Theresa TR Ragan Books in Order
Explore Theresa TR Ragan books in order, from thrillers to romance, with short summaries, series guides, and easy suggestions for where to start.
Last updated: July 9, 2026
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Publication Order
26 books
A Knight in Central Park
by Theresa TR Ragan
2011
Alexandra Dunn is hurled from 1499 England into modern New York to find a hero before her family is destroyed. Medieval scholar Joe McFarland seems like the wrong man, until time pulls him into the fight too.
Abducted
by Theresa TR Ragan
2011
Lizzy Gardner survived a serial killer as a teenager and built a new life as a private investigator. Then the man who took her resurfaces, and this time he makes it clear that Lizzy is his target again.
Dead Weight
by Theresa TR Ragan
2011
Lizzy reopens a decades-old disappearance for a dying mother and takes on another case involving a missing woman and a charismatic weight-loss guru. Two investigations quickly turn into one dangerous mess.
Finding Kate Huntley
by Theresa TR Ragan
2011
After seeing her father murdered on a Caribbean vacation, Kate Huntley grows up surviving on the streets of Haiti and living for revenge. Rookie FBI agent Jack Coffey finds her, but the truth behind the killing is far bigger than either expects.
Return Of The Rose
by Theresa TR Ragan
2011
Morgan Hayes has always felt drawn to a suit of medieval armor in her mother's antique shop. When it sends her back in time, she is mistaken for a lost twin and forced into a marriage that could change everything.
Taming Mad Max
by Theresa TR Ragan
2011
NFL linebacker Max Dutton avoids close ties because he is sure he will die young. Then nutrition expert Kari Murphy reappears, and with her comes a teenage daughter Max never knew he had.
An Offer He Can't Refuse
by Theresa TR Ragan
2012
Madison Phillips needs a husband fast if she wants to claim her inheritance. A fake romance with self-made millionaire Jackson Lang seems simple enough, until the act starts feeling a little too real.
Having My Baby
by Theresa TR Ragan
2012
Jill Garrison has always wanted a baby more than a perfect wedding, so after heartbreak she takes motherhood into her own hands. Years later, donor Derrick Baylor finds her and wants a place in their son's life.
A Dark Mind
by Theresa TR Ragan
2013
A serial killer is targeting married couples across Sacramento, and Lizzy Gardner cannot look away. What starts as a routine case pulls her onto the killer's trail, only to reveal he may already be watching her.
Here Comes the Bride
by Theresa TR Ragan
2013
Reporter Samantha Johnston sneaks into a celebrity wedding hoping to uncover the identity of the mystery bride. Instead, chaos erupts and she somehow ends up saying I do herself.
Obsessed
by Theresa TR Ragan
2014
A radio psychologist fakes a stalking story to boost ratings, then discovers one listener is taking it very seriously. When her friends start disappearing and suspicion points at her, Lizzy Gardner steps into a case already spinning out of control.
Almost Dead
by Theresa TR Ragan
2015
Three weeks after her wedding day turns into a shooting, Lizzy Gardner is pulled into a string of suspicious deaths. The victims share a cruel high school past, and the killer's revenge list may not be finished yet.
Dead Man Running
by Theresa TR Ragan
2015
An accused murderer escapes prison in a body bag and goes on the run to prove he was framed. Every step forward brings him closer to the truth and the people who want him buried with it.
Evil Never Dies
by Theresa TR Ragan
2015
Lizzy Gardner has stopped trusting the system and started striking back at violent offenders. But while she pursues her own brand of justice, a ritualistic killer called the Sacramento Strangler is leaving bodies and taunting clues behind.
Furious
by Theresa TR Ragan
2016
Faith McMann comes home to find her husband murdered and her children taken. Left for dead, she decides grief can wait and goes after the traffickers who destroyed her family.
Outrage
by Theresa TR Ragan
2016
Faith's war is only getting bloodier. With one child still missing and a crime boss now hunting her family, she pushes deeper into the trafficking underworld and refuses to stop until she gets them back.
Her Last Day
by Theresa TR Ragan
2017
PI Jessie Cole is still haunted by her sister Sophie's disappearance when amnesiac reporter Ben Morrison claims he can help. Their search collides with the return of the Heartless Killer and secrets neither of them is ready for.
Wrath
by Theresa TR Ragan
2017
Faith McMann's search for her children reaches its most dangerous point yet. As she and her allies descend further into a world of slavery and exploitation, rescue may demand more than vengeance can pay for.
Deadly Recall
by Theresa TR Ragan
2018
Jessie Cole and Ben Morrison search for a missing girl and uncover something even darker. At the same time, a grieving father sets his sights on a health insurance CEO and threatens to make other families suffer too.
