Kay Lyons

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2019
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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About the Author

Kay Lyons always wanted to be a writer, ever since the age of seven or eight when she copied the pictures out of a Charlie Brown book and rewrote the story because she didn't like the plot. Through the years her stories have changed but one characteristic stayed true-- they were all romances. Each and every one of her manuscripts included a love story.


Published in 2005 under under the name Kay Stockham, Kay's first release was a national bestseller. Kay has also been a HOLT Medallion, Book Buyers Best and RITA Award nominee.

Kay loves combing the beach for treasures with her dog, Harley, and catching every sunset she can from the southern-most end of the island. An empty-nester, she currently lives in Wilmington, NC.

Look for her most recent novels with Kindred Spirits Publishing under the name KAY LYONS.

Or, If you're looking for something slightly sexier, check out Kay's alter-ego Ivy James.

www.ivyjamesauthor.com

Full Series List in Order

The Blackwell Brothers

1 - Baby Be Mine (Nov-2023)
2 - Second Chance Wedding (Apr-2024)
3 - The Getaway Guy (Oct-2024)
4 - A Billionaire For Christmas (Oct-2024)
5 - Off-Limits Love (Apr-2025)

Carolina Cove

1 - Seascapes and Vegas Mistakes (Apr-2022)
2 - Seashells and Wedding Bells (Jun-2022)
3 - Sea Glass and Second Chances (Aug-2022)
4 - Sea Blue and Loving You (Nov-2022)
5 - Sea View and Something New (Mar-2023)

Make Me A Match

1 - Romance Reset (Sep-2020)
2 - Rules of Engagement (Nov-2020)
3 - The Matchmaker's Secret (Mar-2021)
4 - Perfectly Mismatched (May-2021)
5 - By The Book (Jul-2021)

Montana Secrets

1 - Healing Her Cowboy (Apr-2019)
2 - It Had To Be You (Apr-2019)
3 - Hers To Keep (May-2019)
4 - Million Dollar Standoff (Jun-2019)
5 - His Christmas Wish (May-2019)
6 - Their Secret Son (Aug-2019)

Seaside Sisters

1 - The Last Goodbye (Mar-2020)
2 - Lattes and Lullabyes (Apr-2020)
3 - Map of Dreams (Apr-2020)
4 - Worth the Risk (May-2020)
5 - Lost Love Found (May-2020)

Small Town Scandals

1 - Brody's Redemption (Mar-2019)
2 - Falling For Her Boss (Mar-2019)
3 - With This Man (Mar-2019)

Taming the Tulanes

1 - Small Town Scandal (Sep-2019)
2 - Their Secret Bargain (Oct-2019)
3 - Crossing The Line (Nov-2019)
4 - The Nanny's Secret (Nov-2019)
5 - Someone To Trust (Dec-2019)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Brody's Redemption

    Small Town Scandals - 1

    Ex-con Joe Brody has been called a lot of things. Some true. Some not. But now that he's out of prison and back in his hometown his focus is getting a job and a home for his ill father to convalesce. Easier said than done when no one will hire him.As...

  • Falling For Her Boss

    Small Town Scandals - 2

    Dr. Bryan Booker is tired of playing games. Every available--and not-so-available--woman in town is coming onto him and it's becoming a problem. They fake injuries, paw him when he's examining them--even sneak into his bed. Hiring a new office manage...

  • With This Man

    Small Town Scandals - 3

    Waking up with amnesia is bad enough but the snatches of memories teasing Beau Buchanan seem to be from someone else's life. Home with his father, people recognize him but he's at a loss. Especially when it comes to Marley Pierce. Marley can't believ...

  • Healing Her Cowboy

    Montana Secrets - 1

    Sometimes tragedy is a second chance in disguise...He was the one. The one she loved but couldn't have without revealing the truth of her past. That's why she left, why she's stayed away, and why she has to return...Paralyzed by a r...

  • It Had To Be You

    Montana Secrets - 2

    Clean & wholesome small-town slow-burn romance: a grumpy, single-dad sheriff, a big-hearted heroine with a rebellious goth teen, and two girls who become friends—turning opposites attract into found family and a true no-spice HEA.Of all the pe...

  • Hers To Keep

    Montana Secrets - 3

    With all her heart Carly Taggert wants to be a mother, but without a husband there's only one way she knows to make it happen -- become a foster parent. She’s signed up, willing, waiting and ready...oh so ready. Liam McKenna is assigned by Carly's ...

  • His Christmas Wish

    Montana Secrets - 5

    Widowed, a single mom, Christmas and she's just lost her job. Can it get worse? Apparently it can when Santa asks if he can help her and Jenna Darlington knows it's a cruel joke. Because Santa--Chance McKenna--is a member of the Rock Gods, a group of...

