Teresa Mummert Books in Order
Find Jamie McGuire and Teresa Mummert books in order, with short summaries, collaboration background, and where to start with their shared work.
Last updated: July 12, 2026
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Teresa Mummert books in publication order
26 books
9 Lives
by Teresa Mummert
2011
Kat's world gets even darker after meeting Caleb. On the run from Adam and unsure whom to trust, she has to stay alive long enough to uncover the truth and protect the people she still loves.
Kat's Tale
by Teresa Mummert
2011
Kat is a small-town girl still reeling from her brother's murder when the existence of vampires becomes impossible to ignore. Caleb feels like exactly what she needs, until his dark secret puts her life in danger.
Breaking Sin
by Teresa Mummert
2012
Sinthia wants to get through college without wrecking the perfect future she has planned. Then Collin, the campus bad boy, becomes an unlikely friend and makes her question what she really wants.
Honor and Obey
by Teresa Mummert
2012
Emma has the man she wants, but love does not quiet William's past. After a terrible accident and another loss, she has to decide whether their bond can survive the truths still coming to light.
Honor Student
by Teresa Mummert
2012
Emma is barely making it through college when she falls for her new history teacher, William Honor. Their forbidden relationship burns hot from the start, but secrets, discipline, and the fear of being discovered make every step riskier.
Honor Thy Teacher
by Teresa Mummert
2012
This second Honor book retells the obsession from William's side. His feelings for Emma are fierce, dangerous, and tangled up with the secrets he would do anything to protect.
White Trash Beautiful
by Teresa Mummert
2012
Cass Daniels is stuck in a trailer, a diner job, and a life that keeps closing in on her. Then Tucker White, the lead singer of Damaged, sees something in her worth fighting for.
Bleed Ink
by Teresa Mummert
2013
This nonfiction guide walks indie authors through beta readers, editing, formatting, cover design, promotion, sales, and reviews. It is a practical look at the self-publishing process from draft to launch.
Honor & Betray
by Teresa Mummert
2013
Told from William's point of view, the fourth Honor book picks up with everything hanging by a thread. As grief and secrets keep closing in, he has to fight for Emma without destroying what is left of them.
Indie Author Guide of Awesome
by Teresa Mummert
2013
A compact nonfiction guide for indie writers looking at the practical side of publishing their own work. It touches on getting a book ready, reaching readers, and handling the business side without losing the creative spark.
Perfect Lie
by Teresa Mummert
2013
Delilah tries to reinvent herself at college after a past she cannot outrun. Her connection to Abel feels impossible to ignore, but his secrets force her to confront the truth about the boy she lost and the life she buried.
Safe Word
by Teresa Mummert
2013
Colton Bishop walks into a New York bar planning to use a stranger for a criminal job, then realizes his target is Lily Hilton, his old crush. Their shared past and unraveling secrets turn a setup into something much more dangerous.
The Note
by Teresa Mummert
2013
Jenn is nearing a breaking point after betrayal, family pressure, and a life that has not gone to plan. When Army sergeant Shane crosses her path during a short leave, a mistaken note leads to an unexpected second chance.
White Trash Damaged
by Teresa Mummert
2013
Cass and Tucker are finally together, but life on a tour bus brings a different kind of chaos. Fame, band tension, and old insecurities threaten to swallow Cass just as she starts to believe in a better future.
Pretty Little Things
by Teresa Mummert
2014
Annie grows up in a warped family that exposes her to the ugliest parts of the world far too early. Even when she finally finds affection, escaping that damage proves much harder than simply walking away.
Rellik
by Teresa Mummert
2014
Rellik Bentley lives for music and treats women like disposable distractions. Then Ella Leighton stumbles onto one of his darkest secrets, and his interest in her turns into something he cannot control.
White Trash Love Song aka A Song for Us
by Teresa Mummert
2014
As Cass and Tucker move toward marriage and the band faces new fame, drummer Eric's grief and growing connection to Sarah begin to take center stage. The finale widens the series without losing its rough-edged heart.
Something Wicked
by Teresa Mummert
2015
Movie star Drake Gibson has fame, a dark past, and no patience for the reporter assigned to interview him. Gabriela Slone hates her job, but getting pulled into Drake's world may cost her more than a messy deadline.
Sweet Nothing
by Teresa Mummert
2015
Josh and Avery fall hard and fast, and then something happens that changes the shape of their whole story. This standalone romance leans into heartbreak, uncertainty, and the question of whether love can survive what follows.
The Good Girls
by Teresa Mummert
2015
After her mother is murdered, Ellie is sent to live with her father and the mysterious girl already in his house, Cara. Starting over feels impossible, but Cara draws her into a relationship that changes everything.
Crave
by Teresa Mummert
2016
Still haunted by her brother Marcus's murder, a young woman wants one night to stop feeling broken. Instead she finds Elijah, a hunter with dangerous secrets and a past that pulls her into far more than a fleeting escape.
