Kimberly Knight is an American romance author who writes contemporary romance, romantic suspense, erotic romance, paranormal romance, cowboy romance, and LGBTQ+ sports romance.
Her early bibliography centers on female and male couples in interconnected contemporary series such as Club 24, Halo, Saddles & Racks, and Sensation. Her newer books include several MM sports romances co-written with Rachel Lyn Adams.
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The catalog contains both interconnected standalones and strict two-book stories. Club 24 and several of the older series change lead couples or viewpoints, while Off the Field, Off the Bench, Comeback, and Off the Mat must be read in their stated order.
The Fastest Reading Decision
- Begin with Where I Need to Be for Kimberly Knight’s original connected romance world.
- Choose Angels & Whiskey for romantic suspense, cowboys, and the Saddles & Racks group.
- Start with After Hours Lecture for the six-book Forbidden series co-written with Rachel Lyn Adams.
- Read Traded first when you want an MM football duet.
- Choose Hooking the Captain for MM hockey romance.
- Begin with Crew for MM baseball romance, but have Knox ready because the story continues directly.
- The newest completed duet begins with Fight Me, Break Me and concludes with Heal Me, Love Me.
Books That Must Be Read Together
These series follow one central relationship across two books:
- Off the Field: Traded, then Outed.
- Off the Bench: Hooking the Captain, then Retaking the Shot.
- Comeback: Crew, then Knox.
- Off the Mat: Fight Me, Break Me, then Heal Me, Love Me.
- Dangerously Intertwined: Use Me, then Watch Me.
The first book in each pair does not provide the complete relationship arc. Read the second volume immediately afterward.
Club 24 Books in Order
Club 24 was previously called the B&S series. Older editions, audiobook listings, and boxed sets may still use B&S.
The first three main novels follow Spencer and Brandon’s wider friendship group, while the half-numbered books retell those stories from Brandon’s perspective. Down on Me later expands the series with another connected romance.
1. Where I Need to Be
Where I Need to Be (2012): After discovering her boyfriend’s betrayal, Spencer travels to Las Vegas and finally connects with Brandon, the gym owner she has been noticing from a distance.
This is the correct starting point for Club 24 and Kimberly Knight’s best-known early romance continuity.
1.5. Finding Spencer
Finding Spencer (2014): Brandon retells the events of Where I Need to Be from his perspective, including his attraction to Spencer and the complications created by his former girlfriend.
This novella does not replace book one. Read it after Where I Need to Be.
2. Wanted
Wanted (2013): Spencer and Brandon’s relationship continues as outside danger, former partners, and the consequences of their fast-moving connection threaten the future they are building.
This is a direct continuation of their original romance rather than a new-couple standalone.
2.5. Wanting Spencer
Wanting Spencer (2014): Brandon’s point of view revisits the events of Wanted and adds his understanding of the threats and relationship pressures surrounding Spencer.
Read it after Wanted because it assumes the main events are already known.
3. Anything Like Me
Anything Like Me (2014): Spencer and Brandon face another stage of commitment, family change, and danger as their relationship moves beyond its original beginning.
The book completes the principal three-volume Spencer storyline.
3.5. Forever Spencer
Forever Spencer (2014): Brandon narrates his side of Anything Like Me, providing an alternate view of the final major stage in his relationship with Spencer.
It is optional and should be placed after book three.
4. Down on Me
Down on Me (2016): A connected Club 24 couple takes the lead in a dual-perspective romance that expands the original friendship group beyond Spencer and Brandon.
Readers can follow the featured romance independently, but the earlier books explain the surrounding relationships.
Best Club 24 Reading Order
For the complete dual-perspective experience, use this sequence:
- Where I Need to Be (2012): Spencer begins her relationship with Brandon after a Las Vegas meeting.
- Finding Spencer (2014): Brandon provides his version of the first romance.
- Wanted (2013): The couple faces new relationship and suspense complications.
