Jewel E Ann Books in Order
Explore all Jewel E Ann books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and clear suggestions for where to start reading.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
41 books
Holding You
by Jewel E Ann
2014
Addy Brecken, a talented Milwaukee chef, wants nothing to do with arrogant rich guy Quinn Cohen after he nearly runs her over. Their clashes turn into attraction, and attraction uncovers grief and secrets neither of them is ready for.
Idle Bloom
by Jewel E Ann
2014
Vivian's future stalls after tragedy, while Oliver returns to Boston carrying secrets he cannot share. A subway flirtation grows into friendship and love, but both of them are living with damage that will not stay quiet.
Releasing Me
by Jewel E Ann
2014
After Quinn breaks Addy, both of them are left drowning in pain, guilt, and the weight of everything still hidden. Their love is not gone, but getting back to it may cost them everything.
Undeniably You
by Jewel E Ann
2014
Sydney takes a thirty-day house-sitting job in Palo Alto and immediately finds herself juggling a chaotic dog, an awkward vet, and a gorgeous man who is definitely not the pool guy. Their month together turns unexpectedly life-changing.
End of Day
by Jewel E Ann
2015
After their parents are murdered, Jessica and Jude Day are forced to watch their own funerals and disappear into new identities. Starting over in Omaha should keep them safe, but old trauma and new desire make that impossible.
Middle of Knight
by Jewel E Ann
2015
Jackson chases a surprising new future with Ryn while Jillian remains trapped between grief, love, and the ghosts of her past. The second Jack and Jill novel mixes sharp humor, raw pain, and dangerous emotional fallout.
Only Trick
by Jewel E Ann
2015
Patrick wakes up missing five years of his life and unsure whether he can trust the man he used to be. Then Darby becomes his bright, clingy lifeline, even as the truth behind his lost years threatens to destroy them both.
Dawn of Forever
by Jewel E Ann
2016
Jillian heads west for the man she loves and walks straight into a past built on lies, revenge, and unfinished grief. This final Jack and Jill book raises the stakes and pulls long-buried truths into the light.
One
by Jewel E Ann
2016
Lake Jones has rebuilt her life around humor, prosthetic legs, and lowered expectations. Then one unforgettable kiss with quarterback Cage Monaghan turns into a chance at something bigger, riskier, and harder to trust.
Scarlet Stone
by Jewel E Ann
2016
When Scarlet's carefully built life collapses, she flees London for Tybee Island and meets a furious carpenter with secrets of his own. Their hostile chemistry turns a search for peace into something far more dangerous.
When Life Happened
by Jewel E Ann
2017
After her boyfriend cheats with her twin sister, Parker tries to start over and lands a job with a married couple next door. What begins as funny, chaotic damage control turns into a messy, emotionally risky love story.
A Place Without you
by Jewel E Ann
2018
Henna and Bodhi meet at a music festival and fall hard, fast, and recklessly. When he disappears without a goodbye, time, grief, and impossible choices test whether their once-in-a-lifetime connection can survive.
Epoch
by Jewel E Ann
2018
After a horrifying turn of events, Swayze is trapped between lives, memories, and a truth she cannot ignore. The duet's second book deepens the mystery while pushing its love story into darker, more dangerous ground.
Look the Part
by Jewel E Ann
2018
Attorney Flint Hopkins wants a quiet tenant, not a humming music therapist with pet rats and endless optimism. Ellen is everything that irritates him, until his son falls for her too and resistance stops looking like a real option.
Transcend
by Jewel E Ann
2018
Widowed professor Nathaniel Hunt hires Swayze as a nanny and starts noticing impossible things. She knows details from his past she should not know, turning their romance into a haunting question about love, memory, and life after death.
Jersey Six
by Jewel E Ann
2019
A hit-and-run leaves Jersey orphaned and hardened by life on the streets. Years later, an amnesiac burn victim offers a path to revenge, but getting justice means stepping into a dangerous game of lies, desire, and manipulation.
Naked Love
by Jewel E Ann
2019
Avery Montgomery, high heels and all, needs a ride to Los Angeles. Jake Matthews agrees, but only if she survives his rough camping trip first, and their miserable road trip quickly turns into a funny, heartfelt opposites-attract romance.
