Natasha Preston is a British author, who spent the majority of her life in the English countryside. Many people called her Tash or Tasha, and the nickname stuck with her. She writes young adult fiction, romance, and thrillers, including “Silence,” “The Cellar,” and a number of stand-alone novels. Natasha, unlike many authors, did not grow up as an avid reader. She didn’t care about school and often got average grades. After school, she realized she was unqualified for many positions and ended up working in receptionist and administration jobs, which she found boring.
She became interested in writing in 2010 when as a hobby, she began writing on Wattpad. Natasha, who had previously only read school books, became captivated. She published her first novel, “Silence” in 2012 and has never looked back. Wattpad opened her eyes to what could be by providing an escape from her mundane life. It also gave her the courage to plunge into the life of writing.
Natasha Preston made her writing debut with “Silence,” which later became a series. Cole and Oakley are the series’ leads, and they both tell the story from their perspectives, which gives the book an intriguing ’s narrative. “Broken Silence” is the second novel in the series. It continues Oakley’s story as she is finally able to confront her traumatic past.
Natasha Preston now lives with her husband and 2 kids in England.
Natasha Preston Books in order
Band
The Cellar
The One
Second Chance
Silence
Standalone Novel
- Covert (2013)
- Save Me (2014)
- Awake (2015)
- The Cabin (2016)
- Reliving Fate (2017)
- Lie To Me (2018)
- After the End (2018)
- The Lost (2019)
- The Twin (2020)
- The Lake (2021)
- The Fear (2022)
Similar authors
- Marieke Nijkamp This Is Where It Ends follows the 54 horrifying minutes of a school shooting. It shows four students who must confront their biggest hopes and fears.
- Six Months Later by Natalie D. Richards centers on an amnesiac girl. She wakes up with everything she’s ever wished for but has no recollection of the previous six months of her life.
See also: Shatter Me Series in Order.
Most recommended books
- Reliving Fate (4.44 Goodreads score)
- Our Chance (4.29 Goodreads score)
- Just Like the Movies (4.27 Goodreads score)
- Broken Silence (Silence, #2) (4.16 Goodreads score)
- Silent Night (Silence, #3.5) (4.14 Goodreads score)
Latest releases
Natasha Preston’s latest release is a psychological thriller called The Fear. It was released in March 2022.
Book summaries
With the Band (2016)
Texas finds herself about to embark on a tour with the object of her many fantasies. Kitt is lead singer of the hottest up-and-coming band, Filthy Sound. She’s been obsessed with him since her rock God dad began mentoring them.Texas and Kitt are about to spend a lot of time cramped in a tour bus, and he’s finding her impossibly tempting. But he knows he’s risking the tour’s success if he breaks her daddy’s strict rule about not touching his daughter.She’s off-limits. He can’t help himself.
The Cellar (2014)
Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her—and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect flowers. His family. But flowers can’t survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out…
You Will Be Mine (2018)
Roses are RedViolets are BlueWatch your backI’m coming for youLylah and her friends can’t wait to spend a night out together. Partying is the perfect way to let loose from the stress of life and school, and Lylah hopes that hitting the dance floor with Chace, her best friend, will bring them closer together. She’s been crushing on him since they met. If only he thought of her the same way…The girls are touching up their makeup and the guys are sliding on their coats when the doorbell rings. No one is there. An envelope sits on the doormat. It’s an anonymous note addressed to their friend Sonny. A secret admirer? Maybe. They all laugh it off. Except Sonny never comes home. And a new note arrives:Your Turn.
Waking Up In Vegas (2019)
There are bad hangovers, then there’s waking up married to your brother’s idiot friend.On the trip of a lifetime, a drunken Wren and intoxicated Brody stumble upon a wedding ceremony and decide to tag along for the ride. But being spectators isn’t quite wild enough when you’ve got tequila in your toes, and before either of them can stop what they’re about to do, “We now pronounce you husband and wife.”Once sober and home, the incompatible newlyweds try everything within their power to end their pantomime marriage. Unfortunately for them, the promise and vows they made to spend their life together now aren’t as easy to break as they’d once hoped.Especially not when Brody starts to have a change of heart.
