Sylvia Day Books in Order
Explore all Sylvia Day books in order, with series reading guides, story summaries, background on her romance worlds, and suggestions on the best places to start.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
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Publication Order
57 books
Illusive
by Sylvia Day
2026
Continuing the Crossroads series, Illusive returns to Ireland Vidal and Ronan Boudreaux as they navigate the fallout of past deceptions and escalating threats against the Vidal Cross family. Passion, revenge, and long buried secrets collide as they fight for both love and survival.
Ireland
by Sylvia Day
2025
Ireland Vidal, heiress to Vidal Records and Gideon Cross’s youngest sister, has carved out her own empire in the music world. A chance encounter with charming magnate Ronan Boudreaux sparks an irresistible romance that entangles family loyalty, high profile business, and a deadly vendetta.
Wish List
by Sylvia Day
2024
When attorney Nicholas James draws Stephanie Martin’s name in the firm’s Secret Santa exchange, he discovers her private wish list and realizes she wants him in very explicit ways. Determined to oblige, he sets out to make every wicked Christmas fantasy come true.
Too Far
by Sylvia Day
2023
The conclusion of the Blacklist duology digs into the aftermath of Lily’s return and the poisonous history of the Black family. As shifting alliances, old betrayals, and dangerous obsessions collide, Kane, Aliyah, Amy, and “Lily” are pushed toward a reckoning none of them can avoid.
So Close
by Sylvia Day
2023
Grieving widower Kane Black believes his long dead wife Lily has miraculously returned when he finds a woman with her face on the streets of Manhattan. As she moves into his penthouse, his mother and sister in law circle, and buried secrets and rivalries slowly come to light.
The Arrangement
by Sylvia Day
2020
In this anthology of arranged marriage tales, Sylvia Day’s RITA finalist novella revisits Justin, Marquess of Fontaine, and his scandal kissed childhood friend Lady Sophie. Pressured into a match they both resist, they conspire to prove their families wrong and instead fall dangerously in love.
Catching Caroline
by Sylvia Day
2019
Notorious libertine Jack Shaw lives for fleeting pleasures, until he becomes obsessed with elusive Lady Caroline Seton. She guards a dangerous secret that makes intimacy risky for them both, but Jack’s patient, determined pursuit forces her to choose between solitude and a love that could save them.
Butterfly in Frost
by Sylvia Day
2019
Dr. Teagan Ransom has built a quiet life on a Washington waterfront, hiding scars from devastating loss. When charismatic new neighbor Garrett Frost crashes past her defenses, their connection forces her to confront depression, grief, and the terrifying possibility of happiness again.
One with You
by Sylvia Day
2016
In the conclusion of the Crossfire saga, Gideon and Eva confront the final fallout of their histories, from dangerous stalkers to family reckoning. Marriage does not magically fix them, but fighting for each other gives them a chance at lasting peace.
A Taste of Seduction
by Sylvia Day
2016
In the Renegade Angels world, mortal virologist Dr. Karin Allardice is kidnapped by Syre, enigmatic leader of the vampires, to cure a deadly Wraith virus. Trapped among immortal predators, she battles fear and an irresistible pull toward the one man she should never desire.
Love Affairs
by Sylvia Day
2015
A collection of Sylvia Day’s fan favorite novellas, Love Affairs ranges from holiday office romance and second chances in Vegas to heist tinged capers and paranormal seductions. Each story offers a self contained hit of emotion and heat, showcasing her versatility in shorter form.
Captivated by You
by Sylvia Day
2014
Now married but still healing, Gideon and Eva face new betrayals and threats from Gideon’s past. As hidden motives surface and old wounds reopen, they must decide whether they can stand together against everyone else, including their own worst impulses.
Aftershock
by Sylvia Day
2014
Continuing after *Afterburn*, Gia and Jax face the fallout of mixing love, family ambition, and high profile deals. As secrets surface and loyalties are tested, they must decide whether they are strong enough to weather public scandal and private doubts together.
Afterburn & Aftershock
by Sylvia Day
2014
This edition brings together Gia and Jax’s complete story. From their scorching reunion in the boardroom to the hard won compromises of *Aftershock*, it delivers a full arc of second chance love set against cutthroat business deals and ruthless political maneuvering.
