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Maggie Cole Books in Order

Explore Maggie Cole books in order, with series lists, quick summaries, and simple starting points for her billionaire, mafia, and romantic suspense stories.

Last updated: July 5, 2026

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The Crime

by Maggie Cole

2019

Fresh off a breakup, writer Maddie Burns escapes on vacation and collides with wealthy Jack Stevens. Their instant connection gets complicated when a violent crime from the past links their lives in ways neither expected.

The Lie

by Maggie Cole

2019

Laura Aimee has rebuilt her life, but seeing Blake Montgomery again cracks open the lie that ruined them ten years earlier. The attraction never died, and neither did the fallout.

The Rule

by Maggie Cole

2019

Liv White never dates clients, until billionaire ex-basketball star Tom Marko starts pushing every boundary she has. Four days at his mountain home turn scorching fast, then Tom's buried past throws them straight into danger.

The Secret

by Maggie Cole

2019

PR powerhouse Meg Grail and sports agent Collin Corwin know getting together is a bad idea, especially with shared clients watching. Keeping things secret is hard enough before Meg's past makes everything riskier.

Acts of Manipulation

by Maggie Cole

2020

Kidnapped by the head of the gang, a heroine is ripped away from the man and family she loves. Every choice she makes could save them or destroy them.

Committed to You

by Maggie Cole

2020

Chase Monroe does not do relationships, and Vivian refuses to be just another name on his calendar. Their friends-to-lovers chemistry is obvious, but his past keeps turning commitment into a fight.

Crossing the Line

by Maggie Cole

2020

Ambitious Piper ends up stuck working with Noah, the arrogant nephew of her boss, after a disastrous day and an even worse first impression. Their rivalry turns hot fast, then starts getting personal.

Depths of Destruction

by Maggie Cole

2020

A woman carrying deadly secrets is pulled out of a hellish war zone by a lethal protector. As they run through the jungle, danger and desire close in at the same speed.

Don't Forget Me

by Maggie Cole

2020

Doctor Xander Kane and Charlotte fall hard, only to have memory, distance, and old pain twist everything that came easy at the start. It is a second-chance romance with a real emotional bruise.

Judge Me Not

by Maggie Cole

2020

Desperate to provide for her daughter, a struggling single mom agrees to a deal with Colton Ash that crosses lines she never meant to blur. It is a short, emotional Christmas romance with real pressure behind the heat.

Kiss of Redemption

by Maggie Cole

2020

Beckett Brooks spent ten years in prison for killing his best friend, only to find the dead girl's sister very much alive. Mia's return blows apart old lies and reignites a love neither of them buried.

Masks of Devotion

by Maggie Cole

2020

Gracie thought Kade was the heartbreak she should have outgrown, until he comes back carrying secrets and a dangerous job. Their second chance is wrapped up in spies, lies, and the gang hunting her family.

More Than Paper

by Maggie Cole

2020

Quinn thinks she has found something real with Jamison, until she learns he is married. The truth behind that piece of paper pulls them into a forbidden romance full of heart and complications.

Roots of Vengeance

by Maggie Cole

2020

Gia was supposed to investigate Connor Brooks, not fall for him. Years later, vengeance and unfinished love shove them back together in the middle of a dangerous mission.

Sins of Justice

by Maggie Cole

2020

A Brooks family romance built around secrets, loyalty, and the gang circling closer. Love is tangled up with the truth, and learning it could destroy more than one life.

Sins of the Father

by Maggie Cole

2020

One wedding hookup changes everything when desire collides with family baggage and old wounds. What should have been a one-night mistake starts looking a lot like something neither of them can ignore.

The Gamble

by Maggie Cole

2020

Singer Sophie Cradle avoids attachment, and Phil Laurent keeps his private life carefully compartmentalized. When stalker threats escalate, their chemistry stops being a game and starts feeling like a real gamble.

The Trap

by Maggie Cole

2020

Lawyer Claire Whitfield is supposed to prepare Ethan Knight for an FBI interrogation, not want him. When Ethan is framed for embezzlement, their forbidden attraction turns into a dangerous plan to clear his name.

Web of Betrayal

by Maggie Cole

2020

Hudson takes in Lena after her rescue from the Twisted Hearts, even as his ex moves in to supervise her recovery. Trust is fragile when betrayal may already be inside the house.

Wrapped In Perfection

by Maggie Cole

2020

Anna is healing from abuse when Dmitri Ivanov offers her safety, honesty, and a kind of danger she cannot explain away. The more she learns about him, the harder it is to stay out of his world.

Broken Fighter

by Maggie Cole

2021

Nora has loved Boris for years, but family loyalties and old-country grudges make them a dangerous match. Their romance is tender, stubborn, and tangled in the violence around them.

Brutal Defender

by Maggie Cole

2021

Desperate for help, a heroine turns to Killian O'Malley and gets a protector who refuses to do things halfway. Their bargain puts both heart and survival on the line.

Cavern of Silence

by Maggie Cole

2021

A battered heroine and the haunted Ryker find each other in the middle of chaos. He is not a gentle savior, but he may be the only man willing to bleed for her.

