Below is the complete list of Cynthia Eden’s Bad Things books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Bad Things Books
About Bad Things
Cynthia Eden’s Bad Things series is a paranormal romance sequence built around creatures who would normally occupy the villain’s role: devils, vampires, shifters, reapers, fallen angels, muses, dragons, witches, and other powerful supernatural beings. Rather than dividing its world neatly between heroes and monsters, the series repeatedly asks what happens when characters with dangerous abilities, violent histories, or questionable reputations become the people someone else must trust. The official sequence contains eight novels, published between 2016 and 2018.
The opening novel, The Devil in Disguise, establishes the tone through Luke Thorne, a supernatural ruler associated with the darker creatures of the world. His involvement with Mina James introduces one of Eden’s central ideas for the series: beings feared for what they are may still make choices that complicate the labels attached to them. Luke is powerful enough to be terrifying, but the story places him in the unfamiliar position of protecting someone rather than simply exercising control.
That pattern continues as the focus shifts to different couples. On the Prowl brings panther shifter Julian Craig and the newly transformed vampire Rose Kinley to the foreground, while Undead or Alive centers on Cassius “Cass” Garvan, the last Reaper, whose lethal touch makes him an especially dangerous bounty hunter. These characters inhabit the same supernatural landscape, allowing familiar figures and earlier events to carry forward even though each novel develops its own central romance.
The mythology expands considerably beyond vampires and shifters. Broken Angel introduces angelic conflict alongside a werewolf protector, while Heart of Stone turns to Sabrina Lark, a muse whose ability to influence others creates consequences she cannot easily control. Tempted by Fate brings the Lord of the Light and Fate herself into the romantic conflict. Eden uses these different supernatural identities not simply as decorative powers but as complications within the relationships: immortality, dangerous abilities, old obligations, and the balance between light and darkness frequently determine what the characters can risk.
The later books continue widening the world rather than settling around one species or mythology. Wicked and Wild pairs Valerie Storm with dragon shifter Griffin, while Saint or Sinner follows vampire assassin Josephine Saint and Malik, an angel whose fall threatens to transform him into something far more destructive. By that point, the series has developed a broad paranormal hierarchy in which demons, angels, vampires, shifters, and other beings can occupy opposing sides without morality depending entirely on what kind of creature they are.
Bad Things is therefore more interconnected than a group of unrelated paranormal romances, but less rigidly serialized than a single continuous quest. Each installment concentrates on a new couple and provides its own romantic arc, while recurring supernatural figures, previous alliances, and the established balance of power give the books a shared foundation. Eden herself describes Wicked and Wild, for example, as a complete stand-alone story within the Bad Things world, a useful indication of how the series is designed to function.
What holds the sequence together is its fascination with characters who exist somewhere between protector and threat. Eden repeatedly gives her most dangerous figures someone worth defending, then tests whether love can alter choices without magically erasing the darker qualities that made those characters compelling in the first place. The result is a series where paranormal romance, supernatural hierarchy, action, and moral ambiguity work together, with each new pairing revealing another part of a world populated by creatures who may be bad things without necessarily being the villains.