Jamie McGuire Books in Order
Browse Jamie McGuire books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and simple advice on where to start across her romance and suspense novels.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
28 books
Providence
by Jamie McGuire
2010
Grieving Brown student Nina Grey meets the mysterious Jared Ryel just as dangerous men from her father's past begin closing in. What starts as attraction becomes a fight over secrets, demons, and the truth about why Nina matters.
Beautiful Disaster
by Jamie McGuire
2011
Abby Abernathy comes to college determined to outrun her past, then meets underground fighter Travis Maddox. A reckless bet pulls them together, and their chemistry turns into a volatile romance neither of them can control.
Eden
by Jamie McGuire
2011
With prophecy closing in, Nina and Jared face marriage, pregnancy, and a battle far bigger than themselves. The final Providence novel pushes their love to its limit as Heaven, Hell, and fate collide.
Requiem
by Jamie McGuire
2011
Nina is back at Brown, but nightmares, guilt, and fresh threats make normal life impossible. As Jared searches for answers in Hell's history, their love is tested by new enemies and the possibility of war.
A Beautiful Wedding
by Jamie McGuire
2013
Abby and Travis's sudden Vegas marriage finally gets the full story. This novella fills in the secrets, nerves, and chaos behind their elopement, plus the moments that turned a shock into a real commitment.
Red Hill
by Jamie McGuire
2013
When a deadly outbreak shatters ordinary life, Scarlet, Nathan, and Miranda race to reach Red Hill Ranch and the people they love. It is a zombie survival story, but its real heartbeat is family, fear, and endurance.
Walking Disaster
by Jamie McGuire
2013
This companion novel retells Abby and Travis's story through Travis Maddox's eyes. His swagger, guilt, and fierce devotion come into focus as the same intense romance takes on a rougher, more vulnerable edge.
Among Monsters
by Jamie McGuire
2014
Thirteen-year-old Jenna wakes after the outbreak to find only a message pointing her toward Red Hill Ranch. With her little sister Halle depending on her, she has to grow up fast and survive the road ahead.
Apolonia
by Jamie McGuire
2014
Three years after surviving her own murder, Rory Riordan trusts no one. When she witnesses the mysterious Cy being taken by soldiers, she is pulled into a dark sci-fi romance full of secrets, danger, and buried identities.
Beautiful Oblivion
by Jamie McGuire
2014
Cami Camlin is juggling work, classes, and a shaky relationship when Trenton Maddox steps into her orbit. Their friendship burns hotter by the day, but Trenton's grief and Cami's tangled loyalties make love a dangerous risk.
Happenstance
by Jamie McGuire
2014
Bullied outsider Erin Easter has spent years watching her crush from a distance in tiny Blackwell, Oklahoma. Then a shocking tragedy changes everything, opening the door to love, secrets, and a life she never expected.
Happenstance 2
by Jamie McGuire
2014
After a deadly accident, Erin learns she was switched at birth and is suddenly dropped into the town's richest family. Weston is finally within reach, but the answers she wanted come with painful new truths.
Beautiful Redemption
by Jamie McGuire
2015
Ambitious FBI agent Liis Lindy is paired with Thomas Maddox on a mission tied to Travis and Abby's future. Their fake relationship grows uncomfortably real as Bureau pressure, old wounds, and attraction start colliding.
Beautiful Sacrifice
by Jamie McGuire
2015
Falyn Fairchild is scraping together a future and trying not to need anyone, especially Taylor Maddox. But the hotshot firefighter keeps showing up, and their connection gets harder to outrun once the past catches up.
Happenstance 3
by Jamie McGuire
2015
Erin and Weston finally have each other, but graduation means time is running out in Blackwell. As family truths settle and college looms, love has to compete with fear, change, and the possibility of letting go.
Sins of the Innocent
by Jamie McGuire
2015
Eden Ryel was born at the center of a prophecy, and Levi, the son of Lucifer, may be her ruin or her match. Their bond turns a cosmic war into something intimate, dangerous, and painfully human.
Something Beautiful
by Jamie McGuire
2015
America Mason loves Shepley Maddox, but a road trip to visit her parents could change everything between them. This novella gives their relationship the spotlight, with all the nerves, tenderness, and family tension that brings.
Sweet Nothing
by Jamie McGuire
2015
Josh and Avery fall hard and fast, and then something happens that changes the shape of their whole story. This standalone romance leans into heartbreak, uncertainty, and the question of whether love can survive what follows.
A Beautiful Funeral
by Jamie McGuire
2016
Years after the early Maddox love stories, Travis makes a move that puts the whole family in danger. Old secrets surface, loyalties split, and every Maddox has to decide what they are willing to fight for.
Beautiful Burn
by Jamie McGuire
2016
Ellie Edson is spinning out in Colorado after losing the life she counted on. Tyler Maddox thinks he can handle anything, until falling for Ellie forces him to face pain he cannot punch his way through.
All the Little Lights
by Jamie McGuire
2018
Elliott and Catherine connect as lonely kids, lose each other, and meet again as very different teenagers. Their second chance is tender and tense, shadowed by small-town suspicion and a secret that could wreck everything.
