Melanie Summers Books in Order (Updated 2026-02-09)

Melanie Summers writes feel-good romantic comedy and women’s fiction, with several clearly separated series (royals, resort rom-coms, texting rom-coms, and more). Most books follow a new couple, but the spin-offs and shared settings land best when you read each series straight through.

This page is organized by “where you are” (palace, paradise resort, New York texts, Alaska, etc.), so you can pick a mood and stay oriented.

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Choose your vibe (then start at book 1 of that section)

• Royal rom-com with a blogger vs. prince setup: start with The Royal Treatment
• Caribbean resort rom-coms (sun, chaos, heart): start with The Honeymooner
• Texting rom-coms (NYC mix-ups and mistaken numbers): start with Text Me on Tuesday
• Small-town Alaska single-mom comedy: start with No Ordinary Hate
• Smart-women adventure rom-coms: start with The Space Between Us
• Deeper, more emotional fiction: start with The After Wife

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The palace books

The Crown Jewels (read in order)

1. The Royal Treatment: An anti-royal blogger is forced into close quarters with a prince who expects to be disliked, and can’t stop provoking her.
2. The Royal Wedding: A wedding becomes a battlefield of interfering family, palace pressure, and a bride who refuses to be managed.
3. The Royal Delivery: Pregnancy, unwanted houseguests, and public scrutiny turn royal life into a comedic stress test for a marriage.

Extra (optional): The Crown Jewels Box Set includes a bonus short story often labeled as a “Royal Engagement” extra.

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The island escape books

Paradise Bay (read in order)

1. The Honeymooner: A jilted bride takes a “honeymoon for one” and stumbles into the last kind of love she expected.
2. Whisked Away: A chef is banished to a private island to cater a famously grumpy writer, and discovers he’s far more distracting than his reputation.
3. The Suite Life: A single mom rents out a suite to the coworker she loves to hate, then realizes he might be the only person who sees her clearly.
4. Resting Beach Face: A woman’s long-term boyfriend proposes, just not to her, sending her straight into the arms of the best friend who’s been waiting quietly.
5. Pride and Pina Coladas: A tropical riff on Pride and Prejudice swaps drawing rooms for island drama and adds a CEO who feels too much like Mr. Darcy.
6. Beach Please: Two opposites team up on an island adventure and learn that teamwork can turn into temptation fast.
7. Tide Together: A stressed bridesmaid and a laidback pilot get stranded together, and the argument-to-attraction ratio gets unhinged.
8. My Big Fat Beach Wedding: A fake wedding is supposed to save a career, until the best man makes the “fake” part impossible to maintain.

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The royal spin-off that cross-pollinates

Crazy Royal Love (read in order)

These are designed as a spin-off that pulls from the royal world and the early Paradise Bay orbit.

1. Royally Crushed: A princess and a rugged outdoorsman become tabloid fuel when their chemistry refuses to stay private.
2. Royally Wild: Surviving the jungle was easy, surviving the media circus is the real threat to the relationship.
3. Royally Tied: Wedding planning turns into a full-contact sport when family chaos shows up with opinions and zero boundaries.

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The “wrong number” rom-coms

Accidentally in Love (with Whitney Dineen) (read in order)

1. Text Me on Tuesday: Hate at first sight flips when a mix-up leads to anonymous texting and a connection neither saw coming.
2. The Text God: A starving artist and an overworked attorney find the right person through the wrong text thread.
3. Text Wars: An astrologer and an astrophysicist clash publicly, then discover their private chemistry is harder to dismiss.
4. Text in Show: A dog-show fiasco pushes an event planner and a vet into the same chaos, then into each other’s lives.
5. Mistle Text: A fake holiday relationship begins as a practical solution and ends as a very inconvenient attachment.
6. Text and Confused: A mistaken texting relationship turns out to be the most “right” accident of the year.

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The Alaska single-mom books

Gamble on Love (with Whitney Dineen) (read in order)

1. No Ordinary Hate: A movie star hides out in Alaska after a public betrayal and finds that starting over comes with an unexpected love interest.
2. A Hate Like This: A Hollywood lawyer runs to Gamble for peace and ends up entangled with a diner owner, her kids, and feelings he didn’t plan for.
3. Hate. Rinse. Repeat.: A secret one-night stand comes back to town at the worst possible moment, right when “keeping quiet” stops being an option.

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The smart-women adventure rom-coms

Love Struck (read in order)

1. The Space Between Us: A driven heroine and the billionaire threatening her work get stranded together, and “enemy” turns into “only person I can rely on.”
2. Love Signals: A scientist racing for revenge is forced to mentor a famous actor, then gets stuck in close quarters where distraction becomes dangerous.

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One-off romances

Standalone romantic comedy / romance

• Even Better Than the Real Thing: A PhD student agrees to a fake marriage with a grumpy lord to access his art collection, then starts wanting the lie to be true.
• A Hollywood Ending: A famous actress retreats from heartbreak with a bodyguard who’s far too good at being calm, close, and irresistible.

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Women’s fiction (deeper tone; not part of the rom-com continuity)

• The After Wife: A widow retreats to a small community to grieve, then finds that connection can return even when she doesn’t feel ready.
• I Used to be Fun: A mother at her breaking point tries to reclaim the woman she used to be, without blowing up her life in the process.
• Until the Truth Comes Out: A fame-and-family story where secrets, pressure, and a single night force painful truths into daylight.

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Short fiction

• Archway To You: A shorter, emotionally focused story that works best as a quick “between books” read.

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Notes on a separate pen name

Some Melanie Summers backlist is also published as MJ Summers (including the Full Hearts series). Those books are a separate track from the rom-com series above, so only mix them in if you’re specifically exploring that pen name’s style.

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The cleanest reading plan

1. Pick one setting you’re in the mood for (palace, island, texting, Alaska, or Love Struck).
2. Read that series in order until you finish it.
3. Use Even Better Than the Real Thing or A Hollywood Ending as “one-book breaks,” and the women’s fiction titles when you want a heavier, more reflective read.