Below is the complete list of Sara Cate books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Beautiful Books
Publication Order of Black Heart Books
with Rachel Leigh
Publication Order of The Goode Brothers Books
Publication Order of Salacious Legacy Books
Publication Order of Salacious Players Club Books
- All In (2023)
All In was first published in 2023; within the Salacious Players Club series, it is listed as book #5.
Publication Order of Sinful Manor Books
Publication Order of Spitfire Books
Publication Order of Wicked Hearts Books
Publication Order of Wilde Boys Books
Publication Order of Black Rose Auction Books
About Sara Cate
Sara Cate is an American contemporary romance author best known for high-heat, emotionally intense stories involving forbidden attraction, kink, unconventional relationships, and characters exploring desires they have previously hidden or denied. A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, she has built much of her career around interconnected fictional worlds in which supporting characters frequently become protagonists of later books. She lives in Arizona with her husband, children, and dog.
Cate describes her work as kink-positive and queer-friendly, an approach particularly evident in the variety of relationships throughout her bibliography. Her novels include heterosexual, queer, and polyamorous romances alongside BDSM, age gaps, power exchange, voyeurism, forbidden relationships, marriage arrangements, and other themes associated with erotic and taboo romance. Despite their explicit content, her stories generally place substantial emphasis on emotional vulnerability, self-discovery, consent, trust, and characters learning what they actually want from their relationships.
Her best-known work is the Salacious Players’ Club series, which began with Praise in 2022. The novel pairs Charlotte “Charlie” Underwood with Emerson Grant, her former boyfriend’s father and one of the owners of an exclusive kink club. Its combination of age-gap romance, praise kink, workplace dynamics, and emotional intimacy attracted a large readership and became the foundation for an expanding interconnected universe.
Subsequent Salacious Players’ Club novels explore different members of the same community rather than continuing with one couple. Eyes on Me, Give Me More, Mercy, Highest Bidder, and Madame broaden the series through voyeuristic, polyamorous, dominant/submissive, age-gap, and queer relationship dynamics. Earlier couples continue appearing, allowing the club to develop into a social network rather than merely serving as a recurring setting.
The popularity of those books eventually led to Salacious Legacy, a next-generation continuation connected to characters from the original series. The Good Girl Effect opened the sequence in 2025, followed by The Rule of Three in 2026. The latter expands the world through Freya Kapoor, Julian Kade, and Archer Wilde, creating another multi-partner relationship while linking the newer books to Cate’s established fictional families.
Her bibliography extends well beyond Salacious Players’ Club. The Goode Brothers series, beginning with The Anti-Hero, follows the sons of an influential preacher and examines religious expectations, sexuality, family damage, and rebellion. Sinful Manor moves to Scotland with Keep Me, built around Killian Barclay and Sylvie Devereaux’s marriage-of-convenience arrangement, before continuing the interconnected setting with later romances. The Wilde Boys books, including Gravity and Free Fall, form another related strand of her expanding universe.
Earlier works include the Wicked Hearts, Beautiful, Spitfire, and Black Heart books, as well as stand-alone romances and collaborative projects such as Black Rose Auction. These novels show that forbidden attraction and emotionally complicated relationships were already central to Cate’s work before Salacious Players’ Club brought those interests together in her most recognizable setting.
Across her career, Cate has become particularly associated with romance that treats sexual exploration as part of character development rather than an isolated source of heat. Her protagonists often begin with rigid ideas about relationships, morality, or their own desires and gradually discover that the life capable of making them happy may look very different from the one they expected. That combination of explicit romance, emotional conflict, and increasingly interconnected characters has become the defining feature of her bibliography.