Breaking the Rules (Melinda Curtis) Books in Order
Part ofMelinda Curtis Books in OrderExplore the Breaking the Rules books by Melinda Curtis, with quick summaries, series background, and help starting this hotter Hollywood romance line.
Last updated: July 5, 2026
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Breaking the Rules (Melinda Curtis) books in publication order
7 books
Amber Rules
by Melinda Curtis
2013
Amber Rule wants her inheritance and her privacy, but first she has to coach NBA bad boy Evan Oliver. She knows nothing about basketball, and he has no intention of making things easy.
Blue Rules
by Melinda Curtis
2013
Blue Rule is dragged into the family life-coaching business and promptly turned into a TV matchmaker for his own glamorous exes. Hollywood, ego, and bad ideas make this one gleefully messy.
Breaking the Rules
by Melinda Curtis
2014
Jack and Vivian Gordon's marriage is hanging by a thread, and Cora Rule has an outrageous fix. Locking them in a room with their divorce papers might save their relationship, or finish it for good.
Cora Rules
by Melinda Curtis
2014
Cora's inheritance comes with a brutal condition, no new clothes for a year and a surprise assignment helping her ex-lover's wife. An NBA coach with his own interest in her makes the year even trickier.
Gemma Rules
by Melinda Curtis
2014
Gemma's online alter ego, GlitterfrostGem, is bold, mysterious, and nothing like the real woman behind the account. When Randy Farrell wants a date with the fantasy version, reality gets complicated.
Fighting for Love
by Melinda Curtis
2016
Injured MMA fighter Emerald Jones takes illegal fights to pay for her stepfather's surgery. Billionaire Graham Richmond wants the fights shut down, until his obsession with the woman at the center of them changes everything.
Hollywood Confidential
by Melinda Curtis
2016
This bonus companion is not a new full romance but a collection of extra scenes from the Breaking the Rules world. It adds steamy moments, hookups, and behind-closed-doors material for series readers.
Breaking the Rules (Melinda Curtis) books in chronological order
Amber Rules
by Melinda Curtis
2013Breaking the Rules, Book 1
Blue Rules
by Melinda Curtis
2013Breaking the Rules, Book 2
Cora Rules
by Melinda Curtis
2014Breaking the Rules, Book 3
Gemma Rules
by Melinda Curtis
2014Breaking the Rules, Book 4
Breaking the Rules
by Melinda Curtis
2014Breaking the Rules, Book 5
Fighting for Love
by Melinda Curtis
2016Breaking the Rules, Book 6
Hollywood Confidential
by Melinda Curtis
2016Breaking the Rules, Book 7
Series background & context
Breaking the Rules sits on a different shelf from Melinda Curtis's sweeter small-town books. These are hotter, glossier contemporary romances, written as Mel Curtis, and set around the Dooley Foundation, a celebrity life-coaching empire built on image, secrets, and the illusion that somebody else can fix your life.
Naturally, the family running it is a mess.
The series begins after patriarch Dooley Rule dies and leaves his children to sort through the business and the damage. Each book spins into some mix of Hollywood pressure, personal reinvention, inheritance trouble, professional chaos, and very inconvenient attraction. There are actors, reality stars, athletes, billionaires, image problems, and more paparazzi energy than you will find anywhere in Harmony Valley.
Even with the flashier setting, Curtis keeps the focus on people who have learned how to perform a version of themselves. That is what makes the romances work. The real conflict is often about who these characters are off camera, off script, or away from the brand the world recognizes. The sexier tone fits that setup because desire and self-protection are always tangled together.
If you like your romance faster, sharper, and more openly messy than her Heartwarming titles, this is the series to pick. Start at the beginning and let the Rule family self-destruct in entertaining fashion.
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