Kat Bellemore

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2018
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Borrowing Amor

1 - Borrowing Amor (Oct-2018)
2 - Borrowing Love (Dec-2018)
3 - Borrowing a Fiance (Feb-2019)
4 - Borrowing a Billionaire (Apr-2019)
5 - Borrowing Kisses (May-2019)
6 - Borrowing Second Chances (Jul-2019)
6.5 - Borrowing Time (Apr-2020)

A Lakeview High Novel

1 - Off Limits: The Best Friend (Sep-2019)
2 - Off Limits: The Smarty-Pants (Oct-2019)
3 - Off Limits: The Scrooge (Nov-2019)
4 - Off Limits: The Principal's Son (Feb-2020)
5 - Off Limits: The Duet (Jun-2020)
6 - Off Limits: The Celebrity (Aug-2021)

A Maddie Swallows Mystery

1 - Dead before Dinner (Jul-2022)
2 - Dead Upon Arrival (Nov-2022)
3 - Dead Before I Do (Jan-2023)
4 - Dead Among Stars (Aug-2023)
5 - Dead by Design (Oct-2023)
6 - Dead in the Dark (Oct-2023)

Starlight Ridge

1 - Diving into Love (May-2020)
2 - Resisting Love (Aug-2020)
3 - Starlight Love (Nov-2020)
4 - Building on Love (Apr-2021)
5 - Winning his Love (Apr-2022)
6 - Returning to Love (Mar-2023)
7 - Fearless Love (Jun-2023)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Borrowing Amor

    Borrowing Amor - 1

    He's a small-town mayor. She's a stranger with a sketchy past.

    Two weeks before Christmas, Katie is kicked out of her apartment. Again. Rather than wander the streets and continue to work for a dirty cop, she decides to leave the city and di...

  • Borrowing Love

    Borrowing Amor - 2

    It's better to have loved and lost, they said. They were wrong.

    Ruby Freedman hasn't left the small town of Amor in four years--not since her husband died. The memory of his fateful accident was enough to cause her to sell her airplane, and ...

  • Borrowing a Fiance

    Borrowing Amor - 3

    She wanted freedom. She got a fiancé instead.

    Melinda Garrett has been stuck managing her parents' diner for over a decade, when all she had wanted was to go to college. When her younger sister gets married, Melinda reluctantly agrees to at...

  • Borrowing a Billionaire

    Borrowing Amor - 4

    Sometimes to find love, you need a little space.

    Bev Miller is shocked when she wins two seats on the inaugural space tourism flight from Galactic Enterprises -- considering she never entered her name into the drawing. But thanks to her best...

  • Borrowing Kisses

    Borrowing Amor - 5

    He's a real estate developer who has a job to do. She's the one who is going to stop him.

    As the mayor's assistant, Zoe Flores has had a front row seat to how quickly the small town of Amor has changed. So when she's assigned to help real es...

  • Borrowing Second Chances

    Borrowing Amor - 6

    No one told them that their ex would be on this trip.

    When Debbie Allred is asked by the new mayor of Amor to go on a week long recruiting trip, she is thrilled. This would be a chance to earn extra money while utilizing her skills as a busi...

  • Off Limits: The Best Friend

    A Lakeview High Novel - 1

    She's the high school klutz. He's the best friend. But it wasn't enough.

    Alexa Parker's only goal is to get into the best pre-med program in the country. No big deal. Except that nothing in her life ever goes as planned. 

    If an ice cr...

  • Off Limits: The Smarty-Pants

    A Lakeview High Novel - 2

    She's a free spirit. He's bound by the rules. A school trip is going to change everything.

    Markus Brown is too smart for his own good. At least, that's how everyone else sees him. In reality, he's living the life his father paved for him. He...

  • Off Limits: The Scrooge

    A Lakeview High Novel - 3

    He's a star swimmer. She's in the drama club. One prank will upend everything.

    After star swimmer, Cameron Taylor, pulls a prank that manages to both terrify the drama club and cancel his swim meet, he's unable to escape punishment. Suspende...



  • Off Limits: The Principal's Son

    A Lakeview High Novel - 4

    There is only one thing standing between Blair and the girl of his dreams. His mom.It used to be easy for Blair Howell to get a date. He had a new girlfriend every couple of weeks.Until his mom became principal at his high school.Now girls don't give...

  • Borrowing Time

    Borrowing Amor - 6.5

    She's a pilot who prefers the air. He's a dog trainer who prefers the open road. Ruby Freedman is not a workaholic—no matter what anyone else says. As the only charter plane pilot in her small town, it isn't like she has a choice but to...

  • Diving into Love

    Starlight Ridge - 1

    She already left one fiancé. She didn't need another.When Bree Garrett's former college roommate invites Bree to move to Starlight Ridge, a small tourist town on the Californian coast, she is all too happy to leave the deserts of New Mexico an...

  • Off Limits: The Duet

    A Lakeview High Novel - 5

    Off Limits: The Duet contains the first two books in the Off Limits YA romantic comedy series. If you like awkward situations, first kisses, and laugh-out loud moments, you'll love these sweet romances.Off Limits: The Best Friend:She's the hig...

  • Resisting Love

    Starlight Ridge - 2

    He'd rather ride the waves than the tide of romance.Isaac Larson is the picture of surfing perfection, killer smile included. But ever since his long-time girlfriend left their small town for the summer—and never came back—it has been h...

