Lisa Ladew Books in Order
Explore Lisa Ladew books in order, with quick summaries, child series guides, reading paths, and easy advice on where to start.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Publication Order
42 books
Edge of the Heat
by Lisa Ladew
2014
After a near-death fall, firefighter and paramedic Emma Hill is haunted by a vision of a man she cannot explain. Then Craig Masterson arrives, just as her violent ex-husband and a web of corruption close in.
Edge of the Heat 2
by Lisa Ladew
2014
Emma and Craig fought hard to be together, but that victory does not last long. With her ex still hunting her and Craig suddenly out of reach, Emma has to decide how far she will go to get him back.
Edge of the Heat 3
by Lisa Ladew
2014
Emma and Craig finally have solid ground, but the danger around them is not finished. As Vivian and Hawk circle their own feelings, an escaped threat puts the whole group back on edge.
Edge of the Heat 4
by Lisa Ladew
2014
Weddings should mean peace for Emma, Craig, Vivian, and Hawk. Instead, a long-awaited celebration ends with shock and heartbreak, proving this family is still a long way from safe.
Edge of the Heat 5
by Lisa Ladew
2014
Injured firefighter Jerry Mansko falls hard for physical therapist Sara Acosta, then finds her missing and her apartment marked in blood. What starts as a date gone wrong turns into a rescue he may not survive.
Edge of the Heat 6
by Lisa Ladew
2014
Emma and Vivian finally find the brother they were separated from at birth, only to learn he has been taken hostage in the Middle East. Sara launches a rescue while JT and Dani fight to stay alive long enough to matter.
Unauthorized Affair
by Lisa Ladew
2014
After betrayal wrecks her life, Jen Mansko runs to her brother's house and does the last thing anyone expects, she becomes a cop. Undercover danger and two very different men force her to choose what kind of life she wants.
Unauthorized Deception
by Lisa Ladew
2014
A note from Ryker sends Ivy into a spiral of questions, lies, and fear. To find the truth she has to follow a nasty trail of blackmail and family secrets, then decide whether love can survive what she learns.
Charlene's Soldier
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Charlene has built her life around safety and comfort, until both start slipping away. A soldier enters her world and makes her wonder whether love, and a braver life, might still be possible.
Edge of the Heat 7
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Vivian is pregnant and Hawk is more protective than ever, which becomes a problem when someone starts coming for their family. As attacks stack up, Emma, Craig, Hawk, and JT race to stop the mayhem before it turns fatal.
Hide My Light
by Lisa Ladew
2015
After surviving the worst together, Katerina and West want a normal future. Instead they are pushed on the run, her powers keep growing, and the strain may break them before anyone else does.
Hide My Memories
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Katerina Holloway's fresh start as a paramedic is shattered by terrifying visions that seem to come from a serial killer. A handsome cop named West wants to help, but getting close to him may be its own risk.
Hide My Soul
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Katerina thinks losing her powers might finally buy her peace, until West gains what she lost. Then she is taken by unknown enemies, and saving her will demand more from both of them than ever before.
Hide My Thoughts
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Katerina and West are trying to hold onto their new relationship while her strange new anger threatens to tear it apart. When someone disappears, Katerina may be the only person who can find the way through.
The Billionaire's Secret Kink
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Knox Rosesson is hunting family secrets and the half-siblings he believes are out there when he is hired to protect Mica Nichols. Their reunion stirs old desire, but Mica's hidden identity and dangerous past could destroy them both.
The Billionaire's Secret Kink 2
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Mica lets Knox close enough to guard her, but not close enough to trust. As Knox uncovers her darkest secret and the man hunting her grows bolder, attraction and fear start pulling in the same direction.
The Billionaire's Secret Kink 3
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Knox and Mica are still fighting for each other while Dick Bailey tightens the screws. A brutal new threat and a devastating secret force them to choose between the truth and what is left of their fragile future.
The Billionaire's Secret Kink 4
by Lisa Ladew
2015
The final part of Knox and Mica's story piles danger on top of old wounds. When Dick Bailey returns with one last violent move, they have to face every secret at once or lose everything they built.
