Katy Lee Books in Order (Updated June 12, 2026)

Katy Lee writes inspirational romantic suspense, Christian romantic suspense, sweet romance, cozy mystery, and shared-world romance. Her books are not one single connected universe, so the cleanest reading order is by series.

Most readers should begin with Warning Signs if they want Katy Lee’s earlier Love Inspired Suspense work. Readers who want her newer indie romantic suspense should begin with Real Virtue.

The main thing to avoid is mixing shared-world entries with Lee’s own core series. Books such as K-9 National Park Defenders, Christmas K-9 Guardians, and Noel Secrets belong to multi-author continuities and are optional unless you are following those worlds.

Start Here

• For romantic suspense: Warning Signs or Real Virtue.
• For a complete early-series path: Warning Signs, then the rest of Stepping Stones Island.
• For race-track suspense: Silent Night Pursuit, then the Roads to Danger trilogy.
• For Amish suspense: Framed in Amish Country, then the Rogues Ridge books.
• For lighter beach romance: Table for One, then Royal Bay Beach Club.

Web of Lies Books in Order

The Web of Lies books are connected romantic suspense stories. Each romance reaches its own resolution, but the series works best in order because the crime threads and thematic focus build across the trilogy.

1. Real Virtue (2012): A virtual-reality gamer and New York restaurateur returns to her judgmental hometown after her father is injured, only to become the real target behind a digital-world threat.
2. Real Justice (2024): Christina Depalo is dragged back toward the dangerous family she escaped when a ransom note and a kidnapping force her to face Marcus Cartwright and organized-crime secrets.
3. Real Cold (2025): FBI agent Vera Sharp goes undercover as a singer to catch a crime lord, but chef Rafe Sinclair’s restaurant sabotage makes him look guilty before the truth widens.

Reading note: Read these in publication order. Real Cold is listed as completing the Web of Lies series.

Stepping Stones Island Books in Order

Stepping Stones Island is one of Katy Lee’s clearest starting points. The books share a small coastal Maine setting, and the investigations are easier to follow in series order.

1. Warning Signs (2013): A DEA agent investigating drug smuggling in Stepping Stones, Maine, must decide whether a new principal is a suspect, a witness, or the next person someone wants silenced.
2. Grave Danger (2014): Skeletal remains bring a forensic anthropologist to the island, where a past homicide and a present-day threat put her beside the local sheriff.
3. Sunken Treasure (2014): A shipwreck diver, buried treasure, modern-day pirates, and a fisherwoman hiding from her father’s crimes turn the series toward danger on the water.
4. Permanent Vacancy (2015): A Victorian house renovation becomes a deadly pattern of “accidents,” forcing Gretchen Bauer to decide whether her future inn is being sabotaged from inside or outside town.

Reading note: This is the best early Katy Lee sequence for readers who want a contained romantic suspense series.

Roads to Danger Books in Order

Roads to Danger follows a racetrack-linked family suspense setup. The books should be read in order because family secrets are part of the series engine.

1. Silent Night Pursuit (2015): Lacey Phillips hunts for answers about her brother’s mysterious death, only to land beside Captain Wade Spencer and his service dog when gunfire turns the search urgent.
2. Blindsided / Ransom Rescue (2016): Race-car track owner Veronica Spencer is framed after stolen cars appear on her property, and undercover FBI agent Ethan Gunn risks his cover to protect her.
3. High Speed Holiday (2016): Ian Stone learns he may have been kidnapped as a baby, then arrives in the Spencers’ hometown and is immediately pulled into a dangerous inheritance and identity mystery.

Title note: Blindsided is also listed as Ransom Rescue. Treat them as the same Roads to Danger book, not two separate novels.

Rogues Ridge Books in Order

Rogues Ridge mixes Amish community pressure with suspense. Framed in Amish Country is shorter than the later books but is commonly grouped with this continuity.

1. Framed in Amish Country (2019): Amish teacher Lizzie Fisher defends English painter Alex Wilson after he is framed for a crime, complicating her place in the community and her own independence.
2. Amish Country Undercover (2020): Grace Miller takes over her father’s Amish horse-trading business and becomes the target of sabotage, drawing undercover FBI agent Jack Kaufman back toward his Amish past.
3. Amish Sanctuary (2020): Counselor Naomi Kemp returns to her Amish hometown with a baby in danger, forcing her to seek protection from widower Sawyer Zook, the ex-fiancé she left behind.

