Barbara Freethy Books in Order - Series Guide

Barbara Freethy is a #1 New York Times bestselling American author best known for the Off the Grid: FBI romantic suspense series and her psychological thrillers. She is a two-time RITA Award winner and was named Amazon’s KDP Bestselling Author of All Time in 2014. She has sold over 11 million books for more than 75 novels.

She writes in several genres, ranging from romantic suspense and family-centered contemporary romance to mystery thrillers. The suspense novels are plot-heavy, with secrets, twists, and a romantic thread woven through. Her newer pure mystery work, including the Mysteries Uncorked podcast thriller series launched in late 2025, has shifted to psychological suspense without the romance component.

This page lists all Barbara Freethy books in order, including her thriller and suspense series, standalone mystery novels, contemporary romance series, and early books published under her pen name Kristina Logan.

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Cross That Line (October 2026)

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Deception Series (Books in Order)

The Deception romantic suspense series follows people who have been deceived by an elusive conman who believes he can’t be caught.

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Taken, 2006
Played, 2006

Sanders Brothers Series (Books in Order)

The Sanders Brothers romantic suspense duology follows two brothers, Jake and Dylan, who go through several dangerous situations to protect the women they love.

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Silent Run, 2008
Silent Fall, 2008

Angel’s Bay Series (Books in Order)

The Angel’s Bay series is set in a fictional California coastal town with a history of shipwrecks and local legends. The five books are a mix of contemporary romance, light mystery and supernatural elements.

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Suddenly One Summer, 2009
On Shadow Beach, 2010
In Shelter Cove, 2010
At Hidden Falls, 2011
Garden of Secrets, 2011

Wish Series (Books in Order)

The Wish contemporary romance series focuses on how magical wishes affect people’s lives.

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A Secret Wish, 2012
Just A Wish Away, 2012
When Wishes Collide, 2012

Callaways Series (Books in Order)

The Callaway Family series follows the eight siblings of an Irish-American family in San Francisco, most of them working as firefighters or are somehow related to law enforcement. Each book follows a separate sibling getting entangled with their love interest, and each has a mystery subplot.

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Bachelors & Bridesmaids Series (Books in Order)

The Bachelors & Bridesmaids contemporary romance series follows seven female friends who start the series as bridesmaids and end up finding their own love stories.

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Kiss Me Forever, 2014
Steal My Heart, 2014
All Your Loving, 2014
Before I Do, 2015
Falling Into You, 2015
Forever Starts Tonight, 2017
Dreaming of You, 2019

Lightning Strikes Trilogy (Books in Order)

The Lightning Strikes trilogy is a romantic suspense series that follows the Monroe siblings who try to find the truth about their father’s death in a plane crash. The lightning connects the various events in the books both in a literal and a figurative way.

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Callaway Cousins Series (Books in Order)

The Callaway Cousins series is a spinoff of the Callaway Family series, following the next generation of the Callaway family.

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Off The Grid: FBI Series (Books in Order)

The Off the Grid: FBI series follows a group of FBI agents who were classmates at Quantico. Each book follows a different agent working dangerous case involving kidnapping, organized crime, terrorism, or espionage.

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Whisper Lake Series (Books in Order)

The Whisper Lake series is a contemporary romance series set in a small California lakeside town. Each book follows a different couple.

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Ocean Shores Series (Books in Order)

The Ocean Shores series is a humorous contemporary romance series set in Oceanside, California, following a group of tenants living in an apartment complex near the beach.

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Mysteries Uncorked Series (Books in Order)

The Mysteries Uncorked series follows Cassidy Clarke, Tessa, and Morgan, three friends who lose their jobs and turn their true-crime obsession into a podcast. When their audience grows, they take the show on the road to investigate real cold cases, and soon things become dangerous. It is a female-led psychological thriller series with no romantic suspense element.

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Is Anyone Listening?, 2025
What They’ll Say About Us, 2026

FBI Series: Strike Team East Series (Books in Order)

The FBI Series: Strike Team East series, also called the East Coast Strike Team series, is a spin-off from the Off The Grid: FBI series, and follows different members of an elite, fast-moving FBI unit handling the Bureau’s most dangerous cases.

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Burn Every Bridge, 2026
Cross That Line, 2026

Author Contributions

Luke (7 BridRes for 7 Brothers #1), 2016
Ryder (7 Brides For 7 Soldiers #1), 2017
Devlin (7 Brides for 7 Blackthornes #1), 2019

Standalone Novels

Daniel’s Gift, 1996
Ryan’s Return, 1996
Ask Mariah, 1997
One True Love, 1998
The Sweetest Thing, 1999
Just the Way You Are, 2000
Almost Home, 2000
Some Kind of Wonderful, 2001
Love Will Find a Way, 2002
Summer Secrets, 2003
Golden Lies, 2004
The Cuzzian Horse, 2004
All She Ever Wanted, 2004
Don’t Say a Word, 2005
Patrick Michael O’Reilly’s 13th Summer, 2007
The Way Back Home, 2012
Sweet Somethings, 2017
All The Pretty People, 2022
Last One to Know, 2022
The Other Emily, 2023
Nothing Breaks Like a Heart, 2025

Writing as Kristina Logan

Barbara Freethy Biography

Barbara Freethy is an American author of romantic suspense, mystery thrillers, and contemporary romance, with over 75 novels published since 1996.
Official website: barbarafreethy.com

Born and raised in California, Barbara Freethy earned a degree in Communications from UC Santa Barbara and then worked in public relations before becoming an author. She started writing while pregnant with her first child, sold her debut novel, a Silhouette Romance published under the pen name Kristina Logan, within a couple of years, and then continued under her real name in 1996 with Daniel’s Gift, which won the RITA Award for Best Contemporary Romance.

She wrote for traditional publishers including HarperCollins, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster during the 2000s, then made a decisive move to self-publishing in 2011, founding her own imprint, Fog City Publishing. The transition worked, as Summer Secrets hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 2012, and in 2014 Amazon named her the KDP Bestselling Author of All Time. More than 28 of her titles have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists.

Barbara Freethy writes in several genres, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, women’s fiction, and, more recently, psychological thrillers. She lives in California.

Barbara Freethy Awards and Honors

Awards

Ryan’s Return – Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Contemporary Novel (1996)
Daniel’s Gift – Romance Writers of America RITA Award, Best Contemporary Single Title (1997)
The Way Back Home – Romance Writers of America RITA Award, Best Contemporary Single Title (2013)

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Founder of Mystery Sequels, a reference site focused on listing mystery and thriller books in the correct reading order. I maintain and update the site’s bibliographies as new titles are released, ensuring accuracy and consistency across author and series pages.