Shari J Ryan Books in Order

An emotional, reflective story about life seen in fragments, loss, memory, and the way broken pieces can still form something beautiful. It is intimate, heartfelt, and focused on healing through pain.

Chloe Valcourt escapes a brutal reality by drifting into a vivid world inside her mind. When she meets Alex there, the line between imagination, memory, and truth begins to fall apart.

Cali is on the run from violence, grief, and the man who destroyed her family. When her father sends ex-Marine Tango to protect her, suspicion and chemistry collide in a fast-moving romantic suspense story.

This military romance follows a heroine shaped by fear and a painful home life as she is forced to rethink what trust can look like. Ryan blends emotional damage, desire, and the hope of something steadier.

A darker contemporary romance with danger humming beneath the surface, this story brings together bruised hearts, strong attraction, and the kind of past that does not stay quiet for long.

This follow-up keeps the pressure on Cali and Tango as danger, desire, and unfinished business refuse to let go. It is a quick, charged continuation that deepens the emotional fallout of their story.

Hunter loses his wife in childbirth and is left raising their daughter while drowning in grief. Anonymous letters from the woman who received his wife's heart force him to face love, loss, and the possibility of starting over.

AJ is trying to do right by his family, but grief, guilt, and an unfinished first love keep pulling at him. When the past crashes into the present, he has to decide what loyalty and happiness really mean.

Chloe and Alex are finally together, but peace never lasts for long. As his past crashes into their lives and new questions rise, Chloe learns that some darkness does not stay buried.

Reese has spent years imprisoned in a shed with no idea why. When Sin helps her escape, she learns that getting out was only the beginning, and the world beyond her cell may be even more terrifying.

A high-drama romance about power, loyalty, and the cost of stepping into a role everyone thinks you should want. Ryan uses the idea of a throne to explore love, pressure, and identity under scrutiny.

Jags, a former Navy medic on the run from his nightmares, meets Sasha, a polished Southern belle with troubles of her own. Their banter is funny, their chemistry is instant, and the danger around them is very real.

Chloe and Alex are trying to build a life and raise their son, but the world inside and around them is still unstable. This finale turns their love story into a final battle for truth, sanity, and survival.

A life shaped by a fragile heart has taught its hero to live carefully and expect limits. Love and hard truths push him to question whether surviving is enough, or whether he is finally ready to truly live.

A hidden diary draws Emma into her grandmother Amelia's Holocaust story, where terror and forbidden love lived side by side. Past and present collide as long-buried truths change the future of an entire family.

A simple summer job turns into anything but simple when a sharp-tongued heroine clashes with the maddeningly attractive man she calls the manservant. Their constant sparring fuels a hot, chaotic romantic comedy.

A dark, emotionally charged suspense story about trauma, distorted truths, and the danger of believing what you think you see. The tension comes from not knowing which version of reality can be trusted.

Reese has been held captive since she was fifteen, and on her eighteenth birthday a stranger named Sin offers her a way out. But escape only leads to more questions, more danger, and a place that still feels like a prison.

Freedom stays out of reach as Reese and Sin face the secrets waiting beyond captivity. The danger widens, trust gets harder, and every answer seems to uncover something even worse.

A single Marine dad moves to Hawaii hoping to build a better life for his daughter, then lands a job in a restaurant where dignity is optional. Falling for Kai is easy, convincing her to take him seriously is harder.

Fresh off divorce and stuck next door to her infuriating ex, a worn-out single mother is not looking for more drama. Then a retired baseball star walks into her life, and the mess somehow gets funnier and riskier.

Boston-born Scarlett is forced into a transfer to small-town South Carolina, where she promptly makes a terrible first impression on charming nurse Austin. Their opposites-attract battle is loud, funny, and impossible to ignore.

Annie grows up loved, but one terrible discovery makes her question her name, her history, and the people who raised her. Her search for the truth begins with the impossible story of a child born in a concentration camp.

Reese finally finds a way out, only to discover that the truth beyond captivity is its own kind of nightmare. She and Sin must keep fighting, even when going back almost feels safer than moving forward.

This contemporary romance pairs sharp humor with emotional bruises as two complicated people collide at exactly the wrong, and maybe right, moment. Ryan balances heat, vulnerability, and the messy work of starting over.

A wounded heroine looking for safety and a place to breathe finds herself at Raine's Haven, where starting over means facing old pain and deciding who deserves her trust.

Set against a small-town backdrop, this emotional story brings together grief, longing, and people trying to rebuild after life has already taken too much. It is tender, aching, and built around damaged hearts.

Ashley thinks she is getting a free escape to paradise, only to land in a bizarre beachside experiment full of wealthy bachelors. What starts as a romantic fantasy quickly becomes a funny, chaotic question of who she should choose, if anyone.

