Chasers Books in Order

The Chasers books sit early in Kandi Steiner's catalog, and you can feel her working out themes she would return to again and again later. These stories are romance novels, of course, but they are also about people who use movement, charm, or reinvention to stay one step ahead of the things that scare them most.

They are smaller books, but not small-feeling ones.

Tag Chaser introduces Paisley Bronson, a successful advertising professional who has built a dating life around one basic rule: do not get too close. A bet pushes her to try something different, and then Corbin Ray enters the picture, a man who seems almost too steady to fit the life she has designed. What gives the book its shape is not just the attraction, but Paisley's fear of what happens if she stops treating romance like a game she can control.

Song Chaser shifts the mood a bit. Kellee Brooks heads to New York City to escape the life that was waiting for her back home, only to find that running away is not the same thing as starting over. In a smoky dive-bar world, she meets Tanner West, whose edge and damage make him instantly interesting and instantly dangerous. The book has that classic early-Kandi blend of longing, hidden pain, and characters who are both pulled together and wary of what intimacy might ask from them.

The link between the books is not a giant shared-universe plot. It is more tonal and relational than that. Steiner herself suggests starting with Tag Chaser before Song Chaser, because one introduces a character who matters more in the next story. There are also shorter follow-up pieces, like Straight, No Chaser and Tag Catcher, that give extra time with characters readers got attached to.

What stands out now is how clearly these books point toward the writer Steiner would become. You can already see the interest in guarded heroines, men carrying more hurt than they show, and love stories that ask characters to trade self-protection for honesty. The settings are different from some of her later sports-heavy work, but the emotional engine is very familiar.

If you are curious about where her romance voice began, Chasers is a good place to look. It is the beginning of the thread, characters on the move, trying to outrun old pain, and slowly learning that what they are really chasing might be home.