- Wanting Spencer (2014): Brandon retells the second stage.
- Anything Like Me (2014): Spencer and Brandon reach the conclusion of their principal arc.
- Forever Spencer (2014): Brandon gives his final alternate perspective.
- Down on Me (2016): A connected couple expands Club 24.
Readers who do not enjoy repeated events can skip the three Brandon novellas and read only books one through four.
Club 24 Collections
Perfect Fit contains the first three primary B&S novels.
Together Forever contains Finding Spencer, Wanting Spencer, and Forever Spencer.
Perfect Together collects the complete Club 24 sequence in one edition.
These sets repackage existing stories. They do not add another original couple.
Halo Books in Order
Halo follows connected couples dealing with grief, health crises, family, friendship, and long-term commitment.
Each book focuses on a separate central romance, but publication order provides the clearest understanding of returning characters.
1. Tattooed Dots
Tattooed Dots (2014): A tattooed hero and a woman facing difficult personal circumstances form a relationship shaped by grief, recovery, and the need to trust again.
The book introduces the Halo circle and its emotionally connected cast.
2. The One
The One (2014): Another couple from the Halo world confronts the possibility that a relationship can survive painful history and become the lasting partnership both have been seeking.
Characters from Tattooed Dots remain part of the broader group.
3. Never Stop
Never Stop (2016): A couple must continue choosing one another through loss, illness, and emotional pressure that tests the promises behind their relationship.
The third book deepens the family and friendship continuity.
4. My One
My One (2019): Avery and Nicole face the aftermath of miscarriage and unexpected changes while trying to protect the future they want together.
This is the final published Halo romance and should be read after the earlier couples have been introduced.
Saddles & Racks Books in Order
Saddles & Racks combines cowboy romance, erotic romance, friendship, and romantic suspense. The books change lead couples but remain within the same social and professional circle.
The alcohol-themed titles do not indicate collections or cocktail guides. Each is a separate romance.
1. Angels & Whiskey
Angels & Whiskey (2015): A woman becomes involved with a cowboy whose world of attraction, danger, and secrets introduces the Saddles & Racks setting.
The romance establishes the bar, ranch, and friendship connections used throughout the series.
2. Tequila & Lace
Tequila & Lace (2015): Another couple enters a relationship where sensual attraction and emotional vulnerability are complicated by danger from outside the romance.
Earlier Saddles & Racks characters return in supporting roles.
3. Champagne & Handcuffs
Champagne & Handcuffs (2017): Celebration, law enforcement, restraint, and romantic suspense collide as another member of the group receives a central relationship.
The book broadens the series beyond its original cowboy pairing.
4. Rum & Coke
Rum & Coke (2018): A new couple is drawn together through the Saddles & Racks community while personal history and outside threats make a casual relationship impossible.
Publication order helps preserve the established friendships and family changes.
5. Gin & Jewels
Gin & Jewels (2019): Wealth, valuables, and danger surround another romance in the shared world, forcing the couple to determine whom they can trust.
Earlier couples remain visible around the suspense plot.
6. Paradise & Vodka
Paradise & Vodka (2020): A tropical or getaway setting becomes the backdrop for the final numbered Saddles & Racks romance, where danger follows the couple beyond their ordinary lives.
This is the sixth main book and the endpoint of the published series.
Saddles & Racks Collections
The Saddles & Racks boxed sets divide the six romances into grouped editions.
Check the contents before purchasing a box set alongside individual novels. The collections do not add a seventh main romance.
Sensation Books in Order
Sensation begins with By Invitation Only and develops into a collection of fantasies and connected romances involving married couples, celebrities, athletes, and people exploring private desires.
The official six-book sequence includes three numbered Sensation Fantasies volumes.
1. By Invitation Only
By Invitation Only (2017): A married couple enters an exclusive world where private fantasies, trust, and consent challenge the boundaries of their established relationship.
