Tessa Bailey

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  • Bibliography:
    61 Books (14 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2013
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Academy

1 - Disorderly Conduct (Sep-2017)
2 - Indecent Exposure (Feb-2018)
3 - Disturbing His Peace (Apr-2018)
4 - The Major's Welcome Home (Jul-2018)

Beach Kingdom

1 - Mouth to Mouth (Mar-2020)
2 - Heat Stroke (Apr-2020)
3 - Sink or Swim (May-2020)

Big Shots

1 - Fangirl Down (Feb-2024)
2 - The Au Pair Affair (Jul-2024)
3 - Dream Girl Drama (Feb-2025)

Broke and Beautiful

1 - Chase Me (Mar-2015)
2 - Need Me (Apr-2015)
3 - Make Me (Aug-2015)

Crossing the Line

0.5 - Riskier Business (Jan-2015)
1 - Risking It All (Feb-2015)
2 - Up in Smoke (Jun-2015)
3 - Boiling Point (Jan-2016)
4 - Raw Redemption (Jul-2016)

The Girl

1 - Getaway Girl (Mar-2018)
2 - Runaway Girl (Sep-2018)
3 - Renaissance Man (Jan-2019)
4 - Halfway Girl (Apr-2019)

Hot & Hammered

1 - Fix Her Up (Feb-2019)
2 - Love Her or Lose Her (Jan-2020)
3 - Tools of Engagement (Sep-2020)

A Line of Duty

1 - Protecting What's His (Feb-2013)
2 - His Risk to Take (May-2013)
3 - Officer Off Limits (Jun-2013)
4 - Asking for Trouble (Nov-2013)
5 - Staking His Claim (Feb-2014)
6 - Protecting What's Theirs (Apr-2014)

Made in Jersey

1 - Crashed Out (Dec-2015)
1.5 - Rough Rhythm (Mar-2016)
2 - Thrown Down (Apr-2016)
3 - Worked Up (Aug-2016)
4 - Wound Tight (Dec-2016)

Phenomenal Fate

1 - Reborn Yesterday (Mar-2020)
2 - This Time Tomorrow (Jun-2020)
3 - Today Tomorrow and Always (May-2021)

A Romancing the Clarksons Novel

1 - Too Hot To Handle (May-2016)
2 - Too Wild to Tame (Sep-2016)
3 - Too Hard to Forget (Apr-2017)
3.5 - Too Close to Call (Jun-2017)
4 - Too Beautiful to Break (Oct-2017)

A Vine Mess

1 - Secretly Yours (Feb-2023)
2 - Unfortunately Yours (Jun-2023)

Wedding Dare

2 - Baiting the Maid of Honor (Jun-2014)

Westport

1 - It Happened One Summer (Jul-2021)
2 - Hook, Line, and Sinker (Mar-2022)

Multi-Author Series List

1001 Dark Nights

Rough Rhythm (Mar-2016)
Too Close to Call (Jun-2017)

A Serve Novel

1 - Owned By Fate (Oct-2014)
2 - Exposed by Fate (Nov-2014)
5 - Driven By Fate (Feb-2015)

Book List in Order: 61 titles

  • Protecting What's His

    A Line of Duty - 1
    Entangled Brazen

    The opportunity was just too damn delicious for Ginger Peet to pass up. The purse full of money she finds--$50,000 to be exact--could give her and her teen sister the new start they need. So she grabs the cash, her gothy sibling, and their life-sized...

  • His Risk to Take

    A Line of Duty - 2
    Entangled Ever After

    Homicide cop Troy Bennett had a reputation with the Chicago PD for being fearless and in control--until the night his daredevil partner is killed during a raid. From that moment on, he swears he'll never again be responsible for the loss of a loved o...

  • Officer Off Limits

    A Line of Duty - 3
    Entangled Brazen

    Story Brooks's fiance just called off their wedding two weeks before the happy day. As if that isn't bad enough, her semi-estranged father, an infamous NYPD hostage negotiator, has suffered a heart attack. Not wanting to examine her lack of emotion o...

  • Asking for Trouble

    A Line of Duty - 4
    Entangled Brazen

    Brent Mason and Hayden Winstead can't stand each other. She plans exclusive parties for her rich family's charities. Hes a rough and tumble cop who rigs explosives for a living. Could two people be any less suited for conversation? They think not and...

