Corinne Michaels writes in two modes. One is tight continuity (the Salvation world), where couples and consequences overlap and reveals land better in sequence. The other is series-as-neighbors (most of her small-town books), where each romance resolves inside its own book, but familiar faces keep popping up.
Below is a series map with the cleanest reading order, plus quick notes on what truly needs order and what doesn’t.
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A quick way to choose your route
If you want maximum payoff from continuity:
Read Salvation first (in the author’s suggested order), then pick any small-town series.
If you want low-commitment standalones with recurring community vibes:
Start with The Arrowood Brothers or Willow Creek Valley.
If you like a suspense thread running under the romance:
Choose Rose Canyon and read it in order.
The Salvation Series
Order matters most here. These stories interweave across duets plus a standalone and a novella.
- Beloved: A guarded woman collides with a soldier who wants more than a temporary spark.
- Beholden: The fallout deepens as love has to survive long-distance fears and real-life stakes.
- Consolation: A grieving heart finds unexpected comfort, then panics when comfort starts to feel permanent.
- Conviction: The same love story turns heavier when trust breaks and healing becomes a choice.
- Defenseless: A soldier facing his own scars meets the one person who won’t let him hide behind silence.
- Evermore (novella): A shorter, intimate bridge story that shows how devotion looks in the “after.”
- Indefinite: A complicated connection ignites when timing is terrible and feelings are worse.
- Infinite: The duet resolves with hard decisions, earned honesty, and a future that finally fits.
Best practice: read in the order above to avoid spoiling relationship outcomes and major emotional reveals.
The Hennington Brothers
Works as standalones, smoother in order. Same town, same family orbit.
- Say You’ll Stay: A second chance shows up when old mistakes still feel freshly bruised.
- Say You Want Me: Attraction is easy; choosing a real life together is the difficult part.
- Say I’m Yours: Two people who’ve been pretending they’re fine stop believing their own act.
- Say You Won’t Let Go: A relationship is tested when life forces them to prove what “all in” means.
Second Time Around
True standalones with a friend-group echo. Read any order.
- We Own Tonight: A night meant to be simple turns into a wake-up call about what she really wants.
- One Last Time: A past love resurfaces, and “closure” becomes the most dangerous word in the room.
- Not Until You: A slow-burn connection builds while both fight the idea of needing anyone.
- If I Only Knew: A near-miss becomes a second shot, if they stop protecting themselves long enough to take it.
The Arrowood Brothers
Standalones with strong family continuity. Read in order for the full sibling arc.
- Come Back for Me: Coming home reopens a first love that never fully closed.
- Fight for Me: A guarded man faces the one woman who won’t be scared off by his grief.
- The One for Me: Best friends finally confront the truth they’ve been dodging for years.
- Stay for Me: A man who’s mastered pretending has to learn how to be real with the right person.
- Destined for Me (crossover novella): A quick crossover romance that links the Arrowood and Hennington worlds.
Willow Creek Valley
Standalones; order optional. Read in order if you like seeing the town build book by book.
- Return to Us: A fractured relationship gets a chance to rebuild when life forces them back together.
- Could Have Been Us: Regret meets opportunity as the “what if” becomes the “right now.”
- A Moment for Us: A small window of time becomes the moment that changes everything.
- A Chance for Us: Two cautious hearts risk the leap when staying safe starts to feel like losing.
Rose Canyon
Read in order. There’s an ongoing suspense thread across the trilogy.
- Help Me Remember: A buried past resurfaces, and romance grows in the shadow of unanswered questions.
- Give Me Love: A relationship is tested while the wider mystery tightens around the town.
- Keep This Promise: The suspense arc comes due, and love has to survive the final truth.
Whitlock Family
Best in order for the family dynamics and recurring cast.
- Forbidden Hearts: A grumpy single dad meets the one person who refuses to be pushed away.
- Broken Dreams: A fresh start gets messy when the past refuses to stay quiet.
- Tempting Promises: Desire collides with consequences when a promise turns into a trap.
- Forgotten Desires: A marriage-of-convenience setup turns personal when pretending stops working.
Ember Falls
Found-family small town series. Read in order for community progression.
- All Too Well: A long-held crush becomes unavoidable when proximity turns sparks into fire.
- Here and Now: Starting over is the plan, until love shows up and rewrites the rules.
- Against All Odds: A life that looks stable cracks open, and the new connection feels too real to ignore.
- Come What May: A PR “fix” becomes personal when chemistry and scandal refuse to stay separate.
Heartstone Ranch
New series (in progress). Only one titled book is publicly listed so far.
- West of Forever (coming June 2026): A ranch-world romance built around off-limits tension and a guarded, grumpy hero.
Note: additional Heartstone Ranch books are referenced as future installments, but their titles aren’t consistently listed in a way that’s reliable to publish here yet.
Standalones
Read anytime.
- You Loved Me Once: A past love returns with unfinished business and feelings that didn’t get the memo.
Co-written with Melanie Harlow
These are separate from the series above unless explicitly labeled otherwise.
- Hold You Close: Two people stumble into something tender while trying not to need it.
- Imperfect Match: A mismatched pairing discovers that friction can be exactly what makes it work.
Latest release snapshot
- Most recently released (as of February 2026): Come What May
- Next publicly dated release: West of Forever (June 2026)
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