C.W. Farnsworth Books in Order (Updated March 25, 2026)

C.W. Farnsworth writes contemporary romance with a strong sports core, but her catalog is not one single universe. Some books are clean standalones. Others sit inside linked college or elite-family series where reading in order gives you the better payoff.

The clearest way to approach her books is by continuity cluster, not by one giant mixed list.

The catalog, divided the useful way

There are three main lanes.

1. Sports and campus-centered series

• Rival Love
• Holt Hockey
• Kluvberg
• Truth & Lies
• Hard Way Home

2. Wealth-and-dynasty continuity

• The Kensingtons
• Kensingtons: The Next Generation

3. Standalones and one-book worlds

• Fernwood
• Multiple sports, celebrity, suspense, and second-chance standalones

That matters because some of her books really do stand alone, while others benefit from shared background, recurring families, or earlier couple context.

Recommended starting points by mood

1. If you want her most recognizable sports romance lane, start with Holt Hockey.
2. If you want the richest family-continuity setup, start with Fake Empire and then continue into Kensingtons: The Next Generation.
3. If you want one self-contained book to test the style first, start with Fly Bye, Heartbreak for Two, or King of Country, depending on which premise appeals most.

The family-money lane: read these together

The Kensingtons

This duet is the foundation for the richer family-dynasty side of C.W. Farnsworth’s catalog. Read it first if you plan to continue into the next generation books.

1. Fake Empire (2022): An arranged-marriage romance between Scarlett Ellsworth and Crew Kensington that introduces the wealth, pressure, and alliance-building logic of this family world.
2. Real Regrets (2023): Oliver Kensington’s story turns one reckless Vegas night into a marriage problem, keeping the same power-family atmosphere but with more fallout and personal regret.

Kensingtons: The Next Generation

This series builds directly out of the earlier Kensington world, so it works best after the duet.

1. False God (2024): Lili Kensington and Charlie Marlborough open the next-generation branch with money, status, image, and attraction colliding in elite social circles.
2. Anti-Hero (2025): Kit Kensington’s story mixes workplace proximity, past history, and an accidental-pregnancy turn, making it one of the more openly messy family-heir romances.
3. Cruel Summer (2026): Wren Kensington’s book shifts the setting toward the Hamptons and a summer-fling setup, while still keeping the family name and class divide at the center.
4. Gold Rush (2026): Listed as the fourth next-generation book, but the official public summary is still limited, so it is safest to treat it as upcoming rather than fully mapped.

The sports side: best if read by series

Rival Love

This is one of Farnsworth’s earlier sports-centered sequences, built around two feuding towns and football rivalry.

1. Kiss Now, Lie Later (2020): Maeve and Weston’s romance uses town rivalry and football legacy as the core obstacle, making it a strong opening for readers who like sports tension with a forbidden edge.
2. For Now, Not Forever (2022): Liam and Natalie carry the same feud into a new pairing, shifting the conflict toward post-high-school baggage and the problem of moving forward without fully leaving the past behind.

Holt Hockey

This is one of the easiest C.W. Farnsworth series to recommend. It is compact, current, and clearly interconnected.

1. Famous Last Words (2021): Harlow and Conor start the series with a college hockey romance built on old tension, mutual avoidance, and the history they never really got past.
2. Against All Odds (2024): Rylan and Aidan continue the Holt world with tutoring, coach’s-daughter pressure, and the challenge of trying not to fall for the exact wrong person.
3. From Now On (2025): Eve and Hunter close the current Holt run with a spring-break, road-trip, and missed-timing romance that feels more wistful than the earlier books.

Kluvberg

This is Farnsworth’s soccer-centered line, and it is one of her clearest current active sports series.

1. First Flight, Final Fall (2021): Saylor and Adler open the series with a global-soccer feel, a superstar-athlete setup, and a heroine who is much less impressed than she should be.
2. All the Wrong Plays (2024): Will and Sophia keep the sport central, but the book leans harder into scandal, self-sabotage, and the personal cost of public mistakes.
3. Love on the Line (2026): Claire and Otto take the series into forced proximity and second-chance territory, with injury, coaching, and old Olympic heartbreak shaping the romance.

Truth & Lies

This is a short connected series with strong emotional-history energy.