This book introduces the Sensation concept and the people who later connect through it.
2. Reburn
Reburn (2023): Ward and Kiera revisit their long marriage and the desires that first brought them into the Sensation world, testing whether familiarity can still produce something new.
The book works best after By Invitation Only because it returns to its established couple.
3. Sensation Fantasies 1
Sensation Fantasies 1 (2019): Kiera and Ward explore additional fantasies after years of marriage, expanding their relationship beyond the events of the original novel.
This is supplemental but remains part of the official series.
4. Sensation Fantasies 2
Sensation Fantasies 2 (2019): Actor Walker Hayes becomes involved in a fantasy-driven romance where celebrity, performance, and private desire overlap.
The second fantasies volume changes featured characters while retaining the Sensation framework.
5. Sensation Fantasies 3
Sensation Fantasies 3 (2019): Baseball star Slate Rodgers explores a relationship and fantasy that place his public athletic identity against his private needs.
This installment adds a professional sports connection to the series.
6. Amore
Amore (2022): Frankie reconnects with a relationship rooted in the night before she left for college, bringing old attraction and unresolved choices into the final published Sensation book.
Read it after the earlier entries for the broadest view of the connected social world.
Dangerously Intertwined Books in Order
Dangerously Intertwined is a two-book romantic suspense story. Both novels follow the same central relationship and continuing danger.
1. Use Me
Use Me (2018): A woman enters an arrangement involving attraction, secrets, and manipulation, only to discover that the person she intends to use may have motives of his own.
The suspense and relationship remain unresolved.
2. Watch Me
Watch Me (2019): The consequences of the arrangement in Use Me intensify as danger, surveillance, and trust push the couple toward a final confrontation.
Read the books consecutively. Watch Me is not a separate standalone romance.
The Chase Books in Order
The Chase follows a connected romance across two main books, with an optional prequel.
Prequel: That Summer
That Summer (2023): A summer encounter establishes the emotional and romantic history that later shapes the central couple in The Dance and Shameless.
The prequel was published after the main books. It can be read first chronologically or after the duet for additional background.
1. The Dance
The Dance (2022): A relationship begins or returns during an emotionally significant dance, drawing the couple into a connection affected by past choices and public expectations.
The story continues into Shameless.
2. Shameless
Shameless (2023): The couple must stop hiding from the feelings and consequences created in The Dance, bringing the continuing romance to its resolution.
For first-time readers, The Dance followed by Shameless preserves the original reveals. Add That Summer afterward.
Off the Field Duet Books in Order
Off the Field is an MM football romance duet co-written with Rachel Lyn Adams. The same couple remains central across both books.
1. Traded
Traded (2022): A professional football trade places two men in a relationship complicated by teammates, public attention, sexuality, and the demands of the sport.
The first book ends before the complete relationship resolution.
2. Outed
Outed (2022): The couple faces the consequences of being exposed while professional football, public scrutiny, and private commitment place their future under pressure.
Read it directly after Traded. The two books form one complete story.
Dibs
Dibs (2023), written with Rachel Lyn Adams: Former college roommates Chase and Gage reunite years after a secret encounter, when Gage becomes the coach of Chase’s son’s baseball team.
The novel combines a second chance, two single fathers, former teammates, and double bisexual awakening. It is a complete standalone rather than part of a duet.
Forbidden Books in Order
Forbidden is a six-book MM romance series co-written with Rachel Lyn Adams. Each novel follows a different couple facing an age gap, professional boundary, family connection, workplace restriction, or another relationship that appears off-limits.
The books are interconnected standalones. Publication order preserves recurring friendships and previous couples.
1. After Hours Lecture
After Hours Lecture (2023): A grieving student and an older professor cross an academic boundary, creating a relationship complicated by age, authority, and unresolved loss.
This is the correct introduction to the Forbidden circle.
2. Secrets We Fight
Secrets We Fight (2023): Two men connected through dangerous secrets and personal conflict become romantically involved while fighting circumstances that could expose or separate them.
