Kristin Mayer Books in Order
Browse Kelly Elliott and Kristin Mayer books in order, with quick summaries, collaboration background, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: July 13, 2026
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Kristin Mayer books in publication order
22 books
Trust Me
by Kristin Mayer
2013
Grieving Allison Scott heads to Miami hoping to breathe again, then meets the intense Damien Wales. Their attraction is immediate, but his dark past turns a getaway romance into something far more dangerous.
Love Me
by Kristin Mayer
2014
Allison and Damien are engaged and ready for peace, but his past still has other plans. Jealousy, betrayal, and a murderer at the edges of their life push their relationship to its limit.
Promise Me
by Kristin Mayer
2014
Sam Matthews hides loneliness and old pain behind rules that no longer protect her. When someone gets past her defenses, she has to decide whether she is finally ready to stop running.
Ripple Effect
by Kristin Mayer
2014
Adam Ryker runs Club Envy by strict rules, no real attachment, no messy feelings. Then Ainsley walks in looking for escape, and their no-strings arrangement starts turning into something neither of them can control.
Bane
by Kristin Mayer
2015
Bane is a dangerous man used to solving problems with force, not tenderness. When Maren enters his life, protection turns personal, and his violent past becomes a real threat to the future he wants.
Dissipate
by Kristin Mayer
2015
After her mother's death, Kenzie learns her name and past are built on lies inside the Society. To survive, she must disappear and build a life in a world she barely knows.
Domino Effect
by Kristin Mayer
2015
Brandt lost the life and love he wanted after one terrible choice. When Nikola reappears, they get a shot at a second chance, but regret and the damage already done still stand between them.
Innocence
by Kristin Mayer
2015
London cannot remember the night that ruined her life, but she knows the courtroom version is wrong. A move to Montana offers a fresh start, until the past begins creeping back toward everything she has rebuilt.
Predestined Hearts
by Kristin Mayer
2015
Two love stories, one in the present and one generations earlier, unfold side by side. Fate, family history, and a discovered diary tie the couples together.
Whispered Promises
by Kristin Mayer
2015
Kenzie escapes the Society after discovering the truth about who she is and where she came from. Freedom brings new friends, new love, and the constant fear that her past will find her first.
Black Truth
by Kristin Mayer
2016
Picking up where the first book leaves off, Willow starts getting answers, and none of them make life safer. The deeper truth only widens the danger around her and forces every hidden motive into the open.
White Lies
by Kristin Mayer
2016
Willow is reeling after her husband's murder when she learns almost everything around her has been false. Messages, secrets, and a mysterious protector pull her into a romance wrapped in real danger.
Flawless Perfection
by Kristin Mayer
2017
Knoah and Garrick's love is tested when shocking revelations and renewed threats shatter their fragile calm. This second half of their story leans hard into protection, sacrifice, and long-buried truth.
Untouched Perfection
by Kristin Mayer
2017
After devastating loss, Knoah is barely moving through life when she meets Garrick Shaw. Their connection offers hope, but someone lurking in the background threatens her chance at starting over.
Intoxicated By You
by Kristin Mayer
2018
Lex thought time and distance would finally dull what she felt for Drake Foster. Instead, their reunion exposes the truth behind their breakup and forces them to fight for the love they never really lost.
Tempting Perfection
by Kristin Mayer
2018
Sawyer and Kurt share explosive chemistry and more history than either wants to admit. As friendship turns into something riskier, guarded hearts and buried secrets make every step forward harder.
Wrecked For You
by Kristin Mayer
2018
Kory's future has been mapped out for her, including a marriage she does not want. Hayden Foster offers a way out, but choosing him means standing up to the life and people who refuse to let her go.
Changed By You
by Kristin Mayer
2019
Kane Foster keeps everyone at a distance, especially Teale Delaney. But as danger closes in, the lie that pushing her away will keep her safe gets harder and harder to hold together.
Complicated Love
by Kristin Mayer
2019
Wynter has kept her no-strings arrangement with her boss, Kaysen, safely contained for years. When he asks for more, old wounds and the life she has kept hidden make that simple request feel impossible.
Dangerous Temptations
by Kristin Mayer
2019
A woman returns after her grandfather's death and gets pulled into a trail of clues, old secrets, and a missing-girl mystery. The romance lands inside a story with real suspense.
Play Me
by Kristin Mayer
2019
Business-minded Kendall and coach Hunter think they can keep things uncomplicated. Instead, their attraction turns into the most important game either of them has ever played.
Unexpected Love
by Kristin Mayer
2019
Newly divorced Addilyn creates a dating profile for work and starts talking to a mystery man online. Then real life catches up, and Lucian Black brings chemistry, family complications, and fresh reasons to be careful.
Where to start with Kristin Mayer
If you want protective, high-drama romance: Trust Me → Love Me → Promise Me
If you want steamy romantic suspense: White Lies → Black Truth
If you want interconnected Alaska romances: Intoxicated By You → Wrecked For You → Changed By You
If you want emotional second chances with a softer edge: Unexpected Love → Complicated Love
If you want a collaboration with dual timelines: Predestined Hearts
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Author bio
Kristin Mayer is an American romance author who came to fiction after building a busy life outside publishing. In her early author bios, she described herself as a wife, a proud mother, and a full-time analyst and import manager, someone balancing spreadsheets and deadlines right alongside story ideas.
She has said that reading and writing were there from an early age.
The real push back toward fiction came during a visit with her father, when he suggested she should start writing again. At first, she let the idea sit. Family and work were already taking up plenty of space. Then a story showed up and would not leave her alone. By the beginning of 2013, she finally sat down, kept the project to herself, and started putting words on the page. One sentence became two, then scenes, then a novel.
That first novel was Trust Me, published in 2013. It introduced the mix that still runs through a lot of Mayer's work, intense attraction, emotional fallout, and real external danger. The follow-up books Love Me and Promise Me expanded that world, giving readers protective heroes, wounded characters, and enough suspense to keep the romance from ever feeling too comfortable.
She likes love stories that keep moving.
As her bibliography grew, so did her range. The Effect books, Ripple Effect and Domino Effect, lean into steamy contemporary romance and the fallout of bad choices. The Exposed Hearts novels, including Intoxicated By You and Wrecked For You, build an interconnected family-centered world where second chances, buried secrets, and looming threats all matter. In White Lies and Black Truth, she pushes even further into romantic suspense, letting mystery and danger carry as much weight as the love story.
She also has a softer, more reflective side on the page. Untouched Perfection and Flawless Perfection are built around grief, healing, and the scary idea of opening your heart again when life has already hit hard. Unexpected Love and Complicated Love focus on adults carrying real baggage into new relationships, including divorce, hidden history, and the fear of wanting more than you think you can handle. Along the way, Mayer has also collaborated with Kelly Elliott on Predestined Hearts and Play Me, two books that show how easily she can shift between solo writing and shared storytelling.
Across her books, certain patterns show up again and again. She writes women trying to rebuild after loss, betrayal, or long-held secrets. She writes men who look controlled on the outside but turn deeply protective once they let someone in. And she clearly enjoys giving a romance novel a little extra tension, whether that means a stalker, a mystery, a hidden past, or a life-changing revelation landing at exactly the wrong moment.
Outside the novels, Mayer has said she loves travel, meeting new people, and checking things off her bucket list. She also holds a degree in international business, something she has noted she used in her professional life while growing her writing career. That mix of practical work, family life, and late-return creative drive gives her story a very approachable shape. She did not come to publishing as a childhood prodigy. She came to it when the timing finally felt impossible to ignore.
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