Kris Michaels

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  • Bibliography:
    71 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2015
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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About the Author

USA Today and Amazon Bestselling Author, Kris Michaels is the alter ego of a happily married wife and mother. She writes romance, usually with characters from military and law enforcement backgrounds.

Kris was born and raised in South Dakota. She graduated many years ago from a high school class consisting of 13 students (yes that is thirteen, eleven girls and two boys...lucky boys). She joined the military, met her husband, and traveled the world. Today she lives on the Gulf Coast and writes full time.

Kris is an avid people watcher and dreamer. The stories she writes are crafted around the hopes and dreams of a true romantic. She believes love is essential, people are beautiful, and everyone deserves a happy ending.

When she isn't writing Kris enjoys a full life revolving around family, friends, laughing, whiskey, and cold red wine. (Yes cold...don't judge.)

Full Series List in Order

Everlight

1 - An Evidence of Magic (Sep-2016)
2 - Incident of Magic (Mar-2017)

Guardian Defenders

1 - Gabriel (Nov-2019)
2 - Maliki (Jun-2020)
3 - John (Feb-2021)
4 - Jeremiah (Jul-2021)
5 - Frank (Aug-2022)
6 - Creed (Nov-2022)
7 - Sage (Apr-2023)
8 - Bear (Jul-2023)
9 - Billy (Mar-2024)
10 - Elliot (Nov-2024)

Guardian Security: Shadow World

1 - Anubis (Feb-2018)
2 - Asp (Jul-2018)
3 - Lycos (Aug-2019)
4 - Thanatos (Feb-2020)
5 - Tempest (Aug-2020)
6 - Smoke (May-2021)
7 - Reaper (Dec-2021)
8 - Phoenix (Jun-2022)
9 - Valkyrie (Nov-2022)
10 - Flack (Feb-2023)
11 - Ice (Nov-2023)
12 - Malice (Feb-2024)
13 - Harbinger (May-2024)
14 - Centurion (Aug-2024)
15 - Maximus (Dec-2024)

Guardian Security Dynasty

1 - Legacy's Call (Feb-2025)
2 - Legacy's Destiny (Mar-2025)
3 - Throne of Secrets (Jun-2025)
4 - Echoes and Oaths (Aug-2025)

Hollister

1 - Andrew (May-2022)
2 - Zeke (Oct-2022)
3 - Declan (Jun-2023)
4 - Ken (Dec-2023)
5 - Barry (Sep-2024)

Kings of Guardian

1 - Jacob (Aug-2015)
2 - Joseph (Sep-2015)
3 - Adam (Jan-2016)
4 - Jason (May-2016)
5 - Jared (Sep-2016)
6 - Jasmine (Jan-2017)
7 - Chief (May-2017)
8 - Jewell (Aug-2017)
9 - Jade (Nov-2017)
10 - Justin (Apr-2018)
11 - Drake (Sep-2018)
11.1 - A Backwater Blessing: A King's Guardian & Heart's Desire Crossover Novella (Sep-2018)
11.5 - Montana Guardian: A Guardian Security Novella (Sep-2018)
11.7 - Christmas with the Kings (Dec-2018)
12 - Dixon (Feb-2019)
13 - Passages (Dec-2019)
14 - Promises (Dec-2020)
15 - The Siege, Book One (Jan-2022)
16 - The Siege, Book Two (Apr-2022)

Multi-Author Series List

Hope City

Hot SEAL, Silent Knight (Dec-2021)
1 - Brock (Mar-2020)
4 - Brody (Jul-2020)
6 - Ryker (Nov-2020)
8 - Killian (Apr-2021)
10 - Blayze (Oct-2021)

The Long Road Home

Searching for Home (Jul-2022)
1 - My Heart's Home (Jul-2021)

Silver SEALs

6 - SEAL Forever (May-2019)

Book List in Order: 71 titles

  • Jacob

    Kings of Guardian - 1

    Victoria Marshall didn't cooperate by dying in the Afghani hell-hole like the CIA expected. Defying all probability, a privately-funded black ops group led by a handsome, sexy-as-sin southerner pulled her out of the warlord's prison cell and brought ...

  • Joseph

    Kings of Guardian - 2

    Death is their common ground, only they stand on opposing sides.A dead man’s plea pushes Dr. Ember Harris headfirst into a swirling mire of drugs, death and political corruption. The Cartel boss who murdered Ember’s friend will stop at nothing to...

