Nicole Falls writes contemporary Black romance centered on friendship, family, adult reinvention, professional ambition, sports, travel, and emotionally grounded relationships.
Her catalog contains several compact family and friendship series, along with sports romances written inside multi-author worlds. The numbering attached to those shared-world books can be misleading. For example, Bounce Back and Power Forward may display higher series numbers because other authors contributed installments between Nicole Falls’s books.
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The clearest reading method is to follow Nicole Falls’s own character connections rather than every number shown by a retailer.
Four Circles Organize the Bibliography
- The first circle contains recurring families, including the Holliday sisters, Brooks brothers, and Preston brothers.
- The second contains close friends and lovers whose relationships expand across Accidentally in Love, Friends and Lovers, and New Beginnings.
- The third contains athletes, coaches, agents, and sports professionals in Nymphs & Trojans and several standalone sports romances.
- The fourth contains short holiday, travel, and shared-world stories that can usually be read independently.
Only a few series need strict order. Most change couples and provide a complete romantic ending in each book.
Accidentally in Love Books in Order
Accidentally in Love follows connected adults whose relationships begin in unexpected circumstances.
Each book changes couples. Publication order preserves the introductions and allows earlier couples to return naturally.
1. Adore You
Adore You (2016): A familiar connection develops into romance when two people begin seeing each other beyond the roles and assumptions that previously defined their relationship.
The novel introduces the social circle used throughout the trilogy.
It is Nicole Falls’s earliest principal series opener.
2. Smitten
Smitten (2017): Another member of the connected friendship group becomes unexpectedly captivated by someone capable of disrupting a carefully managed personal life.
The romance explores the point where attraction stops feeling temporary and begins requiring emotional honesty.
Read Adore You first for the surrounding relationships.
3. Then Came You
Then Came You (2017): A woman whose life already appears settled meets the person who changes what she expects from love and partnership.
The final novel gathers the friendship group established in the first two books.
It completes the published Accidentally in Love trilogy.
Accidentally in Love Reading Order
- Adore You
- Smitten
- Then Came You
The couples differ, but publication order gives the strongest group continuity.
Holliday Sisters Books in Order
Holliday Sisters follows four women from the same family.
Each sister receives her own romance. Family personalities, earlier relationships, and changes inside the Holliday household continue through all four books.
1. Noelle the First
Noelle the First (2017): Noelle Holliday leads the opening family romance as love disrupts the position she has long occupied among her sisters.
Her story establishes the Holliday family’s humor, closeness, and occasional interference.
This is the required family introduction.
2. Brave Hearts
Brave Hearts (2018): Another Holliday sister must decide whether she is willing to risk emotional security for a relationship that asks her to be more vulnerable.
The family remains closely involved around the central couple.
Read it after Noelle the First.
3. Started From a Selfie
Started From a Selfie (2018): Juniper Holliday’s path crosses Quincy Finley’s after a selfie and missed connection push them toward an unexpected romance.
Quincy’s daughter adds a family dimension to the relationship.
Earlier Holliday couples return as part of Juniper’s support system.
4. The Illumination of Ginger
The Illumination of Ginger (2018): Ginger Holliday enters a period of personal change that she initially resists, forcing her to confront difficult truths about herself and the future she wants.
The novel completes the four-sister sequence.
Its family developments carry greater meaning after the first three romances.
Holliday Sisters Reading Order
- Noelle the First
- Brave Hearts
- Started From a Selfie
- The Illumination of Ginger
All four books provide individual romantic endings, but the family arc should be read in order.
New Beginnings Books in Order
New Beginnings follows women rebuilding after professional setbacks, loss, or major changes in direction.
Sports remain important throughout the series, particularly baseball and golf.
1. The Changeup
The Changeup (2019): Geffri Robinson receives another opportunity to pursue the baseball life she wants, only to encounter sports blogger Noah, whose questions and opinions repeatedly challenge her.
Their professional rivalry develops into attraction as both reconsider the assumptions they made about each other.
The novel establishes the connected circle used in the later books.
2. The Restart
The Restart (2020): Blair is grieving and dissatisfied with the life she has allowed to stall when a long-standing marriage pact with Leigh suddenly becomes relevant.
What once sounded like a joke begins to resemble a genuine second chance.
The book continues the series theme of rebuilding rather than returning unchanged to the past.
3. the recovery
the recovery (2020): Parker is rebuilding her life while pursuing a future in golf and working as a nanny for widowed father Kelly Steward.
Their practical connection becomes emotionally complicated as Parker grows attached to both Kelly and his family.
