Charleston Books in Order

Natasha Boyd's Charleston series takes a lighter, more openly comic turn, but it is still very much interested in the thing she does well elsewhere, people with emotional baggage colliding with people who refuse to let them hide behind it. These books are contemporary romances set in and around Charleston, and the city gives them a polished, playful energy.

The series follows men connected to the Montgomery family, especially Trystan and Beau, and pairs them with women who are much better at seeing through them than they expect. In Accidental Tryst, the setup is a great modern rom-com problem: an airport phone mix-up leaves Emmy and Trystan stranded with each other's lives in their hands. What starts as damage control turns into a relationship built through texts, calls, and long-distance honesty, with Charleston waiting in the background as both a home base and a pressure point.

Charleston does a lot of the work.

Boyd uses the city in a way that feels both glossy and lived-in. You get old-money nerves, family expectations, marinas, hidden favorite spots, and that blend of Southern charm and social scrutiny that can make a romantic mess even messier. The Montgomery name carries weight, and that matters. These books are not just about attraction. They are also about what family money, inheritance, and reputation can do to a person's idea of what is sensible, safe, or even possible.

That thread becomes even clearer in Inconvenient Wife. Beau Montgomery wants to build boats, not play society groom, but marriage suddenly becomes tangled up with inheritance and his future plans. Gwen, his longtime best friend, already knows the gap between what Beau says he wants and what he actually needs. That friends-to-lovers setup gives the series a warmer, more rooted second act, and it keeps Charleston itself firmly in view through the marina world and Beau's dream of building something real with his own hands.

These are fast reads, but they are not empty ones. Boyd likes witty back-and-forth, awkward situations, and romantic premises that sound impossible until the characters talk themselves into trouble. Underneath the humor, the Charleston books keep returning to class differences, trust, family history, and the fear of choosing wrong. The heroines are usually the steadier presence, the people with enough self-knowledge to call out nonsense when they see it.

So if Butler Cove is Natasha Boyd's emotional coastal romance world, Charleston is her sharper, breezier rom-com lane. The books are connected by family and setting, but each couple has its own shape and its own problem to solve. Expect chemistry, texting, misunderstandings, inheritance drama, and a city that is every bit as charming and opinionated as the people living in it.