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Blood and Bone Books in Order

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See the Blood and Bone books by Tara Brown in order, with short summaries, series background, reading order help, and where to start.

Last updated: July 11, 2026

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Blood and Bone books in publication order

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1

Blood and Bone

by Tara Brown

2013

After a car accident steals pieces of her past, Jane keeps getting mistaken for a dead girl named Samantha. As two men offer very different truths, she has to decide who is lying, and who she really is.

2

Sin and Swoon

by Tara Brown

2015

Mind runner Jane Spears dives into a brutal case and finds clues buried inside a victim's mind. The deeper she goes, the uglier the conspiracy becomes, and getting out may be harder than solving it.

3

Soul and Blade

by Tara Brown

2015

Jane Spears is determined to keep catching killers, even with a wedding on the horizon. Then a new case drops her into the mind of a sociopath who may know something terrible about her own past.

Blood and Bone books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Blood and Bone"

    Blood and Bone

    by Tara Brown

    2013Blood and Bone, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Sin and Swoon"

    Sin and Swoon

    by Tara Brown

    2015Blood and Bone, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Soul and Blade"

    Soul and Blade

    by Tara Brown

    2015Blood and Bone, Book 3

Series background & context

The Blood and Bone books start with a sharp identity mystery. Jane survives a car accident, but the crash leaves her memory in pieces. She is trying to build a normal life when strangers begin mistaking her for Samantha, a dead girl who looks exactly like her. That one detail turns everything sideways.

From there, the series shifts from personal confusion into romantic suspense with a paranormal edge.

Jane has to sort through men who seem to want very different things from her, a past that keeps slipping away, and the awful possibility that everyone around her knows more than she does. In Blood and Bone, the tension comes from not knowing which version of the truth is real. Is she a woman trying to move on, or someone whose whole life has been staged around a lie?

The later books widen the scope. By Sin and Swoon and Soul and Blade, Jane is not just trying to understand her own story. She is stepping into brutal investigations and confronting the minds of dangerous people. That gives the series its hook. These are thrillers about memory, trust, and identity, but they also lean into the unsettling idea that the human mind can be entered, read, and used against you.

The tone stays fairly dark, but it moves fast. Brown mixes attraction, suspicion, and procedural tension, so the books feel part romance, part conspiracy, and part psychic crime story. Jane is the center of it all. Even when the cases get bigger, the real question is always what the truth will cost her once she finally sees it clearly.

If you like suspense that begins with amnesia and hidden identities, then grows into something stranger and more dangerous, this is the kind of series that gets harder to put down as it goes.

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Richard Reis

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Anurag Ramdasan

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