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Guild Hunter
The Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh has 19 known books (19 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Angels' Blood (2009). The latest book with a fully recorded publication date is Archangel's Eternity.
- Books
- 19 known books (18 novels + 1 collection)
- Published
- 19
- First published
- 2009
- Status
- ongoing
- Last checked
Start here: Angels' Blood (2009) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Angels' Blood
Angels' Blood opens the Guild Hunter series in 2009 at 346 pages, introducing vampire hunter Elena Deveraux and Archangel Raphael, who rules New York and recruits her to track a rogue angel. It's the start of the slow-burn, power-imbalanced romance that becomes the series' central spine across the numbered novels that follow.
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Archangel's Kiss
Archangel's Kiss, published in February 2010 at 336 pages, sits between Angels' Blood and Archangel's Consort. It carries forward Elena and Raphael's evolving relationship and political rise, the main track running through the numbered Guild Hunter novels alongside Nalini Singh's darker angel mythology of bloodlust and a city-flattening Cadre of Ten.
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Archangel's Consort
Archangel's Consort reached shelves in January 2011, taking its place in the Guild Hunter series after Archangel's Kiss. Elena's role in Raphael's world -- and in the brutal politics of the Cadre of Ten -- keeps deepening as the series' central romance and political plot continue to build.
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Archangel's Blade
Archangel's Blade, published in September 2011 at 310 pages, is the fourth entry in the Guild Hunter series. Like several later installments, it shifts focus toward another hunter while still advancing the main Elena-and-Raphael political plot running through the numbered spine.
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Angels' Flight
Angels' Flight, published in 2012 at 367 pages, is a novella collection rather than a single narrative -- originally four separately published novellas ('Angels' Pawn,' 'Angels' Judgment,' 'Angels' Dance,' and 'Angels' Wolf') that slot into the series right after Archangel's Blade, filling in character and world detail around the main numbered plot.
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Archangel's Storm
Archangel's Storm, published in September 2012 at 247 pages, continues the sequence between Archangel's Blade's follow-up collection and Archangel's Legion. It's part of the widening cast of archangels and hunters Nalini Singh uses to expand the world without losing Elena and Raphael's central arc.
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Archangel's Legion
Archangel's Legion, published in 2013 at 384 pages, is the sixth Guild Hunter novel, following Archangel's Storm. Like the rest of the series, it advances the wider Cadre-of-Ten politics in the background even where the spotlight shifts to another archangel or hunter.
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Archangel's Shadows
Archangel's Shadows, published in 2014 at 373 pages, sits between Archangel's Legion and Archangel's Enigma in the Guild Hunter series. Five years into the run, Singh's darker themes -- trauma, addiction, power abuse -- continue to shape the series alongside its epic-scale angel mythology.
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Archangel's Enigma
Archangel's Enigma reached shelves in September 2015, taking its place in the series after Archangel's Shadows. Like several entries around it, it headlines a different archangel or hunter while still carrying the Cadre-of-Ten political plot forward in the background.
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Archangel's Heart
Archangel's Heart, published in November 2016 at 400 pages, is the ninth of nineteen entries in the Guild Hunter series. It continues Nalini Singh's two-track structure, widening the cast of archangels and vampires while the main political and romantic arc keeps building underneath.
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Archangel's Viper
Archangel's Viper, published in September 2017 at 361 pages, continues the sequence toward Archangel's Prophecy. A decade into the series, it keeps the same richly imagined mythology -- archangels who can lose themselves to bloodlust across millennia, a Cadre of Ten whose disputes can flatten cities.
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Archangel's Prophecy
Archangel's Prophecy, published in October 2018 at 394 pages, picks up after Archangel's Viper in the Guild Hunter series. It continues the numbered spine's ongoing political rise for Elena and Raphael alongside the series' widening supporting cast of hunters and archangels.
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Archangel's War
Archangel's War, published in 2019 at 440 pages -- one of the longer entries in the series -- continues the Cadre-of-Ten political stakes that run through the numbered Guild Hunter novels, with the disputes among archangels carrying real, city-flattening consequences.
