Cathryn Fox writes contemporary romance, hockey romance, football romance, romantic comedy, military romance, erotic romance, romantic suspense, and paranormal romance.
Her bibliography is extensive and has changed shape over time. Some early books were published by traditional romance imprints, while many newer titles are organized into interconnected standalone series through her own Foxy Ink catalog.
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Most Cathryn Fox series change couples with every book. Publication order is therefore recommended rather than compulsory. It preserves introductions, returning friends, team developments, family relationships, and appearances by previous couples.
The main catalog also includes paranormal books written as Cat Kalen and collaborative paranormal romance written under the Taylor Keating name. Those pen-name books belong to separate continuities and are listed near the end of this guide.
The Main Cathryn Fox Shelves
Readers can divide the bibliography into six practical shelves.
- Hockey romance: Players on Ice, Boston Bucks, and Scotia Storms.
- Other sports romance: End Zone and the earlier Playing for Keeps trilogy.
- Contemporary romantic comedy: Hot Scots in Kilts, Single Dad, Blue Bay Crew, Stone Cliff, and the upcoming Pickleball Romance series.
- Military and protective heroes: In the Line of Duty.
- Erotic and high-heat romance: Dossier, Yours, Sun Stroked, Pleasure Inn, Firefighter Heat, Dirty Rich Boys, and several early series.
- Paranormal romance: Eternal Pleasure, Pride’s Run, Mind Games, Hell’s, and independent supernatural titles.
There is no verified universal continuity connecting all these shelves. Choose one series and follow its listed order.
Where Should New Readers Start?
Begin with The Playmaker for Cathryn Fox’s longest completed hockey series.
Begin with Stick Move for the Boston Bucks hockey world.
Begin with Away Game for the Scotia Storms, her newer Canadian hockey series.
Begin with His Obsession Next Door for military romance.
Begin with Kilting Around for romantic comedy.
Begin with Private Reserve for the international Dossier romances.
Begin with Instinctive for her principal paranormal trilogy.
Players on Ice Books in Order
Players on Ice follows professional hockey players, their friends, relatives, and romantic partners. Every book has a different central couple and can be read as a standalone, but teammates and previous relationships continue in the background.
1. The Playmaker
The Playmaker (2018): A professional hockey player enters a high-heat relationship that challenges his confidence both on and off the ice, opening the team and its recurring social circle.
This is the cleanest introduction to Players on Ice.
2. The Stick Handler
The Stick Handler (2018): A player whose wedding collapses takes his longtime friend on the unused honeymoon, where mistaken assumptions turn their friendship into a temporary fake marriage.
The romantic setting and years of hidden attachment make the arrangement increasingly difficult to keep pretend.
3. The Body Checker
The Body Checker (2019): A commitment-averse player is unexpectedly left caring for a baby and turns to his best friend’s younger sister for help.
Forced proximity and new parenthood challenge the careless reputation he has built around the team.
4. The Hard Hitter
The Hard Hitter (2019): A woman becomes involved with the hockey-playing father of someone connected to her professional life, creating a relationship that crosses a boundary she knows she should maintain.
The romance combines a protective hero, family complications, and a supposedly brief fling.
5. The Risk Taker
The Risk Taker (2019): Returning to Seattle forces a woman to face Jamie and reveal the truth behind the death of his brother.
Their relationship depends on whether grief, guilt, and a long-hidden explanation can lead to forgiveness rather than another loss.
6. The Wingman
The Wingman (2019): A woman uncomfortable with relationships asks hockey player Rider to help her navigate dating, only for his support to become more intimate than either planned.
Both characters must overcome the belief that they are incapable of being loved safely.
7. The Puck Charmer
The Puck Charmer (2020): A hockey player known for charm becomes involved with a woman who has reasons to distrust both his reputation and the promises professional athletes make.
The romance tests whether his off-ice sincerity can match his public confidence.
8. The Troublemaker
The Troublemaker (2020): A woman who believes she is not the type a famous player would choose becomes involved with Cason, whose reputation makes trusting his attention difficult.
Their attraction forces both characters to look beyond appearances and social expectations.
9. The Rule Breaker
The Rule Breaker (2020): A single mother needs a positive mentor for her son and is matched with Liam Dalton, a rebellious hockey player known for fights on and off the ice.
The mentorship brings Liam into her family while making professional distance impossible.
10. The Rookie
The Rookie (2020): A younger player attempts to establish his career while a relationship threatens the emotional control and concentration expected during his first important season.
The book gives a newer member of the team his own romance while earlier players remain part of the group.
11. The Sweet Talker
The Sweet Talker (2021): A woman prepares to risk her heart on a persuasive hockey player, then discovers that he has been involved in an off-ice plan she knew nothing about.
The romance turns on whether charm can survive the loss of trust.
12. The Heart Breaker
The Heart Breaker (2021): This shorter final Players on Ice story follows another hockey relationship shaped by reputation, emotional risk, and the fear of becoming the person who is hurt rather than the person who leaves.
Status: Connected novella.
Players on Ice Reading Rule
Read the twelve books in publication order for the smoothest team progression.
The first eleven are the principal sequence. The Heart Breaker is a shorter final installment, but it remains part of the official order.
