Finding Chris Evans (Jennifer Bernard) Books in Order

Finding Chris Evans is a shared romance mini-series built around a delightfully silly setup. A psychic tells Ellie Middlestadt that when she finds Chris Evans, true love will follow. The problem is that her little Minnesota town has six different Chris Evanses. That sends the whole project spinning outward, with multiple authors taking one possible Chris and building a romance around him.

It is a fun premise because it gives the books a built-in sense of overlap. Everyone is working off the same town, the same fortuneteller setup, and the same name confusion, but each author gets to turn the idea in a different direction. The tone is light, playful, and made for readers who enjoy connected novellas that talk to one another.

Jennifer Bernard's contribution is The Hotshot Edition. Instead of following Ellie, it focuses on Jenna Mittelstadt and Chris, or Kit, Evans, a firefighter who spent years writing to Jenna as her childhood pen pal. When they meet again after a painful break in contact, the story shifts into second-chance territory, with grief, old hurt, and immediate chemistry all in the mix.

So this page is really about fit. If you are reading the larger Finding Chris Evans experiment, Bernard's novella is one stop along the way. And if you are coming at it as a Jennifer Bernard reader first, it offers a short, emotional romance with a shared-world hook and a very charming setup.