Below is the complete list of Colleen Coble’s Smitten books in publication order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Smitten Books in Publication Order
- Smitten (2011)
(With Kristin Billerbeck, Denise Hunter, Diann Hunt) - Natalie – Birthday Wishes (2012)
- Secretly Smitten (2013)
(With Kristin Billerbeck, Denise Hunter, Diann Hunt) - Love Between the Lines (2013)
- Love Blooms (2013)
(By Denise Hunter) - Smitten Book Club (2014)
(With Kristin Billerbeck, Denise Hunter, Diann Hunt) - Love by the Book (2014)
- Happily Ever After (2014)
(By Denise Hunter) - Smitten Ever After (2014)
About Smitten
The Smitten books are a little different from most Colleen Coble series because they are not built around a single author’s ongoing cast or one continuous suspense plot. They are a collaborative inspirational-romance world created with Kristin Billerbeck, Denise Hunter, and Diann Hunt, all centered on the small Vermont town of Smitten. Colleen Coble’s official site presents Smitten as book one, while major series listings consistently place Smitten, Secretly Smitten, and Smitten Book Club as the three core full-length novels in the line.
That structure matters because Smitten is best understood as a shared-world romance series rather than a standard single-author sequence. The attraction of the books lies in the town itself and in the collaborative energy behind it. Smitten, Vermont is imagined as a place trying to reinvent itself as the most romantic town in America, and that premise gives the series its tone from the start. It is warm, community-driven, and built around the idea that friendship, small-town renewal, and love stories can all grow out of the same place.
The first novel, Smitten, establishes that concept clearly. The official series page describes a group of four friends helping transform the town, and that communal spirit is really the heart of the whole project. These books are not only about individual couples. They are also about a place being remade through optimism, creativity, and shared emotional investment. That gives the series a different feel from Coble’s usual romantic suspense. There is still emotional conflict, but the emphasis is less on danger and more on charm, reinvention, and the pleasures of intertwined lives in a close-knit setting.
Secretly Smitten and Smitten Book Club continue that world rather than replacing it. Goodreads treats them as books two and three in the main series, which reinforces the idea that the backbone of Smitten is those three collaborative novels. The continuity comes through town life, recurring emotional atmosphere, and the larger idea of Smitten as a place where romance keeps finding new forms. These are books that reward readers who enjoy community as much as courtship, because the town itself becomes part of the emotional promise.
The series can look a little confusing because there are also companion works and spin-off style titles connected to individual characters. Fantastic Fiction and other listings show books such as Natalie, Love Between the Lines, and Love by the Book tied to the Smitten world, while collections such as Smitten Ever After and The Smitten Collection gather related material together. That means the list above may include both the main collaborative novels and the connected companion titles, depending on how broadly the page defines the series. The cleanest editorial way to think about it is this: Smitten, Secretly Smitten, and Smitten Book Club form the central spine, while the shorter works and collections expand the town and its romances from the edges.
Within Colleen Coble’s bibliography, Smitten occupies a notably lighter and more overtly communal corner than her suspense-heavy coastal or wilderness series. It still reflects her interest in emotionally wounded people finding hope, but here that hope is wrapped in small-town charm instead of criminal threat. Read as a whole, the Smitten books offer a shared romantic world where friendship and setting matter just as much as any single love story, and that collaborative warmth is exactly what gives the series its appeal.