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Christina Dodd
  • Bibliography:
    86 Books (17 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1991
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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About the Author

Christina Dodd is a New York Times bestselling author of romantic suspense, historical romance and paranormal fiction. Dodd was raised by a hard-working single mother who took the time to read to her children every day. Christina went to college in Boise, Idaho where she met Scott, her husband. While she was working as a draftsman for an engineering firm, she would read romance novels during lunch and rewrite the endings later in the day. When her daughter was born in 1980, she made the decision to stay home and attempt to write. Ten years later, she had written three romance novels. Her first two manuscripts were rejected, but the third, Candle in the Window, was accepted and published. She writes Regency period historical romances, contemporary romances and paranormal romances.

Full Series List in Order

Alaska

0.5 - The Right Motive: A Novella (Nov-2020)
1 - Wrong Alibi (Jan-2021)

Bella Terra Deception

1 - Secrets of Bella Terra (Aug-2011)
2 - Revenge at Bella Terra (Sep-2011)
3 - Betrayal (Apr-2012)

Cape Charade

0.5 - Hard to Kill: A Novella (Aug-2018)
1 - Dead Girl Running (Apr-2018)
1.5 - Families and Other Enemies: A Novella (Jan-2019)
2 - What Doesn't Kill Her (Feb-2019)
2.5 - Hidden Truths (Sep-2019)
3 - Strangers She Knows (Sep-2019)

Castles

1 - Candle in the Window (Apr-1991)
2 - Castles in the Air (Jul-1993)

Chosen Ones

1 - Storm of Visions (Aug-2009)
2 - Storm of Shadows (Sep-2009)
3 - Chains of Ice (Jul-2010)
4 - Chains of Fire (Sep-2010)
4.5 - Stone Angel (Jun-2012)
5 - Wilder (Aug-2012)

Darkness Chosen

1 - Scent of Darkness (Jul-2007)
2 - Touch of Darkness (Aug-2007)
3 - Into The Shadow (Jul-2008)
4 - Into the Flame (Aug-2008)
4.5 - Wilder Family Halloween (Oct-2013)

Daughter of Montague

1 - A Daughter of Fair Verona (Jun-2024)

Fortune Hunters

1 - Trouble in High Heels (Aug-2006)
2 - Tongue In Chic (Feb-2007)
3 - Thigh High (Nov-2005)
4 - Danger in a Red Dress (Mar-2009)
4.5 - Gabriel's Gift: A Lost Hearts Christmas Story (Nov-2014)

Good Knights

1 - Once A Knight (Feb-1996)
2 - A Knight to Remember (Apr-1996)

Governess Brides

1 - That Scandalous Evening (Sep-1998)
2 - Rules of Surrender (Mar-2000)
3 - Rules of Engagement (Oct-2000)
4 - Rules of Attraction (Mar-2001)
5 - In My Wildest Dreams (Oct-2001)
6 - Lost in Your Arms (Mar-2002)
7 - My Favorite Bride (Sep-2002)
7.5 - The Third Suitor (Jun-2005)
8 - My Fair Temptress (Oct-2005)
9 - In Bed with the Duke (Mar-2010)
10 - Taken by the Prince (Apr-2011)
11 - A Pirate's Wife for Me (Feb-2015)

Last Seen in Gothic

0.5 - Welcome to Gothic (Jan-2023)
1 - Point Last Seen (Jul-2022)
2 - Forget What You Know (Mar-2023)

Lost Princesses

1 - Some Enchanted Evening (Jul-2004)
2 - The Barefoot Princess (Feb-2006)
3 - The Prince Kidnaps a Bride (Dec-2006)

Lost Texas Hearts

1 - Just the Way You Are (Jun-2003)
2 - Almost Like Being in Love (May-2004)
3 - Close to You (Mar-2005)

Princess

1 - The Runaway Princess (Feb-1999)
2 - Someday My Prince (Jul-1999)

Switching Places

1 - Scandalous Again (Feb-2003)
2 - One Kiss from You (Nov-2003)

