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Explore Shandi Boyes books in order, with series lists, quick summaries, reading guidance, and easy places to start.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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Isaac's Story

by Shandi Boyes

2016

Isaac Holt is mysterious, dangerous, and the subject of Isabelle Brahn's FBI investigation. Their attraction turns a case into a morally complicated love story.

Beneath the Secrets - Part One

by Shandi Boyes

2017

Ava returns after years away, forcing Hugo to face feelings he never fully buried. Their story begins with attraction, old wounds, and secrets waiting to surface.

Beneath the Sheets

by Shandi Boyes

2017

Hugo and Ava's story continues after one decision changes everything. Old feelings, hidden pain, and the consequences of the past keep pulling them together.

Chains

by Shandi Boyes

2017

Journalist Cleo Garcia is assigned to investigate dominant businessman Marcus, but curiosity becomes attraction fast. Their story opens a mature romance of control, secrecy, and temptation.

Second Shot

by Shandi Boyes

2017

Hawke and Gemma's romance begins after tragedy has already changed the shape of life. A second chance offers healing, but only if they risk being hurt again.

Spy Thy Neighbor

by Shandi Boyes

2017

Paige travels across the country to finish a book and recover from heartbreak. Hunter, the neighbor next door, brings distraction, mystery, and a spark she did not plan.

The Final Chapter

by Shandi Boyes

2017

Isaac and Isabelle's main Enigma arc reaches its emotional finish. Danger, devotion, and hard truths decide whether their love can survive the darkest gray areas.

The Mystery Unmasked

by Shandi Boyes

2017

Isaac will give up wealth, power, and reputation to protect Isabelle. As the mystery deepens, control becomes harder and the stakes turn brutally personal.

The Perception of Reality

by Shandi Boyes

2017

This box set follows Noah Taylor, the rising lead singer of Rise Up, and Emily as fame, grief, and love collide. Their romance is emotional, raw, and built around survival.

Unraveling an Enigma

by Shandi Boyes

2017

Isaac knows Isabelle is hiding something, and the truth may change everything between them. The second Enigma book tightens the romance, danger, and suspicion.

Links

by Shandi Boyes

2018

Cleo's investigation into Marcus pulls her deeper into a world of dominance, control, and secrets. The attraction between them is harder to ignore than the danger.

Nikolai

by Shandi Boyes

2018

When Nikolai Popov and Justine Walsh collide from opposite sides of the law, attraction becomes a liability. Their story launches a dark mafia romance about power, trust, and survival.

Nikolai: Taking Back What's Mine

by Shandi Boyes

2018

Nikolai wants Justine badly enough to risk everything, but desire alone cannot erase the violence around him. This sequel raises the stakes for their dangerous romance.

Nikolai: What's Left Of Me

by Shandi Boyes

2018

The third Nikolai book pushes Nikolai and Justine deeper into the consequences of love inside the bratva. Danger tightens around them as old choices demand payment.

Restrain

by Shandi Boyes

2018

The Bound series reaches its final installment as Marcus and Cleo face the truth behind their dangerous connection. Trust becomes the hardest limit of all.

The Opposite Effect

by Shandi Boyes

2018

Brax Anderson is the kind of bachelor people notice, but Clara disrupts his easy control. Their romance turns attraction and resistance into one messy equation.

The Way We Are

by Shandi Boyes

2018

Ryan has loved Savannah since childhood, but heaven and hell can look a lot alike. Their story is a tender, angsty romance about first love's damage.

The Way We Were

by Shandi Boyes

2018

Ryan and Savannah's second book looks back at love, loss, and the years that shaped them. Their childhood bond still has power, even after pain.

Asher: My Russian Revenge

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Asher and Zariah's families were close before vengeance turned everything poisonous. Forced choices, old loyalties, and a dangerous marriage pull them into a romance built on revenge.

Bound

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Cleo and Marcus's story grows more complicated after one call and one mistake. Desire, secrecy, and investigation keep tightening the chains around them.

Couple on Hold

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Regan and Alex's push-pull romance continues after days apart feel far too long. Their connection faces another round of pride, longing, and unresolved tension.

Fighting Jacob

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Jacob Walters is the easygoing wingman everyone loves, until Lola makes him want more than a supporting role. Their story blends friendship, heat, and emotional risk.

