Megan Miranda Books in Order
Browse Megan Miranda's books in order, with reading guides, plot summaries, series background, and tips on where to start with her YA and adult suspense novels.
Last updated: December 25, 2025
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Publication Order
16 books
You Belong Here
by Megan Miranda
2025
Two decades after a deadly college hazing ritual, Beckett Bowery is drawn back to Wyatt Valley when her daughter enrolls at the same elite school. Caught between town and campus loyalties, she must face the legend of the first howling and what really happened that night.
Daughter of Mine
by Megan Miranda
2024
Hazel Sharp returns to drought-stricken Mirror Lake after her detective father dies and unexpectedly leaves her the family home. As receding water reveals submerged cars and fresh questions about her mother's disappearance, Hazel digs into long kept town secrets and the loyalties inside her own family.
The Only Survivors
by Megan Miranda
2023
Seven former classmates reunite each year at an isolated beach house, bound by the school trip bus crash they barely escaped as teens. On the tenth anniversary one of them disappears, a storm closes in, and Cassidy Bent starts to suspect the worst night of their lives is repeating.
The Last to Vanish
by Megan Miranda
2022
For ten years Abby Lovett has managed a cozy inn in Cutter's Pass, a mountain town notorious for hikers who disappear on its trails. When the brother of the latest missing man arrives searching for answers, Abby uncovers local loyalties and secrets that tie the vanishings together.
Such a Quiet Place
by Megan Miranda
2021
Hollow's Edge was once a friendly, close-knit neighborhood, until two residents were murdered and Ruby Fletcher was sent to prison. When her conviction is overturned and she moves back in with former roommate Harper Nash, suspicion fractures the community all over again.
The Girl from Widow Hills
by Megan Miranda
2020
As a child, Arden Maynor survived being swept into a storm drain during a flood and became the center of a media storm. Years later, living under a new name, she starts sleepwalking again and wakes beside a dead man, dragging her buried past into the present.
The Last House Guest
by Megan Miranda
2019
In the divided town of Littleport, Maine, local Avery Greer built an unlikely friendship with wealthy summer resident Sadie Loman. When Sadie is found dead and the case is closed as suicide, Avery quietly investigates, convinced someone close to them is hiding the truth.
Come Find Me
by Megan Miranda
2019
Still reeling from a family tragedy, Kennedy Jones spends nights scanning the skies with her late brother's radio equipment. Miles away, Nolan Chandler searches for his missing brother. A mysterious signal links their lives, pulling them together to uncover what really happened to both families.
The Perfect Stranger
by Megan Miranda
2017
After a scandal wrecks her reporting career, Leah Stevens follows her enigmatic friend Emmy to rural Pennsylvania for a quiet teaching job. When a woman is attacked and Emmy disappears with almost no trace she ever existed, Leah must clear her own name by finding the truth.
Fragments of the Lost
by Megan Miranda
2017
Asked to box up her ex-boyfriend Caleb's bedroom after he dies in a storm, Jessa Whitworth expects only grief. Instead each object sparks unsettling memories and clues, leading her to question their relationship and whether Caleb's fatal accident was really an accident at all.
The Safest Lies
by Megan Miranda
2016
Kelsey Thomas has been raised in a fortified house by a mother too terrified to step outside after a notorious kidnapping. When a car accident draws unwanted attention and her mother disappears, Kelsey is forced into the open to face whoever is hunting them.
All the Missing Girls
by Megan Miranda
2016
A decade after her best friend vanished, Nicolette Farrell returns to her small hometown to help her ailing father. When another young woman goes missing, Nic relives fifteen tense days in reverse, uncovering buried loyalties and lies that reshape everything she thought she knew.
Soulprint
by Megan Miranda
2015
In a future where every soul can be tracked from life to life, Alina Chase has grown up imprisoned because she carries the soul of infamous hacker June Calahan. When strangers break her out, Alina must decide whom to trust and who she really is.
