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Explore Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland books in order, with quick summaries, collaboration background, and tips for choosing the best place to start.

Last updated: June 8, 2026

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Belong to You

by Vi Keeland

2013

After calling off her wedding, Sydney heads off on the honeymoon alone and falls into a scorching fling with Jack Cole. What should have been a brief escape quickly starts to feel like something neither of them can leave behind.

First Thing I See

by Vi Keeland

2013

Hope York has built a flawless exterior to hide everything she still hates about herself. When wealthy Kennedy Jenner wants the real woman underneath, both their secrets threaten the passion growing between them.

Made for You

by Vi Keeland

2013

Sydney and Jack thought paradise had given them their happy ending, but real life is harder than one perfect week away. Distance, ambition, and heartbreak force them to decide whether love can survive the return home.

Worth the Fight

by Vi Keeland

2013

Attorney Elle keeps her life tightly controlled until MMA fighter Nico Hunter walks into her office. Both are carrying bruised pasts, and their instant attraction forces them to risk feelings neither one trusts.

Left Behind

by Vi Keeland

2014

Two seemingly separate love stories slowly reveal the hidden ties beneath them. Zack and Nikki both think fate has finally brought the right person into their lives, until long-buried family truths change everything.

Worth Forgiving

by Vi Keeland

2014

Lily St. Claire knows fighters too well to trust one, yet polished MMA star Jax Knight gets past her defenses fast. Falling for him would be risky enough without her possessive ex refusing to let her move on.

Worth the Chance

by Vi Keeland

2014

Seven years after first love wrecked her, Liv Michaels runs into fighter Vince Stone right before her dream job. Their chemistry is still there, but old scars and bad timing make a second chance anything but easy.

Beat

by Vi Keeland

2015

A woman gets the fantasy of dating a rock star, only to start falling for another musician on the same tour bus. In a world of fame, jealousy, and close quarters, every choice gets louder.

Cocky Bastard

by Vi Keeland

2015

Aubrey's cross-country drive turns wild when her car breaks down and a cocky Australian named Chance joins the trip. Their chemistry is instant, but the road ahead holds more surprises than either of them expects.

Throb

by Vi Keeland

2015

A desperate contract lands a woman on a reality dating show with strict rules about sex, secrecy, and staying on script. Then she falls for the wrong man, and the whole arrangement starts to blow apart.

Bossman

by Vi Keeland

2016

A stranger rescues a woman from a terrible date with sarcasm and fake backstory, then disappears into New York. A month later he reappears as Chase Parker, her arrogant new boss, and staying professional becomes the real problem.

Playboy Pilot

by Vi Keeland

2016

Kendall takes an impulsive trip to think through a life-changing choice and meets Carter in an airport lounge. When he turns out to be her pilot, chemistry, adventure, and rumors make their fling a risky ride.

Stuck-Up Suit

by Vi Keeland

2016

Soraya picks up a rude stranger's lost phone on the train and starts a flirtation that turns hotter by the day. When she finally meets the arrogant executive behind the messages, opposites attract fast.

The Baller

by Vi Keeland

2016

A rookie sportscaster's first big interview turns disastrous when superstar quarterback Brody Easton decides to humiliate her on camera. Their feud turns flirty fast, but dating a famous player means risking far more than pride.

Beautiful Mistake

by Vi Keeland

2017

A graduate student rips into a gorgeous stranger she thinks is the married jerk who hurt her friend, only to learn she had the wrong man. The next day he becomes Professor West, the one she now has to work beside.

British Bedmate

by Vi Keeland

2017

Bridget is a responsible single mother. Simon is the carefree British doctor renting her converted garage before he heads home. Their attraction is immediate, inconvenient, and far more serious than either planned.

Egomaniac

by Vi Keeland

2017

After getting scammed out of an office lease, a marriage counselor ends up sharing space with divorce attorney Drew Jagger. Their jobs make them natural opposites, and their nonstop arguments keep turning into chemistry.

Mister Moneybags

by Vi Keeland

2017

Reporter Bianca mistakes wealthy Dex Truitt for a bike messenger after they get stuck in an elevator together. He lets the lie grow, and soon she is falling for two men who are actually the same person.

Hate Notes

by Vi Keeland

2018

A blue note hidden inside a wedding dress leads Charlotte to Reed Eastwood, a man who seems heartbreakingly romantic until she discovers he is also her demanding new boss. The mystery of his past pulls her in deeper.

