Abigail Roux Books in Order
Explore Abigail Roux books in order, from Cut & Run and Sidewinder to standalones, with quick summaries, series notes, and tips on where to start.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
19 books
Caught Running
by Abigail Roux
2007
Overworked teacher Brandon Bartlett is stuck coaching baseball with Jake Campbell, a former athlete whose easy confidence gets under his skin. In small-town Georgia, friendship, attraction, and local expectations make every step forward feel risky.
Cut & Run
by Abigail Roux
2008
Opposite FBI agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett are shoved together to investigate a brutal string of murders. Their clashing styles, sharp chemistry, and a killer already targeting them make partnership a dangerous business.
Love Ahead
by Abigail Roux
2008
This collection brings together two blue-collar romances, one on a construction site and one on the open road. In both stories, hard-working men have to choose between keeping things simple and risking something real.
The Archer
by Abigail Roux
2008
Six elite operatives are thrown together to hunt a rogue agent known only as the Archer. Espionage, betrayal, and shifting loyalties turn the mission into a survival test for a team that barely knows how to trust.
Warrior's Cross
by Abigail Roux
2009
Waiter Cameron Jacobs falls hard for Julian Cross, a secretive man whose life is built on lies and danger. Their intense connection deepens fast, but Cameron has to decide how much truth and risk he can live with.
Fish & Chips
by Abigail Roux
2010
Undercover on a Caribbean cruise, Ty and Zane pose as a wealthy married smuggling couple. The job blurs performance and truth as suspicion spreads across the ship and danger closes in from every side.
Sticks & Stones
by Abigail Roux
2010
Shaken after their last case and stuck on desk duty, Ty and Zane are ordered to take a break. A trip to Ty's family home in West Virginia forces them to face trauma, attraction, and the hazards of the wilderness.
According to Hoyle
by Abigail Roux
2011
In 1882, US Marshals Eli Flynn and William Henry Washington escort two dangerous prisoners toward trial in New Orleans. A river journey full of shifting loyalties forces all four men to question what justice really demands.
Divide & Conquer
by Abigail Roux
2011
A Baltimore crime wave turns Ty and Zane into unwilling public faces of the FBI. Media attention, bombings, and uncertainty about their own relationship make an already dangerous case even harder to navigate.
Armed & Dangerous
by Abigail Roux
2012
Zane reunites with Ty during a Chicago operation, but they barely have time to sort out their relationship before escorting retired hit man Julian Cross and Cameron Jacobs. The road trip turns volatile fast.
Stars & Stripes
by Abigail Roux
2012
After a rare stretch of peace, Ty and Zane are pulled into family trouble and a baffling crime. From West Virginia to a Texas horse ranch, they face old fears, buried history, and a clock that will not slow down.
The Gravedigger's Brawl
by Abigail Roux
2012
Museum director Wyatt Case is drawn to Ash Lucroix, the magnetic bartender at Gravedigger's Tavern. As their attraction grows, strange visions and eerie events turn the bar into the center of a ghostly mystery.
Shock & Awe
by Abigail Roux
2013
Recovering after a shootout, former Marine medic Kelly Abbott leans on teammate Nick O'Flaherty, and one impulsive kiss changes everything. What begins as comfort turns into a tender, messy reckoning with friendship, desire, and old wounds.
Touch & Geaux
by Abigail Roux
2013
A distress call pulls Ty and Zane to New Orleans, where Ty's past is waiting in the open. Old secrets, public exposure, and dangerous new connections force both men to face the lives they have tried to outrun.
Ball & Chain
by Abigail Roux
2014
Ty and Zane head to a Scottish island for Deuce's wedding and wind up trapped with Nick and Kelly when bodies start dropping. Family drama, old grudges, and an isolated setting turn the celebration into a deadly puzzle.
Cross & Crown
by Abigail Roux
2014
Nick O'Flaherty lands a double-homicide case with an amnesiac witness and too many questions. When Kelly joins him in Boston, the investigation spirals into buried history, fresh danger, and a mystery much older than it first appears.
