Lust & Lies Books in Order

Lust & Lies is Kate Stewart’s darkest, most explicitly erotic corner of her catalog, a series that blends romantic suspense, BDSM club life, and the kind of moral gray areas that do not come with easy answers. The books are interconnected, sharing characters and locations, but each one follows a different couple as they push against their own limits.

The series opens with Sexual Awakenings, where Violet, fresh from years with a cheating husband, decides that if her life is going to fall apart, she at least wants to go down on her own terms. She gives herself a one‑year deadline to explore the desires she has spent a decade repressing and walks into an exclusive club determined to treat sex like an experiment. There she collides with Rhys, a Dom who has one foot out the door, ready to sell the club and disappear. Their relationship is as much about trust and control as it is about kink.

Excess shifts focus to Nina, a woman who turns a simple idea into a fortune and rockets herself into rarefied air almost overnight. She builds an empire, then realizes the world she rushed into is full of sharks. Her entanglement with Devin, a married man whose charm hides sharp edges, forces her to confront how power and desire can twist together. It is a story about self‑deception as much as seduction, and it does not flinch from showing the fallout when fantasy collides with reality.

By the time you reach Predator and Prey: The Phoenix and The Fire, the series has tightened its focus on Taylor, Nina’s fiercely controlled protégé, and Daniello, an enigmatic man whose life sits on the wrong side of the law. Taylor grew up in poverty and clawed her way into success by insisting on order and excellence. Daniello is the living embodiment of danger: a ghost in the club’s shadows who demands her submission even as he keeps most of his own secrets locked away. Their story bridges Lust & Lies into the separate Predator and Prey series, pulling Taylor from corporate boardrooms into a bloodier, more volatile world.

Throughout Lust & Lies you can expect explicit language, intense sexual content, and characters who do not always do the right thing, even once they know better. The books also thread in themes of trauma, addiction, and emotional dependency. If you like your romance gritty, messy, and unapologetically adult, this series is designed to push those buttons.

Reading in order is the easiest way to follow the character arcs and understand how events in one book reverberate into the next, but you can treat each couple’s story as its own complete, if very spicy, ride.