Boston Bucks Hockey Books in Order
Boston Bucks follows another professional hockey organization. The romances are interconnected standalones, with holiday novellas and crossover projects inserted into the numbered sequence.
1. Stick Move
Stick Move: A Boston Bucks player makes a decisive move off the ice when a relationship challenges the temporary lifestyle he has accepted as normal.
The book introduces the team and is the correct starting point.
2. Sticking Around
Sticking Around: A player who expects relationships to end must decide whether the woman entering his life is worth abandoning his usual exit strategy.
Returning teammates begin forming the series’ wider community.
3. Sticking Out
Sticking Out: A hockey player and a woman who does not fit comfortably within his public world confront attraction, reputation, and the pressure to conform.
Their romance asks whether standing apart can become a strength rather than a liability.
4. Stick Play
Stick Play: A relationship begins through a plan, game, or calculated arrangement that becomes harder to control once genuine feelings enter the play.
Team friendships continue around the new central couple.
5. Stick Magic
Stick Magic: A Boston Bucks player encounters a connection that feels unexpectedly transformative, challenging the practical rules he has applied to relationships.
The story maintains the series’ connected-standalone structure.
6. Stick Fight
Stick Fight: Conflict on and off the ice places a player in a relationship where attraction and opposition become inseparable.
Both characters must decide whether fighting each other is easier than admitting what they want.
7. Stick Break
Stick Break: An injury, career interruption, or personal breaking point forces another Boston player to reassess the future he expected.
The central relationship develops while the hero’s identity as a player is under pressure.
8. Peppermint Stick
Peppermint Stick: A Christmas romance brings holiday expectations into the Boston Bucks world, giving one connected player a seasonal relationship.
Status: Holiday installment.
9. Stick Games
Stick Games: A shorter romance uses games, challenges, or playful competition to bring another Boston-connected couple together.
Status: Novella.
10. Broom Stick
Broom Stick: A Halloween novella combines hockey romance with seasonal mischief, costumes, or an encounter that becomes more serious than planned.
Status: Halloween novella.
11. Broken Stick
Broken Stick: A player facing a damaged career, relationship, or sense of self must rebuild with the help of someone unwilling to let him remain emotionally isolated.
The story returns the series to a full-length hockey conflict after the seasonal novellas.
12. Hook ’em Hard
Hook ’em Hard: A hero from the multi-author Bang Brothers project enters a romance set within the Boston Bucks world.
The book functions as a crossover but remains useful in its official Boston placement.
13. Stick Legend
Stick Legend: A player with an established reputation must confront the distance between his public legend and the private man a romantic partner comes to know.
The later-series setting includes an already developed Bucks community.
14. Stick Tease
Stick Tease: A Valentine novella turns flirting, temptation, or an apparently playful connection into another Boston Bucks romance.
Status: Valentine novella.
Boston Bucks Reading Rule
Publication order is the best route.
The seasonal novellas and Hook ’em Hard are connected additions rather than replacements for the main books.
Scotia Storms Hockey Books in Order
Scotia Storms follows a Canadian professional hockey organization. The first five books carry the Rebels label, while later books are grouped as Rivals within the same wider series.
Every book has a different couple and can be understood independently.
1. Away Game
Away Game: A storm strands a traveler with an attractive South Boston man, turning an interrupted journey into a forced-proximity romance that introduces the Scotia Storms world.
This is the official series opener and is often offered as a free entry book.
2. Warm Up
Warm Up: A player or team-connected hero enters a relationship during the period before the game, season, or emotional conflict fully begins.
The romance develops as both characters move from preparation into genuine commitment.
3. Crash Course
Crash Course: A sudden problem forces two characters to learn quickly about hockey, relationships, or each other.
The accelerated circumstances turn an unwanted connection into a more permanent bond.
4. Home Advantage
Home Advantage: A Scotia Storms player discovers that familiarity, hometown ties, or family support can create both an advantage and a romantic complication.
The story broadens the community around the team.
5. Shut Out
Shut Out: A character determined to keep love, vulnerability, or outside pressure away discovers that emotional defenses are harder to maintain than a shutout on the ice.
This closes the Rebels portion of the current sequence.
6. Moving Target
Moving Target: A player or heroine whose life is constantly changing becomes the focus of a romance complicated by pursuit, uncertainty, and shifting plans.
The book begins the Rivals portion of the Scotia Storms sequence.
7. Face Off
Face Off: Two characters positioned as opponents confront an attraction that makes their rivalry increasingly personal.
Team competition and emotional conflict give the romance its central tension.
8. Scoring Fast
Scoring Fast: A fast-moving encounter develops into something more serious before either character has time to establish protective boundaries.
The romance combines immediate chemistry with the slower work of trust.
9. Opposing Teams
Opposing Teams: A relationship crosses team loyalties, professional rivalries, or personal allegiances that make the couple appear incompatible.
The story is most effective after the earlier Scotia Storms books establish both sides of the rivalry.
10. Fake Out
Fake Out: A woman dates a Scotia Storms center she has wanted for months, only to discover that the relationship or its public presentation involves complications she did not expect.
Status: Novella.