Reading note: Read Framed in Amish Country first if you want the fuller Rogues Ridge path. Start with Amish Country Undercover if you only want the full-length suspense novels.

The Butler Family Saga Books in Order

The Butler Family Saga follows New Mexico-area romantic suspense with recurring family ties. These are strongest in order because the Butlers and their professional connections carry across the set.

1. Holiday Suspect Pursuit (2021): Former deputy Jett Butler and his search-and-rescue dog work with FBI agent Nicole Harrington, the ex-fiancée he forgot after amnesia.
2. Cavern Cover-Up (2022): Private investigator Danika Lewis follows a smuggling clue into Carlsbad Caverns National Park, where ranger Tru Butler helps her uncover secrets in dangerous caves.
3. Santa Fe Setup (2022): Artist Luci Butler is framed when drugs are hidden in her paintings, pushing her into the New Mexico mountains with Bard Holland as killers close in.

Reading note: These are romantic suspense standalones, but the family continuity makes publication order the better route.

Royal Bay Beach Club Books in Order

Royal Bay Beach Club is a lighter romance setting with suspense pressure around a beach-club world. It is separate from Katy Lee’s Love Inspired Suspense books.

1. Table for One (2023): Becca Shane boards her honeymoon cruise alone after being left at the altar, while single father Patrick Joyce enters the story carrying his own distrust of love.
2. Two Wrongs to Right (2025): Widowed single mother Rubi Stone tries to keep her charter boat business afloat while Grady Andrews plans to undermine the billionaire power structure around Royal Bay.
3. Three Fine Days (2026): A murder at a private North Carolina island resort forces manager Jerard Buchanan to protect the resort’s secrets while dog trainer Eden Hartwell and a retired K-9 unsettle his guarded life.

Reading note: Table for One is a short-story prequel. It is useful but not a heavy continuity requirement.

Standalone and Separately Listed Katy Lee Novels

These books can be read outside the main series. Some are linked by genre or publisher line, but they do not require a Katy Lee backlist order.

1. All the Guns and Whistles (2026): Law student Jayda Simone stuns a mob boss, escapes onto a Christmas train trip with her former foster family, and finds murder, the mafia, and an old emotional complication onboard.
2. Amish Country Disappearance (2027): Officer Jacie Sutton loses her memory after an ambush while searching for missing Amish teens, then teams with FBI agent Micah Beiler inside a community hiding dangerous secrets.

Status note: Amish Country Disappearance is upcoming. Listings differ on the exact 2027 month, so use 2027 unless a final publisher date is needed.

Chocolate Shoppe Mysteries Contributions

Chocolate Shoppe Mysteries is a multi-author cozy mystery series. Katy Lee wrote selected entries, not the whole series.

1. Two Birds With One Scone (2018): Jillian Green is pulled into a murder investigation when a man dies at a fundraiser and the weapon is her own knife.
2. Hot Cross Burglary (2018): Jillian tries to recover a childhood doll, only to find a body and a burglary pattern that suggests the sentimental object may matter more than she thought.

Reading note: These are optional for Katy Lee romantic suspense readers. Read them only if you want her cozy mystery work.

Victorian Mansion Flower Shop Mysteries Contributions

This is another multi-author cozy mystery continuity. Katy Lee’s entries are part of the larger series, but they are not required for her romantic suspense books.

1. Noel Way Out (2019): Florist Kaylee Bleu investigates after a gardener friend becomes a murder suspect during a Christmas-season mystery involving mulberry trees and a dead neighbor.
2. Best Laid Plants (2019): A later Katy Lee entry in the same cozy flower-shop world; read it after Noel Way Out if following her contributions only.

Reading note: These are separate continuity from Web of Lies, Stepping Stones Island, Roads to Danger, and the Amish suspense books.

Love in Lancaster County Contributions

Love in Lancaster County is a multi-author Amish romance series. Katy Lee contributed several books, but the full series includes many other authors.

1. Secret Melody (2022): A Katy Lee entry in the Amish-set Lancaster County shared world, best treated as a sweet inspirational romance rather than romantic suspense.
2. Lost and Found (2024): A later Love in Lancaster County contribution by Katy Lee, separate from her suspense lines and best read as part of the shared Amish romance setting.
3. Fields of Promise (2024): A Lancaster County Amish romance contribution centered on family, faith, and emotional restoration within the shared-series framework.

Reading note: If you are reading only Katy Lee, these three can be read together. If you are reading the whole shared world, follow the publisher’s complete Love in Lancaster County order.

