Jayne Ann Krentz Books in Order

Country‑bred Sophy Dorring weds Julian, the brooding Earl of Ravenwood, a man whispered to have driven his first wife to her death. Determined to tame the so‑called devil, she barges into his secrets, uncovering blackmail, buried grief, and a passion neither expected.

Heiress Victoria Huntington has no interest in fortune hunters, yet finds herself fascinated by Lucas Colebrook, the new Earl of Stonevale. His offer of moonlit escapades hides a darker agenda, and marriage strands her in a crumbling Yorkshire estate haunted by scandal and old dangers.

Augusta Ballinger, last of a wildly unconventional clan, discovers that the grim Earl of Graystone intends to marry her for coolly practical reasons. Her attempt to scare him off only strengthens his resolve, and soon the two are chasing a traitor known as the Spider and their own inconvenient love.

Notorious for a youthful elopement gone wrong, Emily Faringdon resigns herself to spinsterhood and pours her heart into letters with a mysterious poet. When he appears as Simon, Earl of Blade, she discovers her ideal man is using her family for revenge—and may need saving from his own past.

Fossil‑mad spinster Harriet Pomeroy needs help clearing smugglers from the sea caves she studies. She turns to Gideon Westbrook, the scarred “Beast of Blackthorne Hall,” and soon finds that the man society fears is fiercely protective—and at the center of a dangerous smuggling mystery.

Idealistic schoolmistress Phoebe Layton enlists notorious adventurer Gabriel Banner to help avenge a wrong done years ago. Their quest for a missing journal pulls them into scandal, theft, and murder, while the supposed mercenary discovers he cannot stay detached from Phoebe’s reckless heart.

Prudence Merryweather investigates hauntings and “spectral phenomena” for nervous clients. When her work tangles with Sebastian, Earl of Angelstone—a man famed as the Devil’s Duke—they form an uneasy alliance to catch a killer, forcing Sebastian to choose between long‑planned revenge and the woman softening his ruthless edges.

Scholar Olympia Wingfield juggles her unruly nephews and her passion for ancient legends until Jared Chillhurst arrives posing as their tutor. In truth a viscount hunting a pirate’s diary, he and Olympia end up chasing lost treasure, outwitting villains, and falling into a very improper romance.

Lady Clarre takes her duty as guardian of the remote Isle of Desire seriously, but her new overlord, Sir Gareth of Wyckmere, wants only a strategic marriage. When pirates, political intrigue, and betrayal threaten the island, their arranged union turns into a partnership forged in danger and growing desire.

Former schoolmistress Iphiginia Bright returns from touring classical ruins to find her aunt being blackmailed. She remakes herself as the glamorous “mistress” of the missing Earl of Masters to smoke out the culprit—only to have the very real, very irritated earl stride back into London society.

This five-story romance anthology brings together work by Linda Howard, Jayne Ann Krentz, Linda Lael Miller, Carla Neggers, and Kasey Michaels. Its tales range from contemporary intrigue and second chances to dream-haunted love, time travel, and a possibly haunted inheritance.

In medieval England, practical Lady Alice bargains with Hugh the Relentless, a fearsome knight searching for a lost green crystal tied to his family’s power. She offers her keen mind and sleuthing skills in exchange for a dowry and her brother’s future, and finds herself betrothed to a man as daunting as he is magnetic.

Independent Imogen Waterstone schemes to ruin a man she believes caused a friend’s death by luring him into chasing a fake treasure map. To pull it off she recruits Matthias, Earl of Colchester, legendary explorer of the lost isle of Zamar, and soon their pretend intrigue turns all too real.

Charlotte Arkendale makes her living investigating suitors for wealthy women and exposing fortune hunters. When one of her clients is murdered, she teams up with enigmatic scientist Baxter St. Ives, agreeing to hire him as her “man‑of‑affairs” while they hunt a killer who dabbles in deadly alchemy.

A multi-author collection selected from *Everlasting Love*, including Linda Howard's eerie and romantic novella *Lake of Dreams*. It works well as a sampler of emotional, high-stakes love stories.

