Jackie Ashenden Books in Order
Explore Jackie Ashenden books in order with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start, from steamy billionaires and royals to cowboys and small towns.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
95 books
Falling For Finn
by Jackie Ashenden
2013
A woman who thinks she knows exactly what she wants meets Finn and discovers how quickly certainty can vanish. This early romance pairs heat with a softer emotional center.
One Night With The Master
by Jackie Ashenden
2013
One night with a commanding man is meant to be enough, but the emotional cost proves higher than either expected. Fast, intense, and unapologetically sexy.
Taking Him
by Jackie Ashenden
2013
This intimate contemporary romance is built around fantasy, trust, and the lies people tell to protect themselves. What begins as a controlled arrangement turns messy once real emotion gets involved.
Talking Dirty With the Boss
by Jackie Ashenden
2013
Working too closely with the boss is a bad idea, especially when the chemistry is obvious to everyone involved. This is a quick, sexy office romance with plenty of push and pull.
Talking Dirty with the CEO
by Jackie Ashenden
2013
Gadget journalist Christie St. John is sent to write about online dating and ends up entangled with wealthy CEO Joseph Ashton instead. What starts as research becomes a test of trust, confidence, and very real desire.
Talking Dirty With the Player
by Jackie Ashenden
2013
A reunion with a charming player brings old chemistry straight back to the surface. Flirty on the outside, the story still digs into what both characters are hiding.
Having Her
by Jackie Ashenden
2014
Kara Sinclair thinks losing her virginity to her best friend's older brother will keep things safe and simple. Vin Fox knows better, and once fantasy and feeling start mixing, neither can pretend this is casual.
Hollywood Blackmail
by Jackie Ashenden
2014
Nurse Lizzie Kent has spent years hiding from the life she left behind, until movie star Ash Kincaid walks back into it. He blackmails her into staying close long enough for old love and old pain to resurface.
Living in Shadow
by Jackie Ashenden
2014
Professor Eleanor May knows a student is the last man she should want. Lucien North has escaped violence once already, but with Eleanor he risks stepping into a different kind of darkness.
Living in Sin
by Jackie Ashenden
2014
Lily Andrews asks older, jaded club owner Kahu Winter for lessons in seduction and gets far more than technique. Their bargain is supposed to last six weeks, but both know from the start it could wreck them.
Mine to Take
by Jackie Ashenden
2014
A billionaire hero who is used to owning every room he enters meets a woman who is not inclined to surrender quietly. In the Nine Circles club, desire and power are always part of the same game.
Never Seduce a Sheikh
by Jackie Ashenden
2014
Trying to keep a desert ruler at a safe distance proves impossible when desire and politics collide. What begins as temptation quickly turns into a high-stakes royal romance.
The Billion Dollar Bachelor
by Jackie Ashenden
2014
A billionaire bachelor with image problems meets a sheltered young woman who has spent her life under someone else's rules. Their connection is fast, intense, and complicated by family power.
The Billion Dollar Bad Boy
by Jackie Ashenden
2014
Playboy Donovan Morrow clashes with ice-cold businesswoman Victoria de Winter over family property and future plans. Their rivalry turns hot in a hurry, but both have too much emotional baggage to keep it simple.
The Billionaire Biker
by Jackie Ashenden
2014
Reckless Sean Morrow is more comfortable with his biker crew than his family company, but old desire drags him back toward Abigail Prescott. They share a past they never really got over, and working together only makes it worse.
Hold Me Down
by Jackie Ashenden
2015
This dark contemporary romance leans into control, resistance, and the risks of wanting the wrong person. The pull between the leads is immediate, but giving in costs them both something.
Living in Secret
by Jackie Ashenden
2015
A reunion forces two people to deal with the parts of their past they never really put away. Hidden feelings and long-held secrets make the present impossible to keep tidy.
Make You Burn
by Jackie Ashenden
2015
An intense attraction neither character can safely treat as temporary starts to consume the rest of their lives. This is Jackie Ashenden in full hot-and-complicated mode.
Make You Mine
by Jackie Ashenden
2015
World-class gambler Alex St. James knows how to beat the odds, but his bodyguard Katya Ivanov is the one challenge he cannot bluff. Their fake-lover game soon becomes far more dangerous and personal.
Never Refuse a Sheikh
by Jackie Ashenden
2015
A sheikh used to obedience meets a heroine who has her own plans. Royal pressure and fierce attraction turn a desert fairy tale into a fight for control.
Never Resist a Sheikh
by Jackie Ashenden
2015
Felicity arrives in Al-Harah for business and is mistaken for a future queen. Sheikh Zakir needs a wife for his people, but the chemistry between them makes what starts as duty feel dangerously real.
