If Love Books in Order

If Love is Ana Huang's contemporary romance series about young people whose plans become more complicated when they fall for someone. It begins with a two-book love story and then turns to other couples within the connected group. The settings and circumstances change, but personal ambition, family expectations and unfinished feelings keep influencing what the characters believe they can ask from a relationship.

The first two books belong together.

If We Ever Meet Again introduces Blake and Farrah during a year studying abroad in Shanghai. Farrah wants to become an interior designer and believes in the possibility of a great romance. Blake, a former football player, is far more sceptical about love and protective of his freedom. Their differences don't prevent attraction, but the limited time abroad and pressures waiting at home make the relationship more complicated than a shared adventure in a new city.

If the Sun Never Sets continues Blake and Farrah's story, so it should follow the opening novel. The duet gives the relationship more room than a single-book romance, allowing its emotional history to matter across both volumes. The later books change couples and can be read independently, while publication order lets readers meet the surrounding circle without learning about developments before they happen.

If Love Had a Price centres on Kris and Nate. She offers the actor money to seduce her father's fiancée, hoping to expose the woman's motives before the wedding. He needs the money and negotiates an additional condition: a kiss from Kris. What starts as a bargain becomes a problem for both of them as genuine feelings grow between people whose financial circumstances and expectations are very different.

If We Were Perfect follows Olivia and Sammy, former partners forced back into close quarters after an apartment flood disrupts Olivia's organized life. Moving into Sammy's house means relying on the ex whose heart she broke. His bakery and family already keep him busy, and helping her brings old feelings back into his daily routine. Their situation asks them to reconsider what they believe about their breakup as well as what they want next.

The tone is adult contemporary romance, with explicit content but a less intense approach than Huang's later series. The books use third-person narration, giving them another difference from her more recent work. Start with If We Ever Meet Again, followed by If the Sun Never Sets, before moving to If Love Had a Price and If We Were Perfect. The series suits readers who enjoy romantic relationships developing alongside career choices, travel, friendship and the work of revisiting assumptions about another person.