K-9 and Shared Romantic Suspense Contributions

Katy Lee also appears in several Love Inspired Suspense-style shared worlds. These entries are optional unless you are following that specific multi-author continuity.

1. Christmas K-9 Unit Heroes (2022): Includes Katy Lee’s Silent Night Explosion, where a K-9 officer, a bomb threat, and a shadowed past drive the suspense portion of the collection.
2. K-9 National Park Defenders (2023): Includes Katy Lee’s Yuletide Ransom, where a Christmas skiing retreat turns dangerous after a kidnapping forces rival officers to work together.
3. Christmas K-9 Guardians (2024): Includes Katy Lee’s Lethal Holiday Hideout, where an FBI K-9 officer and her U.S. Marshal ex fight through witness-protection exposure, assassins, and icy wilderness danger.
4. Remote Danger (2025): A Hearts in Peril entry where a pilot crashes on a remote Washington farm, uncovering buried family secrets and escalating crimes.
5. Noel Secrets (2025): A multi-author Christmas romantic suspense collection that includes Katy Lee’s All the Guns and Whistles, before that story also appears as a separately listed 2026 title.
6. Tracing a Kidnapper’s Trail (2026): A K-9 Search and Rescue entry where Hunter Shelton, his bloodhound Libby, DEA agent Marlee Price, and a narcotics K-9 track a missing child through a widening abduction case.
7. Hunting Truth (2026): A multi-author Scent of Justice collection that includes Katy Lee’s Three Fine Days, linking resort murder, a retired K-9, and a guarded manager’s secrets.

Reading note: These books belong to shared worlds. Read them by the shared-world number if you are following the whole continuity, or read only Katy Lee’s entries if you are tracking her bibliography.

Love in Sandcastle Cove Contributions

Love in Sandcastle Cove is a shared sweet beach romance series. Katy Lee’s entries stand alone within the larger multi-author setting.

1. Harbored Hearts (2025): Abby Nelson arrives in Sandcastle Cove for wedding preparations and is drawn into the life of boat captain Liam McAllister, his struggling niece, and a fight to keep his boat and family secure.
2. A Safe Haven (2025): Officer Shelby Hansen investigates vandalism in Sandcastle Cove while retired Navy diver Joe Roman complicates both the case and her guarded heart.
3. Lucky’s Beach (2025): Shelter volunteer Tessa Amberley helps injured football player Cal Caddel foster and train Lucky, a dog who changes the direction of both their lives.
4. Beneath the Current (2025): Gwen Price and Heath Walker try to repair a damaged lifelong bond while family pressure and old fears surface in Sandcastle Cove.

Reading note: These are separate from Royal Bay Beach Club, even though both are beach-romance settings.

Hearts of Amish Country Contributions

Hearts of Amish Country is a multi-author Amish romance series. Katy Lee’s books can be read as individual sweet romances.

1. One Simple Wish (2025): Eva prays for an honorable man, then meets traveler Jacob Whittmer, whose dangerous secrets may cost her standing in her Amish community.
2. A Promise to Honor (2025): Honor Bontrager seeks help for her daughter from psychiatrist Sawyer Glick, the man she once gave up, forcing both of them to face faith, healing, and home.
3. A Noble Bond (2025): Schoolteacher Ruby Sweitzer enters a practical marriage with widower Joshua Lambright, then must help him and his disabled son heal before love can grow.

Reading note: These are optional for suspense readers but useful for anyone following Katy Lee’s Amish romance side.

Katy Lee Publication Order

This is the broad publication order for Katy Lee titles and identifiable Katy Lee contributions under this name. Shared-world entries by other authors are not included.

