Cate C. Wells Books in Order (Updated May 29, 2026)

Cate C. Wells writes contemporary romance, motorcycle club romance, small-town romance, mafia romance, shifter romance, and dark emotional romance.

Her books are not one single universe. The contemporary books around Steel Bones Motorcycle Club, Stonecut County, and Underboss Insurrection connect in large and small ways. The Five Packs is a separate shifter world. The standalones and shared-world projects should be treated as separate unless the author later connects them.

The best starting point for most readers is Charge if you want the connected contemporary world. Start with The Tyrant Alpha’s Rejected Mate if you want the shifter books first.

The Cleanest Reading Routes

There are three good ways to read Cate C. Wells.

1. For the connected contemporary world, read Steel Bones Motorcycle Club, then Stonecut County, then Underboss Insurrection.
2. For the shifter world, read The Five Packs in series order.
3. For one-book sampling, choose After The Shut Up Ring, Return to Monte Carlo, or Silent Flames.

Connected Contemporary Reading Order

This is the most useful route if you want the MC, small-town, and mafia books to build naturally.

1. Charge (2019): A single mother and an ex-con biker begin the Steel Bones world with a protective age-gap romance.
2. Twitch (2019): A prequel novella about a veteran biker finding a new sense of home, useful as background but not required before the main books.
3. Nickel’s Story (2019): Story has loved Nickel for years, and the book turns that long-waiting tension into an older-man/younger-woman MC romance.
4. Scrap (2019): Scrap returns after ten years away, forcing Crista to face the trauma, secrets, and unfinished feelings between them.
5. Plum (2020): A Steel Bones heroine and a wealthy outsider collide in an opposites-attract romance that widens the series beyond the clubhouse.
6. Wall (2020): John Wall and Mona’s second-chance marriage story brings the Wall family into sharper focus before Stonecut County.
7. Forty (2020): Forty and Nevaeh’s second-chance romance pushes the MC feud and old misunderstandings into the open.
8. Heavy (2021): Steel Bones president Heavy falls for Dina Wall, creating one of the clearest bridges between the MC world and the Stonecut County books.
9. Roosevelt (2021): A companion novella to Nickel’s Story, centered on an older-woman/younger-man romance that fits best after Nickel.
10. Dizzy (2021): A full-length Steel Bones prequel that can be read alone, but works better after readers already understand the club.
11. Hitting the Wall (2021): Shay returns to Stonecut County with the secret Kellum Wall never knew, beginning the small-town side of the connected world.
12. Against A Wall (2022): Glenna and Cash Wall’s fake relationship turns real while the town’s power structure and old bullying history come back into play.
13. Run Posy Run (2021): Posy runs from Dario Volpe after a dangerous betrayal, opening the mafia branch of the connected contemporary world.
14. Nicky the Driver (2022): A forced marriage to Nicky places Zita inside a darker mafia romance with family pressure and obsession at the center.
15. Made Man (2025): A short Underboss Insurrection story about Mira and Wyatt, best read after the two main mafia novels.

Steel Bones Motorcycle Club Books in Order

Steel Bones Motorcycle Club is the core MC series. The books have individual couples and HEAs, but recurring club conflict, family ties, and crossover characters make order useful.

1. Charge (2019): A single mother and an ex-con biker become the emotional foundation for the Steel Bones world.
2. Nickel’s Story (2019): A long-standing crush becomes dangerous when old enemies threaten Nickel, Story, and the club.
3. Scrap (2019): Scrap comes home after prison, but Crista is no longer the girl he left behind.
4. Plum (2020): A club-connected heroine and a billionaire hero test whether two very different worlds can hold the same relationship.
5. Wall (2020): A broken marriage, grief, cheating fallout, and a second chance make this one of the most emotionally difficult Steel Bones entries.
6. Forty (2020): A past betrayal and a club feud force Forty and Nevaeh to reconsider what really happened between them.
7. Heavy (2021): Heavy Ruth and Dina Wall’s romance ties the MC world directly into Stonecut County’s Wall-family material.

Steel Bones Companion and Prequel Books

These are part of the Steel Bones world, but they are easier to place once the main cast is familiar.

1. Twitch (2019): A prequel novella about a biker veteran, sleepless nights, and the woman who becomes his way forward.
2. Roosevelt (2021): A companion to Nickel’s Story, focused on Theo and Roosevelt’s age-gap romance.
3. Dizzy (2021): A full-length prequel about Dizzy and Fay-Lee, set before the main Steel Bones timeline.

Stonecut County Books in Order

Stonecut County is small-town romance, but it is not separate from the Steel Bones world. Read Wall and Heavy first if you want the Wall-family context to land more cleanly.

1. Hitting the Wall (2021): Shay returns to the town that pushed her out, forcing Kellum Wall to face the secret child and the mistake he cannot undo.
2. Against A Wall (2022): Glenna and Cash’s fake relationship exposes old bullying, town politics, and the softer side of a hero who has been difficult before.

