Alexandria Bellefleur Books in Order

Alexandria Bellefleur grew up on the Eastside, in Bellevue, and she still talks about Seattle as home. That attachment runs straight through her fiction. The Pacific Northwest in her books is not just backdrop, it is weather, neighborhood mood, coffee shops, waterfront walks, and the small local details that make a romance feel lived in.

Books were there early.

She has said her mom helped make reading a big part of her life, but writing arrived a little later. In high school she started dabbling in fanfiction, with Twilight as her first fandom, and that opened the door to original work. Fanfic also gave her space to imagine the queer love stories and happy endings she was not finding often enough in the books and media she grew up with.

That mix of deep genre love and readerly wish-fulfillment shaped the career that followed. Before her debut novel landed, Bellefleur was a 2018 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart finalist. Then Written in the Stars came out in 2020 and quickly found its audience. The book later won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance and a 2020 Ripped Bodice Award.

Her romances tend to be funny, hot, and openly built for people who love rom-coms. She likes a strong trope, fake dating, second chances, marriage of convenience, enemies to lovers, but she does not stop at the setup. Under the banter, her characters are usually dealing with family pressure, fear of commitment, old hurts, or the uneasy feeling that love might ask them to risk more than they planned.

Seattle matters.

In the connected Written in the Stars novels, she follows a circle of friends and family through holiday chaos, crushes that never really went away, and relationships that look messy before they look easy. Hang the Moon gives the spotlight to Brendon Lowell, who tries to woo his longtime crush with movie-worthy dates, while Count Your Lucky Stars turns to former best friends Margot and Olivia for a second-chance romance. Readers who like a strong sense of place, a recurring friend group, and plenty of chemistry usually do well here.

She also likes premises with a little extra shine. The Fiancée Farce takes a fake girlfriend lie and spins it into a bookish marriage-of-convenience story. Truly, Madly, Deeply pairs a romance novelist with a divorce lawyer on a dating-advice podcast, which lets Bellefleur lean into friction, flirting, and emotional U-turns. Her later work, including The Devil She Knows, pushes into paranormal rom-com territory without losing the warmth or the jokes.

What stays consistent is the voice. Readers come to Bellefleur for sharp banter, grumpy and sunshine energy, queer joy, and sex scenes that stay playful without dropping the emotional stakes. They also come for characters who have to rethink the version of love they told themselves they wanted.

Now she lives in New York City with her cats, Mills and Boon. Her official bio includes the kind of details that feel very on brand for her books too: she is serious about finding great Pad Thai, remembers faces better than names, and sometimes falls asleep in movie theaters.