Brenda Novak Books in Order – Complete List

Brenda Novak is the New York Times bestselling author of romantic suspense novels, as well as historical romance and contemporary romance novels. Brenda Novak’s books include her romantic suspense series, such as the Stillwater Trilogy, the Last Stand collection, the Bulletproof books, and the Evelyn Talbot Chronicles, among others, while romances include the Whiskey Creek series, Silver Springs, and the new Coyote Canyon series.

Here are the Brenda Novak books in order of publication. The reading and chronological order is the same for her novels.

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The Summer That Changed Everything, June 2025

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Dundee Idaho Books in Publication Order

  1. That One Night (#1), 2002 (aka A Baby of Her Own)
  2. Falling For You (#2), 2003 (aka A Husband of Her Own)
  3. First Love, Second Chance (#3), 2004 (aka A Family of Her Own)
  4. Say You Love Me (#4), 2004 (aka aka A Home of Her Own)
  5. Meant for You (#6), 2005 (aka Stranger in Town)
  6. Finding You (#6), 2005 (aka Big Girls Don’t Cry)
  7. The Other Woman (#7), 2006 (aka Just the Two of Us)
  8. Coulda Been A Cowboy (#8), 2007 (aka The More I Love You)
  9. A Dundee Christmas (#8.5), 2017

Stillwater Trilogy in Publication Order

  1. Dead Silence, 2006
  2. Dead Giveaway, 2007
  3. Dead Right, 2007

The Last Stand Books in Publication Order

  1. Trust Me, 2008
  2. Stop Me, 2008
  3. Watch Me, 2008
  4. The Perfect Couple, 2009
  5. The Perfect Liar, 2009
  6. The Perfect Murder, 2009

Department 6 Hired Guns Trilogy in Publication Order

  1. White Heat, 2010
  2. Body Heat, 2010
  3. Killer Heat, 2010

Bulletproof Trilogy in Publication Order

  1. In Seconds, 2011
  2. In Close, 2011
  3. Inside, 2011

Whiskey Creek Books in Publication Order

  1. When We Touch (#0.5), 2012
  2. When Lightning Strikes (#1), 2012
  3. When Snow Falls (#2), 2012
  4. When Summer Comes (#3), 2013
  5. Home to Whiskey Creek (#4), 2013
  6. Take Me Home for Christmas (#5), 2013
  7. Come Home to Me (#6), 2014
  8. The Heart of Christmas (#7), 2014
  9. This Heart of Mine (#8), 2015
  10. A Winter Wedding (#9), 2015
  11. Discovering You (#10), 2016
  12. Home for the Holidays (#10.5), 2021 (included as bonus story in Debbie Macomber’s Seaside Springtime)
  13. Tying the Knot (#11), 2024 (Grady’s Story)

Fairham Island Books in Publication Order

  1. The Secret Sister, 2015
  2. The Secrets She Kept, 2016

The Evelyn Talbot Chronicles / Hannover Chronicles Books in Publication Order

  1. Hanover House (#0.5), 2015
  2. Her Darkest Nightmare (#1), 2016
  3. Hello Again (#2), 2017
  4. Face Off (#3), 2018
  5. Blindspot (#4), 2019

Silver Springs Books in Publication Order

  1. Finding Our Forever (#1), 2017
  2. No One but You (#2), 2017
  3. Until You Loved Me (#3), 2017
  4. Right Where We Belong (#4), 2017
  5. Unforgettable You (#5), 2019
  6. Christmas in Silver Springs (#6), 2019
  7. A California Christmas (#7), 2020
  8. Home for the Holidays (#7.5), 2020
  9. When I Found You (#8), 2021
  10. Keep Me Warm at Christmas (#9), 2021

Coyote Canyon Books in Publication Order

  1. Talulah’s Back in Town, 2023
  2. The Talk of Coyote Canyon, 2023
  3. The Messy Life of Jane Tanner, 2024

9 Months Later Books in Publication Order

Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Short Story Collections and Anthologies in Order of Publication

Children’s Books / Picture Books

Non-Fiction Books

Brenda Novak Biography

Brenda Novak author

Brenda Novak was born in 1964 in Vernal, Utah, in the United States. As a child, she moved with her family to Arizona. Later on, while studying in the university, she wanted to get married and start a family, so she left Brigham Young University and found a job in commercial real estate to become a loan officer.

