Below is the complete list of Sara Cate’s Salacious Players Club books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Salacious Players Club Books
- All In (2023)
All In was first published in 2023; within the Salacious Players Club series, it is listed as book #5.
About Salacious Players Club
Sara Cate’s Salacious Players Club series is built around an exclusive kink club and the people whose personal lives become increasingly intertwined with it. Rather than following one central couple across multiple novels, the books shift attention to different characters within the club’s orbit, giving each romance its own emotional arc while gradually developing a larger community of friends, partners, employees, and club owners.
The series begins with Praise, which establishes much of its identity through Charlie Underwood and Emerson Grant. Their age-gap, ex-boyfriend’s-father romance introduces the Salacious Players Club as more than a provocative setting. The club becomes a space where characters can articulate desires they have suppressed, reconsider conventional assumptions about relationships, and discover what they actually need from another person. That combination of explicit sexuality and character-driven vulnerability remains central throughout the series.
Cate deliberately varies the relationship dynamics from book to book. Eyes on Me places voyeurism and exhibitionism at the center of Garrett and Mia’s story, while Give Me More expands beyond a conventional two-person romance through Hunter, Isabel, and Drake. The latter is especially important to the shape of the series because its polyamorous relationship demonstrates that the books are not simply repeating the same dominant/submissive pairing with different characters. Sexual identity, friendship, jealousy, trust, and the difficulty of admitting previously unacknowledged desires become as important as the physical relationships themselves.
That willingness to change the romantic structure continues through the later novels. Mercy reverses some of the age and power expectations explored elsewhere in the series, while Highest Bidder returns to a significant age-gap relationship while tying its characters to unresolved history outside the club. Madame, centered on professional dominatrix Eden and her developing relationship with Clay and Jade, gives a prominent female dominant character a story that also deals with the separation between a carefully controlled professional identity and a more vulnerable private life.
The Salacious Players Club itself provides continuity. Characters who have completed their own romantic arcs remain part of the social environment, and friendships established in earlier books continue to matter. This gives the series a found-family quality beneath its erotic-romance framework. The club is simultaneously a workplace, business venture, meeting place, and community, allowing characters from otherwise separate romances to remain connected without forcing every book into a single continuing plot.
Consent and communication are fundamental to the way Cate approaches the series’ kink elements. The novels explore dominance and submission, praise, voyeurism, exhibitionism, polyamory, role-playing, and other forms of sexual experimentation, but the broader recurring concern is what happens when characters become honest about desires that may conflict with their previous understanding of themselves. Boundaries, insecurity, shame, acceptance, and emotional trust therefore carry substantial weight alongside the deliberately high level of sexual content.
Although the individual romances have their own central characters and resolutions, reading the Salacious Players Club books in sequence gives the interconnected material more impact. Familiar characters reappear, relationships established earlier become part of the background of later stories, and the club evolves from the provocative premise introduced in Praise into a broader shared world. The attraction of the series ultimately comes from that balance: each installment explores a different relationship configuration or kink, while the recurring cast and club community make the books feel like parts of one cohesive romantic universe.