Shari J. Ryan

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2013
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Barrel House

1 - Bourbon Love Notes (Jan-2020)
2 - Bourbon on the Rocks (Apr-2020)
3 - Bourbon Nights (Jul-2020)
4 - Bourbon Fireball (Oct-2020)

Heart

1 - A Heart of Time (May-2016)
1 - Broken Sky (Jun-2022)
2 - A Missing Heart (Nov-2016)
3 - A Change of Heart (Nov-2017)

Last Words

1 - The Other Blue Sky (Nov-2018)
1 - The Girl with the Diary (May-2022)
2 - Unspoken Words (Oct-2019)
2 - The Prison Child (May-2022)
3 - The Soldier's Letters (May-2022)

The Man Cave Collection

1 - Manservant (May-2017)
2 - Man Flu (Jan-2018)

Schasm

1 - Schasm (Aug-2013)
2 - Fissure Free (May-2014)
3 - When Fully Fused (Jul-2014)

TAG

1 - Tag (Nov-2014)
2 - You're It (Aug-2015)

Books in Order: 53 titles

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  • The Nanny Outside the Gates

    Auschwitz, 1944. Halina clutches the baby to her chest, cuddling her close for warmth. She must keep moving. Her heart pounds as she races through the thick trees. If she's caught, this is the end-for both of them...Walking to work at the orphanage s...

  • The Singer Behind the Wire

    Auschwitz, 1943. Ella tries to ignore the coughs and crying, the whispered prayers. Her eyelids grow heavier, but then a melody floats though the block as if on a breeze. Her lips open on a gasp, joy making her heart sing even as it shatters. She wou...

  • The Family Behind the Walls

    Germany, 1943. Jordanna cries out desperately to her mother, tears spilling down her cheeks. She is being torn one way, her parents another. And in Jordanna's terrified, wide brown eyes, there is only one question: Will I ever see you again?Poland: ...

  • My Husband's Past

    My best friend disappeared twenty years ago. I thought she was dead. But today I've received a message that makes my heart stop. It says it's from Izzy. And she's blaming my new husband for her disappearance...I stare at the email in horror. I've onl...

  • The Nurse Behind the Gates

    Dachau, 1942. Emilie has been told she's here to nurse evil men. But the first patient she sees in the cold, dark room is hauntingly familiar. Her first love is not wicked. He couldn't be. What is he doing here? Emilie's heart stops as she takes in h...

  • The Perfect Nanny

    My baby! You stole my baby! Lara Smith is hysterical, her red lipstick smeared. A teddy lies abandoned in the empty crib. But I wasn't hired to look after a baby. I didn't even know this nursery existed... Lara's husband calls the police and screams:...

  • The Glovemaker's Daughter

    Paris, 1943. German soldiers drag me out onto the cobbled street and push me towards the waiting truck. I force myself to face forward as tears stream down my cheeks. If I look back, they'll know. I can't let them find my baby girl... Raya bends over...

  • The Homemaker

    I pull back the blanket to take another peek at my beautiful baby boy. My heart flatlines. He isn't there. Where is he? I cry, my whole body trembling. But my husband just shakes his head. Darling... we don't have a baby. What is he talking about? St...

  • The Stolen Twins

    Auschwitz, 1944: You can't leave me, I whisper, my hand trembling as I reach for her cheek. You can't. We're in this life together, always, just you and me. This utterly heartbreaking yet beautifully hopeful World War Two page-turner tells the story ...



  • The Maid's Secret

    Czechoslovakia, 1942: Please don't take him, I plead to the Nazis.I love you, Mila, Ben says, hoarsely. So much. Forever.Ben! I shout as the soldiers pull him away, my heart thudding. I love you. Please, come back. I'm screaming at the top of my lung...

  • Broken Sky

    Heart - 1

    Time of death... the doctor said.I won't forget that moment I looked over at Ellie-the paleness of her once rosy cheeks, the blue hue coating her perfect lips-the woman I had been with since we were five years old.My wife.My best friend...and the mot...

  • The Lieutenant's Girl

    Pearl Harbor, 1941. War planes hurtle across the horizon, skimming the clouds. Gunpowder fills the air as the earth shatters. Everett's hands cup my cheeks. If I lose you, Elizabeth, please know that the time I've spent with you has been worth every ...

  • The Doctor's Daughter

    Auschwitz, 1941: It was her father's job to save the lives of the SS. But she chose to risk everything and save the lives of prisoners.In Nazi-occupied Poland, Sofia cannot look her father in the eye. Sofia's mother, her papa's cherished wife, is Jew...