Cruel Enforcer

by Maggie Cole

2021

Sergey Ivanov and sharp-tongued lawyer Kora spark fast, but both are carrying damage and secrets. As rival threats rise, attraction turns into something far more dangerous.

Deviant Hacker

by Maggie Cole

2021

A kidnapping drops one woman into Declan O'Malley's orbit, where sharp minds and dirty secrets matter as much as brute force. It is a tense, obsessive romance with danger at every turn.

Haze of Obedience

by Maggie Cole

2021

Broken and imprisoned, a heroine is extracted by Dirk, an ex-military man as dangerous as the men chasing them. Their escape becomes a brutal, intimate fight for survival.

Marks of Rebellion

by Maggie Cole

2021

Freedom comes at a brutal cost in this dark rescue romance. Old wounds, captivity, and a dangerous connection force two survivors to decide who they can trust when everyone is hunting them.

Perfect Sinner

by Maggie Cole

2021

A mafia princess and Nolan O'Malley are drawn together by heat, family politics, and the kind of conflict that never stays small. Loving each other means stepping straight into the crossfire.

Risks of Temptation

by Maggie Cole

2021

Everyone thinks she is quiet and fragile, until Malin sees the darkness she hides. When the past starts hunting her again, their connection turns fierce, messy, and impossible to walk away from.

Ruthless Stranger

by Maggie Cole

2021

Newly free from a terrible marriage, Aspen heads to Las Vegas for one reckless night and meets Maksim. He seems like the perfect anonymous escape, until his mafia ties and their real feelings make walking away impossible.

Savage Tracker

by Maggie Cole

2021

Loss, danger, and relentless protection drive this darker romance forward. What starts as a guarded alliance becomes something deeper when the past refuses to stay buried.

Stains of Desire

by Maggie Cole

2021

A mission full of firsts pulls two damaged people into close quarters and even closer temptation. The deeper they go, the harder it is to separate duty from the pull between them.

Unchosen Ruler

by Maggie Cole

2021

The future of the O'Malley family was never supposed to feel like a trap, until love complicates power. Duty, legacy, and desire all collide in this tense mafia romance.

Vicious Protector

by Maggie Cole

2021

A fiercely protective mafia hero and a woman marked by her past are thrown together under pressure. Their connection burns hot, but survival means facing demons neither of them can outrun.

Carnal

by Maggie Cole

2022

An ordinary work meeting kicks off an obsession neither character can keep at a professional distance. Business, hunger, and New York mob pressure make a volatile mix.

Crazed

by Maggie Cole

2022

She betrayed the man she wanted and spied on him for the enemy. Now the truth is out, and both love and survival come with a brutal price.

Flawed

by Maggie Cole

2022

One wild night and failed birth control change everything. What starts as heat turns into a messy, high-stakes future neither of them was ready for.

Holiday Hoax

by Maggie Cole

2022

A fake marriage sounds like the perfect way to get family off his back, until a grumpy billionaire boss picks the one woman who can actually get under his skin. Holiday sparks do the rest.

Immoral

by Maggie Cole

2022

When her ex buys her at an auction and forces her into marriage, escape starts to look a lot like another trap. Desire and danger twist together in a story built on captivity and power.

Relentless Hunter

by Maggie Cole

2022

One choice changes everything, and the fallout does not stay in the past. This final O'Malley story leans hard into vengeance, second chances, and love that refuses to die quietly.

Toxic

by Maggie Cole

2022

A ruthless rescue sparks a war, and the woman at its center refuses to be treated like a prize. What follows is dark, messy, and impossible for either of them to control.

Illicit Captor

by Maggie Cole

2023

He kidnaps her to strike back at her husband, but captivity quickly gets more complicated than revenge. In this world, obsession can change the rules as fast as violence does.

Illicit Heir

by Maggie Cole

2023

A stupid bet wins him one hour with her, and one hour turns out to be far from enough. Attraction collides with status, danger, and an Irish mob future nobody controls easily.

Illicit King

by Maggie Cole

2023

Two Irish mafia families are already at war when desire makes the feud even harder to contain. Power, loyalty, and forbidden attraction drive every choice.

Illicit Monster

by Maggie Cole

2023

The darkest corners of the Irish mafia take center stage here, where fear, hunger, and power are never far apart. It is another volatile entry in a series built on revenge and dangerous love.

The Auction

by Maggie Cole

2023

Riggs Maddon bids on his partner's daughter for revenge and expects to control every part of the arrangement. Instead, a dark yearlong bargain becomes more complicated, and more personal, than either of them planned.

The Vow

by Maggie Cole

2023

Betrayed and furious, Blakeley tries to break free of Riggs and the world that swallowed her whole. But obsession, hurt, and unanswered questions keep dragging them back together.

Holiday Hire

by Maggie Cole

2024

Widower Alexander Cartwright wants his children protected, not his life upended by the nanny his mother hires. Phoebe is supposed to be temporary, which only makes their chemistry worse.

