Rogue Winter Books in Order

Rogue Winter picks up after the events of the first Rogue River set and drops the same characters into a brutal holiday season. The deep freeze hitting Solitude, Oregon, isn’t just a backdrop—it shapes every decision the characters make as they scramble to stay ahead of a killer.

The novellas follow two couples: county investigator Seth Harding and social worker Carly Taylor, and police chief Zane Duncan with officer Stevie Taylor. For Seth and Carly, a homicide with a missing family member turns their plans for a quiet Christmas into a frantic search through snow-choked back roads. Zane and Stevie face their own nightmare when a second victim is discovered and the evidence suggests that Solitude might be harboring more than one murderer.

Holiday lights, frozen farms, and treacherous ice create the sense that even familiar streets can become dangerous in an instant.

Kendra Elliot’s entry, Dead in Her Tracks, leans into those contrasts: cozy domestic moments at the Taylor farm collide with crime-scene tape, and the stress of living together for the first time mixes with the fear that a predator is taking advantage of the storm. The result is a compact winter thriller that still advances the long-running relationships from Rogue River.

Rogue Winter is best read after the original Rogue novellas, but it stands on its own as a snapshot of a community under pressure. If you like snowbound mysteries, complicated families, and the idea of Christmas in a town where the sheriff’s office never really sleeps, this is the corner of Elliot and Leigh’s world to start with.