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Norah Wilson Books in Order

Browse Norah Wilson books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy place-to-start picks for her suspense, mystery, and paranormal novels.

Last updated: July 5, 2026

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23 books

Haunted by Dreams

by Norah Wilson

2002

Seventeen years after Cassandra Ashe vanished from his life, psychologist John Deadmarsh meets her again in Fredericton. Old betrayal, old desire, and the needs of a vulnerable girl force them back into each other's orbit.

Every Breath She Takes / Lauren's Eyes

by Norah Wilson

2004

Veterinarian Lauren Townsend hides a psychic gift that lets her see violence before it happens. When a vision sends her to a ranch to stop a murder, she finds danger, desire, and rancher Cal Taggart.

Guarding Suzannah

by Norah Wilson

2010

Criminal defense lawyer Suzannah Phelps is being stalked, but she trusts the police least of all. Detective John Quigley steps in to protect her, and their courtroom sparks turn dangerous and personal fast.

Protecting Paige

by Norah Wilson

2010

Single mom Paige Harmer is desperate to pull her son away from bad influences. Her injured policeman neighbor Tommy Godsoe wants solitude, but helping Paige and Dillon may be the thing that brings him back to life.

Saving Grace

by Norah Wilson

2010

After a crash leaves Grace Morgan with amnesia, she wakes to hear she was leaving her detective husband for another man. Then bullets start flying, and the two are forced to run while chasing the truth.

Ashlyn's Radio

by Norah Wilson

2011

Sent to live with her grandmother in small-town Maine, Ashlyn Caverhill stumbles into local legends, a ghost train, and a cursed radio that predicts her death. To survive, she has to outrun a family curse.

Family Jewels

by Norah Wilson

2011

Dix heads to a Florida retirement complex when her mother becomes tangled in jewel thefts and a missing boyfriend case. Going undercover with Dylan and Mrs. P, she finds more chaos than sunshine.

Nightfall

by Norah Wilson

2011

Psychic photographer Sam Shea dreams weather before it happens, until vampire hunter Aiden Afflack changes her visions to scenes of bloodshed. Helping him stop rogue vampires means risking her life and her guarded heart.

The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen

by Norah Wilson

2011

Forty-year-old PI Dix Dodd leaves her old firm, hires a much younger assistant, and takes what should be an easy surveillance job. Instead, she lands in a murder investigation with herself squarely in the frame.

The Merzetti Effect

by Norah Wilson

2011

Vampire doctor Delano Bowen believes nurse Ainsley Crawford carries the bloodline that could help him cure vampirism and protect humans. Keeping her safe, and close, becomes far harder once desire and enemies close in.

The Summoning

by Norah Wilson

2011

Chthonic City is buckling under shared nightmares as demons begin crossing into the world. In a crumbling church, an ancient Guardian summons a group of teenagers to fight back through the dream state.

Comes the Night

by Norah Wilson

2012

At a harsh boarding school, three hurting teens find Connie Harvell's diary in the attic and learn how to cast their dark selves free. Escaping pain feels intoxicating, until the night starts taking more than it gives.

Needing Nita

by Norah Wilson

2012

Attorney Nita Reynolds thinks she may be dying, so she finally gives in to her long-running attraction to Detective Craig Walker. Then a medical mix-up changes everything, except the feelings she can no longer pretend away.

Death by Cuddle Club

by Norah Wilson

2013

When her least favorite detective asks for discreet help, Dix goes undercover inside a trendy cuddle club after suspicious deaths. The setup sounds absurd, but the danger turns out to be very real.

Embrace the Night

by Norah Wilson

2013

Brooke's choices leave Alex, Maryanne, and Brooke trapped even deeper in the caster world. With Heller stories spreading and frightened townspeople ready for violence, getting back to themselves may cost everything.

Enter the Night

by Norah Wilson

2013

Maryanne finds relief in casting, but the escape is turning into an addiction. As she falls for the son of a Heller hunter and panic spreads through town, the girls' secret grows harder to survive.

Covering Her Assets

by Norah Wilson

2014

Dix is hired to quietly protect an elderly millionaire from a possible killer before his new wife's inheritance window closes. Undercover inside a bizarre, tension-packed household, she and Dylan have to sort greed from genuine fear.