Warfare and Sin City
by SJ Day
2013
This volume collects two Marked novellas, *Eve of Warfare* and *Eve of Sin City*. As a heavenly bounty hunter, Eve goes undercover in suburban Orange County and then to Las Vegas, hunting rogue vampires while juggling a meddling cherub and the brothers bound to her soul.
Taking the Heat
by Sylvia Day
2013
Protected witness Layla Creed is ready to testify and disappear forever into a new identity. Deputy U.S. Marshal Brian Simmons has three days to keep her alive and decide whether he can let her go again, or finally claim the future they both secretly want.
Spellbound
by Sylvia Day
2013
A collection of three linked paranormal novellas, Spellbound follows warlock Max Westin and his "familiar" Victoria through a cat and mouse game of magic, dominance, and surrender. Each story deepens their bond as they blur the line between hunter and prey, illusion and love.
Entwined with You
by Sylvia Day
2013
Reunited after a painful separation, Eva and Gideon struggle to build a private life amid public scandal, vengeful enemies, and families that will not let go. Their obsession deepens, but so does the cost of loving someone just as broken as you are.
Afterburn
by Sylvia Day
2013
Two years after Jackson Rutledge vanished from her life, Gianna Rossi has rebuilt her confidence and career. When Jax walks into a crucial business meeting, attraction and anger collide, and Gia has to decide whether to protect her heart or risk everything for a second chance.
Reflected in You
by Sylvia Day
2012
Eva and Gideon are committed to each other, but jealousy, secrets, and unresolved abuse haunt every step forward. As old lovers, media scrutiny, and Gideon’s dangerous choices close in, their fragile bond is tested to the breaking point.
On Fire
by Sylvia Day
2012
Investigating a string of arsons in a seaside town, Deputy U.S. Marshal Jared Cameron does not expect the biggest blaze to be his chemistry with fire inspector Darcy Michaels. Their no strings affair turns serious when a hidden enemy uses the fires to target them both.
Blood and Roses
by Sylvia Day
2012
Insurance investigator Anastasia Miller is determined to recover a cache of stolen pink diamonds, even if it means teaming up with Jake Monroe, the deputy U.S. Marshal she once loved and left. Chasing thieves forces them to revisit old hurts and decide if this time can be different.
Bared to You
by Sylvia Day
2012
Starting a new job in Manhattan, Eva Tramell collides with magnetic billionaire Gideon Cross and is pulled into an intensely erotic, emotionally volatile relationship that forces both of them to confront buried trauma and learn how to trust again.
A Hunger So Wild
by Sylvia Day
2012
Lycans and vampires stand on the edge of war, and lycan leader Elijah knows peace may depend on working with Vashti, a lethal vampire lieutenant. Their mutual hatred combusts into scorching desire, even as betrayals and battles threaten to tear their volatile alliance apart.
A Caress of Wings
by Sylvia Day
2012
Sentinel Siobhán rescues mortal Trevor Descansos from a vampire hellhole and nurses him back from the brink of death. Their forbidden attachment grows as she hides him from her own kind, forcing an ageless warrior to choose between heavenly duty and one fragile human life.
Seven Years to Sin
by Sylvia Day
2011
After witnessing Alistair Caulfield in a scandalous encounter, young Jessica Sheffield marries another man and buries her curiosity. Widowed seven years later, she boards a ship to Jamaica with Alistair as captain, and a voyage of raw discovery turns into a chance at true love.
Razor's Edge
by Sylvia Day
2011
Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Killigrew promised his dying friend he would protect Rachel, the widow he secretly loves. Guarding her from new threats forces Jack and Rachel to confront grief, loyalty, and a desire that has been simmering just out of reach for years.
Pride and Pleasure
by Sylvia Day
2011
When heiress Eliza Martin becomes the target of a fortune hunter, she hires clever thief taker Jasper Bond to pose as her fiancé. Their sham engagement exposes a deadly scheme and an inconvenient attraction, leading two fiercely independent people toward a very real partnership.
