Dangerous Sanctuary Books in Order

Dangerous Sanctuary is a three-book contemporary romantic suspense series written by S. L. Viehl under the name Gena Hale. Each novel sends a different couple toward a place that should offer safety, then makes that refuge part of the danger. The settings change from a private island to a snowbound mountain and a Montana ranch, but the pressure keeps building around a larger conspiracy.

Paradise Island begins with marine archaeologist Luke Fleming, who has withdrawn to a remote Florida island to work in private. His isolation ends when a woman washes ashore on a raft with amnesia and no clear explanation for how she got there. Luke calls her Jade, but protecting her means deciding whether she is an innocent person in trouble or a threat to the secrets he is guarding.

The safe place is never quite safe.

In Dream Mountain, Gareth Tremayne is hiding in winter-bound Colorado after being forced to fake his death. Delaney Arlen arrives at an isolated cabin after her uncle leaves her there, and their first meeting goes badly enough that she mistakes him for a bear. Both have reason to be wary, and the people hunting Gareth make their uneasy alliance much more than a question of attraction.

Sun Valley brings the trilogy's danger to Will Ryder's Montana ranch. Neala Delaney, often called Neal, has been helping her uncle with unofficial favors connected to national security. After she witnesses a murder, she needs a place to disappear, while Will discovers that keeping her alive may mean confronting the people and schemes that have been circling the earlier books.

The ongoing thread involves Uncle Sean, the Delaney family, and the Shandian Corporation. That larger conflict links the separate romances, so the books work best in publication order. Still, each installment has its own lead couple and its own immediate problem: a woman with missing memories, a fugitive whose hiding place is compromised, or a witness who has seen too much.

Expect romance with a generous amount of pursuit, mistaken assumptions, secret projects, and danger in isolated places. The series leans into the appeal of two people forced to rely on each other before either one is ready. Start with Paradise Island for the clearest picture of the conspiracy and its ties to the later sanctuaries.