Fake Engagement Trilogy Books in Order

The Fake Engagement Trilogy is a neat three book romantic comedy arc that stays with one couple from first lie to hard earned commitment. Jane Sparks is a librarian and aspiring romance novelist. Duke Austen is a tech entrepreneur with a bad boy image and money to burn. When Jane accidentally tells the internet that they are engaged, embarrassment is only the first problem. Duke quickly realizes that pretending the relationship is real could help him steady his reputation just in time for a major business deal. Jane agrees, and the trouble starts there.

What makes the series fun is that the fake engagement is not just a meet cute. It becomes the engine for everything that follows. Jane and Duke are opposites in all the obvious ways, careful and flashy, bookish and public, wary and overconfident, but Rodale keeps giving them reasons to keep choosing each other even when the arrangement should be over. The tension comes from performance. They are always acting a little, for investors, onlookers, friends, and eventually for themselves, until it gets hard to tell where the script ends.

The middle book turns the pressure up by dragging Jane's writing life into the story. Her fictionalized version of the faux romance reaches readers and makes the quiet heroine suddenly feel far less quiet. Duke, meanwhile, is racing toward a high stakes business moment. That combination, publicity, ambition, and very real attraction, keeps the story light on its feet while also letting both characters change. Jane gets bolder. Duke gets more vulnerable. Neither development is especially tidy.

By the final book, Rodale lets the series grow up a little. Past hurts, public success, and a frightening encounter force Jane and Duke to stop treating love as a clever arrangement they can manage with enough charm. A storm trapped setting pushes them into close conversation and makes the real question plain: can they handle each other's worst day, not just the photogenic ones?

One helpful thing to know is that this trilogy is the republished version of the Jane and Duke story that first appeared under the Bad Boy Billionaire banner. So if you see both names, you are not looking at two different plots. You are looking at the same modern romance told across three linked novellas.

If you want quick reads with banter, fake dating, New York energy, and a couple who actually grow from book to book, this series works well. Read it in order. The emotional payoff depends on watching Jane and Duke move from public stunt to private partnership.