Jeneva Rose
Jeneva Rose has published 12 books across 5 series. The recommended reading order starts with Dead Woman Crossing (2020).
Jeneva Rose writes psychological thrillers, suspense novels, and women's fiction. She made her debut as a novelist in 2020 with the psychological thriller The Perfect Murder. The book was optioned for film and translated into several languages. Her next novel, the women's fiction book The Girl I Was, was published in 2021, followed by the suspense novel One of Us is Dead in 2022. Rose is also the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Perfect Marriage, and its sequel, The Perfect Divorce. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages and optioned for film and television. Originally from Wisconsin, Rose now lives in Chicago, Illinois with her husband and English bulldog.
Shelf & Shadows
Order of Detective Kimberley King Books
- TagsthrillercrimeDescriptionDead Woman Crossing is a crime thriller that opens with a young single mother murdered on the banks of an Oklahoma creek, her one-year-old daughter asleep in a stroller beside her body. The victim is Hannah, and the small town that shares its name with the crime scene is shaken. Detective Kimberley King, newly arrived from New York with her own young daughter Jessica, recognizes the crime immediately. In 1905, a woman named Katie James was killed in front of her small daughter at the same creek, and the town took its name from that murder. Someone has re-created it. Kimberley starts asking questions, but the town closes ranks. Blank faces, sealed mouths, and when she follows a lead that matters, her own family turns against her. Then a threatening note arrives. Kimberley is a single mother to a young daughter, just like the victim, just like the woman from 1905. The pattern that links Hannah to Katie James may now include her. The killer has noticed the similarities too, and asking the right questions may have moved Kimberley from investigator to target.Publication dateSeptember 23, 2020Amazon rating4.2/5Print length336LanguageEnglishPublisherBookouture
- TagscrimethrillermysteryDescriptionTen-year-old Piper Chase rode her pink bicycle toward the dark woods on Black Heart Lane one summer evening, heading to a sleepover at her best friend Miley's house. Last Day Alive is a crime thriller that begins when Piper never arrives. Detective Kimberley King knows the first twenty-four hours in a missing child case are critical, but with no witnesses and darkness falling, the search turns desperate. Then her team finds Piper's body in a woodland clearing, lying on a bed of moss. Before Kimberley can process the loss, she gets another call. Miley has gone missing too. Now Kimberley is hunting someone who has taken two little girls from the same small town. She chases down every lead: the summer camp counselor the children looked up to, Piper's uncle who returned to town the day she disappeared. Each suspect opens a new question. As another night falls and Kimberley imagines Miley trapped and frightened somewhere, the clock becomes her enemy. One child is already dead. The killer has already proven what they are capable of. Kimberley must find Miley before the pattern repeats and another innocent life is taken.Publication dateApril 20, 2021Amazon rating4.4/5Print length260LanguageEnglishPublisherBookouture
Order of Perfect Books
- TagsthrillermysterycrimesuspenseDescriptionSarah Morgan is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in Washington, DC, with a perfect case record and partner status before thirty-five. Her husband Adam is a failed author who has resented her success for years, convinced it destroyed their marriage. For nearly two years he has been sleeping with Kelly Summers. When Kelly's body turns up at their lake house, Adam is arrested for murder. Sarah decides to defend him. The Perfect Marriage is a psychological thriller that forces her to build a case for a husband she knows cheated and a client she cannot fully trust. Adam admits the affair but swears he did not kill Kelly. Sarah must parse what he is hiding from what he has done, and the deeper she digs into the evidence, the less certain she becomes. The question at the center of the trial is whether Adam is guilty of murder — but the question that may destroy Sarah is whether she can live with the answer.Publication dateNovember 25, 2024Amazon rating4.3/5Print length368LanguageEnglishPublisherCorner Star Press
- TagsthrillersuspensecrimemysteryDescriptionSarah Morgan once defended her husband Adam against a murder charge and won. Eleven years later she has a new husband, Bob Miller, a new family, and a life rebuilt exactly as she wanted it. The Perfect Divorce is a psychological thriller that begins when Bob's one-night stand ends that life in a single night. Sarah files for divorce immediately. The separation turns ugly fast. Then new DNA evidence surfaces in the old case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and dragging Sarah back into a spotlight she thought she had escaped. Former deputy Marcus Hudson wants the truth about what really happened eleven years ago, and this time he may get it. Before Sarah can answer for the past, the woman Bob slept with goes missing. The divorce becomes a different kind of fight. Sarah and Bob turn on each other, and the question shifts from who can walk away cleanest to who can survive at all. Two timelines converge, two investigations tighten, and Sarah stands at the center of both. One marriage ended in a murder trial. The other may end the same way.Publication dateApril 15, 2025Amazon rating4.3/5Print length288LanguageEnglishPublisherBlackstone Publishing, Inc.