Deranged
by Theresa TR Ragan
2018
When a client's wife and her lover turn up murdered, Jessie Cole is drawn into a case with ties to a serial killer and Ben Morrison's missing past. The deeper she digs, the harder it is to tell victim from monster.
Buried Deep
by Theresa TR Ragan
2019
Jessie is hired to find a vanished heiress who disappeared behind a new identity. As another daughter searches for a mother believed murdered long ago, Ben edges closer to truths someone would kill to keep buried.
Don't Make a Sound
by Theresa TR Ragan
2020
Crime reporter Sawyer Brooks returns home for her grandmother's funeral and starts asking about two murdered girls and one missing friend. Then another teenager is killed, and River Rock's old secrets turn deadly again.
Out of Her Mind
by Theresa TR Ragan
2020
When a child's bones surface and twelve-year-old Riley Addison vanishes, Sawyer Brooks cannot let the case go. Her search for the missing girl leads toward a predator hiding in plain sight and straight back into her own worst memories.
Count to Three
by Theresa TR Ragan
2021
Five years after her daughter vanishes on the first day of kindergarten, Dani Callahan has become a private investigator who cannot stop looking. A new missing-girl case may finally expose what happened to Tinsley.
No Going Back
by Theresa TR Ragan
2021
Sawyer Brooks investigates a wave of murders tied to gangs, old assaults, and female vigilantes. The clues lead back to buried abuse, and this time the danger is closing in on her family.
Such a Beautiful Family
by Theresa TR Ragan
2022
Nora Harmon thinks she has landed a dream job with charismatic tech founder Jane Bell. But as Jane slips into Nora's marriage and her children's lives, admiration starts to feel a lot more like obsession.
Where should I start?
If you want a survivor-led PI thriller: Abducted → Dead Weight → A Dark Mind
If you want one dark continuous revenge arc: Furious → Outrage → Wrath
If you like missing-person mysteries with personal stakes: Her Last Day → Deadly Recall → Deranged → Buried Deep
If you want a newer crime reporter series: Don't Make a Sound → Out of Her Mind → No Going Back
If you want romance instead of suspense: Return Of The Rose → A Knight in Central Park → Taming Mad Max
Author bio
Theresa TR Ragan was born in Walnut Creek, California, and grew up in nearby Lafayette in a lively family with four sisters. Before writing full time, she worked as a legal secretary for a large corporation, a day job that paid the bills while stories kept tugging at her from the side.
Writing didn't arrive quickly.
When she was pregnant with her fourth child, she read A Knight in Shining Armor and felt a switch flip. She wanted to write the kind of book that could pull a reader out of real life for a few hours. She started researching medieval history at the library, writing late at night and in school parking lots, and over the next five years she finished Return of the Rose.
That first novel did not sail straight into print. Ragan kept writing for about two decades, collecting rejections and six Golden Heart nominations along the way. In 2011 she decided to self-publish, and that long apprenticeship finally started to pay off.
The book that changed things was Abducted, the first Lizzy Gardner thriller. Readers connected with its survivor turned investigator heroine and the hard-driving mix of danger, grit, and emotion, and Ragan soon followed it with Dead Weight, A Dark Mind, Obsessed, Almost Dead, and Evil Never Dies. She has since sold millions of books and landed on major bestseller lists, but the appeal of her work is still pretty down to earth: fast plots, personal stakes, and women who refuse to stay broken.
She also never stayed in one genre for long.
As T.R. Ragan, she built more suspense series around wounded, determined leads, including Faith McMann in Furious, Jessie Cole in Her Last Day, and Sawyer Brooks in Don't Make a Sound. Those books often return to the same pressure points: missing people, buried family secrets, revenge, mothers and daughters, sisters, and the long aftershocks of violence. Even the standalones, like Count to Three and Such a Beautiful Family, lean into ordinary lives pushed into frightening situations.
But thrillers are only part of the picture. Under Theresa Ragan, she has also written time-travel romance, romantic suspense, and contemporary romance, including A Knight in Central Park, Finding Kate Huntley, Taming Mad Max, and Having My Baby. Across all of it, whether she is sending a heroine back to medieval England or dropping a reporter into a murder case, she likes stories with momentum, strong feelings, and people who have to fight their way toward a better life.
She still lives in Sacramento, California, with her husband Joe, and travel remains part of her life too. On her own site she mentions trips to Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, China, Thailand, and Nepal, plus a run-in with a killer elephant that sounds like something out of one of her books. That mix of family life, persistence, and just enough chaos feels about right for a writer who spent years plugging away before readers finally found her in a big way.
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