  • Staking His Claim

    A Line of Duty - 5
    Entangled Brazen

    He wants her. All of her. NYPD sniper Matt Donovan is in Hell. Instead of driving his best friend's little sister home from college, he's stuck with her roommate-a fresh-faced ray-of-sunshine with a body that makes grown men weep. There's no way ...

  • Unfixable

    Entangled Embrace

    Willa Peet isn't interested in love. She's been there, done that, and has the shattered heart to prove it. Ready to shake the breakup, she heads to Dublin, Ireland. But there's a problem. A dark-haired, blue-eyed problem with a bad attitude that riva...

  • Protecting What's Theirs

    A Line of Duty - 6
    Entangled Brazen

    Possession is nine-tenths of the law. And she belongs to him. Ginger Peet has never regretted leaving Nashville with her sister and their life-sized statue of Dolly Parton. Now she's settled in Chicago with Lieutenant Derek Tyler, spending her nig...

  • Baiting the Maid of Honor

    Wedding Dare - 2
    Entangled Brazen

    He'll own her from the very first touch. Julie Piper and Reed Lawson have nothing in common. She's a people-pleasing sorority girl hiding behind her perfect mask. He's a take-no-prisoners SWAT commander who isolates himself from the world. But wh...

  • Owned By Fate

    A Serve Novel - 1
    Entangled Brazen

    Her mind rejects his world. But her body knows its master. Journalist Caroline Preston arrives at Serve, New York City's hottest BDSM club, with one goal -- to hate it. If her brother wasn't trying to turn the family's respectable financial magaz...



  • Exposed by Fate

    A Serve Novel - 2
    Entangled Brazen

    He'll train her to lure another man. She'll lure him instead. When interior designer Eliza Ballas accompanies a friend to New York's premier BDSM club, she's taken aback by the sheer want that overruns her body-especially when a sexy Brit assumes...

  • Riskier Business

    Crossing the Line - 0.5

    After a life of pool hustling and living on the wrong side of the law, Ruby Elliott is living on the straight and narrow with sexy-as-all-hell NYPD detective, Troy Bennett. Now the only trouble Ruby has with the law is the naughty kind, pinned agains...

  • Driven By Fate

    A Serve Novel - 5
    Entangled Brazen

    The first rule is obey... and she already broke it. Francesca "Frankie" De Luca always pays her debts. Even when it means stepping inside Serve, the sensuous Manhattan club that caters to particular adult desires. For Frankie, it's a taste of som...

  • Risking It All

    Crossing the Line - 1

  • Chase Me

    Broke and Beautiful - 1

    College drop-out Roxy Cumberland moved to New York with dreams of becoming an actress, but her dwindling bank account is quickly putting the kibosh on that fantasy. To make some quick cash, she signs up to perform singing telegrams. Her first custome...

  • Need Me

    Broke and Beautiful - 2

    When Honey Perribow traded in her cowboy boots for stilettos and left her small Kentucky town to attend Columbia University, she never expected to find a dirt-cheap apartment or two new best friends. No stranger to hard work, Honey is completely focu...

  • Off Base

    NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors Tessa Bailey and Sophie Jordan team up for a collaboration featuring two sexy contemporary romance novellas. OFF BASE: KENNA AND BECK by Tessa Bailey A welcome home he never expected...and will never forget... ...

  • Up in Smoke

    Crossing the Line - 2

  • Make Me

    Broke and Beautiful - 3

    Construction worker Russell Hart has been head-over-work boots for Abby Sullivan since the moment he laid eyes on her. But he knows a classy, uptown virgin like her could never be truly happy with a rough, blue-collar guy like him. If only she'd stop...

  • Crashed Out

    Made in Jersey - 1
    Entangled Brazen

    Jasmine Taveras is the reason Sarge Purcell grabbed his six-string and bailed the hell out of New Jersey four years ago. She's the fuel for every song he's ever written-each one laced with bitter, hard-edged, hungry lust. Now, with his hugely success...



