Rachel Caine

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  • Bibliography:
    67 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2003
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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About the Author

Roxanne Conrad, who wrote under the names Rachel Caine, Roxanne Longstreet and Julie Fortune, died on Sunday, November 1, 2020 at the age of 58.

She had been fighting an aggressive form of soft tissue sarcoma.

Conrad was best known as Rachel Caine and for her Weather Warden and Morganville Vampires series.

Full Series List in Order

A Benvolio Novel

1 - Prince of Shadows (Feb-2014)

The Great Library

1 - Ink and Bone (Jul-2015)
2 - Paper and Fire (Jul-2016)
3 - Ash and Quill (Jul-2017)
4 - Smoke and Iron (Jul-2018)
5 - Sword and Pen (Sep-2019)

Holly & Andy

0.33 - Death Warmed Over (Jul-2009)
0.66 - Holly's Balm (Jun-2012)

The Morganville Vampires

1 - Glass Houses (Oct-2006)
2 - The Dead Girls' Dance (Apr-2007)
3 - Midnight Alley (Oct-2007)
4 - Feast of Fools (Jun-2008)
5 - Lord of Misrule (Jan-2009)
6 - Carpe Corpus (Jun-2009)
7 - Fade Out (Nov-2009)
8 - Kiss of Death (May-2010)
9 - Ghost Town (Nov-2010)
10 - Bite Club (May-2011)
11 - Last Breath (Oct-2011)
12 - Black Dawn (May-2012)
13 - Bitter Blood (Nov-2012)
14 - Fall of Night (May-2013)
15 - Daylighters (Nov-2013)
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (Sep-2007)
Midnight Bites (Mar-2016)

Outcast Season

1 - Undone (Feb-2009)
2 - Unknown (Feb-2010)
3 - Unseen (Feb-2011)
4 - Unbroken (Feb-2012)

Red Letter Days

1 - Devil's Bargain (Aug-2005)
2 - Devil's Due (Jan-2006)

A Revivalist Novel

1 - Working Stiff (Aug-2011)
2 - Two Weeks' Notice (Aug-2012)
3 - Terminated (Aug-2013)

Stillhouse Lake

1 - Stillhouse Lake (Jul-2017)
2 - Killman Creek (Dec-2017)
3 - Wolfhunter River (Apr-2019)
4 - Bitter Falls (Jan-2020)
5 - Heartbreak Bay (Mar-2021)
6 - Trapper Road (Aug-2022)

Weather Warden

1 - Ill Wind (Dec-2003)
2 - Heat Stroke (Aug-2004)
3 - Chill Factor (Jan-2005)
4 - Windfall (Nov-2005)
5 - Firestorm (Sep-2006)
6 - Thin Air (Aug-2007)
7 - Gale Force (Aug-2008)
8 - Cape Storm (Aug-2009)
9 - Total Eclipse (Aug-2010)
10 - Shiny (Jun-2011)

Multi-Author Series List

Athena Force

18 - Line of Sight (Aug-2007)

Book List in Order: 67 titles

  • Ill Wind

    Weather Warden - 1

    RIDER ON THE STORM The Wardens Association has been around pretty much forever. Some Wardens control fire, others control earth, water, or wind--and the most powerful can control more than one element. Without Wardens, Mother Nature would wipe human...

  • Heat Stroke

    Weather Warden - 2

    APOCALYPTIC ATMOSPHERICS In Rachel Caine's tempestuous follow-up to Ill Wind--forecast as "a fun read" by bestselling author Jim Butcher--the Wardens Association still protects the human race from extermination by climatic extremes, when they're ...

  • Chill Factor

    Weather Warden - 3

    GAMBLING WITH HER LIFE In Rachel Caine's Ill Wind and Heat Stroke, Weather Warden extraordinaire Joanne Baldwin, who protects the human race from monster storms, was killed, reborn as a Djinn, and then restored to her original form. She's been thr...

  • Devil's Bargain

    Red Letter Days - 1
    Mills & Boon Intrigue - 616
    Silhouette Bombshell - 53

    NEVER TRUST A MAN BEARING RED ENVELOPES Jazz Callender -- don't ever call her Jasmine -- is an ex-cop with a goal: opening her own private detective agency and proving her former partner is innocent of murder. Too bad no one will lend her the mone...

  • Windfall

    Weather Warden - 4

    RUNNING ON EMPTY Leaving Las Vegas seemed like a great idea to Joanne Baldwin. But there's no escaping her past--and there's no time to recharge. The former Weather Warden's powers are at an all-time low just as the clouds of war are gathering--a...

