Sara Cate Books in Order
Explore all Sara Cate books in order, with reading guides, series overviews, book summaries, and tips on where to start with her taboo, high-heat romances.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
26 books
Delicate
by Sara Cate
2019
Tattoo artist Logan knows the rules on Wicked Beach: locals like him do not touch the rich girls who visit every spring break. Sierra has watched him from the window since she was a teenager, and when she returns older and bolder, he finally gives in. One intense week of stolen moments tangles her future with his addiction, crime, and the danger that clings to their sun-soaked town.
Defiant
by Sara Cate
2020
Rafe Nolan keeps Wicked Beach safe by doing whatever it takes, even if that meant putting Shelby’s brother behind bars ten years ago. Now Shelby has moved in next door intent on revenge, armed with secrets that could destroy him. Their feud turns into a charged, enemies-to-lovers spiral as both confront past abuse, buried desire, and the question of whether they can trust each other with the truth.
Gravity
by Sara Cate
2020
Still grieving her twin sister’s death, Zara is stunned when billionaire Alistair Wilde offers her a million dollars to pose as his troubled son Nash’s girlfriend on their private island. Living with both men on remote Del Rey turns the job into something far riskier than she imagined. Bound by shared loss and forbidden attraction, the three must decide which rules they are willing to break for love.
Beautiful Monster
by Sara Cate
2021
Bored socialite Alexander Caldwell moves to the suburbs hoping stability will fix his restless life, only to become obsessed with Sunny Thorn, the teenage artist painting a mural in his pool house. Sunny is desperate to escape her controlling mother and sees the job as her ticket out of town. Their forbidden age-gap attraction grows in the shadows between two neighboring houses, where one wrong move could ruin them both.
Beautiful Sinner
by Sara Cate
2021
A weary priest’s quiet life in a coastal village shatters when American traveler Cadence Thorn ends up stranded on his doorstep. Offering her a room is the right thing to do, but wanting her is not. As days stretch into nights filled with temptation, he wrestles with desire, faith, and the vows he is no longer sure he can keep.
Burn for Me
by Sara Cate
2021
Journalism professor Everly once exposed a corrupt businessman, sending him to prison and triggering a tragedy that has haunted her ever since. When his son Cullen turns up in her classroom, he is determined to make her pay, turning her life into a campaign of relentless torment. Their toxic push and pull twists into scorching attraction, forcing Everly to confront buried guilt and the dark secrets surrounding his family.
Dangerous
by Sara Cate
2021
Murph is content with his reputation as the dangerous one, happy to run his tattoo shop and keep everyone at a distance. When Savannah unexpectedly inherits the business and holds the deed to his future, they are forced into an uneasy partnership. Attraction smolders beneath sharp words and clashing plans, pulling them together even as secrets, trauma, and pride threaten to blow everything apart.
Four
by Sara Cate
2021
After her family is destroyed by a monster, a young woman follows her father’s dying command to find Silas Black. She discovers a dangerous patriarch and his fractured sons, men bound by secrets and violence. Drawn into their world while plotting revenge, she must decide whether these brutal, magnetic brothers are her allies, her lovers, or her downfall.
Free Fall
by Sara Cate
2021
Trying to outrun what happened on Del Rey, Nash Wilde flees to Amsterdam and falls into an intense, life-altering connection with his father’s older friend, Ellis Prior. Unable to face what that relationship reveals, he retreats to the island and loses himself in a fling with ballerina Hanna Thurber. When Ellis arrives on Del Rey, desire among the three ignites into an undeniable MMF bond that forces Nash to stop running from who he is.
Eyes on Me
by Sara Cate
2022
Garrett Porter is a voyeur and one of the owners of the Salacious Players Club, happiest watching from the sidelines. A late-night scroll on a cam girl app reveals his stepsister Mia performing for strangers, and he cannot look away. Hiding behind a screen name, he becomes her favorite client, until shared summers at the family lake house make it impossible to keep fantasy and real life apart.
Fire and Ash
by Sara Cate
2022
A jaded English professor blows off steam with a rough, unforgettable hookup with a tattooed mechanic, only to discover the next day that Pax Smith is a star player in his university’s rugby program. Their illicit spark clashes with the reality of a teacher-student power imbalance and Pax’s determination to stay in the closet. What began as a one-time mistake turns into a dangerous, addictive affair neither man is ready to end.
Five
by Sara Cate
2022
The conclusion of the Black Hearts story finds the heroine fully entwined with Silas and his sons as enemies close in on their new-made family. Old loyalties are tested, blood is spilled, and desire becomes impossible to separate from survival. To protect the men she loves, she has to face the past that shattered her and choose what she is willing to sacrifice for their future.