Men Out of Uniform
by Sylvia Day
2011
This steamy anthology features three novellas about men in uniform who are far more dangerous off duty. Sylvia Day’s contribution, “Taking the Heat,” reunites a Deputy U.S. Marshal with the protected witness he never forgot, mixing courtroom tension with raw, second chance passion.
Lucien's Gamble
by Sylvia Day
2011
Notorious club owner Lucien Remington rules London’s elite playground, until determined Lady Julienne storms his office in disguise to rescue her wayward brother. Their clash over power, respectability, and desire turns a simple gamble into the riskiest wager of their lives.
Iron Hard
by Sylvia Day
2011
In a steampunk tinged historical, war hero Baron de la Warren commissions ingenious tinkerer Annabelle Waters to create mechanical lovebirds. Fascinated by the man behind the legend, she discovers a passionate, vulnerable partner beneath the brass and bravado, risking her heart on a most unusual courtship.
All Revved Up
by Sylvia Day
2011
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, high powered exec Miguel Santos returns to his small hometown and the high school sweetheart he never got over. Faith Bennett still runs her family’s auto shop and hides a life changing secret, forcing them to face past choices head on.
Adrian
by Sylvia Day
2011
Set in Sylvia Day’s Dominion universe, Adrian focuses on a powerful angel torn between his obligations as an enforcer and his consuming love for a mortal woman tied to his past. Forbidden desire and supernatural politics collide in a story of redemption and rebellion.
A Touch of Crimson
by Sylvia Day
2011
Adrian Mitchell, an angelic enforcer tasked with policing the Fallen, is stunned when he recognizes his lost love’s soul in mortal hunter Lindsay. Their fierce attraction unfolds against a brewing war between angels, lycans, and vampires, forcing impossible choices between duty and desire.
A Dark Kiss of Rapture
by Sylvia Day
2011
Fallen angel Raze spends eternity hunting rogues and indulging in blood and sex without attachment. When he meets a mortal woman who pierces his defenses, one night of forbidden pleasure threatens to upend the detached existence he thought he wanted forever.
Eve of Sin City
by SJ Day
2010
In Las Vegas, where humans and Infernals freely mix, Marked bounty hunter Evangeline Hollis hunts trouble across casino floors and neon lit alleys. A short, punchy adventure, it shows Eve balancing sensual temptation with her relentless drive to bring supernatural criminals down.
In the Flesh
by Sylvia Day
2009
In a decadent world where pleasure is weaponized, a mortal princess and the feared warlord Wulfric are forced into a dangerous alliance. Court politics, looming war, and overwhelming attraction entwine as they gamble their bodies and kingdoms on a love neither planned.
Eve of Destruction
by SJ Day
2009
Training as a Mark throws Eve into a brutal war game where fallen angels, lycans, and fellow hunters can be as deadly as demons. Betrayals, shifting alliances, and her tangled bond with Cain and Abel force her to question who, if anyone, she can trust.
Eve of Darkness
by SJ Day
2009
After a chance encounter brands her with the Mark of Cain, Evangeline Hollis is drafted as a heavenly bounty hunter tasked with killing demons. Juggling a day job, a double life, and two dangerously compelling brothers, she must survive both celestial politics and her own desires.
Eve of Chaos
by SJ Day
2009
Just when Eve thinks she understands the rules of her new life, an impending apocalyptic event throws heaven and hell into turmoil. Torn between duty and love, she must confront ancient grudges and the true cost of bearing the Mark before everything literally goes to hell.
Hot Holiday Nights
by Sylvia Day
2008
Alluring Tales: Hot Holiday Nights collects seven sizzling stories set around the festive season. Sylvia Day’s contribution, "That Old Black Magic," follows a handsome warlock and the shapeshifting familiar who drives him crazy, proving that the holidays are the perfect time for a little supernatural mischief.
Heat of the Night
by Sylvia Day
2008
Connor Bruce, a powerful Dream Guardian, crosses into the mortal world on a perilous mission and into the life of Stacey Daniels, a woman with a weakness for bad boys. Their bond spans sleep and waking, but enemies from the Twilight make loving him a deadly gamble.
