Below is the complete list of Abby Jimenez’s Part of Your World books in publication order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Part of Your World Books in Publication Order
- Part of Your World (2022)
Part of Your World was published in 2022 and is listed as book #1 in the Part of Your World series. - Yours Truly (2023)
Published in 2023, Yours Truly is listed as book #2 in the Part of Your World series. - Just for the Summer (2024)
Just for the Summer is a 2024 release and appears as book #3 in the Part of Your World series.
About Part of Your World
Abby Jimenez’s Part of Your World series is a contemporary romance series built around connected standalones, emotional realism, humor, and characters whose love stories force them to reconsider the lives they thought they were supposed to live. The series begins with Part of Your World, continues with Yours Truly, and carries forward into Just for the Summer. The books share character connections and emotional echoes, but each novel focuses on a different central couple, making the series accessible while still rewarding readers who follow the wider world in sequence.
Part of Your World introduces Alexis Montgomery, an emergency room doctor from a wealthy, high-achieving medical family, and Daniel Grant, a younger carpenter and small-town mayor from Wakan. Their romance is built around contrast: city and small town, family obligation and chosen community, polished expectations and a quieter life shaped by kindness and practical work. Alexis is not unhappy in a simple way; she is trapped by legacy, pressure, and a future that has been chosen for her by people who confuse achievement with fulfillment. Daniel’s world gives her a glimpse of something less impressive on paper but more emotionally honest.
One of the strongest features of the series is how Jimenez balances romantic comedy with serious personal issues. Her books are funny, warm, and full of banter, but they do not avoid heavier subjects. In Part of Your World, family control, emotional manipulation, class difference, and the courage it takes to disappoint people are all central to Alexis’s arc. The romance works because Daniel does not simply rescue her from her life. He helps her see that she has the right to want a different one.
Yours Truly shifts the focus to Briana Ortiz and Jacob Maddox, two doctors whose relationship begins with misunderstanding and gradually develops through letters, vulnerability, and acts of quiet care. Jacob’s anxiety is handled with unusual tenderness, and Briana’s emotional exhaustion gives the book a more intimate shape. The hospital setting connects it naturally to the first book, but its rhythm is different. Where Alexis and Daniel’s story is about choosing between two worlds, Briana and Jacob’s is about being seen clearly by someone at the exact moment when trust feels difficult.
Just for the Summer expands the emotional reach of the series through Emma Grant and Justin Dahl. Their story begins with a funny premise involving a dating curse, but the novel becomes much deeper as it explores family instability, emotional neglect, caregiving, and the fear of building a future when the past has taught someone not to rely on permanence. Jimenez is especially good at writing characters who use humor as a shield, and this book shows how a light setup can carry serious emotional weight without losing its warmth.
The Part of Your World series works because its romances are not isolated fantasies. They are tied to family systems, professional pressure, mental health, friendship, community, and the hard work of learning what love should feel like after years of accepting less. Jimenez’s style is accessible and funny, but her emotional stakes are carefully chosen. The books are comforting without being shallow, romantic without ignoring pain, and connected without requiring a complicated series mythology. At its heart, the series is about people who look functional from the outside but are quietly exhausted by the lives they have been performing, finally finding relationships that let them breathe.