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  • Bibliography:
    82 Books (21 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2011
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Bachelor Brotherhood

1 - Only You (Oct-2016)
2 - Until You (Jun-2017)
3 - Always You (Dec-2017)

Bad Luck Club

1 - Love at First Hate (Aug-2021)
2 - Jingle Bell Hell (Oct-2021)

Bluebird Bay

1 - Finding Tomorrow (Jul-2019)
2 - Finding Home (Sep-2019)
3 - Finding Peace (Dec-2019)

Book of Sindal

1 - Descended from Shadows (May-2019)
2 - Reign of Mist (Jul-2019)
3 - Crown of Blood (Aug-2019)

Carly Moore

1 - A Cry in the Dark (Nov-2019)
2 - Her Scream in the Silence (Mar-2020)
3 - One Foot in the Grave (Jun-2020)
4 - Buried in Secrets (Jan-2020)
5 - The Lies She Told (Jun-2021)
6 - Shades of Truth (Oct-2021)

The Chosen

1 - Chosen (Sep-2011)
2 - Hunted (Nov-2011)
3 - Sacrifice (Apr-2012)
3.1 - Emergence (Oct-2012)
3.2 - Middle Ground (Dec-2012)
3.3 - Homecoming (Oct-2012)
4 - Redemption (Nov-2012)

Curse Keepers

1 - The Curse Keepers (Nov-2013)
2 - The Curse Breakers (May-2014)
3 - The Curse Defiers (Oct-2014)
This Place Is Death (Aug-2014)
This Changes Everything (Sep-2014)

A Curse Keepers Secret

1 - This Place Is Death (Aug-2014)
2 - This Changes Everything (Sep-2014)
3 - Keeper of Secrets (Nov-2022)

Darling Investigations

1 - Deadly Summer (Jan-2018)
2 - Blazing Summer (Jun-2018)

From the Ashes

1 - Let it All Burn (Feb-2020)

A Harper Adams Mystery

1 - Little Girl Vanished (Jun-2023)

A Maddie Baker Mystery

1 - Blind Bake (Feb-2022)
2 - Bake Off (Oct-2022)
3 - Half Baked (Oct-2023)

Magnolia Steele Mystery

1 - Center Stage (Mar-2016)
2 - Act Two (Sep-2016)
3 - Call Back (Feb-2017)
4 - Curtain Call (Oct-2017)

Neely Kate Mystery

1 - Trailer Trash (Apr-2017)
2 - In High Cotton (Feb-2018)
3 - Dirty Money (Jun-2019)

Off the Subject

1 - After Math (Mar-2013)
2 - Redesigned (May-2013)
3 - Business as Usual (Apr-2014)

On the Otherside

1 - Here (Nov-2011)
2 - There (Dec-2012)

Piper Lancaster

1 - Of Ash and Spirit (Feb-2018)

A Rose Gardner Mystery

1 - Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes (Mar-2012)
2 - Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons (Jun-2012)
3 - Thirty and a Half Excuses (Sep-2013)
3.5 - Falling to Pieces (Nov-2013)
4 - Thirty-One and a Half Regrets (Jan-2014)
5 - Thirty-Two and a Half Complications (Jun-2014)
5.5 - Picking Up the Pieces (Aug-2014)
6 - Thirty-Three and a Half Shenanigans (Aug-2014)
6.4 - Rose and Helena Save Christmas (Dec-2014)
6.5 - Ripple of Secrets (Mar-2015)
7 - Thirty-Four and a Half Predicaments (May-2015)
7.5 - Thirty-Four and a Half Predicaments Bonus Chapters (Oct-2015)
8 - Thirty-five and a Half Conspiracies (Nov-2015)
9 - Thirty-Six and a Half Motives (May-2016)
9.5 - Sins of the Father (Sep-2016)
10.5 - Family Jewels (Nov-2016)

Rose Gardner Investigations

1 - Family Jewels (Nov-2016)
2 - For the Birds (Jul-2017)
3 - Hell in a Handbasket (Apr-2018)
4 - Up Shute Creek (Nov-2018)
5 - Come Rain or Shine (May-2019)
6 - When the Bough Breaks (Apr-2020)
6.5 - The Rose Journal (Feb-2021)
7 - It All Falls Down (Feb-2021)

Seeker's Island

1 - Summer on Seeker's Island (Jun-2013)

The Wedding Pact

1 - The Substitute (Jan-2014)
2 - The Player (Jun-2015)
3 - The Gambler (Nov-2015)
4 - The Valentine (Feb-2016)

Book List in Order: 82 titles



  • Everything Emma Thompson owns fits in a suitcase she moves from one roach infested motel to another. She and Jake, her five year old son who can see the future, are running from the men intent on taking him. Emma will do anything to protect him even ...