Underboss Insurrection Books in Order

Underboss Insurrection is the mafia branch. These books are darker than the small-town romances and can be read on their own, but order gives better context.

1. Run Posy Run (2021): Posy flees Dario after a brutal betrayal, while Dario decides whether he wants to punish her or keep her.
2. Nicky the Driver (2022): Zita is forced into marriage with Nicky after a mafia killing, turning old obsession into a dangerous claim.
3. Made Man (2025): Mira and Wyatt’s short story adds a second-generation romance inside the Corso crime world.

The Five Packs Books in Order

The Five Packs is a separate shifter romance world. It does not connect to Steel Bones, Stonecut County, or Underboss Insurrection.

Read these in order if you care about pack politics and recurring world details. Individual romances are usually readable alone, but the social structure builds across the series.

1. The Tyrant Alpha’s Rejected Mate (2021): Una claims Killian as her mate, only for the alpha to reject her publicly and realize too late what he has done.
2. The Heir Apparent’s Rejected Mate (2022): Rosie is rejected by Cadoc, the future alpha, while pregnancy and pack politics raise the stakes.
3. Derwyn’s Rejected Mate (2022): A commonly listed bonus novella about Derwyn finding his mate in the Bogs; treat it as optional rather than a required main-series novel.
4. The Lone Wolf’s Rejected Mate (2022): Mari rejects the isolated Darragh after one painful night, forcing the lone wolf to confront the bond he tried to avoid.
5. His Curvy Rejected Mate (2023): Flora breaks away after Alec rejects her, shifting the series toward body image, pack rank, and self-protection.
6. The Stone Wolf’s Rejected Mate (2023): A companion novella about a rejected bond in North Border, best read after His Curvy Rejected Mate.
7. The Wild Wolf’s Rejected Mate (2024): Annie and Justus face the aftermath of a failed mating between a traumatized pack wolf and a wild wolf from the Last Pack.
8. Ravaged Wolf (2025): Izzy and Trevor’s story revisits a devastating mating event and is one of the darkest Five Packs entries.
9. The Moon Blessed Wolf’s Rejected Mate (scheduled 2027): The next listed Five Packs book, expected to follow Kennedy and a new rejected-mate conflict.

Standalone Cate C. Wells Books

These are the easiest books to read without committing to a series.

1. Return to Monte Carlo (2023): A runaway wife, a surprise pregnancy, and a wealthy marriage in 1982 Monte Carlo drive this standalone romance.
2. After The Shut Up Ring (2024): A woman walks away after a humiliating wedding moment, opening a working-class second-chance path with her best friend’s older brother.
3. Silent Flames (2025): A dark marriage-in-trouble romance about betrayal, wealth, and a damaged billionaire husband; it is also part of the multi-author Dark & Silent Night project.

Shared-World and Anthology Material

These are optional unless you are collecting every Cate C. Wells story.

1. Sin & Snowflakes: A Mafia Romance Anthology (2024): The original anthology home for Made Man, useful only if you want the full holiday mafia collection.
2. Trade (2026): A dystopian romance novella in the multi-author After the End project, separate from Wells’s main contemporary and shifter worlds.
3. After the End: Volumes 5-8 (2026): A multi-author collection that includes Trade; treat it as a collection format, not a main-series Cate C. Wells novel.
4. An Aching Singularity (2026 project): A science-fiction romance project entry in the Bluebeard Chronicles world, separate from her regular series continuity.

Best First Book by Reader Type

Start with Charge if you want motorcycle club romance and the connected contemporary world.

Start with Hitting the Wall if you prefer small-town romance, secret baby, and second chance, but know that it connects back to the Steel Bones world.

Start with Run Posy Run if you want dark mafia romance.

Start with The Tyrant Alpha’s Rejected Mate if you want shifter romance and rejected-mate angst.

Start with After The Shut Up Ring if you want one standalone contemporary romance before committing to a series.

Publication Order

This is the simplest year-by-year order for released and listed Cate C. Wells titles.