Don't Tempt Me
by Sylvia Day
2008
Worldly rogue Simon Quinn has never wanted for lovers, until a seemingly sheltered woman with a scandalous past challenges him. Drawn into intrigues that reach from London salons to shadowy back rooms, they discover that the greatest temptation is risking their guarded hearts.
The Stranger I Married
by Sylvia Day
2007
Lady Isabel Pelham weds rakish Gerard for companionship, not love, and they agree to live as they please. Years later he returns transformed and determined to be a real husband. Their comfortable arrangement shatters as buried hurt, desire, and scandal rise to the surface.
Pleasures of the Night
by Sylvia Day
2007
Dream Guardian Aidan Cross enters women’s dreams to protect them, never expecting one will recognize him as real. When Lyssa Bates welcomes her nocturnal seducer into her waking life, their forbidden connection threatens the balance of a world already at war in the Twilight.
Perfect Kisses
by Sylvia Day
2007
Perfect Kisses gathers three Regency novellas about the power of one unforgettable kiss. Sylvia Day’s “Mischief and the Marquess” pairs spirited Sophie with the oh so proper Marquess of Fontaine, turning a plan to thwart matchmaking mamas into a wickedly satisfying romance.
Passion for the Game
by Sylvia Day
2007
Blackmailed into spying on infamous smuggler Christopher St. John, icy beauty Maria, Lady Winter, expects to destroy him. Instead she finds a man as dangerous and wounded as she is. Their game of seduction becomes a battle against powerful enemies and their own mistrust.
Magic and Mayhem
by Sylvia Day
2007
This lighthearted Halloween anthology features Sylvia Day’s story "Mayhem," where practical Abby Garvey accidentally casts a love spell on her oblivious, drop dead gorgeous neighbor. A mischievous bit of magic turns a long running crush into an unexpectedly hot and heartfelt romance.
Awaken the Fantasy
by Sylvia Day
2007
An anthology of paranormal erotic tales, Alluring Tales: Awaken the Fantasy features Sylvia Day’s "A Familiar Kind of Magic," in which a seductive warlock relentlessly pursues the powerful temptress who is his destined familiar, blending spellcraft, dominance, and emotional vulnerability.
A Passion for Him
by Sylvia Day
2007
Haunted by the death of her first love, Amelia accepts a safe marriage of convenience until a mysterious stranger ignites forbidden longing. As secrets unravel, she must decide whether to cling to duty or risk scandal and heartbreak for a man who feels achingly familiar.
Ellora's Cavemen, Volume II
by Sylvia Day
2006
This multi author erotic anthology includes Sylvia Day’s "Treasure Hunters," where mercenary Rick Bronson teams up with literary antiquities expert Samantha Tremain to track down outlawed erotic ebooks. Their galaxy spanning quest quickly turns into a hands on lesson in pleasure and partnership.
Declassified: Dark Kisses / Kiss of the Night
by Sylvia Day
2006
Declassified bundles two Carnal Thirst adventures, pairing vampire agents with human women who upend their control. Passion and peril collide as undercover operations, political intrigue, and forbidden attraction push everyone toward choices that could cost lives as easily as hearts.
Carnal Thirst: Dark Kisses / Misled
by Sylvia Day
2006
Set in a futuristic universe of interstellar vampires, these linked novellas follow Special Task Force agent Derek Atkinson and elusive bounty hunter Sable Taylor through a dangerous mission that turns into a scorching affair, where trust is as risky as any enemy.
Ask For It
by Sylvia Day
2006
Years after Lady Elizabeth jilted him, Crown agent Marcus Ashford is ordered to protect her from her husband’s killers. Forced into close quarters, they must navigate old betrayals, simmering desire, and a lethal conspiracy before they can claim a second chance.
Wicked
by Sylvia Day
2005
An anthology of erotic tales from multiple authors, Wicked includes Sylvia Day’s sizzling contribution about a woman who lets go of her inhibitions on holiday. Brief but explicit, it explores how one bold night can change how you see yourself and what you want.
Scandalous Liaisons
by Sylvia Day
1997
A collection of Sylvia Day’s erotic historical novellas, Scandalous Liaisons gathers pirates, club owners, and titled libertines whose carefully crafted sins crumble when they fall for inconvenient women. Expect corsets, secrets, and intensely sensual, self contained love stories.
