Tessa Bailey Books in Order

Party planner Hayden Winstead and explosives cop Brent Mason can’t stand each other, but their best friends’ romance keeps throwing them together. Sharp banter turns to scorching chemistry, forcing Hayden to choose between family expectations and the rough-around-the-edges man she can’t forget.

Chicago homicide cop Troy Bennett transfers to New York haunted by his partner’s death, only to fall for Ruby Elliott, a fearless pool hustler with a criminal family. Their explosive chemistry turns dangerous when her risky world collides with his latest case.

Jilted kindergarten teacher Story Brooks flies to New York to reconnect with her legendary negotiator father and meets Daniel Chase, his charming protégé. Their off-limits attraction flares even as family loyalties and Story’s recent heartbreak threaten to keep them apart.

When Ginger Peet steals a bag of dirty money to flee her toxic mother, she and her sister land in Chicago next door to Derek Tyler, a possessive homicide lieutenant. Hiding her past from the cop who wants to protect—and claim—her gets complicated fast.

Now settled in Chicago, Ginger Peet is happy with Lieutenant Derek Tyler—until a deadly case makes him shut her out. As danger closes in and unexpected news raises the stakes, Ginger must fight for their future and the fierce cop who guards her heart.

At a luxurious destination wedding, people-pleasing maid of honor Julie Piper clashes with brooding SWAT commander Reed Lawson. A reckless dare and one unforgettable night strip away their masks, leaving them to decide if a weekend fling can survive real-life scars.

Interior designer Eliza Ballas needs a crash course in submission to impress a man at Serve, so she turns to Oliver Preston, her best friend’s protective brother. Training that’s meant to be temporary soon cuts too deep, as duty clashes with a desire neither can ignore.

Journalist Caroline Preston visits elite BDSM club Serve to write a takedown piece and impress her conservative family, but owner Jonah Briggs has other plans. Their intense affair forces Caroline to confront her need for control and Jonah to risk his guarded heart.

NYPD sniper Matt Donovan agrees to drive his best friend’s little sister home from college, only to be duped by her outspoken roommate, Lucy. One reckless night exposes Matt’s dark desires and Lucy’s lies, leaving them tangled in guilt, obsession, and a forbidden second chance.

Heartbroken Willa Peet flees to Dublin to shake off a bad breakup and lands at a crumbling inn run by surly ex–race car driver Shane Claymore. Sparks fly as they trade barbs and secrets, daring each other to believe in love after loss.

Out-of-work actress Roxy Cumberland sings dirty telegrams in a bunny costume to pay rent, then embarrasses high-powered lawyer Louis McNally at his own front door. Their instant attraction sparks a battle between her distrust of rich boys and his determination to prove he’s more than his pedigree.

Rock star Sarge Purcell returns to his New Jersey hometown obsessed with Jasmine Taveras, his older sister’s best friend and the muse for every song he’s written. She thinks she’s too old and too worn down for him, until Sarge proves he’s grown into exactly the man she needs.

Frankie De Luca agrees to work off a debt at BDSM club Serve and ends up in the wrong room with sharply dressed dom Porter Evans. He offers her a deal—submission in exchange for help—but their volatile arrangement soon exposes deeper wounds neither planned to share.

Construction worker Russell Hart has quietly loved polished heiress Abby Sullivan for years, convinced he’s not good enough. When a scare throws them together, Abby starts seeing past his rough edges, turning their friendship into a scorching, deeply vulnerable fight for a shared future.

Honey Perribow trades her small Kentucky town for Columbia University and develops a crushing infatuation with her new English professor, Ben Dawson. A dark closet encounter reveals their chemistry, leaving them to navigate forbidden lines, academic rules, and very real feelings.

Former pool hustler Ruby Elliott is trying to go straight with detective Troy Bennett at her side, but her con-artist father tempts her into one last job. As the stakes climb, Troy’s tight control slips, and their obsessive passion becomes as risky as the hustle itself.

Rogue NYPD officer Seraphina Newsom infiltrates a Brooklyn crime syndicate to avenge her brother’s murder, only to collide with Bowen Driscol, the reluctant boss of that very empire. Forced to pose as his lover to stay alive, she risks her heart as much as her life.

