The Ex Games Books in Order

The Ex Games is one of the clearest entry points into the Helen Cooper and J.S. Cooper catalog because the premise lands so quickly. Katie Raymond and Brandon Hastings were once deeply in love. One lie destroyed that relationship. Years later, Katie takes what looks like the job opportunity of a lifetime and discovers that Brandon now owns the company she works for.

So yes, the ex is also the boss.

That setup gives the series nearly everything it needs: history, resentment, unresolved attraction, and a power imbalance that keeps every reunion tense. Katie is not just seeing an old flame again. She is seeing the man who broke her heart, and she has to do it inside a professional setting where he always seems to know more than she does.

Brandon is the engine of the drama. He is rich, controlled, and clearly playing a longer game than Katie understands at first. The books keep readers moving by revealing one secret at a time, not only about what happened in the past, but about what Brandon is hiding in the present. The more Katie learns, the less simple their breakup looks.

That makes The Ex Games more than a standard reunion romance. It is a second-chance story wrapped around revenge, mistrust, and emotional whiplash. The serial structure heightens that. Each installment pushes the couple into a new confrontation, a new revelation, or a new moment of weakness, then stops right when the fallout is about to land.

Heat is part of the appeal, but so is the sheer soapiness of the setup. These books like dramatic gestures, painful misunderstandings, and secrets that make a bad situation worse before it gets better. Readers who want gentle realism should look elsewhere. Readers who want high-stakes reunion tension will understand the appeal immediately.

The later entries, including After The Ex Games, deal with the consequences of everything that came before. By then the question is not whether Katie and Brandon still want each other. It is whether they can survive the damage their past has already done. That is what keeps the series moving, and why it remains one of the signature Helen Cooper pages.