and her unreliable boyfriend move in with his hardworking father Pike, the easy roommate arrangement slowly turns into crackling, forbidden chemistry. Sharing a house forces them to question loyalty, age gaps, and whether a second chance at love is worth the fallout.

Conclave

by Penelope Douglas

2019

In this short Devil’s Night novella, Michael, Kai, Damon and Rika lock themselves on a yacht to address threats circling their families and a troubling absence. Secrets, shifting loyalties and one missing Horseman set the stage for Will’s book, Nightfall.

Kill Switch

by Penelope Douglas

2019

Blind since childhood, Winter Ashby believes sending Damon Torrance to prison was the only way to be safe. When he returns as the new man of her house, his calculated revenge campaign forces them to confront their shared past and a terrifying, magnetic bond.

Credence

by Penelope Douglas

2020

After her famous parents die, emotionally numb Tiernan de Haas is sent to live with her step-uncle Jake and his two sons in an isolated Colorado mountain town. Cut off by winter storms, she confronts grief, desire and a tangle of taboo relationships in their remote cabin.

Fire Night

by Penelope Douglas

2020

This holiday novella reunites the Devil’s Night crew at St. Killian’s for the longest night of the year, blending snow, secret traditions, and intimate glimpses of each couple as they trade masks, tell stories, and decide what their future families will look like.

Nightfall

by Penelope Douglas

2020

Exiled to Blackchurch, a remote estate for the rich and ruined, Will Grayson is meant to cool off out of sight. Instead, he ends up trapped there with Emory Scott, the sharp tongued girl tied to his worst mistakes, and their history turns into a dangerous siege.

Tryst Six Venom

by Penelope Douglas

2021

At elite Marymount girls’ school, polished cheer captain Clay Collins hides that she only wants girls, not the boys who chase her. Working class outsider Liv Jaeger is her favorite target, until one late night clash turns their rivalry into a secret, addictive F/F romance.

Falls Boys

by Penelope Douglas

2022

Shelburne Falls golden boy Hawke Trent collides with tough girl Aro Marquez when a crime gone wrong traps them in an abandoned speakeasy called Carnival Tower. Hiding from the police, enemies are forced into close quarters where grudges, attraction and family legacies all catch fire.

Five Brothers

by Penelope Douglas

2024

From the rich side of town, Krisjen Conroy is drawn to the chaotic Jaeger house on the swampy edge of Sanoa Bay, where five brothers live by their own rules. Tangled desires, class divides and dangerous nights test what home and love really mean.

Pirate Girls

by Penelope Douglas

2024

During Rivalry Week between Shelburne Falls and gritty Weston, Dylan Trent is taken as Weston’s prisoner and sent to live beside estranged cousin Hunter Caruthers. Fourteen chaotic days of pranks, parties and football turn their stepfamily tension into something far more complicated.

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Quiet Ones

by Penelope Douglas

2026

Planned as the third Hellbent novel, Quiet Ones returns to the Fall Away world’s next generation, following Quinn Caruthers as she navigates adulthood, family expectations and small town legends built around the parents who fell in love before her.

Where should I start?

If you want her core bully romance arc: BullyUntil YouRivalFalling Away.
If you prefer darker, suspenseful stories: CorruptHideawayKill SwitchNightfall.
If you like standalones you can dip in and out of: Birthday GirlPunk 57CredenceTryst Six Venom.
If you’re curious about the next generation spin off: Falls BoysPirate Girls.

Author bio

Penelope Douglas grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, the oldest of five kids in a Midwestern family that expected her to be practical. She left home for the University of Northern Iowa, picking public administration as a major more out of duty than passion.

After college she moved south to Loyola University in New Orleans to earn a master’s degree in education. Teaching suited her far more than city budgets ever had, and for years she balanced grading papers with late nights at a local bar where she worked part time.

One night at that bar she joked to the bouncer that his son was attractive. The story goes that three years later she married the son, not the bouncer, and eventually the two of them built a life together with their daughter, Aydan.

Douglas eventually settled into teaching in Las Vegas, but the stories in her head kept getting louder. She loved romance, especially the kind that pushed against rules, and started writing in the scraps of time around work and parenting. When she self-published Bully, a high school enemies to lovers story set in a small town full of fast cars and bad decisions, readers found it quickly and the Fall Away series was born.

That success let her move into writing full time. The Fall Away books follow Tate, Jared, Madoc, Fallon, Jax and K.C. as they fight, race and fall in love from high school into college. With the Devil’s Night series, beginning with Corrupt, she leaned into darker themes, building a rainy, almost gothic city where four masked friends turn one disastrous prank into years of obsession and revenge.

She has also written standalones that live beside those worlds. Misconduct threads a forbidden attraction between a private school teacher and a powerful parent through New Orleans politics. Punk 57 turns a long running pen pal friendship into a brutal high school reckoning. Birthday Girl explores an age gap romance between a young woman and her ex boyfriend’s father, while Credence strands its heroine in the Colorado mountains with a step-uncle and his sons. Tryst Six Venom and Five Brothers continue to push into queer romance, class divides and complicated families.

More recently, the Hellbent series has returned to the Fall Away universe through the eyes of the next generation in Falls Boys and Pirate Girls. Those books let her revisit the racetracks, rival schools and Caruthers and Trent families from a fresh angle, with new kids who are tired of living in their parents’ shadows.

Douglas now lives in New England with her husband and their daughter. She is open about loving sweets, binge watching genre television and wandering big box stores for inspiration. On the page she keeps circling the same questions: how people survive the worst things they have done, and what it costs to choose the risky kind of love that changes everything.

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