Seeds of Malice

by Maggie Cole

2024

A heroine realizes she is a pawn in a twisted game she never agreed to join. The setup is dark, tense, and built to pull her straight into a dangerous college power struggle.

Thorns of Malice

by Maggie Cole

2024

What started as a game becomes far more consuming when obsession and history take over. The second book pushes the duet deeper into power plays, pain, and hard choices.

Bride By Coronation

by Maggie Cole

2025

Sean and Zara are in deeper now, bound by darker vows and bigger truths than they expected. The second book widens the conspiracy while tightening the hold this world has on them.

Bride by Initiation

by Maggie Cole

2025

Lifelong friends Sean O'Malley Jr. and Zara Marino chase answers about their fathers and get pulled into a secret society instead. The deeper they go, the harder it is to deny each other.

Holiday Rider

by Maggie Cole

2025

Willow Cartwright's Christmas plans derail when she has to bail out bull riders and comes face to face with Wyatt, the man who broke her heart. Their reunion is all second-chance heat and old hurt.

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Bride By Ritual

by Maggie Cole

2026

Brax and Valentina step into the spotlight for a brutal finale built on ritual, power, and a marriage that means far more than appearances. It is the Underworld at its most personal and dangerous.

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Chasing Red

by Maggie Cole

2026

Red walks away to protect Blue, but Blue has no intention of letting him vanish. Their story deepens the duet's obsession, danger, and emotional chaos.

New

Holiday Heir

by Maggie Cole

2026

The fourth Cartwright story turns to the family's heir for another holiday romance shaped by money, family pressure, and small-town sparks. Expect more Cartwright chaos with a festive edge.

New

Resisting Blue

by Maggie Cole

2026

Blue Ivanov fixates on her therapist, Dr. Red Mercer, and the line between help and obsession starts to disappear. This is a dark, morally gray setup where desire is anything but healthy.

New

The Island Twist

by Maggie Cole

2026

An island setting and a sharp turn of fate give this standalone a more secluded, pressure-cooker feel. Maggie Cole uses the setup for close quarters, big emotions, and complications that do not stay small.

Coming Soon

Married By Margaritas

by Maggie Cole

2027

An accidental marriage and a burned-out billionaire turn this standalone into a sunny, chaotic rom-com. It promises tequila-fueled bad decisions, sharp banter, and real heat.

Where should I start?

For billionaire romance with suspense: The RuleThe SecretThe Crime
For linked contemporary romance: Crossing the LineDon't Forget MeCommitted to You
For a family saga you should read in order: Kiss of RedemptionSins of JusticeActs of Manipulation
For dark mafia romance: Ruthless StrangerBroken FighterCruel Enforcer
For newer secret-society darkness: Bride by InitiationBride By CoronationBride By Ritual

Author bio

Maggie Cole writes romance that likes a little danger in the room. Her books move between billionaire stories, family sagas, mafia worlds, and darker psychological setups, but the through line is easy to spot, high emotion, strong chemistry, and characters who have usually been bruised by life before the love story really starts.

She also writes fast.

Cole made her debut in 2019 with The Rule, the first book in her All In world. From there she quickly built out connected contemporary series like All In and It's Complicated, where wealthy heroes, ambitious heroines, and a close circle of friends, clients, and family members keep drifting into one another's stories.

Then the canvas got darker. Books like Kiss of Redemption, the Behind Closed Doors series, and Ruthless Stranger pushed her further into romantic suspense and mafia romance. Those stories still bring the heat, but they also lean into family loyalty, criminal power, secrets, rescues, betrayals, and the long cleanup after trauma.

Broken people trying again is one of her favorite lanes.

That range is part of why readers stick with her. If you want billionaire romance with tension and banter, there is The Rule or Holiday Hoax. If you want darker material, Ruthless Stranger and Bride by Initiation move straight into organized-crime territory. And if you want something even more psychologically messy, the Beautiful Delusions books, beginning with Resisting Blue, show how far she is willing to push obsession and moral grayness.

Across her catalog, Cole tends to pair forceful, alpha heroes with women who do not stay passive for long. Her couples deal with power imbalances, old wounds, public pressure, family expectations, and sometimes plain bad timing. Even in the lighter books, there is usually a thread of suspense or emotional fallout humming under the romance.

Her public bio is fairly short, which fits a writer who lets the books do most of the talking. What is confirmed is that she lives in Florida with her son. She also shares a few everyday interests that feel very on brand for the warm-weather energy in parts of her work, tennis, yoga, paddleboarding, boating, and other water activities.

That Florida detail matters more than it might seem. Some of her stories use sun, islands, beaches, and holiday settings as a contrast to heavier emotional material, while others head into colder or more glamorous spaces and let the mood darken. Either way, place is rarely just wallpaper in a Maggie Cole book. It helps set the pressure.

What stands out most is how deliberately she builds connected worlds. One series can lead into another. A side character in a billionaire romance can matter later in a mafia book. A family mentioned on the edge of one story can take over the next six. If you like romance authors who are comfortable jumping from sweet holiday chaos to dangerous underworld vows, Cole gives you plenty to explore.

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