  • Adam

    Kings of Guardian - 3

    Dr. Adam Cassidy knew two things: life isn’t easy and fate’s a bitch.Adam's last mission cost him an eye, his memory, and any chance of staying with his military brothers-in-arms on Guardian's Alpha Team. After two years he'd scraped together the...

  • Jason

    Kings of Guardian - 4

    Jason King was presented the opportunity of a lifetime: assume control of Guardian Security from the billionaire who had built the world renowned agency. As CEO, Jason would manage the best security resources in the world. Former SEALs, Rangers, Reco...

  • A Heart's Desire

    Agent McKenzie is nobody’s ‘yes’ boy and has the letters of reprimand to prove it.

    He smells the stink of political maneuvering in this case and he can see the handwriting on the wall. Hell, the words are three feet high and written ...

  • An Evidence of Magic

    Everlight - 1

    An Evidence of Magic -- 69K M/M procedural crime romance in an alternate reality.Forty-year-old, hard bitten, foul-mouthed, homicide detective, Hiro Santos, suspects the owner of the art studio committed the gory killing. Too bad. There are other thi...

  • Jared

    Kings of Guardian - 5

    The jagged line between love and hate is paper thin and razor sharp. Jared King pushed Christian Koehler away too hard, and once too often. After too much rejection, the young man finally left and took Jared's heart with him. When Christian discovers...

  • Jasmine

    Kings of Guardian - 6

    Jasmine King loved her chosen profession until she was assigned as Chad Nelson’s personal security officer. The sex-fueled country superstar was either a stone cold killer or the target of a deranged psychopath. Regardless, the self-absorbed bad bo...

  • Incident of Magic

    Everlight - 2

    Sold at the age of twelve to support his mother’s drug habit and rescued from a life on the streets by a cop, thirty-two-year old Tony Locke had had a brutal start in life. He’d risen to the position of homicide detective in the Everlight Police ...



  • Chief

    Kings of Guardian - 7

    Cloaked in the identity of David Xavier, a billionaire player in multiple world theaters, Mike White Cloud worked to enter the Russian Mafia’s lair, by stalking a shadowy creature named "The Concierge." The Russian woman brokered young innocents in...

  • Jewell

    Kings of Guardian - 8

    Obsessive. Toxic. Ice Princess. Witch. Jewell King ignored the epithets slung at her behind her back. Hell, after six, or was it seven, personal security officers assigned to her asked to be reassigned rather than guard her 24/7, maybe she deserved t...

  • Jade

    Kings of Guardian - 9

    Jade King lives life at full speed. After over a year undercover for the DEA, she’s back in play and wants what any hot-blooded woman who’s gone a year without sex would want: an alpha bad boy who is convenient, delicious and disposable. A fun on...

  • Anubis

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 1

    In the Shadow World, he was the God of Death, and he was called many names. The monsters he hunted called him Anubis. Those who saw his face died. To Guardian Security, he was a number, a surgical weapon they wielded against monstrous evil. One woman...

  • Justin

    Kings of Guardian - 10

    Being CEO of flourishing JK Holdings isn't a sufficient challenge for millionaire restaurateur Justin King. He craves the rush gained by facing danger and triumphing -- be it heli-skiing, rappelling, suit jumping from the peaks of Mt. Everest or raci...

  • Asp

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 2

    As a Shadow, Asp planned his assassinations with meticulous care. His work required one thing, that the Council direct his kills. The coded target became a "sanctioned hit” and that distinction was vital.His most recent assignment took him to a rem...

  • A Backwater Blessing

  • Montana Guardian

  • A Backwater Blessing: A King's Guardian & Heart's Desire Crossover Novella

    Kings of Guardian - 11.1

    When Cole, Mr. FBI, and Logan, local cop and reigning Ice Princess, hook up to solve a case of Mississippi corruption at the highest judicial levels, sparks fly. Their attraction is hotter than the sultry southern sun. She wants to hate him -- but sh...

  • Drake

    Kings of Guardian - 11

    Life wasn’t fair. Drake Simmons and his identical twin, Dixon, had had that lesson beaten into them early and well. Their past had so savaged their souls no amount of “confronting their demons” could heal them, but Drake’s twin refused to ack...



  • Montana Guardian: A Guardian Security Novella

    Kings of Guardian - 11.5

  • Hot SEAL, Single Malt

  • Christmas with the Kings

    Kings of Guardian - 11.7

    You are cordially invited to a Christmas with the Kings. I hope you enjoy this heartfelt holiday novella honoring love and joy, hosted by the King Family. This story -- all tied up in shiny paper and wrapped with a satin bow -- is an offering to all ...

