Love in the City Books in Order

Love in the City is the glossy, contemporary side of Victoria H Smith's catalog, but it is not all champagne and penthouses. The series likes wealth, media attention, and high-end settings, yet it keeps bringing the conflict back to bodies, family, and the messy timing of love. Babies, breakups, and second chances do a lot of the heavy lifting here.

The first book, Baby Baby, introduces Johari Russell, a Chicago med student buried under debt, and Alexander Ricci, a billionaire who has just been cleared of cancer and is suddenly thinking about fatherhood very differently. Their connection starts inside a surrogacy setup, which means the emotional stakes are built in from page one. Desire is part of the appeal, but the real hook is how quickly a practical arrangement turns personal.

Nobody in this series gets a clean, simple meet-cute.

From there, the books widen into a family thread through the Ricci brothers. Baby It's Cold Out There acts as a prequel for Asa Ricci and Noni Day, taking them to Aspen when both are trying to outrun heartbreak. The snowy resort setting gives that story a temporary, almost suspended feeling. It is about escape, but also about the kind of weekend that keeps echoing long after it ends. That matters because Baby Be Mine picks up the same pair years later and turns their reunion into a secret-baby romance with real consequences.

One reason the series works is that each book has its own city mood. Chicago gives Baby Baby a smart, busy, real-world pressure. Aspen gives the prequel a wintry, bottled-up intimacy. By the time Baby Be Mine folds New York into the story, the books are thinking more about career, reputation, and whether an old wound can survive being reopened in a bigger, louder place. The settings are not just postcards. They sharpen the people moving through them.

Tonally, this is contemporary romance with a strong emotional pulse and a high-steam surface. Smith likes rich heroes, yes, but she does not write them as solutions. Alexander and Asa both carry damage, ego, and blind spots into their stories. The heroines are not there to decorate that world. Johari and Noni have their own work, their own scars, and their own reasons for being wary. That balance keeps the books from feeling weightless even when the backdrop is glamorous.

And yes, the baby theme is exactly as important as the title suggests.

If you want romances about men learning how to be more than money and women deciding what kind of future they can trust, Love in the City is a good place to land. Read it for the Ricci family drama, the city-to-city movement, and the way each book takes a familiar romance setup and gives it a little more feeling than you might expect.