Mary Monroe Books in Order

Naomi Simmons escapes her demanding family by marrying devout Jacob Purcell, only to endure his cruelty and infidelity. When kind widower Homer offers real love, tragedy, a stroke, and Naomi’s manipulative daughter entangle her in mind games that may end in violence.

Identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have always swapped places to escape trouble in Lexington, Alabama. Trading marriages and roles seems like their boldest game yet—until hidden desires, jealous lovers, and their mother’s sharp eyes threaten to blow their cover apart.

Serial murders stalk quiet Lexington, Alabama, just as Jessie and Hubert Wiggins struggle to keep their sham marriage intact. Hubert’s secret lover and Jessie’s dangerous new beau pull them into a web of lies where solving the crimes might expose their own.

Maggie Franklin, raised in poverty by abusive parents, marries upright Hubert Wiggins to secure a better life in 1930s Lexington, Alabama. As she ruthlessly protects her new status and adored son, Maggie’s schemes against “disruptive” people edge closer to deadly obsession.

In Depression‑era Lexington, generous widow Jessie Tucker longs to marry admired churchman Hubert Wiggins after he loses his family. A risky deception wins her a proposal, but Hubert’s hidden desires and Jessie’s own affair with a younger man drag them into scandal and danger.

Free‑spirited Vanessa Hayes has finally saved for her dream Christmas in Paris when a passport delay ruins her plans. When overworked teacher Judith Guthrie hand‑delivers the document, a simple favor sparks a chain of choices that could transform both women’s futures.

Childless but deeply in love, Eugene and Rosemary Johnson face a lonely Christmas after her emergency surgery. Inviting his former caretaker Ethel and her great‑grandchildren into their home brings chaos, warmth, and a chance to rethink what family might look like.

In the final Neighbors novel, old resentments and fresh betrayals between the Watsons and Hamiltons come to a head. As secrets about money, marriage, and past crimes surface, both couples must decide what they’re willing to sacrifice to protect their names and survive.

Office colleagues Felicia Hawkins and widowed Richard Grimes are perfect partners at work, each secretly in love with the other. Holiday pressure, meddling relatives, and a looming job transfer force them to decide whether to risk their friendship for a late‑in‑life romance.

Now flush from bootlegging, Milton and Yvonne Hamilton bring their operation into a new middle‑class neighborhood, tightening their grip on neighbors Joyce and Odell Watson. Blackmail, hidden families, and petty cruelties push the two households toward an explosive showdown.

Beatrice Powell has a long marriage, grown children, and a comfortable home, yet feels strangely empty as Christmas nears. Volunteering at a soup kitchen, she befriends homeless Charles Davenport, whose honesty and past grief push Beatrice to question what happiness really means.

Respectable Joyce and Odell Watson enjoy a solid marriage and thriving business in 1930s Alabama—until bootleggers Milton and Yvonne Hamilton move in next door. Wild parties, shared secrets, and simmering jealousy soon pull both couples into a dangerous tangle they can’t escape.

In the climax of the Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart series, Lola and Joan find their careful games collapsing. Lola’s toxic bond with Calvin Ramsey tightens just as relatives and husbands betray them, forcing both women to choose between safety, loyalty, and survival.

Lola Poole and Joan Proctor‑Riley juggle a roster of wealthy online suitors to escape boring, unhappy lives. When Lola falls hard for rugged trucker Calvin Ramsey, she thinks she’s found true love—unaware that he has a deadly pattern of loving women to death.

As teens, Lola Poole and Joan Proctor got a taste for easy money by writing fake love letters to lonely men. Years later their online‑dating adventures with rich, no‑strings lovers seem like harmless fun—until the game turns addictive and dangerously real.

This prequel novella finds teenage best friends Lola and Joan chafing against messy, watchful families and craving independence. Their first shared schemes with boys and money plant the seeds for the risky choices that will define the Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart series.

Ambitious Seth Garrett sees fiancée Rachel McNeal as a means to the successful life he feels entitled to—until her imperfect family makes him trade her in for a “better” prospect. Rachel, hurt but furious, quietly sets out to dismantle his world piece by piece.

