Sandra Brown Books In Order – Complete List

New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is considered one of the queens of romantic suspense and romance genres. With close to 100 novels written to date, she has earned her place among the best of her peers.

Here are the Sandra Brown books in order of publication for her romantic suspense novels and romance series, written under her own name and her earlier pen names, Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, and Erin St. Clare. The reading order for her series is the same as the publication order.

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Bed & Breakfast Books in Publication Order

1. Breakfast in Bed, 1983
2. Send No Flowers, 1984

Coleman Family Saga Books in Publication Order

historical romance series

1. Sunset Embrace, 1985
2. Another Dawn, 1985

Mason Sisters Books in Publication Order

1. Fanta C, 1987
2. Adam’s Fall, 1988

Mitchell & Associates Books in Publication Order

1. Smash Cut, 2009
2. Tough Customer, 2010

Texas! Tyler Family Saga Books in Publication Order

1. Texas! Lucky, 1990
2. Texas! Chase, 1991
3. Texas! Sage, 1991

Lee Coburn Books in Publication Order

1. Lethal, 2011
2. Honor & …, 2018

Standalone Romantic Suspense Thrillers in Order of Publication

• Slow Heat in Heaven, 1988
• Best Kept Secrets, 1989
• Mirror Image, 1990
• Breath of Scandal, 1991
• French Silk, 1992
• Shadows of Yesterday, 1982
• Where There’s Smoke, 1993
• Charade, 1994
• The Witness, 1995
• Exclusive, 1996
• Fat Tuesday, 1997
• Unspeakable, 1998
• The Alibi, 1999
• Standoff, 2000
• The Switch, 2000
• Envy, 2001
• The Crush, 2002
• Hello, Darkness, 2003
• White Hot, 2004
• Chill Factor, 2005
• Ricochet, 2006
• Play Dirty, 2007
• Smoke Screen, 2008
• Rainwater, 2009
• No Rest For the Dead, 2011 (collaboration serial novel)
• Low Pressure, 2012
• Deadline, 2013
• Mean Streak, 2014
• Friction, 2015
• Sting, 2016
• Seeing Red, 2017
• Tailspin, 2018
• Outfox, 2019
• Thick as Thieves, 2020
• Blind Tiger, 2021
• Overkill, 2022
• Out of Nowhere, 2023
• Blood Moon, 2025

Standalone Romance Novels in Publication Order

• Tomorrow’s Promise, 1983
• Relentless Desire, 1983
• Heaven’s Price, 1983
• Temptations Kiss, 1983
• Tempest in Eden, 1983
• In a Class by Itself, 1984
• Thursday’s Child, 1985
• Riley in the Morning, 1985
• The Rana Look, 1986
• 22 Indigo Place, 1986
• Sunny Chandler’s Return, 1987
• Demon Rumm, 1987
• Tidings of Great Joy, 1988
• Hawk O’Toole’s Hostage, 1988
• Long Time Coming, 1989
• Temperatures Rising, 1989
• A Whole New Light, 1989

Writing As Rachel Ryan

• Love’s Encore, 1981
• Love Beyond Reason, 1981
• Eloquent Silence, 1982
• A Treasure Worth Seeking, 1982

Writing As Laura Jordan

• The Silken Web, 1982
• Hidden Fires, 1982

Writing As Erin St. Claire

• Not Even For Love, 1982
• A Kiss Remembered, 1983
• Seduction by Design, 1983
• Words of Silk, 1984
• A Secret Splendor, 1984
• Bittersweet Rain, 1984
• Sweet Anger, 1985
• Tiger Prince, 1985
• Honor Bound, 1986
• Above and Beyond, 1986
• Two Alone, 1987
• The Thrill of Victory, 1989

Astray & Devil Series

• Led Astray, 1985
• The Devil’s Own, 1987

Anthologies in Order of Publication

• Suspense Magazine October 2012, 2012
• Love is Murder, 2013 (author edited)
• The MatchUp Collection, 2017 (edited by Lee Child)
• Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, 2018

Novellas in Order of Publication

• Honor & … (The MatchUp Collection), 2018 (short story with C.J. Box)

Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

• Believing, 2017

Sandra Brown Biography – About the Author

New York Time bestselling author Sandra Lynn Brown was born in 1948 in Waco, Texas. She grew up in Forth Worth, and later she majored with a degree in English lit at the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

Sandra grew up in a normal life surrounded by a family love for books, with her mother being an avid reader and her father a newspaper editorial writer. Thus, Sandra Brown’s upbringing instilled in her a great joy for books long before becoming an author.

In 1968 she abandoned college in favor of getting married to Michael Brown, an ex-TV news anchor who produced the TV documentary Dust to Dust earning him several awards. As a lifelong Texan, she lives with her husband in Arlington, Texas.