Ex–Navy SEAL Connor Bannon has been posing as a criminal enforcer, but his new undercover assignment pairs him with Erin O’Dea, a rebellious arsonist who hates authority. Their combustible chemistry threatens to blow their mission—and their carefully guarded defenses—wide open.

Chameleon-like con man Austin Shaw joins an undercover task force and finds himself shadowing hacker Polly Banks, who’s hunting the criminal who ruined her life. She doesn’t trust a man who lives by lies, but their dangerous mission and forbidden desire force her to choose whether to risk her heart.

Disgraced cop Henrik Vance has sacrificed everything to protect Ailish O’Kelly, the blind daughter of a ruthless mob boss. When he crashes her new life on the run, old obsessions and fresh threats collide, and they must decide if loving each other is worth the fallout.

Years after a single intense night, rock drummer Lita Regina is done with her manager James Brandon’s distant guilt. Determined to reclaim the dark connection they once shared, she forces him to face his desires and learn whether control can coexist with trust.

Hook, New Jersey bad boy Vaughn De Matteo returns to town and discovers he has a young daughter with his high school sweetheart, River Purcell. To win back the family he abandoned, Vaughn has to prove he’s more than the screwup everyone remembers.

After torching her culinary career, Rita Clarkson gets stranded in New Mexico with her feuding siblings and a broken-down car. Rescue comes via Jasper Ellis, a notorious local bar owner, and their simmering attraction turns a disastrous road trip into a shot at redemption and real love.

Political fixer Aaron Clarkson heads to Iowa chasing a job with a powerful senator and instead collides with Grace Pendleton, the senator’s wild, wounded daughter. As he tries to manage Grace and his own ambitions, Aaron discovers she’s the one person he can’t spin—or walk away from.

Gruff factory mechanic Duke Crawford wants nothing to do with love, but when artist Samantha Waverly needs a convenient husband to solve a family problem, he volunteers. A fake marriage full of rules slowly turns into the one relationship neither of them expected to need.

Aloof CEO Renner Bastion plans to leave the struggling factory town he rescued, but sarcastic security guard Milo Bautista makes staying tempting. Their slow-building, boss/bodyguard romance forces both men to confront fear, class differences, and what real commitment looks like.

Police academy cadet Charlie Burns lives for casual hookups until he meets Ever Carmichael, a woman who insists on short-term flings only. When she ends their perfect arrangement, Charlie has to rethink his future and prove he can be the steady partner she’s convinced she doesn’t want.

Loyal sister Teresa Valentini agrees to seduce Wall Street golden boy Will Caruso to save her brother from a deadly debt, only to genuinely fall for the man she’s deceiving. On a road trip filled with secrets, a Great Dane, and scorching tension, she has to choose between blood and love.

Belmont Clarkson has loved family friend Sage Alexander in silent devotion for years, until she abruptly leaves their cross-country trip. Reunited in her troubled hometown, they must face her dangerous obligations and his consuming protectiveness to build a life that isn’t built on sacrifice alone.

NFL-bound wide receiver Kyler Tate returns to his Indiana hometown hoping to win back Bree Justice, the high school girlfriend who chose quiet roots over his rising fame. A short visit becomes a high-stakes test of whether first love can survive adult realities.

Peggy Clarkson returns to her former college determined to seduce and exorcise Elliott Brooks, the football coach who broke her heart. Their reunion drags buried secrets and guilt to the surface, forcing them to decide whether a second chance is worth rewriting the past.

Australian vet Autumn Reynolds is recovering from a bad breakup by inhaling whipped-cream nitrous and drawing explicit comics about her terrifying landlord. When Blake discovers her fantasies and proposes a three-date, no-strings arrangement, their filthy chemistry turns into something dangerously close to love.

By-the-book lieutenant Greer Burns prides himself on icy control, but rookie Danika Silva keeps pushing every button he has. When her mistake lands her on probation under his watch, nightly ride-alongs and daily check-ins turn their forbidden attraction into a risky, rule-breaking love affair.

