Everything (Kerry Lonsdale) Books in Order

The books listed here in Kerry Lonsdale's Everything series mix romance, mystery, and family drama in a very readable way. The story begins with loss, a fiancé vanishing before a wedding, but it quickly turns into something bigger about identity, loyalty, and the secrets people keep to protect the ones they love. California is the emotional home base, but the series also reaches into Mexico and Hawaii as the fallout spreads.

Everything We Keep introduces Aimee Tierney, a sous chef whose life is built around plans. She expects to marry James Donato, start a family, and stay close to the restaurant world she knows. Then James disappears in a boating accident, and even his funeral leaves more questions than comfort. Aimee's search for answers gives the first book its drive, but the real hook is how grief and suspicion start living side by side.

It opens like an aching love story and keeps turning into a secret-laced suspense novel.

Everything We Left Behind shifts the center of gravity to James. After years being presumed dead, he comes out of a dissociative fugue state and learns he has been living another life in Oaxaca as Carlos Dominguez. That means the series gets bigger, not just in plot but in emotion. James is no longer only the missing man from Aimee's story. He is a father, a brother, and a person trying to understand what was taken from him while danger from his old life is still very real.

Nobody gets a clean slate here.

By the time you reach Everything We Give, Ian Collins steps forward as the key viewpoint character. Ian is Aimee's husband, a photographer with his own unfinished family history and a long search for his missing mother. When James reappears with information that touches Ian's past and also unsettles Ian's marriage, the series becomes less about a single disappearance and more about the ripple effect of old choices. This is where Lonsdale leans hardest into questions about commitment, sacrifice, and what people owe each other after life goes badly off script.

What ties these books together is the balance between emotional stakes and page-turning momentum. The tension comes from relationships as much as from plot. Expect buried truths, second chances, divided loyalties, and people trying to rebuild after shock. The tone is earnest, twisty, and romantic without losing sight of family messiness. If you like suspense that stays close to the heart, and characters who have to live with the consequences of the past, this series delivers that.