Leaona Luxx Books in Order (Updated April 16, 2026)

Leaona Luxx’s catalog is easiest to read as one connected small-town contemporary-romance network rather than a pile of separate mini-series. Goodreads’ Redemption Highway series page says its list is based on the author’s own reading guide, and Luxx’s public author pages consistently group the Woods, O’Hurley, Pennington, Daly, Beck, and Hatcher/Willis books together as part of that broader world.

That means the best reading order is not “pick any family at random.” The safest approach is to follow the connected order that starts with Cherry Grove and moves forward through the linked families as they were introduced.

The one-line answer

Start with Cherry Grove.

Then read the connected Redemption Highway books in the sequence below, because that preserves how Luxx introduced the families and lets later crossovers feel like payoffs instead of backtracking.

The best path for most readers

If you want the cleanest Leaona Luxx experience, use the author-guide-based connected order:

1. Cherry Grove
2. Hard to Love
3. Southern Comfort
4. Love, Riley
5. Finding Redemption
6. Wrecking Us Saving You
7. Lies in Ink and Whiskey
8. Whiskey Rebellion
9. Luci’s Lullaby
10. For One Night
11. Rumor Has It
12. Drive Me Crazy

That order matches the connected Redemption Highway sequence shown on Goodreads and lines up with the family labels surfaced across bibliography pages.

Why order matters here

Leaona Luxx does not appear to be writing one giant suspense universe where every book ends on a cliffhanger. But she is writing in a linked-family mode, where readers move from one surname cluster to another and supporting characters can become leads later. That makes publication-based connected order the best default, especially for first-time readers.

Leaona Luxx books in order

Redemption Highway reading order

1. Cherry Grove (2016): The Woods family world opens here, making this the clearest first stop for readers who want the connected small-town romance arc from the beginning.
2. Hard to Love (2017): Returns to the Woods family and works best once the emotional groundwork from Cherry Grove is already in place.
3. Southern Comfort (2017): Shifts to the O’Hurley branch while staying inside the larger connected reading path.
4. Love, Riley (2017): Opens the Pennington segment of the wider family network and starts another relationship thread inside the same world.
5. Finding Redemption (2017): Continues the Pennington branch and lands better after Love, Riley than as a standalone entry.
6. Wrecking Us Saving You (2018): Returns to the Woods family for a later connected romance, so it carries more weight if you already know that branch.
7. Lies in Ink and Whiskey (2018): Launches the Daly family line and signals a move into a new but still connected family cluster.
8. Whiskey Rebellion (2018): Builds directly on the Daly setup and is best read as the second book in that branch.
9. Luci’s Lullaby (2018): Opens the Beck family line while still sitting inside the larger Redemption Highway sequence.
10. For One Night (2019): Returns to the Dalys and should be read after the first two Daly books for the strongest continuity.
11. Rumor Has It (2019): Starts the Hatcher & Willis families branch late in the connected order, so it works best after the earlier family books.
12. Drive Me Crazy (2020): Continues the Hatcher & Willis line and is the current endpoint of the main connected reading guide.

By family or sub-series

If you prefer to see the catalog in family buckets first, this is the clearest split.

The Woods Family

1. Cherry Grove (2016): The real entry point to Luxx’s connected romance world and still the safest first book overall.
2. Hard to Love (2017): Deepens the Woods branch and works better once Book 1 has established the family dynamic.
3. Wrecking Us Saving You (2018): A later Woods-family installment that benefits from already knowing where this branch started.

The O’Hurley’s

Southern Comfort (2017): A one-book O’Hurley entry in the connected order, best treated as a linked family stop rather than a separate long series.

The Pennington’s

1. Love, Riley (2017): The beginning of the Pennington branch and the correct first book for this family line.
2. Finding Redemption (2017): Completes the Pennington pair and should follow Love, Riley directly.

The Daly’s

1. Lies in Ink and Whiskey (2018): The first Daly book and the right entry point for readers drawn to this family.
2. Whiskey Rebellion (2018): Continues the branch without resetting the family context.
3. For One Night (2019): The third Daly novel and the natural finish for this sub-series.

The Beck’s

Luci’s Lullaby (2018): A single Beck-family entry in the current connected guide, placed after the earlier families for best effect.

The Hatcher & Willis Families

1. Rumor Has It (2019): The first Hatcher/Willis book and the start of the last branch in the main reading guide.
2. Drive Me Crazy (2020): The follow-up and current endpoint of the Hatcher/Willis pair.

Separate or optional books

These titles are better treated outside the main Redemption Highway order.

1. Absolution (2021): Listed by retailers as Return To Me / A Salvation Society Novel, so it is safest to treat as a standalone or side-world project rather than part of the family reading chain above.
2. Written in the Stars: Appears on the Goodreads-connected page but not as a numbered main Redemption Highway entry in the sequence shown there, so it is safer to read as an extra rather than slot it into the core twelve-book path.
3. I Put a Spell on You: Also appears as an extra on the Goodreads-connected page without a clear main-sequence placement in the visible listing, so it should be treated as optional until a fuller official guide is provided.
4. Torqued (2020): Shown on the Goodreads-connected page as a tie-in rather than part of the twelve-book core sequence, which makes it best handled as side reading.

What is the best overall order?

For new readers, the best answer is still the simplest one:

Start with Cherry Grove and follow the Redemption Highway guide straight through.

That keeps the family introductions in place, avoids meeting later branches before their setup, and uses the most stable connected order currently visible in public bibliography sources.

Latest release status

The newest clearly listed solo Leaona Luxx title I found in retailer and bibliography pages is Absolution (2021). I did not find a reliably maintained official website bibliography with newer confirmed solo releases, so I would not state a more recent current-release status as fact without stronger sourcing.

Where to start

1. Pick Cherry Grove if you want the proper first book.
2. Pick Lies in Ink and Whiskey only if you specifically want to sample the Daly branch and are comfortable entering the world midstream.
3. Pick Absolution if you want to try Luxx outside the main family sequence.

Final recommendation

Read Leaona Luxx by following the connected Redemption Highway order from Cherry Grove through Drive Me Crazy.

That is the cleanest, most defensible reading path available from the public sources, and it matches the family-network structure her readers most often use.