Lost & Found Books in Order

The Lost & Found series drops you into Cedar Ridge, a small mountain town in Eastern Oregon where the Hartley family runs a search and rescue outfit that doubles as the town’s unofficial safety net. These are the people who answer the call when hikers vanish, storms roll in, or a neighbor simply does not come home.

Each novel focuses on a different Hartley sibling or someone woven tightly into their orbit. In Whispers of You, a devastating shooting shatters a childhood love story and leaves the heroine remaking her life in the shadow of that night until the boy who broke her heart returns as a hardened security expert. Echoes of You follows two lifelong best friends whose lives have spun in very different directions and who are forced to confront what really happened when one of them fled town.

Glimmers of You leans into fake dating and brother’s best friend tension when a woman enlists her old crush to pose as her boyfriend to shake an ex and a powerful father, only to find real feelings pushing through the pretense. Shadows of You brings a single mom and her young daughter to Cedar Ridge, where a gruff neighbor slowly becomes their fiercest protector as threats from her past creep closer. Ashes of You rounds out the main arc with a single dad and the nanny whose life was once saved by a stranger on a terrible night, tying the Hartley family’s search and rescue work to her second chance at safety.

What links the books is more than shared characters. Every story balances the adrenaline of rescues, stalkers, and cold cases with the quieter work of healing from trauma. The Hartleys and their partners carry scars from bullets, abusive households, online harassment, and public scandals, yet the focus is always on how they build something new around those fractures rather than being defined by them. Found family is everywhere, whether in crew meetings at the rescue barn, late night porch talks, or chaotic holiday gatherings where newcomers are quickly pulled into the fold.

You can read the series straight through for the unfolding family saga, or dip in wherever a trope calls to you, since each romance stands on its own. Either way, Lost & Found is a good example of what Cowles does best: protective heroes, heroines who have survived something dark, and a town that feels like it would absolutely show up with casseroles and flashlights if your car went off the road in a snowstorm.