Jayne Ann Krentz Books in Order

Ryder Marshall must marry a Grenville sister to inherit their grandfather’s ranch. When Laura abandons country life, Anne faces taking her place, despite believing Ryder loves her sister and fearing the marriage can only be temporary.

Janna agrees to pose as a friend's fiancée to keep his intimidating brother from interfering with his real engagement. Adam Halleck's interest in her turns the deception into a confrontation involving attraction and mistaken assumptions.

Amanda discovers that Rafe MacIntyre deceived her during their courtship, drawing her into marriage and an unexpected family. Determined to escape his control, she makes plans for freedom while questioning whether she can bear to leave him.

Jennifer Ingram refuses to marry Luke Clinton, a determined man convinced she belongs in his future. Although they barely know each other, his persistent courtship challenges her certainty that she can resist the attraction between them.

Kirsten Mallory has sworn never to let another man control her, but her new boss Simon Kendrick unsettles that resolve. His authority at work and his romantic pursuit force her to confront desire alongside her need for independence.

Harmony intends to reject Victor Ralston’s proposal, but his brother Aaron intervenes, convinced she has already broken another brother’s heart. His attempt at revenge disrupts her holiday and leads to an unexpected effort to make amends.

Phoebe Hampton arrives accidentally at Harlan Garand’s remote cabin. Assuming she is another prospective bride sent by his matchmaking aunt, he nevertheless allows her to stay, beginning an acquaintance shaped by a mistaken impression of her intentions.

Hilary Forrester refuses her father’s plan to marry her to a wealthy businessman interested in the family restaurant chain. She warns prospective suitor Logan Saber away, but his amused response suggests he may accept her resistance as a challenge.

To protect her father from Hunter Manning's revenge, Stacy Rylan agrees to marry the man threatening to ruin him. Their bargain leaves her struggling with hostility and attraction toward a husband whose intentions she cannot trust.

After escaping danger in South America, Reva rebuilds her life and plans to marry Bruce. The man who protected her returns to claim the relationship he believes they began, threatening both her plans and her hard-won independence.

A winning streak at a party tempts Savannah Emery into increasingly personal wagers with Cord Harding. When she loses a weekend to him, his determination to collect the bet turns a card game into an unwelcome romantic challenge.

Business rivals Calla Nevin and Slade York carry their struggle for control beyond the bargaining table. She refuses to work for him or surrender her independence, while his pursuit tests the defenses she has built against intimacy.

Kalinda Brady travels to Colorado determined to take revenge on her former fiancé. Meeting artist and fisherman Rand Alastair disrupts her carefully arranged plans, forcing her to choose between settling old scores and pursuing an unexpected romance.

Elissa Sheldon resents Wade Taggert's belief that she advanced her career through an affair. When he blackmails her into a relationship, she plots to make him fall in love, only to find her own feelings complicating revenge.

Honor Mayfield becomes entangled with horse-racing businessman Conn Landry while trying to help her troubled sister. Their attraction deepens before she discovers links between their pasts and his calculated deception, leaving her caught between desire and the need to protect herself.

Stockbroker Dara Bancroft suspects that prospective client Yale Ransom's polished Southern manners conceal a more forceful personality. Her flirtatious challenge sparks an intense encounter, turning a business introduction into a romance that tests her emotional defenses.

Kelly Winfield fears the security consultant hired to catch a thief at Forrester Stereo will uncover her secret. Locke Channing's investigation places her career at risk, while his personal interest makes keeping her distance increasingly difficult.

Rare-book dealer Alina Corey models her social life on a Renaissance heroine, keeping romance at a comfortable distance. That arrangement falters when Jared Troy, the combative scholar she knows through correspondence, arrives and challenges her carefully maintained detachment.

Lacey Holbrook calls Jed Merlin back into her life and tries to transform the unconventional man into a polished companion. He is essential to a plan involving dangerous secrets, but renewed attraction threatens to distract her.

Leya Brandon struggles to trust Court Tremayne after discovering he lied about his name. His determination to pursue her unsettles her confidence that her heart is safe, bringing desire into conflict with her doubts about his honesty.

Lacey Seldon leaves her librarian past behind, seeking a fresh start on an island in Puget Sound. Meeting Holt Randolph awakens an unexpected attraction, but he wants a commitment that challenges her cautious approach to love.

