Nicky James Books in Order

Doctor Chase lives under his family's expectations despite new freedom to love within Edovia. Persistent soldier Aaron challenges his guarded existence, but painful histories and an approaching war test whether either man can build the relationship he needs.

Captain Brandon has found love with King Alistair and worked to leave his past behind. When negotiations intended to end a war collapse, a devastating punishment threatens to undo his recovery and the future the two men fought to secure.

Unexpectedly crowned, Alistair struggles to govern while council pressure and impending war surround him. His attraction to clever recruit Brandon opens a forbidden relationship, forcing the young king to navigate jealousy, secrecy, and laws that oppose his own heart.

Preschool teacher Zander hides the abuse that has gradually isolated him from friends and himself. Newly returned Tanner offers friendship, but falling in love complicates his efforts to help Zander reclaim a life beyond his controlling relationship.

Stripped of his title after a disastrous mistake, Prince Evander flees into the forest and meets isolated seer Mathias. Their growing love faces a difficult choice when Mathias foresees bloodshed in the kingdom that cast Evander out.

Closeted stagehand Julian hopes to finish the final show before Christmas and keep his private life discreet. The arrival of flamboyant actor Twinkle Star disrupts those plans, bringing attraction that proves difficult to conceal behind the scenes.

Returning to college to escape a stagnant routine, Vaughn meets Oryn, who lives with dissociative identity disorder. As he falls in love, Vaughn must learn to understand Oryn's distinct identities and the challenges shaping his daily life.

Mortician Finnley avoids both sleep and emotional commitment while living with a debilitating fear of his bedroom. When Aven asks him out, the possibility of love challenges him to confront the past and accept another person's support.

Biologist Aspen encounters a deeply distrustful man living in a secluded mountain cabin while finishing a bear-research project. Familiarity and attraction draw him toward Huxley, whose hidden fears complicate every attempt to understand why he withdrew from the world.

Six years after a cruel prank, Rory's life remains constrained by an overwhelming phobia. Young therapist Adrian offers him a path toward recovery, but their growing attraction complicates the professional boundaries on which that help depends.

Four years after crossing boundaries they believed should never have been breached, two people find the past returning. Renewed feelings challenge the rules that separated them, forcing them to confront the consequences of pursuing a forbidden relationship again.

Blacksmith Jacob shoulders responsibility for his grieving family, leaving little freedom to follow his own wishes. Attraction to courier and thief Elliot challenges his principles, while Elliot's hidden past and dangerous choices threaten any future they might share.

Andrew hopes Christmas with his fiancé will restore the family traditions he misses, but their expectations differ sharply. A disastrous Toronto visit introduces caring Xavier, whose warmth prompts Andrew to reconsider the relationship he has been trying to preserve.

Ireland longs for closeness but lives with a fear of physical touch that makes intimacy difficult. Raven offers patience and affection, yet setbacks force both men to consider what trust, support and a lasting relationship will require.

Krew brings his friends together for a Christmas celebration filled with food, music and mistletoe. Amid the festive chaos, the couples revisit their connections and traditions while Max faces the emotions that the holiday season brings.

Arden reconnects with Iggy, his brother's older childhood friend, and discovers that romantic interest might be mutual. As their relationship develops, worsening fears and anxieties about rejection threaten Arden's ability to trust the future they could share.

Krew keeps emotional hurt at bay through casual encounters until he meets Max, an older widower. Their developing relationship challenges his defenses, while differences in age and experience make accepting the possibility of lasting love an uncertain prospect.

Six couples travel to Alberta for a phobia conference organized by Dr. Kelby and Dr. Mann. As they consider the next steps in their recovery and relationships, an unexpected visit from Krew adds complications to their gathering.

Separated after falling in love as teenagers, Gavin and Owen struggle through lives neither expected. Military service, painful secrets, and repeated setbacks shape their years apart as they search for a way back to the bond they lost.

After an accident leaves him recovering from an amputation, Grayson stays with his childhood best friend Beck. Sharing a bed intensifies feelings he has long hidden, but he believes Beck is straight and fears risking their friendship.

