Cheryl Brooks Books in Order
Explore Cheryl Brooks books in order, from Cat Star Chronicles to cowboys and contemporaries, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy starting points.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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Publication Order
30 books
Slave
by Cheryl Brooks
2008
Jacinth needs a slave who can pass as her master while she hunts for her kidnapped sister. What she finds is Cat, a brutalized Zetithian warrior whose power, loyalty, and hunger make the mission far more dangerous.
Warrior
by Cheryl Brooks
2008
Beaten slave Leo lands on healer Tisana's doorstep, and both know he may be key to her larger destiny. Their journey mixes recovery, danger, and a simmering battle over freedom, trust, and desire.
Outcast
by Cheryl Brooks
2009
After a decade in a harem, Lynx is exhausted, bitter, and sure he wants nothing from women. Rancher Bonnie gives him work and unexpected kindness, but intimacy means confronting the damage slavery left behind.
Pontoon
by Cheryl Brooks
2009
Tired of being the office wallflower, Caroline Richardson talks her way onto a week-long fishing trip with three handsome coworkers. She plans to make the adventure unforgettable, but the lake turns out to be only the beginning.
Rogue
by Cheryl Brooks
2009
Tychar has survived years as the queen's prized slave on Darconia, but freedom still feels far away. When shy piano teacher Kyra enters the palace, attraction flares just as a coup threatens both their lives.
Fugitive
by Cheryl Brooks
2010
Drusilla's vacation changes fast when she finds Manx, a hunted Zetithian warrior, hiding in the jungle. Drawn together by danger and fierce attraction, they have to decide whether love is worth the risk of discovery.
Hero
by Cheryl Brooks
2010
Micayla has always felt different, and Trag has spent years searching for a woman of his own kind. When the last known Zetithian female and a stubborn Zetithian pilot collide, romance and long-buried truths reshape the series' larger mystery.
Sex, Love, and a Purple Bikini
by Cheryl Brooks
2011
Terri Marshall falls for Benjamin Tremaine at Myrtle Beach, only to learn he is married to her nightmare boss. As Ben's broken marriage unravels, two carefree beach boys make Terri's romantic mess even harder to ignore.
Virgin
by Cheryl Brooks
2011
Starship pilot Dax Vandilorsk agrees to take Ava Karon home, then learns she may be heading back to another man. Their trip becomes an unexpected quest, and Dax must decide whether he can risk his heart as well as his body.
A Tale of Two Knights
by Cheryl Brooks
2012
Guinevere loves both King Arthur and Sir Lancelot, and Merlin offers a risky magical solution. In one tense hour, passion, loyalty, and court intrigue collide in Cheryl Brooks's sensual take on Arthurian legend.
Midnight in Reno
by Cheryl Brooks
2012
Hotel masseuse Adam Bryce prides himself on pleasing clients, yet he has never met the right woman. Then Evelyn Douglas, bruised by a collapsing marriage, books a session that turns into an unexpected spark.
Small, Medium and Large
by Cheryl Brooks
2012
Renee Swarovski meets Toby Lawrence in a sex toy shop and is instantly drawn into his orbit. When Toby introduces his roommate Lance, she discovers their buried attraction and wonders whether three hearts can fit together.
Stud
by Cheryl Brooks
2012
Tarq Zulveidinoe has decided the best use of his legendary appeal is helping preserve his species. Then he meets Lucy Force, the overlooked daughter of a restaurateur, and their unlikely connection turns a practical arrangement into something deeper.
The Lady Takes a Pair
by Cheryl Brooks
2012
After a scandal ruins her standing, Lady Juliet Nordsworth faces a marriage that could free her or trap her. Viscount Rotherford and his lover William Davenport offer desire, protection, and a life that breaks every rule.
Unbridled
by Cheryl Brooks
2013
Farrier Travis York falls hard for Miranda Jackson before he learns the wedding ring she wears hides widowhood, not marriage. Age difference, grief, and Miranda's autistic son make the path to love anything but simple.
Undeniable
by Cheryl Brooks
2013
Rock guitarist Joey Manzetti rescues his neighbor Tracy Richards from a terrible date, and friendship quickly turns charged. But Joey's painful family news and the secret that cost him love before may still stand between them.
Uninhibited
by Cheryl Brooks
2013
Alan John swears off sex after a bad mistake, then meets Emily Carmichael in an ice cream parlor and cannot forget her. A lost napkin, a second chance, and an old secret test whether desire can turn into trust.
Unrivaled
by Cheryl Brooks
2013
On her fiftieth birthday, nurse Leslie Wilkes secretly buys a drink for a younger man she never expects to see again. Robin Thatcher wants much more than a fling, but age is only the first obstacle in their way.
Wildcat
by Cheryl Brooks
2013
Horse breeder Sara Shield retreats to Terra Minor to escape men, only to meet Jerden Morokovitz, a grieving Zetithian scarred by violence and loss. Healing each other means facing fear, trauma, and the danger still shadowing him.
Rebel
by Cheryl Brooks
2014
Onca, a Zetithian refugee with a brothel past, steps in when streetwise Kimcasha uses herself as bait to find her missing friends. Their search pulls them into a dangerous underworld where rescue, trust, and desire become tangled.
Cowboy Delight
by Cheryl Brooks
2015
Stranded on a Texas highway, Lauren Allen accepts a ride from widower Steve Williams and winds up weathering the night at his ranch. One stormy detour makes her question her engagement and the life waiting for her.