  • The Girl with the Diary

    Last Words - 1

    What if you never come back? I asked.I will find you, Amelia. I promise I will find you.What if you die trying?Nazi-occupied Prague, 1942: Amelia is hiding in her closet when flashlights blind her and she's captured by the SS. Out on the cobblestone...

  • The Prison Child

    Last Words - 2

    How will we get by the guards? It seems impossible. Yet we will be dead by the end of the week if we don't-my precious girl and I have nothing to lose by trying. Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, 1943: In Theresienstadt concentration camp, a brown-eyed b...

  • The Soldier's Letters

    Last Words - 3

    Survive for as long as you can, fight until you can't fight any longer, and if this war ever ends, I want you to run as far from here as you can and never look back...Nazi-occupied Prague, 1941: On a foggy winter's day, a solider called Charlie is or...

  • The Bookseller of Dachau

    Germany, 1939: The roof is the only place no one can hear us. All the lights in the village blur into the darkness, and the flame on my candle flickers, leaving us with just the glow of the stars. We can't let them take everything from you, I say...

  • Last One Home

    From the author of Last Words, USA Today Bestselling Author Shari J. Ryan brings readers a new, unforgettable novel. Last One Home was inspired by true events of the attack on Pearl Harbor and World War II. AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBORTHIS IS NOT A DRILL...

  • Fall to Pieces

    In an instant the word pain was redefined... August Taylor thought she could manage the weight of the world on her shoulders. Forcing a smile, she hid the secrets of the man she loved and pretended everything was okay. Until she found him unconscious...



  • Bourbon Fireball

    Barrel House - 4

    The heavy burden of caring for the well-being of another life shouldn't fall on the shoulders of a teenager. But I never complained or shied away from it.I had this friend. He needed me.As the years went by, I continued to find myself drawn to those ...

  • Bourbon Nights

    Barrel House - 3

    One kiss ... and her lips forever lingered on mine as if tattooed there.Melody Quinn, all through high school I loved her from afar. Of course, in a cruel twist of fate, she waited until right before I left for boot camp to confess she felt the same....

  • Bourbon on the Rocks

    Barrel House - 2

    Life isn't a game. Life isn't an empty bottle of bourbon spinning on a warehouse floor as I hold my breath. I feel weak when others perceive me as strong. I'm passionate though I appear to hate the world around me.I see the beauty in all ugly things....

  • Bourbon Love Notes

    Barrel House - 1

    In a split second, life can steal a last breath ... and derail all future plans.While flying home after a phone call that left me heartbroken, a row to myself would have been ideal. Instead, I was unknowingly sitting shoulder to sho...

  • Unspoken Words

    Last Words - 2

    Women and children to the right. Men, to the left, I once said. From 1942 to 1944 I was what some called a Jew killer. Though, I have never hurt a soul, I was responsible for separating Jewish families, ensuring they would never see each other again....

  • Shattered Stars

    You will lose your memory. That's what a doctor told me at just twenty nine years old. My headaches and exhaustion weren't from overexertion like I thought. It was more. A lot more.Despite my unimaginable challenges, I found love at a time I needed i...

  • The Other Blue Sky

    Last Words - 1

    Very few people can say they were born inside a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Disease, starvation, and much worse, prevented most prisoners from surviving. For infants, it was nearly impossible.

I became an anomaly. I shoul...

  • Man Buns

    I got out of the Marine Corps to give my daughter a better life. I’m a strong and capable single dad. I got this, right? Not so much. The one thing my daughter wants is the hardest to find -- a mom. It’s not like they’re selling hot intelligent...

  • Darkest Perception

    ** DARK, MIND-BLOWING, and STEAMY**I was young, innocent, and looking to start my career in psychology. However, it turned out I was in the wrong class, with the wrong professor, at the wrong time. One decision to become an apprentice changed my enti...

  • Man Flu

    The Man Cave Collection - 2

    I was trying to live every woman's dream, except my reality has been nothing but a nightmare job and a divorce at the age of thirty-two. Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, my ex-husband, Rick, moved in next door with his life-size Bar...



  • A Change of Heart

    Heart - 3

    I was born with a bad heart, one that would not keep me alive through adulthood.Then, the one day every person on a transplant list waits for...came for me. Someone else's heart would give me more time, second chances, and a new life.A new life with ...

  • Abandoned

    After three years of captivity in the shed, escape should be freedom…but it wasn't. I merely went from one prison to another, and in some ways, the shed was protecting me from what was really out there. Out there where the sun shines and the a...

  • Last Words

    #1 Bestselling Novel, Last Words, is where reality meets Fiction, and the lines in between are blurred by forbidden love.   Amelia - 1942:   The inside of my closet held the last bit of my freedom before I was torn from my home and shoved onto a da...

