Hoops Books in Order

The Hoops series is set in and around the world of professional basketball, but the heart of the books lives in the people orbiting the game. Each novel stands alone and centers a different couple, yet the characters drift in and out of one another’s stories, building a shared universe of players, coaches, agents and the women who change their lives.

Long Shot opens the series with Iris DuPree and August West. They meet in a bar during March Madness, long before August becomes an NBA star, and their first conversation feels like they have known each other for years. The timing is disastrous, though. Iris is dating August’s college rival, a player who becomes increasingly controlling and violent as his career takes off. The book follows Iris through years of intimate partner abuse and isolation, and shows how her connection with August becomes both a lifeline and a source of danger. It is a love story, but one that does not look away from the realities of survival.

In Block Shot, the action shifts to the front offices. Jared Foster and Banner Morales are rival sports agents who once shared an intense near miss back in college. Banner is a brilliant Latina negotiator who has fought to be taken seriously in a male dominated field, while Jared has turned sharp instincts and charm into a powerhouse career. Their second chance, enemies to lovers romance plays out in boardrooms, contract battles and late night strategy sessions, with Banner’s body image struggles and Jared’s relentless pursuit adding extra layers of tension.

Hoops Holiday and Hoops Shorts expand the world with novellas that give side characters their own time in the spotlight. MacKenzie Decker and Avery Hughes get a decade in the making second chance at love, and later Quinn Barrow, a former elite runner and amputee turned fitness mogul, falls for Ean Brooks, the obsessive coach chasing his first championship. These shorter stories keep the focus on grown characters balancing careers, grief and desire.

Hook Shot closes out the main arc with Lotus DuPree and Kenan Ross. Kenan is a veteran player and single father whose perfect life has imploded after a public scandal. Lotus is an eccentric, fiercely independent fashion creative who carries quiet but deep trauma from her past. Their slow burn romance takes its time, unfolding as they both learn what healing actually looks like and how to build something steady in the middle of fame.

Across the series, Hoops is less about games won or lost and more about agency, consent, ambition and the ways love can coexist with hard conversations. The court is the backdrop; the real stakes are emotional safety, rebuilding trust and allowing yourself to want a bigger life.