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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.
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A Vine Mess Series
- Secretly Yours (2023)
Buy on Amazon - Unfortunately Yours (2023)
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Beach Kingdom Series
- Mouth to Mouth (2018)
Buy on Amazon - Heat Stroke (2019)
Buy on Amazon - Sink or Swim (2019)
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Bellinger Sisters Series
- It Happened One Summer (2021)
Buy on Amazon - Hook, Line, and Sinker (2022)
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Big Shots Series
- Fangirl Down (2024)
Buy on Amazon - The Au Pair Affair (2024)
Buy on Amazon - Dream Girl Drama (2025)
Buy on Amazon - Pitcher Perfect (2025)
Buy on Amazon - Catch Her If You Can (2026)
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Broke and Beautiful Series
- Chase Me (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Need Me (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Make Me (2015)
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Crossing the Line Series
- Riskier Business (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Risking it All (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Up in Smoke (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Boiling Point (2016)
Buy on Amazon - Raw Redemption (2016)
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Girl Series
- Getaway Girl (2018)
Buy on Amazon - Runaway Girl (2018)
Buy on Amazon - Halfway Girl (2019)
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Hot & Hammered Series
- Fix Her Up (2019)
Buy on Amazon - Love Her or Lose Her (2020)
Buy on Amazon - Tools of Engagement (2020)
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Line of Duty Series
- Protecting What’s His (2013)
Buy on Amazon - His Risk to Take (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Officer Off Limits (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Protecting What’s Theirs (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Asking For Trouble (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Staking His Claim (2014)
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Made in Jersey Series
- Crashed Out (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Rough Rhythm (2016)
Buy on Amazon - Thrown Down (2016)
Buy on Amazon - Worked Up (2016)
Buy on Amazon - Wound Tight (2016)
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Phenomenal Fate Series
- Reborn Yesterday (2020)
Buy on Amazon - This Time Tomorrow (2020)
Buy on Amazon - Today Tomorrow and Always (2021)
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Romancing the Clarksons Series
- Too Hot to Handle (2016)
Buy on Amazon - Too Wild to Tame (2016)
Buy on Amazon - Too Hard to Forget (2017)
Buy on Amazon - Too Close to Call (2017)
Buy on Amazon - Too Beautiful to Break (2017)
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The Academy Series
- Disorderly Conduct (2017)
Buy on Amazon - Indecent Exposure (2018)
Buy on Amazon - Disturbing His Peace (2018)
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Standalone Novels Series
- Unfixable (2014)
Buy on Amazon - Off Base (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Follow (2017)
Buy on Amazon - Captivated (2018)
(With Eve Dangerfield)
Buy on Amazon - Find Her (2019)
Buy on Amazon - Stripped Bare (2020)
Buy on Amazon - The Seven Year Itch (2020)
Buy on Amazon - The Sweetest Fix (2021)
Buy on Amazon - Window Shopping (2021)
Buy on Amazon - My Killer Vacation (2022)
Buy on Amazon - Happenstance (2022)
Buy on Amazon - Wreck the Halls (2023)
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Short Stories/Novellas Series
- The Major’s Welcome Home (2018)
Buy on Amazon - Renaissance Man (2018)
Buy on Amazon - The Football Pants Chronicles (2019)
Buy on Amazon - Double Booked (2020)
Buy on Amazon - Same Time Next Year (2023)
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Serve Series
- Owned by Fate (2014)
Buy on Amazon - Exposed by Fate (2014)
Buy on Amazon - Mistaken by Fate (2014)
(By Katee Robert)
Buy on Amazon - Betting on Fate (2014)
(By Katee Robert)
Buy on Amazon - Driven by Fate (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Protecting Fate (2015)
(By Katee Robert)
Buy on Amazon - Rules of Seduction (2015)
(By Joya Ryan)
Buy on Amazon - Bind Me Before You Go (2015)
(By Harper Kincaid)
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Under the Mistletoe Collection Series
- Merry Ever After (2024)
Buy on Amazon - All by My Elf (2024)
(By Olivia Dade)
Buy on Amazon - Cruel Winter with You (2024)
(By Ali Hazelwood)
Buy on Amazon - Merriment and Mayhem (2024)
(By Alexandria Bellefleur)
Buy on Amazon - Only Santas in the Building (2024)
(By Alexis Daria)
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Wedding Dare Series
- Dare to Resist (2014)
(By Laura Kaye)
Buy on Amazon - Seducing the Bridesmaid (2014)
(By Katee Robert)
Buy on Amazon - Baiting the Maid of Honor (2014)
Buy on Amazon - Best Man with Benefits (2014)
(By Samanthe Beck)
Buy on Amazon - Falling for the Groomsman (2014)
(By Diane Alberts)
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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.
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