1. Friday Night Lies (2022): A best-friend’s-brother basketball romance built on long familiarity, mixed signals, and the difference between what the characters feel and what they admit.
2. Tuesday Night Truths (2023): Another childhood-to-now romance that raises the stakes by asking whether first love can actually survive growing up.
3. The Truth & Lies Duet (2023): This is an omnibus collection, not a third story.

Hard Way Home

This is a smaller series and easier to miss, but current public listings still separate it as its own two-book run.

1. The Hard Way Home (2021): The opening book begins Lennon and Caleb’s story with hometown roots, baseball ambition, and the push-pull between staying and leaving.
2. The Easy Way Out (2021): Their follow-up continues the same relationship rather than starting fresh, so this is one of the few Farnsworth series where strict order really matters.

Fernwood

This is currently a one-book branch rather than a full long series.

Come Break My Heart Again (2021): A first-love, second-chance romance built around old wounds, long silence, and the question of whether your first heartbreak ever really stops mattering.

Standalones

These are best read by trope interest rather than any master continuity.

1. Four Months, Three Words (2020): A football romance about a star quarterback and a heroine hiding her real identity, where the timeline itself creates pressure from the start.
2. Winning Mr. Wrong (2021): A reality-dating-show romance that turns public humiliation and an old insult into a forced romantic setup with a quarterback who definitely remembers.
3. Back Where We Began (2022): A return-home second-chance romance where Emma comes back to Hayden, Maine, and finds that leaving never actually erased what happened there.
4. Like I Never Said (2022): A YA-leaning friends-to-more romance built on letters, distance, and the problem of loving someone who only seems willing to offer friendship.
5. Fly Bye (2022): A brother’s-best-friend romance where Evie’s childhood crush becomes impossible to ignore once Gray comes home on leave.
6. Heartbreak for Two (2022): A music-industry second-chance romance that puts a pop star and her past back on the same stage, literally and emotionally.
7. Serve (2022): A bodyguard romance involving the President’s daughter, security-detail proximity, and a hero whose job is supposed to leave no room for feelings.
8. Pretty Ugly Promises (2023): A darker romantic suspense or mafia-leaning standalone where old abandonment and dangerous secrets drive the relationship.
9. Six Summers to Fall (2023): A wedding-week second-chance romance that uses family tension, lake memories, and one week of pretending to reopen much older wounds.
10. Left Field Love (2023): A baseball-and-small-town romance where Lennon and Caleb have to weigh ambition, home, and what each of them is willing to sacrifice.
11. King of Country (2023): A country-music romance about a woman sent to persuade a superstar to return to the stage, only to find their history is already complicated.

Best reading orders

Best overall reading order for new readers

1. Famous Last Words
2. Against All Odds
3. From Now On
4. First Flight, Final Fall
5. All the Wrong Plays
6. Love on the Line

This route gives you Farnsworth’s strongest current sports identity without forcing you into every family series first.

Best dynasty-and-wealth reading order

1. Fake Empire
2. Real Regrets
3. False God
4. Anti-Hero
5. Cruel Summer
6. Gold Rush when released

This is the clearest way to preserve the Kensington family continuity.

Best standalone sampler

1. Fly Bye
2. Heartbreak for Two
3. King of Country
4. Serve

That group shows the widest range without committing you to a series.

Do the books need to be read in order?

Not across the whole catalog.

Read The Kensingtons before Kensingtons: The Next Generation. Read Hard Way Home in order because it follows the same couple. Read Holt Hockey, Kluvberg, Rival Love, and Truth & Lies in order for the smoothest experience, even though each book mostly centers a new couple.

The standalones can be read whenever you want.

Latest release status

The newest confirmed C.W. Farnsworth release is Cruel Summer, published in February 2026 as Kensingtons: The Next Generation #3. The next confirmed books publicly listed are Love on the Line in May 2026 and Gold Rush in September 2026. The official books page also still shows two later Kensington slots as not fully detailed, so that family branch is clearly still expanding.

FAQs

Where should I start with C.W. Farnsworth?
Start with Famous Last Words for sports romance, or Fake Empire for rich-family romance.

What is her best hockey series?
Holt Hockey is the cleanest hockey entry point because it is short, current, and clearly ordered.

Are the Kensington books connected?
Yes. The duet comes first, and Kensingtons: The Next Generation follows that family world.

Is The Truth & Lies Duet a new book?
No. It is an omnibus edition collecting the two main novels.