Give Me More
by Sara Cate
2022
Drake Nielson has always been the charming playboy of the group, thrilled when his best friend Hunter asks him to help build their kink club. A research road trip with Hunter and his wife, Isabel, turns explosive after one daring scene pushes all three past friendship. On the road and in hotel rooms, they have to face jealousy, desire, and whether a forever built for three is worth the risk.
Mercy
by Sara Cate
2022
Maggie Anderson co-owns a sex club but believes she is the only truly vanilla one in the group, until a kink quiz brands her a Domme. The club’s app matches her with an eager submissive who turns out to be Beau Grant, her friend’s son and twelve years younger. Their secret arrangement lets Maggie explore dominance and desire while Beau finally finds someone who sees past his reputation.
Praise
by Sara Cate
2022
After a brutal breakup, Charlie Underwood just wants her rental deposit back from her ex’s distant father. Instead she stumbles into a job for Emerson Grant, co-owner of an exclusive sex club and the man who mistakes her for a potential submissive. Their secretarial arrangement quickly turns into an intense age-gap romance built on praise, trust, and all the rules they are not supposed to break.
Highest Bidder
by Sara Cate
2023
Daisy Bennett takes a waitressing job at the Salacious Players Club hoping to learn more about Ronan Kade, the mysterious man who once left money for her family. When a charity auction puts her on the block, Ronan drops a small fortune to win a single date. Their connection deepens into a sugar-daddy style romance tangled with family secrets, age gap tension, and the thrill of finally belonging to someone who sees her worth.
Madame
by Sara Cate
2023
Eden St. Claire is a legendary professional domme who keeps clients at a distance to protect the vulnerable parts of herself no one is allowed to see. Years after pushing submissive Clay Bradley out of her life, she runs into him again with his girlfriend Jade, who begs Eden to train her. Drawn to them both, Eden is forced to confront her past, her fears, and the possibility of an FFM relationship where she is finally loved as more than just Madame.
The Anti-hero
by Sara Cate
2023
Elias Goode has spent his life as the perfect preacher’s son, destined to inherit his father’s Texas megachurch. Discovering that his father secretly frequents a local kink club shatters that image and leaves Elias furious. When the club owner’s pierced, pink-haired girlfriend Sage suggests a fake relationship designed to expose his father’s hypocrisy, their scheme spirals into real chemistry, dirty videos, and a brutal reckoning with everything he was taught about sin and desire.
Keep Me
by Sara Cate
2024
Broody Scottish laird Killian Barclay has turned his ancestral home into a notorious party house, determined never to risk his heart again. New Yorker Sylvie Devereaux first meets him while trespassing in Barclay Manor, then is offered a shocking deal by his family: marry Killian for one year to repair his image and walk away with a fortune. Their prickly, arranged marriage becomes a slow-burning love story against a backdrop of stormy moors, scheming relatives, and a manor full of ghosts.
The Heartbreaker
by Sara Cate
2024
Devoted teacher and third Goode brother, long detached from church and family, has built a life around strict routines and solitary evenings. When brilliant, stubborn student Sadie Green discovers she is pregnant and abandoned, he steps in to offer her a safe place to stay. Sharing a home turns their fraught professor-student dynamic into something more intimate, testing his ethics, her trust, and their ability to rewrite the future they thought they were stuck with.
The Home Wrecker
by Sara Cate
2024
After years of doing what a good Christian husband is supposed to do, one of the Goode brothers feels his marriage quietly dying. Enter Dean Sheridan, a charming twenty‑something from his past who needs a place to stay and cannot hide his fascination with both husband and wife. What starts as a dangerous game of jealousy and temptation becomes a scorching, boundary-breaking exploration of what it might mean to rebuild a marriage instead of walking away.
Shattered Innocence
by Sara Cate
2025
Birdie’s cruel stepmother plans to auction off her hand in marriage at the notorious Black Rose Auction, cutting her off from the only person she loves, her stepsister Violet. Desperate, Violet enlists her powerful ex, Alaric Stone, to bid for Birdie’s freedom. When the night spirals out of control and Alaric claims more than any of them expected, the three are pulled into a dark, Cinderella-inspired romance where escape, revenge, and forbidden love all demand a price.
The Good Girl Effect
by Sara Cate
2025
Widowed Jack St. Claire hides from his grief by pouring everything into Legacy, a brand-new kink club in Paris, even as his young daughter slips through the cracks. Bookseller Camille Aubert only meant to return a lost love letter, but is mistaken for a nanny and hired on the spot. Living in Jack’s apartment, she uncovers his secret playroom and pulls him into lessons that blur caregiving, rope, and the hope that love might heal what loss destroyed.
