Below is the complete list of Tessa Bailey books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Vine Mess Books
Publication Order of Beach Kingdom Books
Publication Order of Bellinger Sisters Books
Publication Order of Big Shots Books
Publication Order of Broke and Beautiful Books
Publication Order of Crossing the Line Books
Publication Order of The Girl Books
Publication Order of Hot & Hammered Books
Publication Order of A Line of Duty Books
- Protecting What’s His (2013)
Protecting What's His was published in 2013 and is listed as book #1 in the A Line of Duty series. 
Publication Order of Made in Jersey Books
Publication Order of Phenomenal Fate Books
Publication Order of Romancing the Clarksons Books
Publication Order of The Academy Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books
- Off Base (2015)
Published in 2015, Off Base is listed as book #2 in the Standalone Novels series. 
- Find Her (2019)
Find Her was first published in 2019; within the Standalone Novels series, it is listed as book #5. - Stripped Bare (2020)
Stripped Bare was published in 2020 and is listed as book #6 in the Standalone Novels series. - The Seven Year Itch (2020)
Published in 2020, The Seven Year Itch is listed as book #7 in the Standalone Novels series. - Window Shopping (2021)
In the Standalone Novels series, Window Shopping is book #9 and was published in 2021. 
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books
- The Football Pants Chronicles (2019)
The Football Pants Chronicles is a 2019 release and appears as book #3 in the Short Stories/Novellas series. - Double Booked (2020)
In the Short Stories/Novellas series, Double Booked is book #4 and was published in 2020.
Publication Order of Serve Books
Publication Order of Under the Mistletoe Collection Books
Publication Order of Wedding Dare Books
About Tessa Bailey
Tessa Bailey has built one of the most recognizable brands in contemporary commercial romance by combining high heat, fast rhythm, and an unusually clear sense of emotional payoff. Her publisher presents her as a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and that bestselling status fits the scale of her reach over the last several years. She writes romances that are openly playful, heavily character-driven, and designed to balance comic energy with intense attraction. Even readers who do not know her full bibliography usually know the voice: bold, flirtatious, emotionally direct, and unembarrassed about desire. She lives on Long Island, and her official publisher biography describes the fictional world she favors as one filled with blue-collar heroes, lovable heroines, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
Her career is best understood as a movement from category and series romance into mainstream rom-com publishing success without losing the qualities that first made her distinctive. Bailey had already been a prolific romance writer before her biggest breakout phase, but wider attention accelerated with books that were easier to package as buzzy, high-concept contemporary romance. The Hot & Hammered trilogy, beginning with Fix Her Up, helped define that shift. Those novels gave her a broader crossover audience while preserving the spicy, high-voltage interpersonal dynamic that had always been central to her work.
A major leap came with the Bellinger Sisters books, especially It Happened One Summer. That series pushed Bailey into a larger level of visibility and made her one of the defining names in modern spicy rom-com. What stands out in these books is not just the chemistry, though that is central, but the way she builds romance around very strong tonal contrast. Her fiction often pairs swagger with vulnerability, bravado with devotion, chaos with steadiness. The result is a style of romance that feels exaggerated in the best commercial sense: larger-than-life enough to be fun, but emotionally sincere enough to land.
Her bibliography is also notable for how neatly it breaks into reader-friendly clusters. Some books sit in closely linked duologies or trilogies, while others launch fresh settings and romance frameworks. The Vine Mess books, starting with Secretly Yours, show her working in a slightly softer, wine-country rom-com register while keeping her familiar mix of banter and longing. More recently, she launched a sports romance line with Fangirl Down, and publisher listings show that strand continuing with later titles including Pitcher Perfect and Catch Her If You Can. That matters because Bailey is not simply repeating one accidental success. She keeps finding new contemporary-romance containers for the same core strengths: high sexual tension, vivid opposites, and heroes whose intensity eventually turns into total emotional commitment.
Her bibliography is best understood by tone and era rather than by one single overarching world. Readers who want the earlier, more series-heavy Tessa Bailey will find a deeper backlist shaped by category-romance momentum and recurring setups. Readers who know her from her bestseller phase are usually meeting the version of Bailey that became a BookTok favorite and a major rom-com name in the 2020s. But the through-line is strong across both periods. She writes with total commitment to fantasy, chemistry, and satisfaction. The books are built to move quickly, but they are not emotionally casual. Beneath the teasing, swagger, and steam, Bailey’s fiction depends on the same promise over and over: that desire will turn into devotion, and that the most overwhelming attraction in the room will also become the safest place to land.