  • A mother desperately searches for her son... Realizing she's capable of more than she ever suspected... While resisting the pull of a mysterious man who offers more questions than answers... Emma Thompson and Will Davenport may have escaped from the...



  • Sixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica l...



  • “It all started when I saw myself dead.”For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She’s had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone’s toilet’s overflowed, bu...



  • **Includes the short story Middle Ground.** Everything Emma loves has been ripped away -- Jake, Will, and her unborn baby. Within minutes of confronting her new reality, Emma is thrust in the middle of a war between two supernatural beings and she’...



  • When Rose reports for Fenton County jury duty she figures she?s lucky to get out of a morning working at the DMV. Instead, despite a disastrous encounter with the new assistant district attorney, Mason Deveraux, she?s picked as a juror on a murder ca...



  • ***A 42 page short story prequel in the Chosen Series*****The Chosen Shorts can be read out of order**Even before Jake’s birth, Emma Thompson focused all her energy on providing a safe and sheltered world for her two-year-old son. The life she’d ...



  • ** This is a 55 page novelette prequel in The Chosen series****The Chosen Shorts can be read out of order*****This story contains strong language**Will Davenport returns home from Iraq a broken man. While he can learn to live with his dishonorable d...



  • The explosive conclusion to the bestselling series-- The Chosen. Four shall fight. Two shall remain. The game of immortal elements has advanced to an unexpected level since Will and Emma have joined. But was their union a part of Water's careful orch...






  • ***This is a 32 prequel short story to The Chosen Series*** **The Chosen Shorts can be read out of order**Lieutenant Will Davenport gets more than he planned when he comes home for his sister Megan’s wedding. His best friend James drops a bombshe...



  • Julia Phillips’ world is an alternate universe away. Trapped in a land where government leaders want her dead, Julia is forced to run for her life with Evan and Reece, the two boys who brought her here. They’re on their own in a hostile landscape...



  • Scarlett Goodwin’s world is divided into Before and After. Before she agreed to tutor Tucker Price, college junior Scarlett was introvert, struggling with her social anxiety disorder and determined to not end up living in a trailer park like her mo...



  • While fashion design major Caroline Hunter may have been born economically unlucky, in college, she’s been lucky in love. Until her senior year at Southern University. She’s gone from a serious long term boyfriend to a string of crappy dates. The...



  • The Indie Voice brings you a summer you'll never forget...How did the Indie Voice authors--ten New York Times bestsellers--collaborate to write an anthology of romantic short stories set on fictional Seeker's Island? Well, it was a challenge!We did ...



  • Life in Henryetta, Arkansas is turned upside down with the arrival of a televangelist, but it’s the death of a little old lady on Rose’s street that catches her attention. The Henryetta police deem her death natural causes, but Rose suspects foul...



  • The wall between our world and that of vengeful spirits has protected humanity for more than 400 years. It’s about to come crashing down. Ellie Lancaster has lived her whole life by the site of the mysterious Lost Colony of Roanoke, the North Ca...



  • When Joe walks out of Rose’s life, she can’t imagine life without him. But with support from her friends -- and an unexpected person -- Rose finds her way to climb out of her despair. After his father’s blackmail forces him to leave the love of...



  • Megan Vandemeer meant to tell her parents about her broken engagement, but a month and a half later she finds herself boarding a plane home to her wedding. Having stretched avoidance to its limits, it's time to come clean--a terrifying prospect since...



  • While Rose recovers from a broken heart, she finds herself at odds with her sister -- and business partner -- Violet. Rose buries herself in her landscaping work, but becomes worried when her employee and friend, Bruce Wayne Decker, goes missing. In ...






  • The third book in the USA Today Bestselling series! Lexi Pendergraft has given up on finding love after a disastrous encounter with her last boyfriend. Instead, she's determined to help her brother Reed--who gave up everything to give her a chance at...



