Suzanne Redfearn Books in Order

If you want the big emotional read: In an Instant → Moment in Time
If you want tense domestic suspense: Hush Little Baby → Hadley and Grace
If you want family drama with a Hollywood angle: No Ordinary Life
If you want grief, healing, and a fresh start: Where Butterflies Wander → Call of the Camino
If you want her fantasy detour: Taliesin

Suzanne Redfearn was born in Livingston, New Jersey, and spent her childhood moving through New York, Michigan, and New Jersey before heading west at fifteen. California became home, and years later she settled in Laguna Beach. Before publishing novels, she trained and worked as an architect, focusing on residential and commercial design, which helps explain the practical, built-world detail that often shows up in her fiction.

Writing arrived a little sideways.

Redfearn has said the turning point came after a night out with a friend, when she sat down to jot an idea and ended up writing half the night. Seven months later she had finished her first manuscript. It was rough by her own account, but it also made one thing clear: she wanted to keep going. That early work helped her find an agent, and her fifth completed novel became her first published book, Hush Little Baby.

Hush Little Baby introduced many of the things readers now associate with her work. It centers on a mother trying to escape an abusive marriage and protect her children, and it shows Redfearn's interest in families under pressure, moral knots, and the split-second choices that can alter a life. She followed it with No Ordinary Life, which moves into the unsettling world of child stardom, money, and public scrutiny.

Then publishing got messy.

After No Ordinary Life underperformed, she stepped back, returned to architecture, and seriously considered being done with books. The manuscript that became In an Instant had already been rejected many times, but her daughter pushed her to send it out again. She did, somewhat grudgingly, and that novel became the one that changed everything.

It was a big swing, and it landed.

In an Instant follows sixteen-year-old Finn Miller after a catastrophic mountain crash, and it became Redfearn's breakout novel. By 2026, her books had been translated into twenty-seven languages, and she had reached more than a million readers. Those numbers matter, but they mostly point back to the same strength: she writes emotional high-stakes stories that still feel close to everyday life.

That mix carries through the later books. Hadley and Grace turns a chance encounter between two mothers into a dangerous road story. Moment in Time revisits characters from In an Instant as adults, now dealing with violence, friendship, and the hard work of getting justice. Where Butterflies Wander brings a grieving family to New Hampshire, while Call of the Camino sends two women across Spain on intertwined journeys shaped by love, loss, and unanswered questions.

Even when Redfearn changes the setup, her interests stay pretty recognizable. She returns again and again to grief, loyalty, motherhood, friendship, and the way ordinary people behave when fear and love are both in the room. She has also written the short story The Marriage Test and the fantasy novel Taliesin, which shows she is willing to wander outside her usual lane now and then.

Off the page, she seems to like making things in almost any form. Her own bio lists a long trail of jobs, from cashier and server to copywriter, marketing manager, graphic designer, architect, inventor, and author. She still lives in Laguna Beach with her husband, enjoys family time, sports, hiking, board games, and reality TV, and has said she likes to write in local cafes, then come home and test ideas on a not especially friendly cat.