The Secret Love Books in Order

The Secret Love series shifts the spotlight again within the Edwards universe, this time to Alexandra Edwards and the friends who share her orbit. These books sit on the line between family saga and office romance, filled with age gaps, power plays, and the fallout from being raised in a world where money and loyalty are always tangled.

In Craving Love, Alex is done living by her billionaire father Lex’s rules. She negotiates a gap year to travel through Europe, with the promise that she will come home after a year. When the money runs out she returns broke, unwilling to move back into her father’s strict household. A chance connection with fellow traveler April leads to a place to stay and, through April’s family, an unexpected job.

That job is working for Hunter Cash, April’s stepfather, a demanding CEO who is every bit as intense as Lex and very much out to destroy him. Hunter is older, infuriating, and devastatingly attractive, with a business plan that directly targets Alex’s family. The book digs into what it means to fall for someone who sees your last name as the enemy.

Craving Us shifts the emotional center toward Beau Romano, the boy who used to tease Alex mercilessly and has quietly become her closest friend. As college life and family expectations pile up, Beau turns into her safe place, the one person who understands both the weight of the Edwards name and the pull of Hunter’s world. Their story is a friends-to-lovers slow burn complicated by shifting loyalties and the reappearance of old flames.

The third book, Craving Her, follows Beau and April after they share an anonymous weekend together while both are running from their families. Using fake names, they let themselves be completely honest for the first time in years. When real life drags them back, they discover they are tied to the same people and secrets they were trying to escape, and their new feelings collide with old promises.

Across the trilogy, Secret Love acts as a bridge between Dark Love and Forbidden Love. It brings together Edwards and Cash family members, revisits familiar faces from earlier series in new roles, and digs into themes of control, revenge, and forgiveness. The tone stays angsty and steamy, but there is a strong thread of characters trying to build healthier futures than the ones they grew up watching.