Nat Burns Novels

2010 TITLE

Two Weeks in August

Nina Christie was warned, but Hazy Duncan is even worse than she expected. Nina’s new home on Chincoteague Island would be perfect but for the blight of Hazy’s perpetual rudeness.

2010 TITLE

House of Cards

The reason for gathering may be cards, but the game is really gossip. Widow Kaylen Stauder is more or less content with her non-dating status.

2012 TITLE

Identity

Shay Raynor doesn’t need to learn anything twice. After a disastrous three-year relationship, she now knows what happens when you let someone inside your heart, body, and mind—they take everything.

2013 TITLE

Gospel

Using erotic poetry and prose, Gospel takes the reader on a journey into the mysterious world of woman-to-woman relationships. The first part, Genesis (We Desire), focuses on the initial, all-consuming attraction two women can feel for one another.

2014 TITLE

Family Issue

Vandalism and violence at Fortune Farm have pulled investigator Denni Hope home to Southern Louisiana. Her insistent ex-girlfriend, Patty Price, expects Denni to get to the bottom of an endless nightmare of trouble.

2015 TITLE

Nether Regions

Delora November is a survivor—ask anyone in Redstar, Alabama, and they will tell you that. Her ex-husband put her in a burn ward, and she came fighting back. She works three jobs, and on the surface, she’s keeping it together.

2016 TITLE

Lights of the Heart

Physician Corinthia Madsen Salas—Dr. Maddie—has a flourishing practice in the tiny southern town of Maypearl, Alabama.

2016 TITLE

The Wittering Way

The Meab have lived peacefully in the forest surrounding Lake Feidlimed for millions of centuries. Even when humans arrived in their silver sky ships, the Meab stayed strong, if hidden.

2017 TITLE

The Rustle of Leaves

This horror novel by romance writer Nat Burns shows the darker side of a beloved author. Just because Lacey has won the election to become sheriff of Queens Lot doesn’t mean people will believe in her—especially when she sees a pattern of deaths.

DESERT WILLOW SERIES • 2018

The Liaison

Book One in the Desert Willow Series. When Lily Dawson’s estranged father passes away, she is forced to return to her childhood home in New Mexico to settle his affairs and prepare the sprawling cattle ranch for sale. Once there, Lily is dumbfounded by what she discovers.

2018 TITLE

By the Wind’s Will

Fidelia Grace Nelson, nicknamed Foxy for her thick red hair and wild nature, came to America in the 1700s to help populate the new settlement of Savannah, Georgia. Though disappointment reigned supreme in this new land, Foxy’s good nature buoyed everyone as she grew.

2019 TITLE

The Heavensent

Set in a dystopian future, Nathan Casy escapes the mines of Mars while working on a shanghaiing mission to Earth. On the run, he encounters a band of people with telepathy, a mutation spawned by War Four.

DESERT WILLOW SERIES • 2023

Rosemary

In this highly anticipated second book in The Desert Willow Series, the Grey aliens are back and Lily Dawson, the government liaison to the Interdimensional Beings who protect Earth, is called back into action.

2023 RELEASE

Stepping Through

Is there another dimension? Can we go there? Stepping Through is made up of twenty-six stories about ordinary people who encounter situations that aren’t easily explained, such as the abused wife who falls in love with a dimension engineer.

2024 RELEASE

Pony Dakota

When redheaded computer whiz Emma Vernon arrives at The Workflow Editorial Initiative to be its coding troubleshooter, she is forced to temporarily share an office with quiet, serious senior editor Barbara Simmons. Scholarly Barbara, nicknamed Bebe, fascinates Emma.

2026 RELEASE

Roses Jesse No Last Name

When a mysterious break-in rocks the quiet town of Mogolle Junction, newspaper editor North Westin expects a routine story. What she finds instead is Esme Proper—a captivating newcomer with a hillside home, a rose tattoo, and a past she has worked hard to outrun.

NEW MYSTERY SERIES • 2026

Hot Tea and Lemon

Betsy Barlowe owns and operates Tea Haven, a busy tearoom in the tourist mecca of Calypso Shores, Texas, a town infused with a cast of colorful characters who live and work there.