Brooke Cumberland Books in Order

What to Know Before You Start

Brooke Cumberland is a prolific USA Today bestselling author who writes across multiple subgenres of contemporary romance. To navigate her bibliography, readers first need to understand her various writing personas. Under her own name, Brooke Cumberland, she publishes high-heat contemporary romances, emotional standalones, and workplace serials. When collaborating with author Lyra Parish, the duo writes under the pseudonym Kennedy Fox, creating highly popular interconnected series focusing on roommates, cowboys, and enemies-to-lovers tropes. More recently, she has written small-town family sagas under the name Brooke Montgomery and published specific contemporary romances and repackaged editions as Brooke Fox.

Because her book series are often set in shared worlds with overlapping characters, reading them in a specific order helps prevent spoilers and enhances the reading experience. While most of her books focus on a single couple and can technically be read as standalones, they are best enjoyed in their intended series order.

The Best Starting Points for New Readers

Depending on what romance trope you prefer, there are three ideal entry points into her books:

• For Student-Teacher Romance: Start with her solo standalone novel, Pushing the Limits. This forbidden romance is one of her most popular individual releases, featuring intense tension and emotional depth.
• For Enemies-to-Lovers and Roommate Romance: Begin with the Kennedy Fox co-authored series, starting with This is War (the first book in the Checkmate series). This introduces the large, interconnected world of friends and family that spans multiple spin-offs.
• For Small-Town Cowboy Romance: Pick up her books written as Brooke Montgomery, starting with the Sugarland Creek series. The prequel novella Come With Me followed by Here With Me introduces a charming, emotional Southern family saga.

The Kennedy Fox Co-Authored Universe

The majority of Cumberland's interconnected contemporary romance series were written alongside Lyra Parish under the name Kennedy Fox. Reading these series in order ensures you see characters grow, marry, and appear as side characters in subsequent books.

The Checkmate Series

This is the flagship Kennedy Fox series. It follows three primary couples, with each couple receiving a duet to tell their complete story. You should read the duets in the following order:

• Travis & Viola Duet: This is War (2016) and This is Love (2016)
• Drew & Courtney Duet: This is Reckless (2017) and This Is Effortless (2017)
• Logan & Kaylee Duet: This is Dangerous (2017) and This is Beautiful (2017)
• Companion Novel: Falling Out Of Hate With You (2022)

The Bishop Brothers & Bishop World Series

Spinning out of the Checkmate world, this series follows the southern Bishop brothers. They should be read in publication order:

1. Taming Him (2018)
2. Needing Him (2018)
3. Chasing Him (2018)
4. Keeping Him (2018)

You can also read the origin story novella, Alex & River (2023), which is part of the Bishop Family Origin books.

The Circle B Ranch Series

A massive, ten-book cowboy romance saga set on a family ranch. Each book follows a different brother or family member:

1. Roping the Cowboy (2019)
2. Hitching the Cowboy (2019)
3. Catching the Cowboy (2020)
4. Wrangling the Cowboy (2020)
5. Bossing the Cowboy (2021)
6. Kissing the Cowboy (2021)
7. Winning the Cowboy (2021)
8. Claiming the Cowboy (2022)
9. Tempting the Cowboy (2022)
10. Seducing the Cowboy (2022)

The Lawton Ridge Duets

This small-town romance series is structured as three distinct duets focusing on different couples in the town of Lawton Ridge. They must be read in their couple pairs:

• Tyler & Gemma Duet: Keeping You Away (2020) and Needing You Close (2020)
• Noah & Katie Duet: Pushing You Away (2021) and Holding You Close (2021)
• Archer & Everleigh Duet: Forcing You Away (2021) and Wanting You Close (2021)

Love in Isolation Series

An emotional, contemporary series focusing on couples finding love during times of confinement or forced proximity:

1. The Two of Us (2020)
2. The Best of Us (2020)
3. The End of Us (2021)
4. The Heart of Us (2022)
5. The Fall of Us (2022)
6. The Joy of Us (2022)

Other Kennedy Fox Series

• Make Me Series: Make Me Forget (2017), Make Me Crazy (2018), and Make Me Stay (2019).
• Only One Series: Only Him (2022), Only Us (2022), and Only Mine (2022).

The Roommates Re-Release Caveat

Readers frequently experience confusion regarding the Roommates books. The series was originally published as the Roommate Duet Books by Kennedy Fox, which consisted of six books split into three duets:

• Hunter & Lennon Duet: Forever Mine (novella, 2019), Baby Mine (2019), and Baby Yours (2019)
• Truly Duet (Mason & Sophie): Truly Mine (2019) and Truly Yours (2019)
• Always Duet (Liam & Maddie): Always Mine (2019) and Always Yours (2020)

Later, the authors published consolidated editions titled Roommates Books, which combined each duet into a single, comprehensive novel: Mason & Sophie (2021), Hunter & Lennon (2021), and Liam & Maddie (2021).

Finally, under the pen name Brooke Fox, these same roommate romances were re-edited and re-released as the Between Us Trilogy: Between Hate and Desire (Hunter & Lennon), Between Regrets and Promises (Mason & Sophie), and Between Secrets and Obsession (Liam & Maddie). If you are planning to read this series, you only need to choose one format: either the original six duets, the three consolidated Roommates volumes, or the updated Between Us trilogy.

Brooke Montgomery’s Small-Town Sagas

Under her Brooke Montgomery pen name, Cumberland focuses on southern family dynamics, cowboys, and emotional small-town journeys.

Sugarland Creek Series

Set in a fictional Tennessee town, this series follows the Abbott family. While each book features a standalone romance with a happy ending, they should be read in order for the overarching family timeline:

1. Come With Me (Prequel Novella, 2023)
2. Here With Me (2023)
3. Stay With Me (2024)
4. Fall With Me (2024)
5. Sin With Me (2025)

Texas Heat Series

A smaller, high-heat contemporary cowboy duet:

1. Here to Stay (2023)
2. Yours to Love (2023)

Brooke Cumberland’s Solo Series & Standalones

If you want to read Cumberland’s independent solo works, these series are shorter and faster to read:

The Spark Series

An emotional contemporary romance trilogy about overcoming personal trauma and finding love:

1. Spark (2013)
2. Burn (2013)
3. Flame (2014)

The Riverside Trilogy

Her debut contemporary romance series:

1. Kitchen Affairs (2013)
2. Kitchen Scandals (2013)
3. Kitchen Promises (2013)

The Intern Series

A steamy office-romance serial following a boss and his intern. You can read the trilogy or the collected volumes:

1. Mad About You (2014) / The Intern, Vol. 1 (2014)
2. Only Want You (2014)
3. Call You Mine (2014) / The Intern, Volume 3 (2014)

Mockingbird Books & Standalones

• Mockingbird Series: Caged (2023) and Freed (2023).
• Standalone Novels: Shouldn't Want You (2015), Pushing the Limits (2015), and Someone Like You (2016).