Fatal Hearts

by Norah Wilson

2014

Detective Boyd McBride refuses to believe his twin died of natural causes while tracing their birth parents. With medical resident Hayden Walsh at his side, grief, attraction, and buried secrets turn the case deadly.

Forever the Night

by Norah Wilson

2014

Four years later, Alex and Maryanne are still trying to save Brooke, whose cast is lost and whose body is failing. They need help from the living and the dead, while a relentless Heller hunter stays close behind.

The Eleventh Commandment

by Norah Wilson

2015

After a plague gives rise to a brutal Holy New Order, Maree Krystek flees the Prophet's compound to save her sister from a breeder's fate. Survival means trusting a guard captain she has every reason to fear.

A Fall from Yesterday

by Norah Wilson

2016

Defeated playwright Ocean Siliker returns home to Harkness and climbs the cliff where her best friend died. Search-and-rescue leader Titus Standish finds her there, and old grief gives way to a long-buried love.

Ember's Fire

by Norah Wilson

2016

Doctor Ember Standish hikes into a remote camp to treat an injured hiker and finds Jace Picard, the man who broke her heart. Storm-bound together, they start uncovering the truth behind their old breakup.

Promise Me the Stars

by Norah Wilson

2016

Restless Scott Standish comes home with a ten-year-old stowaway from his last job and soon crosses paths again with the boy's mother, April. At the family farm, temporary shelter starts feeling a lot like home.

Where should I start?

If you want romantic suspense: Guarding SuzannahSaving GraceProtecting Paige
If you want paranormal romance: The Merzetti EffectNightfall
If you want a funny cozy mystery: The Case of the Flashing Fashion QueenFamily JewelsDeath by Cuddle Club
If you want small-town second chances: A Fall from YesterdayEmber's FirePromise Me the Stars
If you want darker YA paranormal: The SummoningComes the Night

Author bio

Norah Wilson was born in Stanley, New Brunswick, the tenth of eleven children, and grew up in North Tay, where she attended Stanley High School. That Maritime background stayed with her, and many of her books remain closely tied to New Brunswick in setting, mood, or community.

She came to fiction a little later.

Wilson has said she started studying the craft of writing in her thirties. In those early years she was working full time and writing on weekends, building a career the slow way, with persistence rather than sudden luck. That steady start feels in tune with the books themselves, which tend to put ordinary people under pressure and then watch what they do next.

Her first major break came in stages. She was a finalist three times in Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart contest for unpublished writers, then won Dorchester Publishing's New Voice in Romance contest in 2003. That led to Lauren's Eyes, later republished as Every Breath She Takes, and helped launch her long run in romantic suspense and related genres.

Since then, Wilson has published both traditionally and independently. That helps explain the breadth of her bibliography. She is not a writer who stays politely in one lane, and readers who follow her for long usually end up seeing her move from suspense to paranormal to cozy mystery and back again.

She does not stay in one lane for long.

In books like Guarding Suzannah, Saving Grace, and Protecting Paige, she leans hard into romantic suspense. Lawyers, police officers, reporters, stalkers, family trouble, and sudden violence all show up there, but so do strong central women who are smart enough to know when things are going wrong. Many of those stories are set in Fredericton, and the local grounding gives them a lived-in feel that suits the danger.

Then there is the paranormal side. The Merzetti Effect and Nightfall bring vampires into the picture, but with adult characters, modern stakes, and a practical edge that keeps the stories from floating off into pure fantasy. The Standish Clan books, beginning with A Fall from Yesterday, move in a different direction again, toward small-town contemporary romance shaped by family history, grief, second chances, and the question of what home still means after life has knocked you sideways.

Wilson has also written with Heather Doherty, and those collaborations show another side of her range. Together they created the witty Dix Dodd mysteries under the name N.L. Wilson and darker YA paranormal books such as The Summoning and Ashlyn's Radio under Wilson Doherty. One minute she is writing about a sharp-tongued private investigator, the next she is dealing with demons, ghost trains, or girls slipping out into the night.

Across all of that, certain things stay steady. Readers tend to come for strong heroines, brisk pacing, and stories that mix romance with mystery, danger, or the uncanny. Wilson lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, with her husband and family, and she has said the province has shaped much of her fiction, especially the Serve and Protect books. That sense of place helps hold together a body of work that is wider, and more playful, than a single genre label suggests.

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