11. Deal Breaker
Deal Breaker: A couple reaches a point where a promise, secret, or nonnegotiable condition threatens to end the relationship before it can become permanent.
Status: Novella.
12. Hard Burn
Hard Burn: A high-intensity relationship closes the current Scotia Storms sequence through attraction that cannot be dismissed without emotional consequences.
Status: Novella.
End Zone Books in Order
End Zone is Cathryn Fox’s football-romance series. Different players lead each book, while the team and its wider relationships recur.
1. Fair Play
Fair Play: A football relationship begins through competition, rules, or a heroine determined to be treated as an equal rather than an accessory to the sport.
The book establishes the team and the series’ balance between romance and professional football.
2. Enemy Down
Enemy Down: A player and romantic partner begin from opposition, mistrust, or divided loyalties before circumstances force them onto the same side.
The enemies-to-lovers conflict expands the End Zone team.
3. Keeping Score
Keeping Score: A relationship becomes complicated by past mistakes, professional results, or two characters who remember every emotional victory and loss.
The title reflects both football performance and unresolved romantic history.
4. All In
All In: A shorter End Zone romance asks a player and partner to risk everything on a relationship neither can guarantee will succeed.
Status: Novella.
5. Trading Up
Trading Up: A trade, career opportunity, or major life change forces another football hero to reconsider what success means away from the field.
The romance continues the established End Zone world.
In the Line of Duty Books in Order
In the Line of Duty follows military men, protective heroes, and the women connected to their hometown or service circle.
The stories have separate couples. Reading in order preserves recurring friendships and family connections.
1. His Obsession Next Door
His Obsession Next Door (2014): A military hero returns to the woman living next door and discovers that long-standing attraction has survived distance, danger, and the assumptions keeping them apart.
This is the strongest entry point into the series.
2. His Strings to Pull
His Strings to Pull (2014): A shorter connected story follows a hero whose control over a situation or relationship becomes less certain once real feelings develop.
Status: Novella, currently not listed in print.
3. His Trouble in Tallulah
His Trouble in Tallulah (2014): A man returns to or becomes involved with Tallulah, where hometown complications and a difficult heroine turn attraction into a challenge he cannot solve through discipline alone.
The book continues the connected military circle.
4. His Taste of Temptation
His Taste of Temptation: A protective hero becomes involved with a woman who represents both desire and a boundary he believes he should not cross.
The relationship tests whether restraint is possible once the temptation becomes personal.
5. His Moment to Steal
His Moment to Steal: A man accustomed to duty recognizes a limited opportunity to claim the future or relationship he has postponed.
The story centers on whether he will act before the moment disappears.
6. His Best Friend’s Girl
His Best Friend’s Girl (2015): A military or protective hero develops feelings for the woman connected to his closest friend, creating a conflict between loyalty and a relationship neither can ignore.
The existing group makes publication order especially helpful here.
7. His Reason to Stay
His Reason to Stay: A man accustomed to leaving for duty, danger, or emotional self-protection discovers a relationship that may finally give him a reason to remain.
This closes the official seven-book sequence.
Single Dad Series in Order
The Single Dad books follow different fathers balancing children, work, and new relationships.
1. Single Dad Next Door
Single Dad Next Door (2018): A woman becomes involved with the father living nearby, where proximity to his home and child makes a casual relationship impossible to keep separate from family life.
The book opens the series through a neighborhood romance.
2. Single Dad on Tap
Single Dad on Tap: A single father connected to a bar, brewery, or hospitality setting meets a woman who disrupts the routine he has built around work and parenting.
Their relationship must fit into an existing family rather than begin with a blank slate.
3. Single Dad Burning Up
Single Dad Burning Up: A firefighter or similarly high-risk hero balances single parenthood with a relationship intense enough to challenge the emotional control he relies upon.
The book adds danger and professional pressure to the family-romance format.
4. Hot Nanny Next Door
Hot Nanny Next Door: A father becomes attracted to a nanny living or working close to his family, creating a romance complicated by employment, proximity, and his child’s attachment.
The book closes the four-story series.
Hot Scots in Kilts Books in Order
Hot Scots in Kilts is a romantic-comedy trilogy featuring Scottish heroes and fish-out-of-water relationships.
1. Kilting Around
Kilting Around: A fake relationship or unexpected Scottish encounter brings two characters together through culture clash, attraction, and comic misunderstandings.
The book introduces the series’ lighter tone.
2. Kilt Trip
Kilt Trip: A journey to Scotland, possibly involving a runaway bride or disrupted plans, turns into a romance with a man who makes leaving more difficult.
Travel and forced proximity drive the central relationship.
3. Off Kilter
Off Kilter: A woman whose life has gone off course becomes involved with a Scottish hero, a family, or a community offering an unexpected alternative.
The final romance uses opposites-attract tension and another culture-based complication.
Blue Bay Crew Books in Order
Blue Bay Crew follows blue-collar heroes and a close coastal community.
1. Demolished
Demolished: A demolition or construction professional becomes involved in a relationship that threatens the emotional walls both characters have built.
The book introduces the crew and its community.
2. Leveled
Leveled: A couple confronting unequal expectations, damaged plans, or a difficult rebuilding process must find common ground.
Previous Blue Bay characters return around the romance.