Beatrice Poole, widowed author of sensational “horrid novels,” believes her uncle died pursuing the legendary Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite. She storms into the life of Leo Drake, the reclusive Mad Monk of Monkcrest, demanding his antiquarian expertise and inadvertently dragging them both into a hunt stalked by a clever murderer.

Sharp‑tongued Emma Greyson keeps losing positions as a lady’s companion, until a late‑night encounter in a wardrobe throws her together with Edison Stokes. Hired as his assistant, she joins his search for a stolen book of arcane potions—and discovers that the thief is willing to kill test subjects.

Madeline Deveridge is whispered about as the wicked widow who may have killed her cruel husband. When his “ghost” seems to stalk her, she turns to Artemas Hunt, a powerful businessman with Vanza training. To unmask a killer using fear and stagecraft, they must confront London’s underworld and their own secrets.

Lavinia Lake, an outspoken widow fallen on hard times, crosses paths with Tobias March while escaping a blackmailer. They form a prickly investigative partnership that leads from country estates to London salons, exposing a web of extortion and murder as their wary respect deepens into something far less businesslike.

Lavinia Lake and Tobias March investigate the death of a man found beside an Egyptian mummy and strange crystal artifacts. As they untangle frauds, obsessions, and a possible serial killer, the longtime partners must also decide what, exactly, they mean to each other.

An omnibus of three romances—The Family Way, Chances Are, and Presumed Guilty—by Jayne Ann Krentz, Barbara Delinsky, and Tess Gerritsen. Its heroines face an unplanned pregnancy and commitment, a high-stakes business partnership, and a murder accusation that demands answers.

Hired to look into the disappearance of a bridegroom from a country house party, Lavinia Lake and Tobias March uncover links to a long‑ago scandal and a series of suspicious deaths. Their investigation forces them to revisit old cases—and confront the future of their complicated relationship.

Eleanora Lodge, respectable but impoverished, agrees to pose as the paid companion and faux fiancée of the icy Earl of St. Merryn so he can hunt for his uncle’s killer without matchmaking mamas. Their sham engagement soon tangles with real danger and real affection.

When art tutor Caroline Fordyce finds a dead body in a waxworks, she is drawn into a murder investigation that echoes the sensational crime in her own gothic serial. Private enquiry agent Adam Hardesty needs her cooperation to trace stolen journals, but working together puts them both in a killer’s sights.

Concordia Glade helps four girls escape a sinister school by blowing up part of the building, only to collide with private agent Ambrose Wells on the castle grounds. As they protect the girls and dig into Vanza‑tinged experiments, a London crime lord closes in.

Victorian photographer Venetia Milton spends one unforgettable night with Gabriel Jones while cataloging the Arcane Society’s artifacts, then believes him dead. When he reappears very much alive, their sham marriage and her psychic talent pull them into a deadly hunt for a stolen formula.

Louisa Bryce lives quietly in London while secretly writing investigative pieces about vice and corruption. When she witnesses a drowning she suspects is murder, she joins forces with skeptical aristocrat Anthony Stalbridge to expose a gaming hell’s deadly secrets and a conspiracy that reaches far beyond the river.

Aura reader Clare Lancaster can sense every lie, a gift that has wrecked past relationships. Hired into her wealthy father’s business empire, she clashes and sparks with security consultant Jake Salter as they unravel a corporate conspiracy laced with murder and long‑buried family secrets.

Ex‑cop Luther Malone, a burned‑out Arcane Society operative, is sent to protect librarian and aura reader Grace Renquist on a mission to Hawaii. Posing as honeymooners, they must track a psychic killer while rogue Nightshade sensitives converge on their resort, powered by a volatile new drug.

Raine Tallentyre hears disembodied voices, a psychic talent she keeps secret until it leads her to a kidnap victim hidden in her late aunt’s house. Investigator Zack Jones accepts her ability without flinching, and together they hunt a killer tied to the Arcane Society’s rogue enemies.

Crystal worker Leona Hewitt breaks into a private museum to steal back a family relic and instead collides with mesmerist Thaddeus Ware. Both linked to the Arcane Society, they must protect a powerful crystal from a ruthless nobleman and an assassin known as the Midnight Monster.

Botanist Lucinda Bromley can identify poisons by touch, a talent that makes her invaluable and suspect when a rare fern from her conservatory turns up in a murder. Arcane investigator Caleb Jones needs her help to stop a deadly conspiracy, even as madness stalks his own powerful mind.

