K.C. Hart Books in Order

K.C. Hart has written 18 books, published between 2020 and 2025. The first book is Moonlight, Murder, and Small Town Secrets (2020) and the newest is Our Unexpected Love (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
18
Published
2020–2025

K.C. Hart is credited on 18 catalogued books published between 2020 and 2025. The listing opens on a run of titles built around murder in a small town: Memories, Murder and Small Town Money (2020), Merry Murder and Small Town Santas (2020), Moonlight, Murder, and Small Town Secrets (2020) and Mistletoe Murder & Small Town Scoundrels (2021) among them. Catalogue subjects for Hart are romance and religious fiction. Katy Cross, Carson's Bayou and Red Creek Redemption are the series recorded under this name, and Our Unexpected Love (2025) is the most recent entry.

How many K.C. Hart books are there?

K.C. Hart has 18 books, released between 2020 and 2025. They include 3 separate series.

K.C. Hart Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 18 K.C. Hart books in the order they were published, with the release year and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 12020
  2. 22020
  3. 32020
  4. 42020
  5. 52021
  6. 62021
  7. 72021
  8. 82021
  9. 9
    A Christmas BlazeOrnamental Match Maker #352021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021
  10. 10
    Fresh Starts and Small Town HeartsCarson's Bayou #12022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  11. 11
    Business Smarts and Reckless HeartsCarson's Bayou #22022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  12. 12
    Car Smarts and Bashful HeartsCarson's Bayou #32022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  13. 13
    People Smarts and Wounded HeartsCarson's Bayou #42022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  14. 14
    ElsiePrairie Roses Collection #202022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  15. 15
    Our Head Strong LoveRed Creek Redemption #12023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023
  16. 16
    Our Unfailing LoveRed Creek Redemption #22024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024
  17. 17
    Our Unlikely LoveRed Creek Redemption #32024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024
  18. 18
    Our Unexpected LoveRed Creek Redemption #42025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025

K.C. Hart series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

K.C. Hart books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Carson's Bayou in order

4 books
  1. 1. Fresh Starts and Small Town Hearts
  2. 2. Business Smarts and Reckless Hearts
  3. 3. Car Smarts and Bashful Hearts
  4. 4. People Smarts and Wounded Hearts

Red Creek Redemption in order

4 books
  1. 1. Our Head Strong Love
  2. 2. Our Unfailing Love
  3. 3. Our Unlikely Love
  4. 4. Our Unexpected Love

Prairie Roses Collection

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Ornamental Match Maker in order

1 book
  1. 35. A Christmas Blaze

Do you have to read K.C. Hart books in order?

You only need to read K.C. Hart books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with K.C. Hart

Start with Moonlight, Murder, and Small Town Secrets (2020), the first Katy Cross book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest K.C. Hart book?

Our Unexpected Love (2025) is the newest K.C. Hart book released so far.

Is there a new K.C. Hart book coming?

No next K.C. Hart book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

K.C. Hart at a glance

Still publishing
K.C. Hart published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
K.C. Hart books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Busiest decade
Most K.C. Hart books, 18 of 18, were published in the 2020s.

What the K.C. Hart books are about

1 of the 18 K.C. Hart books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.