Virtue Falls

0.5 - The Listener (Jul-2014)
1 - Virtue Falls (Sep-2014)
1.5 - The Relatives (Apr-2015)
2 - Obsession Falls (Sep-2015)
2.5 - Love Never Dies (Mar-2016)
3 - Because I'm Watching (Sep-2016)
3.5 - The Watcher (Aug-2017)
4 - The Woman Who Couldn't Scream (Sep-2017)
A Dark and Stormy Night (Oct-2016)

Well Pleasured

1 - A Well Pleasured Lady (Aug-1997)
2 - A Well Favored Gentleman (Mar-1998)
3 - Under the Kilt (Jun-1999)

Book List in Order: 86 titles



  • Two lovers ignite a world of darkness with their wild, breathless passion. Raven-haired Lady Saura of Roget was the love lest maiden in all Christendom, unrivalled in face and figure. Yet her fortune and her day-to-day existence were controlled by...



  • A PASSION AS FIERCE AS THE LAND THAT CLAIMED THEM Black-eyed Damian de la Sola was like no mane Katherine Maxwell had ever known. Fierce and seductive, the aristocratic Spaniard unleashed a passion the Boston beauty knew she must resist. De la ...



  • SWEPT AWAY She was one of the celebrated Sirens of Ireland, a captivating creature of fiery spirit. Bronwyn Edana stunned titled society with her courageous exploits and daring adventures. Yet in nobeleman Adam Keane, she met her match. From the m...



  • THE PERFECT BUTLER Reid Donovan was not surprised to find a butler serving his grandfather. At the age of ninety-two, the head of Donovan Corporation deserved a household staff. What shocked Reid was the fact that his grandfather's majordomo was a s...



  • THEY WERE BOUND BY THEIR KING, BUT TORN APART BY THEIR PASTS The document, sealed by King Henry himself, commanded Lady Juliana of Lofts to marry Raymond, Count of Avrache. She refused. It was unheard of to defy one's king, but truly, she coul...



  • A SECRET WORTH A KINGDOM She was tall and lovely, crowned with a flaming mane of red hair, but Lady Marian's delicate beauty lent no value to the powerful strength within her. When Elizabeth, her beloved queen and dearest friend since childhood, c...



  • "You're going to be mine." Those were the last words Rose heard from young Thorn Maxwell before her testimony sent him off to jail. Now he was back, handsome and bold as you please...and intent on keeping his promise....



  • CURTAIN UP Rosie lived a knave's life on the streets of London, singing for her supper with a ragtag band of actors who were always one step ahead of the law. It was a credit to her thespian skills everyone thought she was a boy. But even Rosie...



  • COULD HER LOVE HEAL HIS DAMAGED SOUL? Sylvan Miles dreaded the moment she'd see Lord Rand Malkin again. Once a dashing rogue, he'd returned from a battle a changed man. Sylvan, too, has suffered. Sharpened by scandal and tragedy, she vows to heal ...






  • Known throughout England for his bold cunning and magnificent feats of daring, the sensual rogue called the Seamaster is undone by a saucy seamstress who steals into his room on a mission of revenge ... until the Seamaster's first kiss awakens scanda...



  • A LADY'S CHAMPION Only a threat to her life could have made strong-willed Lady Alisoun hire Sir David of Radcliffe to protect her castle. Although he had once been a hero and master swordsman, the good life had been a little too good to the lord, ...



  • HIS POWER MATCHED HER PRIDE Fallen from grace and sheltered in a convent, Lady Edlyn is a skilled herbalist forced to secretly tend the wounds of Hugh de Florisoun. A knight renowned for his prowess on the battlefield and in the bedchamber, Hugh i...



  • A PROPER SPINSTER Prim, plain, desperately virtuous Lady Mary Fairchild stared at the seductive gentleman and wondered--did he remember the elements of the night they met? Surely not. In the ten years since, she had abandoned her youthful impetuousn...



  • A LADY OF MYSTERY Where has she been? The rumors fly throughout the Scottish countryside about Lady Alanna, the beautiful and mysterious displaced mistress of Fionnaway Manor. And now she has emerged from hiding, only to find her beloved estate be...



