Filthy Beautiful Lies Books in Order
Part ofKendall Ryan Books in OrderSee Filthy Beautiful Lies by Kendall Ryan in order, with Drake family summaries, steamy background, and where to start the series.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
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Publication Order
4 books
Filthy Beautiful Lies
by Kendall Ryan
2014
Sophie Evans sells her virginity to fund her sister's medical care, expecting a contract and nothing more. Wealthy Colton Drake buys her time, but the bargain turns personal fast.
Filthy Beautiful Love
by Kendall Ryan
2014
Sophie has walked away from Colton Drake, but their arrangement left feelings neither one can neatly cancel. Colton wants her back, and winning her trust may be harder than claiming her body.
Filthy Beautiful Lust
by Kendall Ryan
2014
Pace Drake is used to pleasure without responsibility until single mom Kylie and her baby son enter his life. To earn her trust, he has to prove he is more than his reputation.
Filthy Beautiful Forever
by Kendall Ryan
2015
Collins Drake and Mia Monroe made a childhood promise long before desire complicated everything. Now their friends-to-lovers history forces them to decide whether forever is a sweet memory or a real future.
Series background & context
Filthy Beautiful Lies is one of Kendall Ryan's boldest early series, built around wealth, bargains, secrets, and the Drake family. The opening book, Filthy Beautiful Lies, begins with Sophie Evans making a desperate choice to raise money for her sister's medical care. Colton Drake enters as the wealthy man who buys time with her, but the arrangement quickly becomes more complicated than either of them expected.
The first two books, Filthy Beautiful Lies and Filthy Beautiful Love, are best read together. They follow Sophie and Colton through the fallout of that contract, the pull between control and tenderness, and the secrets that make a simple escape impossible.
After that, the series broadens to other Drake men. Filthy Beautiful Lust turns to Pace Drake and Kylie, a single mother with a baby son and a very good reason to be careful. Filthy Beautiful Forever gives Collins Drake a friends-to-lovers story with Mia Monroe, the childhood friend tied to a promise that refuses to stay in the past.
It is dramatic, steamy, and very much a product of Ryan's darker billionaire-romance period.
The series works best for readers who like possessive heroes, high emotional stakes, and romances that begin with questionable boundaries but move toward vulnerability. The setting is rich and glossy, but the real thread is family: the Drake men may have money and power, yet each book asks what they are willing to risk when love stops being something they can control.
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