Perfectly Adequate
by Jewel E Ann
2019
Single dad and pediatric oncologist Elijah Hawkins is barely holding his life together when Dorothy Mayhem crashes into it. Their bond grows through playdates, awkward honesty, and real tenderness, but Dorothy's fears and Elijah's past complicate everything.
Fortuity
by Jewel E Ann
2020
After tragedy leaves Gracelyn raising her young nephew, she escapes to a San Diego beach house for the summer. Next door waits a single dad anatomy professor who is just as unprepared for their connection as she is.
Not What I Expected
by Jewel E Ann
2020
Fresh from the end of a long marriage, Elsie Smith is not looking for chaos. Then she meets Kael, a younger rival whose new business threatens her family and whose presence turns her careful reinvention into small-town scandal.
Out of Love
by Jewel E Ann
2020
A college student obsessed with conspiracies and danger cannot stay away from Slade Wylder, the mysterious man everyone warns her about. He saves her once, but the truth behind him is far more dangerous than rumor.
The Life That Mattered
by Jewel E Ann
2020
Ronin Alexander lives fast until Evelyn changes everything. Their intense romance tangles with wealth, politics, friendship, and devastating truths in a dark, twisty love story that refuses to stay simple.
The Life You Stole
by Jewel E Ann
2020
After a devastating loss, Evelyn tries to rebuild, but lies, divided loyalties, and revenge keep tearing new holes in her life. This sequel pushes the first book's grief and betrayal into even darker territory.
For Lucy
by Jewel E Ann
2021
Emmett steals Tatum from a no-show blind date and thinks he has found the perfect life. Then tragedy destroys everything, and he is left clinging to a terrible secret in the name of loving their daughter, Lucy, the most.
The Lost Fisherman
by Jewel E Ann
2021
Five years after everything changed, she returns to the place where Fisher first shattered her world. Time has changed them both, but the pull between them is still there, along with everything they never resolved.
The Naked Fisherman
by Jewel E Ann
2021
An eighteen-year-old heads to Colorado to reunite with her mother and ends up living beneath an older landlord everyone calls the fisherman. He is also her new boss, which makes their forbidden attraction even harder to ignore.
Memories of a Life
by Jewel E Ann
2022
Colten finally has Josie back, but marriage plans are overshadowed by her relentless dreams and visions from another time. Love, memory, and a buried past collide in the duet's dark, emotional finish.
Pieces of a Life
by Jewel E Ann
2022
Josie and Colten were inseparable as kids until heartbreak tore them apart. Seventeen years later, she is a forensic pathologist, he is a homicide detective, and their reunion comes with danger, old wounds, and visions neither can explain.
What Lovers Do
by Jewel E Ann
2022
Shep is charming, funny, and very much in trouble once he falls for Dr. Sophie Ryan. Their friendship is full of disasters, dog park dates, and crackling chemistry, but Sophie has reasons for keeping him firmly off-limits.
Because of Her
by Jewel E Ann
2023
An unemployed music professor sets out to punish the married man whose daughter is tied to her nephew's suicide. Instead she meets Jack, a dark, unsettling stranger who makes revenge look a lot less straightforward.
Before Us
by Jewel E Ann
2023
A woman sleeping in her car becomes caretaker, housemate, and then wife to a grieving man after his dying wife pulls her into their lives. What starts as practical survival deepens into a complicated, tender love story.
If This Is Love
by Jewel E Ann
2023
Milo lives in the barn, and she has spent years imagining freedom with him just out of reach. As loss, desire, and a controlling father close in, their hidden bond grows into something impossible to deny.
Right Guy, Wrong Word
by Jewel E Ann
2023
Anna thinks she has found the perfect summer book club pick and maybe the perfect neighbor to go with it. Eric is charming, confident, and almost ideal, until one badly chosen word threatens their instant chemistry.
From Air
by Jewel E Ann
2024
Jamie moves into a house full of Montana firefighters and fixates on Calvin, a grumpy smoke jumper with too many secrets. Their chemistry burns hot, but his silence and the dangers of the job keep pulling them apart.
I Thought of You
by Jewel E Ann
2024
A grim diagnosis sends a successful man searching for Scottie, the first love he has not seen in twelve years. Finding her in Austin changes everything, especially when she is already building a future with someone else.
