Winter Renshaw Books in Order
See the Winter Renshaw books by Minka Kent in order, with quick summaries, connected series, and simple tips on where to start reading.
Last updated: July 14, 2026
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Winter Renshaw books in publication order
44 books
Arrogant Bastard
by Winter Renshaw
2015
After a brutal home life explodes, a teenage boy is sent to live with his estranged mother in Utah, where he falls for Waverly, the step-sister he absolutely should not want. Their forbidden connection is messy from the start.
Arrogant Master
by Winter Renshaw
2015
Bellamy has been raised to obey, marry well, and never want more, until Dane Townsend offers a dangerous kind of freedom. Their secret relationship turns desire, control, and escape into one complicated bargain.
Arrogant Playboy
by Winter Renshaw
2015
Beckham King is exactly the kind of rich, arrogant man nobody should trust for more than one night. Then he meets the woman who makes a casual arrangement feel a lot more serious than he ever intended.
Dark Paradise
by Winter Renshaw
2015
A woman used to being treated like a commodity enters an exclusive arrangement with a younger mystery man who insists on secrecy and darkness. The blindfold protects his identity, but it cannot protect her from the truth.
Never Is a Promise
by Winter Renshaw
2015
A TV journalist lands the final interview with country music star Beau Mason, the man who broke her heart years earlier. Spending days on his Kentucky ranch forces both of them to confront what never really ended.
Never Kiss a Stranger
by Winter Renshaw
2015
One impulsive moment with the wrong stranger sparks a romance that feels thrilling right up until real life and old baggage catch up. It is a fast-moving contemporary story built on attraction, bad timing, and emotional fallout.
Never Say Never
by Winter Renshaw
2015
Caught between two very different men, one who feels safe and one who feels terrifyingly right, a woman is forced to face her own secrets too. It is a romantic tangle built on longing, fear, and impossible choices.
Bachelor
by Winter Renshaw
2016
Fresh off a bitter divorce, attorney Derek Rosewood wants nothing to do with love. Then work throws him together with a mysterious heiress, and the professional boundaries keeping him safe start falling apart.
Bitter Rivals
by Winter Renshaw
2016
Former business partners and former almost-lovers Xavier and Magnolia are thrown together for a tense weekend in the Hamptons. Old hurt, old attraction, and zero forgiveness make every hour more volatile.
Filthy
by Winter Renshaw
2016
A scandal-prone football player is forced to lie low in Florida and keep out of trouble. That plan lasts until Delilah Rosewood shows up next door and hates him almost as much as he wants her.
Heartless
by Winter Renshaw
2016
Finding a handwritten journal in the bushes seems harmless, until curiosity leads a woman straight to a mysterious man with secrets of his own. The more she learns, the less safe her obsession becomes.
Priceless
by Winter Renshaw
2016
A cancelled flight leaves Daphne stranded with Cristiano, a charming stranger headed east for a wedding. Their cross-country road trip turns intimate fast, but his secrets threaten to break the connection before it reaches home.
Reckless
by Winter Renshaw
2016
A newly divorced woman thinks she is celebrating a fresh start when a mysterious stranger starts watching her from across the bar. Dante Amato is impossible to ignore, and the truth he carries changes everything.
Royal
by Winter Renshaw
2016
Demi never got over Royal, her older brother's best friend and first great love, especially after he vanished without explanation. Seven years later he is back, and the town's silence has not made the truth any easier.
Vegas Baby
by Winter Renshaw
2016
A trip to Las Vegas turns reckless in a hurry when instant chemistry starts to feel less like a fling and more like a life-changing mistake. It is a fast, messy contemporary romance built on impulse, attraction, and bad decisions that will not stay small.
Absinthe
by Winter Renshaw
2017
Two strangers connect online and build intense intimacy before ever meeting in person. Then fate lands them face to face in a situation that makes their attraction deeply inconvenient and impossible to ignore.
Cold Hearted
by Winter Renshaw
2017
Hockey star Rhett Carson is angry, grieving, and colder than everyone thinks they can handle. Ayla knows the painful family connection that could ruin them, but that does not stop her from falling anyway.
Country Nights
by Winter Renshaw
2017
After an online scam leaves her stranded, a woman ends up working on a guarded rancher's property in exchange for room and board. Their slow-burning attraction is complicated by rumor, grief, and a past he cannot outrun.
Dark Promises
by Winter Renshaw
2017
A ruthless political heir needs the perfect woman by his side for the sake of his campaign. Rowan looks ideal on paper, but what begins as calculated image management turns into something far harder to control.
The Perfect Illusion
by Winter Renshaw
2017
Mari agrees to pose as her impossible boss's fiancée for a paycheck she cannot ignore. Pretending to be in love should be simple, until hidden motives and real attraction start wrecking the plan.
P.S. I Dare You
by Winter Renshaw
2018
A professional hired to help a reluctant billionaire heir navigate the family business discovers her new assignment wants nothing to do with her, or the empire waiting for him. Their mutual irritation quickly becomes something hotter.
