Erin Watt Books in Order

If you want the main Royals story: Paper Princess → Broken Prince → Twisted Palace
If you want more Royal family drama: Tarnished Crown → Fallen Heir → Cracked Kingdom
If you want a celebrity fake-dating romance: When It's Real
If you want something sadder and more grounded: One Small Thing

Erin Watt is the shared pen name of Jen Frederick and Elle Kennedy, two romance authors who teamed up to write books with high emotion, sharp cliffhangers, and a taste for chaos. Under that name they built a small but very recognizable shelf: wealthy families, messy loyalty, teenagers under pressure, and love stories that rarely take the easy road.

Kennedy grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and knew early that she wanted to write. She started chasing that seriously as a teenager, earned a BA in English from York University, and went on to build a long solo career in contemporary romance and romantic suspense.

Frederick was born in Korea, adopted by an American family, and raised in Iowa. She has said that National Novel Writing Month helped push her from thinking about writing to actually doing it, and she now lives in the Midwest with her husband, daughter, and a rambunctious dog.

Together, they found a sweet spot between glossy fantasy and raw feelings.

The partnership grew out of the romance writing world, where the two authors became friends and started tossing story ideas back and forth. They have described plotting together, then writing from different places and trading pages, which helps explain why the Erin Watt books feel both tightly paced and a little wild. They also bring different instincts to the work, which gives the stories their mix of romance, speed, and emotional whiplash.

Their breakout under the pen name was Paper Princess, the first Royals novel, which throws Ella Harper into the orbit of the rich, damaged Royal family. Readers who love the series usually talk about the speed first: the social battles, the house rules, the class tension, and the constant push and pull between Ella and Reed. Broken Prince and Twisted Palace keep that pressure on and turn the family drama up even higher.

These books move fast.

Erin Watt was never just one kind of romance, though. When It's Real takes the fake-dating setup of a pop star and an ordinary girl and gives it a softer, more playful edge, while One Small Thing leans into grief, guilt, and forbidden attraction. Across the catalog, the same patterns keep showing up: people acting tougher than they feel, outsiders trying to survive closed worlds, and characters learning that wanting someone is the easy part.

A lot of readers come to Erin Watt for the drama, but they stay for the voice. The books are easy to tear through, full of banter, bad decisions, and characters who act hard long before they feel safe. Even when the settings are mansions, prep schools, or celebrity circles, the emotional engine is simple and familiar: people want to belong, protect the few they trust, and be loved without being controlled.

That mix also reflects the two writers behind the name. Kennedy continues to publish across a wide range of romance, and Frederick has written books that draw on her experience as a Korean adoptee. As Erin Watt, together, they created a short run of addictive stories that still feel very much like theirs. It is a small catalog, but it made a big impression on readers who like their romance messy, propulsive, and a little dangerous.