The Bone Orchard
by Abigail Roux
2014
Pinkerton inspector Ezra Johns arrives in San Francisco to help convict a notorious killer, only to find the case tangled up with the supernatural. With restless spirits, deadly history, and US marshal Ambrose Shaw close by, the West gets stranger by the minute.
Crash & Burn
by Abigail Roux
2015
Engaged but under heavy pressure, Ty and Zane are trying to build a future while hunting a traitor inside their own circle. Cartel threats, agency politics, and broken trust turn the final stretch into their most dangerous fight yet.
Part & Parcel
by Abigail Roux
2015
After a brutal attack, Nick and Kelly are trying to heal, but grief and silence keep getting in the way. Then letters from their dead teammate Eli send the Sidewinder crew on one last mission for closure.
Where should I start?
For her signature FBI romantic suspense: Cut & Run → Sticks & Stones → Fish & Chips
If you want the Sidewinder spinoff next: Shock & Awe → Cross & Crown → Part & Parcel
For standalones with strong chemistry: Warrior's Cross → Caught Running
If you want darker or more unusual stories: The Gravedigger's Brawl → According to Hoyle → The Bone Orchard
Author bio
Abigail Roux grew up in North Carolina. She has described herself as a former volleyball star, and that mix of competitiveness, teamwork, and physical grit shows up all through her fiction.
She writes like somebody who enjoys sharp banter as much as a chase scene.
Roux's published career began with Caught Running in 2007, a sports-centered romance set in small-town Georgia. Soon after came Cut & Run, the book that introduced Ty Grady and Zane Garrett and became the backbone of her best-known work. From there, she kept returning to stories where love and danger arrive together. That is a good shorthand for her appeal. Readers usually come to Roux for capable men under pressure, fast dialogue, cases with real momentum, and relationships that have to survive secrets, trauma, and terrible timing. Her characters are often excellent at their jobs and much less tidy in private.
That tension is half the fun.
The Cut & Run books are still the obvious place to start. Ty and Zane begin as mismatched federal agents shoved together on a murder case, and the series lets their partnership grow the hard way, through violence, loyalty, family trouble, public scrutiny, and years of accumulated history. By the later books, the world around them has widened to include old military ties, found family, and enemies who know exactly where to hit.
But Roux never stayed in only one lane. Warrior's Cross takes the suspense down to a more intimate scale, pairing a waiter with the secretive man who keeps showing up at his restaurant. The Gravedigger's Brawl blends romance, history, and ghostly unease, while According to Hoyle heads back to 1882 and turns a prisoner escort into a tense Western river journey. Even the spin-off work shows the same habits. The Sidewinder stories follow Nick O'Flaherty and Kelly Abbott, former Marines whose bond was forged long before either one was ready to call it love. Friendship, recovery, grief, and brotherhood matter just as much as the action in those books, which is part of why readers often get attached to Roux's wider cast, not just her central couples.
Place matters in her fiction too. She moves easily from Baltimore offices and West Virginia mountains to Caribbean cruises, New Orleans streets, remote ranches, Boston crime scenes, and the rougher corners of the nineteenth-century American West. Her books do not treat setting like wallpaper. The setting usually adds pressure, mood, and a fresh kind of trouble.
There are a couple of clear markers of how well that approach connected. Stars & Stripes won a Rainbow Award in 2012, and The Gravedigger's Brawl was a runner-up in the 2013 Rainbow Awards. Roux has also described herself as someone with a taste for sarcasm and a strong interest in historical accuracy, and both traits feel right there on the page.
These days, her author bio says life revolves around coaching high school volleyball, raising her daughter, and managing a lively house that includes a boxer and four rescued cats. Spare time, when it exists, goes to Atlanta Braves and Carolina Panthers games. It is an ordinary, busy picture, which somehow fits an author whose books are full of chaos, commitment, and people trying to hold on to each other anyway.
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