A career crisis sends philosophy professor Brenna Llewellyn to a mountain cabin retreat, where she encounters adventurous writer Ryder Sterne. Their initial confrontation becomes an attraction that challenges her reliance on logic and his demands for commitment.

Rani Cameron's war game with Gage Fletcher becomes a struggle over her future. He wants her to leave New Mexico for Dallas and confront her past, while their growing attraction complicates her determination to resist his plans.

Sabrina's Hawaiian vacation comes with an unwanted companion: bodyguard Jake Devlin, hired after kidnapping threats alarm her mother. His commitment to protecting her quickly becomes entangled with an attraction that makes their enforced closeness increasingly difficult to resist.

Corporate vice president Kali Havelock wants the rights to Lang Sterling's advanced industrial robots. The stubborn inventor resists her carefully managed business offer, turning negotiations into a clash between professional ambition, personal control, and unexpected desire.

Accountant Shelley Banning approaches video-game magnate Joel Cassidy to secure financial help for a struggling client. Their negotiations become a personal contest, as his attraction and insistence on setting the rules threaten to complicate her professional mission.

Reyna McKenzie seeks a fresh start in Hawaii after Trevor Langdon broke her heart and damaged her career. His unexpected return forces her to decide whether the man responsible for her pain deserves another chance at love.

Adena West approaches Holt Sinclaire on business, confronting a man accustomed to believing everything has a price. Their encounter turns personal, drawing her into a powerful attraction that challenges his assumptions and her willingness to risk surrender.

After fleeing to escape a dangerous business scheme, Honor Knight is seized by Judd Raven, hired to bring her home. To survive, she must convince him that the family he trusts poses the real threat.

Jessica Travers and Lucas Kincaid clash while surviving a desert plane crash. Hoping to escape his forceful pursuit afterward, she takes a luxury cruise to Mexico, only to discover that Lucas intends to continue their unfinished romance.

Selena Caldwell retreats to a Utah resort, but determined businessman York Sutherland follows her there. Refusing to become another of his acquisitions, she meets his pursuit with a will of her own as attraction complicates their contest.

Heather Strand expects her marriage to follow carefully negotiated terms, but Jake Cavender has plans of his own. Discovering his deception drives her away, leaving her to weigh her independence against feelings she can no longer dismiss.

Samantha Maitland recruits venture capitalist Gabriel Sinclair to finance a scheme against Drew Buchanan's Arizona property deal. As Gabriel pursues her, she fears revealing the revenge that drives her plans against a lover she cannot forgive.

Alyssa Chandler keeps her mathematical work and private passions carefully separated until she meets gambler Jordan Kyle. His attraction challenges her controlled approach to life, asking her to risk an uncertain future with him.

When her brother nearly dies investigating fraudulent psychics, Anne Silver turns to former lover Julian Aries for help. Their hunt for the swindlers draws the former intelligence agent back into danger and rekindles their unfinished romance.

Financial planner Ariana Warfield suspects a confidence man has deceived her aunt. She recruits magician Lucian Hawk to expose the trickery, only to discover that working with him threatens her own carefully managed emotional defenses.

Cassie's solitude in an old mansion ends when Justin Drake arrives during a storm, promising revenge through seduction. As unsettling events unfold, she must decide whether his offer of protection conceals another threat to her safety.

After a damaging relationship, Abby Lyndon values control and independence. When a threat from her past returns, she accepts Torr Latimer's protection, but his growing involvement raises difficult questions about trust, desire, and the boundaries she needs.

Hannah imagines a holiday romance with the handsome stranger on her flight to Hawaii. When Jarett breaks into her hotel room seeking a golden fertility goddess hidden in her luggage, her vacation takes an unexpected turn.

Cole Stockton pursues Kelsey Murdock with a determination she finds difficult to resist. Yet the secrets surrounding his past prevent true intimacy, leaving her to question whether attraction can sustain a relationship with a man who refuses answers.

Exhausted Sara Fraser retreats to her uncle’s mountain cabin, only to find him missing. Reclusive Adrian Saville helps her search, drawing them into a dangerous mystery that complicates their growing attraction and her hopes of escape.

A casual encounter in Acapulco brings Sabrina Chase into former military officer Matt August's complicated life. When he leaves his troubled teenage son with her, sudden danger forces them to flee while Matt's hidden history threatens their safety.