Vera Lomax clawed her way out of Texas poverty by marrying a wealthy older man, and she’ll do anything to keep his fortune. When Kenneth’s secret daughter Sarah moves into their San Francisco mansion, stepmother and stepdaughter wage a high‑stakes battle over love and money.

After Mama Ruby’s death, Maureen Montgomery returns to Florida with her teenage daughter Loretta, craving a quiet life. Loretta’s obsession with fame and a dangerous relationship with an older photographer drag the family back into drama rooted in Mama Ruby’s violent legacy.

In the final God novel, Annette Goode Davis juggles a shaky reconciliation with Pee Wee, a wandering eye, and stress‑eating she can’t control. Meanwhile Rhoda battles with her wild daughter Jade, and both women learn how devastating misplaced trust can be.

In 1930s Louisiana, bold Ruby Jean Upshaw loves fast men and hard liquor more than any sermon. A hidden pregnancy, a secret birth, and a shocking decision to give away her baby send Ruby fleeing to New Orleans, vowing one day to settle old scores.

After nearly losing her marriage to an affair, Annette Goode Davis is determined to make things right with Pee Wee and hold her family together. But his lingering anger and their daughter Charlotte’s rebellion push Annette toward choices that may backfire painfully.

Teri Stewart, publicity director at a hot L.A. record label, seems to have it all except real love. When her ex, charismatic DJ Harrison Starr, resurfaces, their rekindled attraction—and Teri’s outspoken best friend Nicole—complicate office politics and long‑buried insecurities.

Raised in foster care, Dolores “Lo” Reese promises to stand by her first love, Floyd, after a wrongful conviction. Years later she’s married to another man when Floyd is freed, and the lies she’s told about murder, loyalty, and love threaten to explode.

Annette Goode Davis sheds pounds and gets a makeover, hoping to rekindle her distant husband’s desire. When smooth, younger caterer Louis Baines showers her with passion and flattery, Annette plunges into an affair that risks her marriage, finances, and hard‑won self‑respect.

Christine Thurman helped her husband build a video‑store empire, only to be taken for granted and tied to a harsh prenup. Teaming up with charming Wade Fisher to fake her own kidnapping, she thinks she’s found a way out—until greed and betrayal turn deadly.

Annette Goode finally has the life she prayed for—loving husband, daughter, and best friend Rhoda back by her side. Then anonymous letters, calls, and gifts turn vicious, forcing Annette to dig into her past to uncover who wants to destroy her family.

In Mary Monroe’s novella, steady, rule‑following Renee Webb lets loose on a Caribbean vacation with her wild friend Inez. A forbidden night with a seductive stranger seems like harmless escape, until the fallout threatens her marriage and everything she’s built.

Tired of struggling, secretary Trudy Bell secretly uses her co‑worker’s corporate credit card to reinvent herself as a high‑rolling socialite. Living a double life feels thrilling—until she brings home a man bent on revenge against the woman Trudy is impersonating.

In San Francisco’s red‑light district, six very different women share one ruthless pimp and a fragile sense of sisterhood. As each dreams of escape, hustles clients, and hides private hurts, their loyalty to one another—and to the only life they know—is tested.

Now an adult, Annette Goode thinks she has outrun her brutal past and cut ties with unstable Rhoda. When long‑buried secrets ruin her engagement and push her toward dependable Pee Wee Davis, she must decide what to forgive and what to finally confront.

In small‑town Belle Helene, Alabama, Carmen Taylor is torn between her paralyzed boyfriend Burl, whom she feels she owes, and longtime love Chester. A violent confrontation and one desperate decision force her to face guilt, loyalty, and the chance for redemption.

Shy, overweight Annette Goode survives daily abuse from her mother’s boarder in 1960s Ohio, hiding the truth behind books and food. When glamorous Rhoda befriends her, Annette finds both salvation and new danger in a friendship built on secrets.

In the swamps outside Miami, fearsome Mama Ruby raises Maureen, the baby she took from her best friend and claims as her own. As Maureen grows up in the house’s “upper room,” Mama Ruby’s fierce love and explosive violence threaten to destroy them both.