By Design Books in Order
Part ofNancy Ann Healy Books in OrderSee the By Design books by Nancy Ann Healy in order, with quick summaries, family and politics background, and help on where to start.
Last updated: July 12, 2026
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By Design books in publication order
20 books
By Design
by Nancy Ann Healy
2015
Architect Jameson Reid and Senator Candace Fletcher come from very different worlds, but their connection is immediate. Politics, business, and family soon make their romance anything but simple.
New Additions
by Nancy Ann Healy
2015
The family circle grows, and with it come fresh responsibilities, louder opinions, and more chances for love and chaos to share the same room.
Rough Drafts
by Nancy Ann Healy
2015
As their lives keep changing, Jameson and Candace discover that no good future arrives perfectly finished. They have to revise plans, expectations, and what partnership looks like day to day.
Solid Foundation
by Nancy Ann Healy
2015
Love is no longer the only question. Jameson and Candace have to decide whether they can create a life strong enough to hold both romance and family.
Under Construction
by Nancy Ann Healy
2015
Jameson and Candace try to turn early attraction into something lasting. Washington pressure and family opinions prove that building a relationship takes more than chemistry.
Building Blocks
by Nancy Ann Healy
2016
The Reid-Fletcher clan keeps growing into itself. Piece by piece, love, loyalty, and everyday messiness become the materials of a lasting family.
Renovations
by Nancy Ann Healy
2016
Old hurts and old habits need reworking if Candace and Jameson want the next phase of life to feel solid. This installment leans into family repairs as much as romance.
Campaign Trail
by Nancy Ann Healy
2017
Candace's political ambitions push the family into a new public spotlight. Campaign life brings long days, high stakes, and fresh pressure on every relationship around her.
Election Day
by Nancy Ann Healy
2017
Votes are counted, nerves fray, and the future of both a career and a family hangs in the balance. Public life has never felt more personal.
Road Blocks
by Nancy Ann Healy
2017
Just when life seems settled, new obstacles force Candace and Jameson to rethink timing, priorities, and how much strain their bond can take.
Commander in Chief
by Nancy Ann Healy
2018
The political stakes rise again as power moves closer to the center. Candace and Jameson must balance leadership, marriage, and the demands of a family that never stops moving.
Situation Room
by Nancy Ann Healy
2019
Crisis management comes home in a White House era installment full of pressure, competing loyalties, and decisions that refuse to stay neatly divided between public and private.
Domestic Policy
by Nancy Ann Healy
2020
National leadership is only part of the challenge. At home, family needs, old tensions, and the ordinary work of love keep demanding equal attention.
Independence Day
by Nancy Ann Healy
2022
Freedom, duty, and family loyalty take center stage in a holiday-timed chapter of the Reid-Fletcher saga. Big public moments come with intimate consequences.
State of the Union
by Nancy Ann Healy
2022
Candace and Jameson face another turning point where political reality and family truth collide. The series keeps one eye on Washington and the other on the people at the kitchen table.
Executive Order
by Nancy Ann Healy
2023
Fast decisions and high political pressure drive this later installment. Candace and Jameson have to protect both their principles and the people they love.
Campaign Season
by Nancy Ann Healy
2025
A new campaign brings back the noise, pace, and scrutiny of public life. The family knows the drill, but that does not make the cost any smaller.
Revisions
by Nancy Ann Healy
2025
Late in the series, old choices are revisited and future plans are rewritten. Personal growth matters just as much as political strategy here.
A By Design Valentine
by Nancy Ann Healy
2026
A lighter Valentine visit with the Reid-Fletcher world, full of affection, family energy, and the small romantic moments that keep a long relationship alive.
Balance of Power
by Nancy Ann Healy
2026
This later By Design entry turns on influence, loyalty, and the fragile line between private conviction and public responsibility.
By Design books in chronological order

By Design
by Nancy Ann Healy
2015By Design, Book 1
Under Construction
by Nancy Ann Healy
2015By Design, Book 2
Solid Foundation
by Nancy Ann Healy
2015By Design, Book 3
Rough Drafts
by Nancy Ann Healy
2015By Design, Book 4
New Additions
by Nancy Ann Healy
2015By Design, Book 5
Renovations
by Nancy Ann Healy
2016By Design, Book 6
Building Blocks
by Nancy Ann Healy
2016By Design, Book 7
Road Blocks
by Nancy Ann Healy
2017By Design, Book 8
Campaign Trail
by Nancy Ann Healy
2017By Design, Book 9
Election Day
by Nancy Ann Healy
2017By Design, Book 10
Commander in Chief
by Nancy Ann Healy
2018By Design, Book 11
Situation Room
by Nancy Ann Healy
2019By Design, Book 12
Domestic Policy
by Nancy Ann Healy
2020By Design, Book 13
State of the Union
by Nancy Ann Healy
2022By Design, Book 14
Independence Day
by Nancy Ann Healy
2022By Design, Book 15
Executive Order
by Nancy Ann Healy
2023By Design, Book 16
Revisions
by Nancy Ann Healy
2025By Design, Book 17
Campaign Season
by Nancy Ann Healy
2025By Design, Book 18
A By Design Valentine
by Nancy Ann Healy
2026By Design, Book 19
Balance of Power
by Nancy Ann Healy
2026By Design, Book 20
Series background & context
The By Design series begins with a simple but sturdy setup: architect Jameson Reid and Senator Candace Fletcher meet across a divide of age, temperament, and profession, and then have to figure out whether love can survive the worlds they already live in. From there, the series grows into something much bigger than a straightforward romance.
Candace is rooted in politics. Jameson is rooted in design, structure, and a much more private kind of ambition. That contrast gives the early books their shape. By Design, Under Construction, and Solid Foundation are all built around the same question, how do you create a relationship that can hold up under pressure when both people already have full, demanding lives?
Then the family starts talking.
That is one of the defining pleasures of this series. By Design is not just about Candace and Jameson in isolation. It is about the whole noisy, loving, opinionated family around them. Parents, children, grandchildren, friends, and in-laws are not window dressing. They bring warmth, comedy, conflict, and the sense that love is something you live inside of, not just something you declare. The books often feel just as comfortable around a crowded table as they do in a campaign office.
As the series goes on, the political side expands. What starts with a senator's life moves outward into campaigns, elections, public scrutiny, and eventually national leadership. Titles like Campaign Trail, Election Day, Commander in Chief, and Situation Room show how far the scope stretches. But even when the setting moves closer to the center of power, the emotional rhythm stays familiar. Healy keeps returning to marriage, parenting, loyalty, and the challenge of holding onto a private self when public life wants to swallow everything.
The tone is warm, busy, and deeply domestic, even when the stakes are national. If Alex and Cassidy is Healy's thriller side, By Design is her family-and-politics side. There is romance, but there is also daily life. There are big speeches and kitchen-table arguments. There are strategic decisions and family jokes. It is a long-running series that asks readers to care about both the headlines and the home front.
Read this one in order. The later books pay off best when you have seen the relationship take shape from the beginning, and when you already know the wider Reid-Fletcher clan well enough to enjoy every new complication they bring.
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