I was talking to a friend the other day, and she asked me what my favorite book was where the previous villain got his HEA. We of course had to define what she meant by "villain," and we decided that Lisa Kleypas' Devil in Winter is the best example.

Jennifer Ashley does a good job with those grey area type heroes. They aren't good, they aren't bad, they're somewhere in the middle. She has a dragon series called Dragon Series and in the first book, Dragon Heat, Malcolm is the bad guy...but he isn't, not really. So it was no surprise when he got his own book The Black Dragon. She's done this trope well in her Shifters Unbound series as well.

Cynthia Eden- In the Dark Obsessions series, Ethan Barclay is almost always the first suspect in each book. He's not a good guy...but he's not really a bad guy either. In Beware of Me, he gets his story, and I really liked the way the author did it.

Another of her books that does this trope well is Ghost of a Chance. In the Wilde Ways series, there's a book where who we think is the villain of the piece...isn't. And it turns out, he makes a pretty good hero in his own book.

So what other books should we add to this list?