Gini Koch Books in Order
Browse Gini Koch books in order, from the Alien novels to her pen-name projects, with short summaries, series guides, and ideas on where to start.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
32 books
Alien Tango
by Gini Koch
2010
Now part of Alpha Team, Kitty is called to Kennedy Space Center when an experimental spacecraft returns under impossible circumstances. A space entity, repeated attacks, and a political conspiracy turn a routine mission into chaos.
Touched by an Alien
by Gini Koch
2010
Marketing manager Kitty Katt stops what looks like a street fight and learns aliens are real, and not all of them are friendly. Recruited into a secret defense force, she faces superbeings, conspiracies, and a dangerous attraction to Jeff Martini.
Alien in the Family
by Gini Koch
2011
Kitty and Jeff should be planning their wedding, but royal Alpha Centaurion politics have other ideas. Assassins, spies, alien creatures, and interstellar visitors force Kitty to fight for Earth and her future at the same time.
Alien Proliferation
by Gini Koch
2011
Kitty and Jeff are about to become parents when enemies unleash a dangerous new drug and target their newborn family. With allies disappearing and a super-soldier plot closing in, Kitty has to find the link before everything falls apart.
Deacon's Ark
by Gini Koch
2011
Josie, Deacon, and Sadie leave Horsetown and head toward the legendary City aboard the riverboat Green Goddess. The journey should buy them time, but the river brings fresh dangers and pushes their fragile hope to the limit.
The Royal Scam
by Gini Koch
2011
Princess Olivia of Andromeda stows away to escape a loveless political marriage, and the Hummingbird crew gets dragged into the fallout. Their latest job mixes royals, crooks, and secret agendas in a fast, funny space caper.
When Josie Comes Home
by Gini Koch
2011
In the ruined frontier town of Horsetown, women live as property and hope is scarce. Josie escaped years ago promising help, and when a mysterious gambler arrives, her sister Sadie starts believing that promise might finally matter.
A Cup of Joe
by Gini Koch
2012
David lives inside a perfectly controlled city as its protected Chosen One, until Emily smiles at him like he is normal. Their chance meeting exposes the cracks in a tidy dystopia and turns love into a dangerous act.
Alexander Outland: Space Pirate
by Gini Koch
2012
Captain Alexander Outland, rogue pilot of the Sixty-Nine, prefers smuggling and flirting to heroics. Invisible ships, mobsters, military trouble, and his unruly crew drag him into a galaxy-saving mess he never wanted.
Alien Diplomacy
by Gini Koch
2012
Newlyweds and new parents, Kitty and Jeff are shoved from field missions into Washington diplomacy. Assassination plots, anti-alien conspirators, and shaky alliances turn parties, summits, and social lessons into another fight for survival.
Alien vs. Alien
by Gini Koch
2012
Compromising photos, missing allies, and rising international tension pull Kitty into one crisis after another. When Jeff and Charles vanish during a major world festival, she has to find them and stop a conflict built to explode.
The Night Beat
by Gini Koch
2012
Undercover werewolf cop Victoria Wolfe works the night shift in Prosaic City, hiding the supernatural world beneath it. A demon attack reveals a much larger threat, and Victoria has to protect both cities without exposing either one.
Three Card Monte
by Gini Koch
2012
The crew of the Hummingbird follows their favorite bookie from Roulette to Polliworld, hoping for easy money. Instead they land in a deadly game where every bet carries bigger consequences than a simple payoff.
Alien in the House
by Gini Koch
2013
After the aliens on Earth are publicly exposed, a deadly embassy dinner points to a much larger plot. Kitty has to untangle murders, congressional targets, and a hidden mastermind before Jeff becomes the next casualty.
Alien Research
by Gini Koch
2013
Rumors of a new super-drug send Kitty and Jeff into a case involving experiments on A-Cs and hybrids. When Area 51 and Dulce go silent, Kitty has to stop Dr. Feelgood and keep Centaurion Division from collapsing.
Happy Acres Haunted Hotel for Active Seniors
by Gini Koch
2013
Happy Acres is a haunted retirement home where the living and the dead have learned to coexist. When that uneasy peace is threatened, the seniors prove much harder to scare, or outmaneuver, than anyone expects.
Alien Collective
by Gini Koch
2014
Jeff is pushed toward the vice presidency while anti-alien forces gather for an election war. Kitty hunts hidden Yates offspring as bombings, bioweapons, and political sabotage turn the campaign into a fight for the planet.
Random Musings from the Funny Girl
by Gini Koch
2014
This playful nonfiction collection mixes anecdotes, essays, and tongue-in-cheek stories about Gini Koch's life, fandom, and writing. Part memoir and part running joke, it leaves readers deciding what is true and what is not.
Universal Alien
by Gini Koch
2014
A diplomatic blunder is the least of Kitty's problems when she is shoved into an alternate world where aliens do not exist. With another Kitty in her place, both universes start sliding toward disaster.
A Bug's Life
by Gini Koch
2015
When the crew of the Hummingbird finds Pilla Colony destroyed, Roy and DeeDee clash over whether to run or help. Searching for survivors means uncovering why someone targeted the galaxy's most harmless people.
A Study in Starlets
by Gini Koch
2015
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, now based in Los Angeles, are hired by Irene Adler over an embarrassing theft. A vanished TV producer and a murder soon reveal that the two cases are tightly connected.
