Mindf*ck Books in Order

Mindf*ck is a five-book dark romance and thriller sequence about a woman pursuing revenge while falling for the man whose job is to catch her. S T Abby follows Lana Myers and FBI profiler Logan Bennett through one continuing story. Their relationship begins with a gap in what they know about each other, and that gap makes every development in the romance more dangerous.

Lana has a list of people she intends to kill.

Ten years earlier, the men on that list destroyed her life and left her for dead. She survived, and her plans are directed towards the people responsible. Revenge has given her a purpose that leaves little space for an ordinary future. The story doesn't introduce her as an investigator trying to stop a killer. She is the person taking lives, with reasons she keeps hidden from most of the people around her.

Logan works to protect people and bring offenders to justice. As an FBI profiler, he studies violence from the other side of the investigation. He knows that people are dying, but he doesn't know that the woman he loves is responsible. His belief in saving the innocent sits uneasily beside Lana's private understanding of what justice has failed to do. The investigation and the relationship therefore move towards the same secrets from opposite directions.

Lana's attraction to Logan gives her something to lose beyond the revenge she has been planning. Wanting a future with him doesn't remove her determination to confront the past. Instead, it creates two aims that may be impossible to hold together. The tension comes from watching a relationship grow while knowing that honesty could threaten everything it offers, and that continuing to lie carries its own cost.

The books follow the same central arc, beginning with The Risk, then continuing through Sidetracked, Scarlet Angel, All the Lies and Paint It All Red. As the investigation advances, the past and the present become harder to keep apart. Read in that order: these are successive parts of Lana and Logan's story, rather than separate romances about a different couple in each volume.

The tone is violent, explicit and morally uneasy, with a revenge plot driving the suspense alongside the romantic relationship. The central question isn't simply whether two people are attracted to each other. It's what happens when one person's idea of justice could make the other person see her as the enemy. Readers who want a romance tied closely to an unfolding criminal investigation will find that the emotional stakes and the danger depend on the same concealed truth.