  • #MomFail

  • Manservant

    The Man Cave Collection - 1

    I just wanted an easy summer job… That didn’t happen. Now, I’m in a living nightmare as I work alongside this monster of a man with mesmerizing emerald eyes that look at me inappropriately every time I see him. To add insult to injury, he has a...

  • Queen of the Throne

    **A Romantic Comedy Novella ** (If you aren’t a fan of real life toilet humor...skip this one ;) ) Have you ever sat down in front of an incredibly hot man, ran your stiletto covered foot up the side of his leg, then felt a rumbling erupt in the pi...

  • Raine's Haven

    ~Haven~ I felt like I was living in a prison while watching Raine Carson from my window, studying his sexy, tanned, and muscular physique for six long months. From inside of my house, he was perfect.

    Then I found out everything looked diff...

  • A Missing Heart

    Heart - 2

    I’ve made mistakes. Some of those mistakes have ruined lives, including my own. Because of this, my past is something I have kept to myself, so when I found a woman who also wanted her past to remain hidden, it felt like the universe was pushing us...

  • Spiked Lemonade

    **A Sexy Standalone Romantic Comedy** I traded in my Navy uniform and short hair for tats and a scruffy beard to become a man on the run. Moving from town to town, taking comfort in hot cars and fast women was the only way I could outrun the nightmar...

  • A Heart of Time

    Heart - 1

    “Time of death...” the doctor said. I won’t forget that moment I looked over at Ellie -- the paleness of her once rosy cheeks, the blue hue coating her perfect lips -- the woman I had been with since we were five years old. My wife. My best fri...



  • No Way Out

    They were told there was no way out, but they are determined to find one. For Reese and Sin, finding a way out means entering into a world they aren’t prepared to face…a world nobody could be prepared for. Their story is frightening and nerve-wra...

  • Savior

    There is no way out. That is what I was told, and I should have accepted my fate when I was taken and locked in a shed at fifteen, but I just wanted to escape…to find a way out. Three years later, I found a way out-Sin and I found it-but the w...

  • Ravel

    At twenty-three, I’m left with a decision. The outcome could be life or death. Trent hit me once, and I cried. Then he hit me again. And again. After a while, I got used to it, as I slept on the floor beside his bed, night after night. Everyone tol...

  • Sin

  • You're It

    TAG - 2

    Our little family has been together for four years, and life has been good, considering my track record. But in the blink of an eye, my ease was suddenly gone when I heard his terrifying words. I knew from the look on Tango's face and the way he avoi...

  • All the Time in the World

  • Red Nights

    It’s always the one you least expect... My brother is dead. My house is in a pile of ashes. Fingers are pointing at me. People think I did it. Why would I do something like this? Why doesn’t anyone believe me? Except... Hayes believes me -- a cha...

  • Tag

    TAG - 1

    What if your family had a big secret . . . a life changing secret. My dad, the bigwig CIA agent, was always on the run, whether he was being chased or doing the chasing. I missed him. Then my mom passed away, and my sister was murdered. I turned my s...

  • When Fully Fused

    Schasm - 3

    In the third and final book of the Schasm Series, author Shari Ryan takes you on a final journey of the mind. Chloe and Alex together again maintain their composure and romance as they raise their four-year-old son, Sammy. But fairytales are merely s...

  • Fissure Free

    Schasm - 2

    Author Shari J. Ryan reunites the colorful cast of friends and family in Book 2 of the Schasm Series with a powerful tribute to the power of the mind and heart in this romantic, suspenseful, and engaging novel. Chloe has come close to finding her ult...



  • Schasm

    Schasm - 1

    Wait to purchase, amazing redone copy coming soon! When reality utterly fails you, there is always the comfort of the land of dreams. Chloe Valcourt, a tormented nineteen-year-old young woman, has for twelve years hovered between a daily life dominat...

  • Man Handler

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Southern charm meets Boston sass!I'm a Boston girl through and through, but when I was given an ultimatum that would determine whether I'd have income or not, I opted for the option with a roof over my head. The only problem was, I had to move down t...

  • Milk Man

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Rom-Com GoldEverything in life was going perfectly, but then my luck expired. It all started when I got a new job, which came with a new guy. That's when I managed to cause an unforeseeable disaster, which took down an entire company in less than a w...

  • One Size Fits All

    • / General Fiction
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shari J. Ryan has published 53 books.

Shari J. Ryan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Nanny Outside the Gates, was published in October 2025.

The first book by Shari J. Ryan, Schasm, was published in August 2013.

Yes. Shari J. Ryan has 6 series.
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