Sweet Water High Books in Order

Sweet Water High is a shared-world project where multiple clean-romance authors, including Judy Corry, each tell a love story set during the same school year at the same small-town high school. One town, one senior class, and a whole lineup of stand-alone romances.

The series takes place in Sweet Water, a community where football games, band practice and part-time jobs bump right up against family drama and future plans. Each book zeroes in on a different couple—a billionaire’s heir banished to a small town, a girl crushing on her brothers’ best friend, prank-happy classmates, overachievers, theater kids and more—while the others spin out their own stories in the background.

Because so many authors contribute, every installment has its own flavor. Some feel like classic rom-coms with misunderstandings and big grand gestures; others dig a little deeper into questions of identity, anxiety or family expectations. What ties them together is a focus on clean, swoony chemistry and that heightened, everything-matters-right-now feeling of senior year.

Judy Corry’s contribution, Kissing the Boy Next Door, taps into a Romeo-and-Juliet-style family feud. Former best friends turned wary neighbors are forced to work together on a duet and cross-country team, where proximity slowly chips away at five years of silence. It’s a good example of how the Sweet Water High books balance familiar tropes—enemies to more, next-door neighbors, forbidden crushes—with grounded emotion and everyday teen problems.

You don’t have to read the series in strict order, since every book stands alone with a complete romance. Reading chronologically, though, lets you watch side characters graduate from walk-ons to main characters, track school events like dances and big games from multiple angles, and feel the school year build toward its natural goodbye.

If you like the idea of a shared universe where you can dip in and out, sampling different authors while staying in the same hallways and homerooms, this section will help you place Kissing the Boy Next Door among the rest of the Sweet Water High stories and decide which ones to grab next.