Denise Jaden Books in Order

After her sister's sudden death, Brie struggles with grief, strained friendships and family turmoil. Inconsistencies in the account of Faith's final night draw her toward a secret that threatens her own safety.

Loann envies her popular sister until entering Claire's world reveals the dangerous cost of her pursuit of perfection. As an eating disorder isolates Claire, Loann tries to repair their relationship and understand how to help her.

A writing guide explores how grief and loss can give fictional characters emotional depth without slipping into melodrama. Drawing on her own experience, Jaden offers fourteen principles intended to help writers portray difficult feelings with greater authenticity and narrative purpose.

A practical program guides writers through preparing, drafting and evaluating a novel within a concentrated schedule. A month of planning precedes thirty days of daily coaching, followed by revision guidance for deciding whether the finished draft offers a compelling foundation.

When her best friend leaves for an Italian exchange program, Jamie grows close to the friend's older brother. Discovering secrets within their family and losing contact with her friend sends her to Europe unsure whom she can trust.

A reluctant lead in her school's Christmas play, Kerril wants the holiday to leave her alone. A handsome ghost and strange encounters with past, present and future complicate her plans and invite an unexpected romance.

Ellis hopes ski-instructor training will offer a fresh start, but is paired with a schoolmate she fears. When disaster strikes the resort, the two must look beyond their assumptions and rely on each other to survive.

Jaden presents methods for finding and developing workable fiction ideas before drafting. Treating inspiration as a learnable skill, she explores how to assess concepts, generate fresh possibilities and move past creative blocks without spending years on a stalled story.

Kass travels to Los Angeles hoping to surprise Eli and repair their relationship as his band enters a television competition. His grief and damaged trust complicate the reunion, while pressure to become a publicly acceptable girlfriend leaves her questioning where she belongs.

As Eli’s band advances through a television competition, another performer’s interest intensifies Kass’s insecurities. The couple agree to spend time apart so he can focus, but separate work and ambition threaten the connection that has helped inspire his music.

After returning from a band tour, Kass tries to repay the damage caused by her mistakes through a dangerous arrangement. Her illegal associates and secrets from Eli threaten both her plan to put things right and the relationship she hopes to rebuild.

With nowhere safe to stay, guarded Kass joins Eli’s band on tour despite doubting she will fit in. His patient understanding offers an unfamiliar kind of connection, while friction with the group turns their journey into a test of trust and belonging.

Eli’s band reaches the final round of a television competition, bringing professional possibilities that may keep him apart from Kass. As she finds new family and educational opportunities, both must decide whether their separate futures can still include one another.

Hurt by Kass’s betrayal, Eli leaves Oregon for recording work near Los Angeles and reconnects with an old crush. Kass returns after escaping a drug ring to find him gone, leaving distance and damaged confidence between them and any possible reconciliation.

Widow Mallory delivers food to a grieving household and begins doubting the hit-and-run that killed a teenager’s father. Her perceptive cat Hunch draws attention to troubling details, leading her through family resentments and secrets while she rebuilds her own life.

Mallory expects a church picnic to offer food and friendly company, but the gathering becomes another murder investigation. With a sharp-tongued teenager, an observant cat and an appealing detective nearby, she must untangle small-town tensions before the event becomes more dangerous.

Helping her novelist husband learn social media, Mallory discovers an account already selling his supposed Christmas story. Its private photos raise doubts about who is behind it, prompting an investigation that threatens the trust and privacy of their new marriage.

Mallory plans a sixteenth birthday celebration for Amber, only for a mysterious death to interrupt the party. With the detective called away and Amber’s family name becoming a key clue, she investigates the secrets threatening the girl she considers her own.

A controversial speaker is found dead outside the town hall, turning Mallory into an important witness. Her cat discovers an unexpected clue, and she helps Detective Alex navigate hidden grudges while a careless superior threatens to derail the investigation.

