Cora Kenborn Books in Order
Explore Cora Kenborn books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, reading paths, and help choosing where to start across her dark and contemporary romances.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
28 books
Fame and Obsession
by Cora Kenborn
2016
Phoebe Ryan moves to New York to outrun her past, only to get pulled into the orbit of rocker Julian Bale. Ghostwriting his story sparks a dangerous attraction, and fame quickly brings trouble to their door.
Blue Lights and Boatmen
by Cora Kenborn
2017
This time Pope and Zep take the lead, giving the Swamp Bottom men their say. Gossip, jealous exes, and family interference push both couples to the edge, but nobody in the bayou gives up quietly.
Blurred Red Lines
by Cora Kenborn
2017
After witnessing a botched cartel hit, Eden is dragged into a deadly war and taken captive by Valentin Carrera. Revenge keeps her moving, but the ruthless heir she's supposed to hate is harder to resist than escape.
Divorce and Denial
by Cora Kenborn
2017
A month before her dream wedding, Savannah discovers a drunken Vegas mistake that could ruin everything. She drags a very pregnant Adelaide into a frantic rescue mission, and the fallout is as funny as it is disastrous.
Fame and Secrets
by Cora Kenborn
2017
Phoebe thought saying yes to Julian meant a fresh start, not isolation, tabloids, and danger. When a murder echoes the scars she has hidden for years, fame and family suddenly come with a terrifying price.
Front Porches and Funerals
by Cora Kenborn
2017
Broke, hunted, and out of options, the Dubois sisters head back to the Louisiana swamp they once left behind. Home offers family, chaos, old hurts, and the kind of fresh trouble only Swamp Bottom can manage.
Hook-Ups and Hang-Ups
by Cora Kenborn
2017
A move to New Orleans is supposed to mean a clean slate for Addie and Savannah. Instead, old flames, new messes, and plenty of self-sabotage prove the Dubois sisters can bring trouble anywhere.
Pink Lines and Panic
by Cora Kenborn
2017
One more surprise sends the Dubois crew into full crisis mode. Between family chaos, relationship pressure, and the kind of panic only this series can turn funny, the stakes suddenly feel much more real.
Shallow
by Cora Kenborn
2017
Supermodel Shiloh is forced back to the town and man she left behind after one reckless mistake changes everything. Cary has not forgiven her, and their reunion turns old wounds into a sharp, emotional second chance.
Unsupervised
by Cora Kenborn
2017
A hot Irish single dad needs help, and a determined woman needs a shot at the job she wants. Their fake relationship setup brings laughs, sparks, and a reminder that convenience can get very complicated fast.
Voodoo and Vodka
by Cora Kenborn
2017
The Dubois sisters are back, and their fresh start gets swallowed by Mardi Gras chaos, bad decisions, and secrets that refuse to stay buried. This one leans harder into the series' wild humor without losing the heart.
Warrants and Onesies
by Cora Kenborn
2017
The Swamp Bottom saga heads into its final stretch with babies, legal trouble, and one last round of family chaos. It is a warm, funny closer that keeps the sisters' bond front and center.
Faded Gray Lines
by Cora Kenborn
2018
Leighton is trying to start over when danger pushes her back into the orbit of Mateo, the man who once broke her heart. Old wounds, cartel loyalties, and buried secrets make their second chance anything but safe.
Darkest Deeds
by Cora Kenborn
2019
A hitman bent on revenge kidnaps the woman caught in his crosshairs, only to become dangerously obsessed with her. What starts as retribution turns into a brutal fight for survival, secrets, and control.
Drawn Blue Lines
by Cora Kenborn
2019
A family secret throws Adriana and Brody onto opposite sides of the same brutal world. As loyalty, bloodlines, and desire collide, they have to decide whether love can survive the Carrera empire.
Starlet
by Cora Kenborn
2020
A woman pushed into the role of Hollywood's perfect survivor refuses to stay anyone's puppet. As past and present collide, the spotlight becomes a battleground in this dark, twisted retelling with secrets behind every smile.
Bad Blood
by Cora Kenborn
2021
When Thalia Santiago walks into Santi Carrera's casino, a long family war takes a personal turn. Debt, revenge, and a forced bargain pull two enemies into a dangerous marriage game neither of them can control.
Born Sinner
by Cora Kenborn
2021
At college, a rival heir targets Lola Carrera as part of a feud older than either of them. Revenge is the plan, but obsession and forbidden attraction turn this dark prequel into a spark before the wider war.
Cast Stones
by Cora Kenborn
2021
Madi and Luca survived a nightmare together once, only to be torn apart by it. Years later, a dark reunion forces them to face the cult, the trauma, and the bond that never really died.
City Of Thieves
by Cora Kenborn
2021
Tatiana's art world collides with mafia vengeance when Renzo Marchesi forces her to help hunt his brother's killer. Lies, attraction, and a trail of danger turn their uneasy alliance into something much harder to escape.
Fame and Lies
by Cora Kenborn
2021
This Lords of Lyre installment turns to Zane and Faith, bringing the band's world of fame, private damage, and tangled loyalties back into focus. It promises the same mix of romance and emotional fallout that runs through the series.
