Robert J. Crane Reading Order

3 books (2017–2018)

The Ashes of Luukessia is a complete fantasy trilogy by Robert J. Crane published between 2017 and 2018. The three books should be read in publication order: A Haven in Ash, A Home in the Hills, and A Respite from Storms. This series blends fantasy with elements of mystery and thriller storytelling across its three installments.

Start with A Haven in Ash and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Haven in Ash 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	A Home in the Hills 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	A Respite from Storms 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

62 books (2012–2026)

The Girl In The Box is an ongoing fantasy and thriller series by Robert J. Crane comprising 62 books published between 2012 and 2026. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Alone and continuing through the subsequent installments. With dozens of entries spanning over a decade, this expansive series offers sustained storytelling across fantasy, mystery, and literary fiction genres.

Start with Alone, the first of 62 books in the Girl In The Box series.

#	Title
1	Alone 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Family 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Soulless 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Untouched 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Broken 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Enemies 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Legacy 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Omega 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Destiny 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Limitless 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Power 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Grounded 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	In the Wind 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Ruthless 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Tormented 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Vengeful 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Masks 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Painkiller 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Prisoners 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Sea Change 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Unyielding 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Badder 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Hollow 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Hunters 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Nemesis 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Small Things 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Toxicity 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Apex 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Driven 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Flashback 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Hero 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Remember 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Time 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Blood Ties 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Cold 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Control 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Dragon 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Music 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Innocence 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Meltdown 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Powerless 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Second Guess 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	True North 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Backwoods 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Home 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Silver Tongue 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Southern Comfort 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Underground 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Eye of the Hurricane 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Gangland 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Ghosts 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Reality 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Allegiance 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Fallout 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Shadows 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Stolen 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Heart of the Storm 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Scorched Earth 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Liberty 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Ten Feet Away 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Trigger Man 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Past Lies 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (2023–2026)

Robert J. Crane's Girl Who Ran Away is an ongoing fantasy mystery thriller series comprising five books published between 2023 and 2026. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Buried in Lies and continuing through Bound in Silence, Listening to Fear, Those Deadly Secrets, and Against the World.

Start with Buried in Lies, the first of 5 books in the Girl Who Ran Away series.

10 books (2018–2025)

Robert J. Crane's Liars and Vampires is an ongoing fantasy-thriller series spanning ten books published from 2018 to 2025. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Her Lying Days Are Done and continuing through the most recent installment, Something In That Vein. This blend of fantasy, mystery, and literary fiction follows a narrative arc across its expanding catalog, with new entries still being released.

Start with Her Lying Days Are Done, the first of 10 books in the Liars and Vampires series.

#	Title
1	Her Lying Days Are Done 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Lies in the Dark 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	No One Will Believe You 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Someone Should Save Her 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	You Can't Go Home Again 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Heir of the Dog 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Hit You Where You Live 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Her Endless Night 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Burned Me 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Something In That Vein 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (2017–2019)

The Mira Brand series spans eight complete novels published between 2017 and 2019, blending fantasy, mystery, and literary fiction elements. Readers should follow the books in their publication order, beginning with The City of Lies and continuing through The Antecessor Conundrum. This finished series delivers a self-contained narrative arc across its eight installments.

Start with The City of Lies, the first of 8 books in the Mira Brand series.

#	Title
1	The City of Lies 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Tide of Ages 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The World Beneath 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Best of Us 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Gang of Legend 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The King of the Skies 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	We Aimless Few 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Antecessor Conundrum 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

21 books (2014–2018)

Robert J. Crane's Out Of The Box is a complete 21-book series blending fantasy, mystery, and literary fiction elements. Published between 2014 and 2018, the series should be read in publication order, beginning with Limitless and continuing through titles such as Grounded, In the Wind, Ruthless, and Tormented. The full narrative arc concludes with Nemesis and five additional final installments, offering readers a substantial completed story spanning multiple volumes.

Start with Limitless, the first of 21 books in the Out Of The Box series.

#	Title
1	Limitless 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Grounded 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	In the Wind 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Ruthless 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Tormented 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Vengeful 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Masks 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Painkiller 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Prisoners 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Sea Change 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Unyielding 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Badder 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Hollow 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Hunters 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Nemesis 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Small Things 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Toxicity 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Apex 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Driven 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Remember 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Time 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

15 books (2011–2023)

The Sanctuary series by Robert J. Crane consists of 15 fantasy and thriller novels published between 2011 and 2023. The series appears to be complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Avenger and concluding with Rage of the Ancients. The sequence includes the spinoff collection Sanctuary Tales and follows interconnected storylines across the full range of entries.

Start with Avenger, the first of 15 books in the Sanctuary series.

#	Title
1	Avenger 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Defender 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Champion 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Crusader 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Master 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Sanctuary Tales 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Thy Father's Shadow 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Fated in Darkness 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Warlord 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Heretic 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Legend 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Ghosts of Sanctuary 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Call of the Hero 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Scourge of Despair 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Rage of the Ancients 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2017–2017)

#	Title
1	Voiceless 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (2013–2024)

Robert J. Crane's Southern Watch series comprises eight fantasy and mystery novels published between 2013 and 2024, with the series remaining ongoing. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with Called and continuing through Corrupted, Depths, Unearthed, Legion, Forsaken, Starling, and Hallowed. This blend of fantasy, thriller, and literary fiction elements follows a connected narrative across its installments.

Start with Called, the first of 8 books in the Southern Watch series.

#	Title
1	Called 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Corrupted 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Depths 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Unearthed 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Legion 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Forsaken 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Starling 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Hallowed 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible