Raven Kennedy Books in Order
Browse Raven Kennedy books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy where-to-start picks for fantasy romance, paranormal, and dark romance.
Last updated: June 9, 2026
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Publication Order
29 books
Bonds of Cupidity
by Raven Kennedy
2018
With a body to lose and a bond to protect, Emelle heads back into the fae realm for deadly royal trials. She has to keep her males alive, dodge a vicious prince, and finally fight for a love that is hers.
Signs of Cupidity
by Raven Kennedy
2018
Emelle has spent ages matchmaking for everyone else, but as an invisible cupid she has never had love of her own. When fae magic gives her a real body, she crashes into a dangerous new realm and a very tempting group of males.
The Girl Who Cries Colors
by Raven Kennedy
2018
David and Willow begin as childhood love, painter and muse, bound by art and a secret no one else understands. As they grow up, loss and violence threaten to turn their vivid world gray.
Addie
by Raven Kennedy
2019
Addie belongs to Pack Aberrant, a haven for oddball shifters, but her own secret makes belonging fragile. When a heatwave and three coyote males throw everything off balance, she has to choose between fear, desire, and a new kind of home.
April's Fools
by Raven Kennedy
2019
Raised feral and hard to scare, April does not exactly panic when three ex-military men show up talking plague and apocalypse. What follows is a wild, dirty, end-of-the-world adventure with danger and heat in equal measure.
Can't Fix Cupid
by Raven Kennedy
2019
Trix is a dud cupid on the verge of being erased, and billionaire bachelor Warren Knight looks like her last chance. Fixing his love life should save her, until she starts falling for him herself.
Crimes of Cupidity
by Raven Kennedy
2019
Emelle’s spy mission goes sideways when she is yanked back to Cupidville and threatened by the very powers that made her. With war brewing and her mates at risk, she has to stop joking and start fighting.
Cruel
by Raven Kennedy
2019
In Savannah, power belongs to the Heirs, and Scarlett is tangled up in all of them, especially Rogue Kelly. Once her closest friends, they turned vicious, and escaping them may be harder than surviving their cruelty.
For the Love of Cupidity
by Raven Kennedy
2019
Valentine’s Day is coming, and Emelle is now juggling cupid recruits, four devoted mates, and motherhood. It is a lighter return to the series, full of chaos, heart, and the kind of magical mayhem she never seems to escape.
Tame
by Raven Kennedy
2019
Godfrey Taylor carries violence, family pressure, and a temper he barely trusts. Rachel Nomar should be another problem to solve, but instead she becomes the one person who makes him want something gentler.
Void
by Raven Kennedy
2019
A single touch makes Devicka dangerous, because as a Void she can absorb supernatural power. Sent to Thibault Academy, she has to survive fear, cruelty, and the Paragons long enough to master the darkness inside her.
Wicked Webs
by Raven Kennedy
2019
After a forced ritual turns her into something deadly, a woman with a black widow inside her has spent years on the run. Now she is going after the people making monsters like her, even if it kills her.
Wild
by Raven Kennedy
2019
Royal Taylor is hiding blood on her hands and feelings she should not have, especially for Luis Salvador. Their connection promises freedom, but Savannah is full of secrets and the past is closing in fast.
Conveniently Convicted
by Raven Kennedy
2020
Sentenced to Nightmare Penitentiary, she sees prison as the perfect place to disappear from the family selling her off. Then a magnetic guard named Rook and the dangers still hunting her make captivity much more complicated.
Gild
by Raven Kennedy
2020
Auren lives in a castle of gold as King Midas’s prized possession, convinced her cage is safety. When war and betrayal crack that illusion, she begins to see just how dangerous her gilded life really is.
Grave Consequences
by Raven Kennedy
2020
A trip into Hell is supposed to answer Delta’s questions, not trap her in a nightmare. Separated from her demons and hunted in a brutal new realm, she has to survive long enough to learn what she really is.
Grave Decisions
by Raven Kennedy
2020
Medley Bell has always known she was a little different, but seeing monsters changes everything. When two demons tell her she is Hell-spawn, she heads into a dangerous new world of family secrets, power, and trouble she cannot ignore.
Grave Mistakes
by Raven Kennedy
2020
Down on her luck, Delta takes a high-paying security job and learns too late that the cemetery hides a gate to Hell. Her new bosses are demons, the gate is failing, and she may be more important than anyone guessed.
Grave Signs
by Raven Kennedy
2020
Sable has spent her life being treated like she is broken, until the monsters she sees turn out to be real. Dragged into Hell and reunited with long-lost family, she becomes central to a fight that could reshape every realm.
