Below is the complete list of Elle Kennedy’s WAGs books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.
WAGs Books
with Sarina Bowen
About WAGs
Elle Kennedy’s WAGs books, co-written with Sarina Bowen, are a short hockey-romance series that spins out of the world of Him while developing a more playful, relationship-centered identity of its own. On Kennedy’s official site, the series consists of Good Boy and Stay, and both books are grouped under her co-written work rather than folded into a much larger line.
What gives WAGs its particular charm is the shift in perspective suggested by the title itself. These books still orbit pro hockey, but they are less about locker-room culture or athletic ambition as the main draw than about the people living beside that world and getting pulled into its chaos, travel, image management, and emotional messiness. The series leans into humor, chemistry, and domestic instability more than the deeper sports-performance focus that shapes some other hockey romances.
Good Boy establishes that tone especially well through Jess Canning and Blake Riley. Jess enters with family history, self-doubt, and the pressure of being seen as the unreliable one, while Blake brings the series one of its defining energies: golden-retriever charm, relentless optimism, and a refusal to fit the shallow image people have of him. That pairing gives the book a buoyant emotional rhythm. Beneath the banter and heat, it is still a story about whether someone dismissed as unserious can prove capable of real steadiness, and whether someone used to disappointing others can let herself be fully wanted.
Stay keeps the same world but alters the emotional register by centering Hailey Taylor Emery and Matt Eriksson. The mood is a little more mature, a little more settled, and more obviously concerned with care, vulnerability, and the practical shape of commitment. That helps the two-book series feel complete rather than repetitive. The first novel thrives on pursuit and comic resistance; the second deepens into questions of trust, support, and what it means to build something lasting when the noise of public life and professional sport never quite goes away.
Because the series is so compact, WAGs does not try to create a sprawling mythology. Its strength is concentration. The books share a hockey-centered social world, familiar names, and an easy continuity with Kennedy and Bowen’s broader interconnected romances, but they stay tightly focused on individual relationships. That makes the series feel breezier than some larger hockey universes while still rewarding readers who enjoy the wider network of connected characters. The overlap with Him is real, but WAGs is not simply an extension of that central romance. It has its own tone, built around wit, emotional accessibility, and the often-overlooked experience of loving someone whose life is shaped by professional sport.
Seen beneath an already completed list, WAGs is best understood as a warm, funny, two-book hockey-romance offshoot with a lighter touch and a strong sense of emotional payoff. Its appeal lies in the combination of familiar hockey-world energy and intimate relationship focus. Rather than trying to outgrow its scale, the series uses that small scale to its advantage, delivering two connected romances that feel quick, affectionate, and fully alive to the awkward, hopeful work of making love fit into an already complicated world.