Titus Ray Thrillers Books in Order
Part ofLuana Ehrlich Books in OrderSee the Titus Ray Thrillers by Luana Ehrlich in order, with quick summaries, series background, and easy advice on where to start.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
13 books
One Night in Tehran
by Luana Ehrlich
2014
After a failed mission in Iran, veteran CIA officer Titus Ray hides with Iranian Christians, survives an escape to Turkey, and returns home changed. Back in Oklahoma, he faces an assassin, Agency infighting, and hard questions about faith and trust.
Two Days in Caracas
by Luana Ehrlich
2015
Titus heads to Costa Rica and Venezuela to stop Hezbollah assassin Ahmed Al-Amin, while mentoring raw new operative Ben Mitchell. The mission grows into a larger plot involving chemical weapons, and Titus risks both his career and his future with Nikki.
Three Weeks in Washington
by Luana Ehrlich
2016
Called to Washington after a deadly Navy Yard attack, Titus suspects a larger Hezbollah plot. His search takes him from D.C. to overseas targets as he races to stop a chemical attack and expose an Iranian general.
Four Months in Cuba
by Luana Ehrlich
2017
Titus enters Cuba to rescue a fellow operative from the Los Zetas drug cartel, but the mission quickly changes shape. Hidden agendas and shifting loyalties turn a simple extraction into a dangerous fight for survival.
Five Years in Yemen
by Luana Ehrlich
2018
Titus is sent to learn whether missing CIA contractor Jacob Levin is a traitor or a patriot. The trail runs from Missouri to Saudi Arabia to Yemen, forcing Titus to face killers, family questions, and big choices about his future.
One Step Back
by Luana Ehrlich
2018
This prequel novella follows Titus in Tehran before the main series begins. When he tries to recruit a nuclear scientist and ignores a warning, he ends up hunted by secret police and saved by Iranian Christians.
Two Steps Forward
by Luana Ehrlich
2019
Fresh off his wedding, Titus heads to Morocco and Israel with Nikki, then gets pulled into Iraq to stop an assassination. What starts as a honeymoon becomes a fast-moving mission shaped by old enemies, foster-family concerns, and Titus's growing faith.
Three Steps Away
by Luana Ehrlich
2020
A family trip to Barbados blows up when Titus is recognized from a former deep-cover identity in Tehran. Reentering that past draws him into Russian and Iranian financial schemes, a dangerous Beirut mission, and new strain inside the CIA.
Four Steps Missed
by Luana Ehrlich
2021
Titus joins a secret operation aimed at exposing problems near the top of the Agency. Keeping the mission hidden from his boss, handler, and wife proves almost as dangerous as the deadly fallout.
Five Steps Beyond
by Luana Ehrlich
2023
A White House summons sends Titus into Operation Strike Out, where he must revisit his past to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions. The mission pushes him far outside his usual experience and into a race against time.
One Good Time
by Luana Ehrlich
2024
Ordered to spend time with family, Titus instead heads to the southern border after intelligence points to a bioweapon threat in America's heartland. To stop the attack, he must shadow a terrorist leader from Venezuela and hold together a difficult team.
Two Good Deeds
by Luana Ehrlich
2025
In Cairo, Titus poses as a wealthy antiquities collector to penetrate Khalifa, a terror group funded by looted artifacts. Parties, double games, an inside source, and a relentless assassin make the mission steadily more dangerous.
Three Good Lies
by Luana Ehrlich
2026
Titus takes an off-the-books assignment in Panama, only to learn the intel is shaky, the helpers are not fully trustworthy, and the real objective has been hidden from him. He has to finish the mission while untangling a web of lies.
Series background & context
The Titus Ray books are faith-based spy thrillers built around a man who already knows how to survive, but is still learning how to live. Titus is a veteran CIA covert operative with deep experience in the Middle East. In One Step Back and One Night in Tehran, a mission in Iran goes badly, he ends up hiding with Iranian Christians, and that encounter changes the whole direction of his life. From there, the series follows what happens when a field officer trained for deception tries to do the same dangerous work while taking faith, conscience, and truth much more seriously.
That inner conflict gives the series its shape.
These novels move fast and wide. Titus is sent to places like Caracas, Washington, Cuba, Yemen, Morocco, Barbados, Beirut, Cairo, and Panama, and the travel is never there just for scenery. Every setting matters to the mission at hand, whether he is tracking an assassin, uncovering a chemical weapons plot, chasing leads tied to Iran and Hezbollah, or stepping into a covert operation that could embarrass the Agency itself. The books have global stakes, but they never lose sight of the people caught inside them.
Titus may be the center, but he is not alone. Nikki Saxon starts as an Oklahoma detective who has good reasons to be careful around him, and she becomes one of the series' most important anchors. Ben Mitchell enters as a younger operative with talent, energy, and a habit of making Titus work harder than he planned. Around them are Agency bosses, handlers, defectors, assets, and old enemies. Trust is always in short supply, and that is true both in the field and back inside CIA politics.
The tone sits somewhere between classic espionage fiction and character-driven Christian suspense. There is tradecraft, surveillance, false identities, and plenty of operational detail, but also room for humor, romance, and ordinary domestic strain. Titus does not stop being effective once faith enters the picture. If anything, his life gets messier. He still has to lie undercover, keep secrets, and make decisions with real consequences, and the books lean into that tension instead of smoothing it over.
He is trying to be a good operative, a decent husband, and a faithful man, often all at once.
Most entries center on a complete mission, so each book has its own momentum, but the larger character arc is richer when read in order, starting with One Step Back or One Night in Tehran. If you want spy fiction with international pressure, a steady supporting cast, and a hero whose personal life matters as much as the mission brief, this is the lane Ehrlich works best.
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