Just Playin'

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Elvis and Willow kick off the Ballsy Boys series with sports, humor, and unexpected attraction. It is a standalone romance with a lively friend group.

Lady In Waiting

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Regan and Alex begin a romance full of clashing attitudes, class differences, and inconvenient chemistry. Their spark is fun, heated, and rarely polite.

Man in Queue

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Alex and Regan return with the same sharp banter and stubborn attraction. He is arrogant, she is classy, and neither makes love easy.

Nikolai: Mine To Protect

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Nikolai has claimed power, but keeping Justine safe may cost more than taking the throne ever did. Their love is tested by enemies, loyalty, and the price of protection.

Redeeming Slater

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Slater's guarded heart starts beating differently when Kylie enters his orbit. Their romance adds another emotional note to the Rise Up world, mixing attraction with redemption.

Saving Noah

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Noah Taylor looks like a rock star on the rise, but grief has hollowed him out. Emily becomes the detour he never planned and the hope he needs.

Sugar and Spice: And All Things Nice. . .

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Cormack and Harlow's story proves sweetness is more complicated after life has turned sour. Their romance mixes playful heat with old hurt and new hope.

Taming Nick

by Shandi Boyes

2019

Nick has the confidence, charm, and swagger to get almost anything he wants. Jenni challenges the act, forcing him to decide whether he can risk something real.

Ain't Happenin'

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Sports journalist Skylar has a checklist, and Italian footballer Lorenzo does not fit it. Their banter, culture clash, and sizzling chemistry make ignoring him impossible.

Dimitri

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Dimitri lives by family first, but Roxanne tests every rule he knows. This Italian Cartel opener blends mafia loyalty, obsession, and a dangerous romance.

Hushed Guardian

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Brandon and Melody's story continues as protection turns more personal and more dangerous. Trust, fear, and loyalty tighten around them in this Enigma installment.

K: The Aftermath

by Shandi Boyes

2020

K is left rebuilding after Achim Novak destroyed the life she knew. This companion story follows the aftermath of trauma, love, and the painful fight to reclaim a future.

Mafia Ties

by Shandi Boyes

2020

This crossover sequel ties Dimitri, Roxanne, and Nikolai's worlds together. Old battles may be won, but loose ends in mafia families rarely stay buried.

Nikolai: Through The Devil's Eyes

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Nikolai's story is retold from his own point of view, revealing the man behind the feared bratva name. It is best read after the earlier Nikolai and Justine books.

Quiet Protector

by Shandi Boyes

2020

The Brandon and Melody arc reaches its final test as love and duty collide. He wants to shield her, but protection has a cost.

Reign

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Dimitri's enemies have stayed one step ahead for too long. In the third Italian Cartel book, love, revenge, and family power collide around him and Roxanne.

Roxanne

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Roxanne has lived through darkness that keeps getting darker. Her story with Dimitri deepens as secrets, danger, and desire reshape what survival means.

Saving Emily

by Shandi Boyes

2020

This Perception novella returns to Noah and Emily after the main storms of their romance. It looks at memory, healing, and the ways love changes after hardship.

Silent Vigilante

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Brandon was raised to protect, honor, obey, and serve. Melody becomes the person who challenges every rule he follows in this first part of their story.

The Drop Zone

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Cocky adventure capitalist Colby McGregor meets Jamie, the one person who can drain the attitude from him. Their slow-burn friendship risks turning into much more.

The Wedding

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Isaac and Isabelle return for a wedding story that revisits the man behind the mask. It is a romantic Enigma check-in for longtime readers.

Trey: European Redemption

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Trey and K's story turns broken pieces into a dangerous second chance. Their romance moves through betrayal, survival, and the hope that redemption is still possible.

Wrapped Up With Rise Up

by Shandi Boyes

2020

Rise Up returns in a wicked little Perception treat best read after the Bound books. Familiar faces, holiday heat, and series connections make it a fan-focused bonus.

Clover

by Shandi Boyes

2021

Clover is used to killing for money, thrill, and survival. Estelle complicates the rules of his world, turning a deadly life into a dangerous kind of longing.

Demi

by Shandi Boyes

2021

Demi and Maddox think they understand the rules of their dangerous world, until family power and hidden threats change the game. Their romance refuses to stay safe.