You Are Mine
by Jackie Ashenden
2015
In the Nine Circles world, possession is never just about sex. This romance pairs high-stakes desire with characters who discover that claiming someone is easy compared with trusting them.
Cold Hearted Sniper
by Jackie Ashenden
2016
A lethal, emotionally shut-down sniper is used to clear targets, not messy feelings. When a job puts a woman in his path, duty and desire begin pulling in opposite directions.
Dirty For Me
by Jackie Ashenden
2016
Mechanic and underground fighter Zee Chase likes his life rough and simple until polished executive Tamara Eliot knocks it sideways. Detroit grit, class clash, and explosive chemistry keep this one moving.
Frankie
by Jackie Ashenden
2016
Frankie has finally saved enough to buy her stepbrother out of the family cattle station and out of her heart. Then Mac offers one night together in exchange, and everything she planned starts to unravel.
In Bed With the Billionaire
by Jackie Ashenden
2016
Temple plans to get close to a powerful man for revenge and ends up in the orbit of the notorious Nine Circles club instead. Seduction, danger, and divided loyalties drive this dark billionaire romance.
Kidnapped by the Billionaire
by Jackie Ashenden
2016
Billionaire-turned-bodyguard Elijah Hunt kidnaps the daughter of the man who ruined his life and gets far more than revenge. Violet is nothing like he expected, which makes captivity complicated very fast.
Make It Hurt
by Jackie Ashenden
2016
A sharp-edged second-chance romance where pain, pride, and unresolved attraction all show up at once. In true Jackie Ashenden fashion, the heat is matched by real emotional fallout.
Wrong for Me
by Jackie Ashenden
2016
A dark Detroit romance about two people who know they are bad news for each other and keep coming back anyway. Family history, danger, and serious attraction make walking away almost impossible.
Mine
by Jackie Ashenden
2017
This collection gathers the Nine Circles stories into one dark, high-heat billionaire bundle. Power, secrecy, and dangerous attraction tie the books together from first page to last.
Sin for Me
by Jackie Ashenden
2017
Gideon Black has worked hard to leave Detroit's criminal underworld behind. Then a determined young woman with a long-standing crush pulls him into fresh danger and reminds him how hard it is to stay untouchable.
Take Me Harder
by Jackie Ashenden
2017
Fresh out of prison after serving time for someone else, Rush Redmond is trying to stay clear of trouble. Then a cop from his past needs his help hunting a killer, and old feelings come roaring back.
The Big, Bad Billionaire
by Jackie Ashenden
2017
A seemingly untouchable billionaire meets the woman who refuses to be dazzled by money or bullied by intensity. Sparks fly fast, but the deeper challenge is letting each other in.
The Billionaire Beast
by Jackie Ashenden
2017
A damaged billionaire who prefers control to connection meets the woman brave enough to get close. Beauty-and-the-beast tension drives this one, but the real question is who saves whom.
The Billionaire's Intern
by Jackie Ashenden
2017
An internship becomes far more dangerous when the billionaire boss in question is wounded, watchful, and impossible to resist. Office politics and raw attraction push both characters past their comfort zones.
The Billionaire's Virgin
by Jackie Ashenden
2017
Disgraced playboy Xavier De Santis meets Mia in a homeless shelter and offers her one night in his glittering world. What begins like fantasy becomes far riskier when both start wanting something real.
The Dangerous Billionaire
by Jackie Ashenden
2017
Former Navy SEAL Van Tate would rather be anywhere but New York after his father's funeral, until a mission puts him on a collision course with a woman who needs protecting. His military instincts and new billionaire status do not make the emotional side any easier.
The Wicked Billionaire
by Jackie Ashenden
2017
Former sniper Lucas Tate is tasked with protecting Grace Riley after her husband's dirty dealings put her in danger. He expects a job, not the kind of connection that threatens his carefully controlled life.
Big Bad Marine
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
A tough former Marine is all wrong for the heroine, which is exactly why he is impossible to ignore. Their romance mixes danger, attitude, and a surprising amount of heart.
Black Sheep Bounty Hunter
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
The family's black sheep has built a life chasing other people's trouble. Then one case, and one woman, force him to decide whether he is running from home or back toward it.
Demanding His Hidden Heir
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
A powerful man discovers there is a child, and a past, he never knew existed. Reunited under pressure, he and the heroine have to face old wounds before they can decide what family means now.
Destroyed
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
A hero who has been living in emotional wreckage meets the woman who can see straight through him. Their chemistry is fierce, but the real story is whether either of them can risk rebuilding.
