Rosalind James Books in Order
Browse Rosalind James books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start with her New Zealand, Idaho, and Montana romances.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
44 books
Just for Fun
by Rosalind James
2012
A week in Fiji left Nic Wilkinson and Emma Martens with one perfect memory and one very complicated consequence. Reuniting in New Zealand means facing the past, the future, and whether one great mistake might become something better.
Just for Now
by Rosalind James
2012
After catching her husband cheating, Jenna McKnight rebuilds her life in Auckland by taking a nanny job with widowed rugby star Finn Douglas. The arrangement is supposed to be temporary, but the family starts to feel dangerously like home.
Just Good Friends
by Rosalind James
2012
Kate Lamonica runs to New Zealand to escape a dangerous stalker and ends up working near Maori rugby star Koti James. A six-week bet to stay just friends turns into the kind of risk neither of them planned to take.
Just This Once
by Rosalind James
2012
Burned out and needing space, Hannah Montgomery escapes to New Zealand and falls for rugby star Drew Callahan. Their holiday romance feels easy until Drew's secret makes her wonder whether she can trust him back home.
Just My Luck
by Rosalind James
2013
New All Blacks captain Nate Torrance cannot afford distractions, especially not adventurous Canadian climber Allison Villiers. But every trek, argument, and near miss makes it harder for either of them to treat this as a passing fling.
Nothing Personal
by Rosalind James
2013
Software star Alec Kincaid is used to getting what he wants, until Desiree Harlin refuses to become one more easy victory. In San Francisco, ambition, reputation, and old wounds make their attraction anything but simple.
Welcome to Paradise
by Rosalind James
2013
Mira Walker joins a living-history reality show in Idaho hoping for a reset and maybe a million-dollar prize. What she does not expect is Gabe Kincaid, the twin competitor who makes survival on the prairie a lot more distracting.
Asking for Trouble
by Rosalind James
2014
Alyssa Kincaid heads to San Francisco determined to straighten out her life, then crashes into Joe Hartman, the man she has wanted for years. Best friend's little sister rules make him hesitate, but trouble keeps finding them anyway.
Just for You
by Rosalind James
2014
In this prequel novella, carefree rugby star Hemi Ranapia and stubborn Reka Harata reconnect during a summer in New Zealand's Maori Northland. Old sparks, community ties, and unfinished business push them toward another chance.
Just Not Mine
by Rosalind James
2014
Rugby player Hugh Latimer is sidelined by injury and suddenly wrangling younger siblings instead of scrums. Neighbor and rising singer Josie Pae Ata seems off-limits, but family chaos and growing closeness keep pulling them together.
Just Once More
by Rosalind James
2014
Set during a New Zealand Christmas, this companion novel revisits Hannah and Drew Callahan as they juggle pregnancy, marriage, friends, and a house full of rugby players. It is a cozy, sexy check-in on how happily-ever-after keeps evolving.
Carry Me Home
by Rosalind James
2015
Professor Zoe Santangelo comes to Paradise, Idaho, chasing career goals, not romance. But when danger on campus grows and cowboy Cal Jackson keeps coming to her rescue, ambition and love stop feeling like opposites.
Fierce
by Rosalind James
2015
Hope Sinclair has too much responsibility and no time to be rescued, especially by a Maori millionaire CEO who seems far outside her world. Hemi Te Mana is intense, controlling, irresistible, and about to upend both their lives.
Hold Me Close
by Rosalind James
2015
Kayla Chambers and her son flee an abusive past and hide out in small-town Idaho. Patient, steady Luke Jackson wants to help, but loving him means believing safety and a future are both possible.
Just in Time
by Rosalind James
2015
Rugby star Will Tawera heads to Las Vegas for a fresh start and an NFL shot, then meets cautious single mother Faith Goodwin. Their easy spark turns serious when trouble from New Zealand follows Will across the Pacific.
Found
by Rosalind James
2016
Separated by distance and family complications, Hemi and Hope fight for the life they started together. This final book in the trilogy digs into trust, letting go, and what it takes to choose each other again.
Fractured
by Rosalind James
2016
Married life does not magically quiet Hemi Te Mana's past or his need for control. As old wounds resurface, he and Hope have to decide whether fierce love is enough to survive the pressure.
Just Stop Me
by Rosalind James
2016
Princess Nina Jones escapes her controlled life and hides out in a South Island beach cottage. There she clashes with All Black Iain McCormick, a local hero who wants a quiet off-season and definitely not more heartache.
Silver-Tongued Devil
by Rosalind James
2016
Retired quarterback Blake Orbison thinks he has his future mapped out until Dakota Savage literally crashes into his world in north Idaho. She wants nothing to do with the entitled football star tied to her family's troubles, which only makes him more determined.