P.S. I Hate You
by Winter Renshaw
2018
Maritza and Isaiah share one unforgettable week before his deployment and then keep each other alive through letters. When he abruptly goes silent and later acts like a stranger, the hurt cuts deeper than either expected.
P.S. I Miss You
by Winter Renshaw
2018
Melrose takes over her best friend's lease and immediately clashes with his insufferable roommate, Sutter. Their hate-to-love spark is strong enough on its own, then a confession lands and changes everything.
The Executive / Exmas
by Winter Renshaw
2018
A holiday season that should be simple turns messy when work, old feelings, and sharp attraction collide. It is a contemporary romance with office tension, seasonal complications, and no room for emotional distance.
The Rebound
by Winter Renshaw
2018
Ten years after a painful goodbye, Yardley comes face to face with Nevada Kane again, now a retired basketball star, widower, and single father. Their second chance is tender, complicated, and loaded with everything they never resolved.
War and Love / Love and Other Lies
by Winter Renshaw
2018
Jude agrees to a dirty job, seduce a bitter millionaire's ex-wife and convince her to remarry. Falling for Love Aldridge was never part of the plan, and now the lie threatens to ruin both of them.
For Lila, Forever
by Winter Renshaw
2019
A decade after leaving without explanation, a woman is found by the man she never forgot. A letter, a long-buried secret, and their painful history force them to face what really happened between them.
Hate the Game
by Winter Renshaw
2019
College football star Talon Gold has spent years chasing the one woman who refuses to make things easy. She knows exactly how dangerous his charm is, and that makes the game between them even more intense.
Pricked
by Winter Renshaw
2019
A sharp, flirty contemporary romance where attraction comes with consequences and nobody stays as guarded as they planned. The setup is playful on the surface, but the emotional stakes land harder than either lead expects.
The Marriage Pact
by Winter Renshaw
2019
She swore she would never marry the royal who once broke her heart, and he swore the same. Years later he returns with a demand that could change both of their lives, and their old pact suddenly means very little.
The Best Man
by Winter Renshaw
2020
A man wakes from a vivid dream of a wife and children who do not exist, then meets the woman from that dream months later. The catch is brutal, she is the one person he cannot have.
The Cruelest Stranger
by Winter Renshaw
2020
A magnetic stranger upends one woman's carefully ordered life, bringing attraction, suspicion, and more than a few hidden motives with him. The romance is fast, emotional, and edged with secrets.
Trillion
by Winter Renshaw
2020
A fake-engagement setup between a boss and employee gets a glamorous, high-stakes twist in this grumpy-sunshine romance. What starts as strategy quickly turns personal once the feelings stop pretending.
Enemy Dearest
by Winter Renshaw
2021
A woman falls for the one man she has always been warned against, August Monreaux. Their forbidden connection is part family feud, part first love, and all trouble once old loyalties start closing in.
The Match
by Winter Renshaw
2021
A carefully arranged connection starts to look a lot less simple once chemistry, competition, and mixed motives enter the picture. It is a contemporary romance where being paired up may be the least complicated part.
Love and Kerosene
by Winter Renshaw
2022
A combustible contemporary romance about damaged people, hard choices, and attraction that burns hot enough to singe everything around it. The emotional stakes rise fast once the past starts crowding the present.
Stone Cold
by Winter Renshaw
2022
After accidentally tagging herself in her ex's engagement photo, Jovie gets a cutting message from Stone, the ex-best friend who has always seemed to dislike her. Their hostile exchanges turn into a forbidden connection complicated by history and secrets.
The Dirty Truth
by Winter Renshaw
2022
A polished life starts to crack when attraction, buried secrets, and one inconvenient truth refuse to stay buried. This is a contemporary romance with tension that only gets messier the closer the characters get.
Dear Stranger
by Winter Renshaw
2023
An ambitious lawyer falls hard for an anonymous app match, only to learn he is actually Brooks Abbott, her sharp-tongued office rival. Behind the screens they are perfect, in person they are a disaster waiting to happen.
Fake-ish
by Winter Renshaw
2023
Briar once made a pact to reconnect with Dorian when his life settled down. A year later, she is pretending to be engaged to her boss, only to learn that her fake fiancé is Dorian's brother.
Hate Mail
by Winter Renshaw
2023
Campbell has been promised to Slade Delacorte since infancy, and the letters meant to bond them only taught her how much he hated the arrangement. Marrying him is bad enough. Falling for him is worse.
You or Someone Like You
by Winter Renshaw
2023
Sloane agrees to stand in for her identical twin on a blind date, then falls for Roman, a guarded widowed father who thinks she is someone else. Their bond over art is real, but the twin swap cannot stay hidden forever.
Yours Cruelly
by Winter Renshaw
2023
A dating app match throws a woman back into the orbit of the rich hometown bully who made her teenage years miserable. One reckless night turns into a pregnancy, and their second chance gets very real, very fast.
Love Grows Wild
by Winter Renshaw
2026
Left at the altar and blocked as a writer, Wren returns to Colton Valley with her young son. Her hoped-for fresh start is complicated by Hunter, the gruff neighboring farmer who wanted her property and may be harder to resist than expected.
