ML Hamilton Books in Order

Kai's life shatters in an instant, sending him into the harsh world of Samar. To survive, he must learn the rules of a land shaped by power, prophecy, and the dangerous legacy of Eldon.

Elena Harris has the stable life she is supposed to want, but not the passion she craves. Rock star Joshua Ravensong offers both temptation and danger, and one reckless night becomes something much harder to control.

A mutilated gang killing drags Peyton and her partner Marco into a brutal world of turf wars, vice, and fear. The case reopens old wounds for Peyton and threatens to consume the city.

When Zoe Ryder is murdered, homicide detective Peyton Brooks expects the husband to look guilty. But as she moves through San Francisco's wealthy circles, the case reveals darker motives than she expected.

Rock star Joshua Ravensong is accused of murder, and the evidence looks solid. Peyton must choose between protecting her reputation and following her instincts when the case turns personal.

When Peyton and Marco are taken off the biggest case of their careers, both feel the strain. Assigned to a reality star's messy orbit, Peyton starts questioning what her absolute devotion to the job is costing her.

Peyton thinks life cannot get any more tangled, until her partner Marco becomes a murder suspect. To clear him, she has to keep her head while everything she counts on starts to wobble.

A new case with Alcatraz in the background pushes Peyton to balance a chaotic home life with the hunt for a killer. The farther she digs, the more personal the fallout becomes.

The Ghost Squad chases another murder dressed up as the supernatural, this time with mermaid whispers swirling along the Pacific coast. Peyton follows the evidence, even when the legend is meant to distract her.

Another San Francisco killing sends Peyton into a high-pressure investigation where old history and fresh evidence refuse to line up neatly. Treasure Island gives the case a striking backdrop and very little certainty.

Avery is deeper into Tahoe's secret world now, and the creatures in the shadows are no longer easy to dismiss. As loyalties shift, she has to decide who to trust and what she is willing to fight for.

Fresh from a divorce, Avery Nolan lands in Lake Tahoe and discovers the beautiful resort town is hiding far more than postcard views. Her new start turns into a dangerous crash course in the supernatural.

Peyton's new FBI assignment with the Ghost Squad starts with a case wrapped in zombie rumors. In the Delta, she must separate superstition from a very real crime before more people die.

The hidden dangers around Lake Tahoe are moving faster, and Avery has less room for mistakes. Another brush with the supernatural pushes her closer to the truth and deeper into trouble.

Aiden Cerik never wanted the crown, and Amaroq Taheny never expected life beyond the Nazarien maze. Their paths cross through love, duty, and a destiny that refuses to release Eldon's line.

Twins Tav and Tash may share blood, but they do not see the world the same way. As Samar's conflicts deepen, their choices begin shaping the future of Eldon's line.

Talar can no longer avoid the weight of destiny or the cost of leadership. As enemies close in, safety becomes fragile and the search for sanctuary turns into a test of faith and resolve.

Kalas sacrificed everything to save his sister and now sees a chance to change Adishian's future. But the king's promises hide darker plans, and Tyla may be the real prize in a larger bid for power.

One mistake changes the course of Talar's life and ripples across Samar. Personal loss and larger destiny collide as the struggle over Eldon's legacy grows even harder to escape.

Years of peace across the Seven Protectorates start to crack, pulling a new generation into danger. Old loyalties, rising threats, and Eldon's legacy collide in a story with widening stakes.

Ten years after walking away from Tyla, Jarrett Murata is drawn back into the orbit of Eldon's heirs. Old choices, old loyalties, and unfinished history make this a dangerous return.

Hollywood glamour and vampire rumors make perfect cover for violence. Peyton and her team have to cut through performance, ego, and myth to find the person using an old monster story to hide a real crime.

Peyton and the Ghost Squad head to London after a killer grows bolder and leaves behind only the howl of a werewolf. The case is international, strange, and dangerously human at its core.

Zion Sawyer inherits the estate of the biological mother she never knew and heads to Sequoia to sort it out. Instead, she finds a coffee shop, a murder, and a future she never expected.

A case in the Yucatan pushes Peyton into a landscape thick with history, legend, and danger. The Ghost Squad must figure out what is ritual theater and what is murder before the trail disappears.

The final Avery Nolan adventure brings long-simmering tensions to a head. Avery must face the biggest threat yet and decide what kind of life she wants after everything the hidden world has cost her.

A standalone contemporary drama about people searching for calm after life spins away from plan. Hamilton keeps the focus on relationships, old wounds, and the uneasy work of starting over.

Farad, once a powerful Stravad leader, cannot understand why he has been spared. As Samar's tangled loyalties shift again, he is pulled into a struggle that tests belief, power, and survival.

Orphaned as a baby, Alix has grown up knowing only the mission before her. But on Samar, hidden lineage and old rivalries make every step toward the truth more dangerous.