Vengeance
by Megan Miranda
2014
Back in Falcon Lake, Decker Phillips cannot ignore the pattern of accidents that have claimed his friends since Delaney's near-drowning. Convinced the lake, or someone, wants payment, he digs into their past and the secrets Delaney has kept.
Hysteria
by Megan Miranda
2013
Mallory Murphy killed her boyfriend but remembers almost nothing about the night it happened. Hoping for a fresh start at an elite boarding school, she instead finds herself haunted by guilt, stalked by secrets, and suspected again when another student turns up dead.
Fracture
by Megan Miranda
2012
Seventeen-year-old Delaney Maxwell is pulled from a frozen Maine lake after eleven minutes underwater and somehow survives. As she recovers, she develops a strange pull toward people on the verge of death and must decide whether her new ability is a warning or a curse.
Where should I start?
If you want her adult psychological suspense: All the Missing Girls → The Last House Guest → Such a Quiet Place
If you like remote small-town mysteries: The Last to Vanish → The Only Survivors → Daughter of Mine
If you are starting with her YA thrillers: Fracture → Hysteria → The Safest Lies
If you enjoy speculative or sci fi tinged YA: Soulprint → Come Find Me → Fragments of the Lost
Author bio
Megan Miranda grew up in New Jersey, reading widely and paying attention to the small mysteries of everyday life. Those early years, split between suburbia and visits to her grandparents in the Pennsylvania mountains, planted the seeds for the isolated towns and wooded landscapes that run through her books.
As a teenager she attended the Peddie School, where she leaned hard into math and science. That curiosity carried her to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied biology and learned to think in experiments, patterns, and what-if questions.
After college Miranda worked in biotechnology, then shifted to teaching high school science. In the classroom she spent her days explaining cause and effect, building models of invisible systems, and watching how teenagers talk, argue, and protect their secrets.
At some point she realized the questions she loved most no longer fit neatly into a lab report.
She wrote on the edges of her schedule, early in the mornings and late at night, turning stray ideas into scenes and then into full drafts. What happens after a near-death experience? How far would someone go to protect the people they love? Over time those questions took shape as her first published novel, Fracture.
Published in 2012, Fracture follows Delaney Maxwell, a girl pulled from an icy lake who wakes from a coma with an unsettling ability to sense when others are about to die. The book blends medical mystery, first love, and survivor's guilt, and it set the tone for Miranda's early young adult novels, including Hysteria, Vengeance, Soulprint, The Safest Lies, Fragments of the Lost, and Come Find Me.
In those stories she often writes about teens standing on the edge of big decisions, haunted by what came before. The threats can feel otherworldly or technological, but the heart of each book is the same: friendships under strain, families hiding painful history, and young characters trying to decide who they want to be.
With All the Missing Girls she turned to adult psychological suspense and found a new audience. Set in a small North Carolina town and told in reverse, the novel follows Nicolette Farrell as she returns home to confront two disappearances a decade apart. The unusual structure let Miranda play with memory, perspective, and the stories communities tell about themselves.
She has continued to explore those ideas in later novels like The Perfect Stranger, The Last House Guest, The Girl from Widow Hills, Such a Quiet Place, The Last to Vanish, The Only Survivors, Daughter of Mine, and You Belong Here. Many of her books unfold in tight-knit places with long memories: coastal communities divided between locals and summer visitors, mountain inns shadowed by missing hikers, and lake towns living with old tragedies.
Again and again, her stories return to the uneasy mix of fear, loyalty, and curiosity that shapes how people behave when the past refuses to stay buried.
Miranda now lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children. She still draws on her scientific training when she outlines a thriller, mapping timelines and clues with the care of a lab experiment, then letting the characters surprise her. The result is a body of work that feels both tightly constructed and deeply human, inviting readers to wonder what might be hidden just beneath the surface of the places they think they know.
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