Where to start with Winter Renshaw
For hometown second chances: Royal → Bachelor → Filthy
For letters, messages, and enemies-to-lovers tension: P.S. I Hate You → Hate Mail → Dear Stranger
For darker, high-conflict romance: Arrogant Bastard → Arrogant Master → Dark Paradise
For newer standalone romance: You or Someone Like You → Fake-ish → Love Grows Wild
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Arrogant Bastard
by Winter Renshaw
2015Arrogant, Book 1
Arrogant Master
by Winter Renshaw
2015Arrogant, Book 2
Arrogant Playboy
by Winter Renshaw
2015Arrogant, Book 3
Dark Paradise
by Winter Renshaw
2015Dark (Minka Kent), Book 1
Never Is a Promise
by Winter Renshaw
2015Never, Book 2
Never Kiss a Stranger
by Winter Renshaw
2015Never, Book 1
Never Say Never
by Winter Renshaw
2015Never, Book 3
Bachelor
by Winter Renshaw
2016Rixton Falls, Book 2
Bitter Rivals
by Winter Renshaw
2016Never, Book 4
Filthy
by Winter Renshaw
2016Rixton Falls, Book 3
Heartless
by Winter Renshaw
2016Amato Brothers, Book 1
Priceless
by Winter Renshaw
2016Amato Brothers, Book 3
Reckless
by Winter Renshaw
2016Amato Brothers, Book 2
Royal
by Winter Renshaw
2016Rixton Falls, Book 1
Vegas Baby
by Winter Renshaw
2016
Absinthe
by Winter Renshaw
2017
Cold Hearted
by Winter Renshaw
2017Hearted, Book 1
Country Nights
by Winter Renshaw
2017
Dark Promises
by Winter Renshaw
2017Dark (Minka Kent), Book 2
The Perfect Illusion
by Winter Renshaw
2017
P.S. I Dare You
by Winter Renshaw
2018P.S., Book 3
P.S. I Hate You
by Winter Renshaw
2018P.S., Book 1
P.S. I Miss You
by Winter Renshaw
2018P.S., Book 2
The Executive / Exmas
by Winter Renshaw
2018
The Rebound
by Winter Renshaw
2018
War and Love / Love and Other Lies
by Winter Renshaw
2018
For Lila, Forever
by Winter Renshaw
2019
Hate the Game
by Winter Renshaw
2019Love Games, Book 1
Pricked
by Winter Renshaw
2019
The Marriage Pact
by Winter Renshaw
2019
The Best Man
by Winter Renshaw
2020
The Cruelest Stranger
by Winter Renshaw
2020
Trillion
by Winter Renshaw
2020
Enemy Dearest
by Winter Renshaw
2021
The Match
by Winter Renshaw
2021
Love and Kerosene
by Winter Renshaw
2022
The Dirty Truth
by Winter Renshaw
2022
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Author bio
Winter Renshaw is the contemporary-romance pen name used by the writer also known as Minka Kent. Under the Renshaw name, she writes stories about attraction arriving at inconvenient times, old hurts that refuse to stay buried, and people who are not nearly as over each other as they claim.
She was born in Iowa, graduated from Iowa State University, and still lives in the state with her three children.
Renshaw has said she has been writing all her life, and she has worked as a full-time author for about a decade. Her romance career began in 2015 with Arrogant Bastard, a book that immediately pointed toward the big emotions, difficult circumstances, and high-friction relationships that would become familiar parts of her work.
The books tend to start with a strong problem. An ex comes back. A fake engagement gets too real. A long-ago crush turns into a present-day mess. Two people who have every reason to avoid each other get stuck in the same place, with nowhere to hide from the chemistry.
That setup has taken Renshaw through a wide range of contemporary romance. Royal is a hometown second-chance story about a woman and the first love who vanished from her life. P.S. I Hate You uses letters, distance, and a painful silence to put pressure on a reunion. Hate Mail begins with an arranged marriage and years of resentful correspondence. More recent standalones such as You or Someone Like You, Fake-ish, and Love Grows Wild keep finding fresh ways to make secrets and bad timing matter.
Her characters are often guarded, stubborn, and good at making a situation worse before they make it better.
Readers who enjoy Renshaw's romances usually come for the mix of banter, yearning, and emotional complications. Her heroes can be wealthy, famous, athletic, private, or openly difficult, but the story does not end with the first spark. The real question is whether the couple can build trust after all the lies, family pressure, history, or crossed signals have had their say.
She also writes psychological suspense as Minka Kent. That side of her work includes The Memory Watcher, The Thinnest Air, and Unmissing, and it has led to award nominations and screen adaptations. The two pen names serve different kinds of readers, but both show an interest in secrets, shifting assumptions, and the trouble caused by what people keep to themselves.
It is a busy writing life, but the Iowa setting has remained part of the picture. Her books may move through glamorous estates, small towns, college campuses, ranches, and crowded cities, yet they often keep one foot in the everyday emotional problem: wanting someone, needing answers, and having no easy way to ask for either.
For romance readers, Winter Renshaw offers a large shelf of standalone-friendly stories and connected series. Pick a trope that sounds fun, then expect the feelings to get complicated.
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