J.H. Croix Books in Order (Updated February 15, 2026)

J.H. Croix writes steamy contemporary romance (plus a smaller paranormal shifter lane), with most titles grouped into clearly labeled series.

The easiest way to read her is to choose one series and follow its numbering, because later books often assume you already know the friend group, the town, and who ended up with whom.

A quick “choose-your-series” compass

• Want Alaska small-town romance with family ties? Start with When Love Comes (Diamond Creek, Alaska #1).
• Want firefighter romance, big swoon, big heat? Start with Burn For Me (Into the Fire #1).
• Want a newer firefighter lane: Start with What We Keep (Heartfire Falls #1) or All The Afters (Wild Fire #1).
• Want a cozy lodge/ski setting: Start with Take Me Home (The Lodge Series #1).
• Want paranormal shifters: Start with Protected Mate (Catamount Lion Shifters #1).
• Want a short holiday lane in Maine: Start with All I Want (Haven’s Bay #1).

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The books by series (read in this order)

Every entry is formatted as Title: one-line hook.

Heartfire Falls

1. What We Keep: A small-town firefighter romance where what you’re protecting matters as much as who you’re protecting.
2. Mine To Hold: A follow-up love story built on earned trust, close proximity, and a hero who doesn’t do halfway.

Wild Fire

1. All The Afters: A workplace firefighter romance with a “he falls first” pull that won’t stay professional.
2. When We Dare: A grumpy brother’s-best-friend romance where one risk turns into a full-body yes.
3. Fake It True: A small-town single-dad romance where the “pretend” starts changing real life.
4. Only Ever You: A second-chance firefighter romance where the past shows up with unfinished business.

Fireweed Harbor

0.5. When We Meet: A brother’s best friend / old crush prequel that sets the tone for the town and the family ties.

1. Make You Mine: A second-chance enemies-to-lovers romance where history is the real obstacle.
2. Dare To Fall: A billionaire workplace romance where opposites attract and neither can keep it casual.
3. Be The One: A holiday-leaning friends-to-lovers romance with small-town warmth and high heat.
4. One More Time: A protective firefighter romance where one moment turns into a forever decision.
5. Wait For You: A grumpy billionaire friends-to-lovers romance where patience finally runs out.
6. Ever After All: A friends-to-lovers finale-tilted romance that locks the town’s core cast into place.

Light My Fire

1. Wild With You: A hotshot firefighter romance where the wild setting amplifies every feeling.
2. Hold Me Now: A pull-you-close love story where control slips the moment trust appears.
3. Only Ever Us: A small-town romance where “us” becomes the only plan that works.
4. Fall For Me: A fall-first romance where attraction turns into a choice you can’t unmake.
5. Keep Me Close: A protective romance where closeness is both the comfort and the risk.
6. With Every Breath: A high-heat, high-heart romance where the hero’s restraint finally breaks.
7. All It Takes: A “one decision changes everything” romance built around courage and timing.
8. Take Me Now: A can’t-wait-any-longer romance where desire refuses to be postponed.
9. Meant To Be: A fate-tilted romance where the connection feels inevitable, and still has to be earned.

Dare With Me

1. Crash Into You: A high-adrenaline romance where falling is literal and emotional.
2. Evers & Afters: A love story that starts like a fairy tale and turns into something realer.
3. Come To Me: A pull-you-in romance where proximity turns into dependence.
4. Back To Us: A return-and-rebuild romance where the hardest part is believing again.
5. Take Me There: A getaway-tilted romance where the trip changes the rules.
6. After We Fall: A healing-forward romance where love is what you build after impact.

Swoon Series

1. This Crazy Love: A big-feelings romance where “crazy” means honest, not reckless.
2. Wait For Me: A longing-heavy romance where patience stops being sustainable.
3. Break My Fall: A catch-me romance where vulnerability is the real leap.
4. Truly Madly Mine: A devotion-forward romance where “mine” is a promise, not a claim.
5. Still Go Crazy: A return-to-the-feelings romance where the spark never actually died.
6. If We Dare: A risk-it romance where the dare is emotional, not physical.
7. Steal My Heart: A final-tilted romance where the last wall comes down.