  • Dixon

    Kings of Guardian - 12

    Alone, isolated from the vast resources of Guardian, Dixon Simmons reentered a world that had left him impossibly damaged as a child. He stepped back into that evil by choice. To protect all he’d come to love, he was willing to pay whatever price w...

  • SEAL Forever

    Silver SEALs - 6

    A career ending injury forced Creed Lachlan out of the Navy SEALs. Now he works as a freelance contractor for a highly classified sub-set of Homeland Security, the Bone Frog Division. His country calls when it needs his elite skills. His current miss...

  • Hot SEAL, Savannah Nights

    Rio North wasn't ready to leave the SEALs and his brothers in arms, but his destiny called him to Savannah. Born into wealth, he used his family's fortune to help his teammates. While his friends in the military teased him about being a babe magnet, ...

  • Lycos

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 3

    To prevent their imminent murder, Bethanie Clark flees New York City with her eleven-year-old son, Ethan. Her destination -- a remote cabin isolated high in the Smoky Mountains. A city dweller her entire life, she never realized there was more threa...

  • Gabriel

    Guardian Defenders - 1

    David Xavier -- and all those he loved or counted as friends -- would forever be mouth-watering targets to men of evil intent. His wealth could settle a small country's foreign debt. Because of this, from the moment of his birth, his mother obscured ...

  • Passages

    Kings of Guardian - 13

    Passages: Ways through, around, under or over obstacles. Life is a transition from one minute to the next. Moments end, lives change, and the ways and loves of the past fade into memories. Join the members of the King and Marshall family as they find...

  • Thanatos

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 4

    It wasn’t until people started shooting at her that Eve Salutem had an inkling she was anything other than an elementary school teacher suffering from a rare form of cancer. Discovering she was a walking source of the vaccine for lethal bioweapons ...



  • Brock

    Hope City - 1

    It had taken five years for Detective Kallie Redman to become emotionally and psychologically available after her cop-husband devastated their marriage and her career. The Hope City Police Department offered her a new beginning and over a thousand mi...

  • Maliki

    Guardian Defenders - 2

    Betrayal. When it comes at the hands of family, betrayal destroys lives. His reputation destroyed and career as a surgeon shattered, Harrison M. Boswell, VI, vanishes, and the alter-ego of Dr. Maliki Blue arises. His employer, Guardian Security, kno...

  • Brody

    Hope City - 4

    One City… Countless stories. Family The love of family meant the world to him, and he’d found his forever girl. She was his everything. He’d never love another like he loved her. Marriage, a house, children. He wanted the whole fairy tale...

  • Tempest

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 5

    In the dark world of a Guardian Shadow, an axiom exists: Don't. Get. Caught. His code name was Tempest, and his enemy caught him. Stratus did unspeakable things to him until, out of his mind, he prayed for death—but he'd never broken faith wi...

  • Ryker

    Hope City - 6

    He had no time for a personal life. Then he met her.Captain Ryker Terrell sacrificed everything to be the best at his job, leader of the Hope City's elite Joint Drug Enforcement Team. It was all he thought he needed. Brianna King was a woman on a mis...

  • Promises

    Kings of Guardian - 14

    Promises. A commitment, bond, pledge, or pact. Some are broken, others withstand the test of time.Promises can be made between friends, families, or lovers. Each will be honored. Even the promise of payback, although Joseph King prefers the word reve...

  • John

    Guardian Defenders - 3

    John Smith's world exploded. Literally. His sister murdered, he ran from the intelligence agencies of his own country. Every covert entity in the world wanted him for the information he alone could access. They killed everyone he cared about to get ...

  • Killian

    Hope City - 8

    He wanted her... gone. Maybe.Killian Ganas was the drive and the brains behind Hope City Construction. He worked a fine margin of profit and loss to build his business and he was damn proud of what he'd accomplished. Then she showed up. He didn't dis...

  • Smoke

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 6

    Shades of good are colored by the poison of greed, lust, and envy, and all too often the warm colors of humanity are consumed by evil. The assassin known as Smoke had his future planned. When his partner's life imploded, his absence left Smoke adrift...

