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Love Lies Beneath

by Ellen Hopkins

The Love Lies Beneath series by Ellen Hopkins has 2 known books (2 published). It is best read in publication order, starting with Love Lies Beneath (2015).

Books
2 known books (2 novels)
Published
2
First published
2015
Status
completed
Shelved under
Literary Fiction
Start here: Love Lies Beneath (2015) — then read straight through in publication order.
Book one
Cover of Love Lies Beneath
Love Lies Beneath (2015)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. Love Lies Beneath

    Novel
    Love Lies Beneath is the novel that opens Love Lies Beneath, by Ellen Hopkins, first published in 2015 at 320 pages. It's followed in the reading order by A Sin Such as This, in a series of 2 books that ran from 2015 to 2018.
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  2. A Sin Such as This

    Novel
    A Sin Such as This is the 2nd entry in Love Lies Beneath, by Ellen Hopkins, published in 2018 at 384 pages. It follows Love Lies Beneath and closes out the 2-book series, which ran from 2015 to 2018.
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Key facts about the Love Lies Beneath series

Our list has 2 books in the Love Lies Beneath series. Since all 2 are out now, you can read the whole list today.

Start with Love Lies Beneath, since it opens the publication order in 2015. A Sin Such as This is book 2, from 2018.

The list keeps the books in date order, while each title links to its own page. Each book page shows its dates and editions. Since the catalogue marks the series as complete, we list no next book.

The books came out between 2015 and 2018, while their length runs from 320 to 384 pages. That is a run of 3 years.

Ellen Hopkins has 21 books on our list. Additionally, they write Crank, Burned and Impulse, plus 1 more series. We shelve the books under fiction.

About the Love Lies Beneath series

A young widow gets drawn into a dangerous affair with a complicated doctor in Love Lies Beneath (2015), one of Ellen Hopkins's adult prose novels (unlike her verse-format YA work). A Sin Such as This (2018) continues the story. Both are written in conventional prose rather than the free verse of Hopkins's young-adult fiction, part of a parallel adult-fiction career she's maintained alongside her better-known YA verse novels.

Frequently asked questions

Are Love Lies Beneath and A Sin Such as This written in verse?

No -- unlike most of Ellen Hopkins's better-known young-adult work, these are conventional prose novels for adult readers.

Is there a book before Love Lies Beneath?

Ellen Hopkins published a short prequel, On the Rocks, as a free web serial on Wattpad, but it was never released as a standalone commercial book, so it isn't tracked as a numbered entry here.

How many books are in the Love Lies Beneath series?

Two: Love Lies Beneath (2015) and A Sin Such as This (2018).

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