Romey University Books in Order

Romey University is Alexandria House's fictional HBCU, but the series is not built around freshman drama or young love in the usual college-romance sense. These books follow grown people, professors, staff, visiting artists, alumni, and parents, whose lives keep circling back to the school.

The campus is the glue.

Teach Me opens the series with Professor Nadia Day and retired football player Nathan Moore. Touch Me brings in Professor Sharla London and artist in residence Jovani Higgs. Temper Me shifts to Brooklyn Dembélé and Vann London, a woman rebuilding her life and a man returning to his alma mater after a health scare. Each story has its own couple, but Romey U keeps everybody in conversation.

That setting matters because the university feels lived in. Offices, classrooms, campus traditions, and the history of the school all shape the mood of the books. Romey U is where people work, where they made earlier mistakes, where they reconnect, and where they sometimes figure out who they want to be next. The school is not wallpaper. It is part of the emotional architecture.

The tone is sexy, funny, and unexpectedly tender.

House uses the series to write about accomplished adults who still have blind spots. Her characters are often disciplined, guarded, and good at managing appearances. Love shows up anyway, usually in inconvenient form. That gives the books a nice push and pull between control and vulnerability, especially when past hurt, family ties, or reputation are in the mix.

Read together, the trilogy also rewards you with crossover moments and a fuller sense of the London family connections that run through it. If you want contemporary romance with strong HBCU atmosphere, smart women, emotionally complicated men, and couples who feel fully adult, Romey University is one of the best places to start in the HOUSEverse.