Sarah Alderson Books in Order
Explore Sarah Alderson books in order, from YA fantasy and thrillers to Mila Gray romances, with summaries, series guides, and where to start.
Last updated: June 9, 2026
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Publication Order
21 books
Hunting Lila
by Sarah Alderson
2011
Lila has spent years hiding her telekinetic powers and her crush on Alex, her brother's best friend. After a mugging exposes her secret, she flees to California and lands in the middle of a deadly hunt for her mother's killer.
Fated
by Sarah Alderson
2012
Evie Tremain learns she is the last in a line of demon hunters just as a hidden war reaches her doorstep. Lucas Gray is supposed to help destroy her, but their lives, and hearts, get tangled instead.
Losing Lila
by Sarah Alderson
2012
Lila and Alex are on the run from the Unit, trying to stay alive long enough to save Jack and Lila's mother. To fight back, they must trust dangerous allies and push Lila's powers further than ever before.
Severed
by Sarah Alderson
2012
On the run from enemies on every side, Evie and Lucas turn to rogue Hunters for answers about the prophecy binding them together. To stop the war, Evie may have to make a sacrifice far bigger than either of them expected.
Lila Shortcuts
by Sarah Alderson
2013
This companion collection returns to the Hunting Lila world through a set of short stories. Told from the viewpoints of characters like Alex, Jack, Demos, Amber, and Suki, it fills in the spaces around the bigger adventures.
The Sound
by Sarah Alderson
2013
Ren Kingston takes a nanny job on Nantucket hoping for a quiet summer and a break from heartbreak. Instead she falls in with wealthy teens, finds a dead body, and realizes someone on the island is keeping murderous secrets.
Tormenting Lila
by Sarah Alderson
2013
Lila and Alex finally steal a romantic weekend away, but Nantucket is hardly peaceful. A serial killer, a watching mind-reader, and the arrival of new faces turn their break into another dangerous detour.
Come Back to Me
by Sarah Alderson
2014
When Marine Kit Ryan comes home on leave, he falls for Jessa, his best friend's sister, and their secret summer romance turns serious fast. Then deployment and a devastating loss test what their promises are really worth.
Out of Control
by Sarah Alderson
2014
Seventeen-year-old Liva comes to New York hoping for a fresh start and ends up the only witness to a brutal murder. Forced to flee with a car thief named Jay, she discovers the people chasing her may include the police.
Shadowed
by Sarah Alderson
2014
Evie wants to believe the worst is over, but the fallout of the prophecy is still tearing through both worlds. As old enemies return and buried truths surface, ending the war may cost her everything left.
Can We Live Here?
by Sarah Alderson
2015
In this travel memoir, Alderson leaves London with her husband and young daughter to look for a new place to call home. The result is funny, messy, and honest about risk, family, and the dream of starting over.
Conspiracy Girl
by Sarah Alderson
2015
Nic Preston survived the Cooper Killings, but three years later someone breaks into her supposedly secure apartment. Her only real chance of staying alive may be Finn Carter, the hacker she blames for letting the killers walk free.
This Is One Moment / Stay With Me
by Sarah Alderson
2015
Didi Monroe starts an internship at a military hospital expecting a clear future, then meets wounded Marine Noel Walker. As professional boundaries blur, their growing connection forces them to face trauma, grief, and the risk of loving someone who wants to shut the world out.
Run Away with Me
by Sarah Alderson
2017
Best friends Emerson Lowe and Jake McCallister have never really recovered from the event that tore their lives apart. When Jake returns to Bainbridge Island years later, old wounds, old accusations, and new feelings make a second chance anything but simple.
Friends Like These
by Sarah Alderson
2018
Lizzie can't stop watching Becca's polished life online, even after the two women drift apart. When a mistake pulls Lizzie back into Becca's orbit, social media envy turns into a sharp, dangerous game of truth and lies.
In Her Eyes
by Sarah Alderson
2019
Ava's enviable family life is shattered by a violent home invasion that leaves her daughter badly hurt. As she digs into what really happened, Ava realizes the attack was personal, and that the people closest to her have been hiding plenty.
