Susannah Nix Books in Order
Browse Susannah Nix books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple suggestions on where to start across her STEM, small-town, and Hollywood romances.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
19 books
Intermediate Thermodynamics
by Susannah Nix
2017
Esther cannot stand her talkative hipster neighbor Jonathan, until she realizes he may be useful for a scheme involving her best friend and his screenplay. Their deal and enforced closeness turn irritation into something much harder to control.
Remedial Rocket Science
by Susannah Nix
2017
Melody lands her dream aerospace job in Los Angeles, only to discover her old one-night stand Jeremy works there, too. Keeping her distance should be simple, but office proximity and old chemistry make that plan fall apart fast.
Advanced Physical Chemistry
by Susannah Nix
2018
After too many cheating boyfriends, chemical engineer Penny swears off men, then befriends Caleb, the irresistible barista at her favorite coffee shop. A supposedly casual fling starts to feel a lot less simple once real feelings show up.
Rising Star
by Susannah Nix
2018
Actor Griffin Beach needs a dog sitter, and Alice, a wary grad student on the edge of losing everything, reluctantly takes the job. Sharing his house blurs the line between practical arrangement and something far more intimate.
Applied Electromagnetism
by Susannah Nix
2019
Olivia and Adam are coworkers who openly dislike each other, which becomes a problem when travel chaos strands them together. Forced proximity on a miserable trip turns mutual annoyance into chemistry neither of them is ready to trust.
Fallen Star
by Susannah Nix
2019
Former bad-boy actor Scott Deacon is sober, serious about a comeback, and immediately at odds with Grace, the script supervisor on his new project. Working together behind the scenes forces both to question what the tabloids got wrong.
Maybe This Christmas
by Susannah Nix
2019
Alex and Lucas share a first kiss in high school, then grow apart as adult life pulls them in different directions. Every Christmas brings them back together, turning one holiday tradition into a long, tender second chance.
Experimental Marine Biology
by Susannah Nix
2020
Marine biology PhD student Brooke lets her old friend Dylan crash on her couch and pose as her wedding date. One awkward moment changes everything, and their easy friendship slips into a much riskier kind of closeness.
Elementary Romantic Calculus
by Susannah Nix
2021
Math PhD Mia takes a temporary job in tiny Crowder, Texas, and plans to leave as soon as she can. Then a chance encounter introduces her to Josh, a guarded goat farmer who makes her carefully mapped future look less certain.
Mad About Ewe
by Susannah Nix
2021
Recently divorced Dawn is focused on her yarn store and her new independence, until a silver-haired customer turns out to be the boy who broke her heart decades ago. Mike wants a second chance, but Dawn is not eager to risk herself again.
My Cone and Only
by Susannah Nix
2021
Andie inherits a run-down house in Crowder, and Wyatt, her brother's best friend, steps in to help renovate it. Years of buried feelings and one forbidden kiss turn their careful friendship into a very real problem.
Cream and Punishment
by Susannah Nix
2022
A man hoping for a clean start at King's Creamery discovers his new coworker is Lucy, the ex who dumped him without explanation. Working side by side forces them to confront old hurt and the pull that never really died.
Lucky Star
by Susannah Nix
2022
Boone Sheridan asks Eve, a preschool teacher and barista who once crushed hard on him, to play his fake girlfriend for the cameras. Pretending is easy. Protecting her heart once fantasy starts feeling real is much harder.
Not Since Ewe
by Susannah Nix
2022
Independent consultant Tess is shaken when the daughter she placed for adoption finds her, along with Donal, the old flame who never stopped haunting her past. Rebuilding family ties means facing pain she has spent years trying to outrun.
Pint of Contention
by Susannah Nix
2022
Maggie arrives in Crowder to help save King's Creamery and quickly makes enemies, except for Ryan, the firefighter next door. As town gossip and private secrets close in, their fierce attraction gets harder and harder to ignore.
Play the Part
by Susannah Nix
2022
In this short Starstruck prequel, actress Kimberleigh Cress is caught at her lowest by gossip reporter Spencer Devlin, the last man she wants near her. His unexpected kindness sparks a connection that changes everything.
