The Escort Books in Order

The Escort series is one of Sloane Kennedy’s earliest projects and offers a glimpse of the themes she would later develop in more complex ways. These books focus on high end escorts working in Seattle, where sex is both a job and a shield against getting too close to anyone.

In Gabriel’s Rule, Gabe has spent nearly a decade as a professional escort. He is excellent at delivering fantasy and has strict boundaries that keep his work life from touching whatever is left of his private self. Those rules are tested when Riley, a woman fleeing an oppressive religious upbringing and a cheating ex, moves in next door. Their slow burn relationship asks whether a man who sells intimacy for a living still believes he deserves the real thing.

Shane’s Fall follows another escort, Shane, who blames himself for a tragedy in his past and has been numbing himself ever since. His story intersects with a woman tied to the Barretti family, and the book starts to lay groundwork for the Barretti Security series by showing how those worlds overlap. As with the rest of the series, the focus is on two people who see the worst in themselves and have to be convinced they are more than their mistakes.

By Logan’s Need, the tone has shifted closer to the queer romances Kennedy is best known for. Logan, an escort whose plans for the future have been blown up by a partner’s betrayal, agrees to be the third in a one time ménage for Dominic Barretti and his terminally ill wife Sylvie. Sylvie has matchmaking on her mind, and what begins as a grief tinged favor becomes the foundation of Dom and Logan’s relationship. Their story bridges directly into Barretti Security and helps knit the early books into a single universe.

Across the trilogy, Kennedy treats sex work without judgment while also acknowledging the emotional toll it can take. Clients, managers, and family expectations all put pressure on the main characters in different ways. The escorts themselves are not portrayed as victims, but as people who have chosen a path that paid the bills until it stopped serving them.

For readers who come to the series after loving the Protectors, Barretti Security, or Finding books, The Escort titles offer both backstory and a slightly lighter, more trope forward style. They are rooted in city life rather than small towns or covert compounds, but they already feature the intense emotion, found family threads, and loyalty under fire that run through Kennedy’s later work.