Positively Pregnant Books in Order

Susan Mallery's Positively Pregnant romances follow three women whose relationships become more complicated when pregnancy puts the future firmly in view. Having Her Boss's Baby, The Ladies' Man, and Her Last First Date each center on a different couple. The link is the challenge of making room for a child while deciding whether attraction, help, or a practical arrangement can become a dependable partnership.

In Having Her Boss's Baby, Noelle Stevenson is a young student working part time when the death of her baby's father leaves her facing parenthood without him. Her boss, Devlin Hunter, offers a marriage of convenience. What looks like a way to provide security also brings two people into a close relationship, raising questions about feelings that cannot be resolved by agreeing to a sensible plan.

The Ladies' Man follows Rachel Harper, a shy teacher who steps outside her usual habits for a night with Carter Brockett. The encounter has consequences neither can treat as temporary when Rachel discovers she is pregnant. Carter's reluctance to commit makes their situation more difficult, because the attraction that brought them together is no guarantee that they want the same kind of future.

In Her Last First Date, Crissy Phillips is invited back into the life of the son she placed for adoption years earlier. Meeting Josh Daniels, the boy's widowed uncle, introduces another possible relationship into a reunion already full of emotion. A new pregnancy complicates Crissy's attempt to understand her place in the family, linking earlier choices to the possibility of making different ones now.

The babies change the timetable, but they cannot make trust appear overnight.

These are contemporary romances built around emotional and domestic responsibilities rather than a mystery shared across the books. The women have different histories, and the men enter their lives under different circumstances, from an employer offering help to a man met during an uncharacteristic night out. That variety gives the recurring pregnancy premise room to explore grief, commitment, adoption, and the uncertainty of asking someone to stay when the relationship itself is still taking shape.

Start with Having Her Boss's Baby, then read The Ladies' Man and Her Last First Date for the publication sequence. Because each book follows its own central couple, the main pleasure is comparing the different paths toward a possible family rather than solving an ongoing plot. Readers who like marriage-of-convenience stories, unexpected-parenthood romances, or heroines balancing hope with practical needs will find all three approaches here, with affection developing under pressure and the adults asked to take their decisions seriously.