I Married a Mob Boss

by Shandi Boyes

2021

Blaire wakes with a hangover, missing memories, and a marriage to mob boss Rico. What sounds impossible quickly becomes a dangerous romance full of secrets.

Maddox

by Shandi Boyes

2021

Maddox Walsh looks respected, polished, and untouchable, but his life hides a secret that could ruin everything. Demi's family may be the threat that exposes it.

Ox

by Shandi Boyes

2021

Demi and Maddox's world grows darker as love turns consuming, not simple. This Italian Cartel entry pushes their story through danger, obsession, and painful choices.

Rocco

by Shandi Boyes

2021

Rocco knows how to look tough, act tougher, and keep enemies at a distance. Claudia threatens that control in a cartel romance full of heat and risk.

Smith

by Shandi Boyes

2021

Smith lives in a hacker's world where glitches are rarely accidents. When Ellie becomes part of the problem, danger and attraction force him out from behind the screen.

Twisted Lies

by Shandi Boyes

2021

Dr. Jae and CJ's story begins in a life built on lies, where trust is almost impossible. Desire pushes them together while secrets threaten everything.

Very Unlikely

by Shandi Boyes

2021

Summer and Lennox should not make much sense on paper, which is exactly the point. Their Ballsy Boys romance turns unlikely attraction into a messy, funny match.

An Isaac Retelling

by Shandi Boyes

2022

Isaac Holt's side of the Enigma story reveals the loss, control, and longing behind his guarded mask. Read it after Isabelle and Isaac's original arc.

Demi

by Shandi Boyes

2022

Demi's story revisits love under pressure, family danger, and the cost of being tied to powerful men. It is a heated, dramatic Boyes romance.

False Start

by Shandi Boyes

2022

Cash and McKayla get a sports rom-com built around bad timing, quick sparks, and second chances. The play may start wrong, but the chemistry does not.

Hotshot Boss

by Shandi Boyes

2022

Octavia Henslee's fresh start gets messy when a perfect one-night spark turns out to be her new boss. Jack Carson knows what he wants, and it is her.

Hotshot Neighbor

by Shandi Boyes

2022

Caleb and Jess become neighbors with more between them than casual attraction. Pain, proximity, and unexpected tenderness turn one complicated connection into something hard to walk away from.

The Misfits

by Shandi Boyes

2022

Dexter Elias and Megan are both damaged, angry, and hungry for revenge. Their bond could make them unstoppable, unless the same darkness that draws them together tears them apart.

Deadly Intentions

by Shandi Boyes

2023

Matvei and Natalya's story runs through deception, past mistakes, and dangerous attraction. He is used to command, but she refuses to be bought or controlled.

Devious Intentions

by Shandi Boyes

2023

Yev is drowning in grief when Polina reenters his life. Their reverse age-gap mafia romance pairs trauma, heat, and two people learning to survive together.

Nanny Dispute

by Shandi Boyes

2023

FBI agent Brodie needs a nanny for his daughter after loss and injury upend his life. Henley needs safety, but becoming close to them risks everything.

Protecting Nicole

by Shandi Boyes

2023

Fresh out of prison, Laken spends one unforgettable night with singer Nicole Reed. Then he learns he has been hired as her bodyguard, and secrets close in.

Sinful Intentions

by Shandi Boyes

2023

Alek let Ana go once because he thought it would protect her. When she returns to Russia under a crushing debt, he refuses to lose her again.

The Final Chapter

by Shandi Boyes

2023

Isaac and Isabelle's Enigma journey comes to a high-stakes close. Their love faces kidnapping threats, exposed secrets, and the question of whether gray can become home.

Wicked Intentions

by Shandi Boyes

2023

Katie Bryne vanished for years before resurfacing in a brutal underworld sale. Ghost buys her for his own reasons, but temptation and duty twist the rescue.

Deceitful Vows

by Shandi Boyes

2024

Zoya meets Andrik in the last place she expects desire to strike. Their connection is blistering, but his contractual marriage and family agenda make it forbidden.

Doctored Vows

by Shandi Boyes

2024

Third-year resident Nikita is pulled into the Ivanov family's world when Maksim's mother becomes her patient. One fierce spark leads to mafia danger and surprise vows.