  • Devil's Due

    Red Letter Days - 2
    Mills & Boon Intimate (Australia) - 716
    Mills & Boon Intrigue - 624
    Silhouette Bombshell - 73

    The money Lucia and her new partner received to open their detective agency had come with strings: any assignment delivered via red envelope had to be top priority. No sweat. No one could make Lucia do something she didn't believe in -- right? Wro...

  • Firestorm

    Weather Warden - 5

    THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE. Rogue Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is racing to New York to warn her former colleagues of the impending apocalypse. An ancient agreement between the Djinn and the Wardens has been broken, and the furious Djinn, slav...

  • Glass Houses

    The Morganville Vampires - 1

    WELCOME TO MORGANVILLE, TEXAS. DON'T STAY OUT AFTER DARK. It's a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad comes out. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows -- one that...

  • Dead Man's Chest

    in My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

    Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis---and weddings An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that questi...



  • The Dead Girls' Dance

    The Morganville Vampires - 2

    GOOD NEWS, GIRLS: YOUR DATES ARE HERE! Claire Danvers has her share of challenges -- like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm, and above all, finding out that her college town is ove...

  • Line of Sight

    Athena Force - 18

    After three Athena Academy students are kidnapped, FBI special agent Katie Rush is first on the scene. The Athena grad will stop at nothing to make sure the girls are returned safely--even if it means working with a psychic. This unconventional relat...

  • Thin Air

    Weather Warden - 6

    ON TOP OF THAT, IT WAS RAINING. Joanne Baldwin has had better days -- at least she hopes she has. After waking up naked and freezing in a forest, she's located by two rescuers she doesn't recognize at all. One supernaturally gorgeous guy might have...

  • The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

    in Many Bloody Returns
    The Morganville Vampires

    Includes an original Sookie Stackhouse story

    "Clever...entertaining... excellent"(Library Journal) original vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and more.

    From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone's ...

  • Midnight Alley

    The Morganville Vampires - 3

    MORGANVILLE IS SUCH A NICE PLACE TO LIVE... When Claire Danvers learned that her college town was run by vampires, she did what any intelligent, self-preserving freshman would do: She applied for a transfer and stocked up on garlic. The transfer is n...

  • Roman Holiday, or SPQ-Arrrrr

    in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon

    What newly married couple doesn't dream of a romantic retreat where they can escape the world for a while--but what happens when supernatural forces intrude on their wedded bliss? Nine of today's hottest paranormal authors answer that question in...

  • Feast of Fools

    The Morganville Vampires - 4

    In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans have learned to live in relative peace. Still, students like Claire Danvers know that after dark, studying can take a back-seat to staying alive. But the tenuous good-neighbor policy is really t...

  • Gale Force

    Weather Warden - 7

    Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is taking a vacation from her duties when her idyll is interrupted by her worst nightmare: a reporter from a legitimate newspaper. The last thing Joanne needs is someone exposing the supernatural world she inhabits. T...

  • Dead Man Stalking

    in Immortal: Love Stories With Bite

    In Immortal: Love Stories With Bite, edited by New York Times bestselling author of the House of Night series P.C. Cast, seven of today's most popular YA vampire and contemporary fantasy authors offer new short stories that prove when you're immortal...

  • Lord of Misrule

    The Morganville Vampires - 5

    MORGANVILLE, TEXAS. JUST SOUTH OF NORMAL. In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans have coexisted in (relatively) bloodless harmony...until the arrival of Bishop, a master vampire who threatens to put the evil back in evil undead and ...



  • Undone

    Outcast Season - 1

    "I was one of the Old Djinn, the First Djinn, who came before any human walked the earth. I was a spirit of fire and air, and Ashan cast me down to this heavy, crippling flesh...." Once she was a powerful Djinn. Then Cassiel defied her ruler, Asha...

  • Blue Crush

    in The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance

    Fall in love with the otherworldly If love transcends all boundaries, then paranormal romance is its logical conclusion. From the biggest names around, here are 24 tales to take you to another time and place. Let Alyssa Day, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Chey...

  • Carpe Corpus

    The Morganville Vampires - 6

    In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace--until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He's kept a death grip on the town ever sin...

  • Death Warmed Over

    in Strange Brew
    Holly & Andy - 0.33

    Today's hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic! In Charlaine Harris' "Bacon," a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line...

  • Cape Storm

    Weather Warden - 8

    OUT TO SEA Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin was supposed to be enjoying a romantic honeymoon with her new husband, the Djinn David -- not running from a malevolent hurricane bent on destroying her. Joined by an army of fellow Wardens and Djinn on board...

  • Fade Out

    The Morganville Vampires - 7

    IN MORGANVILLE, TEXAS, SOMEONE IS ALWAYS WATCHING. Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her f...

  • Unknown

    Outcast Season - 2

    For millennia, Cassiel was a powerful Djinn. But then she defied her ruler, who cast her out and reshaped her in human flesh as punishment. She found refuge among the Wardens -- and discovered that her perceived human weaknesses may be her greatest s...

