Love on... Books in Order
Part ofNeil Plakcy Books in OrderFind Neil Plakcy's Love on... books in order, with summaries, series notes, and help picking the right South Beach romance to start with.
Last updated: June 29, 2026
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Love on... books in publication order
6 books
Love on Site
by Neil Plakcy
2013
Fresh out of college, Manny Garcia lands a construction job in Miami and promptly falls for his older boss. Work, desire, and being out at the wrong moment make his dream job precarious.
Love on Stage
by Neil Plakcy
2014
South Beach barista and aspiring singer Gavin catches the eye of music producer Miles Goodwin. New opportunity comes with insecurity, ambition, and a summer romance that has to survive real life.
Love on the Pitch
by Neil Plakcy
2015
Former athlete Warren Updegrove has achieved his sports dream and still feels lost. On the fields and bar stools of South Florida, he has to decide whether to keep chasing the wrong men or notice the friend beside him.
Love on the Web
by Neil Plakcy
2015
Tall, awkward coder Larry Leavis lands a South Beach startup job and discovers that tech success does not simplify love. Caught between a dangerous client and a man who might actually be right for him, he has to choose wisely.
Love on the Boil
by Neil Plakcy
2017
Former college lovers Eddie and Darren reunite on South Beach just as both are trying to launch gourmet tea businesses. A forced collaboration gives them a second shot at both work and love.
Love on the Map
by Neil Plakcy
2018
Veteran and mapmaker Eric Mueller starts a new career in Fort Lauderdale just as his stepbrother moves in. Old attraction, new adulthood, and hard personal changes make the romance messy and compelling.
Love on... books in chronological order

Love on Site
by Neil Plakcy
2013Love on..., Book 1
Love on Stage
by Neil Plakcy
2014Love on..., Book 2
Love on the Web
by Neil Plakcy
2015Love on..., Book 3
Love on the Pitch
by Neil Plakcy
2015Love on..., Book 4
Love on the Boil
by Neil Plakcy
2017Love on..., Book 5
Love on the Map
by Neil Plakcy
2018Love on..., Book 6
Series background & context
The Love on... books are contemporary South Florida romances about young men trying to build adult lives while also figuring out what kind of love they actually want. They are linked more by community than by a single plot, which makes them easy to enter from the beginning and pleasant to keep reading as the cast widens.
South Beach is the shared heartbeat.
These books are full of the practical textures of early adult life, first jobs, roommates, shaky confidence, ambition, side hustles, nightlife, and the very specific feeling of trying to look put together while privately improvising. The heroes are often just out of college or still close to that world, and several have ties to the Three Lambs fraternity at Florida University. That connection gives the series a friendly web of overlap without forcing every book into the same shape.
Each romance has its own work world. Construction sites, app development, music, sports, cartography, and food entrepreneurship all get their turn. That matters because Plakcy is not writing pure fantasy environments. The love stories are wrapped around real questions of career, money, outing, failure, and reinvention. A guy may be nursing a crush on his older boss, wondering whether he peaked too early as an athlete, or discovering that a startup job is easier than emotional honesty. The jobs give the books motion and help define the power imbalances inside each pairing.
The tone is lighter than in the mystery series, but not empty. Attraction arrives quickly in some books and more slowly in others, yet the central tension is usually not whether the men want each other. It is whether they can make the rest of their lives line up with that wanting. Friends, exes, parents, old college patterns, and professional pressure all have a way of complicating what should be simple.
These are sexy books, but they are also generous ones.
They like their characters, even when those characters are a little vain, lost, awkward, or late to the obvious. And South Beach itself is part of the appeal: beaches, condos, bars, coffee shops, and city heat all make the romances feel sunlit even when the emotions get messy.
If you want interconnected MM romances with career stakes, youthful energy, and a strong Miami Beach setting, the Love on... books deliver exactly that. Start with Love on Site and keep moving forward. The series is fun on the surface, but it has a nice steady interest in growth, friendship, and the difference between fantasy and the life you can actually make.
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