Do-Over Books in Order

The Do-Over series is Julia Kent in small-town mode, with a little less billionaire excess and a lot more awkward history. These books are set around Anderhill, Massachusetts, and they are built on the idea that adulthood has a nasty habit of reopening the exact doors you thought you had shut years ago. Old crushes come back. Old betrayals resurface. Old versions of yourself start arguing with the person you are trying to become.

That is why the title fits so well. Every book is some version of a second shot. Sometimes it is a second chance at love. Sometimes it is a chance to finally understand what went wrong the first time. Sometimes it is just the chance to stop telling yourself a story that is no longer true.

The series starts with Little Miss Perfect, a prequel that captures Mallory and Will in high school, right before everything changes. Fluffy picks up years later and gives them one of Julia Kent's best comic premises, when Mallory mistakes a Craigslist ad for a home-staging job and ends up on an adult film set. From there, the series branches to other women in the same wider circle. Perky handles viral humiliation and lost trust. Feisty leans into enemies-to-lovers energy with a disastrous blind date. Hasty turns inward a bit more, using family expectations and personal reinvention as part of the romance.

Because these books stay close to a shared hometown network, they have a friendly, overlapping feel. Sisters, friends, exes, wedding parties, and old classmates keep wandering back in. Even when a book centers a new couple, the earlier stories still matter because the characters carry that history with them.

The humor can get very broad.

But the emotional stakes are usually familiar and human. Shame. Reputation. The fear that everyone remembers your worst moment. The worry that the person who once hurt you might still have the power to do it again. The relief of discovering you are not finished growing just because life did not go the way you planned.

If you want romantic comedy that blends goofy setups with small-town memory, recurring friendships, and a lot of second chances, Do-Over is the series to pick. These books may start with spectacular embarrassment, but they are really about people figuring out how to move forward without pretending the past never happened.