Home for Christmas

by Shandi Boyes

2024

This Christmas novella offers a shorter, warmer Shandi Boyes romance for readers who want holiday emotion, familiar heartache, and a couple finding their way home.

Trey: European Redemption

by Shandi Boyes

2024

Trey and K's romance is built from broken pieces, hard truths, and the need to survive what came before. Redemption comes slowly and never cheaply.

Broken Vows

by Shandi Boyes

2025

Mikhail left Emerson at the altar ten years ago, but an inheritance forces them toward marriage again. Old love, anger, and family cruelty collide.

Nero: Shattered Wings

by Shandi Boyes

2025

Nero's life shifts minutes after divorce papers arrive, when danger pulls him back into the fight. Miranda becomes part of a story about loss, loyalty, and protection.

Vengeful Vows

by Shandi Boyes

2025

Mara works for powerful men who rarely notice the help, until Arkadiy Orlov sees too much. Their shared scars threaten his political future and their fragile trust.

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Brutal Betrayal

by Shandi Boyes

2026

The Caruso Cosa Nostra series continues with another romance shaped by family power, loyalty, and betrayal. Love in this world always arrives with consequences.

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Brutal Obsession

by Shandi Boyes

2026

Valentina Raimondi comes to Sicily to help her sick mother, then catches the eye of Giovanni Caruso. His obsession is immediate, dangerous, and impossible to ignore.

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Brutal Revenge

by Shandi Boyes

2026

The Caruso family saga deepens as revenge becomes part of the romance. Expect dangerous loyalty, mafia pressure, and a couple caught between desire and retaliation.

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Chaos in Disguise

by Shandi Boyes

2026

Special Agent Grayson Rogers takes a case tied painfully close to home. Working with Macy against a criminal ring forces old grief and long-buried chemistry into the open.

Where should I start?

For emotional rock star romance: Saving NoahFighting JacobTaming NickRedeeming Slater.
For romantic suspense with FBI and secrets: EnigmaUnraveling an EnigmaThe Mystery UnmaskedThe Final Chapter.
For mafia and bratva romance: NikolaiDimitriMafia TiesWicked Intentions.
For lighter sports and workplace romance: Just Playin'Ain't Happenin'The Drop ZoneHotshot Boss.

Author bio

Shandi Boyes was born in Australia on September 6 and grew up as the kind of reader who moved easily between genres. Romance became the shelf she kept coming back to. Before she was building long, tangled series of her own, she was studying the feeling of a book that keeps you up too late.

Writing became serious for her in February 2016. Her first penned novel, Perception of Life, introduced the kind of emotional, new adult rock star romance that would later shape the rewritten Perception books. It centered on Noah Taylor, the lead singer of Rise Up, and Emily, the woman who finds him at a point when fame and grief are both pressing in.

A few months later, Boyes shifted into hotter contemporary romance and romantic suspense. Enigma became a key turning point. It brings together Isabelle Brahn, an FBI agent, and Isaac Holt, the man she is meant to investigate. That setup, law on one side and temptation on the other, became one of her most familiar playgrounds.

Not every hero in her books plays by the rules.

Boyes is now best known as a USA Today bestselling romance author with a large connected backlist. Her work moves from rock bands and sports rom-coms to mafia families, bratva politics, bodyguards, secretive billionaires, and damaged people trying to decide whether love is worth the risk. Readers often start with Saving Noah, Enigma, Nikolai, Dimitri, or Doctored Vows, depending on how dark they want the road to be.

Her series tend to overlap. The Russian Mob Chronicles and The Italian Cartel share criminal worlds and loose ends, while Enigma spreads outward into FBI cases, friends, family, and side couples. Even her lighter books, like Just Playin' and Hotshot Boss, usually carry some family baggage, secrets, or emotional bruising under the banter.

That is part of the appeal.

Boyes writes fast, and she writes in arcs. A couple may get one book, several books, or a later novella that checks back in once the dust has settled. The common thread is simple: people with messy pasts, intense chemistry, and a lot to lose.

She continues to publish through her own Australian-based publishing setup, Skye High Publishing, and keeps an active presence with readers through book updates, series order notes, and new releases. For a new reader, her catalog can look huge at first. The easiest way in is to pick a mood, rock star heartbreak, mafia suspense, dark bratva, or sports comedy, then follow that couple until the world opens up.

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