Just Like The Movies (2020)
He was mine for ten years, and now he belongs to Hollywood.Spencer Lowe, Hollywood’s newest golden boy, has hit the big time. Coming from a small town in England, he never imagined starring in a movie or becoming a household name. Offers from producers come as fast as offers from women.Indie has been in love with her best friend for years, and their short-lived love affair was the best time of her life, but she had let him go so he could follow his dreams. Now she’s alone, stuck inside a nightmare she keeps hidden.With the premiere of Spencer’s first movie coming up, he books a ticket for Indie and takes her to LA. She wants to give in to their chemistry and dive back into a relationship with Spencer, but if she does, she risks exposing the family secret she’s been guarding her whole life
Read My Mind (2020)
The pursuit of happiness is never easy when the person you love already has a significant other. Someone who isn’t you.Mila, desperate for passion in any way she can get it, is back with her boyfriend Liam, despite everyone knowing they’re wrong for each other. Epic loves can’t be forced, but Mila would rather be with someone than no one at all.Reid, her sexy neighbour, has been in love with Mila for years. If only she knew that, behind this editor’s brooding stare, was a man who could be everything she needed in her life. Unfortunately, for a man who plays with words for a living, he seems incapable of stringing a sentence together to tell Mila how he really feels.When the two are finally thrown together, and fate lends a hand, entwining their lives in a way that forces them to face their true feelings for each other, Reid finally has his chance to make her see him. It’s just a shame Mila is already taken…Reid is running out of time to leave more than just a red pen mark on her heart.
Second Chance (2014)
Everyone deserves a second chance at love, but what happens if your second chance comes from someone you should never want?Chloe lost everything when her boyfriend died in a terrorist attack. Logan was the person she turned to when Jace died and she never imagined that would leave her with the biggest dilemma she could face.He makes her question everything. She makes him a better person. They push the limit of right and wrong.Unfortunately, Chloe and Logan are perfect together.
Our Chance (2015)
Nell believes that no good can come from love. Her grandparents screwed it up, her parents screwed it up, so why would it be any different for her?Damon was happy to keep their relationship casual through university, but his feelings for Nell have developed and wants more. With the aid of Nell’s best friend, Chloe, Damon sets out to smash down the wall Nell’s built and show her that not all love is destined to end in disaster.She doesn’t want to let him in. He won’t stop until she does.
Silence (2012)
Eleven years Oakley has been silent, hiding a truth that would rip her world apart.Refusing to communicate beyond a few physical actions, Oakley remains in her own world. Cole is her only friend, he fights for her, protects her, but as they grow closer together, their relationship gets put to the test.When Oakley is forced to face someone from her past, can she hold her secret in any longer?
Broken Silence (2013)
It has been four years since Oakley, her mum, and brother fled to Australia. With the trials looming, she makes the decision to return to England. Oakley is desperate for closure so she can put the past behind her and move on with her life.How will she cope when she comes face to face with the two people that hurt her the most, and the one person that she hurt the most?Her love for Cole never faded, but how will he react to her return after so long? Will they be able to put everything behind them in order to have a happy ending?
Players, Bumps and Cocktail Sausages (2014)
Ex-playboy, Jasper, has hung up his little black book and is strictly a one-woman man.Jasper is shocked when his new wife, Abby, no longer wants the family they’ve planned. She begins to work late and withdraw from their marriage, leaving Jasper questioning his decision to give her a second chance.Holly starts working for Jasper, and as the two grow closer, he takes action, sparking a chain of events that makes his once well planned out life spiral out of control.To get what he wants, he first has to lose everything.
Covert (2013)
After seven friends take a trip to a secluded log cabin, what should have been a drunken weekend of fun end ends in the tragic and brutal murder of two of them.Mackenzie Keaton and four of her friends wake in a disorientated state to find the bodies of Josh Harper and Courtney Young on the kitchen floor.With the police determining that there was no forced entry or signs of a struggle, suspicion turn to the five survivors. And everyone’s finger is pointed to Josh’s estranged brother, Blake.Mackenzie refuses to believe any one of them could have done it and embarks on her own investigation to prove their innocence, but after a few shocking revelations, she is forced to face the fact that one of them is the murderer.
Save Me (2014)
Tegan used to be fun-loving and carefree, but now she’s on a self-inflicted downward spiral of booze and boys. Her life is torn apart by tragedy, and now there are two men wanting to put it back together.Kai was only supposed to be a bit of physical fun, but their friends-with-benefits arrangement is developing into something else. Lucas wants a future with her, but is their relationship too complicated to ever work?To save her life, she needs to be honest with herself.To stop someone getting hurt, she needs to let one of them go.
