Helena Newbury Books in Order
Explore Helena Newbury books in order, from Fenbrook Academy to Stormfinch Security, with quick summaries, series notes, and easy places to start.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
26 books
Dance For Me
by Helena Newbury
2013
A gifted ballet dancer at Fenbrook Academy is chosen as the muse for a young designer who is brilliant, isolated, and haunted by his past. Their connection is intense, but both are carrying damage.
In Harmony
by Helena Newbury
2013
A shy, tightly controlled cellist is forced to team up with Fenbrook's reckless Irish guitarist if she wants to graduate. As practice turns into partnership, opposites begin to pull together.
Acting Brave
by Helena Newbury
2015
An acting student who reinvented herself after fleeing a brutal past lands a dream role opposite a real-life cop carrying fresh grief. Their chemistry is real, but so is the danger of her old life catching up.
Kissing My Killer
by Helena Newbury
2015
A traumatized hacker comes face to face with the Russian hitman sent to kill her, only he cannot pull the trigger. On the run together, they discover the line between monster and protector is thinner than it looks.
Lying and Kissing
by Helena Newbury
2015
A desk-bound CIA analyst is sent undercover to get close to Luka, a Russian arms dealer she should fear. The mission becomes much harder when the chemistry between them starts to feel real.
Punching and Kissing
by Helena Newbury
2015
To save her injured brother, a heroine volunteers to step into an illegal fight she has no chance of surviving alone. Training with Aedan O'Harra turns survival into something far more complicated.
Seduced
by Helena Newbury
2015
A CIA languages geek gets her first taste of fieldwork when she is sent to seduce a Russian arms dealer in Moscow. It is the opening move in an undercover romance built on lies and dangerous attraction.
Texas Kissing
by Helena Newbury
2015
Hiding from her mob-boss uncle, Lily builds a new life in Texas and keeps everyone at a distance. Then a stubborn cowboy saves her life and starts asking questions she cannot afford to answer.
Alaska Wild
by Helena Newbury
2016
An FBI agent survives a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness with the fugitive she was helping transport. To stay alive, she has to trust a former Navy SEAL who may not be guilty after all.
Growing and Kissing
by Helena Newbury
2016
Louise is desperate to save her sister and turns to Sean O'Harra for help with a risky scheme she cannot manage alone. Working side by side drags them both deeper into trouble, and closer together.
Kissing The Enemy
by Helena Newbury
2016
An Italian mafia boss falls for the niece of his Russian enemy, and the attraction is as reckless as it is immediate. Their forbidden relationship threatens to ignite a war neither family can control.
Outlaw's Promise
by Helena Newbury
2016
Years after promising to protect the brave little girl who saved his life, Carrick answers her call for help. Rescuing Annabelle from a biker gang is only the start of a much more dangerous fight.
Saving Liberty
by Helena Newbury
2016
After a sniper attack, the president's daughter asks the ex-Marine who saved her to become her bodyguard. Protecting her means facing both a deadly threat and feelings neither of them can safely act on.
Brothers
by Helena Newbury
2017
The O'Harra brothers finally reunite with the women they love to search for their missing brother, Bradan. It is a bigger, family-centered adventure that pays off the earlier books and raises the stakes for everyone.
Captain Rourke
by Helena Newbury
2017
A sunny librarian heads to the Caribbean searching for a cure that could save her sister's life and ends up teamed with a brooding Scottish treasure hunter. Their race for answers quickly turns dangerous.
Mount Mercy
by Helena Newbury
2018
A quiet small-town surgeon clashes with a scarred, cocky ER doctor just as disaster throws their mountain hospital into chaos. While a criminal gang takes advantage of the crisis, attraction becomes impossible to ignore.
Saving the Princess
by Helena Newbury
2018
A former Marine finds himself protecting a princess after someone tries to kill her. On the run and surrounded by political danger, they have to trust each other fast if either of them is going to survive.
The Double
by Helena Newbury
2019
A shy FBI surveillance specialist is given a dangerous chance to bring down a Russian mob boss by impersonating his injured companion. Inside his mansion, every glance and touch raises the stakes.
Hold Me in the Dark
by Helena Newbury
2020
An FBI agent needs the help of a brilliant, reclusive mathematician to catch a serial killer who leaves equations at every crime scene. Working the case pulls two guarded loners into a partnership that quickly turns personal.
Deep Woods
by Helena Newbury
2021
When Bethany escapes the men hunting her, she runs straight into the forest home of Cal Whittaker, a gruff recluse she once helped through his injured dog. Hidden away in his cabin, they are forced together while danger closes in.
No Angel
by Helena Newbury
2022
A prison doctor is drawn to Gabriel Kain, an ex-Marine and notorious thief who insists he is no hero. When she is kidnapped in Ecuador, he builds a rescue team and comes after her anyway.
