Colony Books in Order

The Colony books are Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush collaborations that blend romantic suspense with a streak of the uncanny. The connective tissue is a place called The Colony, a secluded community tied to Siren Song, where women with unusual gifts have tried to build a life away from the outside world.

It sounds like a refuge. It doesn’t always act like one.

Across the series, the women at The Colony can sense things other people miss, flashes, feelings, premonitions. Those abilities create bonds, but they also make them targets, especially when someone decides the only way to control a “gift” is to own the person who has it. The books are as interested in power dynamics as they are in romance.

The setting carries a faint cult-like edge without turning into fantasy. Outsiders don’t understand the rules. Insiders protect the group, sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for darker ones. That tension gives the series a steady hum of paranoia: who’s keeping you safe, and who’s keeping you contained?

The books lean into claustrophobia even though the landscape is remote and open. The closer the characters get to the truth, the more they have to question what they think they know, about the community, about their own pasts, and about the people they’re falling for. Romance is central, but it’s never separate from the threat.

The “wicked” titles, including Wicked Game, Wicked Lies, Wicked Ways, and later Wicked Dreams, make the tone clear: dangerous attraction, shifting motives, and secrets that have been protected for years. The series isn’t interested in the safest route.

Each book delivers its own central couple and conflict, but reading in order gives you the fullest view of The Colony itself, how it works, who has power, and what it costs to belong. If you start in the middle, you’ll still get a complete thriller-romance, but you may miss some of the slow-burn background that makes the place feel real.

If you like suspense with a paranormal tingle, and you enjoy series built around a specific, slightly unsettling setting, The Colony books are an easy fit.