Awake (2015)
Scarlett Garner doesn’t remember anything before the age of four—until a car accident changes everything. She starts to remember pieces of a past that frighten her. A past her parents hid from her…and a secret that could get her killed.
The Cabin (2016)
A weekend partying at a remote cabin is just what Mackenzie needs. She can’t wait to let loose with her friends. But a crazy night of fun leaves two of them dead—murdered.With no signs of a forced entry or struggle, suspicion turns to the five survivors. Someone isn’t telling the truth. And Mackenzie’s first mistake? Assuming the killing is over.
Reliving Fate (2017)
When Bella stumbles upon her dead sister’s diary, she sets out on a mission to find her sister’s killer, but it leads her to the wrong side of town.And right into the path of Rocco, a loner, a bad boy, who is determined to keep her away. After all, you protect your own, and Bella certainly doesn’t belong with the likes of him.But it’s hard to move on when you’re chained to the past, and Bella is intent on getting justice for her sister…even if it’s at the cost of her own life.
Lie To Me (2018)
It was hate at first sight.At nineteen, Savannah Dean escaped her family, leaving behind a note and the people who caused her so much pain.At nineteen, Kent Lawson’s girlfriend betrayed him, leaving him behind with a broken heart and a whole lot of mistrust in women.When Savannah and Kent meet, they can’t stand each other. Kent knows she’s hiding something, and he despises liars. And Savannah has nothing but secrets.
After the End (2018)
One fatal mistake changes Tilly’s and Lincoln’s lives forever, and things will never be the way they used to be.After the tragedy, Lincoln and his family flee the hometown they are no longer welcome in.Four years later, still grieving the death of her brother, Tilly’s world is rocked again when Lincoln returns.Distance and too much bad history haven’t stopped Lincoln from loving Tilly. He wants to beg for her forgiveness, but to avoid hurting her more, he tries to keep his distance from her … until he sees her fighting her feelings for him, and then nothing can keep him away.
The Lost (2019)
It’s a fight for survival in a building designed to ensure that no one makes it out alive.In Piper’s hometown, teenagers keep disappearing, and everyone assumes they’re just a bunch of runaways. But when yet another person vanishes, Piper and her best friend Hazel suspect something more sinister is going on.So they decide to investigate, determined to learn the truth. Their search for answers leads them to the source of the missing…and their captors. Piper and Hazel suddenly find themselves locked away in a secluded property in the middle of a privately owned forest.But the building isn’t only meant to keep them imprisoned; every room is a test to see if they can make it out alive.And failure means being lost…forever.
The Twin (2020)
Ivy and Iris haven’t lived together for years—when their mother and father divorced, each parent got custody of one twin. But after a tragic accident takes their mom’s life, the devastated sisters are reunited, and Iris moves in with Ivy and their dad. Iris takes their mom’s death especially hard. She barely talks, spending hours alone in her room. Ivy can’t stand to see Iris so sad. She promised Iris that she can share her life now. After all, they’re sisters. Twins. It’s a promise that Iris takes seriously. And before long, Ivy’s friends, her teachers, and even her boyfriend fall under Iris’s spell. Soon Ivy begins to think there’s something wrong with her twin. It’s almost like Iris is out to get her. Ivy tells herself she’s being paranoid. It’s not like she’s in any danger from her twin. .
The Lake (2021)
Esme and Kayla once were campers at Camp Pine Lake. Now they’re back as counselors-in-training. Esme loves the little girls in her cabin and thinks it’s funny how scared they are of everything—the woods, the bugs, the boys…even swimming in the lake. It reminds her of how she and Kayla used to be. Before…Because Esme and Kayla did something terrible when they were campers. Something they’ve kept a secret all these years. They vow that this summer will be awesome. Two months of sun, s’mores, and flirting with the cute boy counselors. But then they get a message:The lake never forgets.The secret they’ve kept buried for so many years is about to resurface.
The Fear (2022)
It’s just a stupid meme that’s going around their small fishing town in the dead of winter—people reposting and sharing their biggest fear. But when her classmates start turning up dead—dying in the way that they said scared them the most—Izzy knows it’s no joke. With each death hitting closer to home, Izzy sets out to try to stop the killer. Could her older sister’s friend Tristan have something to do with the deaths? He’s given her some strange vibes. Or what about his brooding cousin, Axel? But he’s in her classes at school. He’s not a murderer . . . is he? Izzie’s soon on a path that will lead her right to the killer and her own worst nightmare.
