Emma Scott Books in Order (Updated 2026-02-15)

Emma Scott’s catalog is easiest to navigate if you treat it like a set of clearly labeled shelves. Some shelves are locked in sequence (duets and continuous arcs). Others are interconnected standalones where order is optional, but familiar faces may reappear.

Below is a practical map that lets you either (1) start fast, or (2) read everything in a tidy, series-by-series order, without mixing continuities by accident.

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The “Pick Your Shelf” Switchboard

Choose one starting shelf and stay on it until you finish that set:

• Need a guaranteed order (start-to-finish story): Full Tilt (duet) or Beautiful Hearts (duet)
• Want a trilogy-style coming-of-age world: Lost Boys
• Want light paranormal shading, but not strict sequencing: Dreamcatcher
• Want moody paranormal romance with a defined arc: Angels and Demons
• Want standalones you can grab anytime: start with any title in the Standalones section

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Read-First Recommendations

If you don’t want to think about order at all, pick one:

• Most straightforward “beginning → end”: Full Tilt (Book 1), then All In
• If you want a longer series without a huge commitment: City Lights (start at Love Beyond Words)
• If you prefer YA-style coming-of-age intensity: Lost Boys (start at The Girl in the Love Song)

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Series Reading Orders

City Lights Series

Read in order for the smoothest emotional build; the novella is a “final chapter” add-on.

1. Love Beyond Words: A grieving barista falls into a life-changing connection with a reclusive, famous novelist.
2. Unbreakable: Two strangers forced into close quarters discover that survival can rewrite the heart.
3. Rush: A broken daredevil and the woman hired to help him collide in a slow burn built on recovery.
4. Endless Possibility (novella): An after-story that closes emotional loops and deepens the ending.

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Full Tilt Duet

This is one continuous story. Don’t swap the order.

1. Full Tilt: A spontaneous connection turns into the kind of love that demands everything, immediately.
2. All In: The couple faces the part where love isn’t the question, time, choice, and courage are.

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Dreamcatcher Series

These are commonly presented as interconnected standalones with paranormal edges. You can read out of order, but this is the usual sequence.

1. How to Save a Life: Two damaged lives find a fragile lifeline, with a hint of “fate has opinions.”
2. Sugar & Gold: A new couple steps into the same eerie emotional atmosphere, where wanting is risky.

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Beautiful Hearts Duet

This duet is designed as a single arc (and the reveals hit harder in order).

1. Bring Down the Stars: A love triangle forms around loyalty, ambition, and feelings that won’t stay manageable.
2. Long Live the Beautiful Hearts: The triangle resolves with consequences that can’t be undone, only lived with.

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Lost Boys Series

These are interconnected coming-of-age romances. Read in order if you want every returning character to land properly.

1. The Girl in the Love Song: Childhood bonds resurface as first love collides with fame, fear, and growing up.
2. When You Come Back to Me: A tender second chance unfolds as two young men confront what they lost, and why.
3. The Last Piece of His Heart: A final return to the circle where grief, family, and love force hard honesty.

Edition note: a traditionally published/reissued edition of The Last Piece of His Heart is listed for release on April 7, 2026.

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Angels and Demons Series

This is the most “mythic/paranormal” shelf. Read in order.

1. The Sinner: A haunted hero and a determined heroine collide where the line between salvation and ruin is thin.
2. The Muse: Love deepens into something stranger and more sacrificial as the supernatural stakes widen.

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Standalone Novels

These are not numbered as part of the series list above and are typically read anytime.

• The Butterfly Project: Two people carrying heavy pasts build something hopeful out of small, daily choices.
• Forever Right Now: An intense connection turns into a fight to hold on when life doesn’t play fair.
• In Harmony: Music, grief, and resilience converge as love becomes a place to land.
• A Five-Minute Life: A single, brief moment creates a before-and-after that won’t stop echoing.
• Someday, Someday: A long-waited love story tests endurance, identity, and what “home” is allowed to mean.
• Between Hello and Goodbye: A romance shaped by time pressure, tenderness, and the ache of uncertainty.
• Falling Like Stars: A high-visibility world collides with private pain as two people fall hard under bright lights.
• Little Pieces of Light: A healing-focused contemporary romance built around rebuilding a life from the inside out.

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Collections and Shorter Works

If you’re reading only novels, you can skip these. If you want everything, add them after you’ve sampled her main shelves.

• Team Player (anthology contribution): A shared collection appearance; treat as optional.
• Team Player 2 (anthology contribution): Another shared collection appearance; optional.
• One Good Man (short work): A compact emotional hit; best after you know her style.
• Love Game (short work): A shorter romance entry; optional.
• Happily Ever After Cookbook (contributor): Not a novel; treat as separate from the fiction catalog.

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What’s the “Correct” Completionist Order?

If you want a clean, low-confusion project, read shelf-by-shelf in this order:

1. City Lights (including the novella)
2. Full Tilt (both books)
3. Dreamcatcher
4. Beautiful Hearts
5. Lost Boys
6. Angels and Demons
7. Standalones (any order)
8. Short works and anthologies (optional)

That approach avoids accidental spoilers and keeps each continuity self-contained.