1. Real Virtue (2012): Opens Web of Lies with virtual-reality danger, a hometown return, and a targeted restaurateur.
2. Warning Signs (2013): Opens Stepping Stones Island with drug smuggling, old memory, and a suspect who may be the next victim.
3. Grave Danger (2014): Continues Stepping Stones Island through skeletal remains and a threat tied to the victim’s identity.
4. Sunken Treasure (2014): Adds pirates, salvage danger, and a fisherwoman hiding from the fallout of her father’s crimes.
5. Permanent Vacancy (2015): Closes the Stepping Stones Island run with a bed-and-breakfast renovation turned death trap.
6. Silent Night Pursuit (2015): Begins Roads to Danger with a Christmas Eve search, a service dog, and a brother’s mysterious death.
7. Blindsided / Ransom Rescue (2016): Continues Roads to Danger with a racetrack owner framed by a stolen-car ring.
8. High Speed Holiday (2016): Finishes Roads to Danger with a long-lost sibling mystery and a dangerous Christmas reunion.
9. Two Birds With One Scone (2018): Places Katy Lee in the Chocolate Shoppe Mysteries cozy world with a fundraiser murder.
10. Hot Cross Burglary (2018): Returns to the Chocolate Shoppe Mysteries world with a childhood doll and a deadly staircase discovery.
11. Framed in Amish Country (2019): Begins the Amish suspense path with a teacher, a painter, and a framing that strains community boundaries.
12. Noel Way Out (2019): Adds a Christmas cozy mystery in the Victorian Mansion Flower Shop world.
13. Best Laid Plants (2019): Continues Katy Lee’s flower-shop mystery contributions.
14. Amish Country Undercover (2020): Moves Rogues Ridge into full romantic suspense with sabotage and an undercover FBI agent.
15. Amish Sanctuary (2020): Follows a woman, a baby, and an Amish ex-fiancé hiding from a killer.
16. Holiday Suspect Pursuit (2021): Starts the Butler-family suspense line with amnesia, an ex-fiancée, and a search-and-rescue dog.
17. Cavern Cover-Up (2022): Takes the Butler line into Carlsbad Caverns and a smuggling-linked murder investigation.
18. Santa Fe Setup (2022): Pushes the Butler line into an art-framing case and New Mexico mountain danger.
19. Christmas K-9 Unit Heroes (2022): Includes Katy Lee’s K-9 bomb-threat novella Silent Night Explosion.
20. Secret Melody (2022): Adds a Katy Lee installment to the Love in Lancaster County Amish romance world.
21. Table for One (2023): Begins Royal Bay Beach Club with a solo honeymoon cruise and a second chance at trusting love.
22. K-9 National Park Defenders (2023): Includes Katy Lee’s Yuletide Ransom, a Christmas kidnapping K-9 suspense novella.
23. Lost and Found (2024): Continues Katy Lee’s Love in Lancaster County contributions.
24. Fields of Promise (2024): Adds another Amish romance entry to the Lancaster County shared world.
25. Real Justice (2024): Revives Web of Lies with family danger, organized crime, and a ransom-driven return to Georgia.
26. Christmas K-9 Guardians (2024): Includes Katy Lee’s Lethal Holiday Hideout, a witness-protection and wilderness survival novella.
27. Real Cold (2025): Completes Web of Lies with an undercover FBI singer, a sabotaged restaurant, and a suspected chef.
28. Two Wrongs to Right (2025): Expands Royal Bay Beach Club through a widow, a charter boat, and a man trying to dismantle the town’s billionaire influence.
29. Remote Danger (2025): Adds a Hearts in Peril romantic suspense entry built around a plane crash and hidden family history.
30. Harbored Hearts (2025): Opens Katy Lee’s Sandcastle Cove contributions with a grieving teacher, a boat captain, and a child who needs stability.
31. A Safe Haven (2025): Continues Sandcastle Cove with vandalism, a lifeguard station, and a retired Navy diver under suspicion.
32. Lucky’s Beach (2025): Brings shelter work, dog fostering, and an injured athlete into the Sandcastle Cove setting.
33. Beneath the Current (2025): Focuses on a damaged friendship, family loyalty, and the fear of repeating old patterns.
34. One Simple Wish (2025): Adds Katy Lee to Hearts of Amish Country with a Christmas prayer box and a traveler with secrets.
35. A Promise to Honor (2025): Continues Hearts of Amish Country through a mother seeking treatment for her daughter and a psychiatrist facing his Amish past.
36. A Noble Bond (2025): Uses a marriage of convenience to explore grief, disability, faith, and slow emotional trust.
37. Noel Secrets (2025): Includes Katy Lee’s All the Guns and Whistles alongside stories by Cami Checketts and Virginia Vaughan.
38. Tracing a Kidnapper’s Trail (2026): Adds Katy Lee to K-9 Search and Rescue with an abducted child, an ex-fiancée’s murder, and a drug-runner trail.
39. All the Guns and Whistles (2026): Separately lists Katy Lee’s Christmas train romantic suspense after its collection appearance.
40. Three Fine Days (2026): Continues Royal Bay Beach Club and also appears in the Scent of Justice collection Hunting Truth.
41. Hunting Truth (2026): A multi-author romantic suspense collection containing Katy Lee’s Three Fine Days.
42. Amish Country Disappearance (2027): An upcoming Love Inspired Suspense title about missing Amish teens, memory loss, and a hidden organization.