Overwhelmed by the demands of everyday decisions, Rigger longs for relief from the pressure inside his mind. Finding someone willing to offer guidance without judgment raises the possibility of a relationship in which he can finally feel accepted.

A man unexpectedly becomes central to another's life before a cruel separation takes him away. Years later, their reunion deepens the old bond, but pursuing their feelings means confronting the danger and prohibitions that surround it.

In 1827 England, magistrate Simon hides the same desire he condemns in his courtroom. When accused criminal James faces a death sentence, an overwhelming attraction forces Simon to question whether he can risk his position to save him.

Cowboy Easton refuses to sell his land to the arrogant outsider sent to negotiate a deal. Lachlan cannot afford to fail, but an unexpected kiss makes their clash over money and small-town life increasingly difficult to keep professional.

Knox insists he is straight despite a painful attachment to his best friend and a growing response to local bartender Lucky. Seeing feelings Knox cannot yet acknowledge, Lucky offers friendship while hoping their connection might become something more.

Disowned after coming out, student Atticus struggles to fund his final university year. A lucrative opportunity making adult content appears to solve his problems, but it requires another participant and blurs the boundary between performed intimacy and real feelings.

After an accident erases six months of memory, Shay learns that the man he remembers disliking claims to be his boyfriend. Josiah is also the only person who believes Shay's suspicions that the accident was deliberate.

Starting over as a death-row corrections officer, Anson forms a bond with Bishop, a man who insists he was wrongly convicted twenty years earlier. Their growing love faces institutional barriers and the approaching possibility of execution.

Freed after twenty years on death row, Bishop must adjust to a world transformed during his imprisonment. Trauma, unwanted publicity, and unfamiliar everyday demands complicate the relationship with Anson that helped him imagine a future beyond his cell.

Selective mutism and social anxiety have left Slater isolated but longing for companionship. Meeting Kaiser, who carries fears rooted in his own troubled childhood, gives both men a chance to build a connection that respects their vulnerabilities.

Fifteen years after abusive conversion therapy separated them, Oakland and Jameson meet again. Both still struggle with the beliefs forced on them as teenagers, and recovering their love requires confronting the lasting harm done to their sense of self.

Wealthy Leo flees a crisis and seeks help from freight-hoppers living beyond the rules of his former world. Killian offers escape and unexpected affection, but Leo's concealed past threatens the freedom and found family surrounding them.

After two years apart, Tyler learns that Elian is alive and struggling while traveling the rails. With help from fellow riders, he searches for his missing friend, hoping to recover a connection whose depth he is only beginning to understand.

Psychiatrist Cyrus is asked to evaluate a murder suspect and recognizes the man who recently broke his heart. Convinced the diagnosis conceals a different truth, he risks professional boundaries to investigate with River and uncover what really happened.

Two single fathers meet during cabin holidays with their teenagers, only to encounter strange broadcasts from a defunct radio station and a body in the lake. Their growing attraction becomes entangled with amateur sleuthing and someone determined to conceal the truth.

After his husband is arrested as a serial killer, Jason retreats into a new city, job, and identity. Persistent adult student Skylar offers unexpected warmth, but Jason's shattered trust makes accepting a new relationship difficult.

Charlie insists someone is stalking him, but his psychiatric history makes police dismiss his fears. Assigned to manage his concerns, impatient officer Takoda gradually notices troubling evidence and questions whether the danger is more real than anyone believes.

Rail rider Dodger believes a serial killer is targeting his community, while doctoral researcher Brady needs evidence to prove the theory. Their partnership requires Brady to join life on the freight trains, where danger and attraction complicate the search.

Rival detectives Quaid Valor and Aslan Doyle are forced to compete together at their department's first team-building day. Winning requires them to set aside professional hostility, but their mutual attraction creates another complication neither can easily dismiss.

A homicide victim's connection to Quaid draws him into an investigation alongside Aslan and his partner. As the detectives uncover secrets and lies, their renewed attraction makes it harder to keep the case separate from their personal lives.

As friends settle down, Willow keeps riding freight trains to seek answers about her past in Los Angeles. With a killer still active, lifelong friend Billie joins her, bringing long-unspoken romantic feelings into an already uncertain journey.