Hard Night
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
11th Hour leader Jacob Night finally finds the missing woman tied to his brother's past, only to discover she has no memory of who she is. When killers come for her, truth and survival become equally dangerous.
King's Price
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
A billionaire kingmaker from Sydney learns that money and authority cannot solve everything. When a woman challenges the terms he lives by, obsession turns into something a lot more costly.
King's Rule
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
In the office and out of it, one Sydney titan likes to set the rules. The heroine who pushes back turns a power play into a very personal war of wills.
Raw Power
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
Ex-Marine Jack King signs on with a covert unit and expects danger, not babysitting a senator's daughter. Then protecting Callie means kidnapping her, uncovering her father's secrets, and trying not to fall hard.
Ruined
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
This dark romance throws two bruised, defensive people together and asks what happens when desire gets there before trust. The pull between them is immediate, but the damage they carry is harder to outrun.
The Hitman Next Door
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
The man next door is trouble, and not the safe kind. When attraction flares between a deadly professional and the woman beside him, both secrecy and survival get harder.
The Undercover Billionaire
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
Going undercover should keep a billionaire ex-SEAL focused on the mission, not on the woman in his path. But the closer the danger gets, the more personal the job becomes.
Total Control
by Jackie Ashenden
2018
A former soldier who likes order is thrown into a mission that quickly becomes personal. As danger closes in, he and the woman under his protection discover control is the first thing to crack.
Claiming His One-Night Child
by Jackie Ashenden
2019
A one-night encounter refuses to stay in the past when a pregnancy changes the balance between two stubborn people. Duty may bring them together, but trust is much harder to build.
Dirty Devil
by Jackie Ashenden
2019
Self-made billionaire Damian Blackwood catches a thief in his penthouse and decides not to call the police. Instead he pulls her into a dangerous, seductive game that uncovers more vulnerability than either expects.
King's Ransom
by Jackie Ashenden
2019
A powerful Sydney billionaire is used to getting his way, until a fiery heroine disrupts the plan. This is a dark, fast-moving romance where control gives way to genuine attachment.
The Debt
by Jackie Ashenden
2019
A sharp heroine needs arrogant billionaire Ash Evans to give her family company a little more time. Their negotiations are all business at first, until attraction turns repayment into something much messier.
A Cowboy for All Seasons
by Jackie Ashenden
2020
A western romance collection built around changing seasons, changing hearts, and the people who keep coming back to the same patch of land. Expect warmth, sparks, and small-town complications.
Bad Boss
by Jackie Ashenden
2020
When overworked Morgan asks her impossible billionaire boss for a life outside the office, he offers something riskier instead. Their game of control, fantasy, and consent turns into a relationship neither planned for.
Come Home to Deep River
by Jackie Ashenden
2020
Returning to Deep River means facing buried history, town politics, and a future that may change the whole community. Love grows alongside hard questions about land, money, and what home should become.
Crowned at the Desert King's Command
by Jackie Ashenden
2020
A desert king makes a command that looks like duty and feels dangerously personal. As a reluctant bride is drawn into court life, passion and power become impossible to separate.
Promoted To His Princess
by Jackie Ashenden
2020
A work relationship with a royal takes a sharp turn into palace drama and private temptation. Suddenly, promotion means far more than a new title.
Sexy Beast
by Jackie Ashenden
2020
Commanding billionaire Everett Calhoun has always kept his sweet, loyal best friend in the safe zone, until she asks him for a very personal favor. Friendship turns dangerous when desire starts asking for more.
The Italian's Final Redemption
by Jackie Ashenden
2020
A hard, damaged Italian hero gets one last chance to change the life he has made out of anger and control. The woman who sees more in him than he wants revealed may be his only way back.
The Most Powerful of Kings
by Jackie Ashenden
2020
King Adonis has no use for emotion until gentle, inexperienced Anna is brought in to help with his young daughter. The palace may belong to him, but Anna is the one who threatens his control.
The Spaniard's Wedding Revenge
by Jackie Ashenden
2020
A Spaniard turns marriage into the sharpest tool in his revenge plan. But the closer he gets to his bride, the harder it is to tell vengeance from desire.
A Good Old-Fashioned Cowboy
by Jackie Ashenden
2021
A classic western romance setup with a hero who believes in hard work and straight talk. When the heroine challenges his assumptions, the relationship becomes a lesson in compromise, desire, and real partnership.
Deep River Promise
by Jackie Ashenden
2021
In Deep River, Alaska, loyalty to family and town runs deep. When love arrives at the worst possible moment, two people have to choose between old promises and the future they did not expect.