Jamie Garland’s attraction to Cade Santerre leads to a passionate encounter, followed by an apparent betrayal involving the authorities. After sending him away, she must face unanswered questions about what happened and whether she can trust him.

Hurt by an earlier relationship, Amber Langley agrees to marry her boss, Cormick Grayson, for practical reasons. Their arrangement promises safety from heartbreak, but growing passion leaves her wanting an emotional commitment he seems unwilling to offer.

Kalena enters an arranged marriage while secretly planning to kill the man who destroyed her family. Her husband Ridge works as that man's enforcer, making trust and attraction dangerous complications in her attempt to secure freedom.

Restless adventurer Flint Cottrell has spent his life chasing legends and treasure. When he arrives rain-soaked at Rani Garroway's door, their attraction threatens her comfortable routine and offers him the sense of belonging he has been seeking.

Flynn Rammage once left Heather Devany heartbroken. Now raising his son alone, he asks her to return to his life, forcing Heather to weigh her affection for the child against the risk of trusting Flynn again.

Unable to share her people's telepathic abilities, Cidra hires cargo captain Teague Severance to take her into the Stanza Nine outback. The journey in search of mental communion becomes complicated by danger and their unexpected attraction.

A temporary secretarial job leaves Guinevere Jones uneasy about her client's safety. She persuades security consultant Zac Justis to protect a meeting in the San Juan Islands, where an enemy believed dead pursues revenge for past events.

Guinevere Jones struggles to keep her temporary employment agency afloat when security consultant Zac Justis blackmails her into assisting with a computer crime. Their investigation places her in danger and brings an unexpected attraction into her life.

Guinevere Jones decides to expose a fortune-teller profiting from dishonest predictions. With Zac Justis helping protect her, the investigation leads beyond a confidence trick to blackmail and a killer determined to erase evidence of the past.

When a neighboring artist's apartment is broken into and a painting damaged, Guinevere Jones offers to help. Zac Justis joins her investigation, but jealousy complicates their efforts as art and occult interests conceal a dangerous threat.

Artist Shannon Raine is intrigued by her new neighbor, Garth Sheridan, in their quiet coastal community. Their attraction develops into an affair, but his concealed past threatens the trust and intimacy she hopes to build.

Hannah Jessett confronts businessman Gideon Cage when he threatens her brother’s company. An inheritance of her anthropologist aunt’s unpublished journals adds another complication, drawing Hannah into family secrets, danger, and an unexpected attraction to Gideon.

Writer Amy Slater is rebuilding her life when her mysterious friend Jed Glaze arrives injured. Their changing relationship draws them toward a Pacific island and an unresolved murder, where concealed histories threaten both their safety and trust.

When her sister is accused of embezzlement, Rachel Wilder poses as a housekeeper to investigate security expert Abraham Chance. Her attempt to clear her sister’s name becomes more complicated as her attraction to Abraham grows.

A bookseller owns a rare collection of eighteenth-century erotic writing that attracts the attention of a mysterious man. His interest draws her into a romance complicated by dark secrets and questions about what he truly wants.

Katy’s approaching wedding to Garrett should promise happiness, but troubling doubts persist. As she questions his reasons for marrying her, she must decide whether their comfortable compatibility can offer the love and commitment she needs.

Flynn Challoner wants a wife to help establish his dynasty, but Angie Morgan distrusts his motives after his earlier deception. Though drawn to him, she refuses a marriage built on anything less than love and genuine commitment.

After ten years away, Filomena Cromwell returns to Gallant Lake wealthy and transformed. Determined to confront the people who humiliated her, including her former fiancé, she discovers that revisiting old wounds brings unexpected complications to her plans.

Diana Prentice and Colby Savagar become linked by disturbing dreams that echo an ancient legend about a cursed woman. Their growing relationship unfolds alongside present-day danger, as the boundary between the Chained Lady's story and their own weakens.

Expecting a child, Diana Prentice begins married life with Colby Savagar while their strange dreams continue. An emergency draws them back to Fullbrook Corners, where threats against Colby's family intersect with the legend of the Chained Lady.

Verity Ames encounters Jonas Quarrel again when the man who rescued her in Mexico seeks work at her restaurant. His scholarly appearance conceals unusual powers and a hidden mission that draws them toward both intimacy and danger.