  • Russian Roulette

    in The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance

    Stirring romance featuring the heroes of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, Air Force Pararescue, the Green Berets, the Army Rangers and other special forces: men and women who live and fight in extreme danger to preserve our freedoms, defenders and protec...

  • Kiss of Death

    The Morganville Vampires - 8

    LEAVING MORGANALLE, TEXAS, HAS NEVER BEEN EASY. LIVING OUTSIDE OF IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE. Vampire Michael Glass just received the call he's been waiting for all his life. His music has attracted the attention of a heavily connected music producer who ...

  • Even a Rabbit Will Bite

    in Dark and Stormy Knights

    It was a dark and stormy knight, and nine dark defenders embarked upon a most perilous quest….

    They're the ultimate defenders of humanity―modern day knights who do dark deeds for all the right reasons. In this all-star collection, nine o...



  • Total Eclipse

    Weather Warden - 9

    UNNATURAL DISASTER Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin has defeated her longtime enemy and saved the world -- again. But at what cost? Standing at ground zero for the last attack, Joanne, the Djinn David, and the Earth herself have been poisoned by a subs...

  • Ghost Town

    The Morganville Vampires - 9

    While developing a new system to maintain Morganville's defenses, student Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental powers. Through this, she's able to re-establish the field around this vampire-infested Texas college town that protect...

  • Unseen

    Outcast Season - 3

    For millennia, Cassiel was a powerful Djinn -- until she was exiled to live among mortals. Reluctant at first, she has grown affectionate toward her new human compatriots. But for one Warden in particular, she feels something much more powerful. Aft...

  • Bite Club

    The Morganville Vampires - 10

    After discovering that vampires populate her town, college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble. There's a new extreme sport getting picked up on the Interne...

  • Shiny

    in Chicks Kick Butt
    Weather Warden - 10

    Chicks are awesome -- and never more so than when they are kicking some serious vampire/werewolf/demon/monster butt. Chicks Kick Butt is an anthology that features one of the best things about the urban fantasy genre: strong, independent, and inte...

  • Working Stiff

    A Revivalist Novel - 1

    RACHEL CAINE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WEATHER WARDEN NOVELS, TAKES THE ZOMBIE GENRE BY STORM IN HER BRAND-NEW REVIVALIST SERIES. Bryn Davis knows working at Fairview Mortuary isn't the most glamorous career choice, but at least ...

  • Automatic

    in Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions

    A journey may take hundreds of miles, or it may cover the distance between duty and desire.

    Sixteen of today’s hottest writers of paranormal tales weave stories on a common theme of journeying. Authors such as Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Cai...

  • Last Breath

    The Morganville Vampires - 11

    With her boss preoccupied researching the Founder Houses in Morganville, student Claire Danvers is left to her own devices when she learns that three vampires have vanished without a trace. She soon discovers that the last person seen with one of the...

  • Unbroken

    Outcast Season - 4

    For millennia, Cassiel was a powerful Djinn-until she was exiled to live among mortals. Now the threat of an apocalypse looms, and Cassiel is in danger of losing everything she has come to hold dear... As the world begins to fall apart around her, C...

  • Black Dawn

    The Morganville Vampires - 12

    When a tide of ferocious draug, the vampire's deadliest enemy, floods Morganville, its eclectic mix of residents must fight to save their town from devastation. Chaos has taken over the quiet college town of Morganville as the threat of the draug rap...



  • Holly's Balm

    in Hex Appeal
    Holly & Andy - 0.66

    Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal…

     

    In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss -- or raise him back...

  • Two Weeks' Notice

    A Revivalist Novel - 2

    In New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine’s “thrilling”* Revivalist series, Bryn Davis finds out that making a living can be rough if you’re already dead... After dying and being revived with the experimental drug Returne, Bryn D...

  • The Great Debate

    From A New Dawn: Your Favorite Authors on Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Series: Completely Unauthorized: Rachel Caine explores, in the form of a debate between teen bloggers and a pair of academics, the "appropriateness" of the attraction young women fe...

  • Bitter Blood

    The Morganville Vampires - 13

    For years, the human and vampire residents of Morganville, Texas, have managed to co-exist in peace. But now that the threat to the vampires has been defeated, the human residents are learning that the gravest danger they face is the enemy within… ...

  • Fall of Night

    The Morganville Vampires - 14

    Thanks to its unique combination of human and vampire residents, Morganville, Texas, is a small college town with big-time problems. When student Claire Danvers gets the chance to experience life on the outside, she takes it. But Morganville isn’t ...

