Colleen Faulkner Standalone Novels books in order

Reading order

Colleen Faulkner’s standalone novels trace the arc of a career that has moved through several genres. Her earliest books, beginning with Forbidden Caress and Raging Desire in 1987, are historical romances set against the American frontier and Colonial period. Titles like Captive, Fire Dancer, and To Love a Dark Stranger filled the 1990s with stories of adventurous heroines and dangerous love interests in vivid historical settings.

Starting in the early 2000s, Faulkner began writing contemporary fiction. The Other Twin and What She Can’t See (published as Hunter Morgan) are suspense thrillers, while her later books turned to women’s fiction about families in crisis. Just Like Other Daughters tells the story of a mother whose intellectually disabled daughter wants to get married. Julia’s Daughters follows a family torn apart after a teenage car accident kills one sister. Finding Georgina centers on a mother reuniting with a daughter kidnapped fourteen years earlier. These later novels deal honestly with grief, guilt, and the complicated bonds between parents and children.