Sweet and Sawyer Romantic Suspense Books in Order

Edie James’s Sweet and Sawyer Romantic Suspense follows Cara Sweet, a former con artist trying to build an honest life, and Gabe Sawyer, a lawman whose arrival threatens the secrets she needs to keep. Their story begins in Haven Cove, where Cara has gone to disappear. Murder, blackmail and later investigations make that hope increasingly difficult. The series combines a developing romance with danger, second chances and the challenge of learning to trust after a life built around concealment.

In Deep Water, a body washes onto the beach and brings FBI agent Gabe Sawyer to town. Cara’s instinct is to protect her new identity, but a murder investigation creates exactly the kind of attention she wants to avoid. Being drawn to Gabe makes the situation more complicated. His work involves discovering the truth, while her safety appears to depend on keeping parts of it hidden. That difference gives the relationship an immediate conflict that goes beyond the criminal case itself.

A fresh start is hard to defend when someone knows how the old life worked.

Riptide finds Cara settling into a bakery and a circle of friends who have become a family to her. Gabe is now Haven Cove’s police chief, and her growing attachment to him makes secrecy more costly. A blackmailer arrives with knowledge of the identity she has left behind, forcing Cara to consider what she can reveal and whom she can ask for help. The bakery and the coastal community give the suspense a domestic centre. Danger threatens a life that is becoming worth staying for, rather than simply another place to hide.

The later books widen the work around Cara and Gabe. Undertow leads into another investigation as their relationship continues to develop, and Crosscurrent takes the sequence toward their work as investigators. In False Light, tampered navigation lights draw them into a conspiracy involving missing women, false identities and a conservation project. Retaliation puts their team at risk. The coastal setting matters directly to that case, with safe routes through dangerous water becoming a means of deception. Cara’s old skills can be useful, even when using them brings her close to a life she wants to leave behind.

Read Deep Water, Riptide, Undertow, Crosscurrent and False Light in that order to follow both the cases and the changing partnership. Faith and the support of a chosen family sit alongside the romance and suspense. The continuing question is whether trust can grow between a woman trained to misdirect and a man responsible for uncovering what is hidden. Readers can expect investigations with personal consequences, where solving a case also tests the relationships that make Haven Cove feel like a home.