Courtney Cole Books in Order
Browse Courtney Cole books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy starting points for her romance, fantasy, suspense, and holiday reads.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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Courtney Cole books in publication order
34 books
If You Stay
by Courtney Cole
1999
Pax Tate hides grief and addiction behind swagger, anger, and one bad decision after another. Mila Hill sees the damage anyway, and loving her may be the only chance he has to change.
Guardian
by Courtney Cole
2010
Whitney Lane is grieving her father's drowning when shadows, whispers, and impossible sightings begin around her. Then a guardian angel steps in, and her ordinary life becomes a fight between light and dark.
Every Last Kiss
by Courtney Cole
2011
Seventeen-year-old Macy Lockhart discovers her life is tied to the Fates and to a past life in ancient Egypt. As truth and destiny collide, love may ask her to risk far more than she understands.
Fated
by Courtney Cole
2011
Macy thinks she finally knows her role in the Order of the Moirae, then new revelations change everything. As danger closes in around the people she loves, she has to decide what kind of power she can bear.
My TatteredBonds
by Courtney Cole
2011
Harmonia has been broken and remade across countless lives, and the final battle asks more of her than ever. The saga closes with love, sacrifice, and fate all pulling in opposite directions.
Princess
by Courtney Cole
2011
Sydney Ross seems born to wealth and political privilege, until a pregnancy blows apart her family's perfect image. What follows is a dark YA story about betrayal, survival, and learning just how little money can protect you.
With My Last Breath
by Courtney Cole
2011
Just when Harmonia believes she has saved the people she loves, disaster tears everything apart again. Now prophecy, loss, and the future of Olympus rest on choices only she can make.
Confessions of an Alli Cat
by Courtney Cole
2012
Fresh off a divorce, thirty-five-year-old Alli Lancaster lets her outrageous best friend push her back into dating. What follows is a funny, steamy romp about reinvention, risk, and finding desire again.
Dante's Girl
by Courtney Cole
2012
Reece expects another dull summer abroad until a travel disaster strands her in Caberra with Dante Giliberti, the prime minister's son. Their romance is sweet, awkward, and complicated by class, culture, and politics.
House of Thebes
by Courtney Cole
2012
This Bloodstone novella steps back to the true beginning of Harmonia and Cadmus. It fills in the emotional history behind the saga and adds bonus stories from the same myth-heavy world.
Mia's Heart
by Courtney Cole
2012
After a natural disaster leaves her with amnesia, Mia has to rebuild her sense of self from scratch. Two very different boys tug at her heart while the life everyone describes feels less and less like hers.
Of Blood and Bone
by Courtney Cole
2012
Eva Talbot comes to Malta to finish her psychiatry dissertation and winds up caring for the mother of the mysterious Luca Minaldi. Their attraction is instant, but the darkness around his family feels dangerously real.
Soul Bound
by Courtney Cole
2012
Em and Brennan's love only gets more dangerous as their moon and sun powers collide under the gods' watchful eyes. If they cannot master what they are becoming, far more than their relationship will burn.
Soul Kissed
by Courtney Cole
2012
Em is cursed to survive on souls and blood, which makes falling for Brennan, the son of Apollo, a terrible idea. Their bond is powerful, tender, and dangerous enough to shake both mortal and immortal worlds.
Before We Fall
by Courtney Cole
2013
Actor Dominic Kinkaide has fame, money, and a past he cannot outrun. Jacey Vincent has her own wounds, and when they collide, attraction turns messy, volatile, and unexpectedly healing.
If You Leave
by Courtney Cole
2013
Former Army Ranger Gabriel Vincent comes home from Afghanistan carrying trauma he can barely face. Madison Hill is dealing with grief of her own, and their connection becomes both a refuge and a risk.
Until We Burn
by Courtney Cole
2013
This short, intense lead-in to Dominic Kinkaide's story shows the damage and longing behind the man readers meet later. It adds context, heat, and a darker edge to the Beautifully Broken world.
All That's Bright
by Courtney Cole
2014
This short holiday collection returns to Pax, Mila, and the Beautifully Broken circle for a warm Christmas visit. It is sweet, romantic, and best enjoyed by readers already attached to the series.