Order of Short Stories/Novellas
- Tags---Description#CrimeTime (With: Drew Pyne) is a 2023 short story in the Order of Short Stories/Novellas series.Publication date2023
Order of Short Story Collections
- TagshorrorDescriptionA séance ends with a body on the floor, a roadside store sells cursed objects with a warning no one takes seriously, and a new mother realizes every family who lived in her house has died or disappeared. Sometimes I Scare Myself of Horror collects three horror stories that begin with familiar setups and turn them into something darker. In Never Kill the Medium, a thirtieth birthday dinner becomes a cover-up after the hired medium dies mid-ritual. The guests bury the incident, unaware that leaving the séance unfinished has opened a door for something to cross over. The Nightmare House follows the Dalton family into their forever home in quiet Tillington, where the house whispers and the neighbors watch. Newly postpartum Kristin Dalton is the only one who senses the danger, and when she uncovers the pattern of death tied to the address, no one believes her. In All Curses Are Final, friends on their way to a winter cabin laugh off the hand-painted sign at a roadside store — until one discovers an unpaid item in her bag. Trapped by a storm, they watch bodies pile up and paranoia take hold. Each story asks what happens when the ordinary ritual, the dream home, or the joke you dismiss turns lethal.Publication dateSeptember 22, 2026Print length288LanguageEnglishPublisherBlackstone Publishing
Order of Standalone Novels
- Tags---DescriptionAlexis Spencer has a quote for everything — especially her failures. Her friends have drifted away, her college debt has not budged, and she has just lost her job and her boyfriend on the same day. She blames the world, and she blames the eighteen-year-old version of herself who should have tried harder. After a vodka-fueled blackout, Alexis wakes up in her college town in the year 2002. She assumes this is her chance to start over, until she walks into her old dorm room and meets Lexi — her eighteen-year-old self, who insists the nickname is sexier. The Girl I Was is a time-travel novel about two versions of the same person who have to share a dorm room and figure out how to fix a life neither of them has managed to get right. Convincing Lexi that she is real takes effort. Persuading her to cooperate takes more. The early 2000s are easy to navigate; living with a younger self who makes every mistake Alexis remembers — and some she does not — is something else. Alone, neither of them has ever been enough. Together, they might be able to rewrite the future, if they can stand each other long enough to try.Publication dateNovember 13, 2021Amazon rating4.2/5Print length293LanguageEnglishPublisherCorner Star Press
- TagsthrillersuspensecrimemysteryDescriptionOne of Us is Dead is a thriller set in Buckhead, where wealth and appearances mask betrayal and revenge. Jenny owns Glow, an exclusive beauty salon where the neighborhood's wealthy housewives confide their secrets between appointments. She knows everything about them — their affairs, their grudges, the truths hidden beneath the designer clothes and daily blowouts. Jenny has always kept her distance from the toxicity, focused on her business and maintaining an uneasy peace among her clients. Then one of the housewives is murdered. The police turn to Jenny, whose knowledge of neighborhood gossip and secrets makes her the only person who might untangle what happened. But in Buckhead, nothing is as it seems. Every client has a motive, every confidence could be a lie, and the same women who trust Jenny with their hair may have trusted her with far darker truths. To solve the case, Jenny will have to decide which secrets matter and which housewife wanted one of their own dead.Publication dateApril 26, 2022Amazon rating4.2/5Print length320LanguageEnglishPublisherBlackstone Publishing, Inc.