Hollow
by Teresa Mummert
2016
Riley lands in Hollow Point, Pennsylvania angry, rich, and ready to rule her new school. But a friendship with Tatum and a dangerous pull toward Knox turn her mean-girl game into something much riskier.
The Death of Lila Jane
by Teresa Mummert
2016
Sheltered, anxious, and tightly controlled by her parents, Lila Jane has barely started living when Kaden moves in across the street. What follows is a tender but troubled escape story shaped by fear, first love, and hard choices.
Shameless
by Teresa Mummert
2017
Henley Brooks is struggling to pay for college and keep her reputation intact when one wild night throws her toward Lucas Young. He is charming, secretive, and exactly the kind of trouble she cannot seem to resist.
Something in the Water
by Teresa Mummert
2019
In a decaying town shadowed by a local killing field, a girl sees freedom in the new boy across the street. Their attraction offers escape, but buried crimes and family secrets refuse to stay hidden.
American Monster
by Teresa Mummert
2024
Justus Beiste calls himself the monster in a tragedy that keeps repeating across centuries. Cursed, hunted, and bound to the same woman through endless lives, he keeps chasing love even when bloodlust and fate threaten to tear it apart.
Where to start with Teresa Mummert
If you want the bestselling taboo romance: Honor Student → Honor Thy Teacher → Honor and Obey → Honor & Betray
If you want gritty music romance: White Trash Beautiful → White Trash Damaged → White Trash Love Song aka A Song for Us
If you want a softer standalone with heart: The Note → Sweet Nothing
If you want darker suspense and secrets: Safe Word → Perfect Lie → Pretty Little Things → Rellik
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Standalone Teresa Mummert books

Perfect Lie
by Teresa Mummert
2013
Safe Word
by Teresa Mummert
2013
The Note
by Teresa Mummert
2013
Pretty Little Things
by Teresa Mummert
2014
Rellik
by Teresa Mummert
2014
Something Wicked
by Teresa Mummert
2015
Sweet Nothing
by Teresa Mummert
2015
The Good Girls
by Teresa Mummert
2015
Crave
by Teresa Mummert
2016
The Death of Lila Jane
by Teresa Mummert
2016
Something in the Water
by Teresa Mummert
2019
American Monster
by Teresa Mummert
2024
Author bio
Teresa Mummert grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, and that small-town background shows up again and again in her fiction. Before readers knew her for dark romance, troubled heroines, and messy love stories, she was a teenager dating the boy she would later marry. They started seeing each other at sixteen and got married at eighteen, which is the kind of detail that makes the emotional urgency in her books feel a little easier to understand.
Not long after that, she followed her husband's military career south, living in Louisiana and later Georgia. Early author bios described her as an army wife and mother of four, and that sense of family, strain, distance, and trying to hold things together under pressure runs through a lot of her work.
Writing started as a way to get through a hard stretch.
When her husband was deployed to Afghanistan, Mummert turned to fiction as both distraction and outlet. She had always liked writing, especially short stories and poetry, but that period seems to have pushed it from private habit into something bigger. In interviews and author notes from those years, she talked about writing to stay busy, to process what she was feeling, and to look closely at darker characters and what makes them tick.
That beginning matters because her books are rarely about polished people with tidy problems. They are usually about characters carrying old damage, bad decisions, class pressure, grief, shame, or secrets they would rather keep buried. Again and again, she comes back to one of her core ideas, that people are not defined only by what happened to them, and that strength often shows up late, after the worst parts.
A lot of readers first found her through the Honor books, which lean into taboo romance and high drama, or through the White Trash Trilogy, which starts with White Trash Beautiful. That trilogy built strong word of mouth and helped lead to a three-book deal with Simon & Schuster. Around the same stretch, her work hit both the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, and she kept publishing quickly across romance, suspense, and new adult fiction.
She doesn't stay in one lane for long.
If you sample a few titles, you get a good sense of the range. White Trash Beautiful is gritty and class-conscious, built around Cass and Tucker, a waitress and a rock singer from very different worlds. The Note is softer and more openly hopeful, pairing two bruised people who meet at the right broken moment. Safe Word mixes romance with crime and deception, while Perfect Lie and Pretty Little Things push harder into secrets, trauma, and the kind of twisty emotional setup that makes you question what you know. Even books like Hollow and Shameless keep that same interest in outsiders, reputation, and the trouble people create when they are scared of being seen clearly.
In her published bios, Mummert often described her female characters as more open about what they feel, while the men tend to lock things down until the pressure becomes too much. That tracks with the stories. Whether she is writing about a college obsession, a tour-bus romance, a girl trying to escape a dead-end life, or a heroine staring down the past, she tends to write people who want love but do not yet know how to trust it.
That mix is really her lane. Fast pull, damaged hearts, and just enough darkness to keep things uneasy.
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