Meet Your Match Books in Order
Part ofRachael Anderson Books in OrderSee the Meet Your Match books by Rachael Anderson in order, with quick summaries, reading order, series background, and easy where to start guidance.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Meet Your Match books in publication order
3 books
Prejudice Meets Pride
by Rachael Anderson
2014
Emma Makie moves across the country to care for her two nieces after a family tragedy derails her plans. Her capable but overhelpful neighbor Kevin Grantham quickly becomes both a lifeline and a problem for her stubborn heart.
Rough Around the Edges Meets Refined
by Rachael Anderson
2014
Single father Noah Mackie is barely keeping life on track when matchmaking neighbors push him toward Cassie Ellis, his daughters' guarded dance instructor. She looks polished and distant, but both of them are carrying more hurt than first impressions suggest.
Stick in the Mud Meets Spontaneity
by Rachael Anderson
2015
Summer nanny Samantha Kinsey is ready for fun until her job becomes mostly errands and chauffeur duty. Then she meets Colten McCoy, a hardworking cowboy who hates change, and decides he may need a little spontaneity after all.
Meet Your Match books in chronological order
Series background & context
Meet Your Match is Rachael Anderson's modern opposites attract series, and it knows exactly what it wants to be. These books are clean contemporary romances built around first impressions, stubborn personalities, and the slow discovery that the person who seems least compatible might fit best. The mood is light, but not empty. Under the jokes and friction, each story gives its characters something real to work through.
The books are loosely connected through family, neighbors, and recurring side characters, which gives the whole series a friendly, lived-in feel. You are not moving through a huge sweeping saga. You are stepping into a circle of people whose lives overlap in ordinary ways, children, jobs, houses next door, summer plans, favors that turn into bigger responsibilities, and relatives who do a little nudging when romance needs help.
In Prejudice Meets Pride, Emma Makie is barely ready to celebrate a long-awaited dream job when a family crisis changes everything. She has to move and take temporary custody of her two young nieces, which means money worries, parenting on the fly, and a whole new life she never planned. Kevin Grantham, her handsome neighbor, seems far too ready to help, and Emma is not interested in being treated like she cannot handle things herself. The story runs on that push and pull, pride, good intentions, bruised assumptions, and the fact that both of them have more softness under the surface than the other first believes.
Rough Around the Edges Meets Refined shifts to Noah Mackie, a single father who seems to be getting his life under control until work and romance both start making demands he did not ask for. Cassie Ellis, his daughters' dance instructor, appears polished and distant, but she is rebuilding after an unhappy marriage and does not trust easily. Their story has a little more emotional weight than the first book, though it still keeps Anderson's easy humor and affection for awkward, revealing moments.
This series is very good at making ordinary life feel romantic.
Then Stick in the Mud Meets Spontaneity brings in Samantha Kinsey, home for the summer and expecting something more fun than a season of driving children around. Instead, she meets Colten McCoy, a hardworking cowboy who likes routine exactly as it is. Samantha wants to shake things up. Colten does not see the point. Their conflict is simple, but it works because Anderson never turns it into a cartoon. Sam is not just chaos, and Colten is not just rigidity. They both have reasons for how they move through the world.
That is what gives Meet Your Match its charm. Each book starts with a label, proud, refined, spontaneous, rough around the edges, then slowly peels it back. The series is full of kind people, practical complications, and romance that grows through conversation, patience, and a lot of rethinking. If you like contemporary love stories with warmth, humor, and just enough emotional depth to balance the fun, this is a very comfortable place to start.
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