Dark Ones Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Girl’s Guide to Vampires | 2003 | Buy |
| Sex and the Single Vampire | 2005 | Buy |
| Sex, Lies and Vampires | 2005 | Buy |
| Circus of the Darned | 2006 | Buy |
| Even Vampires Get the Blues | 2006 | Buy |
| Bring Out Your Dead (in Just One Sip) | 2006 | Buy |
| The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires | 2007 | Buy |
| Zen and the Art of Vampires | 2008 | Buy |
| Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang | 2009 | Buy |
| My Zombie Valentine | 2009 | Buy |
| Cupid Cats | 2010 | Buy |
| In the Company of Vampires | 2010 | Buy |
| Much Ado About Vampires | 2011 | Buy |
| Unleashed | 2011 | Buy |
| Lifestyles of the Rich and Undead | 2012 | Buy |
| A Tale of Two Vampires | 2012 | Buy |
| The Vampire Always Rises | 2017 | Buy |
| Enthralled | 2021 | Buy |
| Desperately Seeking Vampire | 2022 | Buy |
Dark Ones Collections
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Fistful of Vampires | 2020 | Buy |
Pure/ Dark Ones Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Pure Healing | 2012 | Buy |
| Dark Longing | 2018 | Buy |
| Dark Desires | 2018 | Buy |
| Dark Pleasures | 2018 | Buy |
| Pure Rapture | 2018 | Buy |
| Dark Redemption | 2018 | Buy |
| Pure Awakening | 2018 | Buy |
| Pure Ecstasy | 2019 | Buy |
| Dark Obsession | 2019 | Buy |
| Pure Providence | 2019 | Buy |
| Pure Magnetism | 2019 | Buy |
| Pure Surrender | 2020 | Buy |
| Pure Darkness | 2020 | Buy |
| Dark Possession | 2020 | Buy |
| Pure Requiem | 2020 | Buy |
| Pure Destiny | 2021 | Buy |
| Dark Purity | 2021 | Buy |
The Dark Ones books are a long-running paranormal romance series centered on Moravian Dark Ones, a race of soulless vampires who can only be redeemed by finding their fated partners, known as Beloveds. The main series, written by Katie MacAlister, launched in 2003 with A Girl’s Guide to Vampires and has grown to include over 19 novels and novellas. MacAlister is known for mixing humor with steamy romance, and the Dark Ones books are among her most popular works. Each novel typically pairs a new heroine with her Dark One, though recurring characters and an expanding supernatural world connect the stories.
This page also groups the Pure/Dark Ones series, which is written by a different author, Aja James, and is set in its own separate fictional universe. James’s books follow an ancient struggle between Pure Ones and Dark Ones, blending paranormal elements with fantasy romance across 17 novels published between 2012 and 2021. While both series use the “Dark Ones” label and fall within the paranormal romance genre, they are completely independent of each other.
A single collection entry, A Fistful of Vampires, rounds out the catalog. Published in 2020 by Katie MacAlister, it gathers three shorter Dark Ones stories that were originally scattered across multi-author anthologies.