The Boston Tomcats Books in Order
Part ofKayley Loring Books in OrderFind The Boston Tomcats books by Kayley Loring in order, with short summaries, series background, and a simple guide to where to begin.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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The Boston Tomcats books in publication order
3 books
Dash
by Kayley Loring
2022
Football star Dash gets thrown into a high-stakes romance with Charlie, a former ballerina whose life is already complicated enough. The attraction is hot, but the real surprise is how fast everything changes.
Decker
by Kayley Loring
2022
A smart heroine inherits a football franchise and immediately clashes with cocky quarterback Johnny Decker. Their enemies-to-lovers tension powers a funny, steamy start to the Boston Tomcats series.
Duke
by Kayley Loring
2023
Callum Duke and Millie get pulled into a close-quarters football romance where strategy and real feeling start to blur. It delivers banter, swagger, and a big-hearted payoff.
The Boston Tomcats books in chronological order
Series background & context
The Boston Tomcats books bring sports romance into Kayley Loring's world of fast jokes, strong heroines, and heroes who are much less in control than they look. The series was co-written with Connor Crais, and it leans into football without assuming readers need to care about stats more than chemistry. The team matters, the sport matters, but the real draw is how the players crash into women who will not be dazzled just because they are famous and built like quarterbacks.
Decker opens the series with Johnny and Hannah and sets the tone well. There is football, yes, but there is also power struggle, attraction, and a heroine smart enough to meet swagger with more swagger. One of the pleasures of this series is that the women are not hanging around the edges of the sports world. They have their own jobs, priorities, and reasons not to make things easy for the men.
Dash keeps the setup fresh by pairing a football star with Charlie, a heroine whose background in elite ballet gives the book a different texture. The sport changes, the body language changes, and the conflict shifts with it. It is still a Tomcats romance, still funny and steamy, but it reminds you that each entry is trying a slightly different emotional problem.
Then Duke brings in Callum and Millie for another standalone that uses the same team world while changing the romantic engine again. By that point, the appeal of the series is clear. You are getting men who are used to physical confidence and public attention, then watching what happens when real feeling makes them act like absolute disasters.
That is where the comedy lives.
The ongoing thread across the books is team culture. Teammates, practices, locker-room energy, media attention, and the strange little family that forms inside a pro sports organization all help make the series feel bigger than one couple at a time. Even when you are reading a standalone, you still get the sense that the rest of the Tomcats are nearby, chirping from the sidelines or making somebody's life harder.
The tone stays confident, playful, and very romantic. These are not gritty issue books wearing football uniforms. They are sexy sports rom-coms that know a hero can be cocky, ridiculous, and unexpectedly sincere all in the same chapter. If you like banter, big personalities, and athletic settings that feel lively without taking themselves too seriously, the Tomcats are easy to sink into.
Start with Decker to meet the team properly, then keep going in order. The books are standalones, but the sense of team chemistry gets better the longer you stay on the roster.
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