Orleans University Books in Order

Orleans University is Maren Moore's college baseball world, and it has a slightly different feel from her pro hockey books right away. The romances are younger, the setting is tighter, and the campus energy matters. These stories live around the baseball program, so dugouts, apartments, parties, gossip, and game-day pressure all feed into the romantic mess. The books are linked, but each one focuses on a new couple from the same orbit.

Homerun Proposal opens the series with a setup that is both funny and doomed from the start. A proposal meant for one brother lands in the hands of another, and suddenly the heroine is dealing with Lane Collins, the older brother she has wanted all along. That book gives you a good sense of how the series works. It likes charm, tension, and characters who tell themselves they can keep things casual right up until they very clearly cannot.

Then Catching Feelings shifts to enemies and forced proximity. Reese Landry is the arrogant all-star catcher who seems easy to dismiss until he becomes impossible to avoid. That is another Orleans University pattern. The players come in with reputations, but the books slow down just enough to show the person underneath the swagger. The baseball backdrop gives the heroes status, structure, and pressure. The romance comes from what happens when that public version starts breaking down in private.

Everyone here is one bad decision away from making things very complicated.

That continues in Walkoff Wedding, which brings in a marriage-of-convenience angle through Grant Bergeron, a playboy first baseman with more going on than people assume, and in Rookie Mistake, a shorter story built around a date auction, a secret fling, and a brother's biggest rival. Even when the tropes shift from book to book, the through line stays the same. These are stories about young adults figuring out who they are when attraction, friendship, loyalty, and ambition all start pulling in different directions.

The setting matters a lot. Moore has said college baseball helped inspire this series, and you can feel that affection in the details. Orleans University is not just a generic campus with players on it. The team dynamic shapes the series. So do the friendships, the rivalry, the packed schedules, and the way college can make every emotion feel both immediate and life-changing.

Expect a mix of playful banter, strong chemistry, and characters who are old enough to make their own choices but young enough for those choices to blow up spectacularly. If you want Maren Moore with more campus chaos, more baseball, and a whole lineup of connected romances, Orleans University is a very good place to stay for a while.