Lyssa Kay Adams Books in Order

If you want her signature romantic comedy: The Bromance Book Club → Undercover Bromance → Crazy Stupid Bromance
If you like friends-to-lovers and found family: Crazy Stupid Bromance → Isn't It Bromantic?
If you want sports romance first: Seventh Inning Heat → The Prospect → Wild in Rio
If you want a festive second chance: A Very Merry Bromance

Lyssa Kay Adams was born and raised in Michigan, and long before she started publishing romance, she spent nearly twenty years as a journalist. That newsroom life taught her how to write on deadline, how to follow the human side of a story, and how to keep moving even when a first draft is rough.

Her route into romance started early.

In eighth grade, she swiped a romance novel from her grandmother's bookshelf, read it, and never really looked back.

For a long time, though, journalism was the day job. Adams has said she loved reporting, but after years of writing true stories with too many sad endings, she kept drifting back to the kind of books that promise hope. Eventually she made the jump to fiction, and early books like Seventh Inning Heat and the RITA-nominated novella Wild in Rio showed how comfortably she could blend sports pressure, strong attraction, and emotional stakes.

Sports run through a lot of her work, and that feels pretty natural. She is a Detroit Tigers fan, her husband works in sports journalism, and she clearly enjoys the rhythms of competition, training, and team culture. In The Prospect, summer baseball and a Michigan beach town shape the whole mood of the story. In Seventh Inning Heat, a pitcher on the brink and a rising coach have to untangle career panic and old hurt at the same time.

Then came The Bromance Book Club, the novel that brought a lot more readers to her work. Its hook is funny on purpose, a secret group of Nashville men reading romance novels to save their relationships, but Adams used that setup for more than laughs. She built a series that asks what men are taught about pride, vulnerability, marriage, and intimacy, and what changes when they start talking honestly instead of hiding behind swagger.

She has also talked about how the Bromance books grew out of her frustration with toxic ideas about masculinity after 2016. She wanted to write emotionally intelligent men who call each other out and try to do better. You can feel that thread in Undercover Bromance, Crazy Stupid Bromance, and Isn't It Bromantic?, which mix banter and heat with subjects like workplace harassment, friendship, family baggage, immigration, and second chances. Readers who click with her work usually like that balance of humor, warmth, and genuine emotional growth.

Dogs tend to show up too.

Adams still sounds a bit like a journalist when she talks about process. She has said one of the best lessons the newsroom gave her was not waiting for perfection, just get the words down first and fix them later. These days she writes full time from home in Michigan, where she lives with her husband, their daughter, and a Maltese named Domino. When she is not writing, she cooks, follows sports, and does the everyday family shuffle, which suits an author so interested in how love plays out in ordinary life.