Zion has settled into Sequoia until a rock festival floods town with tourists and trouble. When a young woman dies after the concert, Zion and ex-cop Tate Mercer start hunting for the killer.

Snow falls on Sequoia just as Zion's life starts feeling stable. Then a mysterious man arrives, Logan's future is threatened, and Zion and Tate are dragged into a murder that brings back painful history.

Tate Mercer left the LAPD after his partner Jason died, but trouble keeps finding him in Sequoia. As Zion gets pulled into another murder, the case draws both of them deeper into old pain.

A supposed haunting in Bodie gives the Ghost Squad another case where fear is part of the setup. Peyton looks past the ghost story to find the living person with something to hide.

This standalone novel follows a magnetic figure called Jaguar through the complications that fame and private pain leave behind. Hamilton blends personal drama, attraction, and the cost of living too close to danger.

When a high-end real estate agent is killed in one of San Francisco's famous Painted Ladies, Peyton and Marco hit a wall. With no clear motive and no solid suspect, they race to stop the killer from striking again.

On the run and cut off from safety, another heir of Eldon's line must survive long enough to learn who deserves trust. The chase adds fresh pressure to Samar's sprawling family saga.

The series opens in winter, with grief forcing one woman to take a hard look at the life she has been living. Loss becomes the start of change, not the end of the story.

In Kauai, local legend becomes the cover for another deadly investigation. Peyton and the Ghost Squad follow the clues through paradise, knowing the truth is usually less magical and far more dangerous.

Breanna Perry, a psychiatrist at San Quentin, thinks Cassius Teran is delusional until a near-fatal crash and a strange stalker shake her certainty. Suddenly, the impossible starts looking real.

Spring finally reaches Sequoia, but the calmer weather does not last. Zion and Tate are pulled into another murder just as life in town starts to feel almost normal.

This installment follows another life tipped off balance by grief and new possibility. Hamilton keeps the focus tight on personal choices, messy emotions, and what it takes to begin again.

In August, the series turns to another woman trying to make sense of grief, desire, and responsibility. It is a quiet but meaningful story about choosing motion over fear.

The series closes with its most decisive reckoning, bringing the year and its connected stories to a head. Grief is still present, but so is the possibility of a different life.

Another woman's year begins under the shadow of the same death, but her turning point looks different. Love, routine, and the future all feel less certain once she starts asking honest questions.

Heat, restlessness, and emotional pressure shape this midyear story. Another woman in the circle is pushed toward a decision that could change her future for good.

Summer brings another intimate turning point in the shared aftermath of loss. Old assumptions start falling away as one woman decides whether comfort is worth the price of standing still.

As spring edges closer, a new voice steps forward in the circle of women linked by tragedy. Her story is about pressure, self-knowledge, and the cost of staying where you no longer belong.

By May, the series has settled into its rhythm of connection and upheaval. Another woman faces the gap between the life people expect from her and the one she may actually want.

In the penultimate stretch, the accumulated weight of the year is impossible to ignore. Another woman has to reckon with what she owes other people and what she owes herself.

October adds darker emotional weather to the shared tapestry of the series. A woman already carrying loss finds herself at another crossroads, with no easy way to step back.

A gentle young reader story about a ghost kitten named Panda Bear. It leans playful more than scary, giving kids a sweet spooky adventure with plenty of heart.

As the year tilts toward fall, another connected life comes into focus. Hamilton explores what happens when private disappointments can no longer stay buried.

Bailey may be small, but that does not stop this determined young hero from facing the world head-on. It is a warm, kid-friendly story about courage packed into a little body.

During Sequoia's Greenwood Fest, Zion and Tate head to Los Angeles after a call from Tate's family. What should have been a visit turns into another murder case, this time inside a retirement park.

A case in Hamburg turns on ideas of creation, fear, and the stories people tell to excuse violence. Peyton's Ghost Squad must untangle the myth before the killer gets the chance to strike again.

Back in San Francisco, goblin rumors stir up another Ghost Squad case with deep roots in the city. Peyton has to move fast before folklore, panic, and murder blur into one another.

Hamilton reflects on family, pets, parenting, and everyday life through personal anecdotes gathered over several years. Humorous observations sit alongside experiences of fear and loss, exploring the pleasures and difficulties of raising children in a changing world.

California wildfires push Sequoia to the brink just as a dead body turns up in a burned-out shack. Zion and Tate have to clear an unlikely suspect before the mystery grows even larger.

Missing persons detective Everleigh Beckett works extra Christmas shifts to avoid her own troubles. A letter claiming a baby abducted decades ago is still alive sends her searching for the truth behind a possible reunion or inheritance scam.

After the night she almost died, Breanna's old life stops making sense. As new powers and dangerous players close in, she has to learn the rules of a world she never believed existed.