  • Jeremiah

    Guardian Defenders - 4

    Doctor Jeremiah Wheeler dedicated ten years of his professional career to the population of a maximum-security penitentiary in California. A prison riot and lockdown led to a horrific hostage situation he barely managed to survive. Going back wasn't ...



  • My Heart's Home

    The Long Road Home - 1

    Forty years old and starting over. And not sure where home was going to be.Chief Master Sergeant Cameron Freeland had a few job prospects but nothing that sparked much interest. And now... his flight was grounded, and he was stranded in an airport. A...

  • Blayze

    Hope City - 10

    To honor and protect. Blayze King was many things. A firefighter, friend, brother, and son, but was he a father? He barely remembered the woman who claimed he'd got her pregnant, but he'd do anything to take care of his child. Even if it meant dealin...

  • Hot SEAL, Silent Knight

    Hope City

    Forced to take his 'Use or Lose' vacation days, Romeo Platoon Leader Ted (Bear) Black begrudgingly heads home to Hope City and all the nonsense surrounding Christmas. He'd rather stay in San Diego and spend his downtime working, especially when he's ...

  • Reaper

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 7

    Hindsight–– is always 20/20. For the assassin known as Reaper, the chances he missed were displayed in perfect resolution every time he went back. Back to her, the only woman he'd ever loved. Back to where his life ended and then starte...

  • The Siege, Book One

    Kings of Guardian - 15

    For years Guardian Security has protected the world against evil. They were an offensive weapon against monsters that sought to prey on the unprotected. Until now. Attacked at the heart of their operations, both in Washington D.C. and the South Dakot...

  • The Siege, Book Two

    Kings of Guardian - 16

    For years Guardian Security has protected the world against evil. They were an offensive weapon against monsters that sought to prey on the unprotected. Until now. Attacked at the heart of their operations, both in Washington D.C. and the South Dakot...

  • Andrew

    Hollister - 1

    Not all scars are visible.Andrew Hollister knew the wounds that make a person the most vulnerable couldn't be seen. That last mission punched his ticket home. He'd survived when most of his team hadn't. The physical damage had mended. The mental inju...

  • Phoenix

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 8

    Her exceptional memory was gone.Aspen Kennedy almost died in the explosion that decimated Guardian Security's Washington D.C. complex. When she woke in the hospital bed, survival was her mantra. But the very thing that made her who she was had been s...

  • Searching for Home

    The Long Road Home

    A moment in time can last forever.Scott Evers's life was on the fast track. As a SEAL Team Commander, he and his men worked hard, played hard, and had the skill set to handle any situation. Until that night. A heartbeat of hesitation during a joint o...

  • Frank

    Guardian Defenders - 5

    A life well-lived. Frank Marshall's life before he married and had a family is a closely held secret. The past should remain in the past until it doesn't. A love for the ages. Never in a million years did Frank think he'd find the type of love his p...



  • Zeke

    Hollister - 2

    A small-town dream. Doctor Ezekiel (Zeke) Johnson's life was fulfilling. He had a practice that kept him busy, a hometown that, despite its appearances, was far from boring, and a new job working with Guardian. He was missing one thing. A woman to lo...

  • Creed

    Guardian Defenders - 6

    ***NOTE THIS TITLE WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE SEAL FOREVER. IT HAS BEEN EDITED AND RETITLED. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY READ SEAL FOREVER, YOU HAVE READ THIS STORY.***A career-ending injury changed his life.Creed Lachlan was forced out of the ...

  • Valkyrie

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 9

    A Beauty, but eventually the allure fades. The assassin known as Valkyrie uses her many charms to ensnare the unsuspecting monsters she kills. She lives among the rich, privileged, beautiful people of the world. Or so they'd have the world believe. S...

  • Flack

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 10

    Surprises come in small packages.The assassin known as Flack wasn't expecting to become the guardian of his fourteen-month-old niece. His life as an assassin wasn't exactly family-friendly. Plus, he had no idea how to take care of a baby. How could h...

  • Sage

    Guardian Defenders - 7

    Down but not out.Sage Browning's life had dealt him a horrible hand to play, and it only got worse after he was injured while serving his country. Yet, he played the cards he'd been dealt, but now it was time to invest in himself, and in a future wit...

  • Declan

    Hollister - 3

    Life couldn't get any better.Declan Howard had it made. He owned the town's only bar, and there was a vast ocean of women to choose from. All right, so perhaps vast was an overstatement. Hollister wasn't New York City, but he was content. Footloose a...

