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Connecticut Kings Books in Order

Part ofLove Belvin Books in Order

See Love Belvin's Connecticut Kings books in order, with summaries, crossover context, and a quick guide to her football romances in the series.

Last updated: June 8, 2026

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4 books

1

Love In the Red Zone

by Love Belvin

2016

Quarterback Trent Bailey is fighting to protect his second chance in the league when Jade Matthews and her son land unexpectedly in his path. What looks like a distraction starts to feel a lot more like grace.

2

End Zone Love

by Love Belvin

2017

Trent and Jade have made it through the red zone and into marriage, but safety is never guaranteed. Old faces and familiar pressures test the trust they fought so hard to build.

3

Love's Ineligible Receiver

by Love Belvin

2018

Rutledge Amare enters the Kings with talent, ego, and a contract that says nobody fully believes in him yet. Determined to prove everyone wrong, he meets Parker Grayson and finds love may be the harder assignment.

4

Love's Encroachment

by Love Belvin

2021

Head coach Launz Pierce is trying to rebuild the Connecticut Kings when Nyederra Taylor, the woman who vanished from his life decades earlier, reappears. Their reunion brings old desire, buried pain, and a secret too large to ignore.

Series background & context

Love Belvin's Connecticut Kings books sit inside a larger football romance world she shares with Christina C. Jones, but her entries have a very clear identity. They use the Kings franchise as the stage for emotionally charged love stories about players, public scrutiny, contracts, image repair, and the way private mess gets louder when sports fame is involved.

Football is the backdrop. Relationships are the real contact sport.

In Belvin's part of the series, you get a mix of setups. Love In the Red Zone and End Zone Love follow Trent Bailey and Jade Matthews through redemption, marriage, family pressure, and the hard work of protecting what they built. Love's Ineligible Receiver shifts to a newer King trying to prove himself while navigating therapy, ego, and attraction under team pressure. Love's Encroachment widens the lens with a second-chance romance built around head coach Launz Pierce and the woman who vanished from his life decades earlier. Love's Neutral Zone folds in forbidden love and summer proximity through Maaz Zyad and Sundryia Matthews.

That variety is part of the appeal. Some books feel more like classic player romances. Others bring in coaching, parenting, old secrets, or complicated family ties. The team connects them, but each story has its own emotional engine.

Belvin also keeps the East Coast setting alive. Cities, families, league politics, and public reputation all shape how these characters move. The football details matter, but the books are just as interested in trust issues, self-esteem, healing, and whether love can survive attention from fans, media, and relatives who always have an opinion.

If you want sports romance with real emotional sprawl, this shared series gives Belvin a sturdy arena to do what she does best: put flawed adults under pressure and see whether love can hold.

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Richard Reis

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Anurag Ramdasan

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