The way she became a novelist is one of those famous stories that is being told by people every chance they get.

One day when she went home from work, she found her children’s babysitter drugging her youngest son with cough syrup and Tylenol so he would go to sleep. Seeing this, she was so shocked that she decided to leave her day job as a loan officer and become a stay-at-home mom in order to take care of her family.

While reading a romance novel, she had the idea of writing books as well. However, it took her five years to get as far as actually writing a book. It was a difficult time for her family since they not only lost their family business but also their home. Eventually, however, she finally wrote and sold her first romance novel, Of Noble Birth, in 1999. This is when Brenda Novak knew she found her final calling: become a book author.

Brenda Novak is currently living with her husband and five children in Sacramento where, besides writing, she also helps diabetes research by raising money for Juvenile Diabetes Research, since her youngest son, Tad, has diabetes as well.

She received several awards such as the National Reader’s Choice, and the Award of Excellence, and was listed on bestseller lists like the Bookseller’s Best, the Beacon Award for Published Authors, and the Write Touch.

In The Evelyn Talbot Chronicles, Evelyn is a criminal psychologist who lives in a small Alaskan town. She founded the Hanover House, which is a facility for some extremely dangerous criminals, and psychopaths who should be locked forever away. The reason why she started this home is because when she was 16, her boyfriend attacked her, almost killed her, and left her for dead. Now Evelyn wants to learn what makes psychopaths tick, learn their secret,and find out how their mind is working.

Soon after she started working at Hanover House, she met Sergeant Amarok who was very unhappy with the entire home for criminal convicts being in his neighborhood.

Fairham Island is another series that features Maisey Lazarow who, after many years, returns to her home island, Fairham, after a heavy divorce. Back at home, she meets her high school fling, Rafe Romero, who still makes her heart beat fast even after all these years.

This second series is just as good as the previous one, however, Fairham Island has some gothic undertone which I really enjoyed (I always loved gothic stories). Brenda got her idea for the first book, The Secret Sister while watching an episode of Dateline, where a brother and sister got together after several years to indulge in recollecting their early years together when they remembered playing with another child who might or might not have been a sibling.

After a thorough investigation, they found a shocking discovery. So Brenda’s imagination started creating a full storyline which eventually became the plotline for her book.

Reading the books by Brenda Novak in order for her several romantic suspense book series is recommended. They each feature main characters that are connected throughout the books, a storyline that you might miss out on if you read them out of order.

Brenda Novak Awards and Nominations List

Over the years, Brenda Novak received several awards and was nominated for many as well, not to to mention the various recognition mentions in magazines and other places.

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Cold Feet

  • won the Smoky Mountain Lorie Award in 2004
  • won the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence in 2004
  • won the Lories Award in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Golden Quill Award in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Bookseller’s Best Award in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Aspen Gold Award in 2004

A Home of Her Own

  • won the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Smoky Mountain Laurie Award in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Holt Medallion in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Write Touch Readers’ Award in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Aspen Gold Award in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Bookbuyer’s Best Award in 2004

A Family of Her Own

  • won the Bookseller’s Best Award in 2004
  • won Wordweaving’s Award of Excellence in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Award of Excellence in 2004
  • was a finalist for the More Than Magic Award in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Gayle Wilson Award in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Golden Quill Award in 2004
  • was a finalist for the Bookbuyer’s Best Award in 2004

Stranger in Town

  • won the Write Touch Readers’ Award in 2005
  • won the Award of Excellence in 2005
  • was a finalist for the Golden Quill Award in 2005
  • won the Lories Award (Overall) in 2005
  • won the Aspen Gold Award in 2005
  • won the Laurel Wreath Award in 2005
  • was a finalist for the Beacon Award in 2005