  • A DISASTROUS SEASON A simple statue began the scandal. A LADY CONCEALED An innocent English miss conceived of it, her hands gliding across the clay, delineating each smoothly defined muscle and sinew, creating a sculpture of the man she worshipp...



  • MASQUERADE English orphan Miss Evangeline Scoffield has spent her life contenting herself with dreams. But with an unforeseen inheritance, she can afford one perfect summer--a summer she will spend the rest of her life remembering. She buys hersel...



  • BOUND FOR THE ALTAR IN A LAND OF STRONG PASSIONS AND WILD BEAUTY Displaying the bold and breathtaking sensuality that is her hallmark, bestselling author CHRISTINA DODD enthralls us with the tale of a willful Scottish beauty--kidnapped by an arro...



  • THE PRINCESS MUST MARRY Princess Laurentia leads a fairy-tale life, attending glittering balls and wearing beautiful gowns. But after the ball is over, Laurentia finds herself getting into bed...alone. She dutifully agrees to choose a husband, but...



  • The Rules of Employment for The Distinguished Academy of Governesses Always remember your station; after all, you are higher than the house servants but certainly not a member of the family. Be sure to maintain a disciplined schoolroom and to take y...






  • The Rules of Engagement: Choose a bride from this year's debutantes. Decide on a proper settlement. Send an announcement to The Times. Inform the bride of her good fortune. Rules of Respectability Devon Mathewes, earl of Kerrich, has a plan...



  • The Rules of Enticement: A woman should never surrender to a man Without knowing his intentions. A man should never seduce a woman For the purposes of revenge. Rules of Society After nine years, Hannah Setterington has decided to sell the Dis...



  • Since she was a little girl, Celeste has had one burning desire: to marry Ellery Throckmorton. But what chance does a gardener's daughter have of capturing the heart of one of England's wealthiest gentlemen? However, the education she receives at the...



  • A GROOM WHO CAN'T REMEMBER. A BRIDE WHO WANTS DESPERATELY TO FORGET. Enid MacLean is finally living a peaceful life when she receives word that an explosion has injured the husband she hoped she'd never have to see again. Reluctantly, she agrees ...



  • From two of romance fiction's most exciting and acclaimed authors comes the sizzling saga of a magnificent bed and the lovers who have shared it through the ages. Collaborating for the first time, Christina Dodd and Connie Brockway take readers on an...



  • From two of romance fiction's most exciting and acclaimed authors comes the sizzling saga of a magnificent bed and the lovers who have shared it through the ages. Collaborating for the first time, Christina Dodd and Connie Brockway take readers on an...



  • When Miss Samantha Prendregast arrives at Devil's Fell to take charge of six rebellious girls, the vibrant, outspoken governess is not quite prepared to deal with the tall, dark and dashing master of the grand estate. The children she can manage with...



  • Two exquisite cousins must exchange identities in a scandalous deception. Madeline de Lacy, the duchess of Magnus, prides herself on being one of the most sensible young women in England, which is why she can't believe that, in a turn of the card...



  • When Hope Prescott's parents disappeared, her carefree teenage life vanished forever. She and her three siblings were separated and sent to different foster homes around the country. Now, seven years later, Hope is still searching for them. To suppor...



  • A bold woman known as the "duchess of Magnus" was wagered -- and won -- in a card game. But the woman who arrived was her shy, quiet cousin Eleanor. Eleanor de Lacy must have been mad to agree to exchange identities with her stronger-will...






  • As the middle child, Pepper Prescott's rebellious nature helped her survive when her parents disappeared and she and her siblings were sent to different foster homes around the country. Now an independent young woman, Pepper finds herself on the ...



  • Once upon a time, high in the Pyrenees Mountains, there were two happy and prosperous kingdoms. In one kingdom, a son was born and declared the crown prince. In the other kingdom, three daughters were raised in royal splendor. This is the story of...



  • Who knows the truth about her family? Who wants to keep her past hidden forever? Caitlin Prescott was only a baby when her parents disappeared. Adopted by a wealthy Texas oil family, she became Kate Montgomery, and grew up with no memory of her p...



