Kate Clayborn Books in Order

If you want the full lottery friends journey: Beginner's Luck → Luck of the Draw → Best of Luck → Missing Christmas
If you like city set, creative romcoms: Love Lettering → Love at First
If you prefer introspective, character driven stories: Georgie, All Along → The Other Side of Disappearing
If you want to read toward the newest release: The Other Side of Disappearing → The Paris Match

Kate Clayborn likes to say her first stories were written on the kind of wide ruled paper teachers hand out for handwriting practice. As a kid in the Midwest, she filled those lines with secret agents, fairy tale royalty, and every combination in between, earning gold stars for her penmanship and quiet encouragement for her imagination.

Those early pages went into a box, but the habit of carrying a book never left. She grew up reading anything she could find, from school novels to genre paperbacks, and she learned early how it felt to disappear into a story at the end of a long day.

As an adult, Clayborn built a career in education, finishing graduate study, commuting to campus, and fitting her own writing dreams around a full time job. Through all of it, she kept reading, reaching for stories that were smart, generous, and full of emotion.

Her path back to writing fiction ran through the romance aisle. In her twenties, a chance pick from the library shelves landed her in the middle of a contemporary love story that felt joyful, grounded, and deeply human. That reading experience arrived at a time when she needed comfort and community, and it reminded her how powerful it could be to watch two people earn a happy ending on the page.

Not long after, she opened a laptop and started drafting what would become the Chance of a Lifetime trilogy, beginning with Beginner's Luck. Those books follow three friends whose shared lottery win forces them to renegotiate work, family expectations, and the shape of the futures they thought they wanted. Even in the middle of big plot swings, Clayborn focuses on small, specific moments, like a scientist choosing a first real home or a guarded attorney deciding whether she deserves forgiveness.

Her later novels explore that same blend of intimacy and scope in new settings. Love Lettering and Love at First linger in city neighborhoods, where balconies, subway rides, and block wide communities become part of the love story. Georgie, All Along follows a burned out personal assistant home to a river town and a gruff former troublemaker, while The Other Side of Disappearing pairs a protective older sister with a podcast producer on a tense cross country road trip. In each book, Clayborn returns to questions about belonging, second chances, and how people remake themselves after loss.

Clayborn now makes her home in Virginia with her husband and their dog. By day she works in education, and much of her writing happens in the quiet edges of her schedule, early in the morning or late at night, often with a cup of black coffee nearby. When she is stuck on a scene, she is just as likely to lace up her shoes and take a walk as she is to stare at the cursor on the screen.

At heart, she still thinks of herself as a reader first. She studies the craft of romance, reads widely across subgenres, and talks often about the sense of togetherness the genre can offer. Her hope is that somewhere in her catalog, a reader will find the book they needed on a hard day, close the cover with a happy sigh, and feel a little more at home in the world.