Capture Me
by Helena Newbury
2023
A tattooed bounty hunter is sent to bring in a beautiful, infuriating spy who seems to lie for a living. When the mission goes wrong, they have to survive together long enough to decide who can really be trusted.
Guarded
by Helena Newbury
2023
JD, the gruff leader of Stormfinch Security, rescues a single mother and her young son from armed attackers in Mexico. When the threat follows them, protecting Lorna means risking the heart he thought was closed for good.
Off Limits
by Helena Newbury
2023
Danny lives for missions and one-night stands until he meets Erin, a shy tech genius who turns out to be his best friend's sister. A rescue mission into Siberia leaves them no room to keep their distance.
Frozen Heart
by Helena Newbury
2025
A struggling bookseller catches the attention of Radimir Aristov, the ruthless Bratva boss everyone fears. When she sees too much, desire turns into a dangerous marriage and a fight for survival.
Heart of Rage
by Helena Newbury
2026
An FBI agent obsessed with bringing down Gennadiy Aristov is forced into an uneasy alliance with him after she is framed. On the run together, enemy lines start to blur in dangerous ways.
Where should I start?
If you want the linked family saga: Punching and Kissing → Growing and Kissing → Saving Liberty → Outlaw's Promise → Brothers
If you want newer team-based romantic suspense: No Angel → Off Limits → Guarded → Capture Me
If you want mafia and undercover tension: Lying and Kissing → Kissing My Killer → The Double → Frozen Heart → Heart of Rage
If you want pure standalones first: Alaska Wild → Mount Mercy → Captain Rourke → Deep Woods
If you want New Adult instead: Dance For Me → In Harmony → Acting Brave
Author bio
Helena Newbury writes the kind of romance that drops two people into danger, locks the door, and then asks what happens when fear, loyalty, guilt, and attraction all hit at once. Her books are usually filed under romantic suspense, and that fits. There are kidnappings, manhunts, undercover operations, mob bosses, storms, crashes, and rescue missions. But the real engine is always the couple at the center, and the way they change each other.
She keeps the spotlight on the books.
Publicly, Newbury is fairly low-key, but her work tells you a lot about her lane. She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, and her reading-order notes make her approach clear: outside the Fenbrook Academy books, most of her novels are designed as standalones. Readers can jump in almost anywhere, meet a new hero and heroine, and still get a full ending instead of a cliffhanger. At the same time, many of the books share a larger world, so familiar faces keep popping back up.
She began with Dance For Me in 2013, the first Fenbrook Academy novel. That early trilogy leans more New Adult than suspense, with ballet, music, acting, and the pressure of trying to become an artist while carrying a lot of private pain. Dance For Me, In Harmony, and Acting Brave are more campus and career focused than her later books, but you can already see what she likes to write: emotionally bruised characters, intense chemistry, and stories that move fast once the leads collide.
Then the suspense side really took over.
Books like Lying and Kissing, Punching and Kissing, Texas Kissing, and Kissing My Killer helped define the version of Newbury many readers know best. These stories throw desk-bound analysts, fighters, forgers, hackers, and women on the run into the path of dangerous men with mob ties, military histories, or both. The setups can get big and bold, but the emotional pattern stays steady. Her heroes are often protective, damaged, and convinced they are bad for the woman in front of them. Her heroines are rarely passive. Even when they begin frightened or cornered, they tend to push back, adapt, and matter to the outcome.
That shared-world approach is a big part of the fun.
The O'Harra Brothers books are the clearest example. Punching and Kissing, Growing and Kissing, Saving Liberty, Outlaw's Promise, and Brothers work as a family-centered run, with each story widening the emotional frame until the reunion book pays everything off. Later novels kept expanding her range: Alaska Wild goes survivalist, Mount Mercy turns to a mountain hospital under pressure, The Double plays with identity and infiltration, Hold Me in the Dark mixes serial murder with a brilliant recluse, and Deep Woods strands a hunted heroine with a hermit deep in the forest.
More recently, Newbury has built out newer corners of that same universe. No Angel, Off Limits, Guarded, and Capture Me form the Stormfinch Security series, a team-driven set of romantic suspense stories with a strong found-family streak. On the mafia side, Frozen Heart and Heart of Rage center on the Aristov brothers and lean harder into Bratva politics, family power, and enemies-to-lovers tension.
If you like romance with momentum, protective heroes, capable heroines, and plots that do not hang around waiting for chapter ten to get interesting, Helena Newbury is easy to keep reading. Even across very different settings, from performing-arts classrooms to prison infirmaries to frozen wilderness, her books keep circling the same question: what happens when two wounded people are forced to trust each other fast? For her readers, that answer is usually the reason to stay up too late and read one more chapter.
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