3. Hammered
Hammered: A tradesman or crew member meets a partner capable of challenging his confidence, habits, and carefully controlled life.
The book completes the trilogy’s construction-themed sequence.
Dossier Books in Order
Dossier is an international high-heat series featuring luxury settings, secret arrangements, fantasies, and powerful professional characters.
Each book follows a separate couple.
1. Private Reserve
Private Reserve (2017): A private encounter in an exclusive setting begins a relationship where wealth, secrecy, and control complicate desire.
The book opens the international Dossier concept.
2. House Rules
House Rules: A couple enters a luxurious private world governed by expectations that become harder to follow once emotional attachment develops.
The rules of the setting are less difficult than the rules the characters impose on themselves.
3. Under Pressure
Under Pressure: A high-stakes professional or travel situation pushes two characters together while pressure exposes feelings they would otherwise conceal.
The relationship becomes inseparable from the assignment or environment surrounding it.
4. Big Catch
Big Catch: A heroine or hero pursuing an important personal goal becomes involved with someone considered an especially desirable romantic prize.
The story questions whether the apparent catch is capable of genuine commitment.
5. Brazilian Fantasy
Brazilian Fantasy: An international fantasy becomes reality in Brazil, where travel, heat, and temporary freedom lead to a more consequential relationship.
The book expands the series beyond North American settings.
6. Improper Proposal
Improper Proposal: An unconventional offer creates a relationship that begins as an arrangement but develops beyond the limits of the original proposal.
The final Dossier book combines luxury, negotiation, and unexpected commitment.
Yours Trilogy in Order
The Yours books are linked erotic romances. Read them in publication order.
1. Yours to Take
Yours to Take: A relationship begins through desire, pursuit, and the willingness to claim something both characters have previously resisted.
The book establishes the trilogy’s connected high-heat world.
2. Yours to Teach
Yours to Teach: A hero or heroine enters a relationship shaped by lessons, experience, and an imbalance that must evolve into mutual trust.
Read it after Yours to Take for the recurring social context.
3. Yours to Keep
Yours to Keep: A relationship that may have begun as temporary becomes a decision about permanence, possession, and emotional commitment.
The title closes the trilogy’s progression from taking to keeping.
Sun Stroked Books in Order
Sun Stroked contains three destination romances involving beaches, private escapes, and relationships intensified by travel.
1. Private Pleasure
Private Pleasure: A secluded or vacation-based encounter allows two characters to explore attraction away from their ordinary lives.
The question is whether the relationship can survive outside the private setting.
2. Seaside Seduction
Seaside Seduction: A coastal escape turns temptation into a relationship as sea, sun, and temporary freedom reduce the couple’s usual defenses.
The story continues the series’ destination-romance theme.
3. Deep Desire
Deep Desire: A more emotionally intense vacation romance closes the trilogy, pushing its couple beyond surface attraction toward lasting commitment.
The final book completes the three-part collection.
Firefighter Heat Books in Order
Firefighter Heat follows firefighters and emergency-service heroes.
1. Fever
Fever: A firefighter romance begins with attraction intense enough to disrupt the hero’s disciplined professional life.
Danger and desire establish the tone of the series.
2. Siren
Siren: An emergency call, warning, or irresistible heroine draws another firefighter into a relationship he cannot ignore.
The romance uses both literal and emotional danger.
3. Flash Fire
Flash Fire: A sudden crisis creates an immediate relationship or forces long-suppressed attraction into the open.
The story closes the original print trilogy.
4. Burn
Burn: An ebook-only continuation returns to the firefighter world with another high-intensity relationship.
Status: Additional digital installment.
Stone Cliff Books in Order
Stone Cliff follows connected characters in a small-town or coastal setting.
1. Crashing Down
Crashing Down (2014): A personal or physical crisis brings two people together as plans collapse around them.
The romance introduces Stone Cliff and its recurring relationships.
2. Wasted Summer
Wasted Summer: A summer that appears lost to mistakes, grief, or unwanted obligations becomes an opportunity for a transformative relationship.
Read it after Crashing Down for the established community.
3. Wrapped Up
Wrapped Up: A holiday or emotionally protective romance brings another Stone Cliff couple together through family, seasonal pressure, or an unexpected gift.
Status: Digital installment.
4. Love Lessons
Love Lessons: A character who believes love can be understood, avoided, or taught discovers that an actual relationship resists simple rules.
The book completes the Stone Cliff sequence.
Breaking the Rules Books in Order
1. Hold Me Down Hard
Hold Me Down Hard (2012): A high-heat relationship begins through fantasy, control, and two characters willing to test the limits of friendship or professional restraint.
The book opens the two-story sequence.
2. Tie Me Down Tight
Tie Me Down Tight: Another couple explores control, trust, and commitment through a relationship where emotional vulnerability matters as much as physical surrender.
The books have different couples and may be read separately.
Playing for Keeps Books in Order
This earlier Playing for Keeps series is separate from Lauren Fraser’s similarly named baseball series and from Cathryn Fox’s hockey books.
1. Slow Ride
Slow Ride: A gradual romance develops around travel, sport, or a hero accustomed to moving faster than emotional commitment allows.
The slower pace forces the couple to build trust before claiming a future.
