BM Hardin Books in Order
Find BM Hardin books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where-to-start tips for her suspense, thriller, and relationship drama novels.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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BM Hardin books in publication order
33 books
Every Woman Has a Price
by BM Hardin
2012
This early stand-alone asks what people will trade, accept, or survive when desire and pressure collide. Hardin turns that simple question into a twisty relationship drama full of consequences.
Just to hear the words "I Love You"
by BM Hardin
2012
Hardin's debut novel leans into longing, romance, and the trouble that starts when people need love more than honesty. It is an early look at the emotional tension that would shape much of her later work.
Can You Stay for Breakfast?
by BM Hardin
2013
Told through the wife, the husband, and the mistress, this early relationship drama turns a love triangle into a web of lies. Everybody wants love, but nobody is telling the full truth.
Dirty Bonds
by BM Hardin
2014
This opening Dirty Bonds book drops readers into a world of tangled loyalties, attraction, and dangerous secrets. In Hardin's hands, the relationships are the hook and the real source of trouble.
Low Down Dirty Bonds
by BM Hardin
2014
The fallout from Dirty Bonds gets even messier here, with old lies turning meaner and private attachments harder to escape. The deeper these characters stay tied together, the worse the consequences become.
Mrs. Jones
by BM Hardin
2014
The Jones story begins with the wife, where marriage, appearances, and buried truths start pulling apart. What looks ordinary on the surface quickly becomes tense, personal, and hard to trust.
Sealed with a Kiss
by BM Hardin
2014
What starts with romance does not stay simple for long in this early Hardin drama. One intimate choice opens the door to secrets, betrayal, and emotional fallout that refuses to stay hidden.
Your Pastor, My Husband
by BM Hardin
2014
Maxine thought marrying Pastor Shelton Cartwright meant safety and a better life. Then his past starts showing up at her door, and she realizes the man praying for her may have been preying on her.
A Painted Smile
by BM Hardin
2015
Storm's life looks polished and happy from the outside, especially after marrying her so-called perfect man. But once the truth starts cracking through, she learns smiles can hide deadly secrets.
He Still Belongs to Me
by BM Hardin
2015
Envy is already in too deep, and a jealous woman named Carmen is determined to make things worse. As revenge, secrets, and obsession build, Envy learns that money and attention both come with a price.
Mr. Jones
by BM Hardin
2015
This second Jones book turns the spotlight on the husband and the truth hiding on his side of the marriage. What looks settled from the outside grows darker once his secrets start surfacing.
Read the Warning Label First
by BM Hardin
2015
Tori knows what she wants and usually spots trouble before it gets close. Then she meets Tristan, and the man who seems to check every box brings exactly the kind of chaos she should have avoided.
Side Chick Catching Main Chick Feelings
by BM Hardin
2015
Moe loves Drake, but loving a married man means always coming second. Once her feelings get too deep, she is pulled into a dangerous mix of jealousy, bad choices, and survival.
Side Chick Catching Main Chick Feelings 2
by BM Hardin
2015
Moe's messy love life only gets riskier as secrets and consequences keep stacking up. What started as an affair turns into a darker fight over loyalty, control, and getting out alive.
The Finale
by BM Hardin
2015
Envy wants out, but the truth she uncovers only makes her life more dangerous. With enemies close and secrets falling from every direction, she has to fight hard to get herself back.
Your Husband Chose Me
by BM Hardin
2015
Broke and out of options, Envy accepts a risky offer that pulls her into the hotel's secret thirteenth floor. Money comes fast, but so do lies, dangerous attention, and married men.
Desperate
by BM Hardin
2016
Serenity believed Elroy loved her, and the heartbreak that follows pushes her over the edge. Still obsessed and badly hurt, she becomes willing to destroy everything he loves to make him feel it too.
The Finale
by BM Hardin
2016
The fallout from Tiffany's marriage only gets worse as buried promises and divided loyalties come to light. This second Hidden Wife book pushes the betrayal further and raises the cost of every secret.
The Good Listener
by BM Hardin
2016
Psychologist Hannah Lewis thinks she can help anyone, until Blake Griffin walks into her office with a dangerous past. His secrets, and hers, drag her into a tense psychological game she may not survive.
The Hidden Wife
by BM Hardin
2016
Tiffany Parks thinks she may finally be getting the marriage she wants. But as warnings pile up and her new husband's past creeps closer, she has to ask whether another wife is already hidden in the picture.
The Revenge: Fran's Side
by BM Hardin
2016
The Hidden Wife story closes from Fran's side, where anger, hurt, and unfinished business drive the action. Revenge and truth crash together as the series heads for its final reckoning.
The Wrong Husband
by BM Hardin
2016
Sassi has a husband, children, and a life that looks good from the outside, but something has always been missing. When old secrets surface, she starts to fear she married the wrong man all along.
The Wrong Husband 2
by BM Hardin
2016
The love triangle and long-buried lies from book one keep getting uglier. As Sassi deals with betrayal from every angle, the truth threatens to destroy whatever is left of her marriage.
Her 13th Husband
by BM Hardin
2017
Ivy Raye has already buried twelve husbands, so marriage number thirteen is supposed to be different. Then someone decides husband thirteen should die too, and Ivy is back in a deadly mystery.
The Golden Lie
by BM Hardin
2017
Yaya Ramsey thought she married a good man, but Dakota is hiding more than she imagined. Hurt and furious, she tells one lie for revenge and sets off a chain of twists she cannot control.