  • For more than four hundred years, the Curse Keepers guarded the barrier between the human and spirit realms. All that changed the day Ellie Lancaster met Collin Dailey. Prophecy demanded they defend the world from evil…even as it ignited a passion ...



  • The fifth book in the USA Today Bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery series! There’s no denying trouble finds Rose Gardner like a divining rod finds water, especially when Rose lands in the middle of a bank robbery. But after the robbers steal her depo...



  • While Rose might be reeling from the news that Joe’s ex-girlfriend is pregnant, she’s got bigger issues to deal with. One, putting her business back together albeit with a new partner and into two separate entities; and two, trying to keep the Fe...



  • New York Time and USA Today bestseller!Book Six in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Mystery series! Rose is called into action when Neely Kate's cousin goes missing and the police refuse to take it seriously. But while the authorities--Ro...



  • It’s one of the most enduring mysteries in American history: What became of the English colony off the Virginian coast on Roanoke Island? Why, and how, did they vanish so completely? No one suspected an ancient curse.... Ananias Dare and his ...



  • Ellie Dare Lancaster is only eight years old, but the secret she carries stretches back four hundred years, to the doomed pioneer colony of Roanoke Island―and the dark pact made by her ancestor, Ananias Dare. Though her father has told Ellie of her...



  • For centuries the gods have waited -- for the betrayal that will release them, for the traitors who will defend them, for the warrior who will challenge them. Now at long last the gate between the human and spirit worlds is open, and with it, an army...



  • ***This book may be read as a standalone novella. You do not need to have read either series to enjoy.***The Rose Gardner Series and the Ghost-in-Law Series combine to bring you a rollicking round of holiday fun!Rose Gardner and Neely Kate Colson are...



  • Rose Gardner Mystery Novella #6.5 in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series. After her assistant DA boyfriend's near brush with death, Rose Gardner hopes to make it through the holiday season with a minimal amount of drama. But she can't...






  • New York Times and USA Today debut bestseller. Book seven in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery series. **Includes Thirty-Four and a Half Predicaments bonus chapters One journal full of secrets...T...



  • Book two in the USA Today bestselling The Wedding Pact series. Divorce attorney Blair Hansen is convinced that marriage should be based on practicality, not passion. But as her own wedding approaches, she finds herself remembering her law school boyf...



  • Rose Gardner Mystery Bonus chapters posted on the Denise Grover Swank website for newsletter subscribers the summer of 2015. **** DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT READ UP TO THIRTY-FOUR AND A HALF PREDICAMENTS**** Seven bonus chapters that start immed...



  • Libby St. Clair believes in fate-so much so, she's willing to pin everything on a curse a fortune-teller placed on her and her two best friends when they were kids. The curse, that each of them will marry before thirty, have a disaster of a wedding, ...



  • Book eight in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery series. Rose Gardner has survived plenty of close scrapes in the past, but her latest bit of trouble has landed her in the Fenton County holding cell on trumped up charge...



  • *****A Short Story from the Wedding Pact series*****Blair Hansen-Lowry never thought that marriage would be enough to ensure a happily ever after -- her career as a divorce attorney made sure of that. But she never expected her old insecurities to re...



  • Ten years ago, Magnolia Steele fled Franklin, Tennessee after an incident that left her with hazy memories and a horror of the place where she had been born and bred. Though her abrupt departure destroyed most of her treasured relationships, she vowe...



  • Rose Gardner should be celebrating the arrest of her fiercest enemy, J.R. Simmons. But problems are like weeds -- pluck one and five more spring up. Rose’s boyfriend is on the verge of leaving her for good, her best friend, Neely Kate, is grappling...



  • Most teens dream of visiting the City of Lights, but it feels more like a nightmare for Sophie Brooks. She and her brother are sent to Paris to spend the summer with their father, who left home a year ago without any explanation. As if his sudden aba...



  • For as long as Magnolia Steele can remember, the past has had its hooks in her. Her time as a Broadway actress in New York City was an escape that ended in public humiliation, but now that she’s back home in Franklin, Tennessee, she’s feeling the...






  • As the fallout from J.R. Simmons death begins to settle, some of the victims are still dealing with the results of that deadly night. 
    Rose mourns the changes in her life and struggles to move on. 
    Neely Kate is devastated when Joe leaves Hen...