Alien in Chief
by Gini Koch
2015
As the vice president's wife, Kitty is already juggling politics, family, and enemies. Then escaped prisoners, a possible assassin, and a fast-killing virus force her into a race to save the government before the outbreak spreads.
Alien Separation
by Gini Koch
2015
Just as Kitty and Jeff close in on the Mastermind, they and their allies are hurled into Beta Eight in the Alpha Centauri system. Scattered across a world at war, they must reunite, survive, and find a way home.
Trust No One
by Tim Lebbon
2015
This X-Files anthology sends Mulder and Scully into a fresh stack of creepy investigations, from monsters to conspiracies. Gini Koch's story, "Sewers," follows a string of teen disappearances into very dangerous underground territory.
Alien Nation
by Gini Koch
2016
President and First Lady Jeff and Kitty face alien ships heading for Earth, fresh cloning threats, and attacks on Centaurion bases. The newcomers want asylum, but something far worse is chasing them, and it may not stop at Earth.
Camp Alien
by Gini Koch
2016
Kitty gets no peace after the Mastermind is exposed. New robots, old enemies, and a Camp David summit collide, and what should be diplomacy turns into a brutal fight over hidden labs, replacements, and Earth's future.
Plush Life
by Gini Koch
2016
Best friends Tom and Meggie fake a marriage in New Orleans to win a crucial toy-company contract. Then Meggie's controlling fiance and darker forces turn a romantic business trip into a dangerous fight for her life.
Alien Education
by Gini Koch
2017
Kitty is tapped to represent Earth on the Galactic Council just as the children head into real school. Hollywood chaos, dangerous parents, and Stephanie Valentino's return make diplomacy and PTA politics equally hazardous.
Aliens Abroad
by Gini Koch
2018
At the launch of Earth's first long-distance spaceship, the vessel's AI grabs Kitty, Jeff, and a hundred others and takes off. Their forced trip across the galaxy becomes a rescue mission that may cost them the way home.
Aliens Like Us
by Gini Koch
2019
After a galaxy-spanning crisis, Kitty and eleven others are tossed into a steampunk universe locked in war. Familiar people wear unfamiliar faces there, including a version of Jeff who may be the worst threat of all.
The Disciple and Other Stories of the Paranormal
by Gini Koch
2023
This collection gathers five paranormal tales involving vampires, haunted places, dangerous mazes, strange worlds, and deadly games. The stories shift from creepy to romantic to action-heavy, but each one leans hard into twists and danger.
Aliens Like Them
by Gini Koch
2026
This follow-up to Aliens Like Us keeps Kitty and company tangled in the steampunk side of the multiverse. Familiar faces have unfamiliar loyalties there, and getting home means surviving a much larger war first.
Where should I start?
For her signature alien adventure: Touched by an Alien → Alien Tango → Alien in the Family
For a shorter space-opera side trip: The Royal Scam → Three Card Monte → A Bug's Life
For paranormal police fantasy: The Night Beat
For a modern Holmes riff: A Study in Starlets
For romantic suspense instead of science fiction: Plush Life
Author bio
Gini Koch was born in California, built much of her career in the American Southwest, and spent more than twenty-five years working in marketing and advertising before fiction took over. She worked first in Los Angeles and later inside a Fortune 50 company, which helps explain why her books often sound like they know both corporate chaos and office politics from the inside.
Writing started as something she did on the side, then kept getting bigger. What began as a creative outlet turned into a full-time career, and Koch ended up doing what many genre writers hope for, building not just one fictional lane, but several.
She does not stay in one lane.
Most readers meet her through Touched by an Alien, the opening novel in her long-running Katherine "Kitty" Katt series. That book, which was named one of Booklist's Top 10 adult science fiction and fantasy novels of 2010, sets the tone for a lot of what Koch does best: fast action, secret conspiracies, romance, big ensemble casts, and jokes that land in the middle of danger. Alien Tango and Alien in the Family quickly widen the scope, turning a monster-fighting setup into a much bigger story about diplomacy, family, and saving the world on very little sleep.
She has also used pen names to stretch into other parts of genre fiction. As G.J. Koch she wrote Alexander Outland: Space Pirate, a pulpy space opera about a charming rogue and his misfit crew. As A.E. Stanton she wrote the dark New West stories, and as Anita Ensal she published work like A Cup of Joe. She has also written paranormal fiction such as The Night Beat, a modern Holmes riff in A Study in Starlets, and a contemporary romance, Plush Life.
That range is part of the point.
Across those books, some patterns keep showing up. Koch likes fast plots, found-family teams, hidden worlds, and people who discover they are tougher than they thought. She is drawn to secret agencies, strange creatures, political messes, and characters who talk back when common sense says they should run. Even when the setup gets wild, killer aliens, werewolf cops, space pirates, the tone stays welcoming and easy to read.
She is also a visible pop-culture fan. Koch has written about movies and television, talks often about comics and animation, and has spent years appearing at conventions around the United States. That energy runs straight into the fiction. Her novels often feel like they were built by someone who genuinely enjoys genre storytelling and wants readers to have fun with it too.
These days she writes from the Atlanta area, though she still talks fondly about dry heat. She has described herself as inspired by good-looking leading men, helped along by a patient husband, and supervised by a household full of dogs and cats who seem to expect regular tribute in kibble and treats. It fits the books. There is always a lot going on, the pace is quick, and nobody gets to be too solemn for too long.
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