The second romance adds a stronger suspense element to the series.
3. Boss of Attraction
Boss of Attraction (2024): Declan becomes involved with a much older boss, turning workplace chemistry into a relationship threatened by authority, reputation, and the age difference between them.
Earlier Forbidden characters may return, but the central romance is complete.
4. Taste of Surrender
Taste of Surrender (2024): Jasper’s attraction to a man he considers forbidden becomes impossible to contain, forcing both characters to surrender the emotional defenses protecting them.
The book continues the series’ focus on relationships crossing established boundaries.
5. Protecting the Witness
Protecting the Witness (2025): A Boston narcotics officer must protect a witness, but professional duty becomes personal as danger and forced proximity intensify their connection.
This romance combines law enforcement, suspense, and an off-limits protective relationship.
6. Addicted to You
Addicted to You (2025): Sobriety counselor Cash becomes attracted to someone he is supposed to help, creating an ethical and emotional conflict between professional responsibility and genuine love.
This is the sixth and final published Forbidden novel.
Off the Bench Duet Books in Order
Off the Bench is an MM hockey duet co-written with Rachel Lyn Adams. The two books form one continuing story.
1. Hooking the Captain
Hooking the Captain (2024): Hockey captain Emmett begins a relationship shaped by team pressure, timing, and attraction that threatens to complicate his leadership role.
The story does not reach its complete ending in book one.
2. Retaking the Shot
Retaking the Shot (2024): A devastating event forces the couple to confront loss, recovery, and whether they can reclaim the relationship and future placed at risk in the first book.
Read the books back to back.
Delayed for the Holidays
Delayed for the Holidays (2023): Goalie Baylor becomes stranded or delayed during the Christmas season, creating a short hockey romance through forced proximity and holiday timing.
The novella is associated with the hockey world but is not required between the two Off the Bench books.
Comeback Duet Books in Order
Comeback, also listed in some catalogs as Boys of the Diamond, is an MM baseball duet co-written with Rachel Lyn Adams.
1. Crew
Crew (2025): Professional baseball, attraction, and personal history bring Crew into a relationship that challenges both his career plans and emotional control.
The book begins one continuous relationship.
2. Knox
Knox (2025): Knox and Crew face the fallout from the first book while trying to protect a relationship threatened by baseball, public pressure, and unresolved conflict.
Knox completes the duet. Do not read it as an independent player romance.
Off the Mat Books in Order
Off the Mat is an MM mixed martial arts duet co-written with Rachel Lyn Adams.
The books follow childhood best friends who became rivals and must work through years of hurt, competition, and unresolved love.
1. Fight Me, Break Me
Fight Me, Break Me (2026): Former best friends meet again as MMA rivals, turning old affection, betrayal, and physical competition into a relationship charged with anger and unfinished desire.
The book ends before the couple’s full resolution.
2. Heal Me, Love Me
Heal Me, Love Me (2026): Rowan and Kellan deal with the emotional and physical consequences left by Fight Me, Break Me, moving from rivalry and damage toward healing and a complete romantic ending.
This book picks up immediately after the first. The duet must be read in order.
Standalone Kimberly Knight Books
The following titles do not belong to the principal numbered romance series.
Burn Falls
Burn Falls (2018): A woman enters a paranormal romance involving danger, supernatural forces, and a community where ordinary explanations no longer apply.
The novel is separate from Kimberly Knight’s contemporary worlds.
Lock
Lock: A Dark Rapunzel Retelling (2020): A darker retelling of Rapunzel transforms confinement, control, and rescue into a suspenseful adult romance.
The book stands alone and does not begin a confirmed longer fairy-tale series.
Ex-Rated Gigolo
Ex-Rated Gigolo (2021): A man with a sexual or professional reputation becomes involved in a relationship that forces him to reconsider the identity others have assigned to him.
