Rachel Ann Nunes Books in Order
Explore Rachel Ann Nunes books in order, from Ariana to Autumn Rain, with short summaries, connected series, and easy help on where to start.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
38 books
The Making of a Queen
by Rachel Ann Nunes
1996
On her wedding night in Paris, nineteen-year-old Ariana de Cotte is haunted by loss, rage, and the feeling that her life is already broken. This opening novel follows her downward spiral and the first fragile steps toward faith and change.
A Gift Most Precious
by Rachel Ann Nunes
1997
Ariana and her friend Paulette have both rebuilt their lives, but the past is not done with them yet. As their families face tragedy, the novel asks what faith can hold when joy and sorrow arrive together.
A Bid for Love
by Rachel Ann Nunes
1998
Rival art buyers Cassi and Jared clash over a valuable Indian Buddha that far too many dangerous people want. Their bidding war turns into a breathless chase through forgery, crime, and a romance neither planned for.
A New Beginning
by Rachel Ann Nunes
1998
Ariana and Jean-Marc have built a strong family life, then disaster strikes from several directions at once. Financial ruin, family crisis, and a threatening ex-husband test everything Ariana believes about endurance and hope.
A Glimpse of Eternity
by Rachel Ann Nunes
1999
Ariana's daughters step into adulthood carrying love, grief, illness, and big decisions of their own. As the Perrault family faces new heartbreak in France and America, the next generation must learn how faith survives loss.
Framed for Love
by Rachel Ann Nunes
1999
With her wedding only days away, Cassi discovers that Jared has vanished. To find him, she must plunge back into a world of crime, revenge, and old enemies who are not finished with either of them.
To Love and to Promise
by Rachel Ann Nunes
1999
Brionney Fields thinks she has found her fairy-tale ending in marriage and motherhood, until a shocking discovery shatters that dream. Picking up the pieces means deciding whether love is still worth trusting.
A Greater Love
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2000
Street orphan Miguel and his little sister cross paths with Daniel and Cristina Andrade, a couple with wounds of their own. Set in Portugal, the story weaves past mistakes, buried longings, and the stubborn possibility of grace.
Love on the Run
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2000
Newlyweds Cassi and Jared should be settling into married life, not outrunning old enemies. Their honeymoon turns dangerous when vengeance resurfaces and a vulnerable boy needs their protection.
Tomorrow and Always
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2000
Karissa and Malcolm seem to have built a perfect life on Kodiak Island, but infertility, distance from faith, and an old secret are pulling them apart. Friendship with Brionney and Jesse pushes Karissa toward a confession that could change everything.
Bridge to Forever
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2001
Widowed Mickelle thinks Damon Wolfe and his children might be the second chance she never expected. But fear, family tension, and a dangerous man from the edges of the story make her wonder whether love is healing her or leading her toward another loss.
Daughter of a King
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2001
Katie grows up in a poor farming family, yet her parents teach her she is really the daughter of a king. This gentle allegory invites children to think about kindness, honesty, and divine worth.
This Time Forever
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2001
Mickelle fights to hold together a painful marriage while Rebekka arrives in America still loving a man who may never love her back. Their linked stories explore heartbreak, faith, and the hard search for home.
This Very Moment
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2001
Plastic surgeon Bill Dubrey looks successful from the outside, but a buried tragedy has frozen his heart. When Kylee Stewart reenters his life, friendship, faith, and old pain force them both to ask what healing really takes.
Ties That Bind
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2002
Rebekka and Marc have finally reached the point where forever feels close, and then illness changes everything. As fear and love pull in opposite directions, Rebekka must decide how much heartbreak she is willing to risk.
Twice in a Lifetime
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2002
A devastating loss leaves Rebekka unable to imagine happiness again. Longtime friend André Perrault wants to help, but moving forward may require her to loosen her hold on the life she thought was certain.
A Heartbeat Away
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2003
When young Kristin is kidnapped, her family begins to break under the weight of fear, blame, and grief. Told from both earthly and spiritual angles, the novel follows a desperate search for truth and healing.
Where I Belong
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2003
Heather Samis and Tanner Wolfe have grown from next-door friends into something far more complicated. As Heather chases her dream of becoming an artist, she must decide whether love and purpose can fit inside the same life.
In Your Place
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2004
Raelyn Love thinks she has found the man she was meant to marry, but her heart keeps pulling in unexpected directions. Blending young romance with pre-earth questions about destiny, this early novel asks whether love can outlast the veil.
No Longer Strangers
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2005
Mitch Huntington expected to be a fun uncle figure, not the guardian of a toddler who suddenly needs him completely. As Emily Jane's aunt schemes to take the child, Mitch and Cory must decide what is real, and what is best for the little girl.
The Secret of the King
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2005
Javan and Lia dream of becoming famous knights in the King's army. Instead, they learn that courage and service do not always look the way children imagine, and that different gifts matter in the fight between good and evil.
Winter Fire
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2005
Amanda Huntington thinks heartbreak may have closed the door on romance, until Blake Simmons and the two children in his care change everything. But love with Blake means stepping into a custody battle and risking more pain.
By Morning Light
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2006
Widowed mother Kerrianne Huntington has spent years surviving, not hoping. When a kind widower and his children begin stepping into her everyday life, she must decide whether a heart still grieving can make room for love again.
Chasing Yesterday
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2006
Savvy's life is upended when a troubled teenager appears and claims to be her half-sister. As she digs into the girl's past, Tyler Huntington returns to her life and forces her to reconsider what, and who, she left behind.
Flying Home
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2007
Liana was orphaned in India as a child and has never fully felt at home in the family that raised her. A journey back to India forces her to confront old memories, buried questions, and the possibility of love.