Nocte
by Courtney Cole
2014
Calla Price will do anything for her twin brother Finn, even as his unraveling threatens to pull her under too. Then Dare DuBray enters her life, and old secrets begin to warp everything she trusts.
The Minaldi Legacy
by Courtney Cole
2014
Eva Talbot moves to Malta for school and is drawn into the orbit of Luca Minaldi, a powerful man with a terrifying family secret. This collected edition blends romance, gothic atmosphere, and dark suspense.
Until We Fly
by Courtney Cole
2014
Estranged from his family and bruised by heartbreak, former Army Ranger Brand Killien comes home for an emergency. There he finds Nora Greene, old pain, and the possibility that home might still save him.
Initium
by Courtney Cole
2015
This dark companion novella goes back to the beginning of the Nocte story and the choices that poisoned it. It adds emotional weight and fresh context without easing the series' sense of dread.
Lux
by Courtney Cole
2015
Broken and desperate, Calla reaches the final stage of a story built on secrets and distorted memory. Lux is the reckoning, where the last answers finally come with a steep emotional cost.
Verum
by Courtney Cole
2015
Calla survives the first round of revelations only to find herself sinking deeper into lies, fear, and uncertainty. The truth is close in Verum, but getting to it may cost her what little stability she has left.
What I Want You to Know
by Courtney Cole
2015
When her daughter turned thirteen, Courtney Cole wrote down the advice she most wanted to pass on. The result is a brief, heartfelt book about growing up, choosing well, and paying attention to what matters.
Dare Me
by Courtney Cole
2016
This short return to the Nocte world circles back to Calla and Dare, adding heat, tenderness, and more of the uneasy atmosphere fans expect. It is brief, intimate, and still full of questions.
Necessary Roughness
by Courtney Cole
2016
Football star Nicky Chase is sidelined by a brutal knee injury and wants the world to leave him alone. Then physical therapist Sophia De Bartoli shows up, and rehab gets very personal, very quickly.
The Cougar Chronicles 2
by Courtney Cole
2016
Sara, Alli's wild best friend, finally gets a story of her own in this fast, funny sequel. Between wedding chaos and an unexpected attraction to Sam, she has to decide if she can handle a real grown-up relationship.
My Peace
by Courtney Cole
2017
Pax Tate seems to have built the life he fought for, marriage, family, sobriety, and calm. Then someone from his past returns, forcing him to defend everything he loves without losing himself again.
Saving Beck
by Courtney Cole
2018
Told from a mother's point of view, this novel follows Beck's slide into heroin addiction after devastating loss. It is raw, painful, and hopeful, as his family learns how hard love can fight.
Mine
by Courtney Cole
2019
A hurricane traps Tessa in Florida just after she discovers her husband's affair. When she lures the other woman to her house, jealousy, fear, and revenge turn into a tense battle neither can control.
The Christmas Dress
by Courtney Cole
2021
Meg returns to Chicago to manage her late father's crumbling apartment building and meets Ellie, an elderly tenant guarding one unforgettable dress. Their unlikely friendship sparks romance, healing, and a Christmas-sized second chance.
Home for Christmas
by Courtney Cole
2022
After her grandmother's death, Piper plans to leave Alaska and rethink her life. A blizzard sends her back to 1945, where meeting her young gran reshapes her ideas about family, love, and home.
A Wish for Christmas
by Courtney Cole
2023
A fading marriage, a missing dog, and one strange snow globe send Noel and Jonah into separate versions of the lives they thought they wanted. Christmas magic gives them a last chance to choose each other.
