Head Over Heels (Robin Covington) Books in Order

Head Over Heels is a connected, multi-author contemporary romance series built around the rock band The Rift and the people pulled into its orbit. Robin Covington wrote Playing With The Drummer, the third story, which follows the band's private drummer Rocky Cardano and entertainment journalist Lita Matthews.

Rocky and Lita have history. Four years earlier, they spent three intense days together in Mexico, only for the connection to end in anger and mistrust. Rocky believed Lita had used him for a story. Lita never forgot him, but she also never found a way to repair what happened.

Then a celebrity wedding puts them in the same place again.

Lita is trying to earn a bigger role in entertainment television, and access to the year's most talked-about wedding could be the opportunity she needs. Rocky, who has good reasons to avoid reporters and attention, does not trust her anywhere near his friends or his band. Their old attraction is still there, but so is the question of whether either of them can believe the other.

The larger series connects its books through The Rift, a famous band, and the complicated weddings, friendships, publicity problems, and personal decisions surrounding its members. Each author contributes a different couple, so readers get a fresh romance while the shared world continues to grow.

Covington's installment leans into second-chance tension. Lita has to balance career ambition with loyalty to the people she cares about. Rocky has to decide whether protecting his privacy has become a way of protecting himself from being hurt. Their reunion has plenty of heat, but trust is the real challenge.

The tone is sexy, emotional, and celebrity-adjacent without losing sight of the people behind the headlines.

For the fullest series experience, begin with the first Head Over Heels book and continue through the connected titles. Readers interested specifically in Covington's work can also start with Playing With The Drummer, which gives Rocky and Lita a complete romance of their own.