AE Wasp Books in Order
Explore AE Wasp books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy starting points for the hockey, suspense, paranormal, and veteran romances.
Last updated: July 5, 2026
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Publication Order
21 books
Buried Desire
by AE Wasp
2016
At Eden Lake, camp counselors Nikolai and Alexei expect one last free summer before arranged marriages. Then a murdered girl's ghost starts killing, and their forbidden attraction becomes tangled with old magic and a darkness hunting Nikolai.
Christmas Outing
by AE Wasp
2016
Troy and Dmitri have built a life together, but Troy still hasn't told his family he's gay. Going home for Christmas with Dmitri and his service dog means facing old fears in the place that taught him to hide.
Incoming
by AE Wasp
2016
Newly discharged veteran Troy Johnson comes to Red Deer hoping to start over. Dmitri Greenman wants out of town, not a relationship, but their instant connection forces both men to face trauma, fear, and the future they really want.
Shattered Destiny
by AE Wasp
2016
Two years after Alexei vanished, he crashes back into Nikolai's life with blood, fire, and terrible answers. Nikolai has days to understand his true nature and stop Chaos from tearing apart the mortal world.
Boy Toys
by AE Wasp
2017
Assistant coach Liam O'Reilly wants one reckless Christmas Eve and nothing more. Then Joey Luciano, the bad boy in the Santa suit, turns a holiday hookup into the start of something neither man can easily forget.
Bronze Star
by AE Wasp
2017
Chris Dobbs has wanted his older boss Jay-Cee for a long time, and one night changes everything. Desire is easy. Trust is harder, especially when both men are still carrying scars from the past.
City Boy
by AE Wasp
2017
Closeted NHL star Bryce Lowery falls hard for Dakota after a roadside breakdown leads to one unforgettable night. But keeping Dakota means choosing between a multimillion-dollar career and telling the truth about who he is.
Country Boy
by AE Wasp
2017
Paul Dyson and Robbie Rhodes start as a one-night mistake and an even worse morning after. When they end up teammates on the Seattle Thunder, desire, faith, and fear force Paul to decide what kind of life he wants.
Man in the Mirror
by AE Wasp
2017
Benny has been hiding his body and shutting Mikey out for days. In this intimate short, Mikey refuses to let shame do the talking and helps the man he loves feel seen again.
Paper Hearts
by AE Wasp
2017
Years after a disastrous goodbye, Benny Quintana and Mikey Washington crash back into each other's lives. Old love, grief, sobriety, and Mikey's young daughter turn their reunion into a messy, tender second chance.
Paper Roses
by AE Wasp
2017
Mikey and Benny are engaged, deeply in love, and suddenly wobbling under the weight of wedding plans and old fears. This short follow-up is all about cold feet, family pressure, and choosing each other anyway.
Spirit of the Rodeo
by AE Wasp
2017
Ex-cop Danny King and ghost-talker Jason reunite to investigate spectral vandalism at a gay rodeo school. What starts as mixed signals and old hurt becomes a deadly case when a vengeful spirit turns murderous.
Boy Next Door
by AE Wasp
2018
Hockey star Joey Luciano is unraveling just as his attraction to coach Liam O'Reilly turns impossible to ignore. With secrets threatening Joey's career and Liam's future, the two men have to risk everything for a chance at home.
Pros and Cons of Vengeance
by AE Wasp
2018
Ex-Army ranger Steele Alvarez agrees to help expose a vicious anti-gay senator, then meets Breck Pfeiffer, the young man caught in the senator's sights. Their plan is part takedown, part revenge, and far more personal than Steele expected.
Skater Boy
by AE Wasp
2018
Thunder goalie Sergei Pergov realizes he's in love with his best friend, figure skater Alex Stanton. Alex has rules, scars, and doubts, but Sergei is determined to prove they can build a real home and family together.
Boys of Summer
by AE Wasp
2019
Patrick O'Reilly thinks friends with benefits should stay simple, especially with his teammate and roommate Vicky. A summer road trip, tangled feelings, and too many unspoken truths prove their friendship is already something bigger.
