Sara Cate Books in Order (Updated June 30, 2026)

Sara Cate is a contemporary romance author known for forbidden romance, kink-club settings, age gaps, family complications, power dynamics, dark romance, and emotionally direct relationship stories.

Her books are not one single continuous timeline. The main continuity to protect is Salacious Players’ Club before Salacious Legacy. Most other Sara Cate series should be read inside their own lanes.

Quick reading answer

Start with Praise.

• That is the best entry point because it opens Salacious Players’ Club, the central connected world in Sara Cate’s bibliography. After finishing the six original Salacious Players’ Club books, move into Salacious Legacy.
• The Goode Brothers, Sinful Manor, Wicked Hearts, Beautiful, Wilde Boys, Spitfire, and Black Heart Duet can be read separately by series.

Best Sara Cate reading order

1. Praise (2022): The opening Salacious Players’ Club book introduces Emerson Grant, Charlie, and the club-world foundation that later books build on.
2. Eyes on Me (2022): Garrett and Mia’s story expands the club-owner circle and shows that the series will use recurring relationships, family ties, and kink-specific setups.
3. Give Me More (2022): Hunter, Isabel, and Drake’s road-trip romance widens the series into a three-person relationship and gives the owner group more emotional history.
4. Mercy (2022): Maggie and Beau’s book brings the Grant family back into focus and makes the original club cast feel more interconnected.
5. Highest Bidder (2023): Ronan Kade and Daisy’s romance introduces Kade-family context that becomes more important once Salacious Legacy begins.
6. Madame (2023): Eden, Clay, and Jade’s story closes the original Salacious Players’ Club run and should be read before moving to the next generation.
7. The Good Girl Effect (2025): Jack St. Claire and Camille’s Paris-set romance begins Salacious Legacy and moves the club world into its second generation.
8. The Rule of Three (2026): Julian Kade, Freya Kapoor, and Archer Wilde’s story continues the Paris branch with another multi-person relationship.
9. The Daddy’s Girl (scheduled 2026): Amelia Kade and Matis Moreau’s forbidden romance should come after the earlier Kade and Legacy context is in place.
10. The Brat (scheduled 2027): The fourth Salacious Legacy book belongs after the first three Legacy novels; detailed plot placement should remain tentative until release.

Salacious Players’ Club books in order

Read Salacious Players’ Club in publication order. The books follow different relationships, but the club, owners, families, and returning characters make order useful.

1. Praise (2022): A forbidden age-gap romance between Charlie and Emerson Grant that establishes the Salacious Players’ Club setting.
2. Eyes on Me (2022): A voyeur-focused romance between Garrett and Mia that keeps the club-owner world moving while adding a complicated family boundary.
3. Give Me More (2022): A road-trip romance involving Hunter, Isabel, and Drake that shifts the series into a broader relationship structure.
4. Mercy (2022): A Domme-awakening romance between Maggie and Beau that ties the Grant family more tightly into the club’s emotional core.
5. Highest Bidder (2023): Ronan Kade and Daisy’s auction-linked romance brings wealth, secrecy, Paris, and the Kade family into the main club continuity.
6. Madame (2023): Eden, Clay, and Jade’s romance reveals the hidden life of the series’ Madame figure and closes the first Salacious arc.

Salacious Legacy books in order

Read Salacious Legacy after Salacious Players’ Club. It is a second-generation continuation, so starting here can reveal family outcomes from the original series.

1. The Good Girl Effect (2025): Jack St. Claire, a grieving single father running a new Paris kink club, hires Camille as a live-in nanny under unusual circumstances.
2. The Rule of Three (2026): Julian Kade, Freya Kapoor, and Archer Wilde are pushed together after a Paris elevator encounter and a widening emotional arrangement.
3. The Daddy’s Girl (scheduled 2026): Amelia Kade and Matis Moreau’s romance uses a forbidden godfather/father’s-best-friend setup inside the Legacy world.
4. The Brat (scheduled 2027): The fourth Legacy title is listed as a continuation of the series, but detailed story information should not be treated as final yet.

The Goode Brothers books in order

The Goode Brothers is best read as its own four-book sequence. It has related-world energy and club material, but it should not interrupt the Salacious Players’ Club order.

1. The Anti-Hero (2023): Adam Goode, the eldest son of a prominent preacher, rebels after discovering his father’s hidden connection to a kink club.
2. The Home Wrecker (2024): Caleb, Briar, and Dean’s story turns a struggling marriage into a riskier relationship dynamic inside the Goode family arc.
3. The Heartbreaker (2024): A professor-student forbidden romance that follows another Goode brother as career plans, control, and attachment collide.
4. The Prodigal Son (2025): A country singer and a preacher become entangled during a tour, bringing the Goode family line back to faith, secrecy, and public identity.

Sinful Manor books in order

Sinful Manor is separate from Salacious Players’ Club. Read it from the beginning because the manor setting and Barclay family context carry forward.

1. Keep Me (2024): Killian Barclay and Sylvie Devereaux enter a marriage-of-convenience arrangement centered on Barclay Manor in Scotland.
2. Promise Me (2026): Declan Barclay and Colin Shelby’s second-chance romance returns to Barclay Manor with a wedding deadline and years of unresolved history.