Cowboy Heaven
by Cheryl Brooks
2015
Widow Angela McClure hires a gorgeous hitchhiking cowboy with a secret affair in mind, knowing the ranch around her is full of watchful eyes. Flirting becomes strategy, but only one cowboy can claim her heart.
Must Love Cowboys
by Cheryl Brooks
2016
Shy computer specialist Tina Hayes heads west to scatter her grandfather's ashes and ends up cooking on a Wyoming ranch. As a mystery surfaces, she must work closely with Wyatt McCabe, the cowboy who unsettles her most.
Dreams From the Deep
by Cheryl Brooks
2017
Cleona Mahoney survives the crash only to hear the dead, and the voices soon point her toward a mystery in the Irish countryside. With scarred farmer Kevan MacFinnin, she follows clues involving mutilated sheep, hidden science, and assassination.
Echoes From the Deep
by Cheryl Brooks
2017
After surviving a plane crash off Ireland, Jillian Dulaine inherits strange voices and a dying message meant for a reporter named Ranjiv Tenali. Her search for answers leads to Stonehenge, a larger destiny, and mortal danger.
Justice From the Deep
by Cheryl Brooks
2017
Flight attendant Susan Maxwell escapes the crash after a telepathic warning from the pilot, but survival is only the start. With boatman Seamus Quinn, she moves toward the final stage of a supernatural mission with world-shaping stakes.
Maverick
by Cheryl Brooks
2018
Irresistible Larsanken Tshevnoe relies on empathic Althea Banadänsk to tell whether anyone truly wants him for himself. A distress call sends the childhood friends into danger, where buried feelings and bigger responsibilities finally collide.
Mystic
by Cheryl Brooks
2019
Anthropologist Sulaksha Enduran returns to a newly discovered world hoping to solve her lover's death. With Zetithian mystic Aidan Banadänsk at her side, the search opens into a conspiracy that threatens a whole planet.
Captive
by Cheryl Brooks
2020
After a barroom brawl, Moe Tshevnoe is seized by Klara Tavock, who plans to sell him as a gladiator. Their attraction grows into an uneasy alliance as rebels rise and survival turns into revolution.
Out of Bounds
by Cheryl Brooks
2020
Former quarterback Kyle Sorenson falls for his male coworker David Adams, then meets Linda Nelson and sees a different future. The three of them must decide whether an unconventional love can survive jealousy, fear, and outside pressure.
Where should I start?
If you want alien romance first: Slave → Warrior → Rogue
If you want the next generation spin-off: Maverick → Mystic → Captive
If you want cowboys and ranch life: Cowboy Delight → Cowboy Heaven → Must Love Cowboys
If you want paranormal suspense: Echoes From the Deep → Dreams From the Deep → Justice From the Deep
If you want contemporary romance: Unbridled → Uninhibited → Undeniable → Unrivaled
Author bio
Cheryl Brooks grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and spent much of her adult life in nursing before readers came to know her for science fiction romance, cowboys, paranormal suspense, and very steamy love stories. She trained at the Kentucky Baptist Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1976, and later earned a BSN from Indiana University in 1986. She has also written about being horse-crazy from childhood, which helps explain why ranches, animals, and open country keep finding their way into her fiction.
For more than thirty years, Brooks worked full time as a critical care nurse. Writing was there, too, but for a long time it lived beside the day job. She has said she started writing because the kind of books she wanted to read simply were not out there yet, so she wrote them herself. At first, those stories mostly entertained friends.
Then a knight changed the plan.
Brooks has said she began writing in earnest in 2004 after being inspired by a knight at Medieval Times in Myrtle Beach. Two years later she self-published If You Could Read My Mind under the pen name Samantha R. Michaels. That early step mattered. It let her test the jump from private hobby to public work, and it set up the career that followed.
That was the real beginning.
Her first traditionally published novel, Slave, arrived in 2008 and launched the long-running Cat Star Chronicles. Those books blend futuristic adventure with romance and follow surviving Zetithian men whose feline genes make them striking, powerful, and hard for anyone to ignore. The series grew through titles like Warrior, Rogue, Wildcat, and Rebel. Rebel won the 2015 Prism Award for best futuristic romance, and Wildcat placed second in the same category the year before.
Brooks did not stay in one lane for long. She expanded the Zetithian universe with the Cat Star Legacy books, including Maverick, Mystic, and Captive. She also shifted into contemporary cowboy romance with Cowboy Heaven and Must Love Cowboys, into paranormal romantic suspense with the Soul Survivors trilogy beginning with Echoes From the Deep, and into contemporary erotic romance with the Unlikely Lovers books such as Unbridled and Unrivaled. Standalones like Sex, Love, and a Purple Bikini and Out of Bounds show the same habit of mixing bold chemistry with characters who are a little bruised, a little lonely, or simply at a turning point.
Across all those books, some patterns keep showing up. Brooks likes outsiders, rescue missions, grief, second chances, and people who have to build trust while the plot keeps moving. Her settings can jump from alien planets to Wyoming ranches to the Irish coast, but there is usually something practical underneath the fantasy. People work. They take care of animals. They cook, travel, hide, heal, and keep going even when life gets messy.
In 2012, after decades in nursing, Brooks left her critical care job to make more room for writing. She has shared that she lives in rural Indiana with her husband, has two grown sons, and keeps close to the horses, cats, and dogs she has loved for years.
When she is not writing, her interests have included cooking, gardening, singing, and playing guitar. That mix feels about right for her books. They are imaginative and adventurous, but they are also grounded in everyday habits, ordinary work, and the hopeful idea that it is never too late to start over.
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