Rene Gutteridge Books in Order

Spoiled Jason Stevens expects money when his wealthy grandfather dies. Instead, he gets a year of monthly challenges that force him to learn the value of work, gratitude, love, and the kind of inheritance money cannot buy.

Editor Jonathan Harper starts receiving an anonymous manuscript that knows far too much about his private life. As temptation, career pressure, and a celebrated author's comeback collide, the pages force him to face who he has become.

Skary, Indiana, has built its whole identity around hometown horror star Wolfe “Boo” Boone. When Wolfe finds faith, quits writing scares, and starts courting Ainsley Parker, the town panics and plots to get its meal ticket back.

Dallas anchorwoman Macey Steigel returns to Kansas for her father's funeral after years away from home. Grief, old wounds, and a widowed neighbor with two young daughters push her toward long-delayed reckoning and possible healing.

With tourist dollars gone and Skary near bankruptcy, Wolfe Boone is selling cars while his fiancee, Ainsley Parker, becomes a rising domestic star. The town's fight for survival turns into a very funny crisis of identity.

FBI agent and storm chaser Mick Kline is reeling from his brother's murder and obsessed with finding the killer. His search leads to a frightened widow, a possible serial predator, and danger in tornado country.

A shiny soccer complex and a suburban newcomer promise fresh money for Skary, but not everyone wants change. As the town splits over its future, Wolfe and Ainsley face very personal upheavals of their own.

In this prequel, Mick Kline wakes in a stranger's apartment and quickly becomes the prime suspect in a murder. On the run and cut off from almost everyone, he has to uncover the truth before it buries him.

Playwright Leah Townsend thinks she is managing just fine until her career wobbles, her boyfriend signs her up for conflict management, and outspoken Cinco Dublin crashes her routine. It is a funny, sharp story about finally standing up for yourself.

After the Hazard clown family falls apart, sheltered Hayden Hazard lands in a chaotic television newsroom. What starts as fish-out-of-water comedy turns into a real story involving on-air disasters, odd coworkers, and a scandal no one expected.

Years after the case that nearly ruined him, Mick Kline is pulled back in by mysterious letters and a death row claim of innocence. As he closes in on the truth, a kidnapping and a storm raise the stakes.

Christmas in Skary goes sideways when Lois Stepaphanopolis stages her wild version of A Christmas Carol. Then a marketing mix-up brings in an audience expecting something else entirely, and the whole town has to improvise its holiday spirit.

Mackenzie Hazard joins a ragtag undercover auto theft team led by a worn-out veteran cop. Her blunt honesty and unpolished faith unsettle everyone around her just as the case grows more dangerous than anyone expected.

Hank Hazard takes a job as an incognito airline evaluator and boards a flight packed with eccentric crew members, suspicious passengers, and total chaos. What should be a routine report turns into a comic airborne crisis.

Jessie Stone has spent years dreaming up the perfect love story and wondering why it never arrives. After heartbreak and disappointment, she is pushed to stop scripting every detail and trust that romance may not look the way she planned.

In quiet Marlo, private conversations start appearing online for everyone to read. Suspicion spreads fast, and as fear turns neighbors against each other, one determined local tries to stop the voice tearing the town apart.

Burned out after the D.C. sniper investigation, Vance Graegan moves his family across the country for a fresh start. When the movers hold their belongings hostage, a simple crisis opens the door to something much darker from his past.

After her husband is arrested for fraud, singer Faith Carraway leaves New York and returns to her family's Southern farm. Home forces her to face broken relationships, hard truths, and whether love can survive betrayal.

Widowed blogger Jules Belleno posts a negative review of her favorite novelist and soon vanishes. Held in isolation by a man haunted by his own past, she must figure out why she was taken before the truth destroys her.

After being left at the altar, Hope Landon disappears, returns to find people think she is dead, and heads to New York for a reset. A greeting card job and an unexpectedly wounded boss offer her a second chance.

A summer of loss, first-time parenthood, empty-nest fears, and family strain brings four households to a turning point. Through grief and everyday chaos, they are reminded how brief the parenting years really are.

Rene Gutteridge and Cheryl McKay break down how to turn a screenplay into a satisfying novel. With practical examples and craft advice, they cover structure, point of view, expansion, and collaboration.

Aly Brewster asks her best friend Nick to fake an engagement in hopes of jolting her parents out of divorce. The plan gets bigger, messier, and far more real as performance and genuine feeling start to blur.

Former frat boy Clay Walsh now lives by strict rules about love, faith, and courtship. When free-spirited Amber Hewson rents the apartment above his shop, both have to confront the past before an unusual romance can grow.

This short nonfiction collection reflects on the writing life when the spotlight is gone. Gutteridge focuses on craft, persistence, and the quiet work of showing up even when the reward is far from immediate.

Co-written with Bridgette Cameron Ridenour, this memoir looks at family, grief, faith, and purpose through stories from her childhood and later life. It follows a woman learning that being overlooked is not the same as being forgotten.