Below is the complete list of Meghan Quinn’s Getting Lucky books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.
Getting Lucky Books in Publication Order
- That Second Chance (2019)
View Book - That Forever Girl (2019)
View Book - That Secret Crush (2020)
View Book - That Swoony Feeling (2020)
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About Getting Lucky
Meghan Quinn’s Getting Lucky books belong to the small-town side of her catalogue and are best understood as a connected Port Snow, Maine romance world. One useful point of context is that Quinn’s current official site now groups these novels under the Port Snow series rather than emphasizing “Getting Lucky” as the primary label. That does not change the books themselves, but it does help explain why some readers encounter two different ways of naming the same group of novels. The heart of the series is still the same: a coastal Maine town, a close-knit local circle, and a set of romances shaped by old history, small-town superstition, and the awkward fact that everyone seems to know everyone else’s business.
What gives these books their identity is the mixture of warmth and chaos. Port Snow is not written as a sleepy postcard town where nothing ever happens. It is lively, meddling, romantic, and just superstitious enough to give the series an extra bit of personality. Quinn uses that atmosphere well. The town feels like a place where people remember your teenage mistakes, notice your current love life, and are more than willing to interfere when they think fate needs a push. That makes the romances feel socially alive rather than sealed off inside one couple’s private world.
That Second Chance sets the tone especially well. It introduces the series with a combination of humor, emotional baggage, and the local “curse” idea that hangs over the town’s men. Quinn clearly enjoys using that superstition as a running thread, because it gives the series both comic energy and a shared sense of mythology. The books are not fantasy or paranormal romance, but they do use the language of curses, luck, and destiny as part of the small-town culture. That detail helps Port Snow feel specific rather than interchangeable with any other rom-com setting.
That Forever Girl deepens the emotional appeal by leaning into return, memory, and the force of unfinished history. This is one of the reasons the series works as a group. Quinn does not just write one quirky town and then drop unrelated couples into it. She builds a place where the past matters. Former relationships, old crushes, family familiarity, and the emotional residue of growing up in the same town all shape what happens. That gives the books a little more weight beneath the banter and steam.
That Secret Crush and That Swoony Feeling continue the same broad promise while showing that Quinn knows how to vary the romantic dynamics inside one shared world. The town remains the connective tissue, but each book finds a slightly different emotional center. Some lean more toward second chances, some toward long-held feelings finally surfacing, and some toward the comic misery of trying to outrun romantic expectation in a place that refuses to let anyone stay detached for long. That flexibility keeps the series from feeling repetitive.
The tone is recognizably Meghan Quinn, but in a softer and more small-town-rooted register than some of her flashier billionaire or sports-romance series. These books still have heat, humor, and plenty of romantic mess, but they are less about spectacle and more about community. Port Snow matters because it creates a world where falling in love is never just about two people. Friends, relatives, neighbors, local traditions, and old assumptions all become part of the pressure.
Beneath an already completed list, the best way to understand the Getting Lucky books is as Meghan Quinn’s Port Snow romance world: funny, affectionate, a little superstitious, and built around the idea that love becomes much harder to avoid when you live in a town that is always watching. The series is connected by setting, recurring emotional texture, and a shared belief that in Port Snow, bad luck in love may just be another route to exactly where you were meant to end up.