The Prodigal Son
by Sara Cate
2025
Isaac Goode fled his father’s pulpit and reinvented himself as Theo Vigil, a wildly successful country singer living on the road. Fame has not cured his loneliness or his fear of being outed. When he notices Jensen Miles, a quiet fan who keeps appearing at shows, a single impulsive kiss sparks a clandestine romance, only for Isaac to learn Jensen is the new preacher at his family’s church. Their tour‑bus love story forces both men to confront their pasts and decide what kind of future they want.
Promise Me
by Sara Cate
2026
Artist Declan Barclay once fled his family’s control and fell in love with Colin Shelby, the gentle actor he took under his wing at university. A catastrophic night before graduation blew them apart. Years later, Colin returns to Barclay Manor planning to marry someone else there, and Declan has one week of wedding prep to decide whether to stay silent or fight for the man he never stopped loving.
The Rule of Three
by Sara Cate
2026
When a citywide blackout strands billionaire Julian Kade in a Paris elevator with sharp-tongued chef Freya Kapoor and underground fighter Archer Wilde, twelve charged hours strip away their masks. Back in the real world, the three cannot stop thinking about each other or the desires they confessed. As they build a triad and chase Freya’s restaurant dreams, they must face jealousy, old wounds, and whether their unconventional love can survive outside the dark.
Where should I start?
If you want steamy sex-club romance: Praise → Eyes on Me → Give Me More → Mercy.
If you like dark, emotional family drama: The Anti-hero → The Home Wrecker → The Heartbreaker → The Prodigal Son.
If you crave high-angst taboo triangles: Gravity → Free Fall.
If you enjoy age-gap small town scandal: Beautiful Monster → Beautiful Sinner.
If you want Scottish manor and marriage-of-convenience vibes: Keep Me → Promise Me.
Author bio
Sara Cate writes the kind of romance that is hard to shelve quietly. Her books lean into taboo setups, messy feelings, and very explicit heat, yet they keep circling back to love, vulnerability, and second chances. A USA Today bestselling author, she is best known for series like Praise and the rest of the Salacious Players Club, the Wilde Boys novels, and the Goode Brothers saga.
She lives in Arizona with her family and a much-discussed dog, and most days are split between drafting, revising, and reading other people’s love stories. When she is not at her desk, she has said she is usually baking, listening to music, or watching superhero movies with her kids. The work and the downtime feed each other; both show up in the way she writes about ordinary routines alongside wildly heightened desire.
From the start, Sara has been open about wanting to normalize romance that pushes at the edges of what is considered acceptable. Her stories are full of age gaps, sex clubs, priests, step-siblings, single dads, and very complicated families. Rather than treating those elements as shock value, she uses them to ask what happens when shame loosens its grip and people are finally honest about what they want.
The Salacious Players Club books are often a reader’s first stop. In Praise, a bruised but determined heroine finds a new sense of worth with her older boss, who also happens to be her ex’s father. Eyes on Me follows a voyeuristic club owner who cannot stop watching the one woman he absolutely should not want, while Give Me More and Mercy move into polyamory and a rare female led dynamic, always tying intense kink back to trust and care.
Elsewhere, Sara chases different shades of forbidden. Beautiful Monster and Beautiful Sinner take on suburban age gaps and a conflicted priest, folding small town gossip and religious expectation into slow-burn attraction. The Wilde Boys books, starting with Gravity and continuing in Free Fall, strand their characters on a private island and in European cities, where grief, queerness, and why-choose love triangles collide.
Faith and family sit at the center of the Goode Brothers series. In The Anti-hero, The Home Wrecker, The Heartbreaker, and The Prodigal Son, four preacher’s sons in Texas wrestle with belief, hypocrisy, and desire. These books are full of pastors, church politics, and complicated fathers, but they are just as interested in queer joy, kink, and building lives that do not fit the mold their town expects.
More recently, she has moved some of her storytelling to Europe. The Sinful Manor novels bring readers to a crumbling Scottish estate, a furious laird, and the people who marry into his chaos. The Salacious Legacy books return to the world of the original sex club, this time in Paris and through the eyes of the next generation, starting with The Good Girl Effect and The Rule of Three.
Across all of this, certain signatures repeat. Her characters talk openly about consent, kink, and therapy. Mental health, religious trauma, and body image struggles sit right alongside filthy banter and elaborate scenes in clubs, bedrooms, and back rooms. The tone is direct and often funny, but it rarely makes light of the things that hurt.
Sara has described what she does as giving readers an escape that still feels emotionally honest. Her books invite people who might have been told their fantasies are too much to see themselves on the page, with happy endings that are as steamy as they are hard won. For many romance readers, that mix of heat, heart, and a little bit of trouble is exactly what keeps them coming back.
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