Steele Street Books in Order
Part ofTara Janzen Books in OrderExplore the Steele Street series by Tara Janzen, with books in order, brief summaries, series background, and clear guidance on where to start for new readers.
Last updated: July 14, 2026
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Steele Street books in publication order
12 books
Crazy Cool
by Tara Janzen
2005
Christian Hawkins once went to prison after saving socialite Kat Dekker. Thirteen years later, an explosion at a Denver art auction puts Kat in danger, forcing the former lovers to confront their past while someone tries to kill her.
Crazy Hot
by Tara Janzen
2005
Paleontologist Regan McKinney searches for her missing grandfather and finds Quinn Younger in a nearly deserted Utah town. The former Air Force pilot owes her grandfather his life, but terrorists and stolen dinosaur bones turn their search deadly.
Crazy Kisses
by Tara Janzen
2006
Undercover soldier Kid Chronopolous returns to Panama City with a drug lord's killers on his trail. His on-and-off love, Nikki McKinney, comes to say goodbye, only to become a target herself.
Crazy Love
by Tara Janzen
2006
SDF commander Dylan Hart recruits street-smart Skeeter Bang for a mission involving a top-secret file. When a Washington party erupts in gunfire, they must outrun danger while facing an attraction neither can dismiss.
Crazy Sweet
by Tara Janzen
2006
After torture and memory loss, Gillian Pentycote remakes herself as the lethal Red Dog and hunts the man who destroyed her life. Operative Travis James wants the same enemy, but refuses to let her serve as bait.
Crazy Wild
by Tara Janzen
2006
Special Defense Force operative Creed Rivera is watching a Denver librarian who may be tied to a missing nuclear warhead. When killers arrive, Creed and Cordelia "Cody" Stark must run together before a global weapons deal goes through.
Cutting Loose
by Tara Janzen
2007
CIA operative Zachary Prade is supposed to recover an encoded file from Lily Robbins, not fall for her. Hunted by spies and assassins, Lily must trust the man she knows as a Central American drug lord.
On the Loose/ Steele Street: Loose
by Tara Janzen
2007
Ex-DEA operative C. Smith Rydell is assigned to protect Honey York, the woman he once caught smuggling money into El Salvador. With a CIA operation failing, they have forty-eight hours to find a guerrilla camp and get out.
Loose And Easy
by Tara Janzen
2008
Special Ops soldier Johnny Ramos spots his brilliant high school crush disguised as a Denver prostitute. Private investigator Esmee Alden is really chasing stolen art and a ruthless bookie, but Johnny's return blows her operation wide open.
Breaking Loose
by Tara Janzen
2009
Art dealer Suzi Toussi and former soldier Dax Killian are both hunting the Memphis Sphinx, a relic rumored to have dangerous power. Their competing missions take them through Paraguay, where trust is as scarce as the artifact.
Loose Ends
by Tara Janzen
2011
A soldier believed dead returns as Conroy Farrel, with little memory and a mission against Steele Street. Jane Linden, a former thief who knew him long ago, is caught between bringing him home and staying alive.
Crazy Hearts
by Tara Janzen
2020
Dylan Hart has spent years hiding the life he had before Steele Street. Now the past he thought was gone is racing toward Denver, forcing the Special Defense Force leader to face the people who still want him dead.
Steele Street books in chronological order

Crazy Hot
by Tara Janzen
2005Steele Street, Book 1
Crazy Cool
by Tara Janzen
2005Steele Street, Book 2
Crazy Wild
by Tara Janzen
2006Steele Street, Book 3
Crazy Kisses
by Tara Janzen
2006Steele Street, Book 4
Crazy Love
by Tara Janzen
2006Steele Street, Book 5
Crazy Sweet
by Tara Janzen
2006Steele Street, Book 6
On the Loose/ Steele Street: Loose
by Tara Janzen
2007Steele Street, Book 7
Cutting Loose
by Tara Janzen
2007Steele Street, Book 8
Loose And Easy
by Tara Janzen
2008Steele Street, Book 9
Breaking Loose
by Tara Janzen
2009Steele Street, Book 10
Loose Ends
by Tara Janzen
2011Steele Street, Book 11
Crazy Hearts
by Tara Janzen
2020Steele Street, Book 12
Series background & context
The Steele Street series is high-energy romantic suspense built around a team with unusual roots. Before they became government operatives, many of its central characters were teenage car thieves working out of a Denver building on Steele Street. Years later, they are part of the Special Defense Force, or SDF, a covert team sent after threats that range from local trouble to international crises.
Denver is the series' anchor. The old Steele Street building, the cars, and the team's shared past give the books a lived-in feel, even when the action heads to Colombia, Panama, Paraguay, Central America, or other dangerous corners of the map. These people may have official missions now, but they still carry the habits, friendships, and scars of the streets where they grew up.
Each novel centers on a different couple. In Crazy Hot, paleontologist Regan McKinney crosses paths with former Air Force pilot Quinn Younger while searching for her missing grandfather. Crazy Cool reunites operative Christian Hawkins with Kat Dekker, the woman tied to a painful part of his past. Later books bring in soldiers, agents, scientists, art experts, private investigators, and civilians who discover that getting close to Steele Street can make them a target.
Nobody gets an easy assignment.
The suspense plots often involve stolen files, corrupt officials, drug networks, missing artifacts, weapons, assassins, and people who have spent years hiding their real identities. The danger is direct and fast-moving, but the emotional pull comes from the characters' history with one another. Former rivals become allies. Old crushes resurface. Team members are forced to decide whether loyalty means protecting someone, trusting them, or finally telling them the truth.
The tone is bold, sexy, and action-forward. Janzen gives her heroes and heroines plenty of banter and attraction, but she also lets them be bruised, wary, and stubborn. The romances are intense, while the broader SDF story keeps returning to questions of found family, survival, and whether damaged people can build something solid together.
The books work best in publication order. Every installment has its own main romance and central mission, but continuing characters and long-running threats build from Crazy Hot through Crazy Hearts. Starting at the beginning makes the relationships, nicknames, old grudges, and hard-won trust land with more weight.
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