Lauren Runow Books in Order

Charlie and Allison face new challenges after finding love, forcing difficult decisions about the lives they have built. This conclusion to their story tests whether damaged relationships can be repaired and their shared future reshaped.

Allison connects with Charlie Ashley through music, unaware that he earns his living as a high-end escort. Falling for her challenges his carefully isolated lifestyle and forces him to consider what love might require.

Widowed attorney Kamii enters an exclusive masked club and begins an affair with its mysterious owner, Preston. As their connection deepens, concealed identities and troubling pasts threaten the safety that anonymity seemed to offer.

After escaping a painful past, a woman agrees to help manage a friend's exclusive club. Attraction to two masked men complicates her new life, especially when one knows her identity while concealing his own.

Lily and Trevin's bond begins in childhood and stretches across two decades. As his musical ambitions bring fame, her support costs her a sense of self, leaving him to confront the imbalance between them.

An Air Force captain has achieved professional respect while feeling deeply unhappy in her private life. A night out introduces Alex and offers new possibilities, until discovering he is her subordinate complicates their attraction.

Media heir Austin Sexton hides the pain of his military past behind a carefree reputation and destructive habits. A woman determined to avoid love finds herself drawn toward his secrets, complicating both their emotional defenses.

A rooftop encounter and a daring kiss draw a single mother toward workaholic media mogul Bryce Sexton. His persistence unsettles her guarded life, while past betrayals and responsibility for her young son complicate their attraction.

After eight years apart, Mackenzie decides to confess her feelings for her best friend's older brother. Connor has sworn off relationships, but their reunion challenges his defenses as she faces an uncertain change in her life.

Everly resents an old law making her a potential bride for Prince Sage. A mysterious riddle leads to an unexpected night together, but she wants a meaningful life rather than a carefully managed royal marriage.

A kindergarten teacher whose musical dreams ended in an accident meets rock star Adam Jacobson through his daughter. Helping him shield the child from publicity revives painful memories and threatens the teacher's carefully rebuilt life.

Trying to escape memories of a failed relationship, a woman meets artist Tanner Sexton in New York. An impulsive kiss becomes a nighttime adventure, but their age difference and other obstacles complicate the resulting connection.

Locked outside her room during a blackout, a woman receives help from flirtatious neighbor Jason. As surrounding chaos grows, she relies on his protection, but their sudden connection leaves her facing unexpected uncertainty afterward.

An assistant recruits colleague Hunter Johnstone to help attract her boss, Branson Ford. Their fake relationship is meant to inspire jealousy, but spending time together blurs the boundaries between friendship, performance, and genuine romantic interest.

A bored woman's dating-app exchange with Drew develops into an anticipated meeting after intriguing texts and calls. Discovering on television that he is baseball's newest star changes her understanding of the man she is falling for.

A canceled flight strands a woman in San Francisco, where she unexpectedly encounters the high-school sweetheart she abandoned ten years earlier. Zack challenges her to revisit their hometown and confront the life she left behind.

A romance novelist struggling with writer's block confronts noisy neighbor Jake Morreau. His charm and their outings revive her creativity, but turning him into her fictional hero makes their real relationship increasingly difficult to separate from fantasy.

A chemistry teacher seeks police help after receiving a threatening extortion email. Officer Dax Harder's teasing infuriates her, but repeated encounters kindle attraction, while his guarded past threatens to prevent their connection from deepening.

A woman in Las Vegas dates men alphabetically, hoping to escape her habit of choosing bad boys. Bartender Nicolás Santiago helps with the experiment, but their growing friendship makes her orderly romantic plan harder to follow.

A misdirected text about unpaid rent connects a chocolatier with attorney Sebastian Blake. Their relationship grows beyond legal help, but his ex-girlfriend's pregnancy announcement and a troubling secret threaten the future they have begun imagining.

Transferring to Berkeley places a studious woman in an apartment with her brother and his best friend, Wesley Knight. His attempts to control her dating provoke retaliation, turning their old antagonism into an increasingly complicated attraction.

Fleeing scandal in Manhattan, a woman finds work in a South Carolina beach town. Her new boss, guarded single father Grant Dawson, distrusts her privileged background, while an unresolved decision threatens their developing connection.

Leilani persuades her police-officer husband Clayton to explore their neighbors' secretive lifestyle in hopes of restoring their passion. Crossing boundaries creates danger, threatening his reputation and forcing him to protect the marriage they risked.

Returning home after twenty years, a football coach’s daughter encounters the man she once passed over, now occupying her father’s former role. Memories of competing romances make her question the choices that shaped her life and the future she might have had.

Liza falls for Eli after moving to Mason Creek, then discovers he is a high-school senior and one of her students. Their secret relationship risks her career and reputation while his ambitions for professional baseball offer an uncertain future.

Natalie and Dalton inherit their families’ rivalry in Leighton River, building years of mutual hostility. A senior-year project forces them together and reveals unexpected kindness, leaving their growing attraction at odds with family loyalty and the fear of heartbreak.

Maya’s new boyfriend unsettles her lifelong best friend Ben, who insists she deserves better. His protective interference threatens their friendship, exposing feelings both have long denied as she tries to distinguish concern from a desire to keep her close.