This completes the three-book New Beginnings sequence.
New Beginnings Reading Order
- The Changeup
- The Restart
- the recovery
The central couples change, but the theme and supporting relationships progress in publication order.
Friends and Lovers Books in Order
Friends and Lovers is a three-book series about attraction developing inside established social and family connections.
The language in the titles is explicit, but the series focuses as much on trust and emotional commitment as physical chemistry.
1. f*ck and fall in love
f*ck and fall in love (2019): Jane meets Nigel during a work trip and expects one memorable night rather than a lasting relationship.
Repeated encounters turn their arrangement into an emotional connection neither planned.
The book begins the connected friendship circle.
2. f*ck around and find out
f*ck around and find out (2021): Ebonée is reluctant to trust attraction, particularly when the man pursuing her is Floyd, her younger brother’s best friend.
Floyd is clear about what he wants, while Ebonée must decide whether experience has made her cautious or simply afraid.
The romance expands the family and friendship links from the opening book.
3. f*ck with ya boy
f*ck with ya boy (2025): Emory and Bree enter a relationship where attraction is immediate but trust is the condition neither can avoid discussing.
Their story asks whether chemistry can survive hidden information and emotional uncertainty.
This is the newest Friends and Lovers installment.
Friends and Lovers Reading Order
- fck and fall in love*
- fck around and find out*
- fck with ya boy*
Publication order is recommended because recurring friends and relatives connect the couples.
Brooks Brothers Books in Order
The Brooks Brothers series contains two connected romances.
1. Hunger
Hunger (2021): Tyson Brooks knows that he wants Troi, but attraction alone cannot overcome her doubts, their crossed assumptions, and her fear of being hurt.
Tyson must prove that his interest is grounded in commitment rather than appetite.
The novel introduces the Brooks family.
2. Thirst
Thirst (2021): Kenyon Brooks becomes involved with Kamil Rodríguez, the woman who most strongly challenges the emotional distance he has maintained.
Old hurt and poor communication complicate a relationship neither can easily dismiss.
Read Hunger first for the family background.
Brooks Brothers Reading Order
- Hunger
- Thirst
Both romances conclude independently, but the brothers’ family context develops in order.
Preston Brothers Books in Order
Preston Brothers follows two men from the same family through workplace conflict and unresolved personal history.
1. Screwed
Screwed (2022): Interior designer Ciji Sinclair is building a successful career when television personality William Preston becomes an obstacle to her progress.
Their workplace friction reveals an attraction neither is eager to acknowledge.
The book introduces the Preston family and professional setting.
2. Hammered
Hammered (2022): Old friends are pushed back together by family responsibilities and unfinished business years after a serious falling-out.
Working through the past exposes feelings that never disappeared as completely as either believed.
Read Screwed first for the Preston family context.
Preston Brothers Reading Order
- Screwed
- Hammered
Flights & Feelings Books in Order
Flights & Feelings follows mature adults whose relationships are shaped by travel, timing, and the emotional weight they carry between destinations.
1. Excess Baggage
Excess Baggage (2024): Freddie Brown has little interest in taking a much younger admirer seriously, despite Elijah Woolford’s patience and certainty.
Their age-gap relationship forces Freddie to consider whether her emotional defenses are protecting her or preventing genuine intimacy.
The novel opens the travel-centered series.
2. Departures and Arrivals
Departures and Arrivals (2025): Veronica “Roni” Covington is rebuilding after an unhealthy relationship when a brief encounter with Weston leaves a lasting impression.
Five years later, they meet again with different lives, fresh grief, and another opportunity to explore the connection they never forgot.
The novel focuses on timing, healing, and a second meeting that matters more than the first.
Flights & Feelings Reading Order
- Excess Baggage
- Departures and Arrivals
The couples differ, but the shared themes and travel framework make publication order the cleanest route.
Nymphs & Trojans Books by Nicole Falls
Nymphs & Trojans is a multi-author sports-romance world. Nicole Falls contributed three books.
The larger project includes stories written by other authors, which is why some editions label Nicole Falls’s second and third contributions as books four and five.
Readers following only Nicole Falls can use the three-title sequence below.
1. Shots Not Taken
Shots Not Taken (2019): Basketball player Nikolas Verette and aspiring country singer Jayde Turner are both pursuing demanding careers in Tennessee.
Their attraction threatens the concentration and sacrifices each believes success requires.
The novel introduces Nicole Falls’s part of the Nymphs & Trojans world.
2. Bounce Back
Bounce Back (2020): Micaiah Kennedy is rebuilding after the end of one basketball dream when she meets single father and athletic trainer Victor Covington.