Wicked Hearts books in order

Wicked Hearts is an earlier Sara Cate series set around Wicked Beach. These are more standalone-friendly, but publication order gives the cleanest introduction to the setting.

1. Delicate (2019): Logan and Sierra’s Wicked Beach romance opens the tattoo-shop setting with addiction, class tension, and forbidden attraction.
2. Dangerous (2020): Murph and Savannah’s story continues the Wicked Beach world through a tattoo-shop inheritance, trauma, and emotional resistance.
3. Defiant (2020): Rafe and Shelby’s enemies-to-lovers romance uses revenge, old damage, and neighborhood proximity to close the Wicked Hearts line.

The Beautiful Series books in order

The Beautiful books are separate from the Salacious timeline. Read them as a short two-book forbidden-romance line.

1. Beautiful Monster (2020): Alexander Caldwell and Sunny Thorn’s standalone age-gap romance focuses on escape, money, and a dangerous attachment.
2. Beautiful Sinner (2020): Cadence Thorn’s romance with a priest continues the line’s focus on forbidden desire and moral conflict.

Wilde Boys Duet books in order

Read the Wilde Boys Duet in order. Free Fall can be approached separately, but the author’s positioning makes Gravity first the better route.

1. Gravity (2020): Zara enters a private-island arrangement with Nash and Alistair Wilde, creating a grief-heavy love-triangle setup.
2. Free Fall (2021): The follow-up returns to Del Rey with Hanna, Ellis, and unresolved secrets from the earlier island story.

Spitfire books in order

Spitfire is a short dark-romance sequence. Keep the two books together.

1. Burn for Me (2021): A journalism-class revenge romance where Cullen Ayers targets the teacher he blames for his family’s collapse.
2. Fire and Ash (2022): Pax Smith’s romance begins with a hookup and becomes complicated when he turns out to be a student in the narrator’s class.

Black Heart Duet books in order

The Black Heart Duet is co-written with Rachel Leigh. This is a true duet structure, so do not start with book two.

1. Four (2021): A revenge-driven dark romance about finding Silas Black and becoming pulled into the dangerous Black family.
2. Five (2022): A direct continuation about the Black family after a disappearance, making Four required first reading.

Shared-world and standalone books

These are not required for the main Sara Cate reading path.

1. Handsome Devil (2021): A Hero Club standalone road-trip romance built around a cross-country drive, a wedding deadline, and a best friend’s father setup.
2. Shattered Innocence (2025): A Black Rose Auction shared-world Cinderella remix involving Birdie, Violet, Alaric, and an auction-centered escape plot.

Collections and anthology notes

These should be treated as optional unless a reader is doing a full bibliography read.

• Twisted Christmas (2021): A multi-author holiday collection appearance and not part of Sara Cate’s main series continuity.

Burn for Me was previously published in the Tangled Sheets anthology under the title Spitfire before appearing with a new title, cover, and added content.

Boxed sets and omnibus editions do not change the order. Read the included books in their original series order.

Chronological order

A full chronological order is not useful across Sara Cate’s whole catalog because the series are mostly separate.

The only major chronological rule is:

1. Salacious Players’ Club
2. Salacious Legacy

Salacious Legacy moves into the next generation, so it should come after the original Salacious Players’ Club books if you want the family connections and relationship outcomes to land correctly.

For every other series, publication order inside the series is the best reading order.

Latest Sara Cate release status

At the time of writing, such as June 30, 2026, the newest verified Sara Cate release is The Rule of Three, published in May 2026.

The next scheduled Sara Cate release is The Daddy’s Girl, expected September 1, 2026.

The next listed Salacious Legacy title after that is The Brat, expected February 2027.

Because future release dates can move, treat upcoming dates as scheduled rather than final until publication.

FAQs

What Sara Cate book should I read first?

Start with Praise. It introduces Salacious Players’ Club, the main connected world, and gives the strongest foundation for later Sara Cate reading.

Do Sara Cate books need to be read in order?

Yes within each series. Across the entire catalog, no. The most important order rule is to read Salacious Players’ Club before Salacious Legacy.

Can I start with Salacious Legacy?

You can, but it is not the best route. Salacious Legacy is a next-generation continuation, so reading Salacious Players’ Club first protects the family context.

Is The Goode Brothers connected to Salacious Players’ Club?

Treat The Goode Brothers as its own sequence. It has overlapping themes and related-world material, but the four Goode books should be read together in order.

Is Sinful Manor connected to Salacious Players’ Club?

No major reading dependency is needed. Start Sinful Manor with Keep Me and continue with Promise Me.

Are Sara Cate’s books standalones?

Some books focus on different couples or relationships, but recurring settings and family connections make series order helpful. Duets should always be read in order.

What is Sara Cate’s newest book?

The Rule of Three is the newest verified released Sara Cate book as of June 30, 2026.

What is Sara Cate’s next book?

The Daddy’s Girl is scheduled for September 1, 2026, as Salacious Legacy book 3.

Final recommendation

Begin with Praise, then read all six Salacious Players’ Club books before starting Salacious Legacy.

That order gives you the original club, the key families, the first-generation relationships, and the best setup for the newer Legacy books. After that, read The Goode Brothers, Sinful Manor, or Sara Cate’s earlier backlist by series.