  • Boiling Point

    Crossing the Line - 3

  • Rough Rhythm

    Made in Jersey - 1.5
    1001 Dark Nights

    God help the woman I take home tonight. Band manager James Brandon never expected to find the elusive satisfaction he’d been chasing, let alone stumble upon it in some sleezy Hollywood meat market. Yet the girl’s quiet pride spoke to him from acr...

  • Thrown Down

    Made in Jersey - 2
    Entangled Brazen

    Overachiever River Purcell was never supposed to be a struggling single mom, working double shifts just to make ends meet. Nor was she supposed to be abandoned by her high school sweetheart, breaking her heart into a thousand jagged pieces. Now Vaugh...

  • Too Hot To Handle

    A Romancing the Clarksons Novel - 1

    When rescue looks like a whole lot of trouble . . . The road trip was definitely a bad idea. Having already flambéed her culinary career beyond recognition, Rita Clarkson is now stranded in God-Knows-Where, New Mexico, with a busted-ass car and h...

  • Raw Redemption

    Crossing the Line - 4

  • Worked Up

    Made in Jersey - 3
    Entangled Brazen

    Factory mechanic Duke Crawford just wants to watch SportsCenter in peace. Unfortunately, living with four divorcee sisters doesn't provide much silence, nor does it change his stance on relationships. But when a fellow commitment-phobe stumbles into ...

  • Too Wild to Tame

    A Romancing the Clarksons Novel - 2

    Sometimes you just can't resist playing with fire . . . By day, Aaron Clarkson suits up, shakes hands, and acts the perfect gentleman. But at night, behind bedroom doors, the tie comes off and the real Aaron comes out to play. Mixing business wit...

  • Wound Tight

    Made in Jersey - 4
    Entangled Brazen

    When CEO Renner Bastion walks into a room, everyone keeps their distance. Well, everyone but the sarcastic, tattooed, Boston-bred security guard whose presence has kept Renner in New Jersey longer than intended. As if the unwanted attraction isn’t ...

  • Too Hard to Forget

    A Romancing the Clarksons Novel - 3

    This time, she's calling the shots. Peggy Clarkson is returning to her alma mater with one goal in mind: confront Elliott Brooks, the man who ruined her for all others, and remind him of what he's been missing. Even after three years, seeing him a...

  • Too Close to Call

    A Romancing the Clarksons Novel - 3.5
    1001 Dark Nights

    All-American wid...



  • Disorderly Conduct

    The Academy - 1

    You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone… Police academy cadet Charlie Burns can’t believe his luck when the gorgeous blonde he meets in a bar murmurs those magic words: “Nothing serious, ’kay?” Mind-blowing, no-strings sex w...

  • Too Beautiful to Break

    A Romancing the Clarksons Novel - 4

    A love of a lifetime... Leaving Belmont Clarkson is the hardest thing Sage Alexander has ever done. From the moment they met, she knew Belmont was the one, and getting up close and personal with him on his family's epic road trip has taken her d...

  • Follow

    He wants her soul. Too bad she already sold it. Family is everything to gambling den darling, Teresa Valentini. Blood comes first, especially before men. So when her brother lands himself in hot water, she's willing to do whatever it takes to save h...

  • Indecent Exposure

    The Academy - 2

    Is there a problem, Officer? Jack Garrett isn’t a police officer yet, but there’s already an emergency. His new firearms instructor -- the one who just dropped every jaw in the academy gym -- is the same sexy Irish stranger he locked lips with...

  • Getaway Girl

    The Girl - 1

    The first in a sexy, fun wedding-themed rom-com duology from Tessa Bailey, #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer -- now in a beautiful new package! After a six-year absence, Addison Potts is back in Charleston ...

  • Disturbing His Peace

    The Academy - 3

    She’s got probable cause to make her move . . . Danika Silva can’t stand Lt. Greer Burns. Her roommate’s older brother may be sexy as hell, but he’s also a cold, unfeeling robot. She just wants to graduate and forget about her scowling sup...

  • Captivated

  • The Major's Welcome Home

    The Academy - 4

    Tessa Bailey, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker, turns up the heat with this spicy new adult rom-com trilogy... She’s got probable cause to make her move . . . Dan...