  • Never say never . . . Romance isn't an option for Holly Greenwood. With her wedding planner career on the line she needs to stay focused, and that means pleasing her demanding boss, not getting distracted by her mind-alteringly hot neighbor . . . ...



  • Trouble always comes to those who court it. Rose Gardner’s ability to see glimpses of the future has gotten her into hot water time and again, but so have her curiosity and her sense of daring. Those very qualities helped her defeat the most powerf...



  • Book three in the four book USA Today best selling Magnolia Steele Mystery series.

    Center Stage (Magnolia Steele Mystery #1)
    Act Two (Magnolia Steele #2)
    Call Back (Magnolia Steele #3)
    Untitled (Magnolia Steele #4) Fall 2017...



  • Companion novella to the Rose Gardner Investigation series. This series provides insight into characters in the Rose Gardner world, but is not required to read the series.

    Reading order:

    Family Jewels (Rose Gardner Investigations #1)



  • Never settle down. Ever. Workaholic Lanie Rogers lives a completely nomadic lifestyle. Her job keeps her on the move, and relationships are a complication she doesn't need. That is, until she meets Mr. Tall, Dark, and Hotness at a pre-wedding part...



  • Book two in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Investigations series. Rose Gardner is trying to build a new normal. One that leaves the Fenton County crime world -- including James “Skeeter” Malcom, the current king -- behi...



  • Fourth and final book in the USA Today bestselling Magnolia Steele Mystery series. Magnolia’s in a game of cat and mouse with a serial killer who’s intent on winning… over her dead body....



  • First love is better the second time around. Matt Osborn had no idea coaching his five-year-old nephew's soccer team would get him so much attention from the mothers -- attention he doesn't want now that he's given up on love and having a family o...



  • New York Times bestselling author Denise Grover Swank gives a former TV star one more shot at fame -- and it proves to be a killer comeback… Ten years ago, Summer Butler was television’s most popular teenage sleuth. Since then, she’s hit -- ...






  • The second book in the USA Today bestselling Neely Kate Mystery series, a spinoff of the New York Times bestselling Rose Gardner series.Neely Kate’s life is finally coming together. She’s living and working with her best friend, Rose. Her newly d...



  • The first book in a Curse Keepers spinoff series by New York Times bestselling author Denise Grover Swank writing as D.G. Swank.Piper Lancaster might be Asheville’s most popular ghost whisperer, but she's an unbeliever. While her clients believe sh...



  • Third book in the New York Times bestselling Rose Gardner Investigations series. They say the road to hell is paved in good intentions, and Rose Gardner can’t shake the notion she’s headed there in a handbasket. She feels responsible for the deat...



  • Summer Butler is killing it in the ratings -- and all of America is tuning in as New York Times bestselling author Denise Grover Swank greenlights a new season of TV’s hottest sleuth… Summer Butler had no idea that Darling Investigations would...



  • Book four in the New York Times bestselling Rose Gardner Investigations series.Rose Gardner feels like she’s up a creek without a paddle. Her sister is dying, her secret boyfriend, James Malcolm, is struggling to protect the county underworld from ...




  • Rose Gardner collects secrets the way other people collect junk—and now she's being asked to expose them. Special Prosecutor Mason Deveraux has called a grand jury to investigate the corruption in the Sweet Branch Police Department, and he's s...



  • The final book in the USA Today bestselling Neely Kate Mystery series.Violet Gardner Beauregard is barely cold in her grave, but she’s still stirring up trouble. When Neely Kate Coulson accompanies her best friend Rose to Violet’s attorney for th...



  • Celia Burrows thought she had it all -- a handsome husband, two successful children, and a gorgeous beach house on the Northern coast of Maine. But her perfect life cracks apart when her husband of thirty years informs her that he's leaving. In a...



  • Book two of the Book of Sindal series. (Rowan)Rowan might be the firstborn of the Whelan sisters, but her magic is far from first class. Outshone by her younger sisters’ rare and powerful gifts hasn’t been easy, but she has always taken her posit...



  • The third book in the Book of Sindal series, Celeste's story.Since the tender age of four, Celeste Whelan has known her duty -- use her powers to defeat the Dark Force, a group of mages who are intent on overthrowing the Valerian government. Her erra...