Jetta
by Raven Kennedy
2020
Jetta escapes a brutal life only to land in Pack Aberrant, where help feels almost too good to trust. As she bonds with the pack and the men around her, the past refuses to let go.
Reese
by Raven Kennedy
2020
Reese has been trapped in animal form for years after seeing something she was never meant to witness. A strange pack offers her a second chance, but old accusations and older enemies are still on her trail.
Gleam
by Raven Kennedy
2021
In a strange kingdom full of lies, Auren starts choosing herself instead of the story others wrote for her. Her anger is sharpening into power, but kings, queens, and desire keep turning freedom into a dangerous game.
Glint
by Raven Kennedy
2021
Taken by the Fourth Kingdom’s army, Auren becomes a bargaining chip in a larger war. Outside Midas’s cage but far from free, she is drawn to the terrifying commander known as Rip and the power he keeps hidden.
Rabid
by Raven Kennedy
2021
Seneca has waited her whole life for her wolf, only to learn the change could bind her to a monster. Broken open by violence and exile, she ends up in a savage pack where survival may require becoming something fiercer.
Glow
by Raven Kennedy
2022
Auren is finally fighting for her own future, even as kingdoms close in and war spreads around her. Stronger, angrier, and less willing to bend, she has to claim her power before someone else takes it again.
Sheer Cupidity
by Raven Kennedy
2022
Lex is the kind of cupid who likes rules, until grief sends her back to the fae island where Belren died saving her. Finding him there as a ghost with no memory opens the door to love, regret, and unfinished magic.
Gold
by Raven Kennedy
2023
Thrown into the fae realm of Annwyn, Auren is alive but far from safe. To get back to Slade and the war waiting for her, she has to cross a world full of beauty, secrets, and sharp teeth.
Goldfinch
by Raven Kennedy
2024
War is raging outside, but Auren’s hardest fight is inside her own mind. As enemies try to break her and erase what she loves, the bond between her and Slade becomes a lifeline as much as a weapon.
The Sweetest Fiend
by Raven Kennedy
2026
Hated for being half Bane and half fae, a young woman is taken by the Pied Piper after he saves her city from a plague. Escaping him may save her family, but attraction and darker magic keep closing in.
Where should I start?
If you want dark fantasy romance: Gild → Glint → Gleam → Glow
If you want funny paranormal romance: Signs of Cupidity → Bonds of Cupidity → Crimes of Cupidity → For the Love of Cupidity
If you want shifter misfits and found family: Addie → Reese → Jetta
If you want dark contemporary romance: Cruel → Tame → Wild
Author bio
Raven Kennedy was born and raised in California, and books seem to have been her first way into other worlds. She has said that reading pushed her toward creating stories of her own, which fits the way her novels build whole worlds, tight packs, dangerous courts, and messy families.
She came up through indie publishing. Her debut series started with Signs of Cupidity, a fantasy romcom about a lonely cupid who is very good at causing love and very bad at staying out of trouble. That early work already showed two things Kennedy still leans on now, big feelings and a sharp sense of humor.
She doesn’t really stay in one lane.
Some of her books are playful, fast, and openly chaotic. Signs of Cupidity, Can’t Fix Cupid, and Addie all have that energy, supernatural setups, messy attraction, jokes that land quickly, and heroines who are funny even when everything around them is going off the rails. Readers who like paranormal romance with banter, heat, and found-family vibes usually do well there.
Then she went darker.
Gild, the opening book in her King Midas inspired fantasy saga, brought in a much wider readership and turned The Plated Prisoner into the series many readers met her through. Those books went on to become international bestsellers, sell more than six million copies worldwide, and reach readers in more than twenty countries.
That jump makes sense, because Kennedy’s stories often circle the same emotional territory even when the packaging changes. Again and again, she writes about women trying to reclaim power, characters who have been boxed in by family or fear, and love stories that have to survive shame, danger, or bad choices. Sometimes that comes wrapped in a funny cupid story. Sometimes it comes with gold cages, fae politics, demon gates, or shifter packs. Either way, there is usually a strong pull toward freedom, belonging, and people who feel a little out of place finding somewhere to stand.
Her newer work still plays with myth and folklore. The Sweetest Fiend, the first book in the Played by the Piper duology, turns to fae, plagues, and a Pied Piper inspired setup. It fits neatly beside the rest of her catalogue, familiar shapes retold as romantic fantasy with higher stakes and a darker edge.
Off the page, the details she shares are small and human. She describes herself as a California girl, a tea-and-dark-chocolate kind of person, and someone who loves both reading and writing. When she isn’t working, she’s spending time with her husband and daughters.
That balance probably helps explain the range in her books. Some are light on their feet. Some go straight for the bruise. But even at their darkest, Kennedy’s stories tend to keep one thing in view, characters worth rooting for.
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