Virginia Middlebrook and A. C. Ryerson cautiously begin a relationship after unhappy marriages. A Caribbean trip and an emerald bracelet with a mysterious history introduce danger, testing whether their newfound intimacy can survive the secrets surrounding them.

Rebecca Wade’s land makes her a desirable target for Kyle Stockbridge, whose romantic pursuit serves a business objective. As real feelings complicate his strategy, Rebecca must determine whether his interest reaches beyond the property he wants.

Verity Ames and Renaissance scholar Jonas Quarrel are hired to locate a missing medieval treasure. Exploring hidden passages and glittering crystals brings their relationship into new danger, while the mysterious power that first connected them remains central.

Juliana Grant believes Travis Sawyer could be her ideal partner, unaware that he is pursuing a revenge-driven takeover. Her financial stake in a resort and their developing romance put her directly in the path of his scheme.

Businesswoman Sariana hires the mercenary Gryph Chassyn and unexpectedly finds herself bound to him in marriage. His role as a Shield carries powers and obligations she does not understand, drawing them into a dangerous struggle for their world.

Country‑bred Sophy Dorring weds Julian, the brooding Earl of Ravenwood, a man whispered to have driven his first wife to her death. Determined to tame the so‑called devil, she barges into his secrets, uncovering blackmail, buried grief, and a passion neither expected.

Heiress Victoria Huntington has no interest in fortune hunters, yet finds herself fascinated by Lucas Colebrook, the new Earl of Stonevale. His offer of moonlit escapades hides a darker agenda, and marriage strands her in a crumbling Yorkshire estate haunted by scandal and old dangers.

Romance writer Sarah Fleetwood asks former adventurer Gideon Trace to help locate five pairs of lost family earrings. Despite his repeated refusals, she arrives at his door, determined to launch a treasure hunt that challenges his isolation.

A year after their bitter breakup, businessman Rafe Cassidy pursues novelist Margaret Lark again. Determined to bring her to his Arizona ranch, he uses pressure to reopen a relationship she believes belongs firmly in the past.

Philadelphia Fox inherits shares that give her control over Lightfoot Industries after her best friend dies. Her distrust of the family clashes with an attraction to Nick Lightfoot, drawing her into corporate struggles and disturbing family secrets.

Exhausted novelist Kate Inskip takes an island holiday arranged by her friends, only to face travel mishaps and a mugger. Her response catches Jared Hawthorne's attention, complicating her attempt to escape the pressures of her ordinary life.

Augusta Ballinger, last of a wildly unconventional clan, discovers that the grim Earl of Graystone intends to marry her for coolly practical reasons. Her attempt to scare him off only strengthens his resolve, and soon the two are chasing a traitor known as the Spider and their own inconvenient love.

Notorious for a youthful elopement gone wrong, Emily Faringdon resigns herself to spinsterhood and pours her heart into letters with a mysterious poet. When he appears as Simon, Earl of Blade, she discovers her ideal man is using her family for revenge—and may need saving from his own past.

Art dealer Mattie Sharpe travels to a South Sea island and encounters adventurer Hugh Abbott, who once broke her heart. A dead body sends them fleeing together, forcing Mattie to confront his past and reconsider her trust.

Jessie Benedict fears Sam Hatchard wants marriage chiefly to secure her family’s business. Hoping to escape their engagement, she finds work at a psychic detective agency, but a case forces them together and challenges her assumptions about him.

Angie Townsend marries Owen Sutherland despite their families’ rivalry. On their honeymoon, an unexpected caller claims Owen’s real motive was a corporate takeover, leaving Angie to question the relationship and discover whether their marriage rests on love.

History professor Letty Conroy learns her fiancé has investigated her suitability as a wife. Determined to overturn his assumptions, she plans a scandalous appearance at a university celebration, while Xavier tries to protect her reputation and their relationship.

Katy Wade wants to leave her job and start a business, but first must persuade estranged Luke Gilchrist to rescue his family’s company. His resentment of the Gilchrists complicates her mission, especially as their mutual attraction grows.

Librarian Letitia Thornquist unexpectedly inherits an outdoor equipment company. Its experienced executive, Joel Blackstone, doubts her readiness to lead, but their developing attraction complicates his plans to guide her and her determination to prove herself.