Sunday Morning
by Jewel E Ann
2024
Sarah is a preacher's daughter who is supposed to want the future her town picked for her. Then Isaac, her boyfriend's older brother, comes home with a guitar, bad habits, and exactly the kind of trouble she cannot resist.
A Good Book
by Jewel E Ann
2025
Gabby starts college determined to make Matthew fall for her, but her best friend Ben has loved her for years. Two impulsive kisses and a devastating turn of events reshape all three of their lives.
From Nowhere
by Jewel E Ann
2025
Air tanker pilot Maren meets widowed mechanic Ozzy in Montana and sparks fly fast. But keeping their relationship hidden from his in-laws and daughter only gets harder when life deals them another cruel blow.
The Apple Tree
by Jewel E Ann
2025
Eve is freshly out of high school, restless, and drawn to Kyle, the single dad next door who hires her as a babysitter. Their playful secret closeness grows into something riskier just as heartbreak hits.
The Homemaker
by Jewel E Ann
2025
Alice Yates has built a careful new life as the homemaker for an affluent Minneapolis couple. It unravels when the family's daughter returns with Murphy, the man from Alice's tragic past, and unfinished love floods back in.
The Muse
by Jewel E Ann
2026
Flynn Morley takes a strange job as a paid muse for a wealthy Minneapolis couple and expects nothing good from it. Then he meets June, and the first person who feels like home also becomes the one who can break him open.
Where should I start?
If you want a mind-bending romance: Transcend → Epoch
If you want darker romantic suspense: End of Day → Middle of Knight → Dawn of Forever
If you want emotional, twisty drama: The Life That Mattered → The Life You Stole
If you want funny, character-driven romance: Look the Part → Perfectly Adequate → What Lovers Do
If you want an addictive duet with age-gap tension: The Naked Fisherman → The Lost Fisherman
Author bio
Jewel E Ann writes romance that likes to wander a little. Some of her books are funny, some are dark, and some take a sharp turn into suspense or the uncanny. What ties them together is the same thing that keeps readers coming back: big feelings, unusual setups, and characters who rarely get an easy road.
Before writing full time, she spent ten years working in dental hygiene. Her official bio jokes about years of flossing lectures, and that detail tells you a lot about her voice. It is practical, a little mischievous, and not especially interested in sounding precious. After taking early retirement from that career, she turned her attention to writing the kinds of love stories that could be tender, messy, and genuinely strange in the best way.
That career switch changed everything.
Over the years, she has built a catalogue that moves comfortably between contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and stories that blur the line between the two. Look the Part is a good example of her lighter side, pairing a hard-edged attorney with a music therapist who refuses to stay in her lane. What Lovers Do leans into banter and friendship. Then books like End of Day and The Life That Mattered show how quickly she can raise the stakes and turn a romance into something darker and more twisty.
She also has a clear taste for premises that sound a little impossible until she makes them feel human. Transcend starts with a widowed professor, a nanny, and memories that should not exist. The Naked Fisherman takes an age-gap setup and gives it real ache. Before Us begins in a place of grief and practical need, then opens into a complicated love story about care, loyalty, and timing.
Her stories often circle the same kinds of pressure points. Grief. Desire. Reinvention. Secrets that refuse to stay buried. She likes characters who are carrying old hurt, trying to start over, or making a terrible choice for a reason that almost makes sense. Even when a book opens with a playful hook, there is usually something bruised underneath it.
She seems happiest when a romance gets a little weird.
Readers who connect with Jewel E Ann usually talk about the whiplash in the best possible way. A scene can be funny, then suddenly painful. A setup that looks like pure rom-com can turn serious fast. That mix is part of the appeal. Her books are not interested in staying neat, and neither are her characters.
Today, public bios place her in Iowa with her husband, three boys, and a Goldendoodle. She has written more than thirty novels and has landed on bestseller lists, but her author persona still feels down to earth. The scale of the catalogue is impressive. So is the range.
If you are new to her, the best approach is not to expect one single kind of book. Jewel E Ann writes love stories, yes, but she also writes about damage, recovery, obsession, loyalty, and the odd turns a life can take before two people finally reach each other.
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