Where to start with Courtney Cole
If you want emotionally intense romance: If You Stay → If You Leave → Before We Fall → Until We Fly
If you want a mind-bending mystery with romance: Nocte → Verum → Lux
If you want mythology, fate, and past lives: Every Last Kiss → Fated → With My Last Breath → My TatteredBonds
If you want standalones with family and holiday heart: Saving Beck → Mine → The Christmas Dress → Home for Christmas
Courtney Cole sub-series and character series
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If You Stay
by Courtney Cole
1999Beautifully Broken, Book 1
Before We Fall
by Courtney Cole
2013Beautifully Broken, Book 4
If You Leave
by Courtney Cole
2013Beautifully Broken, Book 2
Until We Burn
by Courtney Cole
2013Beautifully Broken, Book 3
Until We Fly
by Courtney Cole
2014Beautifully Broken, Book 5
My Peace
by Courtney Cole
2017Beautifully Broken, Book 6
Beautifully Broken (Courtney Cole) books in chronological order

If You Stay
by Courtney Cole
1999Beautifully Broken, Book 1
If You Leave
by Courtney Cole
2013Beautifully Broken, Book 2
Until We Burn
by Courtney Cole
2013Beautifully Broken, Book 3
Before We Fall
by Courtney Cole
2013Beautifully Broken, Book 4
Until We Fly
by Courtney Cole
2014Beautifully Broken, Book 5
My Peace
by Courtney Cole
2017Beautifully Broken, Book 6
HotShots (Courtney Cole) books in order
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Every Last Kiss
by Courtney Cole
2011The Bloodstone Saga, Book 1
Fated
by Courtney Cole
2011The Bloodstone Saga, Book 2
My TatteredBonds
by Courtney Cole
2011The Bloodstone Saga, Book 4
With My Last Breath
by Courtney Cole
2011The Bloodstone Saga, Book 3
House of Thebes
by Courtney Cole
2012The Bloodstone Saga, Book 5
The Bloodstone Saga books in chronological order

Every Last Kiss
by Courtney Cole
2011The Bloodstone Saga, Book 1
Fated
by Courtney Cole
2011The Bloodstone Saga, Book 2
With My Last Breath
by Courtney Cole
2011The Bloodstone Saga, Book 3
My TatteredBonds
by Courtney Cole
2011The Bloodstone Saga, Book 4
House of Thebes
by Courtney Cole
2012The Bloodstone Saga, Book 5
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Standalone Courtney Cole books
Author bio
Courtney Cole was born and raised in rural Kansas, and that farm-girl beginning still feels important to the way she talks about life and work. Even after later moves to the Great Lakes region and the South, she has kept that Midwestern core, practical, warm, and willing to dig in when things get hard.
The books came after the business career started.
Cole earned a bachelor's degree in business with a focus in marketing from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2007. She then spent about a decade working in international sales and marketing for AM General, writing fiction in her free time and building her author career piece by piece.
Her early novels arrived in 2011, but If You Stay was the book that really changed the shape of her career. Published in 2012, it became a breakout hit and helped introduce many readers to the emotionally intense side of New Adult romance. From there, her audience kept growing. Over time, she has written more than twenty novels, sold more than a million copies, and seen her books reach readers in multiple languages.
A lot of people first meet her through the Beautifully Broken books, especially If You Stay and If You Leave, where attraction, grief, addiction, and recovery are all tangled together. Others come in through Nocte, which leans darker and stranger, or through standalones like Saving Beck, a hard look at addiction and family, and Mine, a pressure-cooker story that traps two women inside the same storm. Then there are books like The Christmas Dress and Home for Christmas, which show how comfortably she can shift into warmer, more openly hopeful territory.
Myth and magic never really left the room, either.
Some of her earlier work, including the Bloodstone and Moonstone books, pulls from Greek mythology, fate, reincarnation, and doomed love. Later, she also began writing psychological thrillers under the name Courtney Evan Tate. That range sounds wide, but the emotional through line is pretty steady. Cole likes damaged people, buried secrets, family trouble, love that costs something, and characters who have to decide who they are when life stops being manageable. The ocean shows up in many of her stories too, which feels fitting for a writer who clearly likes beauty with a little danger attached.
She does not stay in one lane.
These days, her work is expanding beyond traditional book pages in a different way. On her official site, she describes creating immersive storyworlds that let readers explore characters, locations, mysteries, and extra layers of the fictional worlds she has built. Her current author bio places her in Florida, where she lives with her husband, a Great Dane named Lucy, and a cat named Professor Minerva McGonagall. She also collects hula girls, likes swimming, and still talks about stories as if they are one of the few real kinds of magic left, which honestly feels on brand.
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