  • Starlight Love

    Starlight Ridge - 3

    She's falling in love. He's just playing a part.When Adeline Baker was told that big-time Hollywood actor, Eli Hunt, wanted to film a movie in Starlight Ridge--and inside her small chocolate shop--she told them they were crazy. But the film crew arri...

  • Building on Love

    Starlight Ridge - 4

    Not all broken hearts are beyond repair.Davis Jones finds the world to be chaotic and overwhelming, especially since his fiancé died. But as the owner of a small-town hardware store, he enjoys fixing what is damaged--his life excluded. Attempt...

  • Off Limits: The Celebrity

    A Lakeview High Novel - 6

    She's a loner who can't get a date. He's a rockstar who needs fewer dates. A summer job might solve both their problems.For Julianna Barrow, working at a resort for the summer is the easiest decision she's ever made. Anything to escape her small town...

  • Winning his Love

    Starlight Ridge - 5

    He's done playing the dating game--this small town won't let him quit.After spending six years in Thailand while working for a service organization and chasing after the only woman he's ever loved, Travis Matkin is done playing games. Desperate for a...

  • Dead before Dinner

    A Maddie Swallows Mystery - 1

    Green chile has never been more dangerous.Psychologist Maddie Swallows' decision to return to New Mexico seemed like a good idea at the time, considering the divorce and her two teenagers she'd dragged along for the ride.But that was before the New Y...



  • Dead Upon Arrival

    A Maddie Swallows Mystery - 2

    Flying high in the New Mexican sky has never been more lethal.The biggest hot air balloon festival would have been a vacation if Maddie didn't have to balance her apathetic teenagers, a meddling mother, and act as therapist for a desperate pat...

  • Dead Before I Do

    A Maddie Swallows Mystery - 3

    'Till Death Do You Part' wasn't supposed to be taken so literally...When Maddie Swallows attends an out-of-town wedding with her best friend, Benji, she expects free food, dancing, and some awkward moments as she tries to figure out her feelings for ...

  • Returning to Love

    Starlight Ridge - 6

    Love is a young person's game. Or so she'd been told.Thirty years. That's how long it has been since Jessie Carter and her ex-fiance, Erwin, had a fight so massive that it fueled town gossip for weeks.Thirty years since she'd given him his ring back....

  • Fearless Love

    Starlight Ridge - 7

    Clayton Brown has had a lot of women send deliveries to his office over the years. But a baby...that's a first.At least there was a note.But that doesn't make becoming an instant father any easier. Instead, it leaves him panicked.In a desperate attem...

  • Dead Among Stars

    A Maddie Swallows Mystery - 4

    Space tourism isn't dangerous. It's the passengers.Psychologist Maddie Swallows had always thought of space tourism as science fiction. That was before the phone call that turned her world upside down and she was hired to work with celebrity passenge...

  • Series Starter Duet

    This duet includes Borrowing Amor and Diving into Love--each a series starter and full of new beginnings, sweet kisses, and a happily-ever-after.Borrowing Amor: from the New Mexican romance series, Borrowing AmorA small-town mayor. A stranger with a ...

  • Dead by Design

    A Maddie Swallows Mystery - 5

    It wasn't a life or death situation until someone found a body.Maddie Swallows had always thought of her hometown as unremarkable, until space tourism set up shop nearby. Now, real estate developers have set their sights on the small town, determined...

  • Dead in the Dark

    A Maddie Swallows Mystery - 6

    Marriage is scary. Dead bodies are worse.Newly engaged Maddie Swallows has done the marriage thing before, and she's terrified to do it again. Even with someone as perfect as Benji.In an attempt to help calm her nerves, Maddie's mother arrange...

  • Death by Dacquoise

    Retirement isn't nearly as relaxing when dead bodies keep showing up.Retired sisters, Joe and Dottie Lawson, never expected to find themselves taking over their sister's tacky souvenir store-slash-bakery in the small coastal town of Starlight Ridge. ...

  • Poison and Pudding

    Two retirees. Bread pudding. And a dead surfer.Starlight Ridge's first annual surfing competition is right around the corner when retired sisters, Jo and Dorothy Darby, finally get settled into their new bakery. Not willing to miss out on the fun, th...



  • Dead Without a Hitch

    The Swallows family is now playing all the parts: Murder Suspect, Victim, and Sleuth.Maddie and Benji are finally getting married. Three decades of friendship have led to this moment, and Maddie isn't going to allow anything to spoil it. Then a stran...

  • Bullets and Beignets

    Two retirees. A gun. And a movie star.Jo Darby never believes the local gossip, especially when that gossip claims that her favorite movie star, Eli Hunt, will be filming in their small town. That kind of thing is always too good to be true. And yet,...

  • Dead by the Outlaw's Noose

    Most honeymoons include romance and relaxation. Not murder.When Maddie Swallows envisioned her honeymoon, she pictured a luxury resort nestled in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Instead, she and her husband, Benji, find themselves in a dusty saloon ...

  • Starlight Ridge Duet

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    Travel to the small coastal town of Starlight Ridge where residents are quirky, kisses areswoony, new beginnings don't always come easily, and you can count on a happily ever after.This duet includes the first two books of the Starlight Ridge sweet r...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kat Bellemore has published 33 books.

The next book by Kat Bellemore, Dead by the Outlaw's Noose, will be published in October 2025.

The first book by Kat Bellemore, Borrowing Amor, was published in October 2018.

Yes. Kat Bellemore has 4 series.
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