Marina Adair Books in Order
Explore Marina Adair books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, reading paths, and helpful notes on where to start across her romances.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
34 books
Kissing Under the Mistletoe
by Marina Adair
2012
Regan Martin arrives in Napa Valley with her daughter and no faith left in happy endings. A fresh start, a new job, and the holiday season give her one last chance to believe in love again.
Tucker's Crossing
by Marina Adair
2012
Cody Tucker returns to his Texas hometown after his father's death and finds the ranch failing, old wounds wide open, and Shelby Lynn still at the center of them. Going home means facing everything he ran from.
Autumn in the Vineyard
by Marina Adair
2013
Frankie Baudouin and Nate DeLuca are forced into close contact when both have claims tied to Sorrento Ranch. Old attraction, family pressure, and harvest season turn a land dispute into something much more personal.
Summer in Napa
by Marina Adair
2013
Fresh off betrayal in New York, Lexi Moreau goes home to St. Helena to open a bistro. Fake dating charming Marco DeLuca seems like a useful distraction, until the arrangement starts tasting real.
Be Mine Forever
by Marina Adair
2014
Commitment-phobe Trey DeLuca agrees to babysit Sara Reed's son in exchange for ballroom lessons as St. Helena gears up for Valentine's Day. What begins as a bargain soon feels a lot more permanent.
Coming Home to Sugar Lake
by Marina Adair
2014
Josephina Harrington lands in Sugar, Georgia, determined to rebuild her life and restore her aunt's old house. Bad-boy golfer Brett McGraw keeps showing up with tools, charm, and the kind of trouble she might actually need.
From the Moment We Met
by Marina Adair
2014
Interior designer Abby DeLuca is finally getting her big break, until contractor Jack Tanner, the man who broke her heart, is back in her orbit. Old sparks reignite as both must choose between ambition and love.
Sugar's Twice as Sweet
by Marina Adair
2014
After her fiancé cheats, Josephina Harrington heads to Sugar, Georgia, to turn her great-aunt's old house into a destination getaway. Contractor and bad-boy golfer Brett McGraw is exactly the kind of trouble she should not want.
A Taste of Sugar
by Marina Adair
2015
Pediatrician Charlotte Holden needs Sugar's Founder's Day parade to go perfectly, until Jace McGraw returns with shocking news, they are still married. Their accidental past becomes a very public present and a dangerous second chance.
Need You for Always
by Marina Adair
2015
Emi Blake wants to turn her popular food cart into a real gourmet truck. Reconnecting with former Army Ranger Dax Baudouin, her unforgettable one-night stand, makes that plan a lot more complicated and a lot more personal.
Need You for Keeps
by Marina Adair
2015
Pet rescuer Shay Michaels turns her Victorian home into a haven for animals, which puts her at odds with deputy Jonah Baudouin. Their fight over rules, rescues, and small-town order slowly becomes something harder to resist.
Sugar on Top
by Marina Adair
2015
Town wild child Glory Mann gets stuck running the Miss Peach Pageant as punishment for a scandal she did not create. Working beside serious single dad Cal McGraw is bad enough, until bickering turns into real chemistry.
Chasing I Do
by Marina Adair
2016
Runaway bride Darcy Kincaid still believes in happy endings, especially for the couples she plans weddings for. Then a career-making event throws her together with her ex fiancé's brother and complicates everything.
Last Kiss of Summer
by Marina Adair
2016
Kennedy Sinclair starts over in Destiny Bay with a pie shop and orchard, only to clash with cider maker Luke Callahan, who needs her apples. Business negotiations heat up fast when mutual temptation gets involved.
Need You for Mine
by Marina Adair
2016
Harper Owens and firefighter Adam Baudouin fake a romance for practical reasons, but their chemistry is anything but pretend. What starts as a convenient deal soon threatens both his career plans and her guarded heart.