Playboy Pitcher
by Cora Kenborn
2021
Willow inherits a struggling baseball team and wants out, until a clause in her father's will changes everything. Teaming up with star pitcher Benson sparks a fake arrangement, real chemistry, and plenty of trouble.
Tainted Blood
by Cora Kenborn
2021
Santi and Thalia's war is far from over. With rival families closing in and every truce ready to shatter, they have to decide whether their bond can outlast the violence that built their world.
Blacklisted
by Cora Kenborn
2022
A skilled grifter targets Miami's rich and reckless, then runs into the rival who first dragged her into the game. Their bet is simple, their chemistry is not, and the biggest score may be each other.
Bullets and Thorns
by Cora Kenborn
2022
Old alliances are broken, protection comes with a price, and the fixer no one sees becomes impossible to ignore. Set in the Corrupt Gods World, this arranged marriage romance turns family duty into something far more dangerous.
Torched Spades
by Cora Kenborn
2022
Psychiatrist Becca Brennan knows her new court-ordered patient is hiding something. Johnny Malone is dangerous, obsessive, and possibly far more connected to her past than he should be, turning a forbidden attraction into a slow-burning trap.
Tormented Diamonds
by Cora Kenborn
2025
Becca and Gianni's story reaches its breaking point when survival demands impossible choices and an unwanted wedding. The Marchesi finale turns obsession, violence, and hard-won trust into one last brutal test.
Tortured Hearts
by Cora Kenborn
2025
Becca and Johnny's story gets darker as secrets peel back and the Marchesi underworld closes in. Love, obsession, and survival are tangled together now, and walking away may cost them more than staying.
Where should I start?
If you want dark cartel romance: Blurred Red Lines → Faded Gray Lines → Drawn Blue Lines
If you want next-generation mafia drama: Born Sinner → Bad Blood → Tainted Blood
If you want one couple over a whole trilogy: Torched Spades → Tortured Hearts → Tormented Diamonds
If you want rock-star romantic suspense: Fame and Obsession → Fame and Secrets
If you want something funny and Southern: Front Porches and Funerals → Voodoo and Vodka → Hook-Ups and Hang-Ups
Author bio
Cora Kenborn was born in North Carolina, and that Southern streak still shows up in the way she talks about home, food, and family.
She writes romance in a lot of different shapes. Dark mafia stories. Rock-star suspense. Contemporary drama. Funny, chaotic rom-com. Across more than thirty novels, she has built a catalog that moves easily between danger and heart, usually with sharp banter, messy feelings, and a twist waiting around the corner. She is a USA Today bestselling author and has also reached the Top 50 on Amazon.
A good place to see her early range is the Lords of Lyre series. Fame and Obsession throws a struggling writer into the orbit of rock star Julian Bale, and Fame and Secrets keeps pushing that story into darker, more suspenseful territory. Those books show something Kenborn returns to often, romance that has real outside pressure on it, whether that means fame, a threat from the past, or the simple fact that two wounded people do not always know how to trust each other.
She doesn't stay in one lane for long.
Many readers know her best for the underworld side of her work. In Blurred Red Lines, the opening book in the Carrera Cartel trilogy, she drops a strong-willed heroine into a cartel war and lets the romance grow inside the danger rather than outside it. That same high-stakes energy carries into Bad Blood, her collaboration with Catherine Wiltcher, and later into the Marchesi books, including Torched Spades. If you like antiheroes who love hard, power struggles, and couples who have to fight for every inch of peace, that part of her catalog is usually where people start.
But Kenborn is just as comfortable writing stories that are more grounded in ordinary heartbreak. Shallow is a bruising second-chance story about fame, bad choices, and old wounds that never healed cleanly. Playboy Pitcher goes lighter, using baseball, inheritance drama, and a fake arrangement to deliver more humor and warmth. Then there is Starlet, a dark Hollywood retelling that shows how much she likes secrets, image, and the ugly machinery hiding behind glamour.
She also collaborates well. The books she wrote with Catherine Wiltcher expand her cartel world into a next-generation saga full of inherited grudges and dangerous marriages. The Swamp Bottom books, written with K.A. Ware, swing the other way and lean into Southern comedy, sister chaos, and small-town mess. That split says a lot about her range. She can write danger, but she can also write family noise, awkward tenderness, and people talking like their lives are one bad decision away from getting weirder.
Readers who stick with her work often come back for the same reasons. The heroines have backbone. The heroes are damaged but not flat. Even in the darkest stories, there is movement, humor, and emotional payoff. Kenborn likes pressure-cooker setups, family feuds, fake relationships, old secrets, public scandal, and second chances, then finds different ways to make them feel personal.
Her public author bios keep the tone refreshingly down to earth. By her own telling, a failed attempt at her mother's biscuits and gravy helped confirm that fiction was a better fit than real-life cooking.
These days, she is still closely associated with North Carolina, still writing across genres, and still talking about coffee, gummy bears, and the idea that microwaved mac and cheese absolutely counts as dinner. That mix of humor and darkness feels a lot like the books themselves. They can get intense, but they never lose sight of personality.
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