Kate Cann Books in Order
Explore Kate Cann’s books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, reading paths, and helpful suggestions for where to start.
Last updated: July 15, 2026
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Kate Cann books in publication order
24 books
Caught in the Act
by Kate Cann
1997
A short, sharply focused teen story about being caught between public appearances, private feelings, and difficult choices. It explores the embarrassment and uncertainty that can follow when relationships stop feeling simple.
In the Deep End / Ready?
by Kate Cann
1997
Coll and Art are back together, and Art promises he will not pressure her again. As sex and trust still hang over the relationship, Coll must decide whether his changes are real and what she wants.
Too Hot to Handle
by Kate Cann
1997
A compact young adult story about romance, pressure, and the difficult gap between what other people expect and what you want for yourself. Cann brings a direct, unsentimental eye to teenage emotions.
Sink or Swim / Sex
by Kate Cann
1998
Everyone tells Coll she should be over Art, but heartbreak does not follow a timetable. When he comes back asking to be friends, she must sort through anger, desire, and the question of whether she can move on.
Footloose / Grecian Holiday
by Kate Cann
1999
Kelly heads to Greece looking for a break from Mike and the life she has been expected to want. In a relaxed island setting, new people and new choices make her question what freedom really means.
Diving In / Go!
by Kate Cann
2000
Coll spends her days dreaming about Art, the gorgeous swimmer at her local pool. When he asks her out, she learns that first love can be exciting, confusing, and difficult when one person wants to move faster.
Moving In / Shacked Up
by Kate Cann
2000
Rich finally has a place of his own, until Bonny unexpectedly moves in. Sharing a flat forces him to face her problems, his complicated feelings, and the gap between wanting independence and actually living it.
Moving Out / Hard Cash
by Kate Cann
2000
Rich is sick of being broke and convinced money would fix everything. When his art suddenly brings success, he gets the clothes, freedom, and attention he wanted, along with choices he may not be ready for.
Breaking Up
by Kate Cann
2001
Fliss watches her parents’ marriage collapse while trying to keep life normal for her younger sisters. Leaning too heavily on boyfriend Simon seems like escape, until he cannot carry the weight of her family’s pain.
Fiesta / Spanish Holiday
by Kate Cann
2001
Laura expects a carefree Spanish holiday with friends, but a cramped road trip and one controlling boyfriend ruin the plan. A chance to stay in a village villa brings new freedom, conflict, and romance.
Shop Dead
by Kate Cann
2001
Melanie lives for clothes, makeup, and the flawless look she chases every Saturday. As her obsession with beauty and her imagined friends deepens, this dark short story turns her shopping habit into something chilling.
Moving On Speeding
by Kate Cann
2002
Rich and Bonny are trying to make a relationship work when Bonny’s friend becomes caught up with a controlling group. They set out to help, but the journey tests their trust, loyalty, and ability to act together.
Escape / California Holiday
by Kate Cann
2003
Rowan leaves England for a nanny job in the United States, hoping for a fresh start. When her employers become unbearable, she escapes with an iguana and heads toward California, unsure where freedom will lead.
Text Game
by Kate Cann
2004
Mel cannot believe that funny, gorgeous Ben is her boyfriend, until cruel anonymous texts start arriving. As jealousy and fear take hold, she must decide whom to trust and whether to tell someone what is happening.
Crow Girl
by Kate Cann
2005
Bullied and lonely, Lily finds refuge in the woods among a watchful group of crows. Their strange companionship helps her create a bolder Crow Girl identity and face the people who have made school miserable.
Crow Girl Returns
by Kate Cann
2006
Lily is no longer invisible after becoming the Crow Girl, but her old tormentors have not given up. With Marsha and Kyle beside her, she tries to stay brave without losing herself to anger.
Leaving Poppy
by Kate Cann
2006
Amber secretly leaves home to escape the demands of caring for her troubled half-sister, Poppy. When illness brings her family into her new shared house, an unsettling presence in the attic begins to wake.
Sea Change / Mediterranean Holiday
by Kate Cann
2007
Chloe is thrilled to spend six weeks on a Mediterranean island with glamorous Davinia and her wealthy family. But as the friendship turns sour, Chloe must stop living through Davinia and build a life of her own.