2. Wild Ride
Wild Ride: A more unpredictable relationship follows characters whose attraction leads them into risks neither expected to take.
The story intensifies the series’ ride-based theme.
3. Sweet Ride
Sweet Ride: The final romance balances sensual attraction with a warmer emotional conclusion as another couple discovers that the journey matters more than the plan.
The three books are connected by theme rather than one continuous couple.
Whispering Cove Books in Order
Whispering Cove is a shared-world beach-town romance group.
1. Wet
Wet: A water-based encounter or coastal reunion begins a high-heat romance in Whispering Cove.
The story introduces the town and its sensual shared-world tone.
2. Brazen
Brazen: A bold heroine or unapologetic relationship challenges the expectations surrounding another Whispering Cove couple.
The book can stand alone within the town.
3. Silk
Silk: A softer surface conceals a more intense attraction when two connected characters explore trust and intimacy.
The romance continues the beach-town setting.
4. Flirty**
Flirty: Playful attraction becomes a serious relationship as another Whispering Cove couple discovers that flirting has consequences.
The book closes Cathryn Fox’s portion of the sequence.
Men with Millions Books in Order
1. On His Knees
On His Knees: A wealthy, powerful hero reaches a point where desire or emotional need forces him to surrender control.
The story opens the millionaire-romance group.
2. On Her Terms
On Her Terms: A heroine insists that a relationship with a wealthy man proceed according to boundaries she controls.
The romance focuses on negotiation and equality.
3. Under His Skin
Under His Skin: A powerful man becomes unable to dismiss the woman who sees beyond his money and public identity.
Attraction deepens into emotional vulnerability.
4. Under His Obsession
Under His Obsession: Desire becomes fixation as another wealthy hero struggles to distinguish possession from a healthy lasting relationship.
This closes the limited-print series.
Dirty Rich Boys Books in Order
Dirty Rich Boys follows wealthy men, damaged families, and relationships built around secrets and power.
Prequel: Shattered
Shattered: A shorter prequel reveals the event, betrayal, or family fracture that establishes the dark emotional foundation of the main series.
Status: Ebook prequel.
1. Corrupted
Corrupted: A powerful man shaped by wealth and moral compromise enters a relationship that challenges the corruption surrounding him.
The book begins the principal sequence.
2. Devoured
Devoured: A fake relationship or wrong-side-of-the-tracks romance becomes consuming when desire and social power make separation impossible.
The story continues the connected wealthy-family world.
3. Exposed
Exposed: Hidden motives, private history, or public scandal comes into the open, forcing another couple to decide whether the relationship can survive the truth.
The book completes the core sequence.
Fling Books in Order
1. Fling
Fling: A relationship intended to be temporary develops into something neither character can leave behind without emotional consequences.
The book establishes the brief-arrangement theme.
2. Spring Fling
Spring Fling: A seasonal encounter brings a new couple together during a period of renewal, travel, or temporary freedom.
The romance stands alone but follows the first book thematically.
Bad Boy Confessions Books in Order
Bad Boy Confessions consists of short, high-heat standalone romances organized by the hero’s profession.
1. Confessions of a Bad Boy Professor
Confessions of a Bad Boy Professor: A professor enters a forbidden or off-limits relationship that threatens his professional control.
2. Confessions of a Bad Boy Cop
Confessions of a Bad Boy Cop: A police officer’s protective authority becomes complicated by attraction to a woman he should keep at a distance.
3. Confessions of a Bad Boy Fighter
Confessions of a Bad Boy Fighter: A fighter known for aggression confronts a relationship requiring restraint, honesty, and emotional vulnerability.
Some older lists shorten this title to Confessions of a Bad Boy.
4. Confessions of a Bad Boy Gamer
Confessions of a Bad Boy Gamer: A competitive gamer or technology-focused hero discovers that real attraction cannot be managed like an online match.
5. Confessions of a Bad Boy Doctor
Confessions of a Bad Boy Doctor: A doctor crosses an emotional boundary when professional confidence gives way to a relationship he cannot treat clinically.
6. Confessions of a Bad Boy Millionaire
Confessions of a Bad Boy Millionaire: A wealthy hero’s resources cannot protect him from the consequences of desire, secrets, or genuine attachment.
7. Confessions of a Bad Boy Santa
Confessions of a Bad Boy Santa: A holiday role or Christmas encounter creates a seasonal romance with a hero whose behavior does not match the wholesome costume.
8. Confessions of a Bad Boy CEO
Confessions of a Bad Boy CEO: A company leader enters a relationship complicated by authority, work, and the difference between ordering results and earning trust.
Pleasure Inn Books in Order
Pleasure Inn is a three-story erotic-romance sequence set around an inn or private retreat.
1. All Tied Up
All Tied Up: A guest or owner enters a relationship involving restraint, trust, and desires that can be explored away from ordinary life.
2. All Worked Up
All Worked Up: Work, stress, or long-contained attraction leads another couple into a high-heat encounter at the inn.
3. All Lit Up
All Lit Up: A final relationship brings emotional and physical intensity to the Pleasure Inn setting, completing the trilogy.
The three stories are also available in collected form.