Every Waking Moment

  • won the Winter Rose Award in 2005
  • was a finalist for the Beacon Award in 2005
  • was a finalist for the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence in 2005
  • was a finalist for the Award of Excellence in 2005
  • was a finalist for the Golden Quill Award in 2005
  • was a finalist for the Smoky Mountain Laurie Award in 2005
  • was a finalist for the More Than Magic Award in 2005
  • was a finalist for the Lories Award in 2005
  • was a finalist for the Aspen Gold Award in 2005
  • was a finalist for the Laurel Wreath Award in 2005

Dead Silence

  • won the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence in 2006
  • won the Bookbuyer’s Best Award (Best Book Overall) in 2006
  • was a finalist for the National Reader’s Choice Award in 2006
  • was a finalist for the Holt Medallion in 2006
  • was a finalist for the Beacon Award in 2006
  • was a finalist for the Golden Quill Award in 2006
  • was a finalist for the From the Heart Lories Award in 2006

The Other Woman

  • was a finalist for the Write Touch Readers’ Award in 2006
  • was a finalist for the Beacon Award in 2006

Just Like the Ones We Used to Know

  • was a finalist for the Beacon Award in 2006

Dead Giveaway

  • won the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence (Romantic Suspense) in 2007
  • was a finalist for the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence in 2008
  • was a finalist for the Bookseller’s Best Award in 2008
  • was a finalist for the Holt Medallion in 2008
  • was a finalist for the Write Touch Readers’ Award in 2008
  • was a finalist for the Golden Quill Award in 2008
  • was a finalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award in 2008

Dead Right

  • was a finalist for the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence in 2008
  • was a finalist for the Bookseller’s Best Award in 2008
  • was a finalist for the Write Touch Readers’ Award in 2008

Trust Me

  • won the Golden Quill Award in 2009

Body Heat

  • was nominated for the RITA Award in 2010
  • won the Bookseller’s Best Award in 2010

White Heat

  • won the Reader’s Crown Award in 2010

Inside

  • won the Golden Quill Award in 2011

Through the Smoke

  • won the National Reader’s Choice Award in 2013

Home to Whiskey Creek

  • was nominated for the RITA Award in 2014

Blind Spot

  • was nominated for the Suspense Magazine Awards in 2014

3 Comments

  1. I love all Brenda Novaks books which have been free to read on my I pad. The last few books I started have all been stopped about 60 pages into it.

    What is happening I can’t understand what the message is for doing that. I really miss reading her books but not being able to read the whole book is the worst thing I have come up while reading. Help please.🙏 I’m

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  2. Please write a sequel to One Perfect Summer. There has to be more to this story

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    1. I second the request for a follow up. One perfect summer was a great book but I’d love a follow up. The book was going so strong with love interests for all 3 sisters and then they all just dropped off toward the end. That was disappointing. It was going strong and then in the end it was as if you’d already burned thru your allotted 400 or so pages so you quickly and loosely tied things up in the last 50. This was a bummer and it really left us hanging. Like what were the results of her brother’s DNA test. I was really hoping it was gonna show her brother was also adopted so Lorelei would have a brother. As wonderful of parents as serenity had, I was hoping you’d write a chapter or at least a few lines where they brought the other two girls into the fold to provide Lorelei a set of parents she desperately needed. The storyline with finn was so strong and then bam, nothing. It just petered off. Same with Davis, nothing. I’d love to have a sequel that brings all these guys and gals back to the two houses for another summer where you unfold their happily ever afters. What happened to Mark and Francine, did they stick together or did she wisen up and dump his arse too. I really wanted finn and Lorelei to get together in the end. That was the most disappointing part of this book. You focused so heavily on their growing bond and then just seemed to drop it. There’s so much there that was left unfinished in my eyes. I think you have enough material and lose ends to be able to make a kick arse sequel. Please do a follow up.
      Sincerely, your fan

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