Hunted (Edie Baylis) Books in Order

The Hunted series puts Tori Morgan at the centre of a hard, emotional crime story where love, status, and family control are all tangled together. From the start, Tori is trapped by other people's decisions. Her mother, Lillian Morgan, is controlling and ruthless. Her fiancé is wrapped up in ambition and appearances. And hanging over everything is the murder of Tori's father, a loss that shapes how she sees the dangerous men around her.

Tori is boxed in from the first page.

One of the big hooks in these books is Ash Hunter. Tori blames him and his crew for her father's death, so their connection begins in anger, not trust. That tension drives The Status Debt, where blackmail, lies, and social pressure keep closing off the easy way out. Baylis leans into the emotional side of the setup, but never lets the series drift away from crime. Every romantic pull comes with real risk, and every private decision seems to have public consequences.

The books are full of people trying to control the story. Lillian wants status back and is willing to use her daughter to get it. Men around Tori keep making choices that affect her life. Old secrets keep changing the meaning of what she thinks she knows. That makes the series feel tense in a slightly different way from Baylis's more business-driven gangland books. The danger here is not just about firms or territory. It is also about manipulation, shame, reputation, and the damage families do in the name of protection.

By The Family Legacy, the pressure is even tighter. Tori is facing an unwanted wedding, a pregnancy filled with uncertainty, and growing questions about the hidden truth at the centre of her family. The third book, The Target of Lies, widens the picture by bringing Neil Sparks back from exile with scores to settle of his own, while Richard Stevens's deceit starts catching up with him from multiple directions. The result is a trilogy where the emotional fallout and the gangland fallout keep feeding each other.

Nobody comes through unmarked.

If you like crime stories that are fast, relationship-led, and a little steamier than the average thriller, Hunted fits that lane well. The books have betrayals, grudges, and a strong sense that the past keeps reaching into the present. They are also very much a continuing story. Read in order and you get the full force of Tori's situation, the shifting role of Ash Hunter, and the way one lie can keep poisoning several lives at once.