Boys of Beachville Books in Order
1. Good at Being Bad
Good at Being Bad: A hero comfortable with his bad-boy reputation meets someone who challenges whether that identity is genuine or protective.
2. Igniting the Bad Boy
Igniting the Bad Boy: Attraction awakens a more dangerous or passionate side of another Beachville hero.
3. Bad Girl Therapy
Bad Girl Therapy: A heroine regarded as difficult or rebellious becomes the center of a romance that sees beyond her reputation.
The trilogy is currently available in limited formats.
Pleasure Games Books in Order
1. Pleasure Control
Pleasure Control (2006): A scientist or professional attempts to control desire, only to discover that attraction cannot be managed as neatly as an experiment.
This is one of Cathryn Fox’s earliest major releases.
2. Pleasure Prolonged
Pleasure Prolonged (2006): Another couple attempts to extend a high-heat arrangement while emotional attachment complicates the original terms.
3. Pleasure Exchange
Pleasure Exchange (2008): Desire becomes a negotiation or exchange whose personal consequences exceed what either character expected.
The three books form the complete Pleasure Games trilogy.
Hell’s Books in Order
The Hell’s series combines paranormal elements with high-heat romance.
1. Hotter than Hell
Hotter than Hell (2009): A supernatural hero and human or magical partner enter a dangerous relationship in which desire is tied to infernal power.
2. Hell’s Angel
Hell’s Angel (2009): An angelic or demonic conflict complicates another romance between characters caught across supernatural boundaries.
Some official lists place this title third, while the original publication information places it before Raise a Little Hell.
3. Raise a Little Hell
Raise a Little Hell (2010): Another paranormal couple confronts infernal danger, rebellious magic, and a relationship capable of creating chaos in both worlds.
Publication order is the most stable route.
Hands On Books in Order
1. Hands On
Hands On: A high-heat relationship begins through physical instruction, professional contact, or two characters learning what they want through direct experience.
2. Body Contact
Body Contact: Another couple moves from professional or casual touch toward deeper intimacy and emotional commitment.
3. Full Exposure
Full Exposure: Hidden desire and personal truth are exposed as the final couple must risk being fully seen.
The three stories are available together in the Hands On print collection.
Pickleball Romance Books in Order
Cathryn Fox’s forthcoming Pickleball Romance series is set in a small town and uses different couples.
1. Big Dill
Big Dill (2026): The first pickleball romantic comedy introduces the town, its players, and a relationship built around competition, community, and wordplay.
It is scheduled for September 8, 2026.
2. Dill Dough
Dill Dough (2026): The second small-town pickleball romance follows a new couple while continuing the recreational-sports community introduced in Big Dill.
It is scheduled for November 2026.
3. Dill Breaker
Dill Breaker (2027): The third romance continues the pickleball series with another couple facing competition and an emotional deal breaker.
It is scheduled for January 2027.
Current status: All three titles are upcoming as of August 4, 2026.
Other Short Series
Alluring Tales
1. Awaken the Fantasy
Awaken the Fantasy: This anthology or collected erotic-romance volume explores fantasies becoming real through several shorter stories.
2. Hot Holiday Nights
Hot Holiday Nights: Holiday settings provide the background for high-heat romantic encounters in the second Alluring Tales collection.
These are anthology-style volumes rather than one continuous couple’s story.
Invitation to Eden
Breaking Free
Breaking Free: A woman or couple enters the exclusive Invitation to Eden setting to escape ordinary restrictions and explore a relationship more honestly.
Torn Between Two Brothers
Torn Between Two Brothers: A heroine becomes emotionally or physically involved with two brothers, creating a relationship shaped by divided loyalty and unconventional desire.
Both stories have appeared together in print.
Eternal Pleasure Books in Order
Eternal Pleasure is a paranormal-romance trilogy involving supernatural heroes and linked mythology.
1. Instinctive
Instinctive (2009): A supernatural hero’s instincts draw him toward a woman connected to a conflict larger than their immediate attraction.
The book establishes the paranormal rules and the first central couple.
2. Impulsive
Impulsive (2010): Another supernatural relationship begins through an impulsive choice whose consequences expand the danger introduced in the first book.
3. Indulgent
Indulgent (2011): The final couple confronts desire, power, and the wider paranormal threat as the trilogy reaches its conclusion.
Read all three in publication order.
Pride’s Run Books in Order
These books were published as Cat Kalen.
1. Pride’s Run
Pride’s Run: A young woman altered or controlled by a secret organization escapes into a dangerous paranormal world involving shifters, pursuit, and questions about her identity.
The book begins the trilogy’s continuous conflict.
2. Pride Unleashed
Pride Unleashed: Pride’s abilities and relationships expand as enemies continue pursuing her and the consequences of her escape become harder to contain.
3. Pride’s Pursuit
Pride’s Pursuit: The trilogy reaches its conclusion as Pride confronts the people responsible for her past and determines the future she will claim.
These books should be read in strict order.
Mind Games Books in Order
Mind Games was written under the Taylor Keating name.
1. Game Over
Game Over: A woman becomes trapped in or connected to a dangerous game-based supernatural reality where survival and romance are inseparable.
The story establishes the alternate-world conflict.
