Lainey Davis Books in Order

Hockey star Neal Sweeney needs better grades to stay eligible, and serious tutor Dahlia cannot risk her job for him. Study sessions turn charged as both confront the rules that stand between them.

Christmas brings the Stag family together for holiday heat, messy emotions, and plenty of interference. As each brother faces a new challenge in love and life, the family's boisterous support proves impossible to escape.

Serena wants graduate school and a future untouched by football, until quarterback Talon Kelly becomes her research partner. His reputation makes trust difficult, but their forced collaboration reveals more than either expects.

A Stag brother finds himself drawn to the lawyer who is meant to keep him out of trouble. Their attraction is inconvenient, professionally risky, and impossible to ignore once their carefully kept boundaries begin to slip.

A lie meant to protect a reputation turns into a fake relationship with real consequences. As the Stag family's secrets and expectations close in, two people pretending to be together must face what they actually want.

Control-driven lawyer Tim Stag hires Alice, a chef who refuses to fit neatly into his plans. Their workplace attraction creates a tempting distraction, even as both carry family grief and fears about what love could cost.

Football star Baxter Morgan and Olive Hampton have relied on their lifelong friendship through difficult family lives. When injuries and campus drama raise the stakes, they must decide whether risking that friendship is worth a chance at love.

Botanist Diana Crawford has closed herself off after being hurt before. Billionaire investor Asa Wexler arrives in Oak Creek and wants to help, but winning Diana's trust takes far more than money or confidence.

Opal expects one uncomplicated night with Archer Crawford, not a man she cannot get out of her head. Archer wants to prove he is more than a fling, but Opal has good reasons to protect her trust.

After a personal and professional collapse, scientist Hunter Crawford returns to Oak Creek and meets his new tenant, Abigail. She wants a fresh start, while his guarded nature makes their unexpected connection anything but simple.

Engineer Zack Brady investigates a sinkhole swallowing Nicole Kennedy's yard, then discovers she is also his unwanted running partner. Their sniping turns into something harder to dismiss as work and family pressure keep putting them together.

Widower Kellen Brady has kept his world carefully contained until his high school girlfriend, Elizabeth, moves in across the street. Both are starting over with family baggage, and old feelings make playing it safe difficult.

Meticulous engineer Liam Brady is assigned to work with Maddie Parker, a candid writer rebuilding after a layoff. Their opposites-attract chemistry is complicated by Maddie's diabetes, Liam's controlling instincts, and consequences neither planned for.

International producer Fletcher Crawford is forced back to Oak Creek, where he keeps encountering Thistle, his first love and first heartbreak. Their old history is painful, but a second chance may be harder to resist.

A Brady engineer's one-night stand leaves her pregnant, then the man reappears as her new mailman. Keeping the secret gets harder as they reconnect and he tries to become someone very different from his former self.

In their later years, Mick Brady and Celeste Sheffield find comfort in each other while trying to repair strained family relationships. Their attraction offers hope, but their adult children and old regrets make a fresh start risky.

Cal Brady needs a roommate and assumes Logan is a man, until he arrives to meet an organized financial planner with very different habits. Sharing an apartment forces the family screw-up and the rule follower to reconsider each other.

Newly traded soccer star Hawk Moyer comes to Pittsburgh searching for answers about his father. He also meets Lucy, a single mother on the team's coaching staff who has every reason to distrust another athlete.

Tech founder Samantha is used to winning people over, except for grouchy teacher AJ Trachtenberg. While preparing her company to go public, she cannot stop trying to change his mind, or ignore the sparks between them.

Doug plans to teach summer school and save for his education degree, not fall for Amy, a stressed nursing student in his class. A hospital encounter reveals more about her life, but their student-teacher dynamic complicates everything.

Chloe and Teddy have been together since college, but infertility stress and years of unspoken needs are pushing their marriage apart. They must decide whether honest conversations, counseling, and a little courage can bring them back together.

Soccer players Wes and Cara reconnect after he once misread a frightening situation and pushed her away. When a powerful man threatens Cara's career, Wes must earn her trust and decide what he is willing to risk.

Soccer hopefuls Wes and Cara meet while chasing professional dreams and agree that romance is a distraction. Their instant connection leads to one passionate night, then a misunderstanding that leaves both hearts bruised.

Years after a practical marriage helped Esther open her bar, rugby coach Koa returns when immigration requires proof their relationship is real. Two weeks of pretending force them to confront the feelings their deal never erased.

Fitness instructor Piper moves in next to Cash, a grumpy single father determined to keep relationships out of his life. Their attraction challenges Cash's protective routines and Piper's efforts to build a business on her own terms.

Eila Storm wants to grow hops on an abandoned Pittsburgh lot, permits or not. City inspector Ben Barber has to stop her project, but their opposite approaches to life become tangled up with an unexpected attraction.

A soccer player's unforgettable one-night stand becomes complicated when Fern turns out to be his algebra teaching assistant. Their secret relationship could damage Fern's future as his family trouble and professional ambitions close in.

Ethan Bedd wakes in a sheep pen to learn his family farm faces foreclosure, and his ex is the adviser sent to help. Saving the farm means working with Lia and reopening the past she left behind.

Urban beekeeper Eden Storm reunites with Nate, a contractor whose grief-fueled past made their first encounter a disaster. A colony of bees and two struggling businesses give them an unexpected chance to start over.

After a devastating injury threatens his athletic future, Odin Stag is forced to rethink everything. His smart, unsparing research partner Thora challenges him to build a new life, just as her own dreams may take her away.

Pittsburgh Fury rookie goalie Gunnar wakes up married in Vegas to Emerson, a talented cellist. When her controlling father targets their relationship in the press, their reckless marriage becomes a fight for trust and stability.

Fury player Alder and team dentist Lena are publicly humiliated when their partners cheat together on the kiss cam. Roommates and allies in revenge, they fake a summer romance until real feelings make the plan dangerous.

The fifth Pittsburgh Fury hockey romance continues Lainey Davis's connected Playing series, where professional pressure, close teammates, and the Stag family's wide orbit make taking a chance on love anything but simple.

After a one-night hookup, Tucker Stag learns he is expecting a baby with a woman who has sworn off hockey players. Co-parenting brings them close, but her past makes trusting another athlete a serious risk.

A Pittsburgh Fury player shares an apartment with his teammate until that teammate's adult sister needs a place to stay. One rule is absolute, do not touch her, but close quarters make keeping that promise difficult.