Star Bright
by Susannah Nix
2022
Actress Kimberleigh Cress thinks Spencer is just another gossip reporter until he catches her at a weak moment and shows unexpected kindness. Their attraction feels real, but trusting a man from the press could wreck everything.
Ewe Complete Me
by Susannah Nix
2023
Chloe and Brandon seem like a terrible blind-date match, but Dawn, Chloe's boss and Brandon's mother, keeps pulling them back into each other's orbit. A long road trip turns mutual irritation into chemistry neither can explain away.
Kilt to Order
by Susannah Nix
2023
Bookworm Casey asks her Highland Games athlete and firefighter roommate for hands-on lessons before she loses her virginity to someone else. Their practical arrangement gets complicated fast when the one falling hardest is the teacher.
Where should I start?
If you want nerdy STEM rom-coms: Remedial Rocket Science → Intermediate Thermodynamics → Advanced Physical Chemistry
If you want small-town family romance: My Cone and Only → Cream and Punishment → Pint of Contention
If you want Hollywood romance: Star Bright → Fallen Star → Rising Star → Lucky Star
If you want craft-centered second chances: Mad About Ewe → Not Since Ewe → Ewe Complete Me
If you want a quick holiday read: Maybe This Christmas
Author bio
Susannah Nix writes contemporary romance and rom-coms filled with smart women, messy feelings, and people who are a little more vulnerable than they want the world to know. She lives in Texas with her husband and a cat named Mulder, and outside writing she has said her favorite off-page habits include reading, knitting, lifting weights, drinking wine, and rewatching Ted Lasso.
She did not come to publishing in a straight line.
Before her novels reached readers, Nix worked in advertising and public relations. Later she became a stay-at-home mom, but writing never really went away. She kept trying different forms and genres, screenplays, epic fantasy, historical fiction, and paranormal mystery, until she realized the part she cared most about was always the relationship at the center.
That realization led her to romance.
When her child left for college, she decided to take the work more seriously. After learning about self-publishing through a local Romance Writers of America meeting, she released her first book in 2017. That debut, Remedial Rocket Science, set the tone for a lot of what followed: witty banter, grounded emotion, and a heroine whose technical brilliance does not protect her from romantic chaos.
The Chemistry Lessons books became her breakout lane. In Remedial Rocket Science, Intermediate Thermodynamics, Advanced Physical Chemistry, Applied Electromagnetism, Experimental Marine Biology, and Elementary Romantic Calculus, women in STEM jobs get to be the center of the joke, the heart of the story, and the person who gets the happy ending. Readers tend to love how specific those books feel, with aerospace, chemistry, marine biology, and math woven into the characters' lives instead of pasted on as decoration. In 2019, Advanced Physical Chemistry won the RITA Award for Contemporary Romance, Mid-Length.
Nix has never stayed in only one mood or one setting, though. My Cone and Only and the rest of the King Family books trade city workplaces for Crowder, Texas, where a family ice cream business turns every love story into a town event. The Starstruck novels, including Rising Star, Star Bright, and Lucky Star, move into Hollywood and play with fame, gossip, fake dating, and the gap between public image and private need. In Mad About Ewe and her other Common Threads books, she shifts again, this time toward craft communities, second chances, and characters with a lot of life behind them.
Across all those series, certain patterns keep showing up. Nix likes capable women, emotionally complicated men, and romance setups that sound familiar on paper but feel fresh because the people inside them are so recognizable. Friends-to-lovers, enemies forced together, old crushes, bad timing, family baggage, workplace stress, and sudden bursts of hope all show up again and again. Her books are funny, but they are rarely flimsy. Even the lightest ones make room for loneliness, regret, anxiety, and the slow work of trusting someone.
That balance is a big part of her charm.
Even when Nix writes about movie stars or rich families, the emotional center stays close to ordinary life. Her characters have real jobs, bills, exes, deadlines, insecurities, and group texts that will absolutely judge their choices. She is still writing from Texas, still building linked romance worlds that reward reading in order, and still making space for nerdy, stubborn, hopeful people to figure themselves out on the way to love.
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