2. Mind Games
Mind Games: Psychic, magical, or technological manipulation expands the threat while the central characters struggle to protect their relationship.
3. Fair Game
Fair Game: The final novel brings the game and its controlling forces toward resolution as the protagonists fight for freedom.
Read the trilogy in order.
Standalone Contemporary and Erotic Romances
Engaging the Bachelor
Engaging the Bachelor: A confirmed bachelor enters an engagement or fake-relationship arrangement that threatens his confidence in remaining unattached.
The Penthouse Pact
The Penthouse Pact (2018): Two characters sharing an elite penthouse arrangement establish rules that become harder to follow once attraction develops.
Learning Curves
Learning Curves: A heroine whose body or life does not match conventional expectations enters a relationship where confidence and acceptance matter more than perfection.
Betting on the Wrong Brother
Betting on the Wrong Brother (2016): A Las Vegas bet or mistaken assumption leads a heroine toward the brother she did not originally expect to choose.
Betting Bad
Betting Bad: A wager creates a romantic complication when the apparent game begins producing real emotional consequences.
Wood
Wood: Co-written with Lauren Hawkeye, this high-heat romance follows a rugged or blue-collar hero in a relationship built around physical attraction and emotional challenge.
Bonding Games
Bonding Games: A competition, retreat, or group activity intended to create connection becomes the starting point for a more intimate bond.
Hooked on You
Hooked on You: A romantic-comedy relationship follows characters who become emotionally attached despite plans to keep the connection casual.
The Burbs and the Bees
The Burbs and the Bees: Suburban life, neighbors, and an unexpected attraction create a romantic comedy about community and reinvention.
Crazy Apologetic Canadians
Crazy Apologetic Canadians: A Canadian romantic comedy uses cultural misunderstandings, excessive politeness, and an attraction capable of creating unusual complications.
Standalone Paranormal and Fantasy Books
Magic and Mayhem
Magic and Mayhem: Co-written with Sylvia Day, this supernatural romance combines dangerous magic with attraction between characters drawn into the same conflict.
Hot for Santa
Hot for Santa: A supernatural or erotic holiday story turns a Santa-themed encounter into a high-heat Christmas romance.
Unleashed
Unleashed: A hero or heroine releases supernatural power, instinct, or forbidden desire while confronting a dangerous attraction.
Liquid Dreams
Liquid Dreams: Dreams, water, or a supernatural altered state connects two characters through desire that crosses ordinary boundaries.
Knocking on Demon’s Door
Knocking on Demon’s Door: A human or magical heroine becomes involved with a demon whose world carries both danger and temptation.
Web of Desire
Web of Desire: A supernatural relationship develops inside a web of secrets, power, and attraction from which neither character can easily escape.
Breath of Fire
Breath of Fire: A dragon, fire-wielder, or magically empowered hero enters a romance where elemental danger reflects the intensity of the relationship.
Blood Ties
Blood Ties (2008): Family, supernatural lineage, or vampiric bonds draw two characters into a relationship complicated by inherited danger.
Holiday Spirit
Holiday Spirit: A paranormal holiday romance combines seasonal tradition with ghosts, magic, or another supernatural disruption.
Hands On with the CEO
Hands On with the CEO: A workplace relationship brings a powerful executive together with someone whose direct approach undermines his professional detachment.
Panther’s Pleasure
Panther’s Pleasure: A panther shifter’s instincts connect him to a partner whose relationship becomes part of a wider supernatural conflict.
Boxed Sets and Omnibus Editions
Cathryn Fox’s store contains numerous boxed sets and bundles.
Players on Ice is divided into books one through six and books seven through twelve.
Boston Bucks, Scotia Storms, In the Line of Duty, Stone Cliff, Yours, Pleasure Inn, Sun Stroked, Firefighter Heat, and other series also appear in collected editions.
A boxed set is an alternate format, not an additional book. Count the individual stories inside it and do not add the collection as another numbered installment.
The Hands On print book contains Hands On, Body Contact, and Full Exposure.
The Pleasure Inn collection contains All Tied Up, All Worked Up, and All Lit Up.
The Wanton or anthology-style volumes may include stories also sold separately, so edition contents should be checked before buying duplicates.
Is There a Universal Chronological Order?
No.
Players on Ice, Boston Bucks, Scotia Storms, End Zone, In the Line of Duty, and Cathryn Fox’s smaller contemporary series are separate named continuities unless a specific crossover establishes otherwise.
The individual sports series should remain in their own publication orders. Combining every hockey team into one timeline would imply connections that have not been firmly established.
The paranormal series are also separate from the contemporary romances and from one another.
Recommended Cathryn Fox Reading Order
For Hockey Romance
Choose one team and complete it:
- Players on Ice
- Boston Bucks
- Scotia Storms
Players on Ice is the best established entry. Boston Bucks offers the longest current team sequence. Scotia Storms is the newest major hockey world.
For Military Romance
Read In the Line of Duty from His Obsession Next Door through His Reason to Stay.
The couples change, but the recurring service and hometown relationships reward publication order.
For Romantic Comedy
Read:
- Hot Scots in Kilts
- Single Dad
- Blue Bay Crew
- Pickleball Romance, beginning after September 8, 2026
These are separate series, so the order between groups is optional.