  • Anna Sullivan has spent the last thirty years traveling solo around the world as a nature photographer, and she’s loved every minute of it. But suddenly, the nights seem long and lonely, and she looks forward to her trips away from Bluebird, Maine ...



  • A woman fleeing her past finds more than she bargains for in a new suspense series by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank.A woman on the run with no one to trust.With the ink barely dry on her new...



  • Stephanie Ketterman has been doing her level-best to find a new normal since her beloved husband’s tragic death two years ago, but it’s been a real struggle. After nearly three decades of wedded bliss with Paul, filling the gaping hole he left be...



  • Book four in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling Carly Moore series.Be careful where you dig...Life in Drum, Tennessee has been quiet since corruption was uncovered in the sheriff's department three months ago—too quiet. Still, C...



  • Darcie Weatherby has a full plate—a preteen and sixteen-year-old twins, a wayward grandmother, a nightmare boss, and a manipulative ex-husband. The last thing she needs is hot flashes.Especially ones that start fires.But like most single mothe...



  • In the second book of the USA Today bestselling series, Carly looks into a young woman's disappearance while trying to hide her own dark secrets.Carly Moore is finally feeling settled in Drum, Tennessee. She likes her job waitressing at Max's Tavern ...



  • The sixth book in the Rose Gardner Investigation series.For months, Rose has suspected her ex-brother-in-law, has a foot in the criminal world, and she's equally sure her deceased sister had the evidence to prove it—evidence stolen days just d...



  • The third book in the USA Today bestselling series Carly Moore series by Denise Grover Swank.The dead can't speakAfter months of living in the Smoky Mountains town of Drum, Tennessee, Carly knows firsthand the financial hardship the citizens face. St...



  • The final book of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Investigations series. When a body shows up south of Henryetta, Rose knows trouble is on the horizon. Rufus Wilson worked for the county crime lord, Ske...




  • The fifth book in the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Carly Moore series.It's been a week since Carly Moore's friend Jerry was run off the road and killed, and the sheriff's department has already struck out on leads. She's not about to sit back and ...





  • She's a sexually repressed control freak. He's a muscular ex-con with heavier baggage than Santa's toy bag. They're everything each other never wanted. MaryI'm usually the first person on my block to decorate for Christmas. This year? Humbug. My six-...



  • The penultimate book in the Carly Moore SeriesFor six months, Carly Moore has been trying to bring down the town patriarch, Bart Drummond. Everyone knows he's behind a favor system that has often ended in murder, but no one has ever been able to prov...



  • When a young woman is at the wrong place at the wrong time, she becomes a person of interest in a murder investigation. Maddie Baker just wants to make ends meet. She gave up her school librarian career to return to her hometown and take care of her ...



  • Maddie Baker hasn't seen Detective Noah Langley since he ghosted her a month ago, but now she needs his help to find a missing woman.When Maddie Baker offers a self-defense course, a terrified young woman asks her for private lessons to escape a chok...



  • It's time for Carly to go home...The final book in the Carly Moore series. Carly had every intention of heading to Dallas to bring down her father, but not as Wyatt Drummond's hostage. After Wyatt kidnaps her at gunpoint and threatens to turn her ove...



  • Little Rock Detective Harper Adams' life is falling apart. Two weeks ago, she killed a teenager on the job, so now she's on administrative leave. She wakes up in the middle of the night and realizes someone has broken into her house.And it's not the ...



  • The first book in a new small-town mystery series by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank. Disgraced, ex-detective Harper Adams is perfectly content wallowing at rock bottom. She's lost her job, h...



  • Sometimes the truth hides where you least expect it. Maddie Baker is about to uncover secrets that could shatter her world—or finally bring her peace.Two decades of unanswered questions. One woman determined to find the truth.Maddie Baker has ...



  • Welcome to Lone County, Arkansas, where every corner holds a secret, and the past is never really buried.Disgraced ex-detective Harper Adams has traded her badge for a desk job at her father's law firm, a move as dull as the small town she's returned...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Denise Grover Swank has published 82 books.

Denise Grover Swank does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Long Gone, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Denise Grover Swank, Chosen, was published in September 2011.

Yes. Denise Grover Swank has 21 series.