Addison Potts crashes her estranged cousin’s Charleston wedding and unexpectedly becomes getaway driver for the jilted groom, future mayor Elijah Montgomery Du Pont. Hiding out together, they build an unlikely friendship that slowly morphs into something far riskier than political scandal.

Charming screwup Jack Garrett shares a drunken, anonymous kiss with a stunning Irish stranger, then walks into the academy gym to find her introducing herself as his new firearms instructor. As Katie McCoy tries to keep things professional, Jack battles addiction, trauma, and the fear he’s not worth a future with her.

Ex-con lifeguard Rory Prince knows he should steer clear of Olive Cunningham, the curious college student newly unleashed on the world. Instead he keeps saving her from near disasters and falling for the girl who stubbornly believes he’s worth more than his record says.

Ex–Special Forces soldier Kyle Musgrave never expected to end up jousting at a renaissance fair, but rescuing stranded performer Cameron makes him her unlikely champion. To help her escape unwanted suitors, he dons armor, wins contests, and finds himself craving more than a temporary role in her story.

On her wedding day, Naomi Clemons bolts from the church and winds up in St. Augustine, where gruff Special Forces diver Jason Bristow is raising his teenage sister. She offers to coach the girl toward a pageant crown; he offers shelter, honesty, and a temptation Naomi never planned on.

Tasked with driving decorated army major Beck Collier home after seven years overseas, motor-mouthed Kenna Sutton expects a desk jockey and gets a gorgeous, painfully inexperienced soldier. Outraged by his quiet homecoming, she stages a very personal welcome that tempts Beck to break every rule he lives by.

Clown-for-hire Georgie Castle is tired of being the overlooked little sister when she proposes a fake relationship with washed-up baseball star Travis Ford to rehabilitate both their images. Pretend kisses turn real as they challenge each other to want more than anyone expected.

Linebacker Jerimiah is used to intimidating everyone in the room—until he gets locked in a frat-house basement with Birdie, the quiet girl who fascinates him. One charged night of honesty and heat pushes them past small talk and into something messy, needy, and unexpectedly sweet.

Brash CrossFit addict Marcus “Diesel” O’Shaughnessy and tightly wound teacher Jamie Prince have nothing in common except their summer lifeguard jobs. Sneaking around beneath the boardwalk, they battle secrets, labels, and fear to decide whether their scorching connection is a fluke—or worth fighting for.

Work-obsessed Andrew Prince holds his family’s bar and lifeguard crew together, using responsibility to smother his lifelong love for girl-next-door Jiya Dalal. When a moonlit misstep exposes his feelings, they must confront old guilt, parental pressure, and the risk of finally choosing each other.

Rosie and Dominic Vega’s marriage looks solid from the outside, but inside they’re barely speaking. A trial separation and a hilariously intense couples’ therapist force the silent construction foreman and his vibrant wife to relearn how to talk, touch, and choose each other again.

Funeral home director Ginny Lynn is having an ordinary night until the gorgeous “corpse” on her table sits up and smiles. Jonas Cantrell, a vampire sworn to secrecy, should erase her memory, but a powerful bond and a dangerous secret tie their fates together instead.

Roksana, party-girl heir to a vampire-slayer dynasty, has already failed once to kill brooding vampire Elias. Sent home in disgrace, she’s given one last chance, but memories of their human-night encounter and a twisting conspiracy make duty and desire impossible to separate.

Perfectionist house stager Bethany Castle breaks away from her family’s company to flip a wreck of a house on her own, only to have younger cowboy Wes Daniels volunteer as her foreman. Their on-camera renovation rivalry turns into a battle of wills, desire, and who’s brave enough to commit.

Party-girl Piper Bellinger is cut off from her LA lifestyle and sent to run her late father’s rundown bar in a Pacific Northwest fishing town, where a gruff widowed sea captain challenges what she wants—and who she really is.

Dancer Reese dreams of Broadway and misses a career-making audition, so she tracks down the choreographer’s son hoping for a second chance. Instead she falls for Leo, a grumpy, gentle giant baker, and must confess that their fairytale romance began with a lie.