Pros and Cons of Deception
by AE Wasp
2019
Hacker Wesley Bond needs a fake boyfriend to get close to a human trafficker. Danny Monroe is funny, fearless, and impossible to ignore, which makes their undercover act dangerous long before the bad guys catch on.
Pros and Cons of Betrayal
by AE Wasp
2020
Con artist Carson Grieves is sent back toward the first boy he ever loved, Eric Smallman, and the lies that ruined them. Winning Eric back means telling the truth at last and risking a second heartbreak.
Pros and Cons of Desire
by AE Wasp
2020
Jewel thief Ridge Pfeiffer should keep his distance from Diplomatic Security agent Davis Ethan. Instead, a risky job and one explosive attraction pull them together, even though Davis has the power to destroy everything Ridge has left.
Pros and Cons of Christmas
by AE Wasp
2021
Charlie wants a quiet holiday house party with the men he loves and the family he chose. Instead he gets a blizzard, an unwanted guest, a dead body in the kitchen, and a Christmas murder to solve.
Pros and Cons of Obsession
by AE Wasp
2021
Suspended FBI agent Leo Shook and vigilante Charlie are dragged into a deadly game when an obsessed stalker targets them both. To get out alive, Leo has to trust the man who has already upended his life.
Where should I start?
If you want hockey romance first: City Boy → Country Boy → Skater Boy
If you prefer romantic suspense: Pros and Cons of Vengeance → Pros and Cons of Deception → Pros and Cons of Desire
If you like small-town stories about healing: Incoming → Paper Hearts → Bronze Star
If you want ghosts and fantasy: Buried Desire → Shattered Destiny → Spirit of the Rodeo
Author bio
A.E. Wasp was born on Long Island, New York, and has since lived in Los Angeles, London, Bangkok, and Fort Collins, Colorado. Before publishing novels, she spent years raising children, earning several college degrees, and traveling the world with the U.S. State Department. That long, winding route shows up in her books, which often feel grounded in work, place, and the complicated lives people build for themselves.
Writing was the thing she kept circling back to.
She has said that romance came to her through fan fiction, and that self-publishing finally gave her a practical way to put stories in front of readers. A year in Kabul, Afghanistan, also shaped her work. Hearing stories from soldiers and former service members helped form the emotional core of the Veterans Affairs books, where the real question is not war itself, but what comes after, when people try to come home and live in their own skin again.
A lot of readers first meet her through the Hot Off the Ice books, starting with City Boy and moving through Country Boy and Skater Boy. Those stories revolve around the Seattle Thunder and the men around them. They are hockey romances, but they are also books about coming out, family pressure, friendship, and the very real cost of being honest in a world that does not always make honesty easy.
She likes people with messy lives and good hearts.
That shows up just as clearly in Incoming, Paper Hearts, and Bronze Star. In those books, veterans, lovers, friends, and chosen family members in Red Deer, Colorado work through PTSD, sobriety, grief, trust, and the slow business of starting over. The romance is central, but Wasp usually keeps one eye on the wider circle too, siblings, teammates, parents, friends, exes, and the communities people lean on when life gets rough.
She does not stay in one lane. The Pros & Cons books turn toward romantic suspense, with hackers, thieves, grifters, and a federal agent pulled into dangerous vigilante jobs that somehow lead to love. Buried Desire and Shattered Destiny move into paranormal fantasy, mixing ghosts, old magic, and fairy lore in a more rural setting than a lot of urban fantasy uses. Spirit of the Rodeo brings together an ex-cop, a ghost-talker, and a haunted case at a gay rodeo school. Across all of it, the through line is connection, people finding each other when life is already complicated.
She has talked openly about loving hockey, ghosts, horror, and long road trips, which explains a lot. Some of her settings come from places close to home, and some from the kinds of stops that stay with you long after the drive is over. That mix of ordinary detail and slightly larger-than-life drama gives her books their particular feel.
These days she lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, at least by her own joking account, for who knows how long. That sounds about right for a writer whose stories are full of movement, reinvention, and people trying to figure out where home really is.
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