Their relationship develops while both consider what life should look like after disappointment.
This is Nicole Falls’s second contribution, even when the wider series labels it book four.
3. Power Forward
Power Forward (2023): A professional player and sports agent become involved while career pressure, secrets, and intense attraction threaten their professional judgment.
The novel extends the athlete-centered world established in Nicole Falls’s earlier contributions.
It may appear as book five in the complete multi-author project.
Nicole Falls’s Nymphs & Trojans Order
- Shots Not Taken
- Bounce Back
- Power Forward
Readers do not need every intervening book by other authors to understand Nicole Falls’s central couples.
Falls Sexy Holiday Shorts in Order
Falls Sexy Holiday Shorts contains four compact seasonal romances.
The couples differ, and the stories can be read independently. Publication order provides the official sequence.
1. A Merry Little Filthmas
A Merry Little Filthmas (2019): Bryce Harrison’s late-night trip to the laundry room becomes an unexpectedly intimate Christmas encounter.
The short story is built around immediate chemistry and holiday mischief.
2. A Dirty Valentine
A Dirty Valentine (2020): Valentine’s Day creates the setting for a relationship where temptation and honesty make a supposedly casual encounter more complicated.
The story stands alone.
3. A Good Luck F*ck
A Good Luck F*ck (2020): Childhood friends Clover and Nathaniel play a drinking game that changes how they see their long-standing bond.
What begins as a lucky encounter becomes a warm friends-to-lovers romance.
4. A Feast for the Senses
A Feast for the Senses (2020): Thanksgiving and a dating app bring two adults together during a holiday associated with comfort, appetite, and making room for new people.
The story closes the four-short sequence.
Falls Sexy Holiday Shorts Reading Order
- A Merry Little Filthmas
- A Dirty Valentine
- A Good Luck Fck*
- A Feast for the Senses
No continuity is lost by selecting one holiday individually.
More to Life
Someone Seeking Someone Else
Someone Seeking Someone Else (2019): Kai appears to have a satisfying life but recognizes that something important is missing and places a personal advertisement in her hometown newspaper.
The decision leads her toward Rux and a relationship that feels more natural than the search that produced it.
Series status: One confirmed More to Life novel.
Lessons in Love
Road to Love
Road to Love (2018): Emerson travels home to Michigan carrying professional stress and family concerns, then meets Roosevelt during the journey.
Their shared road trip creates room for grief, faith, conversation, and a steadily deepening connection.
Series status: Nicole Falls’s contribution to the multi-author Lessons in Love project.
Other Shared-World Books
These titles belong to projects involving multiple authors. Each focuses on its own central couple.
Switched at Bid
Switched at Bid (2019): A bidding mix-up creates an unexpected romantic pairing, turning an event built around appearances and social expectations into a genuine connection.
It belongs to the Distinguished Gentlemen project.
Love Under Quarantine
Love Under Quarantine (2020): Confinement forces two people to remain together long enough to confront the attraction and emotional connection they previously avoided.
The book is part of the Luminous Cruise Chronicles shared world.
Eight Naughty Nights
Eight Naughty Nights (2020): A short end-of-year romance combines seasonal celebration, mischief, and the desire to begin the coming year with a different kind of relationship.
It belongs to the multi-author New Year Bae-Solutions project.
Six Sensual Wishes
Six Sensual Wishes (2021): A grown-up Christmas wish list creates the basis for a playful and intimate holiday romance.
It belongs to the Baes of Christmas collection.
Thank You, Next
Thank You, Next (2022): A family-centered holiday situation encourages the central character to leave an unsuitable relationship behind and recognize a better possibility.
It is connected to the multi-author Fiennes Family world.
If Only for One Night
If Only for One Night (2022): A recently widowed woman seeks closure after her husband’s unexpected death and receives an unusual chance to confront love, grief, and what remains unfinished.
The novella contains light supernatural or paranormal elements.
It belongs to the Kismet Cove shared world.
Standalone Novels
The following full-length or substantial works do not require a named Nicole Falls series.
Release Some Tension
Release Some Tension (2020): Ayumi Richards and Lewis Upton meet while both are carrying significant professional and personal pressure.
What begins as temporary relief develops into a relationship neither can keep emotionally contained.
Continuity status: Standalone.
The Pleasure Principle
The Pleasure Principle (2020): A woman’s exploration of desire changes how she understands intimacy, self-knowledge, and the role pleasure should have in her life.
The erotic contemporary romance stands independently.