- Tags---DescriptionPeyton Sanders knows who her heart belongs to, and she races through the night to tell him she loves him back. Then a car hits her, and she wakes up in a hospital bed with amnesia. It's a Date Again is a romantic comedy about a woman who has to choose her soulmate all over again — this time with no memory of how she fell in love. Three men arrive at the hospital, each claiming to be her boyfriend. A contractor in flannel. A consultant with a smile she can't place. A tattooed chef bearing homemade chocolates. Peyton has no idea which one she was running toward that night, or why she was dating all three in the first place. Her friends Maya and Robbie propose a plan: date each man again from the beginning. Whoever her heart chose once, it should choose again. The dates begin, and each man offers a different version of the life Peyton built before the accident. One of them heard her say she loved him. One of them might be the reason she was running. And one of them is the person she can't remember but her heart still knows — if she can figure out which one before she has to decide.Publication date2023Amazon rating4/5
- TagsromancethrillerDescriptionGrace Evans books an Airbnb on a Wyoming ranch to escape her overworked New York life, and the owner turns out to be Calvin Wells, a handsome man who introduces her to his easygoing way of living. You Shouldn't Have Come Here is a thriller about what happens when the getaway stops feeling safe. Grace discovers there is no cell service, a woman has gone missing, and something about the ranch feels wrong. She bonds with Calvin anyway, and the two begin to fall for each other. As her departure date approaches, the romance shifts into something darker. Grace notices Calvin's interest has turned into obsession. Calvin, meanwhile, suspects Grace is hiding the real reason she came to his ranch in the first place. What started as a vacation fling becomes a tangle of lies neither can escape. Each is keeping secrets; each is watching the other. The isolation that made the ranch feel like a retreat now traps them both, and the question is no longer whether they can trust each other — it is whether either of them will leave the ranch alive.Publication dateApril 25, 2023Amazon rating4/5Print length285LanguageEnglishPublisherBlackstone Publishing Inc
- TagsthrillerDescriptionThree estranged siblings return to their childhood home in Wisconsin after their mother dies. Beth never left — she stayed and cared for their mother until the end. Nicole has been kept at a distance because of her addiction. Michael moved out of state seven years ago, the same year their father disappeared with nothing but a note that said I'm sorry. Now they must sort through the estate together. Home Is Where the Bodies Are is a thriller that turns a family reunion into something darker when the siblings find a collection of old VHS tapes and decide to watch them. One tape from 1999 shows their father covered in blood, their mother panicking, and a dead girl on screen — someone the siblings recognize. None of them remember that night. The video cuts off before they learn what their parents did next. Beth, Nicole, and Michael now face a choice: let their mother take the secret to her grave, or dig up a past that may destroy what little family they have left.Publication dateApril 30, 2024Amazon rating4.2/5Print length295LanguageEnglishPublisherBlackstone Publishing
- TagsromanceDescriptionCasey Pearson spent her childhood with a doomsday-prepping father and left at eighteen, swearing never to go back. Dating After the End of the World is a zombie apocalypse romance about what happens when a viral outbreak forces her to break that promise. A decade later, the infection turns people into zombielike creatures, and Casey has nowhere else to run. She returns to find her father's compound sheltering a group of survivors — including Blake Morrison, the high school bully who made her teenage years unbearable. Now Casey must live on the compound, fend off the infected, and navigate daily life alongside the enemy she thought she had escaped for good. The world outside has collapsed, but inside the walls, the question is whether Casey can survive not just the undead, but the proximity to the one person she never wanted to see again — especially now that he is no longer just the boy who tormented her.Publication dateOctober 1, 2025Amazon rating4.1/5Print length300LanguageEnglishPublisherMontlake
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Frequently Asked Questions about Jeneva Rose
Jeneva Rose writes both standalone novels and series. For series, the books are best read in the order they were published. The Detective Kimberley King series includes Dead Woman Crossing and Last Day Alive. The Perfect series includes The Perfect Marriage and The Perfect Divorce. She also has short stories and novellas, such as #CrimeTime, and a collection titled Sometimes I Scare Myself of Horror. Her standalone novels include The Girl I Was, One of Us is Dead, It's a Date [Again], You Shouldn't Have Come Here, and Home Is Where the Bodies Are.
A good starting point for Jeneva Rose is one of her standalone novels, such as The Girl I Was, published in 2021. Alternatively, readers can begin with the first book in one of her series. The Detective Kimberley King series begins with Dead Woman Crossing (2020), and the Perfect series begins with The Perfect Marriage (2024). These provide an introduction to her style and storytelling.
While some of Jeneva Rose's books can be read as standalones, the series are designed to be read in order. Reading the Detective Kimberley King books, for example, in the sequence Dead Woman Crossing followed by Last Day Alive will provide the intended narrative flow. Similarly, The Perfect Marriage should be read before The Perfect Divorce. Reading series books out of order may result in spoilers or a less cohesive understanding of the characters and plot.
Jeneva Rose writes both standalone novels and series. Her standalone novels offer complete stories within a single book. She also writes series, such as the Detective Kimberley King books and the Perfect books, where the narratives continue across multiple titles. Additionally, she has contributed to short story collections and novellas, further expanding her range of works.
As of 2024, Jeneva Rose has written at least 12 books. This includes two books in the Detective Kimberley King series, two books in the Perfect series, four standalone novels (The Girl I Was, One of Us is Dead, It's a Date [Again], You Shouldn't Have Come Here), and one more standalone novel titled Home Is Where the Bodies Are. She also has a novella collection and a short story collection planned.
The first book Jeneva Rose wrote was Dead Woman Crossing, published in 2020. This novel introduces Detective Kimberley King and marks the beginning of her first series. It sets the stage for her subsequent works in crime fiction and thrillers.
Jeneva Rose's most recent book is Home Is Where the Bodies Are, published in 2024. This standalone novel is part of her growing collection of suspenseful stories. It follows other standalone works like You Shouldn't Have Come Here and It's a Date [Again], both published in 2023.
Jeneva Rose writes thrillers and suspense novels. Her books often feature crime, mystery, and psychological elements. She explores themes of relationships, secrets, and dangerous situations within these genres. Her work includes both series and standalone novels.
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