  • Bear

    Guardian Defenders - 8

    An explosive blast from the pastA former mission rears its head and places Bear McGowen in the middle of an impossible situation. His old friend is missing, but he left a trail to follow. As Bear investigates, the twisting turns of the past meld with...

  • A Home for Love

    Life throws a curve ballAlex Thompson thought he'd live and die as a Delta Force Special Operator. Unfortunately, fate had different ideas. His career ended during a training exercise while stateside. Discharged and displaced after serving in the Arm...

  • Ice

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 11

    A Dangerous AggressionA stone-cold killer. His code name of Ice was given to him for a reason. When he was hunting the bastards that preyed on the helpless of the world, Ice was relentless and ruthless. Guardian Security focused his talent, and he be...

  • Ken

    Hollister - 4

    When you can't resurrect the past...As a teenager, Deputy Ken Zorn made mistakes that cost him his first love, a hard lesson he's taken his sweet time learning. Now, the woman he thought he'd spend his life with has told him 'no' for the last time. S...

  • Malice

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 12

    Whatever it takes, as long as it takes. In the icy northern tundra of Siberia, a lethal game of life and death unfolds. Malice, an assassin who works for Guardian Security, stands at the far side of his latest mission. When the operation takes a dang...

  • Billy

    Guardian Defenders - 9

    Whatever it takes, as long as it takes.He'd been dead for years.Billy Pearson's cover for the work he did for the CIA had come at a high price. Betrayed by the CIA, he was dead to all who used to know him. Guardian gave him the opportunity to start o...

  • Harbinger

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 13

    Whatever it takes. As long as it takes. Alone.Harbinger extinguished any thought of a serious relationship due to the dangers of his profession. Yet he'd fallen hard for Ysabel Archambeau, and she rejected him without reason. He tried to escape the h...

  • Finally Home

    In Hollister, there is peace.In Hollister, South Dakota, where the vast ranching terrain meets the sky, Tegan Wells loves his job as the manager of the town's bustling stockyard. His life, rooted in the rhythms of this small town, is about to be upen...

  • Centurion

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 14

    Whatever it takes. As long as it takes. An obligation. Conner Solomon, one of Guardian Security's top computer specialists, attends a party in Monaco as a form of family penance, only to find the woman who has been on his mind since their short miss...

  • Barry

    Hollister - 5

    A final chance. In the peaceful town of Hollister, secrets from days gone never stay hidden. For Barry Marks, memories of a disastrous military mission haunt every waking moment. He came to Hollister as a last hope. His final chance to change the spi...

  • Elliot

    Guardian Defenders - 10

    Whatever it takes. As long as it takes. Elliot Sawyer wasn't supposed to be alive. He'd cheated death by changing shifts with one of his men. Sure, his man asked for the change, but guilt gnawed on his heart every second of every day. If he'd been th...

  • Maximus

    Guardian Security: Shadow World - 15

    Whatever it takes. As long as it takes. In the shimmering, elite world of Sochi, Russia, where art mingles with power and secrets lie hidden beneath layers of paint, Guardian's assassin, Maximus embarks on a dangerous mission to dismantle the crimina...

  • Legacy's Call

    Guardian Security Dynasty - 1

    Whatever it takes. As long as it takes.®He was born into a legacy of protection and power. David Ronan Alexander, son of the legendary owner of Guardian Security, grew up knowing that the weight of leadership would one day rest on his shoulders. ...

  • Legacy's Destiny

    Guardian Security Dynasty - 2

    Whatever it takes. As long as it takes.®Born into the elite family of Guardian Security, Deacon Alexander has never turned away from his responsibilities. Now a leader of one of Guardian Security's elite teams, he thrives on danger, discipline, a...

  • Throne of Secrets

    Guardian Security Dynasty - 3

    Whatever it takes. As long as it takes.®Ethan Wolf has always been the man behind the screens, but now he'd been chosen and meticulously trained by the mastermind who designed Guardian Security's state-of-the-art systems. Cool under pressure and ...

  • Echoes and Oaths

    Guardian Security Dynasty - 4

    Whatever it takes. As long as it takes.® Jinx exists only in Guardian Security's Shadow World and is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. But behind the missions lies a man with a rare gift: his deep connection with animals. His secret mi...

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Kris Michaels has published 71 books.

The next book by Kris Michaels, Echoes and Oaths, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Kris Michaels, Jacob, was published in August 2015.

Yes. Kris Michaels has 6 series.
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