The novel belongs to the multi-author Hero Club world but provides its own complete romance.
Tinsel & Tools
Tinsel & Tools (2025): A holiday romance brings attraction and practical renovation or construction work together during the Christmas season.
It is a self-contained seasonal story.
Playing for the President’s Daughter
Playing for the President’s Daughter (2026): A sports romance places an athlete in an MMF relationship involving the president’s daughter, with public security and political visibility complicating the connection.
The book is a complete standalone and is not part of the football, hockey, baseball, or MMA duets.
Earlier Non-Romance and Youth Titles
Several older books attributed to a Kimberly Knight appear in bibliographic databases:
Deadly Reflection (2005): An early suspense or crime story involving dangerous reflection, identity, or investigation.
Strike of the Golden Eagle (2007): An action-oriented earlier work connected to danger and pursuit.
Homicide.com (2009): A crime story involving murder and the online world.
Maddie’s Moonshadow Monster (2011): A children’s or younger-reader story involving Maddie and a mysterious nighttime creature.
These titles differ substantially from the romance catalog and are not always displayed on current romance-focused author pages. They should remain separate from the Club 24 publication sequence.
Anthologies and Collections
The Misfits Anthology
The Misfits Anthology (2018): A multi-author collection containing a Kimberly Knight contribution alongside stories about characters who feel outside ordinary expectations.
It is optional and does not change a series order.
Countdown to Love Anthology
Countdown to Love Anthology (2018): A collection of romances centered on New Year celebrations and countdowns.
A contribution may later appear separately or within another collection, so check the contents before buying duplicate editions.
First Knights I and First Knights II
First Knights I (2022): A multi-author or collected edition containing romance material associated with the Knight name and shared publishing projects.
First Knights II (2022): A companion collection containing additional contributed stories.
These are collections rather than two installments in a continuing Kimberly Knight romance.
Latest Kimberly Knight Book
As of August 4, 2026, the latest confirmed Kimberly Knight release is Heal Me, Love Me, co-written with Rachel Lyn Adams.
Heal Me, Love Me (2026): Rowan and Kellan complete the enemies-to-lovers MMA story begun in Fight Me, Break Me, moving through the consequences of their rivalry toward healing and commitment.
The release belongs to the Off the Mat duet and cannot be read independently.
Upcoming Kimberly Knight Book
The Cockpit is scheduled for November 2026 and is co-written with Rachel Lyn Adams.
The Cockpit (2026): An announced romance centered on aviation or a cockpit-related professional setting, with the final premise and continuity placement still subject to confirmation before release.
The book should remain listed as upcoming until publication. Current catalogs do not consistently identify it as part of an established duet or series.
Is There a Complete Chronological Order?
Kimberly Knight’s full bibliography does not share one timeline.
Club 24, Halo, Saddles & Racks, Sensation, and the Rachel Lyn Adams sports collaborations belong to separate continuities. Reading them all by publication year would repeatedly move between unrelated couples and genres.
Chronology only matters within specific stories:
- Read the Club 24 main novel before its matching Brandon perspective.
- Read Use Me before Watch Me.
- Read Traded before Outed.
- Read Hooking the Captain before Retaking the Shot.
- Read Crew before Knox.
- Read Fight Me, Break Me before Heal Me, Love Me.
- Read The Dance before Shameless, then add That Summer as an optional prequel.
Publication order remains the safest arrangement inside the interconnected standalone series.
Recommended Kimberly Knight Reading Order
A useful introduction begins with the older interconnected romances.
Read Club 24 first, using the alternate Brandon novellas only when you want the same events from both viewpoints. Continue with Halo or Saddles & Racks depending on whether you prefer emotional contemporary romance or romantic suspense.
Move next to Sensation for married-couple fantasy and erotic romance.
For the newer MM catalog, begin with Traded and complete Off the Field. Continue with the six Forbidden standalones, then read Off the Bench, Comeback, and Off the Mat as separate two-book stories.
