Brenda Novak Books in Order

Brenda Novak is a popular romantic suspense thriller and romance novels author. With around 70 books written to date with series like the Evelyn Talbot Chronicles, Stillwater Trilogy, Whiskey Creek series, and Silver Sprint series, she has long climbed to the ranks of internationally bestselling authors crossing two genres and more.

For readers that only enjoy romantic suspense thrillers but not contemporary or historical romances, the author has plenty of books to keep you entertained. And pure romance novel lovers will enjoy the numerous books Brenda Novak has written for the last 20 years and more.

Here are the Brenda Novak books in order for her various series, listed by genre: romantic suspense, thriller, and romance.

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9 Months Later Books in Order

1. Snow Baby, 2000
2. Baby Business, 2000
3. Expectations, 2000

Dundee, Idaho Books in Order

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

Stillwater Trilogy

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

Last Stand Books in 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

Dept 6 Hired Guns Books in Order

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

Bulletproof Books in Order

1. Inside (#1), 2011
2. Blood In, Blood Out (#1.5), 2018
3. In Seconds (#2), 2011
4. In Close (#3), 2011

Whiskey Creek Books in 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

Fairham Island Books in Order

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

Evelyn Talbot Chronicles

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

Silver Springs Books in Order

1. Finding Our Forever, 2017
2. No One But You, 2017
3. Until You Loved Me, 2017
4. Right Where We Belong, 2017
5. Unforgettable You, 2019
6. Christmas in Silver Springs, 2019
7. A California Christmas, 2020
8. When I Found You, 2021
9. Keep Me Warm at Christmas, 2021

One Perfect Summer Books in Order

• One Perfect Summer, 2020
• Pieces of Perfect, 2025

Standalone Novels

• Of Noble Birth, 1999
• Dear Maggie, 2001 (Men in Uniform series)
• A Family by Christmas, 2001 (aka We Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus)
• Shooting the Moon, 2002
• Taking the Heat, 2003
• Sanctuary, 2003 (Birth Place series)
• To Win Her Heart, 2004 (aka What a Girl Wants)
• Cold Feet, 2004
• Every Waking Moment, 2005
• Honor Bound, 2011 (aka The Bastard)
• Through the Smoke, 2013
• A Matter of Grave Concern, 2014
• On a Snowy Christmas, 2018
• Before We Were Strangers, 2018
• The Best Christmas Surprise, 2019 (aka Just Like the Ones We Used to Know)
• The Bookstore on the Beach, 2021
• Summer on the Island, 2022
• The Seaside Library, 2023
• Tourist Season, 2024
• The Banned Books Club, 2024
• The Summer That Changed Everything, 2025
• Meet Me in Italy, 2026
• A Hard Luck Christmas, 2026

Collections and Anthologies

• More Than Words, 2004
• Suspense Magazine, August 2010
• Suspense Magazine, May 2011
• Suspense Magazine June 2011
• Thriller 3: Love Is Murder, 2012
• Heart’s Kiss: Issue 8, 2018
• Heart’s Kiss: Issue 9, 2018

Picture Books

• No, Again?, 2023

Non-Fiction Books

• Love That! Brenda Novak’s Every Occasion Cookbook, 2015, with Jan Coad

Brenda Novak Biography

Brenda Novak was born in 1964 in Vernal, Utah, as the youngest child of two government employees. Her father was working for 30 years for the Bureau of Reclamation, and her mother was a member of the Chandler City Council. When Brenda was around 8 years old, her mother became ill with multiple sclerosis, which hampered her life quite a lot, although she still remained active in her membership at the Council.

At the age of 10, Brenda moved with her family to Arizona, after her father retired. Her mother was a religious person, so she grew up in a rather uptight environment. She always got A in school, so she was a good student. She attended Brigham Young University on an academic scholarship with a focus on business.

In 1984 she married Ted Novak, and together they moved to California. Over the years, she helped her husband start and run various businesses, and she has also worked as a real estate agent, an antique dealer, a loan officer, as well as an aide for Senator John T. Doolittle.

Ten years later, in 1994, Brenda decided that she wanted to devote her time writing books from home. In part, this decision was sparked by an incident while she was working as a loan officer and had three small children at home. One day she caught her daycare provider giving Tylenol and cough syrup to her children to keep them asleep. This shook Brenda to the core, seeing how the woman was basically abusing and endangering her kids, so she decided that she would work from home. And what better way to work from home than writing fiction books. When her sister gave her a Jude Devereaux novel to read, she began wondering whether she could write like that as well.

She wrote her first book in 4-5 years while she also learning the art and craft of writing, and it took her one more year to sell that initial book, but that was the start of the bestselling author Brenda Novak. Initially, she wrote super romances and historical romances, and after a few years, she began writing romantic suspense and thriller novels as well. She always found writing contemporary romance novels easiest, while the historical ones were longer and more engaged. Brenda Novak found the romantic suspense novels most difficult to write because there is not only a layer of romance but also crime, mystery, and suspense involve that weaves throughout the plot with the romance aspect.

Reading the Brenda Novak books in order for her numerous series – especially the romantic suspense is worth it because, while most stories are standalone, the main characters have meaningful interactions and developments throughout the series.

One of her newer romantic suspense series focuses on Dr. Evelyn Talbot, a psychiatrist who has dedicated her life to learning what makes true psychopaths tick. Her dedication was sparked by a horrible incident several years ago involving her at-the-time high-school boyfriend, Jasper Moore, who tortured her and left her for dead. Now, this very ex-boyfriend is following her every step with a very dark and determined mind.

Evelyn is the mind behind Hanover House, a facility catering to imprisoning and studying the worst of the worst humanity has to offer: those hardcore psychopaths that are the most dangerous to society. The facility is located in Hilltop, Alaska, which is also the setting for the Evelyn Talbot series.

The series was, in part, created based on the author’s own strong interest in how psychopaths’ minds work. In an interview, she mentioned,

I’ve always been curious about what causes it, how it’s detected, how it manifests, if there’s any treatment, if there’s a biological component. Creating Evelyn Talbot gave me a great excuse to explore all of that, to essentially study right along with her.

As to why she used Alaska as the main setting for her romantic suspense series (for example in her Hanover House series), she mentioned that Alaska could provide another antagonist for the main characters due to the harsh weather. Also, it is an interesting continent that Brenda Novak could learn more about for her research. Especially this series should be read from the first book to the last, as the backstory (and even current events) with Jasper Moore will have the most meaning then.

Over the years, the author Brenda Novak received and was nominated for several awards, including six RITA nominations, the National Reader’s Choice, the Write Touch Award, the Beacon Award for Published Authors, the Book Buyer’s Best, the Bookseller’s Best Award, as well as the Daphne, and the Silver Bullet.

For her writing process, Brenda Novak is more of a pantser (seat of the pants writer) who doesn’t outline her story. She begins with the story’s main conflict and then looks at the characters she would add to her novel that would be most challenged by the proposed conflict.

Besides writing books, Brenda Novak has also created a subscription-based service called the Professional Readers Box, which she runs with her daughter Alexa. The box brings each month two autographed books, one by an established author and another by an upcoming author to every subscriber. She and her daughter hand-select the two books that would be going out each month to the avid readers.

For 10 years, after learning one of her sons had Type 1 diabetes, she also ran Brenda Novak’s Online Auction for Diabetes Research. Currently, she runs Brenda Novak for the Cure, which has raised over $2.6 million for research so far.

References

• Brenda Novak author page
• Brenda Novak Online Auction for Diabetes Research
• Brenda Novak for the Cure

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Last Updated on February 2, 2026