When a baby disappears in broad daylight, missing persons detective Quaid Valor reluctantly accepts help from homicide detective Aslan Doyle. The urgent investigation brings the rivals closer, even as Aslan's flirtation and Quaid's troublesome ex complicate their partnership.

Children begin reappearing in a case linked to the disappearance of Quaid's sister thirty years earlier. Pressure from family, colleagues and the investigation strains his new relationship with Aslan as the detectives search for a serial kidnapper.

A traumatic incident leaves Aslan struggling with his mental health, sobriety and the possibility of returning to police work. While Quaid supports his recovery, a puzzling missing persons case draws Aslan toward a job he fears he can no longer do.

Aslan buys an engagement ring, but his carefully planned proposal goes wrong and leaves Quaid suspicious. Called away to investigate a serial killer, he must balance a difficult case with increasingly unsuccessful efforts to reassure the man he hopes to marry.

Bowie discovers that the peaceful commune he joined punishes disobedience with deadly force. While planning escape, he becomes drawn to newcomer Foster, whose reckless curiosity threatens to expose them both before they can reveal the community's secrets.

When a missing teenager is found dead, Quaid questions his future in missing persons and joins Aslan and Torin's homicide investigation. Their work strengthens his bond with Aslan, but taking the next personal step requires feelings to be spoken aloud.

Quaid has less than three months to organize his wedding to Aslan at Strongwind Castle. Mandatory departmental festivities disrupt his schedule, prompting Aslan to enlist their friends as the couple navigates preparations, stress and the approaching celebration.

An awkward encounter introduces ambitious police records clerk Tallus to former officer Diem, now a private investigator. Tallus pushes to help with a difficult case despite Diem's resistance, complicating their uneasy cooperation with an evident mutual attraction.

Tallus brings Diem a case involving an allegedly murderous psychic, hoping to push their casual relationship toward commitment. Diem reluctantly agrees to investigate, only to discover that both the mystery and his feelings deserve more attention than he expected.

Thirty years after a broken childhood promise, Jersey reconnects with Koa, now an English teacher at an elite boarding school. Their renewed bond offers a chance at love, but Koa's unresolved trauma and closely guarded secrets threaten their future.

Music teacher Niles Edwidge fears being overshadowed when celebrated conductor Augustus Castellanos arrives as a guest teacher with his gifted daughter. Attraction develops between the men, but Augustus's troubled private life and temporary stay complicate their growing connection.

A dying man entrusts Tallus and Diem with an object he begs them to discard. Its apparent value divides the couple, but keeping it draws them into dangerous secrets that threaten their relationship and their lives.

Widowed forensic pathologist Dominique moves to Ottawa with his young child and buries himself in work. A murder investigation brings him close to detective Kobe, whose persistence challenges his grief as the case grows more dangerous.

With their baby due imminently, Quaid and Aslan confront a missing child case involving disturbing ransom notes and family secrets. When their surrogate goes into labor, Quaid struggles to leave an investigation in which another child's life remains at risk.

Facing financial collapse, Diem accepts a case involving a critically injured teenager and a mother who doubts the official accident theory. Bringing Tallus along offers support, but small-town secrets and mounting threats make the investigation increasingly personal.

Reluctant vampire heir Mordecai must rescue the elder who condemned him to immortality after a coup throws their hidden society into crisis. The mission draws him among humans, where falling for Ensley threatens the boundaries he refuses to cross.

A scam targeting a nursing-home resident draws Diem into an investigation involving a troubled teenager. As he and Tallus pursue the fraudster, questions about their own commitment compete with threats from a con artist determined to escape.

Reserved photographer Gale finds little direction after abandoning the seminary and an unfulfilling science degree. Reckless storm chaser Ozrik seeks freedom through a television opportunity, but competition with another team and their growing connection complicate the pursuit of tornadoes.

Diem and Tallus prepare for a small wedding designed around their shared future. Hoping to add a special touch, Diem rents a classic Camaro for the ceremony, only to discover on their wedding morning that someone has stolen it.