Jeaniene Frost


Jeaniene Frost is an American fantasy author, known for her Night Huntress series and the Night Huntress World novels. Foreign rights for her novels have sold to twenty countries.

The ''Night Huntress'' series

The Night Huntress series is a completed Urban Fantasy Romance series published by the Avon imprint of HarperCollins Publishers between 2008 and 2014. The series follows Catherine "Cat" Crawfield, a snarky and conflicted half-vampire college student who moonlights as a vampire hunter in a small Ohio town, until she meets a sexy and mysterious vampire bounty hunter named Bones who alters her views on the undead world for good. Later books follow Cat and Bones as they navigate their relationship and various dangers of the undead world.
Series orderTitleRelease datePublisherISBNNotes
0.5"The Reckoning"August 25, 2009AvonAlso included in anthology Unbound
1Halfway to the GraveOctober 30, 2007Avon
1.5"Happily Never After"May 28, 2008
July 19, 2011
AvonOriginally appeared in Weddings From Hell anthology
2One Foot in the GraveApril 29, 2008Avon
3At Grave's EndDecember 30, 2008Avon
3.5Devil to PayJune 30, 2009
August 23, 2011
AvonOriginally published in Four Dukes and a Devil anthology
4Destined for an Early GraveJuly 28, 2009Avon
4.5One for the MoneyAugust 3, 2010NYLAAlso published in Death's Excellent Vacation
5This Side Of The GraveFebruary 22, 2011Avon
6One Grave at a TimeAugust 30, 2011Avon
6.5Home for the HolidaysOctober 25, 2011
November 5, 2013
AvonOriginally appeared in the print anthology The Bite Before Christmas.
7Up from the GraveJanuary 28, 2014Avon
7.5Outtakes from the GraveDecember 22, 2015NYLAAnthology of outtakes and never before published scenes from books 1 to 4 of the series
7.6Grave Girls' GetawayJuly 1, 2021
January 4, 2022
AvonOriginally published in Hex on the Beach anthology

Anthologies and other works

  • Pack
  • ''Night's Darkest Embrace''

Critical reception

Frost's novels have garnered mostly positive reviews and have been well received by critics and she has had multiple New York Times bestsellers. Her first novel Halfway to the Grave won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award in the Urban Fantasy category, Eternal Kiss of Darkness and Once Burned won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards for Best Vampire Romance, and the final book in the Night Huntress series Up From the Grave won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding''.''