  • Dear Avon, Thank you, thank you, for bringing back the men I love in your wonderful anthology Where's My Hero? But it's simply not enough! The pages of my favorite romance novels are still packed with breathtaking gentlemen who, though they played...



  • LEARN HOW TO FLIRT IN TEN LESSONS OR LESS! Miss Caroline Ritter, accomplished flirt, acknowledged beauty, and ruined gentlewoman, offers lessons to any rich, noble lord too inept to attract a wife. Discard your silly affectations and your garish c...



  • Nessa Dahl always had the good sense to steer clear of trouble. Then Jeremiah MacNaught showed up in New Orleans, determined to get to the bottom of a string of bank robberies by two women wearing Mardi Gras masks. Little does Nessa realize that the ...



  • Once upon a time...in a kingdom high in the Pyrenees, three young princesses were forced to flee the chaos in their land -- vanishing without a trace and lost to their people...until the day a courageous prince can bring each princess home. Life i...



  • When Brandi Michaels discovers her fiance hopping a flight to Vegas to marry his girlfriend, she pawns her engagement ring, buys herself a fabulous outfit and spends one sultry night in the arms of a gorgeous Italian stranger named Roberto Bartolini....



  • Once upon a time...three princesses were forced to flee their kingdom in the Pyrenees -- vanishing without a trace -- until the day a prince can bring each princess home. Betrothed in the cradle, Princess Sorcha and Prince Rainger were destine...



  • GETTING IN WAS THE EASY PART.... How can one little lie land Meadow Szarvas in such trouble? Sure, Devlin Fitzwilliam catches her breaking into his mansion to steal a priceless painting. And, yes, in sheer desperation she tells him she has amnesia...






  • From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes the seductive Darkness Chosen series, about an ancient, dark evil that lives in the modern world.... A thousand years ago, a brutal warrior roamed the Russian steppes and struck a sinister ...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes the second book of Darkness Chosen, a seductive series about an ancient, dark evil that lives in the modern world.... A thousand years ago, a brutal warrior struck a terrifying bargain. I...



  • In return for the ability to transform into a heartless predator, a brutal warrior promised his soul -- and the souls of his descendants -- to the devil. Now, one thousand years later, the Wilder brothers battle the darkness inside themselves. Ble...



  • Roaming the Russian steppes a thousand years ago, a brutal warrior struck a terrifying deal. In exchange for the ability to transform into a heartless predator, he promised his soul-- and the souls of his descendants--to the devil. Ruggedly handso...



  • A riveting family drama unfolds in Maine and Texas as York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd delivers a novel of secrets, lies, and passion... Down on her luck and desperate for work, beautiful Hannah Grey finds herself in a mansion on the w...



  • New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd delivers a seductive new paranormal series about an ancient rivalry that lives in the world today.... When the world was young, twins were born. One brought light to a dark world; the other, darkness ...



  • When the world was young, twins were born. One brought light to a dark world; the other, darkness and danger. They gathered others around them, men and women destined to use their powerful gifts for good or evil. Today, their descendants walk the ear...



  • Demure lady's companion Emma Chegwidden never defies society’s rules. Until the night she runs straight into the arms of the mysterious and menacing Reaper . . . a man who rides the night-shadowed countryside and conceals his identity behind a mask...



  • An innocent woman is trapped between two rivals in a battle of good and evil in a new novel of the Chosen Ones. For one magic summer, Genny Valente escapes to spend time as a wildlife observer in the untamed mountains. Little does she know that beas...



  • Two lovers are torn apart by betrayal and reunited by... Samuel Faa, the adopted son of servants, is a Gypsy lawyer with the power to control minds. Isabelle Mason, of the Boston Masons, is wealthy, privileged, and refined, and she has the gift for ...






  • Lovely Victoria Cardiff is very prim, very strict, very sure that England is the only civilized place in the world. She’s about to find out she’s right. Only Victoria knows the truth about dashing, dissolute, dangerous Saber Lawrence -- that he ...



