Amanda Ashley

Author Information
Amanda Ashley
  • Bibliography:
    56 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1995
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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About the Author

Madeline Ruth was born on 1963 in California, where she raised. She married her high school sweetheart and they have three sons, all handsome enough to be cover models, and the most beautiful, adorable, brilliant grandkids in the world. Madeline loves animals, over the years, she's had numerous diferent types of animals.

Madeline started writing when her children were still at home, and she wrote for several years, finding time to write after her children were in bed and her husband was at work. In true cliché fashion, she wrote the books and put them under the bed, never telling anyone what she was doing, until one day she let a friend read one. Encouraged by her friend's comments, and armed with a copy of Writer's Market supplied by said friend, Madeline began sending out query letters. After six years and 31 rejections, Leisure Books bought Reckless Heart, and she's been writing ever since. After writing several Westerns, Madeline decided to try her hand at something else and wrote her first vampire romance. It was a short story titled "Masquerade" for an anthology. She loved writing that so much that she wrote her first full-length vampire romance, Embrace the Night, and thus Amanda Ashley was born. Madeline loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her online at DarkWritr@aol.com or by mail at PO Box 1703, Whittier, CA 90609-1703.

Full Series List in Order

Bound

1 - Bound by Night (Sep-2011)
2 - Bound by Blood (Oct-2011)

Brynn Tor

1 - Donovan's Woman (Feb-2016)
2 - Quinn's Lady (Jul-2016)
2.5 - Quinn's Revenge: A Novella (Sep-2016)

Children of the Night

1 - Night's Kiss (Feb-2005)
2 - Night's Touch (Jul-2007)
3 - Night's Master (Oct-2008)
4 - Night's Pleasure (Feb-2009)
5 - Night's Mistress (Aug-2013)
6 - Night's Promise (Feb-2014)
7 - Night's Surrender (Aug-2015)
8 - Night's Illusion (Aug-2021)

Dead

1 - Dead Sexy (Feb-2007)
2 - Dead Perfect (Feb-2008)

Enchant

1 - Enchant the Night (Aug-2020)
2 - Enchant the Dawn (Aug-2022)

Everlasting

1 - Everlasting Kiss (Feb-2010)
2 - Everlasting Desire (Oct-2006)

Morgan Creek

1 - As Twilight Falls (May-2013)
2 - Twilight Dreams (Mar-2015)
3 - Twilight Desires (Sep-2018)
4 - Twilight Destiny (Jan-2023)

Vampires

1 - Shades of Gray (Jan-1998)
2 - After Sundown (Feb-2003)
3 - Desire After Dark (Feb-2006)

Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • Embrace the Night

    MASTER OF DARKNESS, MISTRESS OF LIGHT A creature doomed to wander the earth in eternal darkness, he searched the ages for someone to share the endless night of his existence, for that one woman who would recognize the man within the monster. An...

  • Deeper Than the Night

    The townsfolk of Moulton Bay said there was something otherworldly about Alexander Claybourne. Some people whispered that with his dark, arresting features and mesmerizing eyes, the seductive stranger looked every inch a vampire. They never guessed h...

  • Sunlight, Moonlight

    TWO HEROES AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY... TWO LOVE'STORIESAS DIFFERENT AS DAWN AND DUSK... SUNLIGHT He came from across the universe -- a tawny, powerful stranger more perfect than any mere mortal. Yet when Micah crash landed on earth, not eve...

  • A Darker Dream

    HEART OF DARKNESS In all his four hundred years, Rayven had never met a woman like Rhianna McLeod. She is a vision of light, or warmth, of everything he is not -- nor can ever be. Doomed to live forever in darkness and solitude, he knows all too ...

  • Shades of Gray

    Vampires - 1

    Alexi Bound by chains of silver, the vampire had slept for a hundred years, locked in a world of pain and hunger, until the seductive scent of one woman's blood recalled him to ravenous life. Marisa Unnerved by the sight of the carnival's ca...

  • The Captive

    They'd given him a number and taken away his name. Taken his freedom, his home, his family. Everything that made life worth living. But they couldn't take hope... and she came to him looking like an angel with hair the color of silver moonlight and e...

  • Midnight Embrace

    ANALISA... He whispers her name, and it echoes back to him on the wings of the night. She is so young, so alive. She radiates warmth and goodness, chasing the coldness from his being, banishing the loneliness from his soul. In four centuries of prow...