  • Runaway Girl

    The Girl - 2

    It’s Naomi Clemons’s big day. Her dream wedding. And she’s outta here. One moment. A chance meeting of gazes through the church window pane with someone familiar who radiates intrigue. Independence. It’s the final push Naomi needs to reali...

  • Renaissance Man

    The Girl - 3



  • Fix Her Up

    Hot & Hammered - 1

    A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. Fran...

  • Halfway Girl

    The Girl - 4

  • Love Her or Lose Her

    Hot & Hammered - 2

    New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with a unique, sexy romantic comedy about a young married couple whose rocky relationship needs a serious renovation... Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts,...

  • Mouth to Mouth

    Beach Kingdom - 1

    A man with a prison record has no place around a fresh faced college student. Tell that to Rory Prince. He should stay the hell away from Olive Cunningham. There’s one small problem, though. She won’t stop almost getting killed -- and with this t...

  • Reborn Yesterday

    Phenomenal Fate - 1

    A timeless love story with bite.It was a night like any other for funeral home director Ginny Lynn, until the exceptionally handsome -- and unfortunately deceased -- young man on her embalming table sat up, opened his emerald eyes and changed the cou...

  • Spring Romance

  • Heat Stroke

    Beach Kingdom - 2

  • Sink or Swim

    Beach Kingdom - 3

  • This Time Tomorrow

    Phenomenal Fate - 2

    Roksana, heiress to the vampire slayer throne, has performance anxiety. She's supposed to kill Elias, but so far she's only succeeded in maxing out his credit card. Now her failure to stake the brooding vampire has sent her back to Moscow in dis...

  • Tools of Engagement

    Hot & Hammered - 3

    In Tessa Bailey’s latest rom-com, two enemies team up to flip a house... and the sparks between them might burn the place down or ignite a passion that neither can ignore! Hair, makeup, clothing, decor... everything in Bethany Castle's wo...



  • Today Tomorrow and Always

    Phenomenal Fate - 3

    Tucker isn't interested in quests, thank you very much. Though the cigar-smoking, Uber-driving vampire has long been an official member of the undead club, his very human heart still lurks inside of him—and no one has ever spoken to it more cle...

  • It Happened One Summer

    Westport - 1

    Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she ...

  • Window Shopping

    A sizzling, standalone, feel-good holiday romance from Tessa Bailey, New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer. Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. I'm ...

  • Hook, Line, and Sinker

    Westport - 2

    In the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another deliciously fun rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man… King crab fisherman Fox Thornton ha...

  • My Killer Vacation

    It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod -- just me and my beloved brother -- but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the ...

  • Happenstance

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer comes a romantic comedy about an accidental relationship between three smitten men...and one commitment phobic woman. Elise Brandeis has never won a Pulitzer -- and she never will...

  • Secretly Yours

    A Vine Mess - 1

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author and TikTok favorite Tessa Bailey comes a steamy new rom-com about a starchy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn... Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they ...

  • Unfortunately Yours

    A Vine Mess - 2

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back in Napa Valley with this hilarious rom-com about a down-on-her-luck heiress who suggests a mutually beneficial marriage of convenience to a man she can’t stand... only to discover there’s ...

  • Wreck the Halls

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey delivers a standalone holiday rom-com about the adult children of two former rock stars who team up to reunite their estranged mothers for a Christmas Eve concert… Melody Gallard may be the daugh...

  • Fangirl Down

    Big Shots - 1

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey launches a super sexy sports romance series with a rom-com about a bad boy professional athlete who falls for his biggest fan...Wells Whitaker was once golf’s hottest rising star, but late...

  • The Au Pair Affair

    Big Shots - 2

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with an all-new sports rom-com about a burly, surly, single dad who falls head-over-hockey-stick for his quirky live-in nanny...Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a mar...

  • Dream Girl Drama

    Big Shots - 3

    A steamy chance encounter between a professional hockey player and the manic pixie dream girl he just can’t seem to forget takes a turn when the pair realize that their parents are engaged -- in an all-new rom-com by #1 New York Times bes...

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Tessa Bailey has published 61 books.

The next book by Tessa Bailey, Dream Girl Drama, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Tessa Bailey, Protecting What's His, was published in February 2013.

Yes. Tessa Bailey has 14 series.
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