  • Million Dollar Standoff

    Montana Secrets - 4

    A million-dollar standoff…who will win?How does a Burbank-loving, California-dreaming, city girl find herself on a Montana ranch living with a too-handsome stranger? A Will, that's how. And now Gabriella Thompson is entwined in a million-dollar sta...

  • Their Secret Son

    Montana Secrets - 6

    A clean & wholesome small-town Montana second-chance romance with a secret-son reveal, single-mom heroine, and a reformed hero determined to make things right. Expect slow-burn, only-kisses chemistry, found family, ranch-life healing, and a heartfelt...



  • Small Town Scandal

    Taming the Tulanes - 1

    A clean and wholesome small-town winter romance with stranded-in-a-snowstorm, pregnant heroine, and friends-to-lovers/forbidden-ish stakes. Expect slow-burn, closed-door (only-kisses) chemistry, found-family warmth, and a protective hero torn between...

  • Their Secret Bargain

    Taming the Tulanes - 2

    A clean and wholesome small-town romance with a single-dad hero and a brilliant tutor in a secret-bargain setup. Expect slow-burn, closed-door (only-kisses) chemistry, protective father vibes, found-family warmth, and tender themes around school stru...

  • Crossing The Line

    Taming the Tulanes - 3

    Luke Tulane knew better than to touch her. Much less spend the night with her. But when he returns to Tennessee for yet another brother's wedding and discovers his little sister's best friend pregnant with his child, he knows he's really crossed the ...

  • The Nanny's Secret

    Taming the Tulanes - 4

    Showing up on her sister’s doorstep several years after stealing her man might not be the smartest thing to do, but Megan Rose is out of choices. Sick, with $3 in her pocket and no gas in the tank, she’s ready to eat as much crow necessary to get...

  • Someone To Trust

    Taming the Tulanes - 5

    A clean and wholesome romantic suspense (light) set in remote Alaska, featuring a pseudonymous travel writer and a reclusive, wrongly accused novelist who is also a single dad. Expect slow-burn, closed-door (only-kisses) chemistry, forced proximity a...

  • The Last Goodbye

    Seaside Sisters - 1

    PARFOIS LA DOULEUR DE LA VIE APPORTE UN NOUVEAU DÉPART...Dominic Dunn, veuf, ne sait pas trop quoi penser du voyage planifié à l'avance par sa femme un an après sa mort. C'est sa façon de le forcer à quitter ...

  • Lattes and Lullabyes

    Seaside Sisters - 2

    Clean and wholesome small-town beach romance set in Carolina Cove -- a slow burn, closed-door (only kisses) single dad romance with coffee shop vibes, grumpy and sunshine chemistry, a loyal dog, and heartfelt found family themes. Perfect for readers ...

  • Map of Dreams

    Seaside Sisters - 3

    A clean and wholesome small-town beach romance set in Carolina Cove -- a slow burn, closed-door (only kisses) single dad romance with nanny/childcare vibes, grumpy and sunshine chemistry, and big wanderlust-vs-roots stakes. Expect found family, a pre...

  • Lost Love Found

    Seaside Sisters - 5

    A clean and wholesome small-town coastal romance in the Seaside Sisters world -- slow burn, closed-door (only kisses) with a wealthy hero and independent heroine, a nostalgic love-letters mystery, and gentle rich-meets-real vibes. Expect found family...

  • Worth the Risk

    Seaside Sisters - 4

    A clean and wholesome small-town second-chance romance where fate keeps throwing two hearts together. Expect slow-burn, closed-door (only kisses) chemistry, forgiveness and healing themes, a protective hero carrying guilt, and a resilient heroine gua...



  • Romance Reset

    Make Me A Match - 1

    A clean and wholesome contemporary second-chance romance from the Make Me a Match world—slow burn, closed-door (only kisses) with a matchmaker setup, a widower, empty-nester hero, and a thirty-something heroine pursuing single motherhood. Expe...

  • Rules of Engagement

    Make Me A Match - 2

    Carter Hayes is no saint, but he’d do anything to give his four-year-old daughter the life she deserves.  It’s hard being a single dad and he doesn’t like going it alone. But as a closet romantic, he’s an easy target for women. Especiall...

  • The Matchmaker's Secret

    Make Me A Match - 3

    Contemporary celebrity romance with friends to lovers, matchmaker x movie star, and a dash of fake dating/PR relationship tension. Expect slow burn, closed door (only kisses) chemistry, childhood friends, brother’s best friend, fame vs brand confli...