Turn Me Loose
by Rosalind James
2016
Rochelle Marks is rebuilding her life when a one-night stand from months ago walks back into it. As crime and murder swirl around her younger sister, tech billionaire Travis Cochran has to prove he is more than bad timing and good chemistry.
Guilty as Sin
by Rosalind James
2017
SFPD officer Paige Hollander agrees to swap places with her identical twin for a little while in Sinful, Montana. Instead she lands in the path of brooding Australian ex-special-forces man Jace Blackstone and a danger that feels all too real.
Just Say Yes
by Rosalind James
2017
All Black Kevin McNicholl means to evict tenant Chloe Donaldson, not fall for her and her little boy. But as money pressures and old disappointments close in, their landlord-tenant standoff turns unexpectedly tender.
No Kind of Hero
by Rosalind James
2017
Burned-out lawyer Beth Schaefer comes home to Wild Horse, Idaho, and straight back into the orbit of Evan O'Donnell, the man she left behind. He has a baby daughter, a long memory, and no interest in being hurt twice.
Take Me Back
by Rosalind James
2017
Hallie Cavanaugh returns to Paradise because her late father's will gives her no real choice, and because old flame Jim Lawson is impossible to avoid. Secrets, inheritance games, and fresh danger turn their reunion into a fight for more than love.
Just Say (Hell) No
by Rosalind James
2018
Hard-edged rugby veteran Marko Sendoa wants discipline, not chaos. Instead he gets a pregnant cousin, a stray kitten, and a funny, unimpressed Maori barista who turns his ordered life upside down.
Sexy as Sin
by Rosalind James
2018
Serious businessman Brett Hunter does not do chaos, beaches, or magical thinking. Then an impulsive redhead drags him into the surf in Australia, and his carefully controlled life starts looking a lot less secure.
Tempting as Sin
by Rosalind James
2018
Lily Hollander already knows actors are trouble, so movie star Rafe Blackstone should be easy to resist. Unfortunately he is staying nearby in Sinful, aiming his protective streak at her family, and getting harder to hate by the minute.
Just Come Over
by Rosalind James
2019
Rhys Fletcher has spent years denying his feelings for his late brother's widow, Zora. Then a trip to the United States reveals a six-year-old girl who may be his daughter, and everything he has kept locked down starts to unravel.
Just Say Christmas
by Rosalind James
2019
A New Zealand summer Christmas brings weddings, second chances, and long-buried secrets for the sprawling Escape to New Zealand cast. This warm ensemble story is all about family, promises, and the people who show up when it counts.
Kiwi Rules
by Rosalind James
2019
A wounded former soldier comes home to New Zealand and winds up guiding whirlwind American Karen Sinclair through a string of quirky eco-adventures. Their road trip is funny, messy, and more intimate than either one expected.
Kiwi Strong
by Rosalind James
2020
Emergency nurse Daisy Kittredge escaped a cult years ago, but trust still comes hard. A sweet, sturdy Samoan former rugby player keeps showing up for her and her sisters, forcing Daisy to decide how much of herself she can finally share.
Shame the Devil
by Rosalind James
2020
Charming NFL star Harlan Kristiansen and practical Jennifer Cardello are supposed to share only one unforgettable night. Then family trouble, money worries, and old secrets make walking away a lot harder than either planned.
Stone Cold Kiwi
by Rosalind James
2020
A polished children's author and glamping entrepreneur watches her marriage implode just as charming doctor Matiu Te Mana enters the picture. With three redheaded kids and zero emotional bandwidth, falling in love is the last thing she needs.
Devil in Disguise
by Rosalind James
2021
Disciplined football star Owen Johnson knows nineteen-year-old Dyma Cardello is trouble for his orderly life. She has engineering dreams, a vegetarian streak, and no interest in being anybody's football accessory, which only sharpens the temptation.
Just One Look
by Rosalind James
2021
American neurosurgeon Elizabeth lands in New Zealand for a life reset and immediately tangles with rugby star Luka Darkovic, a damaged neck, and an enormous dog. Their chemistry is instant, but old loyalties and bad timing make love complicated.
Kiwi Gold
by Rosalind James
2022
A restless adventurer who would rather hunt gold than raise children finds himself helping a single mother with twin girls. Dating lessons, family drama, and a search for identity turn an awkward partnership into something warmer.
Kiwi Sin
by Rosalind James
2022
After leaving a cult with almost nothing, Gabriel is still learning how ordinary life works in Dunedin. Meeting the woman he wants to marry is the easy part, compared with untangling family loyalties, faith, and everyone else's objections.