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Archangel's Sun
Archangel's Sun, published in 2020 at 384 pages, sits between Archangel's War and Archangel's Light. Over a decade into the series, it keeps the same lush, often dark prose and evolving central romance that made Guild Hunter one of the longest-running series in paranormal romance.
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Archangel's Light
Archangel's Light, published in October 2021 at 368 pages, is the fourteenth of nineteen entries in the Guild Hunter series. It continues the numbered spine's advancing plot, part of a sequence built to be read in publication order as Elena and Raphael's arc and the wider Cadre-of-Ten politics develop continuously.
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Archangel's Resurrection
Archangel's Resurrection, published in 2022 at 349 pages, continues the sequence between Archangel's Light and Archangel's Lineage. Well over a decade into the series, Singh was still expanding her angel mythology's supporting cast of archangels and hunters without losing the central Elena-and-Raphael arc.
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Archangel's Lineage
Archangel's Lineage reached shelves in April 2024, taking its place in the Guild Hunter series after Archangel's Resurrection. It continues the series' long-running blend of epic-scale, morally weighty angel politics with a genuinely evolving central romance.
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Archangel's Ascension
Archangel's Ascension, published in May 2025 at 368 pages, picks up after Archangel's Lineage in the Guild Hunter series. Sixteen years after Angels' Blood launched the series, it continues the numbered spine's ongoing political and romantic arc for Elena and Raphael.
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Archangel's Eternity
Archangel's Eternity, following Archangel's Ascension, arrived in May 2026 at 449 pages as the most recent entry in the Guild Hunter series -- part of a numbered sequence Nalini Singh has built continuously since 2009 around Elena Deveraux's evolving world of archangels, hunters, and the Cadre of Ten.
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About the Guild Hunter series
Elena Deveraux is a vampire hunter for the Guild in a New York reshaped by the presence of archangels -- immortal, godlike beings who rule the world's territories and keep the peace between angels, vampires, and humans through raw, terrifying power. When Archangel Raphael, who governs New York, needs a hunter to track a rogue angel, he recruits Elena -- and pulls her into his world's brutal politics, ancient rivalries, and a slow-burn, power-imbalanced romance that starts adversarial and becomes central to the whole series. Nalini Singh builds an unusually dark, richly imagined angel mythology here: archangels who can lose themselves to bloodlust across millennia, a Cadre of Ten whose disputes can flatten cities, and a world where power on this scale always has a cost.
The series runs on two tracks: Elena and Raphael's evolving relationship and political rise carries the main numbered spine, while other archangels, hunters, and vampires headline individual entries and novellas that widen the world without losing the central plot. Known for prose that leans lush and often quite dark -- themes of trauma, addiction, and power abuse recur throughout -- the series has become one of the longest-running and best-regarded in paranormal romance. Readers who want epic-scale, morally weighty angel mythology married to a genuinely evolving central romance, plus a huge and well-developed supporting cast, are the audience.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in the Guild Hunter series?
18 novels as of Archangel's Eternity (May 2026), plus the four-novella collection Angels' Flight.
What order should I read the Guild Hunter books in?
Publication order, starting with Angels' Blood. Even entries centered on other archangels and hunters advance the main Elena-and-Raphael political arc in the background, so nothing is truly skippable.
Is the Guild Hunter series finished?
Not formally declared complete as of mid-2026. Archangel's Eternity (May 2026) is the most recent entry; the author's own site does not describe it as a series finale, and no further book has been announced.
Do I need to read Angels' Flight?
It's optional for the main plot but adds meaningful character and world texture -- it's a collection of four novellas (Angels' Pawn, Angels' Judgment, Angels' Dance, Angels' Wolf) best read in its numbered place in the sequence.
Is Guild Hunter connected to Nalini Singh's Psy-Changeling series?
No, they're separate, unrelated worlds by the same author.
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