New Year, New Ci
New Year, New Ci (2021): Ci enters a new year determined to alter the patterns shaping her life, including the choices she has made about romance.
The novel uses reinvention and fresh-start energy without requiring another series.
We’ve Only Just Begun
We’ve Only Just Begun (2022): Skylar is living with devastating loss when a favor brings Christian Sullivan into her already complicated life.
Their immediate attraction is complicated by hidden connections and the question of whether Skylar is ready to begin again.
Continuity status: Standalone.
Rori & Remy
Rori & Remy (2022): Rori and Remy enter a friends-with-benefits relationship complicated by shared history, secrets, and feelings neither can keep outside the arrangement.
The novel follows its own central couple.
March Madness
March Madness (2024): A sports-centered spring romance places its couple under pressure as timing, competition, and emotional uncertainty arrive together.
It can be read without the Nymphs & Trojans books.
Standalone Novellas and Short Stories
Sparks Fly
Sparks Fly (2017): An immediate attraction develops into a compact romance where chemistry forces two people to reconsider their first assumptions.
Last First Kiss
Last First Kiss (2018): Two adults approach a relationship with the hope that their next first kiss will also be their last.
The novella focuses on mature emotional readiness rather than a long courtship.
All I Want for Christmas
All I Want for Christmas (2018): A holiday wish creates an opportunity for a festive relationship that becomes more meaningful than expected.
sugar butter flour love
sugar butter flour love (2018): Baker Isobel Knight and former football player Travis Coleman have clashed since high school.
A baking competition places them on the same team and turns long-standing irritation into romantic tension.
A Natural Transition
A Natural Transition (2019): Nyema and Langston meet while both are moving through significant changes.
Their short romance considers the comfort of finding a steady connection during an unstable period.
A Stroke of Luck
A Stroke of Luck (2022): Camille Allerton is pushed out of her routine by a dating app and an attractive stranger during the St. Patrick’s Day season.
Taking a chance becomes the first step toward a more open romantic life.
The Art of Falling
The Art of Falling (2022): Attraction and creativity bring two people together while the emotional risk of falling in love becomes more important than maintaining control.
Dessert for Three
Dessert for Three (2023): Ouima intends to spend her birthday alone but instead accepts an invitation from a married couple.
The erotic novelette centers on one unconventional and memorable night.
Run It Back
Run It Back (2021): This collection gathers stories centered on second chances, emotional do-overs, and relationships worth reconsidering.
It should be treated as a collection rather than another numbered series installment.
Readers should inspect the contents before buying individual stories separately because some material may overlap with previously published work.
Complete Nicole Falls Series List
Accidentally in Love
- Adore You
- Smitten
- Then Came You
Holliday Sisters
- Noelle the First
- Brave Hearts
- Started From a Selfie
- The Illumination of Ginger
New Beginnings
- The Changeup
- The Restart
- the recovery
Friends and Lovers
- fck and fall in love*
- fck around and find out*
- fck with ya boy*
Brooks Brothers
- Hunger
- Thirst
Preston Brothers
- Screwed
- Hammered
Flights & Feelings
- Excess Baggage
- Departures and Arrivals
Nicole Falls’s Nymphs & Trojans Books
- Shots Not Taken
- Bounce Back
- Power Forward
Falls Sexy Holiday Shorts
- A Merry Little Filthmas
- A Dirty Valentine
- A Good Luck Fck*
- A Feast for the Senses
Is There One Chronological Order?
No.
The Holliday Sisters, Preston Brothers, Brooks Brothers, New Beginnings, and Flights & Feelings books occupy separate relationship circles.
Nymphs & Trojans belongs to a larger shared world, and the numbers shown on some editions reflect stories by other authors.
Publication order within each named series is the most dependable choice.
Shared-world books can be read according to Nicole Falls’s own contribution order unless the reader is completing every author in the project.
Recommended Nicole Falls Reading Route
For a broad introduction to her work, use this route:
- Adore You
- Complete Accidentally in Love
- Noelle the First
- Complete Holliday Sisters
- The Changeup
- Complete New Beginnings
- fck and fall in love*
- Complete Friends and Lovers
- Shots Not Taken
- Complete Nicole Falls’s Nymphs & Trojans books
- Excess Baggage
- Departures and Arrivals
This is not one fictional timeline. It moves from early interconnected romance into family stories, sports romance, and her newer mature travel romances.
Starting Points by Reading Mood
Family-Centered Romance
Start with Noelle the First.
The four Holliday sisters provide the clearest family progression in the catalog.
Sports Romance
Start with The Changeup for baseball and professional rivalry.