  • After Sundown

    Vampires - 2

    HE HAS BECOME WHAT HE ONCE DESTROYED Edward Ramsey has spent his life hunting vampires. Now he is one of them. Yet Edward's human conscience--and his heart--compel him to save beautiful Kelly Anderson, and soon their growing love is his reason for...

  • Midnight Pleasures



  • Darkfest

    in Midnight Pleasures

    Handsome and sensual, surrounded by an aura of danger, mystery, and the forbidden, a lover steps from the shadows. But is he mortal? Or is he an ancient god, a sorcerer, or a mythical beast who can possess a woman's heart... and her very soul? Fou...

  • A Whisper of Eternity

    In Amanda Ashley's compelling, lushly sensual novels, vampires exist alongside humans--but their desires are not relegated to the shadows. Now, a timeless passion is shattered by dangerous immortal ambition--unless an eternal kiss can hold back the d...

  • Born of the Night

    in Stroke of Midnight (St. Martin's)

    When Lady Shanara Montiori is taken hostage, she learns that the rumors about her captor are true. Lord Reyes is afflicted with the dark curse of the werewolf. Still, Shanara can't fight the attraction they both feel. Will their love break the curse-...

  • Night's Kiss

    Children of the Night - 1

    Enter the lush, sensual world of bestselling author Amanda Ashley...a place where vampires indulge their appetites, but find they can fall prey to love and desire. Now, an everlasting devotion is sparked across time and space, igniting a passionate a...

  • Desire After Dark

    Vampires - 3

    Sexy vampires, dangerous devotion, unparalleled romance--no one does desire after dark like bestselling author Amanda Ashley. Now, in her enthralling new novel, she explores a passion as smoldering as it is risky... Vicki Cavendish knows she should...

  • Everlasting Desire

    Everlasting - 2

    DESIRE BURNS FOREVER The clientele at Shore's clothing store includes some of L.A.'s sexiest bachelors. But none of them affects Megan DeLacey as deeply as the dark-eyed stranger who strides into her boutique one evening - and keeps returning, night...

  • Dead Sexy

    Dead - 1

    IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT The city is in a panic. In the still of the night, a vicious killer is leaving a trail of mutilated bodies drained of blood. A chilling M.O. that puts ex-vampire hunter Regan Delaney on the case, her gun clip packed with ...

  • Night's Touch

    Children of the Night - 2

    ONE KISS CAN SEAL YOUR FATE... Cara DeLongpre wandered into the mysterious Nocturne club looking for a fleeting diversion from her sheltered life. Instead she found a dark, seductive stranger whose touch entices her beyond the safety she's always ...

  • Dead Perfect

    Dead - 2

    BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR... Only a woman with nothing left to lose knocks on a vampire's door and asks for help. Shannah Davis is convinced that the mysterious dark-haired man she's followed for months can save her life--if he doesn't kill her...

  • The Music of the Night

    in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romances

    LOVE IS A WEAPON IN THE FACE OF EVIL From the biggest names in paranormal romance, here are over 25 tales of a hunger like no other. In the world of the Undead there are strange codes of conduct, dark rituals, and dating games, as they seduce the ...



  • Night's Master

    Children of the Night - 3

    Passion Has A Darker Side... Kathy McKenna was sure that the little Midwestern town of Oak Hollow would be isolated enough for safety, but the moment the black-clad stranger walked into her bookstore, she knew she was wrong. Raphael Cordova exudes s...

  • Night's Pleasure

    Children of the Night - 4

    Desire Casts A Dark Spell... Savanah Gentry's life was so much simpler when she was a reporter for the local newspaper. That was before her father's sudden death drew her into a mysterious new world she was just beginning to understand. A Vampire hu...

  • Immortal Sins

    DESIRE IS THE DARKEST MAGIC OF ALL Three centuries ago, vampire Jason Rourke succumbed to temptation with a wizard's lovely daughter -- and that brief taste of pleasure earned him a powerful curse. Trapped within a painting, unable to quench the hel...

  • Everlasting Kiss

    Everlasting - 1

    DESIRE NEVER DIES Daisy O'Donnell doesn't get the attraction some women feel for vampires. She likes her men with a heartbeat. And she's just met one who's full of life: Erik Delacourt, the unreasonably sexy man she keeps meeting at a popular L.A. n...

  • Blood & Moonlight

    in Blood & Moonlight

    Like dusk from dawn, like fire from frost, we are divided from you. From ancient Greece to small-town Louisiana, in Transylvania and the Night World, for eons we have wandered, alone. We live, and we sense you. Different, we are yet the same. We are ...

