Beverly Barton Books in Order

At an Alabama county fair, Yankee John Mason bets his way into a date with Laurel Drew and sparks an instant clash of wills. Their playful rivalry quickly turns into something much more personal.

Baseball star Cole Kendrick hides out at Lucky Darnell's bed-and-breakfast looking for peace, but the small-town owner sees trouble coming. Their chemistry is easy. Believing he can choose commitment over the road is harder.

Child psychologist Beck Kendrick tracks down ex-cop Quent Yerby over the little boy in her care. When real danger surfaces, the man she wanted to avoid becomes the one person she may have to trust.

Bonnie Jean Harland comes back to her Alabama hometown carrying old pain and a bitter secret. Carter Jackson Moody never forgot the scandal that tore them apart, and their reunion quickly reopens everything.

Widowed Lydia Reid turns to Wade Cameron for comfort after scandal leaves her under the town's microscope. Their growing closeness gives Riverton plenty to talk about, and even more to judge.

Soul-scarred soldier Nate Hodges and Cyn Porter are pulled together by danger, grief, and fierce attraction. With a vengeful madman closing in, love starts to look almost as risky as survival.

Acquitted but still branded by rumor, Britt Cameron hides out as a handyman far from home. Anna Rose Palmer offers him shelter, but loving her means facing the murder charge that still shadows his name.

When Nick Romero rescues Addy McConnell from a kidnapping attempt, protection becomes intensely personal. She needs his help to stay alive, but the greater threat may be the hunger growing between them.

Spencer Rand returns to Marshallton ready to face the woman he never forgot and the family lies that drove him away. What he brings back with him changes everything Pattie Cornell believed about her past.

Leah Marshall falls for drifter Judd Barnett even though he seems all wrong for the settled life she imagined. Small-town gossip, hidden truths, and an unexpected pregnancy make their romance impossible to ignore.

Gardner Kegan sets out to seduce wealthy CeCe Collins as revenge against her family. His careful plan starts to fall apart the moment the guarded heiress becomes more than a target.

Lawyer Peyton Rand has spent years rescuing Tallie Bishop from one scrape after another, but this time the trouble feels different. She has grown up, and keeping her out of his heart looks a lot harder than keeping her out of jail.

Clairvoyant Elizabeth Mallory gives shelter to Reece Landry, a wounded fugitive hiding on her Georgia mountain. As danger closes in, trust comes hard and attraction comes even harder.

Deborah Vaughn once loved Ashe McLaughlin and lost him, but now she needs his protection as a murder trial turns dangerous. Their reunion is charged enough, and the son Ashe never knew about raises the stakes even higher.

Sam Dundee comes back into Jeannie Alverson's life when a threat forces him into the role of protector. She still remembers the man who once changed everything, and he is no safer from old feelings than she is.

Joanna Beaumont runs to Blackwood Ranch with trouble on her heels and only one real option for help. J.T. Blackwood agrees to guard her, but the fierce attraction between them makes every night more complicated.

One reckless night leaves Blythe Elliott pregnant and unexpectedly married to stubborn Adam Wyatt. Sharing a home for the baby's sake soon forces them to decide whether they have a mistake, or the start of a real life together.

Lori Lee Guy has always wanted a child, not a second chance with Rick Warrick. But Rick is now a single father, and his little girl may be the link that brings the old sparks roaring back.

Former bad boy Morgan Kane returns home to find Bethany Wyndham accused of murder and surrounded by suspicion. Clearing her name means reopening an old love and facing secrets neither of them escaped.

Rorie Dean joins Gabriel Hawk on a dangerous hunt for her missing nephew. Bullets, lies, and jungle terrain are hard enough, but the real risk is how quickly she starts needing the man beside her.

Cleo McNamara needs a husband, a protector, and a safe way to start the family she wants. Security expert Simon Roarke agrees to the arrangement, then finds himself fighting a killer and his own heart.

Widow Emily Jordan falls hard for Mitch Hayden before she knows why he came into her life. He wants forgiveness for a past wrong, but the truth could cost him the future he wants with her.

Deanna Atchley refuses to believe Luke McClendon is the killer everyone says he is. Clearing his name means walking straight back into the anger, revenge, and passion that never really died.

After a storm strands Paige Summers with a handsome stranger, she discovers the man is actually her arrogant new boss, Jared Montgomery. Working beside him is hard enough before she has to tell him she's carrying his child.

Jake Bishop is stunned to learn he has a daughter, and he is not about to walk away from her or her mother. Donna Fields may doubt him, but Jake is determined to prove he can be the husband and father they need.