The sports duets do not need to be interwoven. Finish one couple’s complete arc before starting another.
Frequently Asked Questions
What was Kimberly Knight’s first romance novel?
Where I Need to Be was first published in 2012 and begins the series now called Club 24.
Where I Need to Be (2012): Spencer meets Brandon after escaping a cheating former boyfriend and taking a trip to Las Vegas.
What Kimberly Knight book should I read first?
Begin with Where I Need to Be for her original romance catalog.
Begin with After Hours Lecture for the newer MM interconnected standalones, or Traded for a sports duet.
Are B&S and Club 24 the same series?
Yes.
B&S was the original name. Current catalogs generally use Club 24.
Do the Club 24 half-numbered books contain new stories?
They retell the first three books from Brandon’s perspective.
Finding Spencer matches Where I Need to Be. Wanting Spencer matches Wanted. Forever Spencer matches Anything Like Me.
Can I skip the Brandon POV novellas?
Yes.
The primary story is complete through the main novels. The alternate perspectives add Brandon’s thoughts but repeat many central events.
Are Kimberly Knight’s series standalones?
Some are interconnected standalones, while others are strict duets.
Halo, Saddles & Racks, and Forbidden change central couples. Off the Field, Off the Bench, Comeback, Off the Mat, and Dangerously Intertwined follow one relationship across two books.
Does Traded end the couple’s story?
No.
Continue with Outed for the full relationship and resolution.
Do Hooking the Captain and Retaking the Shot follow the same couple?
Yes.
They form the Off the Bench hockey duet and must be read together.
Are Crew and Knox standalones?
No.
Crew begins the baseball relationship, and Knox completes it.
Does Fight Me, Break Me end on a cliffhanger?
Yes, the relationship and conflict continue directly.
Read Heal Me, Love Me immediately afterward.
Are the Forbidden books one continuing couple?
No.
Each book follows a different MM couple facing a relationship that crosses an age, professional, family, or ethical boundary.
Is Dibs part of Forbidden?
No. It is a standalone MM baseball romance co-written with Rachel Lyn Adams.
Is Delayed for the Holidays required before Hooking the Captain?
No.
It is a separate short hockey romance and does not form part of the central Off the Bench duet.
Is That Summer the first Chase book?
It is the chronological prequel, numbered 0.5.
The original publication experience begins with The Dance. Reading That Summer afterward preserves the intended reveals.
Is By Invitation Only a standalone?
It opens Sensation and introduces the relationship framework later used by the fantasy volumes.
Its central story can be understood alone, but the later books return to its world and characters.
Is Reburn a new couple story?
It returns to Ward and Kiera and should be read after By Invitation Only.
Are Saddles & Racks books romantic suspense?
Yes. The series combines erotic contemporary romance with danger, crime, secrets, and suspense plots.
Is Playing for the President’s Daughter part of a series?
No confirmed series placement is required.
It is a standalone MMF sports romance.
What is Kimberly Knight’s latest book?
Heal Me, Love Me is the latest confirmed release as of August 4, 2026.
It concludes the Off the Mat MMA duet.
What is Kimberly Knight’s next book?
The Cockpit is listed for November 2026.
Its final series placement should be confirmed closer to publication.
Conclusion
Start with Where I Need to Be for Kimberly Knight’s original connected romance catalog. Read the three principal Spencer novels in order and insert the Brandon novellas only when alternate perspectives appeal to you.
For romantic suspense, begin Saddles & Racks with Angels & Whiskey. For the newer MM books, start with Traded or After Hours Lecture.
Never separate the sports duets. Traded requires Outed, Hooking the Captain requires Retaking the Shot, Crew requires Knox, and Fight Me, Break Me requires Heal Me, Love Me.
As of August 4, 2026, Heal Me, Love Me is the newest confirmed release. The Cockpit is scheduled for November 2026.
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