Perfect Play Books in Order

Perfect Play is an FBI romantic suspense series about two agents who enter a marriage of convenience for a case and discover that the arrangement gives them a chance at the family neither expected. The central couple is Emmitt "Marsh" Marshall, a confident cowboy-hat-wearing cyber agent, and Levi Bishop, a widowed father trying to protect his son while staying afloat under grief, debt, and professional pressure.

Marsh is chasing the people responsible for his mentor's death. Levi is working a case of his own and has little patience for the disruption Marsh brings into his life. Still, they need each other. When a shared enemy makes a legal marriage useful as cover and protection, Marsh proposes a plan that sounds practical on paper and much messier in reality.

Then the ring stops feeling like a prop.

Dead Draw begins the relationship and the larger investigation. Marsh and Levi have complementary skills, but both have a habit of taking too much on alone. Levi's young son is part of the story from the start, so the marriage affects more than two adults deciding whether to take a risk. The series treats parenting, grief, and stepfamily bonds as central rather than as background details.

In Bad Bishop, the couple is legally married but still learning what it means to show up as partners. The cases grow more personal as Levi tries to clear his boss and Marsh faces the trauma tied to his mentor's murder. Both men are protective. Both have to learn that protecting someone does not always mean shutting them out.

King Hunt brings the main trilogy's enemy network and chess-themed strategy to a head. Marsh and Levi are fighting for their careers, their safety, their son, and the real relationship that has grown inside their original deal. It works best after the first two books, since the suspense plot and emotional arc continue directly.

A family can begin as a tactical decision and become real anyway.

Best Play is an epilogue novella. It finds Marsh and Levi handling a burglary and murder investigation while trying to reach their delayed wedding ceremony on time. It offers a final look at the couple as they make their marriage public in the way they want.

Perfect Play blends FBI investigations, hackers, terrorists, and family-centered romance. Start with Dead Draw and read through King Hunt before Best Play. Readers who like mature heroes, a single dad, marriage-of-convenience setups, and a couple who must learn to accept care as well as give it should feel at home here.