Bad Boys Ahoy!
by Sylvia Day
1997
This trio of Regency novellas features a runaway earl turned pirate, a ruthless club owner, and a pleasure loving lord whose reputations hide vulnerable hearts. Each story delivers high stakes seduction, witty clashes, and heroines brave enough to tame a notorious rake.
Where should I start?
If you want an intense billionaire romance: Bared to You → Reflected in You → Entwined with You → Captivated by You → One with You
If you love lush historical passion: Seven Years to Sin → Ask For It → Passion for the Game → A Passion for Him → Don’t Tempt Me
If you like angels, vampires, and big stakes: A Dark Kiss of Rapture → A Touch of Crimson → A Caress of Wings → A Hunger So Wild → A Taste of Seduction
If you prefer gritty urban fantasy: Eve of Darkness → Eve of Destruction → Eve of Chaos → Marked: Warfare and Sin City
If you want dark, twisty suspense: So Close → Too Far → Butterfly in Frost → Ireland
Author bio
Sylvia Day was born in Los Angeles in 1973 and grew up in Southern California, bouncing between beach towns and suburbs while falling hard for books. She was the kid who came home from the store with a new paperback every time and started writing stories long before she finished high school.
At twelve she decided she wanted to be a novelist, but she took a winding path to get there. After moving out on her own she joined the U.S. Army and trained as a Russian linguist in military intelligence, a job that sharpened her ear for dialogue and her feel for high stakes. When she left the service she settled back in California, started a family, and kept writing in the margins of a very busy life.
Those early years produced the first novellas and novels that would launch her career in romance and speculative fiction. She wrote across subgenres from the start, publishing historicals, paranormals, and contemporaries under her own name and as S. J. Day and Livia Dare. Along the way she co founded Passionate Ink, an erotic romance chapter of Romance Writers of America, later serving on RWA’s national board and as its 22nd president. She now also serves on the board of the Authors Guild and its foundation.
Readers around the world know her best for the Crossfire saga, beginning with Bared to You. Set in Manhattan, the series follows Eva Tramell and Gideon Cross, two successful, deeply damaged people who fall into an obsessive, erotic relationship and slowly do the hard work of healing. The books dig into trauma, therapy, jealousy, and forgiveness while never letting go of the intense chemistry that made the series a global bestseller.
Historical romances like Seven Years to Sin, Ask For It, Passion for the Game, and The Stranger I Married show a different side of her work, pairing flawed aristocrats and outsiders in Georgian and Regency settings threaded with spies, pirates, scandal, and slow earned trust. In paranormals such as A Touch of Crimson, the Renegade Angels books, and the Marked series written as S. J. Day, she builds a shared Dominion universe where angels, lycans, vampires, and heavenly bounty hunters wage war and fall in love.
She also pushes into darker suspense. The Blacklist duology, beginning with So Close and continuing in Too Far, is a lush, gothic tinged domestic thriller about widower Kane Black and the three women whose secrets circle his life. Later stories like Butterfly in Frost and the Crossroads series return to the wider DAYverse, tying together characters from Crossfire, Blacklist, and beyond while keeping the focus on intimate, character driven romance.
Across all of these worlds, certain threads repeat. Her protagonists are survivors of something, whether childhood abuse, war, addiction, or grief. Many of them are high functioning on the surface and quietly falling apart underneath. Her books follow them through therapy, relapses, bad decisions, and moments of grace, always circling the question of what a truly safe, passionate partnership might look like after trauma.
Today she lives in Las Vegas, trading the California coast for desert light but still spending summers in Seattle and quick stretches in New York whenever she can. Book tours and reader events keep her on the road, but she still writes in the same straightforward, emotionally direct way she loved as a teenager: strong feelings, frank sex, and characters who earn their happy endings the hard way.
She shares bits of her life with readers, from her love of Japanese culture and theme parks to the household full of pets she dotes on when she is not on deadline. For all the international success and film deals, the engine of her career is still the same as it was at twelve: a stack of stories she can not stop telling about people who claw their way through the dark and find each other.
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