  • Perfectly Mismatched

    Make Me A Match - 4

    A small-town beach romance set in Carolina Cove -- a slow burn, closed-door, ballerina-meets-entrepreneur love story with a matchmaker setup, opposites attract sparks, and found family vibes. Perfect for readers of sweet contemporary romance, ca...

  • By The Book

    Make Me A Match - 5

    A small-town beach romance set in Carolina Cove -- slow burn, closed-door chemistry between a widowed single mom and a protective security specialist recovering from injury. Expect forced proximity apartment mix-ups, matchmaker meddling, grief-to-h...

  • Then Comes Marriage

    Love brides and weddings and happily-ever-afters? You're not alone! This collection features FOUR of Kay Lyons' romances filled with love and weddings in the pages, boxed for your convenience and priced less than the titles would be if purchased indi...

  • Then Comes Baby

    Can't get enough of Secret Baby stories? Here are FOUR secret baby stories for you for less than the individually priced books! Pulled from various Kay Lyons' series, this compilation is all about secrets and babies and the happily-ever-afters loved ...

  • Seascapes and Vegas Mistakes

    Carolina Cove - 1

    When a Las Vegas prank turns into an accidental and very legal marriage, Isabel Shipley is dead set on getting a discreet and hasty divorce. The last thing the struggling artist wants is to admit to her family she's screwed up -- again -- but Everett...

  • Seashells and Wedding Bells

    Carolina Cove - 2

    A small-town beach romance set in Carolina Cove with slow burn, closed-door chemistry, a contractor hero and a returning heroine with a secret, plus inheritance reveal, family drama, and found family support. Expect grumpy and sunshine sparks, resili...

  • Sea Glass and Second Chances

    Carolina Cove - 3

    A contemporary second-chance romance with a TV host heroine caught in paparazzi/scandal fallout and a steadfast thriller-writer hero from her past. Expect slow burn, closed-door chemistry, public-image vs. real-love stakes, a messy love triangle with...



  • Sea Blue and Loving You

    Carolina Cove - 4

    A small-town contemporary friends-to-lovers romance set in Carolina Cove featuring a protective doctor and a trauma-wise counselor who are strictly off-limits. Expect workplace hospital tension, forced proximity at a mountain cabin retreat, slow burn...

  • Sea View and Something New

    Carolina Cove - 5

    A small-town beach romance set in Carolina Cove—an enemies-to-lovers / rivals-to-lovers tale with next-door neighbors, slow burn, closed-door chemistry, and career competition. Expect a disgraced finance heroine starting over, a contrac...

  • Baby Be Mine

    The Blackwell Brothers - 1

    A small-town contemporary romance with a surprise baby doorstep twist, a ready-to-step-up hero, and a determined aunt. Once a DNA test confirms paternity, Alec Blackwell is all in—single dad stakes, big-family dynamics, grumpy and sunshine spa...

  • Second Chance Wedding

    The Blackwell Brothers - 2

    A small-town contemporary second-chance romance with a military veteran hero and a single-mom heroine, a troubled teen catalyst, and protective hero × wary heart sparks. Expect a slow-burn, closed-door (only kisses) connection, found family su...

  • A Billionaire For Christmas

    The Blackwell Brothers - 4

    A holiday contemporary romance with opposites attract, billionaire × everyday heroine, and grumpy and sunshine charm—set amid Christmas tree lots and cozy hotel vibes. Expect a slow-burn, closed-door connection, festive found fam...

  • The Getaway Guy

    The Blackwell Brothers - 3

    A small-town contemporary romance with a runaway bride and a protective chauffeur/driver turned unexpected getaway guy—think forced proximity, road-trip vibes, slow burn, closed door (only kisses), and found family stakes as billionaire-family...

  • Off-Limits Love

    The Blackwell Brothers - 5

    A small-town romance with grumpy and sunshine chemistry, a divorced single-mom heroine, and a reclusive farmer hero who thinks love is off-limits. Expect a slow-burn, closed-door attraction, found family warmth, and gentle healing—on the way t...

  • Flirting With Forever

    She's running from her past. He's building a future he can control. But love? That was never part of the plan...After a childhood spent scraping by, Gage Blackwell made one vow—he would never go without again. Now a successful entrepreneur in ...

  • Secret Santa 2

    • / Contemporary Romance

    A clean and wholesome contemporary romance with holiday sparkle, a billionaire family twist, and light romantic-suspense in the heart of New York City. Expect slow-burn, closed-door (only-kisses) chemistry, amnesia/mistaken-identity intrigue, a prote...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kay Lyons has published 38 books.

Kay Lyons does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Flirting With Forever, was published in October 2025.

The first book by Kay Lyons, Brody's Redemption, was published in March 2019.

Yes. Kay Lyons has 7 series.
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