Below is the complete list of Jamie Freveletti’s Emma Caldridge books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Emma Caldridge Books
About Emma Caldridge
Jamie Freveletti’s Emma Caldridge series combines international suspense with scientific investigation, endurance athletics, private security operations, and threats involving infectious disease, pharmaceuticals, chemical compounds, and biological weapons. Emma is a chemist and accomplished ultramarathon runner rather than a conventional intelligence officer. Her unusual combination of expertise allows her to recognize dangers that armed professionals overlook and to survive environments where physical stamina matters as much as investigative skill.
Running from the Devil introduces Emma aboard a flight from Miami to Bogotá that crashes in the Colombian jungle. Guerrillas seize the surviving passengers, but Emma is thrown clear and remains undetected. Instead of escaping, she follows the captives through hostile territory, using her knowledge of plants and chemistry alongside the discipline developed through distance running. The novel establishes a pattern that continues throughout the series: Emma enters a crisis without formal authority, identifies a scientific element hidden beneath the visible violence, and refuses to abandon people whose survival has become her responsibility.
The opening mission also brings her into contact with Edward Banner, head of the private security company Darkview. Banner recognizes that Emma possesses qualities difficult to reproduce through military training alone. Their association gives the later novels a recurring operational framework, although Emma never becomes a subordinate who simply follows Darkview’s instructions. She retains her own scientific career, makes independent decisions, and frequently enters situations before Banner’s people understand the full danger.
Cameron Sumner, a Darkview operative, becomes another important presence in Emma’s life. Their relationship develops within missions shaped by separation, secrecy, and uncertain survival rather than functioning as a detached romantic subplot. Like Banner, Cameron understands Emma’s resourcefulness but cannot reliably protect her from the consequences of her curiosity and moral determination.
The series moves readily between regions and thriller styles. Running Dark connects an ultramarathon in South Africa to pharmaceutical manipulation, piracy, and an attack on a cruise ship. The Ninth Day places Emma near the Arizona–Mexico border, where her search for unusual plant life leads into kidnapping, human trafficking, and a rapidly spreading biological danger. In Dead Asleep, research on a Caribbean island exposes a threat concealed behind local superstition, unexplained illness, and the commercial value of a rare natural substance.
These plots make science active rather than decorative. Emma interprets physical reactions, environmental evidence, medicines, toxins, and disease patterns while under immediate pressure. Her conclusions are not delivered safely from a laboratory; they must often be tested while she is injured, pursued, isolated, or attempting to keep others alive. Freveletti balances that analytical ability with Emma’s endurance training, showing how controlled breathing, pacing, pain management, and persistence can become practical survival tools.
The three shorter works Risk, Gone, and Run form a single serialized novella rather than three unrelated full-length adventures. Their connected storyline begins with risk analyst Sebastian Ryan and develops into an abduction involving the isolated community of Sunrise City, Utah. They fit between Dead Asleep and Blood Run, but readers following only the principal novels can still understand the later story.
Blood Run returns Emma to a large-scale biological crisis during a humanitarian mission in Senegal. Its African setting and smallpox threat bring together the series’ recurring concerns with pharmaceutical power, vulnerable populations, private security, and scientific knowledge capable of either preventing catastrophe or causing it.
Publication order provides the smoothest progression because Emma’s association with Darkview, her relationship with Cameron, and her growing experience with international threats develop across the books. Each principal novel resolves its immediate emergency, but Emma gradually changes from an independent scientist caught in extraordinary circumstances into a seasoned crisis operative whose greatest strength remains her refusal to surrender either evidence or human life to expediency.