C.S. Berry Books in Order (Updated March 14, 2026)

C.S. Berry writes dark, high-heat why-choose romance, but her catalog is split across two different reading experiences. Some projects are standard novels you can read book by book. Others are long-running serials built in episodes or bundles, where the real question is not “what comes next in the universe?” but “do I want finished books or an ongoing drip-feed story?”

That difference matters here. If you want the cleanest entry point, start with Watch Me. If you want the newest finished trilogy, start with Whisper Pretty Lies. If you want a cliffhanger-heavy binge that is still unfolding in book form, start with Their Dangerous Game.

Start here, depending on your mood

Best first book for most readers: Watch Me
It opens the completed Private Listing quartet and gives you the simplest, most stable reading path.

Best place for readers who want a finished newer series: Whisper Pretty Lies
That starts Lust & Liars, a completed trilogy with revenge, academy tension, and a continuing central relationship.

Best place for readers who like active cliffhangers: Their Dangerous Game
That starts Untouched, which is planned as a six-book arc and should be read strictly in order.

The core books

These are the main book-format series currently surfaced most clearly on C.S. Berry’s official store and external bibliography pages.

Private Listing

This is the most straightforward shelf to recommend because it is complete, easy to follow, and packaged as a full quartet.

1. Watch Me (2024): Madison lands a job with four billionaire bosses and discovers the role is far more intimate, controlling, and dangerous than a normal workplace romance setup.
2. Bind Me (2024): A stalker threat forces Madison deeper into the orbit of her four protective bosses, turning the series from fantasy-and-power tension into a more overt danger-and-protection romance.
3. Boss Me (2024): The relationship tightens while the stalking plot escalates, making this the book where secrecy, jealousy, and the sense of being claimed all sharpen at once.
4. Tease Me (2024): The finale pushes Madison and her men toward trust, fallout, and a final confrontation with the person responsible for the terror hanging over the series.

Best order: read straight through from book 1 to book 4.
Why order matters: the romance and suspense arcs build continuously, and the later books depend on the emotional and plot setup from earlier ones.

Lust & Liars

This is the better pick if you want a darker, younger, more openly revenge-driven setup from the start.

1. Whisper Pretty Lies (2025): A stepsibling-and-revenge setup launches the trilogy, with a heroine moving into her new family home and immediately colliding with three boys who believe she ruined everything.
2. Brutal Little Secrets (2025): The heroine stops being just a target and starts pushing back, turning the series from punishment and manipulation into a more active power struggle over revenge and hidden motives.
3. Dark Tangled Truths (2026): The trilogy closes by cashing in the secrets, loyalties, and retaliation that the first two books build, so it should be saved for last with no skipping.

Best order: publication order only.
Why order matters: this trilogy is built as one continuous relationship and revenge arc, not three loose standalones.

Untouched

This is the series to choose if you want a more explicitly serial, cliffhanger-driven school setting.

1. Their Dangerous Game (2025): A girl who has stayed invisible becomes the focus of powerful boys at Sherman High, setting up the claimed-by-the-kings dynamic that drives the whole series.
2. Their Twisted Rules (2026): A figure from the heroine’s past returns, alliances start to fracture, and the series widens from possession and social pressure into a larger conflict over loyalty and control.
3. Their Cruel Play (2026): Listed as book 3 in the planned sequence, this continues the same story rather than starting anything new, so it belongs after the first two with no detours.

Continuity warning: this is a planned six-book series, and the released books are meant to end on cliffhangers.
Best order: exact series order only.
Who it suits: readers who are comfortable starting something that is not yet fully complete in book form.

The serial side of the catalog

This is where C.S. Berry’s bibliography works differently from a normal “books in order” page. These projects are not best thought of as neat rows of novels. They are episodic stories sold in installments and bundles, so the practical reading order is by episode range, not by paperback-style book count.

Obsession

This serial is one of the clearest examples of Berry’s binge-first format.

• Obsession: 1-3: The opening sample/start point, where a heroine is pulled into a possessive, rule-breaking situation involving her brother’s best friends.
• Obsession: 1-100: The first major bundle, which gives the broad opening run in one purchase.
• Obsession: 101-120
• Obsession: 121-140
• Obsession: 141-160
• Obsession: 161-175: The official store labels this as the final bundle of the serial.

Recommended approach: start with the free opening episodes, then move through the bundles in numerical order.
Status: effectively complete in serial form.

Captivated

This is another ongoing serial-format project, but it is currently best treated as an active episode stream rather than a finished book series.

• Captivated: 1-3: The entry point.
• Then continue in numerical order through the individual episodes.

The official store describes it as a story about Hope trading her freedom to four secretive men to save her brother. Store listings currently show episodes into the 50s, which means this is a long-binge project rather than a short stop.

Recommended approach: only start if you are happy reading in episode order.
Status: ongoing serial project.

Princes of Hollywood

This one sits in between Berry’s book and serial models.

1. Princes of Hollywood (2026): Greer Morrow takes a live-in job connected to four Hollywood elites, and the setup mixes celebrity romance, forced proximity, wealth, and emotional recovery in a new glamour-driven setting.

The official store calls this book one of a series, while the series page also frames it as part of the serial side of the catalog. The safest way to shelve it is as the start of a new Hollywood-based branch rather than as a completed standalone.

Best approach: read it after Private Listing if you want another wealthy, high-control, multi-man setup, but in a Hollywood rather than corporate world.

A simple reading map

If you want the easiest possible answer, use one of these three paths.

Path 1: the safest complete route

1. Watch Me
2. Bind Me
3. Boss Me
4. Tease Me

Path 2: the finished darker-academy route

1. Whisper Pretty Lies
2. Brutal Little Secrets
3. Dark Tangled Truths

Path 3: the active cliffhanger route

1. Their Dangerous Game
2. Their Twisted Rules
3. Their Cruel Play
4. Continue with later Untouched books as they release

What not to mix up

Do not merge Private Listing, Lust & Liars, and Untouched into one continuity. They are separate series with separate casts and separate starting points.

Do not treat the serials like interchangeable standalones. Obsession and Captivated are built to be consumed in numerical order.

Do not start Untouched unless you are comfortable with an unfinished longer arc. It is structured very differently from the already-complete Private Listing quartet.

Latest release picture

As of March 14, 2026, Berry’s visible frontlist centers on:

• Dark Tangled Truths as the current completed end point of Lust & Liars
• Their Twisted Rules and Their Cruel Play as the active Untouched follow-ups
• Princes of Hollywood as the beginning of a newer Hollywood branch
• ongoing serial activity for Captivated, with many numbered episodes already listed

Final recommendation

For a first-time reader, begin with Watch Me. It is the cleanest on-ramp, the series is complete, and it shows Berry’s core appeal without asking you to commit to an unfinished six-book cliffhanger arc or a long episode-based serial.

For a second stop, choose based on tolerance for chaos. Go to Lust & Liars if you want a finished trilogy. Go to Untouched if you want the messier, sharper, still-expanding ride.