The Colony Books in Order
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The Colony books in publication order
14 books
Unseen
by Lisa Jackson
2009
Gemma La Porte wakes in a hospital with gaps in her memory and a possible connection to a fatal hit-and-run. As disturbing blackouts continue, she turns to Deputy Will Tanninger to uncover what she cannot remember.
Wicked Game
by Lisa Jackson
2009
A woman with unsettling intuition is pulled into a dangerous mystery linked to The Colony and its secrets. As she falls for the one man who believes her, she has to figure out whether her gift is saving her, or setting her up.
Blind Spot
by Lisa Jackson
2010
Psychologist Claire Norris treats an unidentified pregnant woman left comatose after a brutal attack at an Oregon rest stop. Working with former detective Langdon Stone, she investigates a case that may place a killer dangerously close.
Wicked Lies
by Lisa Jackson
2011
At The Colony, a community of women with psychic gifts, one woman senses a threat no one else wants to see. As fear spreads and romance sparks, she must uncover the truth behind the wicked lies before the danger turns lethal.
Descent
by Michaelbrent Collings
2013
Ken Strickland and a small group of survivors are trapped in a building surrounded by zombies. With his family fractured and his daughters changing, he must confront new terrors while searching for a way through the siege.
Genesis
by Michaelbrent Collings
2013
Ken Strickland survives a sudden transformation that turns almost everyone into zombies and sets out to find his family. The creatures resist familiar methods of killing them and grow smarter, making each attempt at survival harder.
Renegades
by Michaelbrent Collings
2013
Reunited with his family, Ken Strickland faces zombies that have become faster, stronger, and capable of cooperation. As the survivors struggle onward, seemingly friendly humans introduce dangers that can be as deadly as the transformed hordes.
Something Wicked
by Lisa Jackson
2013
Detectives Bentz and Montoya are drawn into a chilling case where faith, obsession, and revenge collide. As the killer’s game turns more personal, the detectives must confront old ghosts before someone else dies.
Shift
by Michaelbrent Collings
2014
Separated from his family again, Ken Strickland discovers that former friends have become enemies. His battle for survival extends beyond the undead as unfamiliar forces threaten to change the world around the remaining survivors.
Velocity
by Michaelbrent Collings
2014
Ken Strickland's missing son returns after being bitten, but the reunion exposes another horror of the changed world. Facing what his child has become, Ken must protect his family as their struggle gathers dangerous momentum.
Wicked Ways
by Lisa Jackson
2014
A woman with a dangerous gift is pulled deeper into The Colony’s secrets as a new threat rises. Romance offers hope, but the wicked ways of the past aren’t finished, and survival depends on trusting the right people.
Buried
by Michaelbrent Collings
2015
Without Ken, the surviving group continues through a world that has already taken friends and family from them. Pursued by enemies and former allies, they struggle to find shelter where even death offers no reliable escape.
Reckoning
by Michaelbrent Collings
2015
The remaining survivors of the Change have been hunted and reduced to a desperate few. A final trial brings an enemy greater than those they have faced, forcing them to prepare for another threat in their devastated world.
Wicked Dreams
by Lisa Jackson
2022
At The Colony, a woman with a psychic gift senses danger gathering around her and the community she depends on. As romance blooms under pressure, she must separate warning from fear before a wicked dream becomes reality.
Series background & context
The Colony books are Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush collaborations that blend romantic suspense with a streak of the uncanny. The connective tissue is a place called The Colony, a secluded community tied to Siren Song, where women with unusual gifts have tried to build a life away from the outside world.
It sounds like a refuge. It doesn’t always act like one.
Across the series, the women at The Colony can sense things other people miss, flashes, feelings, premonitions. Those abilities create bonds, but they also make them targets, especially when someone decides the only way to control a “gift” is to own the person who has it. The books are as interested in power dynamics as they are in romance.
The setting carries a faint cult-like edge without turning into fantasy. Outsiders don’t understand the rules. Insiders protect the group, sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for darker ones. That tension gives the series a steady hum of paranoia: who’s keeping you safe, and who’s keeping you contained?
The books lean into claustrophobia even though the landscape is remote and open. The closer the characters get to the truth, the more they have to question what they think they know, about the community, about their own pasts, and about the people they’re falling for. Romance is central, but it’s never separate from the threat.
The “wicked” titles, including Wicked Game, Wicked Lies, Wicked Ways, and later Wicked Dreams, make the tone clear: dangerous attraction, shifting motives, and secrets that have been protected for years. The series isn’t interested in the safest route.
Each book delivers its own central couple and conflict, but reading in order gives you the fullest view of The Colony itself, how it works, who has power, and what it costs to belong. If you start in the middle, you’ll still get a complete thriller-romance, but you may miss some of the slow-burn background that makes the place feel real.
If you like suspense with a paranormal tingle, and you enjoy series built around a specific, slightly unsettling setting, The Colony books are an easy fit.
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