1. Charge (2019): Begins the Steel Bones Motorcycle Club world with Kayla and Charge.
2. Twitch (2019): A Steel Bones prequel novella about a returning veteran biker.
3. Nickel’s Story (2019): Nickel and Story’s long-delayed romance becomes the second main Steel Bones book.
4. Scrap (2019): Scrap returns from prison to reclaim a life that no longer fits the way he imagined.
5. Plum (2020): The Steel Bones world crosses into class difference and opposites-attract romance.
6. Wall (2020): A marriage-in-crisis story that later matters for the Wall-family route.
7. Forty (2020): A second-chance MC romance shaped by secrets and club conflict.
8. Heavy (2021): Heavy and Dina’s romance becomes a major crossover point with Stonecut County.
9. Dizzy (2021): A prequel romance about one of the older Steel Bones figures.
10. Roosevelt (2021): A Steel Bones companion novella tied to Nickel’s Story.
11. Hitting the Wall (2021): The first Stonecut County book brings the Wall family into small-town romance.
12. Run Posy Run (2021): The first Underboss Insurrection book begins the mafia branch.
13. The Tyrant Alpha’s Rejected Mate (2021): The first Five Packs book begins the separate shifter world.
14. The Heir Apparent’s Rejected Mate (2022): The second Five Packs book expands pack hierarchy and pregnancy stakes.
15. Derwyn’s Rejected Mate (2022): An optional Five Packs bonus novella commonly listed between books two and three.
16. The Lone Wolf’s Rejected Mate (2022): The third main Five Packs book follows Mari and Darragh.
17. Against A Wall (2022): The second Stonecut County book gives Cash Wall his romance.
18. Nicky the Driver (2022): The second Underboss Insurrection book centers a darker forced-marriage mafia romance.
19. His Curvy Rejected Mate (2023): The fourth Five Packs book follows Flora after public rejection.
20. The Stone Wolf’s Rejected Mate (2023): A Five Packs companion novella set in the shifter world.
21. Return to Monte Carlo (2023): A standalone runaway-wife romance set in 1982.
22. After The Shut Up Ring (2024): A standalone contemporary romance about public humiliation, leaving, and rebuilding.
23. The Wild Wolf’s Rejected Mate (2024): The fifth Five Packs book follows Annie and Justus.
24. Sin & Snowflakes: A Mafia Romance Anthology (2024): A holiday mafia anthology that includes Made Man.
25. Made Man (2025): A short Underboss Insurrection story, later listed separately by the author.
26. Ravaged Wolf (2025): The sixth Five Packs book revisits a deeply traumatic mating.
27. Silent Flames (2025): A dark marriage-in-trouble standalone and the fourth Dark & Silent Night entry.
28. Trade (2026): A separate dystopian novella in the multi-author After the End project.
29. An Aching Singularity (2026 project): A separate science-fiction romance project title, not part of the main series order.
30. The Moon Blessed Wolf’s Rejected Mate (scheduled 2027): The next listed Five Packs book.

Should You Read in Chronological Order?

Only partly.

For Steel Bones, chronological order is not the best first-read route because the prequels work better once the club is familiar. Read the main books first, then add Twitch, Roosevelt, and Dizzy as companion material.

For the Wall-family books, the useful path is Wall, Hitting the Wall, Against A Wall, and Heavy if you want all major Wall-family context. That path cuts across series lines, so it is better as a reread route than a first-read route.

For The Five Packs, publication order is the best chronological order unless a later author note says otherwise.

Are Cate C. Wells Books Standalones?

Many of them can be read alone, but “standalone” does not always mean “no continuity.”

Steel Bones, Stonecut County, and Underboss Insurrection share a contemporary web. You can skip around, but some revelations and side characters land better in order.

The Five Packs is separate from those contemporary books. Do not read it expecting Steel Bones or Stonecut County crossover.

The true standalones are Return to Monte Carlo, After The Shut Up Ring, and most shared-world project entries.

Latest Cate C. Wells Book

The latest main solo title listed during this update is Silent Flames, published in 2025.

The latest Five Packs novel is Ravaged Wolf, also published in 2025.

The 2026 material is mostly project or collection-based, including Trade in After the End and An Aching Singularity through the Bluebeard Chronicles project.

Upcoming Cate C. Wells Book

The next clearly listed Five Packs title is The Moon Blessed Wolf’s Rejected Mate, currently scheduled for 2027.

Release dates can move, especially for future indie and project-based titles, so treat that date as planned rather than final.

FAQs

What Cate C. Wells book should I read first?

Read Charge first if you want the connected contemporary world. Read The Tyrant Alpha’s Rejected Mate first if you want the shifter world.

Are Steel Bones and Stonecut County connected?

Yes. Steel Bones Motorcycle Club and Stonecut County share characters and the Wall-family thread.

Are The Five Packs books connected to Steel Bones?

No. The author separates the shifter series from the contemporary MC, small-town, and mafia books.

Can I read Run Posy Run as a standalone?

Yes. Run Posy Run can stand alone, but Nicky the Driver and Made Man make more sense after it.

Where should I place Derwyn’s Rejected Mate?

Place it after The Heir Apparent’s Rejected Mate and before The Lone Wolf’s Rejected Mate if you are reading every Five Packs item. It is optional.

Should I read Dizzy first because it is a prequel?

No for a first read. Dizzy works better after you know Steel Bones. Start with Charge.

Is After The Shut Up Ring connected to the main series?

No confirmed main-series connection was found during this update. Treat it as a standalone.

Conclusion

For Cate C. Wells, the best reading order depends on which shelf you want first.

Choose Charge for the connected contemporary route, then continue through Steel Bones, Stonecut County, and Underboss Insurrection. Choose The Tyrant Alpha’s Rejected Mate for the separate shifter route. Choose After The Shut Up Ring if you want a single standalone before deciding where to go next.