Below is the complete list of Chloe Walsh’s Faking It books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Faking It Books
- Off the Cards (2017)
Published in 2017, Off the Cards is listed as book #2 in the Faking It series. 
About Faking It
Chloe Walsh’s Faking It series is a three-part New Adult romance following Adriana “Andi” and Nathan Cole through a relationship that begins as a convenient performance and quickly becomes emotionally dangerous. Set in the town of Springhill, the trilogy combines a brother’s-best-friend romance with sharp differences in wealth, family expectation, and social reputation. Unlike Walsh’s later series that rotate among several couples, all three Faking It novels continue the same central story and should be treated as consecutive parts of one arc.
In Off Limits, Andi appears to possess everything her privileged upbringing can provide. She is the daughter of a wealthy businessman, the sister of admired football player Jackson, and a young woman whose family expects her to remain controlled, respectable, and obedient. Beneath that polished image, however, she is lonely and frustrated by parents who place her on a pedestal without giving her genuine freedom. Her strongest forbidden desire is Nathan, Jackson’s best friend and the local bad boy she has loved for years.
Nathan represents everything Andi’s family would reject. His tattoos, reputation, confrontational manner, and difficult circumstances place him on the opposite side of Springhill’s social divide. He sees Andi primarily as his best friend’s younger sister and therefore someone he should not pursue. That boundary becomes harder to maintain when Jackson proposes that Andi pretend to be Nathan’s girlfriend. The arrangement gives her an opportunity to move closer to the man she wants, but it also creates a relationship in which neither participant can easily separate performance from genuine attachment.
The first novel establishes a familiar romantic fantasy before complicating it with secrecy and unequal power. Andi’s sheltered life means that she does not initially understand everything Nathan is concealing, while Nathan’s instinct to decide what she should know prevents their relationship from resting on complete trust. Their attraction is intense, but the trilogy repeatedly tests whether desire can survive once the carefully maintained version of Nathan’s life begins to collapse.
Off the Cards continues immediately after secrets surrounding the couple have been exposed. Andi is left confronting actions and lies she cannot simply excuse because she loves Nathan. The emotional conflict shifts from winning the attention of an unattainable man to deciding whether the man she chose is someone she can safely trust. Nathan, meanwhile, must face the consequences of having attempted to manage danger through concealment. The middle volume is therefore less about the excitement of a forbidden relationship and more about betrayal, separation, and the damage created when protection becomes another form of control.
By Off the Hook, the conflict has spread beyond the couple. Andi’s family regards her choices as a disgrace and wants to remove her from Springhill, placing Nathan between the expectations surrounding her and the future they might still build together. A pregnancy raises the stakes, ensuring that his decision is no longer only about preserving a romance. Both characters must consider whether they are prepared for responsibility when family opposition, damaged trust, and their own unfinished problems remain unresolved.
The trilogy’s title reflects several layers of performance. Andi maintains the image of the obedient rich daughter, Nathan hides parts of his life behind the identity of the fearless troublemaker, and their relationship begins under the label of a fake romance. As the series progresses, those disguises become impossible to sustain. Love demands honesty, but honesty may destroy the conditions that first allowed them to be together.
Faking It is intended for mature readers and includes explicit sexual material, strong language, family conflict, and darker emotional circumstances. Its three-volume structure allows Walsh to carry Andi and Nathan beyond initial attraction into betrayal, accountability, and the practical consequences of choosing one another. Publication order is essential because each novel begins from the unresolved events of the preceding book, making the trilogy one extended romance rather than three separate Springhill stories.