Every Little Kiss
by Marina Adair
2017
Widowed single mom Liv Preston wants to bring joy back into her son's life. Then Ford Jamison, a rugged search-and-rescue hero with secrets of his own, returns to Sequoia Lake and makes a second chance feel possible.
Feels Like the First Time
by Marina Adair
2017
Ali Marshal agrees to fake date Bradley Hawk, her sister's ex-husband, to survive a tense family engagement party. Pretend sparks turn personal in a small town where everyone already has an opinion.
It Started With a Kiss
by Marina Adair
2017
After a kidney transplant, Avery Adams takes a job at a Sierra Nevada adventure lodge to finally start living. Mountain rescuer Tyson Donovan was not looking to stay, but Avery makes his restless life feel different.
Promise Me You
by Marina Adair
2018
Mackenzie Hart vanished after loving her best friend from afar. Years later, divorced musician Hunter Kane wants her back, but their reunion forces them to face old heartbreak, hard truths, and whether love can survive life on the road.
Romeantically Challenged
by Marina Adair
2020
Annie Walker flees a failed engagement and lands in Rome, Rhode Island, not Rome, Italy, sharing a cabin with brooding photojournalist Emmitt. Their comic setup turns real as both navigate family, loss, and unexpected new beginnings.
Blame It on the Mistletoe
by Marina Adair
2021
Texas Ranger Noah Tucker returns to the family ranch for Christmas expecting old pain, not a snowstorm and an unexpected connection with Faith. Holiday sparks force him to face home, family, and the future he has avoided.
Definitely (Maybe) Dating
by Marina Adair
2021
Piper Lewis does not buy fairy tales, but a photography job at a wedding venue puts her in Josh Easton's orbit. Their push-pull chemistry gets messier when politics, class differences, and real feelings get involved.
DefinitelyDating
by Marina Adair
2021
Street artist Piper Lewis takes a photography job at a wedding venue and clashes instantly with Josh Easton, a future-minded prosecutor. Their attraction is real, even if Piper does not believe happily ever after applies to her.
Hopeless Romantic
by Marina Adair
2021
Beckett Hayes spends her days caring for her autistic brother and helping everyone in Rome, Rhode Island. Levi Rhodes has put his own dreams on hold for family, until their slow-building attraction asks them both to choose themselves, too.
The Café Between Pumpkin and Pie
by Marina Adair
2021
In Moonbright, Maine, the Halloween parade, Corner Café, and an old romantic legend set the stage for three autumn love stories. It is a cozy anthology full of small-town charm, pie, and just a hint of magic.
Four Dates and a Forever
by Marina Adair
2022
Fresh off divorce, Elsie Dodd moves back to Portland and finds musician Rhett Easton, her old almost-love, naked in her shower. Forced proximity and unfinished history push both toward a risky second chance.
Single Girl in the City
by Marina Adair
2022
After a tragic accident, teacher Abi Woods decides to remake her life by doing good deeds. Helping overworked bar owner Owen Easton seems harmless, until neighborly teamwork starts feeling a lot like love.
Situationship
by Marina Adair
2022
Teagan Bianchi flees a ruined marriage, failing business, and mounting debts with her twins and dog in tow. Back in Pacific Grove, she runs straight into her high school sweetheart and a second chance she never planned for.
Summer Affair
by Marina Adair
2022
After catching her cheating husband, cupcake baker Jillian swears off men, until injured NFL star Clay Easton rents next door. A month of rehab, kids, and midnight swims turns a summer fling into something riskier.
Faux Beau
by Marina Adair
2023
Milly Smartt thinks she finally kissed her childhood crush, only to learn she actually spent the night with his twin, Jax. A fake relationship meant to calm their families quickly spins into something real.
Always a Bridesmaid
by Marina Adair
2024
Professional bridesmaid Jane Drisdol is hired to pose as a society bride at a high-profile wedding, then catches the groom's suspicious brother's eye. With Formula 1 star Henry Norris circling, every lie gets harder to manage.