  • Bound by Night

    Bound - 1

    A Vampire's Kiss Is Forever... Once featured in a horror movie, the crumbling Wolfram estate is said to be haunted by ghosts, witches, and worse. But Elena doesn't believe a word of it -- until she spends the night and wakes up in the arms of a co...

  • Bound by Blood

    Bound - 2

    A Vampire's Love Is Eternal Zack Ravenscroft loves women -- all women -- and they love him. The irresistibly seductive owner of the hottest casino in Nevada, Zack has tasted every wicked pleasure Sin City can offer. But never in his six hundred year...

  • Sandy's Angel

    A woman doesn't find a near-naked man lying on the road every night, and especially not one who looks as good as this one. With a bump on his head and unable to remember much, he definitely needs her help. Sandy already has her own problems " a fai...

  • His Dark Embrace

    A Vampire’s Kiss. A Woman’s Surrender. Tall, dark, mysterious -- and with a faint scar on his cheek that only makes him more gorgeous -- Kaiden Thorne is one schoolgirl obsession Skylynn never forgot. Now, returning to her childhood home after...

  • Desire the Night

    A Vampire In Chains Held captive in a basement prison, wrapped in silver chains, the vampire Gideon is too weak to fight the monster who enslaves him. For years, she’s tapped his precious blood like a fountain of youth -- sustaining him with hum...



  • Masquerade

    A talented beauty.A tormented soul.A tortured love. He must see her again. Her resemblance to his long-ago love and her beauty lures him to Leanne, a singer in the cast of "The Phantom of the Opera". Jason Blackthorne pretends to be a cop when, in tr...

  • As Twilight Falls

    Morgan Creek - 1

    Photographing ghost towns across the American West, Kadie Andrews takes a wrong turn and ends up in Morgan Creek -- a spot that isn’t on the map. It’s a quaint little place, but there’s something off about its complacent residents. And when twi...

  • Night's Mistress

    Children of the Night - 5

    Mara. She is mysterious, alluring, a creature of the night, torn between two unforgettable men. . . Kyle Bowden. A gorgeous, golden-haired artist full of passion and life, Kyle is ready to give his soul to Mara--until he learns her terrible secret...

  • Midnight and Moonlight

    A fairie of the light... A creature of the night... Romance and intrigue across dimensions... A young woman in need of rescue and shelter awakens Devlin Andreas. He soon discovers this beauty is not as she appears and is embroi...

  • Maiden's Song

    ~ A tale of Fantasy Romance from bestselling author Amanda Ashley ~ Queen Angeline lays writhing in the throes of childbirth, and only the magical power of a unicorn’s horn can save her. Tasked with obtaining the unicorn’s horn, Shandra, handmai...

  • Night's Promise

    Children of the Night - 6

    For beautiful heiress Sheree West, vampires are more than a fantasy. They are an obsession. Night after night, she dresses in black and immerses herself in L.A.'s goth club scene. Searching for a lover who is more than a man. A creature of the dark w...

  • Sunlight

    Lainey has no idea what she is in for when she is drawn to the old, spooky house, but something is calling to her. How was she to know that Micah, an alien from Xanthia, would be waiting for her there. Sweeter than any man she’s met, they must work...

  • Moonlight

    Navarre is struggling with his lifetime of solitude. Turned into a vampire long ago, he longs to meet a woman who will love him. Little does he know, she waits for him in a local bookstore. And when he finds her, he’ll never let her go....

  • Beauty's Beast

    BEAUTY Fair of face and figure, Kristine is young, innocent, pure. Yet she has been condemned to the gallows for killing a man. The only one who can save her is a lord so infamous that some say he is the son of the Devil himself. . . AND THE BE...

  • Twilight Dreams

    Morgan Creek - 2

    “A tender paranormal romance exploring love and family ties, and it’s tinged with intrigue and vengeance” from the bestselling author of As Twilight Falls (Publishers Weekly). Holly Parrish has never met anyone like Micah Ravenwood: his da...



  • Night's Surrender

    Children of the Night - 7

    Aspiring actress Abbey Marie Cordova knows more than most people do about vampires -- she was born among them, the only human child in a centuries-old family of the undead, and determined to stay that way. But a chance encounter with dark, mysterious...

