Misfit Brides Books in Order
Part ofPippa Grant Books in OrderExplore the Misfit Brides series by Pippa Grant writing as Jamie Farrell in order, with book summaries, Bliss backstory, and tips on where to start this wedding-filled romcom run.
Last updated: January 13, 2026
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Publication Order
8 books
Unhitched
by Pippa Grant
2018
Wedding planner Tarra has seen every kind of love story but does not trust one for herself. When steady, secretly romantic Ben becomes her unlikely partner in salvaging a high-profile Bliss ceremony, their friendship turns into something riskier amid missing grooms, meddling families, and a town determined to see them hitched instead of unhitched.
Sweets, Secrets and a Wedding
by Pippa Grant
2018
This Misfit Brides novella follows Bliss residents through a wedding filled with hidden agendas, surprise confessions, and plenty of desserts. As longtime friends juggle secrets and second chances around the festivities, they discover that sometimes the sweetest happily ever afters come from telling the whole truth.
Spiced
by Pippa Grant
2018
Pepper Blue is done waiting for the right man and has baby plans that do not involve a husband. Her nosy family, however, just wants her to bring a respectable date to the next wedding. She turns to her infuriating neighbor Tony, the town’s pizza king, for a fake-boyfriend arrangement that quickly gets far too real.
Sugared
by Pippa Grant
2016
Adopted snack-cake heir Josh Kincaid needs a showstopping wedding cake to save his parents’ struggling company. Kimmie, Bliss’s quirky baker, can create magic with sugar but refuses to be charmed into anything more. Working side by side in a town obsessed with romance, they stumble into a recipe for something deeper than business.
Merried
by Pippa Grant
2016
Max Gregory, spare heir to Bliss’s most famous jewelry shop, has a reputation for cursed love. Merry Silver, daughter of a notorious jewel thief, is back in town to marry off her mother and leave again. When rumors of a heist collide with their unresolved history, Max and Merry get an unexpected second chance at both redemption and romance.
Smittened
by Pippa Grant
2015
Ice-cream-shop owner Dahlia is drowning in bills and bad timing when womanizing drummer Mikey Diamond crashes into her life. He moves in as her roommate and agrees to help her pull off a risqué flavor-tasting event, but their deal gets complicated as the notorious flirt starts falling hard for the misfit princess of Bliss.
Matched
by Pippa Grant
2015
Country star Billy Brenton returns to Bliss in search of inspiration and finds Lindsey, the ambitious divorce attorney who broke his heart fifteen years ago. Forced back into each other’s orbit amid constant reminders of happily ever after, they must decide if a second chance at love is worth reopening old wounds.
Blissed / The Husband Games
by Pippa Grant
2014
In wedding-obsessed Bliss, single mom CJ has built a life that carefully avoids romance. When widowed hometown hero Logan needs her help rescuing the town’s annual bridal festival, reluctant teamwork forces them to confront past hurts, meddling neighbors, and the possibility that love might be worth the gamble.
Series background & context
The Misfit Brides series, originally published under the Jamie Farrell name, is set in Bliss, the self‑proclaimed Bridal Capital of the Midwest. It is a town that has built an entire economy around weddings, which makes it the perfect place to drop characters who are in no hurry to stroll down the aisle.
Bliss is a tourism machine. There are bridal boutiques on every corner, themed festivals, and a local culture that treats happily ever after as a municipal responsibility. But behind the frothy exterior, real people are wrestling with single parenthood, financial stress, and past heartbreaks. The Misfit Brides are the people who do not quite fit the picture‑perfect mold the town tries to project.
Across the series, each book focuses on a different couple whose lives are tangled up with Bliss’s wedding industry. Blissed / The Husband Games introduces a single mom who has made a career out of avoiding love and a widowed hometown hero who has to convince her that not every romance ends in disaster. Matched reunites a now‑famous country music star with the woman who broke his heart years earlier, right in the middle of a town that lives for grand romantic gestures.
Smittened follows an ice‑cream‑shop owner and a drummer with a reputation for loving and leaving, while Sugared puts a snack‑cake heir and a flighty but brilliant wedding‑cake baker in the same kitchen with the future of both of their businesses on the line. Later books like Merried, Spiced, Unhitched, and the novella Sweets, Secrets and a Wedding keep circling the town’s biggest events and messiest families, layering in cursed jewelry, jewel thieves, fake boyfriends, and dueling neighbors with baby fever.
What gives the series its heart is the way Bliss itself slowly changes. The town clings hard to its traditions, but as each misfit bride and groom finds their way, the community learns to make room for relationships that do not fit the standard script. Being divorced, being a single parent, or being deeply skeptical about marriage does not disqualify anyone from a happy ending here.
If you enjoy big, warm ensemble casts, southern‑flavored humor, and the kind of worldbuilding where you can practically hear the festival music and smell the bakery cases, the Misfit Brides books are a charming earlier chapter in Pippa Grant’s career.
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