Start with Shots Not Taken for basketball and music, or Bounce Back for an athlete rebuilding after disappointment.
Mature Contemporary Romance
Start with Excess Baggage.
The age-gap story opens Nicole Falls’s newest completed series and leads directly into Departures and Arrivals.
Friends to Lovers
Choose A Good Luck Fck*, fck around and find out*, or Rori & Remy.
Only fck around and find out* requires useful background from a named series.
Short Holiday Romance
Choose any Falls Sexy Holiday Short.
The stories change couples, so holiday preference matters more than order.
Latest Nicole Falls Book
As of August 5, 2026, Nicole Falls’s latest confirmed original release is Departures and Arrivals.
Departures and Arrivals (2025): Roni and Weston meet again five years after a brief encounter left a lasting emotional impression on both of them.
Their reunion explores healing, grief, timing, and whether an earlier connection can support a future when both lives have changed.
It is Flights & Feelings book two.
Current Release Status
No later original Nicole Falls novel had a firmly confirmed title and publication date as of August 5, 2026.
The author has announced ongoing adjustments to her backlist and catalog presentation. Revised covers, reorganized series pages, or new editions should not automatically be counted as new stories.
The active 2026 catalog continues to list Departures and Arrivals and fck with ya boy* as her newest principal releases.
Frequently Asked Questions
What was Nicole Falls’s first book?
Adore You (2016): An unexpected romance develops inside a connected friendship group, opening the Accidentally in Love trilogy.
It is the earliest principal novel consistently listed in her current series catalog.
What is the best Nicole Falls book to start with?
Start with Adore You for her earliest interconnected series.
Start with Noelle the First for family romance, The Changeup for sports, or Excess Baggage for her newer mature contemporary style.
Do the Accidentally in Love books need to be read in order?
The central couple changes in each book.
Publication order is recommended because the friends and earlier relationships recur.
Are the Holliday Sisters books standalones?
Each sister receives a complete romance.
The family develops throughout the sequence, so Noelle the First should be read before the other three.
What is the correct Friends and Lovers order?
Read:
- fck and fall in love*
- fck around and find out*
- fck with ya boy*
Is f*ck with ya boy a standalone?
Its central romance is complete, but it is Friends and Lovers book three.
Reading the earlier books provides the full friendship and family context.
Are Hunger and Thirst connected?
Yes.
They follow the Brooks brothers and should be read in that order.
Are Screwed and Hammered connected?
Yes.
They follow the Preston brothers. Screwed introduces the family before Hammered expands it.
Is Departures and Arrivals part of a series?
Yes.
It is Flights & Feelings book two, following Excess Baggage.
Do Flights & Feelings follow the same couple?
No.
Each novel has a different central couple, but both focus on mature adults, travel, emotional baggage, and life transitions.
Why is Bounce Back sometimes listed as book four?
Nymphs & Trojans is a multi-author series.
Other writers supplied books two and three, so Bounce Back is book four in the full shared world but Nicole Falls’s second contribution.
Must the other Nymphs & Trojans books be read?
Not for the central romances in Nicole Falls’s books.
Readers completing the entire shared world may follow its full numbering, but Nicole Falls’s contribution order is Shots Not Taken, Bounce Back, then Power Forward.
Is Road to Love part of a Nicole Falls series?
It is her contribution to the multi-author Lessons in Love project.
The central romance can be read independently.
Is If Only for One Night paranormal?
It contains supernatural or lightly paranormal elements involving a recently widowed woman seeking closure.
It is still structured primarily as an emotional romance.
Is Dessert for Three part of a series?
No.
It is a short erotic standalone involving a woman and a married couple.
Are the holiday shorts connected?
Falls Sexy Holiday Shorts is a thematic group rather than one continuing cast.
Readers may select the holiday that interests them without completing the others.
What is Nicole Falls’s latest book?
The latest confirmed original release is Departures and Arrivals, published in 2025.
It follows Excess Baggage in Flights & Feelings.
Conclusion
Nicole Falls’s bibliography is best followed through families and friendship circles rather than one universal timeline.
Begin with Adore You for Accidentally in Love, Noelle the First for the Holliday sisters, The Changeup for New Beginnings, or fck and fall in love* for Friends and Lovers.
Readers interested in sports should follow Nicole Falls’s Nymphs & Trojans contributions as Shots Not Taken, Bounce Back, and Power Forward, regardless of the higher shared-world numbers displayed on some editions.
For the newest completed sequence, read Excess Baggage followed by Departures and Arrivals. That two-book route provides the clearest introduction to the mature, travel-centered relationships in her most recent work.
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