In the Dark
by Jackie Ashenden
2021
Scarred billionaire Elias Hart wants one anonymous night in the dark, not an emotional entanglement. Then the blindfolded stranger turns out to be his best friend's grown-up little sister, and the rules stop working.
Pregnant by the Wrong Prince
by Jackie Ashenden
2021
One unexpected pregnancy turns a royal mistake into a public crisis. Palace duty and private longing are suddenly impossible to keep separate.
That Deep River Feeling
by Jackie Ashenden
2021
Life in Deep River is changing, and so are the people trying to hold on to it. This is a tender Alaska romance about attraction, belonging, and the pull of a place that feels like home.
The Innocent Carrying His Legacy
by Jackie Ashenden
2021
A woman trying to move on discovers she is carrying a powerful man's child. The pregnancy forces them back together, where old chemistry and hard truths are impossible to ignore.
The Wedding Night They Never Had
by Jackie Ashenden
2021
A marriage left unfinished forces a couple back together to face the intimacy they avoided the first time around. Old hurt and fresh desire make their delayed wedding night far more complicated.
The World's Most Notorious Greek
by Jackie Ashenden
2021
A Greek bad boy with a ruined reputation meets the one woman who does not fit neatly into his world. Behind the headlines is a man with far more to lose than he admits.
With the Lights On
by Jackie Ashenden
2021
A powerful man who hides his failing vision meets a woman who makes secrecy feel impossible. Their affair is intensely physical, but what really threatens him is being fully seen.
A Diamond for My Forbidden Bride
by Jackie Ashenden
2022
A powerful tycoon offers a diamond and a deal, but the woman at the center of it is anything but simple. Their forbidden attraction turns a polished business arrangement into a very personal battle.
All Roads Lead to You
by Jackie Ashenden
2022
Old feelings and unfinished business pull two people back into each other's orbit. What starts as a reunion becomes a question of whether love can survive the lives they built apart.
Find Your Way Home
by Jackie Ashenden
2022
Starting over means facing the place, and the people, you thought you had left behind. In a close-knit valley, two stubborn hearts have to decide whether home is a trap or a second chance.
Stolen for My Spanish Scandal
by Jackie Ashenden
2022
A Spanish billionaire sweeps a woman into the middle of a public scandal and tries to control the fallout. Close quarters and old tensions make it impossible to keep the relationship strictly strategic.
Sweet Home Cowboy
by Jackie Ashenden
2022
A homecoming in cowboy country brings both comfort and complications. When two people with shared history cross paths again, they have to decide if the place they left is also where they belong.
The Innocent's One-Night Proposal
by Jackie Ashenden
2022
What should have been one unforgettable night turns into an offer that changes everything. A guarded heroine and a commanding hero must decide whether desire can survive daylight and consequences.
The Maid the Greek Married
by Jackie Ashenden
2022
A Greek billionaire marries the maid he cannot stop wanting, but the wedding solves very little. Class difference, pride, and buried emotion make their new arrangement anything but simple.
Bought
by Jackie Ashenden
2023
Money may bring two people together, but it does not make the arrangement simple. This Arcadia romance turns a transactional setup into a messy, high-heat emotional entanglement.
Her Vow to Be His Desert Queen
by Jackie Ashenden
2023
To keep her promise, a woman steps into a desert ruler's world and discovers just how costly queenship can be. Duty and attraction tangle fast when neither can afford a weak heart.
Right Where We Belong
by Jackie Ashenden
2023
Returning to a close community means facing history, expectation, and the person who still matters most. This is a warm, emotional small-town romance about choosing home on purpose.
Tamed
by Jackie Ashenden
2023
A woman steps into the orbit of a powerful man who assumes he can keep every feeling under control. What starts as a charged bargain becomes a tense struggle over trust, freedom, and who gets to set the terms.
The Comeback Cowboy
by Jackie Ashenden
2023
A cowboy on the comeback trail is determined to prove he is more than his worst day. When the heroine needs help, their partnership turns personal, and love becomes the hardest, and best, risk.
Wed for Their Royal Heir
by Jackie Ashenden
2023
A royal marriage of convenience is supposed to protect a dynasty, not ignite real feeling. But once duty, desire, and the pressure of an heir collide, both bride and groom have more to lose than a crown.
A Vow To Redeem The Greek
by Jackie Ashenden
2024
A hardened Greek hero thinks redemption can be managed like any other problem, until a woman makes the cost personal. Marriage, pride, and raw attraction keep the pressure high.