  • The Cold Girl

    in Carniepunk

    From the mesmerizing Carniepunk anthology, a vampire short story from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine -- the author who brought you the immensely popular Morganville Vampires series.When Kiley learns firsthand what evil lurks in the he...

  • Terminated

    A Revivalist Novel - 3

    In New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine's latest Revivalist novel, Bryn Davis's problems quickly turn from dead to worse... Already addicted to the pharmaceutical drug that keeps her body from decomposing, Bryn has to stop a secretive ...

  • Daylighters

    The Morganville Vampires - 15

    While Morganville, Texas, is often a troubled town, Claire Danvers and her friends are looking forward to coming home. But the Morganville they return to isn't the one they know; it's become a different place--a deadly one... Something drastic ha...

  • Forked Tongues

    in Kicking It

    Featuring stories by SHANNON K. BUTCHER * RACHEL CAINE * LUCIENNE DIVER * CHRIS MARIE GREEN * CHRISTINA HENRY * FAITH HUNTER * CHLOE NEILL * KALAYNA PRICE * ROB THURMAN
     
    New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine has modern-day potions wi...

  • Prince of Shadows

    A Benvolio Novel - 1

    n the Houses of Montague and Capulet, there is only one goal: power. The boys are born to fight and die for honor and -- if they survive -- marry for influence and money, not love. The girls are assets, to be spent wisely. Their wishes are of no impo...



  • Nobody's Business

    in Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse

    There’s more to Sookie Stackhouse than you ever knew…

    The #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris spawned a hit TV show and captivated fans around the world -- including other authors. Now this group of w...

  • Ink and Bone

    The Great Library - 1

    In an exhilarating new series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time.… Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library ...

  • Marion, Missing

    New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine brings the thrills in this paranormal noir story set in 1950s Fort Worth, Texas. The sign on the door used to say Valentine & Sands, Private Investigators ... but now it's just Valentine, and a ghost who...

  • Midnight Bites

    The Morganville Vampires

    New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine presents a collection of stories -- including six new tales -- featuring the little Texas town that’s overrun by the undead. WELCOME TO MORGANVILLE. YOU’LL NEVER WANT TO LEAVE. By day, Morgan...

  • Paper and Fire

    The Great Library - 2

    In Ink and Bone, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now, she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library -- and rewrite history... With an...

  • Ash and Quill

    The Great Library - 3

    The unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire unite to save the Great Library of Alexandria from itself in this electrifying adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Grea...

  • Stillhouse Lake

    Stillhouse Lake - 1

    Gina Royal is the definition of average -- a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor -- the ulti...

  • Killman Creek

    Stillhouse Lake - 2

    Every time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. Now her eyes are open, and he’s not going away. Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices...

  • Smoke and Iron

    The Great Library - 4

    To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. The opening moves of a deadly game have...

  • Wolfhunter River

    Stillhouse Lake - 3

    She can’t ignore a cry for help. But in this remote hunting town, it’s open season. Gwen Proctor escaped her serial-killer husband and saved her family. What she can’t seem to outrun is his notoriety. Or the sick internet vigilantes still se...

  • Sword and Pen

    The Great Library - 5

    With the future of the Great Library in doubt, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone must decide if it's worth saving in this thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. The corrupt leadership of the Great Library ha...

  • Bitter Falls

    Stillhouse Lake - 4

    She’s investigating a cold case no one else could -- by going places no else would dare. In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearan...

  • Heartbreak Bay

    Stillhouse Lake - 5

    An Amazon Charts and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling series.They’re hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists.A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into th...

  • Bridge of Shadows

    New York Times"Bestselling Author: In El Paso, Texas, tension grows between a doctor serving the undocumented and her ex-husband, a border patrol agent . . .   Dr. Ana Maria Ross Gutierrez runs a clinic near the Texas-Mexico bor...

  • Copper Moon

    A novel of romance, suspense, and supernatural terror in a small Texas town by the New York Times"bestselling author of the Stillhouse Lake series.   Abby Rhodes is a music teacher in small-town Texas, but she’s about to journey to places sh...

  • Exile, Texas

    New York Times"Bestselling Author: A woman long suspected of murder returns to her hometown as a PI -- and soon finds her own life at risk . . .   Most folks in Exile, Texas, think Megan Leary got away with murder. Megan was acq...

  • Trapper Road

    Stillhouse Lake - 6

    Sometimes danger comes from the most unexpected places.Gwen Proctor has always been willing to do anything it takes to protect her kids. But there are some things even she can't protect them from. When a violent incident at Connor's school brings the...

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Award-Winning Books by Rachel Caine

Line of Sight
2007 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Best Continuity


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rachel Caine has published 67 books.

Rachel Caine does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Trapper Road, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Rachel Caine, Ill Wind, was published in December 2003.

Yes. Rachel Caine has 9 series.
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