  • A PRICE LESS BOTTLE OF WINE, TWO POWERFUL FAMILIES, AND A PRECIOUS PINK DIAMOND LOST FOR THREE GENERATIONS. The three dynamic Di Luca brothers are tormented by their memories of the past. Brooding and sexy Rafe Di Luca has returned to his family's...



  • TWO POWERFUL FAMILIES, A PRICELESS BOTTLE OF WINE, AND A PRECIOUS PINK DIAMOND LOST FOR THREE GENERATIONS COLLIDE IN THIS SUSPENSEFUL ROMANCE SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CHRISTINA DODD.... Ruthless Eli Di Luca hides the torment o...



  • At nineteen, Noah Di Luca was Bella Terra's golden boy, handsome, confident, and untouched by the shadows that tormented his brothers...or so it seems. Driven by ambition, beautiful teenage Penelope Alonso fought her way out of the ghettos. During on...



  • Amanda Reed has been given an ultimatum: risk her life as a madman’s spy or her young sister will live out her life frozen in stone, a decorative statue in a wizard’s cold mansion. To free her sister, Amanda needs help, help only one man can prov...



  • Christina Dodd brings you her classic Regency historical novella, rewritten and updated for your ebook reading pleasure...Miss Laura Haver is a spinster and a seamstress ... and a woman bent on revenge. After her brother was killed while seeking the ...



  • Only beloved author Christina Dodd could bring you the explosive paranormal excitement of the Chosen Ones combined with Aleksandr Wilder's story ... and redemption... As a young man, Aleksandr Wilder abandoned his duty--and for that lapse, he was ...



  • The knight’s plan is simple. Kidnap the maiden. Take her back to the castle. Marry her. Use her fortune to care for his estate. Only one thing could possibly go wrong: he could steal the wrong woman, and find his own heart is stolen…New York Time...



  • The man in her house is a stranger to her, a danger to her … and the one man she should never love. What events of passion and peril could occur on this, their last night at historic Masterson Manor?New York Times bestseller Christina Dodd brings y...



  • Several years ago, when I wrote WILDER FAMILY HALLOWEEN, I loved revisiting the Wilder family and discovering what happened after Darkness Chosen. This year, I updated the story, and posted it for *free* on my website for October. I’m also posting ...



  • A once in a lifetime romance...one bewitching bed…four captivating couples…two enthralling authors… Once Upon a Pillow tells the story of the magnificent Masterson bed and the passionate lovers who share it through the ages. This sparkling nove...



  • From bestselling author Christina Dodd comes The Listener, a story of mystery and intrigue in which misfit and computer security expert Cornelia Markum hacks into a text conversation between unidentified Virtue Falls residents … and realizes she’...



  • Twenty-three years ago, in the isolated coastal town of Virtue Falls, Washington, four year old Elizabeth Banner witnessed her mother's brutal murder. Elizabeth's father was convicted of killing Misty and sentenced to prison. Elizabeth was sent to li...



  • New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd first introduced you to Gabriel Prescott in her beloved Lost Hearts series. She continued his story throughout the suspenseful Fortune Hunters series and at last, in DANGER IN A RED DRESS, readers rejo...



  • Caitlin MacLean of Scotland is proud to announce her graduation from The Distinguished Academy of Governesses. She specializes in the womanly arts of housekeeping, picking locks, and overthrowing ruthless dictators, and looks forward to attaining a p...



  • New York Times Bestseller Christina Dodd brings you an all-new e-short story in her acclaimed Virtue Falls suspense series with...THE RELATIVES!What would you do when uninvited relatives drop by your home and stay ... ...



  • In Obsession Falls, New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd returns to the town of Virtue Falls, Washington-an idyllic place on the surface, but one that holds close its secrets... When Taylor Summers witnesses the death threat to a young...



  • A murder committed. A love lost. A ghost haunted by his past. Only one woman can right all the wrongs… If she can survive the night…...



  • She had survived, but she is still held captive... Of her memories, her loneliness, her delusions. But are they truly delusions? The survivor of a college dorm massacre, a woman accused of her lover's murder, Madeline Hewitson is haunted by ghost...