Second First Kiss
by Marina Adair
2024
Kat Rhodes is trying to stay out of trouble and look after her younger sister, but federal agent Nolan Carmichael keeps getting under her skin. Missing property, white lies, and one bad kiss turn enemies into something more.
You've Got Male
by Marina Adair
2024
Evie Granger is juggling a teenage daughter, an outspoken mother, an ailing father, and a struggling coffee shop when a viral video wrecks her privacy. A fake relationship with her next-door neighbor suddenly looks like survival.
Love to Hate You
by Marina Adair
2025
Indie bookseller Summer Russo goes to war with Wes Kingston when his big-box store opens next door. Then a family vacation traps them together, and business rivalry starts looking dangerously close to foreplay.
Where should I start?
If you want wine country romance: Kissing Under the Mistletoe → Summer in Napa → Autumn in the Vineyard
If you want a newer rom-com: ROMeANTICALLY Challenged → Hopeless Romantic
If you want big family chaos and wedding vibes: Chasing I Do → Definitely (Maybe) Dating → Summer Affair → Single Girl in the City
If you want Southern small-town charm: Sugar's Twice as Sweet → Sugar on Top → A Taste of Sugar
If you want mountain-town romance: Faux Beau → Second First Kiss
Author bio
Marina Adair writes contemporary romance with a strong sense of place, plenty of banter, and women who are usually juggling a lot more than love. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and that California grounding shows up again and again in her books, whether she is writing Napa wine country, mountain towns, or crowded family homes where everybody has an opinion.
Story came early. Adair has said she has been a storyteller her whole life. As a child she was often sick, so she passed the time inventing elaborate stories on the couch and acting them out with Barbies and her brother's Han Solo figure. She also grew up in a multigenerational home, with parents and grandparents under one roof, and she has pointed to old movies and classic television as part of what shaped her imagination.
Her road to publishing was not especially neat.
She attended Santa Clara University but did not finish her undergraduate degree then, after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in her twenties. A few years later, a screenwriting class helped her figure out what she really wanted to do. She went back to school, earned a BA in film in 2010, and later completed an MFA at San José State University. She has talked openly about knowing she wanted to write romance, even when other students were aiming for something more obviously literary.
That choice paid off.
Two of the early novels she workshopped in graduate school became the first books she sold, and she started publishing quickly after that. Readers first met her through books like Tucker's Crossing and Kissing Under the Mistletoe, then kept following her into connected small-town worlds such as St. Helena Vineyard, Heroes of St. Helena, Destiny Bay, and Sugar, Georgia. What brings many readers back is not just the romance, but the whole atmosphere, busy towns, big feelings, second chances, and families who are loving, nosy, and hard to ignore.
She has a knack for building love stories around everyday work and community life. In Summer in Napa, a chef and restaurateur heads home to rebuild. Autumn in the Vineyard turns property trouble and harvest season into romantic tension. ROMeANTICALLY Challenged shifts to coastal Rhode Island and leans harder into rom-com energy, while You've Got Male uses the chaos of parenting, aging parents, and a struggling coffee shop as the backdrop for a fake-dating setup. Even when the books are funny, the emotional stakes are usually rooted in real things, grief, money, illness, family pressure, and the question of whether people can change.
She likes messy lives, not perfect ones.
That may be why her books feel so easy to settle into. Her characters are bakers, artists, vets, firefighters, teachers, musicians, and women trying to hold a lot together at once. Small towns matter in her fiction, but not because they are ideal. They are noisy, forgiving, meddlesome places where history follows people around and where healing can happen in plain sight.
Adair's reach has grown well beyond the page. Her St. Helena Vineyard novels inspired the Vineyard movies, and her romances have sold more than a million copies. She now lives in Northern California with her husband, daughter, and two neurotic cats, which sounds a lot like the start of a Marina Adair side character description.
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