From Here to You
by Jamie McGuire
2018
Pregnant and desperate, Darby Dixon runs from her abusive fiancé and starts over in Colorado Springs. Former Marine Trex offers safety and sparks, but wildfires and buried secrets make a clean break impossible.
The Edge of Us
by Jamie McGuire
2019
Naomi Abrams is a young widow trying to build a life after loss, while hotshot firefighter Zeke Lund has sworn off falling again. Fires, illness, and old grief make their romance as risky as it is real.
Sins of the Immortalla
by Jamie McGuire
2021
The Ryel family believes Eden is gone, until her return makes it clear the story is not over. This finale brings the Providence world back to the edge of war, sacrifice, and long-awaited answers.
Almost Beautiful
by Jamie McGuire
2022
Newlyweds Abby and Travis return from Vegas hoping the worst is behind them. Instead, an FBI investigation and the shadow of the Eastern fire threaten their marriage, their friendships, and the future they want.
The Art of Dying
by Jamie McGuire
2023
Mack is rebuilding after an abusive relationship when Marine lieutenant Kitsch falls for her almost immediately. Their love grows into marriage, danger, and a long fight to protect the family they build together.
Beyond Oblivion
by Jamie McGuire
2025
Years after Beautiful Oblivion, Cami and Trenton Maddox are still deeply in love but struggling through infertility and fresh danger. As old ghosts resurface, their marriage is tested by grief, obsession, and fear.
The Sovereign: Part One
by Jamie McGuire
2025
In Hyperion Proper, citizens receive custom-designed partners called Supplicants on their thirtieth birthdays. When Isara meets Maxim, their bond begins exposing cracks in a perfect system built to hide war, control, and truth.
Where should I start?
If you want paranormal romance first: Providence → Requiem → Eden
If you want the signature campus romance: Beautiful Disaster → Walking Disaster → A Beautiful Wedding → Almost Beautiful
If you want more of the Maddox family: Beautiful Oblivion → Beautiful Redemption → Beautiful Sacrifice → Beautiful Burn
If you want survival and suspense: Red Hill → Among Monsters
If you want romantic suspense with connected characters: From Here to You → The Edge of Us → The Art of Dying
Author bio
Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and grew up in Blackwell. She later studied at Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Tech, where she earned a degree in radiography. Long before readers knew her for messy love stories and high-stakes family drama, she was a kid filling notebooks and journals.
Before publishing was even on the table, writing was already part of her routine.
McGuire has said she started keeping a diary after getting one as a birthday gift in third grade, and by the time she finished high school she had filled twenty-one journals. As an adult she blogged, kept writing, and carried story ideas around for years. In January 2009, a phone call with her friend Beth pushed her to finally begin the story she had been mulling over for five years. That story became Providence, her first novel.
She self-published Providence in 2010, then followed it with Requiem and Eden. Those books mixed college life, grief, angels, demons, prophecy, and a sweeping central romance. They also showed something that would stay true across much of her work: McGuire likes big feelings, characters under pressure, and love stories that have to survive danger instead of floating above it.
Then Beautiful Disaster changed the scale of everything.
That novel found a huge audience and helped define the new adult boom of the early 2010s. Its companion, Walking Disaster, hit number one on the New York Times list, and McGuire kept expanding that world through Abby and Travis, the wider Maddox family, and later books like Beautiful Oblivion, Beautiful Redemption, Beautiful Sacrifice, Beautiful Burn, and A Beautiful Funeral. Readers who click with her work usually like the same things: intense chemistry, fast-moving drama, and families that love hard, fight hard, and rarely do anything halfway.
She has never stayed in just one lane. Red Hill moves into apocalyptic suspense, Happenstance shifts to small-town YA, and Apolonia adds a dark sci-fi thread to her romance instincts. Later, the Crash and Burn books, beginning with From Here to You, kept the emotional stakes high while bringing in soldiers, firefighters, secrecy, and survival. Even when the setup changes, her stories tend to circle the same questions. Who do you trust? What do you do when the past comes back? How much can love actually carry?
That mix of independence and range matters to her career, too. McGuire built much of it through self-publishing, moved into traditional publishing when some books broke out, and later returned to publishing many of her own projects. She has also picked up a few clear markers of how widely those books traveled: Red Hill won UtopYA's Best Dystopian Book of the Year in 2014, and Beautiful Burn was named iBooks' Romance Novel of the Year in 2016.
She kept going back to the worlds readers asked for.
That is part of what makes her bibliography interesting. She has revisited Abby and Travis in Almost Beautiful, returned to Trenton and Cami in Beyond Oblivion, and opened a very different future-facing world with The Sovereign: Part One. The through line is still easy to spot. Her books are built on urgency, loyalty, and people trying to hold on to each other while everything around them gets complicated.
McGuire has written openly about balancing writing with family life, and for years she was known for working late at night while raising her children. However big the books have gotten, there is still something homegrown about the way her career developed. Oklahoma remains central to her story, and so does the do-it-yourself streak that got her started in the first place.
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