The Billionaire's Secret Kink Prequel
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Years before the main series, Knox meets a frightened young woman on a train and feels an instant connection. That brief encounter, and the danger chasing her, sets the emotional fuse for everything that follows.
Unauthorized Obsession
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Officer Kara Price is back on patrol and trying to believe her stalker is gone for good. Then a bold new man enters her life just as the threat returns, and even the investigation starts pointing in his direction.
Unauthorized Return
by Lisa Ladew
2015
Coleton returns bruised, bitter, and in need of police protection after his car is blown apart. Aria Gale is assigned to guard him, but once they go on the run, old history and new feelings complicate everything.
Dragon's Heat
by Lisa Ladew
2016
Graeme Kynock comes to Serenity with a death wish and a dangerous secret. Heather Herrin is reeling from devastating medical news when the scorching, impossible man in a hospital bed changes the whole shape of her future.
Edge of the Heat 8
by Lisa Ladew
2016
New babies should mean joy, but Hawk's sudden disappearance leaves Vivian reeling. While Emma and Craig juggle family life, the people they love are pushed into another round of emotional and dangerous fallout.
Shifter's Echo
by Lisa Ladew
2016
Crew is haunted by visions that tell him his true mate is doomed before their story can even begin. Dahlia has never fit the life she is living, and one strange dream starts pulling her toward him anyway.
Shifter's Sacrifice
by Lisa Ladew
2016
Wolf shifter cop Trevor Burbank is racing to save a dying pack and find the prophesied mates who can change everything. Gabriela Carmi feels like she is losing her mind, until an evil presence and Trevor crash into her life.
The Biker's Secret Torment
by Lisa Ladew
2016
Talon is a scarred veteran and biker who has loved Crystal for years while forcing himself to stay away. When someone starts hunting her, protecting her means facing his past and the feelings he never buried.
Bear's Redemption
by Lisa Ladew
2017
Bruin has never quite belonged with his own kind, and he expects more lonely years ahead. Then he meets Willow, a woman waiting for an angel, and both of them have to rethink what destiny is supposed to look like.
Shifter's Innocent
by Lisa Ladew
2017
Beckett Oswego lives for work, distraction, and outrunning an old killing that still defines him. Cerise has spent years trapped in a brutal lie, and when escape throws them together, both become targets.
Shifter's Rogue
by Lisa Ladew
2017
Mac knows Rogue is his the moment she turns his world upside down, but she trusts no one and refuses to be claimed. Their chemistry is instant, their timing is terrible, and danger keeps forcing them back together.
The Billionaire's Secret Life
by Lisa Ladew
2017
After a life-threatening incident, Daxton's sense of self is shaken just when love finally finds a way in. To have any future at all, he has to untangle truth, memory, and the damage still circling his life.
The Firefighter's Secret Obsession
by Lisa Ladew
2017
New firefighter Bronx Rosesson is hooked the moment he meets Eme Avalon. But as he gets closer to her, he realizes the secret she is hiding is dangerous enough to get them both killed.
Wolf's Keeping
by Lisa Ladew
2017
Jameson Leggett is a lonely wolf shifter tied to a mission bigger than himself. When he is paired with a switch whose magic is built for hunting vampires, duty and desire become impossible to separate.
Bear's Undoing
by Lisa Ladew
2018
Flint Gibson is ready to die for the Cause if it means taking vampires with him. Then Goldie crashes into his life with a dangerous secret, and love starts looking like the risk he never planned for.
Night of the Beast
by Lisa Ladew
2018
Jaggar is part wolf, part mountain lion, and all danger when the beast inside him takes over. Leilani, a blind time traveler whose gifts have cost her dearly, may be the only miracle strong enough to reach him.
Raptor's Peak
by Lisa Ladew
2018
Another shifter and switch are pulled into the Cause's war on vampires, where attraction only makes survival more complicated. Mountain danger, divided loyalties, and hard choices drive this tense paranormal romance.
Shadow's Cat
by Lisa Ladew
2018
Riot has walked away from the Cause and wants nothing to do with its rules. Then he finds Gemma, the girl he never forgot, now a switch in deep trouble, and gets dragged back into a war he thought he had left.