Leader of The Pack
by Kate Cann
2008
Rugby captain Jack has been taught to be hard, especially after a new coach transforms his team. Gem cares for him, but she refuses to be second best as loyalty, pressure, and control begin closing in.
Possessed / Possessing Rayne
by Kate Cann
2008
Sixteen-year-old Rayne flees her pressured London life for a job at isolated Morton’s Keep. The old estate offers freedom at first, then draws her into its terrifying history, strange visions, and dangerous local secrets.
Art's Story
by Kate Cann
2009
This companion story returns to Art and Coll after the events of their turbulent relationship. It asks the lingering question at the center of the series: can they finally make things work, or should they split for good?
Consumed / Fire and Rayne / Fire
by Kate Cann
2009
Rayne hopes the nightmare at Morton’s Keep is over, but eerie signs and violent crimes say otherwise. To protect Marcle Lees, she must confront an old evil that is reaching far beyond the estate.
Crow Girl Rises
by Kate Cann
2012
Lily is stronger now, and she and her friend Marsha are ready to face the girls who once bullied her. When those bullies target younger students, Lily decides confidence means standing up for others too.
Witch Crag
by Kate Cann
2012
In a harsh future ruled by powerful men, Kita refuses the life chosen for her. With friends Quainy and Raff, she escapes toward the feared Witch Crag, where old stories, new powers, and war await.
Where to start with Kate Cann
For honest first-love drama: Diving In → In the Deep End → Sink or Swim
For a spooky, atmospheric duology: Possessed → Consumed
For holiday settings and fresh starts: Footloose → Fiesta → Escape → Sea Change
For a tense family ghost story: Leaving Poppy
For a standalone dystopian adventure: Witch Crag
Kate Cann sub-series and character series
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Author bio
Kate Cann is an English writer of fiction for young adults whose books often begin with a teenage character wanting more room to breathe. Her stories take first love, friendship, family pressure, and the wish to get away seriously, without making them feel bigger than life.
She wrote stories and kept diaries when she was young, but she did not set out with a fixed plan to become an author. English was the subject that stuck. She studied English at the University of Kent, then completed a master’s degree in American literature.
After university, Cann worked as a copy editor at Time-Life Books in London. It was useful training. She learned how books are put together, sentence by sentence, and she read closely for a living.
Then she started editing fiction for teenagers and thought she could have a go herself.
After the birth of her two children, Cann worked from home as a freelance copy editor. While editing teen novels, she felt that books about sex and relationships too often treated them as either terrible disasters or dreamy nonsense. She wanted to write about the awkward middle ground, where people want closeness but are still learning how to speak up for themselves.
Her first novel, Diving In, introduced Coll, a swimmer who falls for the compelling but pushy Art. The books that followed, including In the Deep End and Sink or Swim, keep their focus on attraction, consent, arguments, and the hard work of becoming your own person inside a relationship.
Cann also writes with a strong sense of place. The Beach books send young women to Greece, Spain, California, and a Mediterranean island, where a holiday can become a chance to make a different choice. In Possessed and Consumed, Rayne leaves a crowded London life for the countryside, only to find an old estate with a deeply unsettling past. Leaving Poppy takes family strain and turns it into a quiet, creeping supernatural thriller.
She does not avoid the messy parts.
Other books shift the setting but keep that interest in independence. Hard Cash follows a young artist whose sudden money changes his choices. Leader of the Pack looks at a rugby captain pulled by team loyalty and a demanding new coach. In the dystopian fantasy Witch Crag, Kita and her friends run from a harsh, unequal society toward a place everyone has been taught to fear.
Cann has said that memories, old diaries, and the conversations of the teenagers around her all fed into her work. That rings true in her fiction. Her characters can be impulsive, jealous, funny, and wrong, but they are usually trying to work out what they actually want.
She has lived in the Wiltshire countryside with her husband. Away from the desk, her interests have included reading, running, walking, gardening, and trips back to London. It is a good fit for an author whose books move easily between busy city lives, close friendships, and the relief of getting out into the open air.
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