Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saving Grace | 2012 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 2 | Leaving Annalise | 2013 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 3 | Leaving Annalise (Katie #2): A What Doesn’t Kill You Romantic Mystery | 2013 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | N/A |
| 4 | Finding Harmony | 2014 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
| 5 | Finding Harmony (Katie #3): A What Doesn’t Kill You Romantic Mystery | 2014 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | N/A |
| 6 | Seeking Felicity | 2021 | Pamela Fagan Hutchins | Buy |
The Katie and Annalise series is the foundation of Pamela Fagan Hutchins’s What Doesn’t Kill You world. Katie Connell is introduced as a driven Dallas employment attorney whose personal life has come apart — burned out, romantically bruised, and increasingly aware that the life she built is not the one she wants. Her move to the fictional Caribbean island of St. Marcos is impulsive and somewhat absurd, and the books make good use of that absurdity alongside genuine plot stakes.
The series begins with Saving Grace (2012) and follows Katie as she investigates the suspicious circumstances around her parents’ deaths, falls in and out of love, and adapts to island life with varying degrees of grace. The house she buys — Annalise — becomes as much a character as a setting, with a history of its own that keeps surfacing. The pacing is deliberately breezy without sacrificing real danger, and Hutchins draws on her own years of Caribbean living for the atmospheric detail.
Seeking Felicity (2021) returned to Katie after a gap, adding new chapters to a sub-series that had become the emotional center of the wider What Doesn’t Kill You world.