14 Best Tessa Bailey Books

Party-girl Piper Bellinger is cut off from her LA lifestyle and sent to run her late father’s rundown bar in a Pacific Northwest fishing town, where a gruff widowed sea captain challenges what she wants—and who she really is.

Music-obsessed Hannah Bellinger returns to Westport to work on a film and crashes with Fox Thornton, the town’s notorious player and her late-night text buddy. Determined to stay friends, they try to ignore simmering attraction while Fox battles the belief he’s only good for casual flings.

Rosie and Dominic Vega’s marriage looks solid from the outside, but inside they’re barely speaking. A trial separation and a hilariously intense couples’ therapist force the silent construction foreman and his vibrant wife to relearn how to talk, touch, and choose each other again.

Perfectionist house stager Bethany Castle breaks away from her family’s company to flip a wreck of a house on her own, only to have younger cowboy Wes Daniels volunteer as her foreman. Their on-camera renovation rivalry turns into a battle of wills, desire, and who’s brave enough to commit.

Clown-for-hire Georgie Castle is tired of being the overlooked little sister when she proposes a fake relationship with washed-up baseball star Travis Ford to rehabilitate both their images. Pretend kisses turn real as they challenge each other to want more than anyone expected.

Fresh out of prison and low on luck, Stella finds herself critiquing the disastrous holiday windows of a famous Manhattan department store to a stranger—who turns out to be its upbeat owner, Aiden. Hired to redesign the displays, she must navigate a second chance, office rules, and an irresistible boss.

Washed-up golf star Wells Whitaker has one loyal fan left: Josephine Doyle, the redhead who cheers every disastrous round. After a hurricane ruins her pro shop, he begs her to be his caddy and partner in a comeback, turning rivals of circumstance into lovers on and off the course.

Addison Potts crashes her estranged cousin’s Charleston wedding and unexpectedly becomes getaway driver for the jilted groom, future mayor Elijah Montgomery Du Pont. Hiding out together, they build an unlikely friendship that slowly morphs into something far riskier than political scandal.

Second-grade teacher Taylor expects a sun-soaked Cape Cod trip with her brother, not a dead body in their rental house. Grumpy bounty hunter Myles wants her to stay out of his investigation, but repeated attempts on her life force them into a reluctant, wildly hot sleuthing partnership.

When Ginger Peet steals a bag of dirty money to flee her toxic mother, she and her sister land in Chicago next door to Derek Tyler, a possessive homicide lieutenant. Hiding her past from the cop who wants to protect—and claim—her gets complicated fast.

Out-of-work actress Roxy Cumberland sings dirty telegrams in a bunny costume to pay rent, then embarrasses high-powered lawyer Louis McNally at his own front door. Their instant attraction sparks a battle between her distrust of rich boys and his determination to prove he’s more than his pedigree.

Free-spirited gardener Hallie Welch is hired to redo the grounds of the Vos family vineyard and suddenly working outside the window of her longtime crush, uptight professor Julian Vos. A drunken anonymous love letter and clashing personalities turn their Napa summer into a messy, intoxicating romance.

Down-on-her-luck heiress Natalie Vos needs a husband to unlock her trust fund; gruff ex–Navy SEAL turned failing winemaker August Cates needs cash to keep his vineyard afloat. Their hostile marriage of convenience quickly fills with real sparks, nosy locals, and inconvenient feelings.

Melody Gallard, daughter of a reclusive rock legend, agrees to film a Christmas Eve reunion show to fix her finances and reconnect with charismatic Beat Dawkins, the son of her mother’s former bandmate. As they wrangle feuding rock stars, brawling Santas, and a relentless crew, long-buried feelings roar back to life.