Katie Delahanty books

Katie Delahanty is a fashion designer turned author known for The Brightside new adult romance series, the Keystone YA dystopian duology, and standalone novels.

Keystone Reading Order

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Keystone 2020 Buy
Incognito 2021 Buy

Standalone Novels

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Disconnect 2020 Buy
Waiting for a Girl Like You 2025 Buy

The Brightside Reading Order

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In Bloom 2014 Buy
Blushing 2015 Buy
Believe 2016 Buy

Katie Delahanty is a UCLA graduate and former fashion designer who spent five years creating romantic dresses sold at Anthropologie and Nordstrom before turning to fiction. Her writing career started almost by accident: while managing the e-commerce side of In Bloom Lingerie, she was asked to write the company blog. Instead of writing about lingerie, she created a fictional serial about a character named Olivia Bloom, which eventually became her first novel, In Bloom.

That blog-turned-book launched The Brightside series, three new adult romances mixing love, music, and Hollywood ambition. In 2020, Delahanty shifted to YA dystopian fiction with Keystone, published by Entangled Teen. Set in a future where social media influence is literally currency, the story follows a former social media star who joins a secret school for analog thieves. Its sequel, Incognito, followed in 2021.

Outside her series work, Delahanty has also written standalone novels including Disconnect and the 2025 romantic comedy Waiting for a Girl Like You, which follows a bridesmaid-for-hire who discovers the groom at a destination wedding is her first love.

Frequently Asked Questions

What was Katie Delahanty's first book?

Katie Delahanty’s first book is In Bloom, published in 2014.

What is the Keystone series about?

Keystone is a YA dystopian duology set in a future where social media rankings determine a person’s worth. The story follows Ella Karman, who fakes her own death to join a secret school for thieves fighting to preserve analog history from being erased.

Do you need to read Katie Delahanty's books in a specific order?

The Brightside trilogy and the Keystone duology each have their own reading order, but the two series are unrelated. Her standalone novels can be read independently of each other and the series.

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