Reclusive para‑detective Fallon Jones has turned the odd coastal town of Scargill Cove into his base. When efficient, secretive Isabella Valdez arrives fleeing dangerous men, she becomes his assistant and partner as they uncover a sinister clockwork artifact and a conspiracy rooted in both their families.

Glass‑reader Virginia Dean awakens beside a dead body and a smoking psychic mirror, instantly branded a suspect. Owen Sweetwater, hunter for the Arcane Society, knows she was set up and joins forces with her to stop a murderer who uses Bridewell’s deadly inventions to trap his victims in reflections.

In this Arcane Society novella, Fallon Jones investigates a body found locked in a bookstore vault in Scargill Cove. Scratched symbols on the door hint at encoded messages, forcing Fallon and his small team to decode the past before another psychic experiment turns lethal.

Psychic investigator and novelist Evangeline Ames retreats to a country cottage after an attack linked to a recent case. When another assailant breaks in, she flees into the mysterious Crystal Gardens and straight into the path of Lucas Sebastian, whose family’s experiments have turned the estate into a paranormal hotspot.

Beatrice Lockwood, an operative for the Ladies of Lantern Street, poses as a paid companion while secretly exposing fraudulent mediums. After she and government agent Joshua Gage thwart an abduction, they join forces against a killer with hypnotic skills and a connection to Beatrice’s own shadowed past.

Globe‑trotting journalist Amity Doncaster survives an attack by a serial killer known as the Bridegroom. Back in London, to shield them both from scandal, a former spy she once aided claims they are engaged. Together they bait a murderer who likes his victims elegant, terrified, and very much alive.

Ursula Kern runs a secretarial agency that employs capable women, including her close friend Anne. When Anne dies in what looks like an accident, Ursula suspects foul play and teams up with archaeologist and businessman Slater Roxton. Their search through museums, gardens, and gentlemen’s clubs uncovers murder and buried scandals.

Calista Langley arranges discreet introductions for lonely clients in Victorian London. Someone begins sending her chilling mourning gifts, suggesting an obsession from her past. Detective novelist Trent Hastings suspects Calista’s business is a front, but soon finds himself helping her unmask a killer haunting both their circles.

Fleeing a bloody scene in New York, Anna Harris remakes herself as reporter Irene Glasson and heads west. At the glamorous Burning Cove Hotel she finds an actress dead in a pool and teams up with owner Oliver Ward, a former stage magician, to expose secrets Hollywood would kill to keep buried.

Adelaide Blake escapes from a private sanitarium where she was drugged and discredited, then starts over serving herbal teas in Burning Cove. A wary alliance with widowed businessman Jake Truett pulls her into a web of experimental drugs, illusionists, and the people who will kill to control them.

Trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn retires after a near‑fatal fall and opens a boardinghouse in Burning Cove. When a guest is murdered on her front steps, she joins forces with Matthias Jones, a designer of stage illusions, to untangle a plot involving assassins, spies, and a stolen invention.

Vivian Brazier photographs crime scenes for Los Angeles papers, a job respectable society loathes. When she captures an image that links several killings, she becomes a target and reluctantly accepts protection from enigmatic psychic investigator Nick Sundridge as they hunt a serial killer with a taste for actresses.

Socialite Lyra Brazier enrolls in a private investigator’s training course, then travels to a luxury spa in Burning Cove when her mentor vanishes. There she teams up with gruff investigator Simon Cage, whose unusual talent makes him dangerous company, to expose blackmail, hidden identities, and murder behind the resort’s serene façade.

Lucid dreamer Maggie Lodge hires private investigator Sam Sage after receiving blackmail threats tied to her work for a mysterious self‑help guru. Their search through dream research circles, hypnotists, and Hollywood hangers‑on uncovers a scheme that uses subconscious suggestion as both weapon and lure.

On the morning after what should have been her wedding, Prudence Ryland wakes beside a dead man and no memory of how she got there. Fleeing to Burning Cove, she turns to reclusive investigator Luther Pell and brilliant psychic Archer Norwood to clear her name and expose a killer who stages perfect crimes.