Tessa Bailey Books in Order

Below is the complete list of Tessa Bailey books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.

A Vine Mess Series

1. Secretly Yours (2023)
2. Unfortunately Yours (2023)

Beach Kingdom Series

1. Mouth to Mouth (2018)
2. Heat Stroke (2019)
3. Sink or Swim (2019)

Bellinger Sisters Series

1. It Happened One Summer (2021)
2. Hook, Line, and Sinker (2022)

Big Shots Series

1. Fangirl Down (2024)
2. The Au Pair Affair (2024)
3. Dream Girl Drama (2025)
4. Pitcher Perfect (2025)
5. Catch Her If You Can (2026)

Broke and Beautiful Series

1. Chase Me (2015)
2. Need Me (2015)
3. Make Me (2015)

Crossing the Line Series

1. Riskier Business (2015)
2. Risking it All (2015)
3. Up in Smoke (2015)
4. Boiling Point (2016)
5. Raw Redemption (2016)

Girl Series

1. Getaway Girl (2018)
2. Runaway Girl (2018)
3. Halfway Girl (2019)

Hot & Hammered Series

1. Fix Her Up (2019)
2. Love Her or Lose Her (2020)
3. Tools of Engagement (2020)

Line of Duty Series

1. Protecting What’s His (2013)
2. His Risk to Take (2013)
3. Officer Off Limits (2013)
4. Protecting What’s Theirs (2013)
5. Asking For Trouble (2013)
6. Staking His Claim (2014)

Made in Jersey Series

1. Crashed Out (2015)
2. Rough Rhythm (2016)
3. Thrown Down (2016)
4. Worked Up (2016)
5. Wound Tight (2016)

Phenomenal Fate Series

1. Reborn Yesterday (2020)
2. This Time Tomorrow (2020)
3. Today Tomorrow and Always (2021)

Romancing the Clarksons Series

1. Too Hot to Handle (2016)
2. Too Wild to Tame (2016)
3. Too Hard to Forget (2017)
4. Too Close to Call (2017)
5. Too Beautiful to Break (2017)

The Academy Series

1. Disorderly Conduct (2017)
2. Indecent Exposure (2018)
3. Disturbing His Peace (2018)

Standalone Novels Series

1. Unfixable (2014)
2. Off Base (2015)
3. Follow (2017)
4. Captivated (2018)
   (With Eve Dangerfield)
5. Find Her (2019)
6. Stripped Bare (2020)
7. The Seven Year Itch (2020)
8. The Sweetest Fix (2021)
9. Window Shopping (2021)
10. My Killer Vacation (2022)
11. Happenstance (2022)
12. Wreck the Halls (2023)

Short Stories/Novellas Series

1. The Major’s Welcome Home (2018)
2. Renaissance Man (2018)
3. The Football Pants Chronicles (2019)
4. Double Booked (2020)
5. Same Time Next Year (2023)

Serve Series

1. Owned by Fate (2014)
2. Exposed by Fate (2014)
3. Mistaken by Fate (2014)
   (By Katee Robert)
4. Betting on Fate (2014)
   (By Katee Robert)
5. Driven by Fate (2015)
6. Protecting Fate (2015)
   (By Katee Robert)
7. Rules of Seduction (2015)
   (By Joya Ryan)
8. Bind Me Before You Go (2015)
   (By Harper Kincaid)

Under the Mistletoe Collection Series

1. Merry Ever After (2024)
2. All by My Elf (2024)
   (By Olivia Dade)
3. Cruel Winter with You (2024)
   (By Ali Hazelwood)
4. Merriment and Mayhem (2024)
   (By Alexandria Bellefleur)
5. Only Santas in the Building (2024)
   (By Alexis Daria)

Wedding Dare Series

1. Dare to Resist (2014)
   (By Laura Kaye)
2. Seducing the Bridesmaid (2014)
   (By Katee Robert)
3. Baiting the Maid of Honor (2014)
4. Best Man with Benefits (2014)
   (By Samanthe Beck)
5. Falling for the Groomsman (2014)
   (By Diane Alberts)

About Tessa Bailey

Tessa Bailey has built one of the most recognizable brands in contemporary commercial romance by combining high heat, fast rhythm, and an unusually clear sense of emotional payoff. Her publisher presents her as a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and that bestselling status fits the scale of her reach over the last several years. She writes romances that are openly playful, heavily character-driven, and designed to balance comic energy with intense attraction. Even readers who do not know her full bibliography usually know the voice: bold, flirtatious, emotionally direct, and unembarrassed about desire. She lives on Long Island, and her official publisher biography describes the fictional world she favors as one filled with blue-collar heroes, lovable heroines, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

Her career is best understood as a movement from category and series romance into mainstream rom-com publishing success without losing the qualities that first made her distinctive. Bailey had already been a prolific romance writer before her biggest breakout phase, but wider attention accelerated with books that were easier to package as buzzy, high-concept contemporary romance. The Hot & Hammered trilogy, beginning with Fix Her Up, helped define that shift. Those novels gave her a broader crossover audience while preserving the spicy, high-voltage interpersonal dynamic that had always been central to her work.

A major leap came with the Bellinger Sisters books, especially It Happened One Summer. That series pushed Bailey into a larger level of visibility and made her one of the defining names in modern spicy rom-com. What stands out in these books is not just the chemistry, though that is central, but the way she builds romance around very strong tonal contrast. Her fiction often pairs swagger with vulnerability, bravado with devotion, chaos with steadiness. The result is a style of romance that feels exaggerated in the best commercial sense: larger-than-life enough to be fun, but emotionally sincere enough to land.

Her bibliography is also notable for how neatly it breaks into reader-friendly clusters. Some books sit in closely linked duologies or trilogies, while others launch fresh settings and romance frameworks. The Vine Mess books, starting with Secretly Yours, show her working in a slightly softer, wine-country rom-com register while keeping her familiar mix of banter and longing. More recently, she launched a sports romance line with Fangirl Down, and publisher listings show that strand continuing with later titles including Pitcher Perfect and Catch Her If You Can. That matters because Bailey is not simply repeating one accidental success. She keeps finding new contemporary-romance containers for the same core strengths: high sexual tension, vivid opposites, and heroes whose intensity eventually turns into total emotional commitment.

Her bibliography is best understood by tone and era rather than by one single overarching world. Readers who want the earlier, more series-heavy Tessa Bailey will find a deeper backlist shaped by category-romance momentum and recurring setups. Readers who know her from her bestseller phase are usually meeting the version of Bailey that became a BookTok favorite and a major rom-com name in the 2020s. But the through-line is strong across both periods. She writes with total commitment to fantasy, chemistry, and satisfaction. The books are built to move quickly, but they are not emotionally casual. Beneath the teasing, swagger, and steam, Bailey’s fiction depends on the same promise over and over: that desire will turn into devotion, and that the most overwhelming attraction in the room will also become the safest place to land.