Into the Fire

1. Burn For Me: A firefighter romance where the heat is personal long before it’s professional.
2. Slow Burn: A tension-first love story where the payoff is worth the wait.
3. Burn So Bad: A rough-edged romance where desire fights good sense.
4. Hot Mess: A chaotic-chemistry romance where messy becomes irresistible.
5. Burn So Good: A comfort-and-heat romance where “good” means safe and real.
6. Sweet Fire: A sweeter, softer edge with firehouse intensity still at the center.
7. Play With Fire: A flirtation-to-feelings romance where nobody stays in control.
8. Melt With You: A thaw-the-ice romance where closeness becomes the cure.
9. Burn For You: A devotion-forward romance where the hero’s focus turns absolute.
10. Crash & Burn: A high-stakes romance where the fall is fast and the recovery is harder.
11. That Snowy Night: A winter-tilted romance where one night becomes the turning point.

Brit Boys Sports Romance

1. The Play: A sports romance where confidence meets the one person who won’t be impressed.
2. Big Win: A victory-on-the-field romance where the real prize is personal.
3. Out Of Bounds: A forbidden-leaning sports romance where rules exist to be tested.
4. Play Me: A chemistry-first romance where the “game” stops being metaphorical.
5. Naughty Wish: A wish-fulfillment sports romance with a holiday-tinged, playful edge.

The Lodge Series

1. Take Me Home: A lodge-set romance where Alaska wilderness forces honesty fast.
2. Love At Last: A relief-and-release romance where waiting ends and life begins.
3. Just This Once: A one-time arrangement romance that immediately stops being one-time.
4. Falling Fast: A rapid-fall romance where resisting is the only losing move.
5. Stay With Me: A stay-or-go romance where commitment is the real conflict.
6. When We Fall: A fall-and-catch romance where trust decides everything.
7. Hold Me Close: A protective romance where closeness becomes non-negotiable.
8. Crazy For You: A love-makes-you-bold romance with a hero who’s all in.
9. Just Us: A couple-focused romance where the outside world finally stops getting a vote.

Diamond Creek, Alaska

1. When Love Comes: A small-town Alaska romance where the town knows your name, and your secrets.
2. Follow Love: A vacation-tilted romance where escape turns into attachment.
3. Love Unbroken: A single-father romance where stability has to be built, not assumed.
4. Love Untamed: A friends-to-lovers romance where the friendship was never as safe as it looked.
5. Tumble Into Love: A hot-cop, brother’s-best-friend romance where one tumble becomes a relationship.
6. Christmas Nights: A holiday romance where winter proximity makes feelings impossible to ignore.

Shameless Southern Nights

1. Down & Dirty: A Southern-set romance where attraction shows up with complications attached.
2. Slow & Steady: A steady-burn romance where patience turns into payoff.
3. Hot & Handy: A skilled-hands romance where fixing things includes hearts.
4. Rough & Rugged: A rugged-hero romance where toughness hides tenderness.

Catamount Lion Shifters

1. Protected Mate: A protective shifter romance where danger makes the bond unavoidable.
2. Chosen Mate: A choice-versus-fate romance where claiming each other is only the beginning.
3. Fated Mate: A fated-mates romance where destiny comes with enemies.
4. Destined Mate: A destined bond romance where loyalty is tested under pressure.
5. Catamount Christmas: A holiday shifter romance with pack ties and winter stakes.
6. The Lion Within: A power-and-identity romance where the beast and the man have to agree.
7. Lion Lost & Found: A lost-and-found love story where returning home changes everything.

Haven’s Bay

1. All I Want: A small-town Maine romance where wanting is the easy part.
2. All I Need: A need-based romance where the couple has to admit what’s missing.
3. All We Have: A “what we have is enough” romance where love becomes the anchor.
4. All We Are: A holiday-tilted romance where identity, desire, and belonging line up.

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What’s optional vs. what’s not

• Optional: Box sets and bundles (they package books; they don’t add new continuity).
• Not optional: Decimal entries like Fireweed Harbor #0.5, because they’re designed as an on-ramp (even if you can skip them).

Where order matters most

If you hate spoilers, prioritize: Fireweed Harbor, Into the Fire, Light My Fire, and The Lodge Series (lots of returning cast and relationship outcomes that become “known facts” later).

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Bottom line

If you want one safe starting point that tells you exactly what kind of author J.H. Croix is:
Burn For Me: A firefighter romance where the heat is personal long before it’s professional.