Mallory and Amber cater a glamorous New Year’s Eve antique auction, where a prominent collector vanishes before making his expected bid. Rumors about a valuable clock draw them toward possible murder, turning their first event into a dangerous race for answers.

Winning a New Orleans food tour gives Mallory and Amber a chance to travel, with cat Hunch joining unexpectedly. When another participant is found dead, local secrecy and suspicious circumstances leave them investigating to clear Amber’s name before their holiday unravels.

Mallory hopes to focus on her catering business, but Alex’s secretive police assignment keeps drawing her attention. An accidental glimpse of the evidence reveals why he has been distant and suggests she may hold information essential to solving the case.

Mallory’s first date with Detective Alex includes a Bible study where two participants clash over alcohol. One is later found dead, drawing them into a mystery of hidden grievances and vineyard secrets that threatens to overshadow their new relationship.

A small-town nurse faces losing the assisted-living home she loves just as a visitor plans to move his grandmother away. Helping him pack his childhood home reopens memories and attraction while financial pressures threaten their emerging connection.

Tabitha is torn between a festival date and her witch friends' competing fundraiser when a body is discovered. Old rivalries threaten to divide Crystal Cove, sending her and her clue-finding cat searching for the truth.

A high-wire performer falls to her death during Crystal Cove's Winter Solstice Festival. Investigating with her visiting sister and extraordinary cat, Tabitha uncovers old secrets and damaged friendships linked to a tragedy that remains unresolved.

A body on a carnival attraction interrupts Tabitha's growing comfort in Crystal Cove. With the detective short of suspects, she and her perceptive cat investigate hidden motives beneath the seaside town's cheerful summer fair.

A practical realtor arrives in Crystal Cove to sell her inherited houseboat and leave. When a local witch is murdered and suspicion falls on her, she must rely on new acquaintances and an extraordinary cat to clear her name.

Tabitha's estranged father visits while she helps prepare a friend's mayoral campaign. A death leaves a teenager searching for answers, drawing her into buried histories that threaten families, reputations and her attempt to mend old wounds.

Tabby visits Mallory and Amber for Christmas, but an unexplained gift under the tree turns their holiday into a puzzle. Its source remains elusive until a catering event becomes deadly, bringing two experienced amateur sleuths together to investigate.

A stabbing at the marina awakens Tabitha and her sister Pepper, whose medical work reveals a strange object inside the dying victim. The discovery sends them retracing the previous week's events to identify the killer.

A cruise-ship photographer rescues a kitten from being thrown overboard and discovers a crime scene in a hidden cargo hold. With her new feline companion and the ship's security officer, she searches for a killer before the next port.

Tabitha's community garden project turns deadly when an outspoken participant is found murdered in the soil. Feeling responsible, she investigates conflicting personalities and old grudges with help from police friends and her unusually perceptive cat.

A film crew boards Olivia's cruise ship to celebrate the end of production, but a cast member is pushed overboard. Rivalries and concealed motives draw the photographer and her cat into an investigation among glamorous guests.

When Pickle uncovers something suspicious below deck, Olivia joins visiting sleuths in a shared investigation. A culinary expert, her companion and Tabitha Chase help untangle the secrets aboard a cruise that threatens to end in disaster.

A family-reunion portrait session ends in murder aboard Olivia's cruise ship. Her photographs, observant cat and reluctant security colleague become essential to sorting out hidden grudges and relationships before another passenger is harmed.

An eighties-themed cruise turns deadly when a retiring rock band's lead singer loses his new bride to murder. Olivia, her cat and the security manager investigate jealous bandmates and devoted fans as the ship approaches port.

Olivia's new shipboard assignment begins with a groom found dead in a glass elevator. A bride's unusual scavenger hunt draws the photographer toward clues, hidden resentments and rivalries among the wedding party.

A celebrity bodybuilder dies beneath a sabotaged machine on a wellness cruise, leaving Olivia uncertain who the intended victim was. An attack on her librarian friend ashore complicates the investigation and raises fears of another staged accident.