The Independence Club
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2007
Five single women start a weekly brunch club and end up becoming each other's safety net. Through romance, divorce, loneliness, and fresh starts, they discover how much friendship can change a life.
Eyes of a Stranger
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2008
Tawnia McKnight's new life begins on the same day a bridge collapse throws strangers together and exposes buried secrets. As she and Autumn unravel a mystery about family and identity, danger follows close behind.
Fields of Home
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2008
Mercedes Johnson has built a hard-won life on a Wyoming farm with her husband and sons. When the birth father of her oldest child returns, old lies, unfinished feelings, and a fight over family threaten everything she has made.
Saving Madeline
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2009
Public defender Caitlin McLoughlin is tired of helping violent men walk free, but her latest client may not be the villain the case suggests. To save little Madeline, Caitlin must risk her career, trust her instincts, and sort truth from appearances.
Imprints
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2010
Autumn Rain can read emotions left on objects, a gift that draws desperate families to her door. When two missing-girl cases seem linked, Autumn steps into a dark mystery that could uncover truth, danger, and the first hints about her own past.
Before I Say Good-Bye
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2011
After twenty years away, Rikki Crockett returns home to Utah with her two children and nowhere else to turn. Old wounds reopen as two families grow tangled together, and Rikki must face the past while hiding just how urgent her future has become.
Shades of Gray
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2011
Autumn Rain is drawn into a case that tangles Jake Ryan's past with her unsettling gift. As loyalties shift and motives grow murky, Autumn learns that the truth rarely comes in clean black-and-white lines.
The Gift of Angels
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2011
Angela Thornberry is facing cancer and cannot understand why everyone else seems to receive miracles while her family keeps losing ground. This short, heartfelt novel follows a woman wrestling with faith, need, and the possibility of unseen help.
Zero G
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2011
Jordan Riley dreams of becoming a spaceship captain, so a trip to Earth sounds perfect, until he, his brother Miles, and their friend Taina end up in zero gravity and real danger. To save themselves and the ship, they will need quick thinking and teamwork.
Final Call
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2012
Autumn Rain uses her ability to read imprints to search for a missing actress, only to uncover an older mystery involving vanished performers and a dead body. As fake trails blur with real ones, the case also exposes a clue to Autumn's own past.
Line of Fire
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2012
Autumn Rain and Detective Shannon Martin investigate the disappearance of a young girl, and the evidence points toward Autumn's biological father. Lost evidence, old secrets, and more than one missing victim make this case painfully personal and dangerously close.
Blinded
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2014
When a string of suspicious deaths among the elderly points to a killer, Autumn Rain goes undercover at estate sales beside Detective Shannon Martin. A repeated imprint, a dangerous favor owed to Nicholas Russo, and a brush with death push her gift to its limit.
On Blackberry Hill
by Rachel Ann Nunes
2016
This later standalone turns toward family strain, emotional crossroads, and the pull of places that still hold old memories. It is a quieter Rachel Ann Nunes story, built around healing, hard choices, and the hope of a fresh start.
Where should I start?
If you want a big family saga rooted in faith: The Making of a Queen → A Gift Most Precious → A New Beginning → A Glimpse of Eternity
If you want paranormal suspense: Imprints → Shades of Gray → Final Call → Line of Fire
If you prefer warm family-centered romance: Winter Fire → No Longer Strangers → Chasing Yesterday → By Morning Light
If you want fast romantic suspense: A Bid for Love → Framed for Love → Love on the Run
Author bio
Rachel Ann Nunes grew up in Provo, Utah, and stories were part of her life early. She learned to read when she was four, and by seventh grade she was already writing and thinking seriously about becoming an author.
Writing stuck.
That early start turned into a long, varied career. Nunes has written family-centered romance, suspense, women's fiction, picture books, and even middle grade science fiction, but her books tend to come back to the same human questions. How do families survive grief? What does forgiveness really cost? What happens when love, loyalty, and faith all pull in different directions at once?
Her first published novel was The Making of a Queen in 1996. That book launched the Ariana saga, a France-set family series that grew into one of the central pillars of her fiction. She has said the earliest spark for those books came from time she spent in France as a child, and that sense of place stayed with her. The Ariana novels have the broad, emotional sweep that shows up again and again in her work.
She doesn't stay in one lane for long.
Readers who want her warmer, family-driven stories often gravitate to books like Winter Fire, No Longer Strangers, and Before I Say Good-Bye. These novels focus on widows, single parents, children in vulnerable situations, and adults trying to build something steady after disappointment. If you want to see her more suspenseful side, Imprints is a good example. It opens the Autumn Rain line, where a heroine who can read emotions from objects gets pulled into missing-person cases and dangerous secrets. And for younger readers, Nunes also wrote books like Daughter of a King, The Secret of the King, and Zero G.
She also publishes under other names. As Rachel Branton, she has written contemporary romance, and as Teyla Branton she has written science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal stories. Even so, there is a thread that connects the work. She likes high feeling, close relationships, strong moral choices, and characters who have to work hard for hope.
Some of her best-known settings are far apart, but they serve a similar purpose. France matters in Ariana. Utah and contemporary American communities matter in many of the romances. Alaska appears in one connected storyline, and Portugal in another. The locations change, but the emotional focus does not. Nunes is usually interested in what home means, how people carry the past, and whether damaged relationships can be rebuilt.
At home, she and her husband, TJ, are the parents of three boys and four girls. She has written with a lot of good humor about trying to fit work into family life, trading chores for computer time when she can, writing during the week from a home office, and keeping one personal rule about not eating chocolate at the computer.
That mix of steadiness and range helps explain why readers keep returning to her books. Whether she is writing a large family saga, a clean romantic suspense, or a short spiritual picture book, Rachel Ann Nunes keeps the focus on people first. Her stories are emotional, direct, and hopeful, but they usually earn that hope the hard way.
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