Chronological Order

There is no confirmed alternate chronological order that improves the Katy Lee reading experience.

Use publication order inside each series. For shared-world books, use the publisher’s shared-world numbering if you are reading every author, or read only Katy Lee’s contributions in publication order if you are tracking her bibliography.

Recommended Katy Lee Reading Order

The simplest route is not total publication order. It is better to choose one continuity at a time.

1. Warning Signs (2013): Start here for classic Katy Lee romantic suspense and the Stepping Stones Island setting.
2. Grave Danger (2014): Continue with the island’s homicide and forensic investigation thread.
3. Sunken Treasure (2014): Stay in the same setting while the danger shifts to shipwrecks, pirates, and treasure.
4. Permanent Vacancy (2015): Finish Stepping Stones Island with the renovation-sabotage mystery.
5. Silent Night Pursuit (2015): Move next to Roads to Danger for racetrack-family suspense.
6. Blindsided / Ransom Rescue (2016): Continue the same family-threat line.
7. High Speed Holiday (2016): Complete Roads to Danger with the long-lost brother plot.
8. Framed in Amish Country (2019): Begin the Amish suspense route.
9. Amish Country Undercover (2020): Continue with sabotage and undercover protection.
10. Amish Sanctuary (2020): Finish the Rogues Ridge path with a woman and baby hiding from danger.
11. Real Virtue (2012): Start Web of Lies when you are ready for Lee’s digital-age romantic suspense.
12. Real Justice (2024): Continue Web of Lies with organized-crime stakes.
13. Real Cold (2025): Finish the Web of Lies trilogy.
14. Holiday Suspect Pursuit (2021): Begin the Butler Family Saga.
15. Cavern Cover-Up (2022): Continue with Carlsbad Caverns and smuggling danger.
16. Santa Fe Setup (2022): Finish the Butler run with art, drugs, and mountain pursuit.

After that, choose a side path: Royal Bay Beach Club for beach romance, Sandcastle Cove for shared sweet beach romance, or the K-9 collections for shared romantic suspense.

Latest Release Status

As of June 6, 2026, Katy Lee’s newest 2026 listings include Tracing a Kidnapper’s Trail, All the Guns and Whistles, Three Fine Days, and the multi-author collection Hunting Truth.

Amish Country Disappearance is listed for 2027. Because current listings differ on the exact month, the safest article wording is to call it a 2027 upcoming title unless a final date is required.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Katy Lee book should I read first?

Start with Warning Signs for romantic suspense. Start with Real Virtue if you want the newer Web of Lies arc first.

Are Katy Lee’s books connected?

Some are connected by series, but there is no single Katy Lee universe. Read Stepping Stones Island, Roads to Danger, Web of Lies, Rogues Ridge, and the Butler books as separate continuities.

Is Blindsided the same book as Ransom Rescue?

Yes. Blindsided is also listed as Ransom Rescue. Do not count it as two separate Roads to Danger novels.

Do I need to read the multi-author K-9 books?

Only if you are following those shared worlds. Katy Lee’s K-9 contributions can be read on their own, but the complete shared-world arcs include books by other authors.

Is Table for One required before Two Wrongs to Right?

It is helpful but not essential. Table for One is a short-story prequel to Royal Bay Beach Club.

Should I read Katy Lee’s cozy mysteries with her romantic suspense books?

No. The Chocolate Shoppe Mysteries and Victorian Mansion Flower Shop Mysteries entries are separate cozy mystery continuities.

What is Katy Lee’s newest book?

The newest currently listed 2026 titles include Tracing a Kidnapper’s Trail, All the Guns and Whistles, Three Fine Days, and Hunting Truth. Exact “newest” status depends on whether you count standalone releases, shared-world collections, or publisher listing dates.

Conclusion

The best Katy Lee starting point is Warning Signs if you want her early romantic suspense in a clean four-book setting. Continue through Stepping Stones Island before moving to Roads to Danger.

For the newer crime-suspense arc, read Real Virtue, Real Justice, and Real Cold in order. For Amish suspense, read Framed in Amish Country, Amish Country Undercover, and Amish Sanctuary.

Shared-world entries are optional. They are useful for completists, but they should not interrupt the main Katy Lee series unless you are specifically following those multi-author continuities.