Watch Over Me
by Sarah Alderson
2019
Zoey has spent years protecting her mother and little sister from their violent father. When he finds them again, former Marine Tristan steps in, and the safety Zoey longs for starts to look a lot like love.
Fall into Me
by Sarah Alderson
2020
Luna is a famous singer-songwriter running on empty when threats from a stalker force her to accept protection. Her new bodyguard, former Marine Will Ward, should keep things professional, but danger keeps pulling them closer.
The Stalker
by Sarah Alderson
2021
Newlyweds Liam and Laura arrive on a remote Scottish island expecting a dream honeymoon. Instead they find a place with a grim past, a growing sense of being watched, and a message that makes it clear they are not alone.
The Weekend Away
by Sarah Alderson
2021
Orla heads to Lisbon for an annual girls trip with her best friend Kate, expecting sunshine and escape. When Kate vanishes after a night out, Orla has to retrace their steps and face truths that hit far closer to home.
The Cabin in the Woods
by Sarah Alderson
2022
Rose Reid is hiding alone in a remote cabin, listening for every sound and trying to stay ahead of the past. The deeper her reasons for running come into view, the less safe her refuge feels.
Where should I start?
If you want psychic powers and romance: Hunting Lila → Losing Lila → Tormenting Lila
If you want demon-slayer fantasy: Fated → Severed → Shadowed
If you want contemporary YA suspense: The Sound → Out of Control → Conspiracy Girl
If you want adult psychological thrillers: Friends Like These → In Her Eyes → The Weekend Away → The Stalker
If you want emotional romance as Mila Gray: Come Back to Me → This Is One Moment / Stay With Me → Run Away with Me
Author bio
Sarah Alderson is a London-born writer and screenwriter who spent most of her life in London before she made writing her full-time job. She has written more than twenty novels across young adult fantasy, suspense, romance, and adult psychological thrillers, and her books have been translated into multiple languages. That range helps explain why her backlist can move from psychic powers to marriage secrets without ever sounding like she is forcing the switch.
The big change came in 2009.
That year she left her job in the nonprofit sector and set off on a round-the-world trip with her husband and toddler daughter. The trip was partly an adventure and partly a serious search for a different kind of life, and it later became her nonfiction book Can We Live Here?, which looks back on the chaos, humor, and uncertainty of leaving London behind.
Around that same period, her first novel, Hunting Lila, was published. After traveling through India, Singapore, Australia, and the US, Alderson and her family settled in Bali for several years. Those were busy years. She kept writing, published a run of YA novels, and started moving into screenwriting at the same time.
Her early fiction shows what readers often come to her for: pace, tension, romance, and characters who are thrown into trouble before they fully understand the rules. Hunting Lila and Losing Lila mix paranormal powers with conspiracy and first love. Fated takes demon-slayer mythology and turns it into a fast, emotional trilogy. The Sound and Out of Control leave the supernatural behind, but they keep the same clipped momentum and feeling that danger is always just one bad decision away.
She also writes romance as Mila Gray.
Under that name, books like Come Back to Me, Stay with Me, and Run Away with Me focus on love under pressure, often with military families, grief, trauma, or second chances in the background. They are more grounded than her paranormal work, but they still care about the same things: emotional risk, loyalty, secrets, and the messy work of trying to build a future after something hard has already happened.
Her adult thrillers push that tension into even more everyday spaces. In Friends Like These, In Her Eyes, The Weekend Away, The Stalker, and The Cabin in the Woods, the threats come from friendship, marriage, stalking, home invasion, and the awful sense that the story you have been told is not the real one. She also adapted The Weekend Away for the screen, which makes sense if you have read her novels. They are very visual books, full of movement, sharp turns, and scenes that play out cleanly in the mind.
She likes putting characters under pressure.
Alderson now lives in California and works mainly in TV and film as a screenwriter and producer while still publishing novels. What ties her work together, whatever the genre, is pretty simple: strong emotional stakes, people on the run, relationships that get tested hard, and settings that look beautiful right up until they stop feeling safe.
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