RC Stephens Books in Order
Explore RC Stephens books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and simple suggestions on where to start across her romance worlds.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
18 books
Bitter Sweet Love
by RC Stephens
2015
Alexis White reinvented herself at college after an abusive childhood and a broken heart. Then a charming French stranger and the boy who once betrayed her both pull her into a love story full of danger and hard choices.
Wild Cards
by RC Stephens
2015
A chance meeting throws together two wounded people who have both learned to numb the pain. As their walls start to crack, love becomes the one risk neither of them knows how to survive.
Dick
by RC Stephens
2016
Divorced dad Dixon Crawford has a bad reputation and likes it that way, until his son's kindergarten teacher gets under his skin. Eden seems off-limits, but helping her through trouble at home changes everything.
Halo
by RC Stephens
2016
She thought Thomas Wells was forever, until the Navy SEAL left her pregnant and broken. Years later, a wounded soldier named Ryder offers a second chance at love, but he is hiding a truth that could shatter it.
Mr. All Wrong
by RC Stephens
2017
When Evie throws a cream pie at Illinois governor Colton Mathis, it is not exactly a meet-cute. Their instant spark collides with trust issues, political pressure, and the kind of secrets that can wreck a future.
Big Stick
by RC Stephens
2018
NHL star Myles has women, fame, and hockey, until Flynn, his best friend's twin sister, moves in next door. Old hurt still stands between them, and the secrets he keeps could destroy any chance of a fresh start.
Fraud
by RC Stephens
2018
After eleven years of marriage, a woman realizes her husband is built on lies. As his secrets spiral, she turns to Hayes, a younger former sailor, and finds danger, desire, and a life she never expected.
Mr. So Wrong
by RC Stephens
2018
Two people who look completely wrong for each other find themselves pulled together by fierce attraction and messy truths. This romance mixes sharp banter, family pressure, and emotional fallout as desire turns dangerously real.
Butt Ending
by RC Stephens
2019
Sloane has wanted Oli, her best friend's brother, for years, but the sexy hockey player keeps her at arm's length. A road trip, a puppy, and nowhere to hide force their friendship into much riskier territory.
Dirty Swedish Player
by RC Stephens
2019
After a viral scandal, NHL bad boy Nils needs a fake girlfriend fast. Sierra, his former stepsister, needs money even more, but pretending gets complicated when old resentment turns into real heat.
The Truth About Us
by RC Stephens
2019
Jolie and Griffin were first loves until he left without an explanation. Years later, a funeral brings them home, where old heartbreak, family history, and unfinished feelings make their second chance impossible to ignore.
Deceit
by RC Stephens
2020
Love and trust start to blur in this tense romantic suspense story, where hidden motives and buried secrets refuse to stay buried. The deeper the attraction grows, the harder it becomes to tell who is telling the truth.
Heartless Player
by RC Stephens
2021
Rebel thinks campus hockey captain Wolfe Judd is exactly the kind of guy who could hurt her. But as he sees past her scars and she sees past his charm, their chemistry opens up secrets on both sides.
Ruthless Player
by RC Stephens
2021
Holland wants med school, not a cocky hockey star, but Cole Davis is suddenly impossible to ignore. As their friends pull them together, one stolen kiss turns into a high-stakes romance neither planned for.
Broken Player
by RC Stephens
2022
Blossom is done with men, but working at the Firken keeps her close to Darren, the grumpy boss she cannot quite quit. Years of almost-moments force two bruised hearts to decide if they can risk more.
Callous Player
by RC Stephens
2022
Poppy has a crush on Declan McAvoy, her brother's teammate and campus hockey star, but he should be off-limits. Her article, his NHL hopes, and the secrets between them make every step closer a gamble.
Damaged Player
by RC Stephens
2022
Since her accident, Cait hides behind her prosthetic and a careful routine, certain Evan will never notice her. Then Noah offers to help her build confidence, and their arrangement starts feeling a lot less fake than either expected.
Reckless Player
by RC Stephens
2022
Paris has loved her best friend Ryse forever, but a single mom and a future pro hockey player should not make sense. A fake engagement pulls them close enough to test whether friendship can survive the truth.
Where should I start?
If you want emotional college hockey romance: Heartless Player → Ruthless Player → Callous Player → Reckless Player
If you want NHL romance with more banter and heat: Big Stick → Butt Ending → Dirty Swedish Player
If you want messy, emotional standalones: Halo → Fraud → The Truth About Us
If you want her darker early work first: Bitter Sweet Love
Author bio
R.C. Stephens was born in Toronto, Canada, and she still calls the city home. She earned a master's degree in political science from York University, which is not the usual path into writing romance, but it does fit the way her books are built, with emotion, tension, and people pushed into hard choices.
She was a romance reader long before she was a romance novelist. She has talked about loving stories with drama, suspense, and a real happy ending, and that mix still runs through her work. After years of saying she would write a book one day, she finally sat down and started the story that became her Twisted series.
That first leap turned into a writing career.
Her early books lean into heavier, more angsty contemporary romance. Bitter Sweet Love introduces Alexis White, a heroine trying to outrun an abusive past and a broken heart, only to get pulled into even messier feelings. Halo takes a more emotional, wounded-road-back-to-love path, while Fraud mixes marriage trouble, secrets, and romantic suspense. Even in the darker books, Stephens tends to keep one thing steady, the belief that damaged people can still build something good together.
Then there is the hockey side of her catalog, which has become one of her clearest lanes. In Big Stick and the Westfall U books, the heroes may be NHL stars or campus standouts, but they are rarely simple alpha types. They carry guilt, family pressure, injuries, grief, or private fears, and the heroines usually meet that energy head-on. Heartless Player, for example, pairs a campus hockey captain with a heroine who is dealing with scars of her own, and that balance between swagger and vulnerability shows up again and again in Stephens's romances.
She also likes stories where the past never stays quiet for long.
That is part of what makes books like The Truth About Us work for her readers. First loves, second chances, hidden history, and old mistakes have a way of resurfacing in her stories at exactly the worst moment. She writes a lot about trust, about people who have every reason to keep their guard up, and about what happens when they finally let someone close anyway. The settings shift from college campuses to hockey arenas to more standalone contemporary worlds, but the emotional engine stays pretty consistent.
As her audience grew, Stephens became a Top 100 Amazon bestselling author. The label matters less than the pattern behind it. Readers come to her for emotional contemporary romance, a good amount of heat, and characters who feel bruised but still hopeful. Her books often blend humor with heavier material, so a flirty setup can turn into something more layered once the backstory starts to surface.
Off the page, the details she shares are refreshingly ordinary. She is an avid reader, she has said her husband was her first teenage love, and she lives in Toronto with her husband and their three children. That real-life steadiness sits nicely beside books that are full of chaos, longing, and hard-won happy endings.
If you like contemporary romance with hockey players, strong heroines, wounded heroes, family complications, and a lot of feeling, her work is easy to settle into and hard to read only one of.
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