For High-Heat Contemporary Romance
Begin with Private Reserve and complete Dossier.
Continue with the Yours trilogy, Sun Stroked, Pleasure Inn, or Firefighter Heat according to the preferred setting.
For Paranormal Romance
Begin with Instinctive for the Eternal Pleasure trilogy.
Choose Pride’s Run for a continuous young-adult shifter story, or Game Over for the Taylor Keating Mind Games trilogy.
Latest and Upcoming Cathryn Fox Books
Cathryn Fox’s official current list places the new Pickleball Romance series next on her schedule.
Big Dill (2026): A small-town pickleball romantic comedy introducing a new community and central couple, scheduled for September 8, 2026.
Dill Dough (2026): The second pickleball romance, scheduled for November 2026.
Dill Breaker (2027): The third announced installment, scheduled for January 2027.
As of August 4, 2026, these books are upcoming. Their detailed plots should not be treated as final until complete official descriptions are published.
The current catalog also includes the completed Hot Scots in Kilts trilogy and later Boston Bucks and Scotia Storms novellas.
Frequently Asked Questions
What was Cathryn Fox’s first major series?
Pleasure Games was among her earliest established romance series.
Pleasure Control (2006): A professional woman attempts to understand or regulate desire, only for attraction to escape the boundaries of her controlled experiment.
It is followed by Pleasure Prolonged and Pleasure Exchange.
What is the best Cathryn Fox book to start with?
The Playmaker is the clearest starting point for hockey romance.
His Obsession Next Door is the best military-romance entry, while Kilting Around begins her current Scottish romantic-comedy trilogy.
Do the Players on Ice books need to be read in order?
No. Every book has a different couple and its own romantic conclusion.
Publication order is still recommended because teammates and previous couples recur.
How many Players on Ice books are there?
There are twelve official installments.
The sequence begins with The Playmaker and ends with the novella The Heart Breaker.
Are Boston Bucks and Players on Ice connected?
They are separate named hockey series.
Readers can begin Stick Move without completing Players on Ice.
Where does Hook ’em Hard belong?
Hook ’em Hard is part of the multi-author Bang Brothers project and is written within the Boston Bucks world.
Read it after Broken Stick and before Stick Legend in the official Boston order.
Are the Scotia Storms books standalones?
Yes. The author identifies the series as interconnected standalones.
Begin with Away Game for the full team experience.
Why do Scotia Storms books have Rebels and Rivals labels?
The first Scotia Storms books are grouped as Rebels, while the later sequence is labeled Rivals.
They remain one official numbered Scotia Storms order.
Are the In the Line of Duty books connected?
They share a military and protective-hero world.
Each book changes couples, but recurring friendships and family appearances make publication order worthwhile.
Is His Strings to Pull a full novel?
It is a novella and is not currently included in the author’s print list as an individual print edition.
It belongs after His Obsession Next Door.
How many Single Dad books are there?
There are four:
- Single Dad Next Door
- Single Dad on Tap
- Single Dad Burning Up
- Hot Nanny Next Door
Is the Pickleball Romance series published?
Not yet as of August 4, 2026.
Big Dill is scheduled for September 8, 2026, followed by Dill Dough in November and Dill Breaker in January 2027.
Are Cathryn Fox’s boxed sets new books?
No. They collect previously published novels and novellas.
Check the contents to avoid buying a story twice.
Does Cathryn Fox use other pen names?
Yes.
She published the Pride’s Run trilogy as Cat Kalen and co-wrote the Mind Games trilogy under the Taylor Keating name.
Do the Pride’s Run books need to be read in order?
Yes.
Pride’s Run, Pride Unleashed, and Pride’s Pursuit follow one continuing heroine and conflict.
What is the correct Eternal Pleasure order?
Read Instinctive, Impulsive, then Indulgent.
The trilogy shares paranormal mythology and develops best in publication order.
Are Magic and Mayhem and Magic and Mayem different books?
The spelling without the second “h” appears to be a catalog typo or duplicate listing.
Treat Magic and Mayhem as one title unless an edition description clearly identifies different contents.
Is Hands On one book or three?
Both formats exist.
The individual sequence contains Hands On, Body Contact, and Full Exposure. The print collection packages all three.
Which Cathryn Fox series is longest?
Boston Bucks currently has fourteen listed entries when its seasonal novellas and crossover book are included.
Players on Ice has twelve, while Scotia Storms also has twelve.
Conclusion
Cathryn Fox’s bibliography is best approached one series at a time.
Begin with The Playmaker for Players on Ice, Stick Move for Boston Bucks, or Away Game for Scotia Storms. Begin with His Obsession Next Door for military romance, Kilting Around for romantic comedy, and Private Reserve for international high-heat romance.
Most series use different couples and can be sampled independently. Publication order remains the safest choice because it preserves team introductions, returning friends, family connections, and appearances by earlier couples.
For paranormal romance, keep each trilogy separate and in order. Read Eternal Pleasure from Instinctive, Pride’s Run from Pride’s Run, and Mind Games from Game Over.
Frank is the editor of BookSeries.blog, focusing on publication order, chronological timelines, and spoiler-free reading guides for book series and fictional universes.