This guide covers Samantha Towle, the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance (plus a smaller pocket of paranormal titles).
Her catalog breaks cleanly into a few repeatable “tracks”: rockstar romance, racing romance, rom-com/standalones, and paranormal series. Order matters most inside the named series; the standalones can be read whenever you like.
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Choose your lane
- Want the signature rockstar arc? Start with The Mighty Storm.
- Want a shorter, couple-focused series? Start with Revved.
- Want a fast, modern standalone? Start with The Two Week Stand.
- Want paranormal romance? Start with First Bitten.
The Storm Series (rockstar romance, high continuity)
Read these in order for relationship progression and returning cast.
- The Mighty Storm: A music journalist and a world-famous rock star collide again, and old history turns into a second chance with teeth.
- Wethering the Storm: Love meets real-life pressure as fame, trust, and commitment start asking for payment.
- Taming the Storm: A connected story that deepens the band-world drama and expands the emotional fallout around the main couple.
- The Storm (novella, #3.5): A bridge novella that revisits the core couple and tightens the timeline between major moments.
- Finding Storm: A later return to the Storm world where the past finally stops being a safe place to hide.
Safest entry point: book 1.
Best place for the novella: after book 3 (as labeled).
The Revved Series (racing romance)
A smaller lane; read in order.
- Revved: A guarded race-world hero meets the woman who disrupts his control, and the attraction doesn’t stay optional.
- Revived: The follow-up romance where healing, loyalty, and risk take center stage.
The Wardrobe Series (Hollywood romance)
A compact two-book lane; read in order for friend-group context.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: A behind-the-scenes Hollywood romance where one career misstep sparks a relationship nobody planned.
- Breaking Hollywood: A follow-up set in the same world where fame complicates love, and privacy becomes leverage.
The Gods Series (contemporary romance trilogy)
Read in order; these are built as a continuing sequence.
- Ruin: A high-intensity romance where desire collides with choices that can’t be undone.
- Rush: A fast-moving continuation where temptation escalates and consequences arrive early.
- Risk: The trilogy closer where love has to survive what the earlier books set in motion.
Alexandra Jones Series (paranormal romance)
Read in order.
- First Bitten: A paranormal awakening romance where one bite changes everything, and danger follows immediately.
- Original Sin: The continuation where power, identity, and love all come with sharper costs.
The Bringer (paranormal romance)
This is listed separately from Alexandra Jones and is best treated as its own continuity.
- The Bringer: A paranormal romance built around fate, power, and a heroine pulled into something bigger than her life.
Standalones and one-off releases (read anytime)
These do not require a series order. Pick by premise.
- The Two Week Stand: A short-term arrangement romance where “temporary” ends up rewriting everything.
- Dead Pretty: A romantic suspense / psychological-thriller-leaning standalone where attraction and danger tighten together.
- River Wild: A survival-tinged romance where the setting forces closeness and exposes what they’re hiding.
- Under Her: A dark-leaning contemporary romance where obsession and vulnerability share the same space.
- Unsuitable: A wrong-time / wrong-person romance where chemistry fights the sensible choice.
- The Ending I Want: A grief-and-healing romance that asks what love looks like after life changes the plan.
- When I Was Yours: A past-and-present romance where history refuses to stay silent.
- Trouble: A troublemaking hero romance where chaos is the catalyst.
- Axed (novella): A shorter, punchy romance that reads like a concentrated hit of Towle’s angst-and-heat style.
Collaboration note
- Sacking the Quarterback (with James Patterson): A fast, high-concept romance built for quick momentum and broad appeal.
A reading plan that avoids the usual mistakes
If you want to see her range without mixing continuities:
- The Mighty Storm (then continue the Storm series in order)
- Revved (finish the two-book lane)
- The Two Week Stand (standalone palate cleanser)
- First Bitten (switch genres cleanly into paranormal)
Latest release snapshot
Because release timing varies by edition and storefront, the most reliable “what’s current” indicator is the author’s own book list. As of this update, Axed is one of the most recent clearly dated additions to her standalone/novella shelf, and Risk is the latest entry in the Gods trilogy.
FAQs
Do I have to read The Storm Series in order?
Yes, if you care about relationship progression. It’s built to stack emotional reveals.
Where does The Storm novella go?
Read The Storm (#3.5) after Taming the Storm.
Is Taming the Storm required?
If you want the full Storm experience, yes. If you only want the central couple spine, it’s still the safest route before the novella.
Are the paranormal books connected to the contemporary series?
No. Treat paranormal as a separate shelf.
Best starting point
If you only pick one: The Mighty Storm: A music journalist and a world-famous rock star collide again, and old history turns into a second chance with teeth.
Frank is the editor of BookSeries.blog, focusing on publication order, chronological timelines, and spoiler-free reading guides for book series and fictional universes.