Years after one unforgettable night, Sheila Vance is forced to face Caleb Bishop again, and this time the secret between them has a face. Caleb wants his way back into her life, but telling him the truth could change all three of their futures.

Susan Redman asked Hank Bishop for help starting a family, never expecting fate to bind them even tighter. Now she is widowed, pregnant, and depending on the one man she has always loved.

With a killer on her trail, Annie Harden turns to the last man she can comfortably resist, Dane Carmichael. He is a born protector, but surrendering her heart feels far riskier than taking his help.

Lane Noble Graham is accused of murdering her ex-husband in a small Alabama town thick with gossip and secrets. Johnny Mack Cahill swore he'd never come back, but helping Lane may be the only way either of them survives.

Egan Cassidy learns too late that one brief affair left him with a son, and now that child is caught in a madman's vendetta. Rescuing the boy means facing Maggie Douglas again, and facing the family he never knew he wanted.

Weapons expert Burke Lonigan marries Callie Severin to protect her, only to learn she is the woman from one unforgettable night and the mother of his child. Suddenly the mission is not just survival, but keeping a family together.

Quinn McCoy's assignment is simple on paper, bring runaway heiress Victoria Fortune home. The trip turns messy fast, and their growing attraction makes duty much harder to keep clean.

Former mercenary Aloysius Murdock agrees to guard Catherine Price out of loyalty to her father. What begins as a matter of honor turns into a battle between old wounds, new danger, and a love neither expected.

Threatening letters drag Ella Porter back toward Reed Conway, the town bad boy her family never trusted. Reed swears he is innocent, but someone is determined to make him look guilty and keep Ella terrified.

Peggy Jo Riley wants peace for the holidays, not a bodyguard under her roof. Jack Parker means to keep her alive, but close quarters and buried vulnerability turn the assignment into something far more intimate.

Andi Stephens never forgave Joe Ornelas for doing his duty and turning in her father. When danger forces them together again, old hurt and old desire collide at full force.

David Wolfe has watched over Caroline McGuire for years from the shadows, ever since the night her father died. When a killer comes after her, he has to step into the open and risk losing her trust for good.

Manda Munroe agrees to marry Hunter Whitelaw to draw out the stalker threatening her life. What starts as a strategy quickly becomes more dangerous when the bodyguard stops pretending.

After one passionate night, Faith Sheridan is carrying bodyguard Worth Cordell's child and hoping the news can turn desire into a future. Barton keeps the stakes emotional, intimate, and holiday-tinted.

Protection-agency chief Ellen Denby prides herself on control until Nikos Pandarus walks back into her life. Old love, new enemies, and the risk of being targeted herself force her to drop her guard in every sense.

Princess Adele of Orlantha can barely stand the blunt American assigned to protect her, but Matt O'Brien may be her only defense against a deadly conspiracy. Their fake marriage is meant to save a throne, not start a real passion.

Dylan Bridges comes back to Mission Creek hoping for a second chance with Maddie Delarue, only to find his father's body in the pond and suspicion circling him. Clearing his name may be even harder than proving he's changed.

Jolie Royale returns to Belle Rose plantation when an old triple murder is reopened and the memories she lost begin to stir. With Max Devereaux beside her, she hunts the truth while a killer waits for her to remember too much.

Grace Beaumont starts digging into the accident that destroyed her family and finds reason to believe it was never an accident at all. Jed Tyree wants to protect her, but his own tie to the past is a secret with teeth.

Genny Madoc's violent visions point toward a serial killer stalking Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee. FBI agent Dallas Sloan needs answers fast, and the closer they get to the truth, the more personal the danger becomes.

The final Cherokee Pointe novel returns to the town's buried sins as another brutal case tears open old loyalties and resentments. Barton closes the trilogy with escalating danger, family secrets, and a killer who refuses to stay in the past.

Jake Ingram learns he is one of five engineered siblings created by a secret government project, and escape only drops him into another trap. Trusting undercover agent Mariah Daley may be his only chance to survive and reunite his family.

Elsa Leone's good intentions put her in the sights of people who do not want crime challenged in their town. Rafe Devlin steps in as her protector, and the chemistry between them is nearly as risky as the threats.

Leenie never told agent Frank Latimer about their son, and now the child has been kidnapped. Their search for the boy forces old lovers to fight side by side while anger and attraction burn just as hot as ever.

A dangerous situation throws a hard-driving protector back together with the woman who can still shake him. Barton mixes family stakes, stubborn attraction, and the kind of suspense that keeps every reunion unsettled.