Born to Sin
by Rosalind James
2023
Judge Quinn Jeffries has a rigid plan to finally make room for romance, but charming Australian single dad Beckett Hughes keeps wrecking it. Their awkward courtroom meet-cute, his kids, and a rescued dog make rule-following suddenly very hard.
Just for Me
by Rosalind James
2023
All Black prop Luke Armstrong is exhausted by years of hiding who he is. When smiling, resilient Hayden Allen crashes into his life, the possibility of love becomes both the risk Luke fears and the truth he cannot keep denying.
Catch a Kiwi
by Rosalind James
2024
Trying to start over in New Zealand, a determined woman and her young cousin lose their campervan in a cyclone. The rich, bossy stranger who helps them is the last man she wants to need, and exactly the one she cannot ignore.
Hell Bent
by Rosalind James
2025
Runaway almost-princess Alix is trying to trade a polished future for a life she can actually stand. Sebastian, a globe-trotting kicker who lives by not getting attached, is blindsided by her, a dumped dog, and a holiday season full of family chaos.
Hell to Pay
by Rosalind James
2025
At ninety-four, Marguerite returns to Dresden to reckon with the war, the family she saved, and the treasures she left behind. This sweeping historical romance traces the choices that led a young princess toward the wounded American GI she loved.
Heaven Forbid
by Rosalind James
2026
In 1947, eighteen-year-old German princess Marguerite crosses the Atlantic to join the Jewish American GI she married against the odds. Postwar prejudice, family pressure, and the realities of marriage test whether love can build a new home.
Just Watch Me
by Rosalind James
2026
A rugby-captain widower with three kids and a widow with three of her own discover that dating is complicated enough before school rules get involved. Add meddling relatives and household chaos, and their slow-burn romance becomes a full family event.
Where should I start?
If you want classic New Zealand rugby romance: Just This Once → Just Good Friends → Just for Now
If you want small-town romantic suspense: Carry Me Home → Hold Me Close → Take Me Back
If you want pro football and a big connected cast: Silver-Tongued Devil → No Kind of Hero → Shame the Devil
If you want quirky Montana with danger and heat: Guilty as Sin → Tempting as Sin → Born to Sin
If you want newer New Zealand stories: Kiwi Rules → Stone Cold Kiwi → Kiwi Strong
Author bio
Rosalind James grew up in Moscow, Idaho, and came to fiction later than many novelists do. Before she wrote a romance, she built a career as a marketing writer and executive, the kind of job that teaches you how to catch a reader fast and keep a story moving.
Then life took her farther from home.
Her husband's engineering work took the family to Australia and New Zealand, and those years changed the shape of her writing life. James has said she was living in New Zealand during the 2011 Rugby World Cup, soaking up the country's scenery, humor, and near-religious love of rugby. Looking at those players, and at the way New Zealand treats them as public figures who are expected to behave well, she started wondering why nobody had turned them into romance heroes.
That question became Just This Once, the first Escape to New Zealand novel. It was also her first published fiction, written after she was fifty. From there she kept going, building connected stand-alone series where readers can drop in anywhere but still get the pleasure of returning to familiar families, teammates, and small towns.
Place matters in her books.
New Zealand is the setting many readers know her for, especially in Just This Once, Just Good Friends, and Kiwi Rules. Those books mix travel wish fulfillment, big feelings, and a lived-in sense of place. Later series shift the map without losing that grounded feel. Carry Me Home brings romantic suspense to small-town Idaho, Silver-Tongued Devil moves into pro football and north Idaho resort country, and Guilty as Sin heads to quirky, dangerous Montana.
What readers tend to like in James's work is not just the steam or the scenery, though both are definitely there. She writes competent adults, funny family chaos, men who can be tough without turning cruel, and women who are often rebuilding a life after heartbreak, burnout, fear, or plain old bad luck. Kids, siblings, exes, teammates, neighbors, and dogs all matter. So do second chances.
She also likes a wide emotional range. One book may center on an All Black rugby star, another on a judge in Montana, another on a woman escaping an abusive past, and another on a billionaire whose money solves very little. Even when the hooks are high concept, the pull is usually personal: trust, belonging, loyalty, and the question of how to make a real life with another person once the fantasy wears off.
James has named Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Susan Elizabeth Phillips among the writers she loves, and you can see some of that in the mix of wit, romance, and strong character beats. At the same time, her path into fiction was very much her own. She has talked openly about being surprised by her success and about learning the business while doing it.
Her bios have long placed her in Berkeley, California, with her husband Rick and their Labrador, Charlie.
Even so, New Zealand keeps pulling her back onto the page. That makes sense. For Rosalind James, the escape was never just the scenery. It was the story waiting inside it.
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