Rook and Ronin Books in Order
Part ofJA Huss Books in OrderFind the Rook and Ronin books in order by JA Huss, with quick summaries, series background, spin-off context, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
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Rook and Ronin books in publication order
6 books
Manic
by JA Huss
2013
Rook's life gets bigger when Spencer Shrike pulls her into a high-profile body art campaign. Fame, found family, and a returning threat put serious pressure on her life with Ronin.
Panic
by JA Huss
2013
Rook is chasing film school and a future, but the past is not done with either her or Ronin. Secrets hit hard in the book that tests everything they built.
Tragic
by JA Huss
2013
Rook Walsh is broke, hurting, and trying to disappear when Ronin offers her a job as his erotic modeling partner. What starts as survival becomes a second chance neither expected.
Meet Me in the Dark
by JA Huss
2015
Sydney has lived in fear ever since Merc failed to save her years earlier. When their paths cross again, lies, trauma, and attraction turn reunion into a brutal kind of reckoning.
Wasted Lust
by JA Huss
2015
Sasha Cherlin buried her bloody past and built a normal life, until Jax Barlow arrives with questions and a photograph. Their story pulls old Company wounds back into the open.
The Company
by JA Huss
2017
James Fenici is lethal, unstable, and impossible to control. When Harper Tate and young Sasha Cherlin get caught in the Company's machinery, family becomes the most dangerous thing in the room.
Rook and Ronin books in chronological order
Tragic
by JA Huss
2013Rook and Ronin, Book 1
Manic
by JA Huss
2013Rook and Ronin, Book 2
Panic
by JA Huss
2013Rook and Ronin, Book 3
Meet Me in the Dark
by JA Huss
2015Rook and Ronin, Book 4
Wasted Lust
by JA Huss
2015Rook and Ronin, Book 5
The Company
by JA Huss
2017Rook and Ronin, Book 6
Series background & context
If you want to understand the heart of JA Huss's connected romance world, Rook and Ronin is the place to start. The series begins with Rook Walsh, a young woman trying to outrun a terrible past, and Ronin Flynn, the man who offers her an erotic modeling job that looks like survival and quickly becomes much more complicated than that.
What makes these books memorable is not only the central romance. It is the way the world keeps opening. Rook and Ronin's relationship pulls in artists, bikers, con men, found family, dangerous friends, and a shadowy network of people whose decisions keep echoing into later series. By the time you move through Tragic, Manic, Panic, Ford, and Spencer, you can already see the entire Company universe starting to form.
The tone shifts as the books go. The early volumes are very romance-forward, built on chemistry, healing, and second chances. Then the suspense gets thicker. Criminal pasts, hidden loyalties, and long-running cons start pressing harder on everyone involved. That blend, sexy contemporary romance with an expanding thriller backbone, is part of why this series became such an important foundation for Huss.
It all starts here.
Even if you later branch off into Creeping Beautiful, the Company books, or The Misters, you will keep feeling the roots of this series underneath them. Rook and Ronin is emotional, dramatic, and often surprisingly funny in the spaces between danger. If you like found family, crossover payoffs, and the feeling of a story world getting bigger with every book, this is the right entry point.
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