When Jamie Upton is murdered, suspicion falls hard on Jazzy Talbot, and then the killings begin to multiply. With only drifter Caleb McCord believing her, she digs into Cherokee Pointe's ugliest secrets.

A deadly threat turns an already complicated attraction into a fight for survival. This Protectors novel leans into close-quarters danger, strong-willed lovers, and the question of what each would risk for the other.

Defense lawyer Quinn Cortez wakes to a nightmare when one of his former lovers is murdered and he cannot remember the night in question. Annabelle Vanderley wants justice for her cousin, but the more bodies appear, the harder it is to know whether Quinn is suspect or prey.

When danger brings a woman under Ramirez's protection, old rules stop working fast. Barton keeps the pace tight, pairing a possessive protector with a heroine who refuses to be handled.

A new case drags Barton's investigators into serial-killer territory, where the threat is personal and the answers keep moving just out of reach. The suspense is dark, fast, and uncomfortably close to home.

A lie meant to protect someone starts unraveling fast, pulling two wary people into the same line of fire. Barton builds the tension through hidden motives, sharp chemistry, and danger that keeps changing shape.

Penny Sue thinks luck has finally broken her way, until trouble and attraction arrive together. What follows is a fast-moving romantic suspense with small-town heat and a heroine who has to decide who she can trust.

This holiday suspense anthology mixes romance with danger, and Barton's contribution adds a darker edge beneath the seasonal frame. Expect quick pacing, attraction under pressure, and trouble arriving at the worst moment.

This later Protectors novel pushes its hero and heroine into a high-stakes crisis where trust has to come before safety. The result is lean romantic suspense, with looming violence and a love story under pressure.

A dangerous fixation turns one woman's life into a target zone and leaves a tough protector racing to get ahead of the threat. Barton plays the fear straight while keeping the romance hot and immediate.

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This paranormal romantic suspense drops a powerful heroine and a dangerous ally into a struggle charged with magic, family conflict, and desire. Barton keeps the pace brisk while still making room for the emotional pull between them.

A killer turns murder into a private game, and the people chasing answers keep finding themselves a step behind. Barton balances procedural tension with a romance shaped by fear, secrecy, and survival.

This Griffin Powell thriller leans hard into Barton's darker side, with ruthless violence, damaged characters, and a case that keeps cutting closer. It is grim, fast, and built around the cost of surviving evil.

Someone's devotion has curdled into danger, and the heroine is left wondering who wants her, who is using her, and who might kill for her. Barton turns obsession into a tense, fast-moving romance.

Another killer plays by cruel rules, pulling Barton's investigators into a case built on manipulation and fear. The novel delivers grisly clues, mounting dread, and attraction threaded through the chase.

In a town full of respectable faces and ugly secrets, someone is murdering men the community would rather defend than question. Barton turns that setup into a sharp thriller about hidden sins and public masks.

A sniper-like killer stalks victims one by one, convinced their private sins deserve judgment before midnight strikes. The case is relentless, and Barton keeps the clock pressure high from the first death onward.

A string of meticulously staged murders shocks Chattanooga, and grief counselor Audrey Sherrod is drawn far too close to the case. Barton pairs grotesque crime scenes with emotional fallout and a threat that keeps tightening.

A killer who works just before dawn murders with chilling precision, forcing determined investigator Maleah Purdue into a race against a methodical mind. The violence is sharp, and the case never lets up.

Malcolm York should already be finished, but whispers of fresh horrors pull old survivors and investigators back into danger. Barton builds the finale around wealth, cruelty, and the people still scarred by what they escaped.

When women start turning up dead in Cherokee Pointe, beauty itself seems to be part of the killer's pattern. Barton returns to one of her most atmospheric settings for a darker, more personal hunt.

Homicide detective Julia Cass faces a killer who has planned every death with awful patience. The closer she gets to the pattern, the clearer it becomes that silence will protect no one.

Ella starts receiving hand-delivered letters from someone who seems to know her every move. As fear closes in, Barton turns the stalker setup into a tense cat-and-mouse story with personal stakes.

Set in 1885 Alabama, this historical romance follows Margaret Campbell as she tries to build a secure future without surrendering herself completely to other people's plans. Love, reputation, and independence are all on the line.

In a small Mississippi town, Mary Beth Caine finds herself torn between two brothers and the life each one seems to offer. Barton gives the love triangle strong family tension, Southern atmosphere, and plenty of heat.

Barton's short piece in this romantic-suspense collection is a compact burst of danger and desire. It moves quickly, but still has the sharp threat and emotional pressure readers expect from her.