A trip to Whistler brings Peyton face to face with another case hiding behind a famous creature legend. Snow, isolation, and bad information make the hunt for the killer even harder.

Returning from family leave after her father's death, Peyton wants the comfort of work. Instead, a double homicide tied to a prominent wine-growing couple forces her to confront fresh grief while chasing justice.

San Francisco detectives Peyton Brooks and Marco D’Angelo investigate a football player’s Halloween murder. Suspects hidden behind clown, cowboy, and police costumes leave them racing to identify the killer before the disguises disappear into ordinary working lives.

Everleigh Beckett and private investigator Isaac Stern investigate the disappearance of a young woman whose family feared reporting her missing. A possible sighting near the Capitol offers a new lead in a case dormant for more than twenty years.

Las Vegas gives the Ghost Squad a loud, chaotic stage for a case dressed in pirate imagery and misdirection. Peyton knows the spectacle is fake, but the danger behind it is not.

Breanna's supernatural awakening leads to a final showdown in San Francisco. With rival forces closing in, she must protect the people she loves and decide how much of herself she is willing to surrender.

The treats served at Sequoia’s Caffeinator take center stage in this recipe companion to Zion Sawyer’s adventures. Dottie Madison’s baking supplies the inspiration, giving readers a way to recreate the sweets that accompany the fictional coffee shop’s drinks.

As Sequoia recovers from wildfires, Zion and Tate juggle holiday preparations and their family’s eccentric projects. Helping Rebekah arrange her wedding becomes more complicated when a suspicious attack threatens the celebration and puts the groom under scrutiny.

During a beach vacation, Rue Cyprus befriends an older woman and takes her dog along to dig in the sand. When money disappears from the woman’s cabin, Rue and her puppy Kasey investigate a suspect who cannot answer questions.

Returning from maternity leave, Peyton Brooks leads a new FBI team investigating attacks on gay men using a dating app. Personality clashes threaten the investigation as she struggles to protect further victims while balancing leadership with her growing family.

Peyton Brooks and Marco D’Angelo investigate the strangling of Mexican folk singer Ynes Linares with her own pearls. The victim’s fame left her surrounded by people demanding a share of her success, making motives plentiful and answers elusive.

A call from a woman claiming to be her sister forces Zion Sawyer to confront the biological family she never sought. The stranger wants help clearing their father of murder, leaving Zion uncertain whether to investigate or keep her distance.

Everleigh Beckett and Isaac Stern are asked to locate a witness hiding from a killer. As they search for the frightened woman, Everleigh questions whether forcing her to testify will bring justice or expose her to another deadly threat.

With Halloween approaching, Kasey discovers a black kitten hiding in the bushes. Rue hopes to keep their new companion, but her mother insists it may belong to someone else, sending Rue and her puppy searching for the kitten’s family.

A hospital patient claiming to be a boy who vanished forty years earlier draws Everleigh Beckett and Isaac Stern into an old abduction case. Their search leads toward an isolated mountain commune and an FBI agent pursuing his own investigation.

Travel writer Hazel Wallace retreats to an Oregon coastal resort to recover and reconsider her life. New friendships and an unexpected romantic connection challenge her plans for solitude, while the past she hoped to escape follows her there.

A tip revives Isaac Stern’s pursuit of a trafficker connected to a teenager’s death that ended his police career. Working with Everleigh Beckett, he races to identify the suspect while the man he hunted prepares his own revenge.

When a respiratory therapist is murdered, Peyton Brooks and Marco D’Angelo struggle with sparse evidence. The victim appears to offer help from beyond the grave, forcing the detectives to confront an impossible lead before her killer escapes.

Peyton investigates a cross burned at a civil rights activist’s home while Marco pursues a woman’s long-unsolved disappearance. A fresh murder divides his attention, complicating both detectives’ efforts to secure justice and make time for their daughter.

Wedding plans occupy Zion Sawyer until a motorcycle gang asks her to reopen an old bank robbery case. A dying prisoner insists he never killed the security guard, but investigating again could jeopardize Zion’s promise to leave sleuthing behind.

Rue and Kasey visit Grandma Cyprus for a Christmas filled with gingerbread, lights, and family surprises. When a boy disappears from his grandfather’s cabin, their holiday plans become a search to bring him home before Christmas Eve.

A church fire puts Peyton Brooks’s Hate Crimes Squad under political pressure as the investigation threatens to expose problems in the mayor’s administration. Meanwhile, Marco races to gather evidence against a suspect in a decades-old murder before he leaves the country.

Wealthy Ashlan Eldralin provides sanctuary for persecuted Stravad in a human protectorate, expecting gratitude from those he helps. Miraya resists his intervention after escaping abuse, but rising danger may force them to work together to survive.