  • From this “master of the genre,” Christina Dodd, comes three suspenseful short stories of this “remarkable, mesmerizing series”(Library Journal starred review) set in the quaint -- and deadly -- coastal town of Virtue Falls…THE LISTENER: Mi...



  • When Sheriff Kateri Kwinault gets a call about something strange happening at the local boys' and girls' summer camp, she finds herself telling a scary story that might be a little too close to the truth......



  • Merida Falcon is a world-class beauty, a trophy wife who seems to have it all...except she has no voice. For nine bitter years, Merida lived to serve her wealthy elderly husband, never leaving his side, always doing his bidding... On his death,...



  • I have three confessions to make: 1. I've got the scar of a gunshot on my forehead. 2. I don't remember an entire year of my life. 3. My name is Kellen Adams...and that's half a lie. Girl running...from a year she can't remember, from a husband...



  • When Captain Kellen Adams receives a job offer that sounds too good to be true, she finds herself balanced between fascination and fear. All she has to do is break a code and find a long-lost fortune…or die trying. New York Times bestselling aut...



  • I still don't remember, but I know what happened now. Kellen Adams has fought battles, saved lives and earned the respect of her colleagues and the love of her friends. But now can she triumph against the greatest challenge of her life--her f...



  • One secret, one nightmare, one lie. You guess which is which. 1. I have the scar of a gunshot on my forehead. 2. I have willfully misrepresented my identity to the US military. 3. I'm the new mother of a seven-year-old girl. Kellen Adams suffe...



  • I have three deadly problems: 1. I've seriously offended a maniacal killer. 2. I just had a bullet removed from my brain. 3. My new daughter is growing up too fast--and she's in the line of fire. Living on an obscure, technology-free island off...



  • His new bride, Kellen, hovers between life and death. A convicted serial killer threatens their child. Max Di Luca goes on the hunt... What would you do to protect your family?...



  • It’s just another Tuesday in Rockin, Alaska: one bear cub, two Bigfoot sightings, three corrupt law officers and a sting operation that will test new police officer Gabriella Donatti to the limits. Right Motive is an all-new stand-alone novella ...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes an all-new thriller featuring a bold and brash female protagonist, a brutal and twisty murder that will have readers turning the pages and a villain that will have them keeping the lights on...



  • Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Karin Slaughter and Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd’s all-new thriller, POINT LAST SEEN, will have readers keeping the lights on all night. LIFE LAST SEEN When you’ve already d...



  • For fans of Lisa Jewell and Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd welcomes you to Gothic, California--the mysterious town with a foggy history. Welcome to the past. At the glittering heart of Hollywood's golden e...



  • Perfect for fans of Karen Slaughter, Lisa Jewell, and Sandra Brown comes a brand-new heartstoppingly suspenseful thriller from New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd... A submerged car is pulled from the bottom of the lake. The driver h...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes a twisty emotional thriller about a woman’s perilous quest for revenge, perfect for fans of Sandra Brown, Jayne Ann Krentz, and Lisa Jewell. Never whisper the truth. Never reveal the p...



  • I’m the eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet. Yes, that Romeo and Juliet. No, they didn’t die in the tomb. They’re alive and well and living in fair Verona with their six wildly impetuous children and me, their nineteen-year-old daughter Rosalin...



  • West Side Story meets The Godfather in this intense thriller from New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd. A deadly blast sends a woman into hiding to escape a long-standing family feud… Four-year-old Maarja Daire saw her mother ignite a ...



  • The delightfully irreverent eldest daughter of the not-so-ill-fated Romeo and Juliet returns to sleuth another day in fair Verona, in this hugely entertaining historical mystery series with a refreshingly bold premise.“Woe, for I am the bug tha...


Award-Winning Books by Christina Dodd

Candle in the Window
1991 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- First Medieval Romance
1992 Rita Award -- First Book
That Scandalous Evening
1998 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Innovative Historical Romance
Virtue Falls
2014 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Paranormal Romantic Suspense


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Christina Dodd has published 86 books.

The next book by Christina Dodd, Thus with a Kiss I Die, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Christina Dodd, Candle in the Window, was published in April 1991.

Yes. Christina Dodd has 17 series.