Football and Feels Books in Order

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Check out Lauren Rowe’s Football and Feels series in order, with book summaries, series background, and suggestions on where to start these extra-spicy standalone NFL romances.

Last updated: January 16, 2026

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Chasing the Ring

by Lauren Rowe

2026

After exposing her cheating fiancé at the altar, preschool teacher Iris Benedetto flees on a solo Hawaiian honeymoon and finds her bungalow double-booked with NFL quarterback Roman Maguire. Their one-week, no-strings fling soon feels like the start of something far bigger.

Series background & context

Football and Feels is Lauren Rowe’s foray into pro-football romance, combining her usual humor and heat with the high stakes of the NFL. Each book in the series follows a different couple connected to the same league, delivering sports drama alongside big, swoony love stories.

Chasing the Ring introduces the tone of the series. Preschool teacher Iris Benedetto blows up her wedding when she discovers her fiancé’s double life and flees alone to their Hawaiian honeymoon. There she finds her bungalow accidentally double-booked with Roman Maguire, a star quarterback trying to secure both a Super Bowl ring and more time with his young son.

What begins as a strangers-to-roommates fling in paradise quickly turns into something Iris and Roman cannot leave behind when the week ends. Viral fame, professional pressure, and family obligations all crash into their island bubble, asking whether a runaway bride and a famous athlete can claim a real future together.

Future installments, like Chasing the Rush, stay in the same world while shifting the spotlight. Instead of a runaway bride, readers meet a math-obsessed coach’s daughter assigned to keep a reckless pass rusher in line during training camp, blending analytics, second chances, and slow-building attraction.

The common threads across the series are football, found family within teams, and heroines with their own ambitions outside the game.

Rowe brings her love of the sport onto the page with locker-room banter, playbook details, and the emotional roller coaster of wins and losses, but the heart of each story stays tightly focused on the couple at its center. You can read the Football and Feels books in any order, though starting with Chasing the Ring gives you the clearest introduction to the Maguire family and the Mastodons franchise.

If you enjoy sports romances that balance on-field tension with off-field intimacy and humor, this series offers exactly that, wrapped in standalone stories that still reward you for following the team from book to book.