Like numerous authors as well, before becoming a full-time writer, she held several jobs. She worked for KLTV in Tyler as a weathercaster, after which she returned to Fort Worth to work as a journalist for WFAA of PM Magazine, basically in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.

When she was fired from her job as a weathercaster at a television station in Dallas along with many other people, this is when her husband gently nudged her to become a writer, helping her discover the first gripping story she would end up writing. He told her that, with all the free time she now had, it was time to follow her dream of becoming a writer.

Sandra Brown began her writing career in 1981 when her first book was published under the title Love’s Encore, which she wrote under the pen name Rachel Ryan. Over the years, she also wrote under the names Laura Jordan and Erin St. Claire. From her very first book, she put all her energy in writing novel after novel, focusing on her full-time writing career and creating several New York Times bestsellers in the process.

So far, she has written over 75 books, which include romance novels, historical romances and most of all romantic suspense/thriller novels. Her first romantic suspense novel was written in 1988 under the title Slow Heat in Heaven. It was also the first book I have read by this author. Her first novel, a romance novel was Love’s Encore in 1981. It is no surprise that she is on such a popular bestseller list.

Her books have been printed eighty million copies worldwide and have been translated into 34 languages.

She has an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University and at some point, she was president of Mystery Writers of America.

In 2011, she went on a USO tour to Afghanistan with four other colleagues, including Clive Cussler, Mark Bowden, Kathy Reichs and Andrew Peterson. The group met the brave soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and thanked the troops for their service. All these authors have written military mysteries and thrillers.

Thus, when she went home and started thinking of her next book, she had several ideas about civilians who return from the trenches with PTSD. So, her next novel, Deadline, features the main character, Dawson Scott, a news magazine journalist who covered the war in Afghanistan and went home with PTSD. She drew some of the ideas in her book from her trip to that war-zone country.

For her standalone novels, she also gets many of her ideas from a character that she envisions in her mind.

She writes approximately one novel per year (her books usually come out just in time for the summer holidays, making for some wonderful beach reads). A favorite novel is titled Seeing Red, published in 2017.

The book features a journalist (a theme that reoccurs in the Sandra Brown books) and John Trapper, a former ATF agent. When an old photo resurfaced with Kerra Bailey, the journalist and John Trapper’s father, all hell broke loose. Also, someone didn’t want the photo given too much attention due to something that happened 25 years ago. In fact, he wants that so much buried that he is able and willing to kill for it.

The book is a suspenseful romance which keeps you on the edge of your seat all the time. But then again, Sandra Brown’s books tend to do that to the readers. So when you start it – or any other books – make sure you have plenty of time to read, because once you start, it’s not so easy to put her books down.

The 2018 Sandra Brown book (one of my favorites) is Tailspin. It features Rye Mallett, a charter pilot with no qualms about taking dangerous transporting jobs when others avoid doing these trips. This latest trip, however, takes place during extremely bad weather and the cargo is something strange as well. Especially when Rye is shot at and almost killed while landing.

Enter Dr. Brynn O’Neal, who states that the cargo is really hers, and who gives a really strange vibe off to Rye. Can he trust her, and will trusting her lead to anything good, or only to his utter deceit?

Another favorite Sandra Brown novel, again a standalone story, features FBI agent Drex Easton who is in pursuit of a chameleon, conman Weston Graham, who keeps evading him. When he’s finally getting closer to catching him, Drex poses as the neighbor of couple Jasper Ford and Talia Shafer, where he suspects that Jasper is, in fact, Weston Graham. But what about beautiful Talia? Is she his accomplished or an innocent person who might become Weston’s next victim?

Apart from standalone romance and romantic suspense novels, Sandra Brown has also written several romance series. The series list includes the Coleman Family Saga books, the Bed & Breakfast books, the Mason Sisters books, the Tyler Family Saga books, and the Mitchell & Associates books. The Astra & Devil series was originally written under the Erin St. Clare pen name.

Sandra Brown Books Adaptations to Screen

• Smoke Screen – TV movie in 2010 with Jaime Pressly, Currie Graham, Garwin Sanford
• French Silk – TV movie in 1994 with Susan Lucci, Shari Belafonte, Lee Horsley
• Ricochet – TV movie in 2011 with John Corbett, Julie Benz, Kelly Overton
• White Hot – TV movie in 2016 with Shenae Grimes-Beech, Sean Faris, John Schneider

Awards, Nominations, and Achievements

• American Business Women’s Association’s Distinguished Circle of Success
• A.C. Greene Award
• Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature
• Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award
• International Thriller Writers Award, “Thrillermaster”, 2008
• B’nai B’rith’s Distinguished Literary Achievement Award

Sandra Brown is a member of the Author’s Guild, International Association of Crime Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Novelists, Inc. and Literacy Partners.