Complete list of Penelope Douglas books in order, her biography, and plot outlines of her best books

Order of Penelope Douglas books

When I first read about Penelope Douglas I was fascinated by the fact that she loves taboo. She indulges in reading and writing it.

On exploring more profoundly about Penelope Douglas, I found that she writes in the romance genre covering new adult, erotica, and a little bit of contemporary fiction.

Penelope Douglas’s books can be categorized explicitly into dark romance so if you’re interested in reading romance novels that involve ugly twists and turns with erogenous and erotic scenes then Penelope Douglas books are what you need to buy right now.

This article brings you the list of Penelope Douglas books in order of release.

And this article will shed light on Penelope Douglas’s most popular books as well.

But before that let’s know a little bit about Penelope Douglas, the author.

Who is Penelope Douglas?

Penelope Douglas was born in Dubuque, Iowa.

Penelope Douglas is the oldest in the family of five children. She graduated in Public Administration from the University of Northern Iowa and then pursued a Master of Science in Education at Loyola University in New Orleans.

Penelope was shy and quiet as a kid but over time she realized she was not living her life to the fullest.

She thus traveled all by herself.

Penelope then worked as a teacher for eight years.

Penelope loves taboo, she likes reading taboo and writing it, and yes she does write non-taboo as well.

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She loves listening to music which she also considers her biggest inspiration.

She lives with her husband and has a daughter named Aydan.

Her books have been featured in the bestselling list of the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal.

List of books by Penelope Douglas

According to Penelope Douglas, the first books in all of her series are standalone novels.

And before you pick any other book from the middle of any of her series, you may want to read all prior books in that series.

Because the stories are interconnected and all the characters appear multiple times in every book of the series.

You would definitely miss the development of the characters if you picked a book from the middle of any of her series.

Devil’s Night Books in publishing order

  • Corrupt (2015)
  • Hide Away (2017)
  • Kill Switch (2019)
  • Conclave (2019) [ Novella which you must read before you read Night Fall ]
  • Night Fall (2020)
  • Fire Night (2020) [Novella which you will only understand if you read all 5 books of this series]
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Fall Away Books in publishing order

  • Bully (2013)
  • Until You (2013)
  • Rival (2014)
  • Falling Away (2015)
  • Aflame (2015) [ Novella which you must read before you read Night Fall ]
  • Adrenaline (2016)
  • The Next Flame (2017)
  • Next to Never (2017) [ Novella ]

Standalones

  • Misconduct (2015)
  • Punk 57 (2016) [ Novella ]
  • Birthday Girl (2018)
  • Credence (2020)
  • Tryst Six venom (2021)

Hell Bent Series in publishing order

  • Fall Away (2022)

Best Books by Penelope Douglas

Birthday Girl

Jordan is a beautiful and hardworking waitress who after a long day at work goes out. The day is her birthday, but her boyfriend is not answering her calls.

Jordan goes to see a show where she finds a man, a bit older than her who makes her feel important.

This man - Pike - is actually her boyfriend’s father. After knowing this fact, Jordan is shocked to the core.

Circumstances take a sharp turn when Jordan and her boyfriend get evicted from their apartment and they move to Pike’s house.

The twist in the tale appears when Jordan and Pike start liking each other.

Jordan knows that Pike listens to her, protects her, and takes good care of her but she is in a relationship with his son whose attention she craves.

If Jordan moves toward Pike, it will ruin everything.

Pike, on the other hand, is equally attracted to Jordan even when he knows he is thirty-eight and Jordan is only nineteen. And of course, he knows Jordan is in a relationship with his son.

Birthday Girl is an age-gap forbidden love saga that is nothing but a page-turner.

Punk 57

‘We were perfect together until we met’ is the phrase that best describes the storyline of Punk 57.

Punk 57 is a story about two pen-pals, Misha and Ryen, who got joined together as pen-pals in their childhood.

Since then they have been inseparable communicating with each other and telling each other about everything through letters. They have never met.

An accident occurs then and Misha stops replying to Ryen.

A boy named Masen then comes to Ryen’s school who bullies her and pisses her off in every way possible.

But Ryen doesn’t know Masen is actually Misha.

Ryen herself has not been honest in her letters.

She is popular and is a school bitch but in the letters, she has written to Misha, she has presented a humble image of herself. Ryen is basically everything that she has mentioned in her letters that she hates.

Bully

Tate and Jared were close friends since childhood.

But her best friend disappeared overnight and got replaced with a ruthless bully who doesn’t miss any chance of intimidating Tate.

Jared plays pranks on her and puts every effort to make her feel insignificant and trivial at school thus making the last two years of her high school torturous.

What hurts her most is that she doesn’t have an explanation for why he is doing so to her.

Even though Jared makes her life miserable at school in every way possible, Tate misses her old friend. She still looks into his eyes for the friend she once loved.

After spending a year at another school in another country, Tate comes back to her hometown for the final year of High school

But this time her spirit is different, she has got a new attitude. She is ready to fight back.

Corrupt (Devil’s Night Part 1)

Corrupt is about Erika Fane, who for some strange reason is called Rika.

Erika is in love with Micheal Crist who is the older brother of her ex-boyfriend, Trevor. Micheal was a hot affair back at school and he is now a professional basketball player.

Micheal behaves as if Rika doesn’t exist for her but she is in love with Micheal despite all this.

Rika believes that Micheal has always hated her.

She is in the process of going to a different city for her second year in college as she wants to go away from her mother - who is on drugs after the loss of Rika’s father - and Trevor who irritates Rika.

But there is a past attached to the story. When Rika was sixteen, Micheal invited Erika to the devil’s nights of pranks. She ended up hanging with the four horsemen, which was a group of Micheal and his three other friends - Kai, Will, and Damon.

Something awful happened on that night because of which Kai, Will, and Damon ended up in jail.

But now they are out and want revenge against Erika. Micheal already hates Rika so it is obvious he is going to side with his friends. What will happen now?

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Credence

Tiernan De Haas is the single girl child of a film producer and his starlet wife. Tiernan has all the money and wealth a person can dream of, but lacks parental love and care.

She was sent to boarding school at an early age.

Tiernan started feeling lonely and to add insult to injury, her parents’ fame followed her wherever she went.

Suddenly Tiernan’s parents pass away. She should be shocked and sad but this hasn’t had much impact on her as she has always been alone.

Tiernan is 2 months away from being eighteen. That’s when her step-uncle Jake Van Der Berg - her only living relative - becomes her guardian.

Tiernan thus ends up living in a remote place in the woods with Jake and his two sons Noah and Kaleb, that’s when things start stepping over the line.

Conclusion: Penelope Douglas list of books

Penelope Douglas's books are not for everyone.

If you’re looking out to read some new adult romance that is dark in nature with steamy scenes involved and of course with a flavor of taboo then Penelope Douglas’s books have the stories for you.

Penelope says that her favorite writers are Erin Morgenstern, Stieg Larsson, and Marie Lu.

Do you find any similarity between the stories of the books written by these talented writers and Penelope’s novels?

Do let me know what you think?

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