The Janes
by BM Hardin
2017
Jane thinks she has a good marriage and a clean future, until one choice leads her into the strange world of S.J. Lane. In a neighborhood full of Janes, nothing feels normal and nobody feels safe.
Give Him Back
by BM Hardin
2018
Lava cannot accept losing her husband to the woman he cheated with, especially once a baby is involved. Her desperate plan to take him back goes horribly wrong, and the secrets around her only get darker.
Kemp and Satin
by BM Hardin
2018
Kemp and Satin's marriage is already under strain, and Lava is still part of the problem. As Satin works a dangerous assignment and Kemp's choices get riskier, love, lies, and crime collide.
Once Upon A Crime
by BM Hardin
2018
Epic Gilmore has a secret, she has powers, and keeping them hidden has always mattered. After tragedy and rivalry throw her life off balance, she is pulled into a dangerous game of lies and suspicion.
Secrets of the South
by BM Hardin
2018
When Savannah's marriage collapses, she heads back South hoping to find herself and finally write the story she wants. Instead, she runs into old pain, family mysteries, and questions about her parents that will not stay buried.
Everybody Lies
by BM Hardin
2019
A bride-to-be is found dead and burned, and Pepper starts picking through a long list of suspects. The closer she gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that everyone is hiding something.
FYI, I Cheat Back!
by BM Hardin
2020
After her fiancé Emory cheats, Nova decides revenge is only fair. Her payback plan spirals into missing people, buried secrets, and deadly consequences she never saw coming.
Husband for Sale
by BM Hardin
2021
Nema thinks she has the perfect husband, until her own unhappiness pushes him away. When jealousy kicks in and lies start surfacing, she learns that trying to put a price on love can wreck everything.
Where to start with BM Hardin
If you want a big, twisty marriage thriller: Give Him Back → Kemp and Satin
If you like secrets buried inside wedding vows: The Hidden Wife → The Finale → The Revenge: Fran's Side
If you want sharp standalone suspense: Everybody Lies → The Good Listener → Husband for Sale
If you prefer messy relationship drama with a thriller edge: The Wrong Husband → The Wrong Husband 2 or Your Husband Chose Me → He Still Belongs to Me
BM Hardin sub-series and character series
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Explore this seriesStandalone BM Hardin books

Every Woman Has a Price
by BM Hardin
2012
Just to hear the words "I Love You"
by BM Hardin
2012
Can You Stay for Breakfast?
by BM Hardin
2013
Sealed with a Kiss
by BM Hardin
2014
A Painted Smile
by BM Hardin
2015
Read the Warning Label First
by BM Hardin
2015
Desperate
by BM Hardin
2016I'll Do Anything for Love
The Good Listener
by BM Hardin
2016
Her 13th Husband
by BM Hardin
2017
The Golden Lie
by BM Hardin
2017
The Janes
by BM Hardin
2017
Once Upon A Crime
by BM Hardin
2018
Secrets of the South
by BM Hardin
2018
Everybody Lies
by BM Hardin
2019
FYI, I Cheat Back!
by BM Hardin
2020
Husband for Sale
by BM Hardin
2021
Author bio
B.M. Hardin grew up in North Carolina, and that Southern background still shows up in the way she writes about family, secrets, loyalty, and the pressure that can build inside everyday relationships. She attended Gaston College and later the University of Phoenix, where she studied communications, a practical fit for someone who has long said words came naturally to her.
Writing came first.
Hardin has described herself as someone with the gift of gab, and that instinct for voice helped shape her early work. In 2012 she published her debut novel, Just to hear the words "I Love You", and from there she kept going, building a career book by book as an independent author.
She found her lane in suspense.
Over time, that lane widened into a big, varied catalog. Hardin has written African American suspense, thrillers, relationship drama, romance, and children's books, along with journals and other creative projects. Readers who come to her work for the first time often start with Give Him Back, The Hidden Wife, Everybody Lies, The Wrong Husband, or Husband for Sale, books that take familiar setups, marriage trouble, cheating, money stress, a too-perfect partner, and twist them into something darker and harder to predict.
That mix is a big part of her appeal. Hardin likes high-stakes emotional situations, but she usually keeps them grounded in private spaces: homes, churches, workplaces, close friendships, and families. Her stories return again and again to betrayal, revenge, secrecy, desire, and the long fallout that comes when somebody makes one selfish choice and then has to keep lying to protect it.
A few titles show her range especially well. The Good Listener leans into psychological suspense through the story of a therapist and a dangerous patient. Secrets of the South blends family mystery with a return-home story full of buried history. Once Upon A Crime pushes into magical suspense, while still keeping the emotional messiness that runs through much of her fiction. Even when the setup changes, the core pull stays the same: readers come for the tension, the bad decisions, and the twists that land close to home.
Her Give Him Back series helped bring her wider attention, including a mention from Entertainment Weekly as one of its favorite suspense writers. She has also been featured in outlets including Black Enterprise, Spectrum News, Yahoo News, and The Baltimore Times. Those milestones matter, but the larger story is that Hardin built her readership as an indie writer, steadily and on her own terms.
She has also spent years working on the business side of storytelling. Through Books and More by Author B.M. Hardin, she has offered ghostwriting, journal creation, publishing help, brand support, and other services for writers and entrepreneurs. That work sits neatly beside her fiction career. She writes her own books, but she also helps other people shape theirs.
Today, Hardin's career looks broader than a single shelf label. She is still known first for twisty relationship suspense, but her work now stretches across fiction, creative products, and author services. The through line is simple: she likes stories, she likes language, and she knows how to turn private trouble into compulsive reading.
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