Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wilderness Passion | 1984 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 2 | Love Me Before Dawn | 1984 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 3 | Sun Woman | 1991 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 4 | Lord of Shadowhawk | 1992 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 5 | King of Swords | 1992 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 6 | Passionate Partners | 2007 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 7 | Heart of the Storm | 2007 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 8 | Seeing is Believing | 2015 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 9 | Always and Forever | 2015 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 10 | Christmas Angel | 2018 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 11 | No Turning Back | 2024 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
Lindsay McKenna’s standalone novels sit outside her major series like Morgan’s Mercenaries and the Wyoming books, but they show just as much of what makes her writing distinctive. The earliest titles here – Wilderness Passion and Love Me Before Dawn, both from 1984 – came out when McKenna was just beginning her career, and they reflect the period’s romance conventions while already showing the directness she would develop throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
The 1991 and 1992 titles, Sun Woman, Lord of Shadowhawk, and King of Swords, suggest a more adventurous direction, with titles that lean into historical or mythological territory. The 2007 pair, Passionate Partners and Heart of the Storm, brought McKenna back to standalone work after years focused on series. Later entries like Seeing is Believing and Always and Forever from 2015, and Christmas Angel from 2018, tend toward shorter, more emotionally focused stories.
No Turning Back, published in 2024, shows McKenna still writing new standalone work four decades into her career. For readers who have worked through the major series and want to explore the rest of her output, these novels fill in a picture of a writer who has never settled into just one kind of story.