  • Donovan's Woman

    Brynn Tor - 1

    Gryff Donovan is on the run from the witch, Serepta, who had once enslaved him. Marri, future Queen of Brynn Tor, is on the run, hiding from her brother, Artur, who intends to kill her, thereby removing his only obstacle to the throne. A chance...

  • Quinn's Lady

    Brynn Tor - 2

    CAUGHT BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL Cursed by the dark witch, Serepta, the vampire known as Quinn spends years trapped in stone until a second witch frees him. Seleena is a white witch, determined to save Serepta from the dark path she has chosen, a p...

  • Quinn's Revenge: A Novella

    Brynn Tor - 2.5

    With the death of the evil witch, Serepta, Quinn and Seleena were ready to settle down and raise their son. Until a new evil reared its head. Wyrick, a formidable wizard, is stealing children born with magical powers in order to strengthen his cov...

  • Fire in the Blood

    “I see a man. He is old. Very old. He will come into your life in a moment of danger. He will watch over you and protect you.” The gypsy’s hand gripped Tessa’s tighter. “He will bring you death,” she whispered, her voice like the rustle o...

  • Seasons of the Night

    Seasons of the Night Four Paranormal Short Stories by NY Times Bestselling Author Amanda Ashley Heart’s Desire - Bethany Frasier is a true romantic, until her boyfriend breaks her heart on Valentine’s Day. She thinks it’s because he doesn’t l...

  • Twilight Desires

    Morgan Creek - 3

    Sofia Ravenwood was once fascinated by vampires -- their seductive power, their inhuman strength, their dark desires. Then one of them attacked her family, and she threw out her goth attire and vowed to keep clear of her enemies. Until she heard abou...

  • Hold Back the Dawn

    London’s diversions hold no charm for Roan Cabrera. Despite his reputation as a scoundrel, he’s in high demand among the city’s most eligible young women. And though their blood can quench his undying thirst, none of them can fill the emptiness...

  • Everlasting Embrace

    Love comes in many guises. Little does Rylee Wagner realize that her chance encounter with a stranger on the beach will turn her whole life upside down. Her heart goes out to Alex when she learns he's mourning the deaths of his wife and unborn child....

  • Enchant the Night

    Enchant - 1

    In the arms of a centuries-old vampire, a woman awakens to newfound passion -- and magical powers of her own. Hungarian vampires are born, not made -- and can breed with mortal females. Being one of the oldest of his kind, Quill Falconer has hone...



  • Dark of the Moon

    Jim Hewitt has earned his living as a vampire hunter his whole adult life, until one fateful night when the hunter becomes the hunted. Now a fledgling vampire trying to accept his new life, he changes his name to Travis Black and moves to Susandale, ...

  • In the Dark of the Night

    In a time of desperation, Lorena Halliday's father sells her into service to wealthy Lord Fairfield. After years of servitude and unwanted sexual advances, Lorena finds the courage to run away, only to be accosted by a man with a knife.Standing on th...

  • Surrender the Dawn

    Angelina Rossi has always been fascinated with vampires. She loves the movies, the TV shows, the books. After reading a love story between a woman and a vampire, she finds herself yearning for a love like that. What if vampires really do exist?Determ...

  • Night's Illusion

    Children of the Night - 8

    One of the most trusted and innovative voices in paranormal romance, New York Times bestselling author Amanda Ashley, brings readers a sensually charged, witty and romantic novel about an ancient vampire searching for his perfect soulmate. Giovann...

  • Enchant the Dawn

    Enchant - 2

    Desire. Danger. Deception. The scion of the Falconer vampire clan inspires them all… When a mysterious man rescues Madison Bainbridge from a random attack, she sees only his broad shoulders, his gray eyes, his kindness. But as she gets to know D...

  • Midnight Enchantment

    Liliana Falconer is hoping to find some excitement when she goes to stay with her great-grandmother Ava in New Orleans. The only daughter of a powerful Hungarian vampire and a witch, Lily has been sheltered and protected her whole life.While strollin...

  • Twilight Destiny

    Morgan Creek - 4

    Book 4 in the Morgan Creek Series.Rosa Ravenwood wants to be a vampire. One of her brothers and her sister are both vampires. Why don't they want her to be one, too? Determined to find a vampire who will turn her, she goes to Morgan Creek to see Ryla...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Amanda Ashley has published 56 books.

Amanda Ashley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Twilight Destiny, was published in January 2023.

The first book by Amanda Ashley, Embrace the Night, was published in August 1995.

Yes. Amanda Ashley has 8 series.
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