Erin Healy (Ted Dekker) Books in Order

This strand focuses on the two psychological thrillers Ted Dekker co‑wrote with Erin Healy: Kiss and Burn. They sit at the intersection of Dekker’s love for big “what if?” premises and Healy’s gift for digging into fractured relationships and the fog of memory.

Kiss follows Shauna McAllister, the estranged daughter of a powerful senator and pharmaceutical executive. Six weeks after a mysterious car accident, she wakes from a coma with six months of her life missing and her beloved brother left brain‑damaged. Everyone insists she caused the crash while driving under the influence. As Shauna scrambles to clear her name, she discovers a disturbing ability: by kissing someone, she can steal their memories and experience them as her own.

That premise lets Dekker and Healy explore guilt, complicity, and how much of our identity is tied to what we remember. Corporate cover‑ups, political ambition, and whispered threats swirl around Shauna as she and a half‑remembered boyfriend race to uncover what really happened the night of the accident.

Burn shifts to a traveling tent‑revival family and a young woman named Janeal who grew up as one of them before walking away in anger. A decade after a deadly fire and an impossible choice, Janeal is drawn back to the scene and forced to confront the way her life split on that night. The story plays with two diverging realities—one in which she saved herself, one in which she didn’t—and asks what true freedom costs.

Both novels feel grounded in real emotions even as they flirt with the supernatural. Abuse, manipulation, and the hunger to belong are as dangerous as any gun or explosion. Threads of grace run through the chaos, but the books never shy away from the mess.

Here you’ll see the Dekker/Healy titles in order, get a sense of how intense each story is, and find suggestions on whether to weave them into a broader Ted Dekker read‑through or tackle them as a compact duo of twisty, character‑driven suspense.