Enemies at the Greek Altar
by Jackie Ashenden
2024
Two enemies are pushed to the altar with plenty of reasons not to trust each other. The setup is pure high drama, but the heart of it is watching anger turn into something harder to deny.
Italian Baby Shock
by Jackie Ashenden
2024
An Italian billionaire finds his world upended by a pregnancy that changes every rule he planned to live by. Reputation, inheritance, and very real feeling collide fast.
The Twins That Bind
by Jackie Ashenden
2024
Twins raise the stakes in a family drama built around duty, legacy, and unfinished attraction. Once the truth is out, both leads have to decide what kind of future they can actually build.
Book People
by Jackie Ashenden
2025
A cosy bookshop setting meets a sharp enemies-to-lovers romance. When two very different book people clash over taste, work, and identity, the banter is fun and the feelings sneak up fast.
Boss's Heir Demand
by Jackie Ashenden
2025
A billionaire boss who likes control discovers there may be an heir involved, and his tidy plans vanish instantly. Office tension and personal stakes make this one move fast.
Hard Discipline
by Jackie Ashenden
2025
This very spicy romance builds around control, rules, and the feelings that make both much harder to maintain. Beneath the heat, it is a story about trust and giving someone real power over you.
Hard Ride
by Jackie Ashenden
2025
A tough, high-heat contemporary romance where the danger outside the relationship is only part of the problem. The bigger risk is what happens when desire stops feeling temporary.
Owned
by Jackie Ashenden
2025
The darkest of bargains becomes personal when attraction gives way to genuine vulnerability. In Arcadia, the question is never just who owns what, but who is brave enough to let go.
His Forced Sicilian Bride
by Jackie Ashenden
2026
A Sicilian marriage demanded by power turns into a relationship neither side can keep detached. Forced proximity, family pressure, and serious chemistry do the rest.
Where should I start?
If you want steamy billionaire drama: Dirty Devil → Sexy Beast → Bad Boss
If you prefer royal and palace romance: Wed for Their Royal Heir → Her Vow to Be His Desert Queen → The Most Powerful of Kings
If you like romantic suspense: Raw Power → Total Control → Hard Night
If you want small-town heart: Find Your Way Home → Right Where We Belong → Sweet Home Cowboy
If you want dark, high-heat contemporary: The Billionaire's Virgin → The Dangerous Billionaire → King's Price
Author bio
Jackie Ashenden lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and she has built a long career writing romance that likes to push people right up against their limits.
She says she has been writing fiction since she was eleven. Before romance became her full-time work, she balanced writing with librarianship, which feels fitting for someone who clearly loves books from both sides of the shelf. A chance meeting with another romance writer helped nudge her toward taking romance more seriously, and she eventually left the day job behind to focus on the stories she most wanted to tell.
That turn suits her.
Ashenden's books tend to start with people who look hard to love from the outside. Billionaires, kings, soldiers, bikers, cowboys, and other men who think control is the same thing as safety show up a lot in her work. So do women who are smarter, tougher, and less easily intimidated than those men expect.
Readers who start with books like Talking Dirty With the CEO, The Billionaire's Virgin, Dirty for Me, or Raw Power usually notice the same thing fast. The chemistry is strong, the conflict is not polite, and the happy ending has to be earned. Even when the setup is glamorous or wildly tropey, the emotional problem underneath it is usually simple and human: fear, shame, grief, loneliness, or the feeling of never quite belonging anywhere.
She also moves comfortably between different corners of romance. In Harlequin Presents titles such as Wed for Their Royal Heir and The Most Powerful of Kings, she leans into crowns, scandal, heirs, and impossible attraction. In books like Find Your Way Home and the Jasper Creek novels, she shifts toward small-town life, second chances, and the ache of coming back to a place that still knows your name.
Place matters in her fiction.
Some stories unfold in penthouses, palaces, and exclusive clubs. Others head for Alaska, Texas, Detroit, or the kind of rural community where everybody notices who drove into town and why. The settings change, but the pressure stays. Family expectations, money, danger, buried secrets, and desire are always crowding the room together.
Ashenden has also written a lot of connected series, which makes her bibliography especially fun if you like reading worlds rather than one-offs. The Tate brothers, the Kings of Sydney, the Nine Circles billionaires, and her Harlequin duets and mini-series all give her room to play with related characters while keeping each romance emotionally distinct.
Off the page, her life sounds a lot quieter. She has written about living in Auckland with her husband, Dr. Jax, their children, and pets, and about spending nonwriting time reading, knitting, baking pavlova, having a drink, or getting dragged out mountain biking. It is a nice contrast to the emotional chaos she puts her characters through.
Which is probably just as well.
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