EJ Pugh Books in Order

E.J. Pugh discovers her neighbors murdered and finds their traumatized young daughter still alive. Convinced the police have blamed the wrong man, E.J. investigates a terrible crime while trying to protect the child left behind.

Romance writer E.J. Pugh finds that family life in Black Cat Ridge leaves little room for peace when a troubling death shakes the community. Her questions uncover tensions and motives that someone would rather keep safely out of sight.

When Willis Pugh fails to come home from a trip near Enchanted Rock, E.J. fears the worst. His disappearance leads to a backwoods murder case, forcing the couple to untangle danger from opposite sides before time runs out.

E.J. Pugh's busy Black Cat Ridge household is disrupted by a new mystery with painful personal stakes. Balancing family demands with questions the police have not answered, she follows a trail of secrets that puts ordinary lives under strain.

E.J. Pugh's troubled sister-in-law is accused of murder, and E.J. cannot believe the case is that simple. While her own house is under construction and family life is chaotic, she searches for the truth behind a young woman's death.

In Black Cat Ridge, romance writer E.J. Pugh is pulled into another unsettling local mystery. Her curiosity leads past neighborly appearances and familiar routines, where private grudges and carefully hidden secrets make danger feel close to home.

A Caribbean vacation forces E.J. Pugh to share close quarters with her three quarrelsome sisters. When a body turns up in the cistern of their rental home, old sibling resentments collide with a murder investigation.

After years away from crime scenes, romance writer E.J. Pugh attends a writers' convention in Austin. A participant is found dead, rivalries simmer, and E.J. finds that professional gossip can conceal a killer's very real motive.

Someone is stalking E.J. Pugh's adopted teenage daughter, Bessie, and claiming a link to the family she lost as a child. As threats turn violent, the Pughs must revisit the devastating case that first brought Bessie into their lives.

A woman from E.J. Pugh's weight-loss group seems to die, then turns up alive with no memory of her past. When a friend is murdered, E.J. follows the trail into old identities, buried secrets, and growing trouble at home.

E.J. Pugh swears off murder investigations until a mysterious satchel is hidden in Willis's truck. When their foster daughter Alicia disappears with it, E.J. and Willis race to learn why the bag matters and who wants it back.

E.J. and Willis Pugh's anniversary getaway at a Texas bed-and-breakfast becomes a ghost story with real victims. When self-styled psychic detectives start dying, E.J. digs into an old family tragedy to expose a very present danger.

When Graham Pugh finds his hated college roommate dead on their dorm-room floor, he becomes the leading suspect. His mother, romance novelist E.J. Pugh, heads to Austin determined to clear him before campus gossip and police suspicion close in.