Fossil‑mad spinster Harriet Pomeroy needs help clearing smugglers from the sea caves she studies. She turns to Gideon Westbrook, the scarred “Beast of Blackthorne Hall,” and soon finds that the man society fears is fiercely protective—and at the center of a dangerous smuggling mystery.

Idealistic schoolmistress Phoebe Layton enlists notorious adventurer Gabriel Banner to help avenge a wrong done years ago. Their quest for a missing journal pulls them into scandal, theft, and murder, while the supposed mercenary discovers he cannot stay detached from Phoebe’s reckless heart.

Prudence Merryweather investigates hauntings and “spectral phenomena” for nervous clients. When her work tangles with Sebastian, Earl of Angelstone—a man famed as the Devil’s Duke—they form an uneasy alliance to catch a killer, forcing Sebastian to choose between long‑planned revenge and the woman softening his ruthless edges.

Scholar Olympia Wingfield juggles her unruly nephews and her passion for ancient legends until Jared Chillhurst arrives posing as their tutor. In truth a viscount hunting a pirate’s diary, he and Olympia end up chasing lost treasure, outwitting villains, and falling into a very improper romance.

Lady Clarre takes her duty as guardian of the remote Isle of Desire seriously, but her new overlord, Sir Gareth of Wyckmere, wants only a strategic marriage. When pirates, political intrigue, and betrayal threaten the island, their arranged union turns into a partnership forged in danger and growing desire.

Serenity Makepeace hopes a mail-order business will save her small town’s artists and their livelihoods. Consultant Caleb Ventress is drawn to her determination, but a blackmailer threatens the enterprise, her future, and their emerging relationship.

After her brother disappears in a plane crash, Annie Lyncroft proposes a practical marriage to investor Oliver Rain to protect his company. Their arrangement becomes complicated by real attraction and Oliver’s conviction that her brother remains alive.

Innkeeper Cleopatra Robbins meets Max Fortune when he arrives searching for five priceless paintings left to him by his mentor. His quest brings unexpected romance to her inn, complicating both his search and her carefully established life.

Former schoolmistress Iphiginia Bright returns from touring classical ruins to find her aunt being blackmailed. She remakes herself as the glamorous “mistress” of the missing Earl of Masters to smoke out the culprit—only to have the very real, very irritated earl stride back into London society.

This five-story romance anthology brings together work by Linda Howard, Jayne Ann Krentz, Linda Lael Miller, Carla Neggers, and Kasey Michaels. Its tales range from contemporary intrigue and second chances to dream-haunted love, time travel, and a possibly haunted inheritance.

In medieval England, practical Lady Alice bargains with Hugh the Relentless, a fearsome knight searching for a lost green crystal tied to his family’s power. She offers her keen mind and sleuthing skills in exchange for a dowry and her brother’s future, and finds herself betrothed to a man as daunting as he is magnetic.

Caterer Desdemona Wainwright meets Sam Stark when his wedding collapses and he insists on paying the bill. Their unlikely romance becomes entangled with a break-in and sensitive computer files, forcing them to navigate attraction alongside danger.

Molly Abberwick hires Harry Stratton Trevelyan to advise the foundation supporting her late father’s inventions. His forceful approach challenges her expectations, and their professional clashes develop into an attraction that neither finds easy to manage.

Psychic detective Amaryllis Lark takes a corporate theft assignment for exploration executive Lucas Trent on the colony of St. Helen's. Their uneasy professional partnership leads into a murder investigation and an attraction neither of them anticipated.

Independent Imogen Waterstone schemes to ruin a man she believes caused a friend’s death by luring him into chasing a fake treasure map. To pull it off she recruits Matthias, Earl of Colchester, legendary explorer of the lost isle of Zamar, and soon their pretend intrigue turns all too real.

Charlotte Arkendale makes her living investigating suitors for wealthy women and exposing fortune hunters. When one of her clients is murdered, she teams up with enigmatic scientist Baxter St. Ives, agreeing to hire him as her “man‑of‑affairs” while they hunt a killer who dabbles in deadly alchemy.

Charity Truitt and Elias Winters retreat to Whispering Waters Cove after upheavals in their professional and romantic lives. Two murders disturb their refuge, forcing them to work together to find a killer while confronting their growing attraction.

After a false scandal destroys her design business, psychic Zinnia Spring helps casino owner Nick Chastain search for his father's journal. Their investigation into his past attracts a killer, while their shared outsider status draws them together.