Alyssa Cole

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2014
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Loyal League

1 - An Extraordinary Union (Apr-2017)
2 - A Hope Divided (Dec-2017)
3 - An Unconditional Freedom (Nov-2018)

Off the Grid

1 - Radio Silence (Feb-2015)
2 - Signal Boost (May-2015)
3 - Mixed Signals (Oct-2015)

Reluctant Royals

1 - A Princess in Theory (Mar-2018)
2 - A Duke by Default (Aug-2018)
2.4 - Once Ghosted, Twice Shy (Jan-2019)
2.5 - Can't Escape Love (Mar-2019)
3 - A Prince on Paper (Apr-2019)

Runaway Royals

1 - How to Catch a Queen (Dec-2020)
2 - How to Find a Princess (May-2021)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Eagle's Heart

    Salomeh Jones is a Brooklyn high school teacher whose attempt to aid an abused student ruins her career and puts her life in jeopardy. Julian Tamali is a special agent hot on the trail of the Albanian mafia boss responsible for a slew of crimes, incl...

  • For Love & Liberty

    FOR LOVE & LIBERTY: Untold Love Stories of the American Revolution is an anthology that looks at historical romance through a more colorful lens. Four romance authors have come together to present tales of passion and patriotism that reveal the truly...

  • Sweet To The Taste

  • Radio Silence

    Off the Grid - 1

    No one expects the apocalypse. Arden Highmore was living your average postgrad life in Rochester, New York, when someone flipped the "off" switch on the world. No cell phones, no power, no running water -- and no one knows why. All she and her roomma...

  • Signal Boost

    Off the Grid - 2

    When technology stopped working, the world as they knew it ended. In a secluded cabin, John and his loved ones have survived. He should feel grateful. But his family is in his face 24/7, he has to watch his best friend, Arden, and brother, Gabriel...

  • The Brightest Day

    The Brightest Day: A Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology, with a foreword by the inimitable Beverly Jenkins, brings you four novellas highlighting love, light, and hope set over a period of history that’s often left in the shadows. Amazing Grac...

  • Mixed Signals

    Off the Grid - 3

    “This trilogy gets better with each book.” -- Library Journal“Cole’s Off the Grid series succeeds because it captures the unsettling details of its dystopian setting beautifully, but also because its main characters are so very human and rel...

  • Be Not Afraid

    Brooklyn, 1776 Elijah Sutton is no fool, despite his love of a country that enslaves people like him. When he's offered land, livestock, and -- most importantly -- his freedom if he fights in his Patriot owner's stead, Elijah believes he'll soon have...

  • Agnes Moor's Wild Knight

    Agnes Moor knows her place in the court of King James IV -- as one of the “exotics” in his employ. When the king makes a kiss from Agnes the prize of a tourney, a mysterious knight plows through his opponents to claim it. This isn’t chance. The...



  • Let It Shine

    Sofronia Wallis knows that proper Black women don’t court trouble by upending the status quo, but it’s 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is in full swing. Sofie’s spent half her life being prim, proper, and reserved -- as if that could bring h...

  • Daughters of a Nation

    The fight for suffrage was long, hard, and carried out on many fronts. In Daughters of a Nation, you’ll discover four stories full of spirit, hope, and, most importantly: LOVE.
    With the election of 1868 underway, Madeline Asher’s mission is cl...

  • Let Us Dream

    *This novella originally appeared in Daughters of A Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology*Harlem, 1917After spending half her life pretending to be something she’s not, performance is second nature for cabaret owner Bertha Hines....

  • An Extraordinary Union

    Loyal League - 1

    As the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger, combining their unique skills to alter the course of history and break the chains of the past . . . Elle Bur...

  • A Hope Divided

    Loyal League - 2

    The Civil War has turned neighbor against neighbor -- but for one scientist spy and her philosopher soldier, war could bind them together... For all of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped the cause in peace: with coded letters abo...

  • A Princess in Theory

    Reluctant Royals - 1

    From acclaimed author Alyssa Cole comes the tale of a city Cinderella and her Prince Charming in disguise . . . Between grad school and multiple jobs, Naledi Smith doesn’t have time for fairy tales…or patience for the constant e-mails claiming...

  • That Could Be Enough

    Mercy Alston knows the best thing to do with pesky feelings like "love" and "hope": avoid them at all cost. Serving as a maid to Eliza Hamilton, and an assistant in the woman's stubborn desire to preserve her late husband's legacy, has driven that po...

  • A Duke by Default

    Reluctant Royals - 2

    Award-winning author Alyssa Cole’s Reluctant Royals series continues with a woman on a quest to be the heroine of her own story and the duke in shining armor she rescues along the way… New York City socialite and perpetual hot mess Portia Hobb...

  • An Unconditional Freedom

    Loyal League - 3

    An assassination plot that could end the Civil War, and a hidden enemy that could destroy a secret league of unsung heroes... Daniel Cumberland, born free in Massachusetts, studied law with dreams of helping his people -- dreams that died the nig...

  • Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

    Reluctant Royals - 2.4

    While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. But her romance had ended in heartbreak, and now, back in NYC again, she’s determined to rediscover her joy -- so of cours...



  • Can't Escape Love

    Reluctant Royals - 2.5

    Regina Hobbs is nerdy by nature, businesswoman by nurture. She's finally taking her pop culture-centered media enterprise, Girls with Glasses, to the next level, but the stress is forcing her to face a familiar supervillain: insomnia. The only th...

  • A Prince on Paper

    Reluctant Royals - 3

    The Reluctant Royals series returns with a good girl searching for the life that’s not too big, and not too small, and the bad boy prince who might be just right for her… Nya Jerami fled Thesolo for the glitz and glamour of NYC but discovered ...

  • The A.I. Who Loved Me

    The critically acclaimed Audible Original narrated by Regina Hall, with a cameo by Mindy Kaling, now available in ebook and print formats!Trinity Jordan leads a quiet, normal life: working from home for the Hive, a multifunctional government research...

  • When No One Is Watching

    Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning… Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, ...

  • How to Catch a Queen

    Runaway Royals - 1

    An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of Alyssa Cole’s Runaway Royals series… When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true. But it’s nothing like she imagined. Shant...

  • How to Find a Princess

    Runaway Royals - 2

    New York Times and USA Today bestseller Alyssa Cole’s second Runaway Royals novel is a queer Anastasia retelling, featuring a long-lost princess who finds love with the female investigator tasked with tracking her down. Makeda Hicks has lost her...

  • One of Us Knows

    From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer -- a...

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Award-Winning Books by Alyssa Cole

An Extraordinary Union
2017 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Book of the Year
2017 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Romance of the Year
Mixed Signals
2015 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Futuristic Romance
When No One Is Watching
2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alyssa Cole has published 27 books.

Alyssa Cole does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, One of Us Knows, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Alyssa Cole, Eagle's Heart, was published in January 2014.

Yes. Alyssa Cole has 4 series.
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