Marilyn Pappano/ Rachel Butler

Marilyn Pappano is an American bestselling and award-winning author of romance and romantic suspense books. She has authored more than twenty standalones and four book series. She also writes Selena McCaffrey series under the pen name, Rachel Butler.

The best place to start is the Born in the USA series, the earliest of Marilyn Pappano/ Rachel Butler's multi-book series: it opens with First Things Last (1984) and runs to 23 books across 1984–1999, ending with Bittersweet Sacrifice (1999). Marilyn Pappano/ Rachel Butler's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Marilyn Pappano/ Rachel Butler has 376 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1981 and 2021. 348 of them belong to 18 named series — the largest being the Born in the USA series with 23 books — and 28 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Marilyn Pappano/ Rachel Butler's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Born in the USA (1984–1999, 23 books), Somebody Trilogy (1989–2006, 3 books) and Southern Knights (1994–1998, 7 books), plus 10 more.

This guide splits Marilyn Pappano/ Rachel Butler's 376 books into 18 named series and 28 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Born in the USA (23 books, 1984–1999); Romancing the Crown (13 books, 2002–2008); Men In Blue (13 books, 1998–2000); The Copper Lake - with the Calloway Brothers (12 books, 2007–2014); Bethlehem (8 books, 1997–2003), plus 13 further series.