Shifter's Dream
by Lisa Ladew
2018
After thirty years trapped in wolf form, Troy is finally human and determined to enjoy every reckless second of it. Reed has rules for staying safe, but the wild-eyed cop in her bar makes breaking them look tempting.
Shifter's Paradox
by Lisa Ladew
2018
Old grief, prophecy, and time-bending mystery take center stage in Harlan's story. As the past starts bleeding into the present, he is forced to face a love he never truly put to rest.
Growler's Gift
by Lisa Ladew
2019
Growler and Anna are drawn together in a world where switches are forbidden to favor only one shifter. Their bond feels inevitable, but choosing love could cost them both everything, including their place in the fight.
Shifter's Homecoming
by Lisa Ladew
2020
Trent Burbank has spent his life as a wolf who cannot become a man, until a brutal turn sends him into a new mission. Keeping his word may cost him his mate, and he is not built to surrender easily.
Let's Talk One True Mate
by Lisa Ladew
2024
This companion volume revisits the One True Mate world with character notes, maps, series details, and a broad recap of what happened so far. It also includes bonus fiction and a peek at what comes next.
Shifter's Secret
by Lisa Ladew
2026
Foxen are disappearing around Serenity, and brothers Canyon and Timber Wheeling dig into a case that points toward war. Their search uncovers abandoned communities, unnatural shifters, and a secret that could change everything.
Where should I start?
If you want paranormal fated-mate romance: Shifter's Sacrifice → Dragon's Heat → Shifter's Echo
If you want firefighters, cops, and romantic suspense: Edge of the Heat → Edge of the Heat 2 → Edge of the Heat 3
If you want police romance with connected standalone couples: Unauthorized Affair → Unauthorized Deception → Unauthorized Obsession
If you want wealthy family secrets and bodyguard tension: The Billionaire's Secret Kink Prequel → The Billionaire's Secret Kink → The Billionaire's Secret Kink 2
If you want darker suspense with a paranormal edge: Hide My Memories → Hide My Thoughts → Hide My Light
Author bio
Lisa Ladew was born in 1972 in Chicago, and she spent her early years moving around Illinois. She has written pretty openly about having a rough childhood, and that sense of instability helps explain why so many of her books care about safety, home, loyalty, and people trying to build a life after fear.
Before she was a novelist, she was an Army combat medic.
Ladew enlisted at 19 and served for almost eight years. After that she went to college twice, once for liberal arts and once for computer science, but did not finish either program. Even so, those experiences left fingerprints all over her fiction. Her books are full of medics, firefighters, cops, soldiers, and people who keep moving even when life gets ugly.
She started writing at 40, the same year she had her second son.
Reading came first. She has said she was a huge reader for most of her life, mostly horror and fantasy rather than romance. After becoming a mother, horror stopped landing the same way, and romance gradually took over. That shift matters, because her stories still carry some of the pressure and danger of suspense and fantasy, even when the central promise is a love story.
Her first big series was Edge of the Heat, which began in 2014. Those books mix firefighters, paramedics, dirty cops, family secrets, and a lot of romantic suspense. She followed that with connected stories like Unauthorized Affair and the Rosesson books, where readers tend to come for the fast pacing, protective heroes, and the feeling that one bad decision could blow everything up.
Then she moved deeper into paranormal romance with One True Mate. Books like Shifter's Sacrifice, Dragon's Heat, and Shifter's Homecoming show what she does best in that space: fated mates, shifter politics, prophecy, danger, and characters who are a little battered but still stubborn enough to keep going. There is a lot happening in those books, wolves, dragons, bear shifters, time travel, but the emotional core stays personal.
Across her work, a few patterns show up again and again. She likes damaged people with useful skills. She likes found family. She likes women who are scared, angry, cornered, or grieving, but never finished. And she clearly likes throwing love stories into situations where nobody gets to coast.
She has also said she has no formal writing training, and there is something refreshingly direct about the way she talks about learning by doing. That energy carries into the books. They move.
Ladew lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family, and she has said she hopes to stay there. She is married, has two sons, and keeps building worlds where danger is real, loyalty matters, and love usually arrives at the worst possible time.
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