Uber-driving vampire Tucker wants nothing to do with prophecies, yet he’s tasked with delivering blind fairy Mary to her arranged marriage with a vicious rival. A perilous road trip turns their reluctant alliance into a fierce, tender love that could upend an entire underworld.

Fresh out of prison and low on luck, Stella finds herself critiquing the disastrous holiday windows of a famous Manhattan department store to a stranger—who turns out to be its upbeat owner, Aiden. Hired to redesign the displays, she must navigate a second chance, office rules, and an irresistible boss.

Aspiring reporter Elise Brandeis heads to Roosevelt Island chasing a story and ends up stuck on a stalled tram with three strangers: a grumpy rugby coach, a construction worker, and a retired adult-film star. Their intense hour together sparks an accidental, very unconventional relationship she never saw coming.

Music-obsessed Hannah Bellinger returns to Westport to work on a film and crashes with Fox Thornton, the town’s notorious player and her late-night text buddy. Determined to stay friends, they try to ignore simmering attraction while Fox battles the belief he’s only good for casual flings.

Second-grade teacher Taylor expects a sun-soaked Cape Cod trip with her brother, not a dead body in their rental house. Grumpy bounty hunter Myles wants her to stay out of his investigation, but repeated attempts on her life force them into a reluctant, wildly hot sleuthing partnership.

Ambitious waitress Britta has a strict no-hockey-players rule—until her brother’s teammate Sumner Mayfield needs a green-card marriage to stay in the US. Their one-year fake marriage, born on a wild New Year’s Eve, slowly turns into the one relationship Britta’s terrified to trust.

Free-spirited gardener Hallie Welch is hired to redo the grounds of the Vos family vineyard and suddenly working outside the window of her longtime crush, uptight professor Julian Vos. A drunken anonymous love letter and clashing personalities turn their Napa summer into a messy, intoxicating romance.

Down-on-her-luck heiress Natalie Vos needs a husband to unlock her trust fund; gruff ex–Navy SEAL turned failing winemaker August Cates needs cash to keep his vineyard afloat. Their hostile marriage of convenience quickly fills with real sparks, nosy locals, and inconvenient feelings.

Melody Gallard, daughter of a reclusive rock legend, agrees to film a Christmas Eve reunion show to fix her finances and reconnect with charismatic Beat Dawkins, the son of her mother’s former bandmate. As they wrangle feuding rock stars, brawling Santas, and a relentless crew, long-buried feelings roar back to life.

Washed-up golf star Wells Whitaker has one loyal fan left: Josephine Doyle, the redhead who cheers every disastrous round. After a hurricane ruins her pro shop, he begs her to be his caddy and partner in a comeback, turning rivals of circumstance into lovers on and off the course.

Single mom Evie Crowe is starting over in a Texas town, sewing custom clothes from thrift-store finds while raising her infant son. Gentle giant farmer Luke Ward keeps visiting for jeans that fit, and their flirty alterations quickly lead to a holiday romance that could reshape both their futures.

Marine-biology student Tallulah takes a live-in nanny job for Lissa, the tween daughter of bruising hockey vet Burgess. Close quarters, shared late nights, and her mission to push him back into the dating world blur lines between caretaker and forbidden love.

When his car dies at a country club, hockey star Sig Gauthier meets Chloe Clifford, a champagne-stealing free spirit who feels like his dream girl. Their moonlit kiss sours once they discover their parents are engaged, forcing them to pretend at platonic friendship while longing for more.

Boston Bearcats rookie Robbie Corrigan is known for charm and chaos, but Division I softball ace Skylar Paige is immune—and pining for someone else. Volunteering as her fake boyfriend and love coach at a family wilderness competition, Robbie slowly turns her attention exactly where he’s always wanted it.

Yankees catcher Madden Donahue has loved burlesque club owner Eve Mitchell since high school, but she keeps turning him down. When he offers a secret marriage of convenience to get him a green card–style health benefit and help her raise two kids, pretend vows ignite a very real fire.