Hard Justice: Outlaw Ridge Books in Order

A bride vanishes before her wedding, leaving blood behind and drawing deputies Aiden Brodie and Lexa Mullen into an urgent search. Their shared history of failure and unresolved attraction complicate a case that gives them little room for mistakes.

Forensic anthropologist Cully O’Banion finds skeletons concealed in the house she has bought. Her former husband, Deputy Declan Brodie, investigates the decades-old deaths with her, while renewed attraction and threats suggest someone still needs the victims’ identities kept secret.

A letter alleging a wrongful conviction leads Deputy Lily Oliver to reopen a teenager’s fifteen-year-old murder. As threats follow her investigation, deputy Griff Abrams helps protect her, and their growing attraction complicates the effort to uncover who was truly responsible.

Deputy Jemma Salvetti survives an attack that devastates Outlaw Ridge’s police department. Working with temporary deputy Hayes Brodie, she hunts the killer still targeting officers, while escalating danger and unexpected attraction test the focus of their new partnership.

A bloodied woman bearing a familiar tattoo revives police psychologist Lauren Whitman’s memories of her own abduction. Investigating with former lover Jesse McCain reveals a broader threat, forcing Lauren to confront a predator whose past crimes remain painfully unfinished.

Deputy Callie Brandon arrests her former boyfriend Nico Salvetti on suspicion of murder, unaware he is an undercover FBI agent. Protecting her without exposing his mission becomes increasingly difficult as a shadowy adversary targets both Callie and a threatened witness.

New murders resemble the crimes of Sheriff Hallie McQueen’s imprisoned parents, whose arrest she helped secure. Deputy Reed Winston joins her investigation, but the killer’s interest in Hallie turns their renewed partnership into an increasingly personal struggle for survival.

Deputy Ryker Caldwell returns to Outlaw Ridge and partners with Emma Bonetti, whose vanished former fiancé still stalks her. When attacks target Ryker, their growing trust and attraction become entangled with a dangerous past Emma has struggled to escape.

Seven years after a notorious killer’s arrest shattered their relationship, Deputy Shaw Brodie and profiler Ava Sadler face his deadly riddles again. They must determine whether a copycat is responsible or their old case concealed a terrible mistake.