Below is the complete list of Blue Moon books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series by Lucy Score.
Blue Moon Series
- No More Secrets (2016)
- Fall Into Temptation (2016)
- The Last Second Chance (2016)
- Not Part of the Plan (2017)
- Holding on to Chaos (2017)
- The Fine Art of Faking It (2017)
- Where it All Began (2017)
- The Mistletoe Kisser (2020)
About Blue Moon Series
Lucy Score’s Blue Moon books are some of her warmest and most overtly community-driven romances, and they work best when read in publication order because the town itself is as important as any single couple. This is not a series built around one continuing central romance. It is a linked small-town sequence, with each book focusing on a different pair while gradually turning Blue Moon Bend into a place readers want to return to. That structure is one of the series’ biggest strengths. Every romance stands on its own, but the emotional payoff deepens when the books are read in order and the town’s people, rhythms, and relationships begin to accumulate.
What makes Blue Moon different from some of Lucy Score’s later and more high-profile books is its smaller, more intimate scale. The appeal here is not glossy wealth, urban ambition, or oversized chaos. It is local life: family ties, old reputations, town gossip, stubborn loyalty, and the sense that everybody knows enough about everyone else to make privacy nearly impossible. That gives the romances a particular kind of pressure. Falling in love in Blue Moon Bend is never just about two people. It also means negotiating the expectations, memories, and opinions of an entire community.
The first book establishes that tone immediately. It introduces the town as a place where emotional baggage has room to breathe but not room to hide. That becomes the pattern of the whole series. Lucy Score is very good at writing attraction with humor and speed, but in Blue Moon she also leans into familiarity and belonging. The books are romantic, of course, but they are just as much about finding home, rebuilding trust, and discovering whether people who have been bruised by life are still capable of choosing connection over self-protection.
Publication order matters because these are true linked standalones. A reader can pick up one book and still get a complete love story, but reading them straight through makes the world feel fuller and more rewarding. Secondary characters grow more recognizable, family dynamics gain extra weight, and the town itself starts to feel like an active participant in the series. That is one of the pleasures of a well-built small-town romance line: the setting stops feeling like background and becomes part of the emotional promise.
Another reason the series works is that it captures an earlier but already very recognisable version of Lucy Score’s voice. The books have her usual strengths—banter, chemistry, emotional sincerity, and heroes who often look more put-together than they really are—but they feel slightly more grounded and locally rooted than some of her broader contemporary romances. Blue Moon Bend is not there simply to make the books cozy. It creates the social conditions that make these romances land: long memories, practical lives, and people who cannot reinvent themselves without everyone noticing.
The series also benefits from tone. These books are light enough to be comforting but never so weightless that the relationships feel disposable. Score understands that small-town romance is most satisfying when the love story is tied to something larger than attraction alone. In Blue Moon, that larger thing is community. The characters are not only choosing each other. They are choosing a place, a rhythm of life, and often a version of themselves that feels steadier than the one they began with.
For readers who already have the list above, the best way to think about the Blue Moon books is as a linked small-town romance series built on atmosphere, continuity, and emotional ease. Read in publication order, the books become more than separate contemporary love stories. They form a fuller portrait of one town and the people inside it, with each romance adding another layer to why Blue Moon Bend feels worth coming back to.