Charlie Crane has lived for decades with guilt, silence, and the memory of Amelia. Told through love, loss, and unsent letters, this novel asks whether a bond forged in war can survive a lifetime of separation.

Brody has spent years hiding pain behind charm, while Journey refuses to believe commitment can end well. Their push and pull turns fiery fast, but both of them have old wounds that make love anything but simple.

Melody Quinn returns home to heartbreak and the family distillery, where she is thrown back together with Brett Pearson, a single dad, ex-Marine, and old crush. As grief and bourbon mix, friendship turns into something far more complicated.

A long-buried connection comes back to life when military service, time apart, and old feelings bring two people together again. It is a friends-to-lovers story about timing, scars, and deciding whether a second chance is worth the risk.

Journey is guarded, restless, and determined to keep her pain to herself. Brody sees more than she wants him to, and their constant friction slowly turns into an enemies-to-lovers romance with real emotional weight.

An emotional contemporary drama about lives cracking under grief, secrets, and hard choices. Ryan leans into heartbreak here, then slowly pieces her characters back together through love and truth.

Elizabeth falls in love in Hawaii just before Pearl Harbor changes everything. Separated by war, letters, and danger, she and Everett fight to hold on to hope across continents and impossible odds.

In 2018, Grace inherits a bookstore in Dachau from a grandmother she never knew existed. As letters reveal Matilda's wartime love for Hans, family history and identity unravel in heartbreaking ways.

A hidden wartime secret buried in an attic pulls a woman into a story of fear, sacrifice, and impossible choices. As the truth comes to light, past and present begin to reshape one another.

Sofia cannot forgive her father for working as a doctor for the SS, even if it saved their family. When she risks everything to help Isaac, a prisoner at Auschwitz, letters, love, and escape become their only hope.

Emma discovers her dying grandmother's hidden diary and is pulled into Amelia's wartime story. As the past reveals hunger, terror, and forbidden love, Emma learns how deeply old secrets still shape the living.

Elizabeth and Everett fall in love in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor tears their world apart. As war sends them in different directions, they cling to letters, duty, and the hope of finding each other again.

Mila, a Romani girl, is sent to work as a maid for a Jewish family in Czechoslovakia just as war tightens its grip. Her growing bond with Benedikt turns into a forbidden love story shadowed by real danger.

Annie grows up believing she knows who she is, until one overheard truth shatters everything. Her search for the family and identity stolen from her begins with the impossible fact that she was born during the Holocaust.

Charlie Crane has carried guilt, love, and unanswered letters for decades. Told from the perspective of a German soldier who never forgot Amelia, this novel follows a forbidden wartime bond that refuses to die.

Set in occupied Paris, this World War Two story follows a young woman whose ordinary family life is shattered by war. Love, loyalty, and survival pull her into choices that can never be undone.

A new mother looks into her crib and finds her baby gone, while her husband insists there was never a child at all. What follows is a psychological thriller built on fear, doubt, and a terrifying fight for the truth.

Twin girls are separated at Auschwitz and thrown into the horror of Nazi experimentation. The novel follows their survival, the long shadow of that loss, and the hope of reunion after the war.

Twin sisters are torn apart in Auschwitz and forced into separate fates during and after the war. Their story follows survival, loss, and the desperate hope that family can still be found again.

A life ruled by a failing heart has taught its hero to expect limits, not miracles. Love, truth, and the chance to begin again force him to decide whether he is ready to stop merely surviving.

Years after her friend Izzy vanished on the night of a senior bonfire, Jess receives an email that should be impossible. The message drags her back into old secrets, stalking, and a husband whose past may not be finished.

Emilie is forced into a place where medicine is twisted into cruelty, then comes face to face with Danner, the first love she thought she had lost. Saving him may be the only hope she has left, and it may cost her everything.

Hired to watch a wealthy couple's twins, Haley is stunned when she is accused of kidnapping a baby she never even knew existed. The job was a trap, and whatever her employers know could get her killed.

A family survives by staying hidden behind the walls of a home while war closes in from every side. Their safety depends on silence, trust, and how much the people around them are willing to risk.

A nanny working in the shadow of war becomes an unlikely protector when danger reaches the children in her care. Quiet courage, secrecy, and compassion drive this story's emotional stakes.

Ella hears a familiar voice singing in Auschwitz and realizes Luka, the Jewish boy she once loved in Warsaw, is still alive. In a place built to crush hope, his music becomes the thread tying them together.

When survival comes down to deciding who might be saved and who will be left behind, one woman's burden becomes almost unbearable. This wartime story turns a simple list into a moral wound that will not heal easily.

As Auschwitz is liberated, Celina sees a man in a German uniform who looks exactly like her husband, a man she believed dead. Chasing that impossible sight may lead her to truth, or deeper heartbreak.