Rebel Heart

by Vi Keeland

2018

Gia and Rush's summer romance does not end cleanly when the season does. This second book follows the fallout, forcing them to face love, timing, and consequences they can no longer outrun.

Rebel Heir

by Vi Keeland

2018

Gia heads to the Hamptons for a fresh start and falls for Rush, her brooding, tattooed boss. He is powerful, off-limits, and the one man guaranteed to make her summer a lot more complicated.

Sex, Not Love

by Vi Keeland

2018

A stolen night after a wedding is supposed to be the end of it, especially after she leaves Hunter Delucia the wrong number. When fate brings them back together, their plan to keep things physical starts to crack.

The Naked Truth

by Vi Keeland

2018

A lawyer finally gets her shot at a career-making pitch, then walks into the conference room and finds her ex on the other side. Old hurt, old desire, and high-stakes work collide all at once.

All Grown Up

by Vi Keeland

2019

A newly single woman finally agrees to meet the much younger man from her accidental dating profile. Then she realizes he is the boy next door from her family's summer place, only now very much all grown up.

Dirty Letters

by Vi Keeland

2019

Childhood pen pals reconnect after years of silence, and their letters quickly turn flirtier and more intimate than ever before. When the heroine finally goes looking for Griffin, the truth she finds could change everything.

Park Avenue Player

by Vi Keeland

2019

A fender bender lands Elodie face to face with Hollis, the arrogant man who then ruins her job interview. When he offers her work caring for his troubled niece, resisting him gets even harder.

The Christmas Pact

by Vi Keeland

2019

Riley's crossed emails with a smug coworker lead to a fake-dating holiday bargain neither of them takes seriously enough. Pretending for Christmas soon starts to feel dangerously real.

The Merry Mistake

by Vi Keeland

2019

What starts as one impulsive holiday kiss with a stranger in New York turns into something far more meaningful. It is a quick, festive romance with charm, heat, and Christmas sparkle.

We Shouldn't

by Vi Keeland

2019

A petty parking-ticket revenge goes wrong and lands a woman in the crosshairs of Bennett Fox before her new job even starts. Then he becomes her workplace rival, and their hate-to-love tension gets impossible to ignore.

Happily Letter After

by Vi Keeland

2020

A little girl's wish letter draws Sadie into the orbit of Birdie and her handsome single father, Sebastian. What begins as anonymous kindness soon becomes a risky, heartfelt love story.

Inappropriate

by Vi Keeland

2020

Fired over a private vacation video, a furious executive writes an angry letter to the company's billionaire CEO. Their unexpected correspondence gets her job back, but it also pulls her toward a man with scars of his own.

My Favorite Souvenir

by Vi Keeland

2020

Fresh off a breakup, a woman pretends to be a stranger's sister to score an extra resort room. Their fake family story turns into a road trip full of souvenirs, chemistry, and feelings neither planned for.

The Rivals

by Vi Keeland

2020

Two heirs are forced to share a priceless hotel thanks to a family feud that started long before they were born. Working together only sharpens the sparks between them, and old grudges quickly stop feeling simple.

Not Pretending Anymore

by Vi Keeland

2021

A roommate search brings in Declan, a charming man who becomes her best friend and fake boyfriend partner. The trouble starts when the feelings they are performing stop feeling fake at all.

The Invitation

by Vi Keeland

2021

A woman crashes a lavish wedding using an invitation meant for her vanished ex-roommate and ends up dancing with gorgeous groomsman Hudson Rothschild. Once he figures out who she really is, the night only gets messier.

The Spark

by Vi Keeland

2021

A switched suitcase leads to a near-perfect weekend with Donovan Decker, a man who seems too good to be true. She ghosts him anyway, then runs into him a year later when her life is even more complicated.

Well Played

by Vi Keeland

2021

A single mom moves home to restore a half-inherited inn, only to discover the other half belongs to Levi, a star quarterback and her ex's older brother. Living together makes their bet even riskier.

The Boss Project

by Vi Keeland

2022

A disastrous first meeting leaves a job candidate mortified when she learns the rude stranger is her potential boss. When he hires her because he expects her to fail, proving him wrong becomes dangerously personal.

The Rules of Dating

by Vi Keeland

2022

After a breakup party explodes in public, a tattoo-shop owner ends up sparring with the gorgeous landlord who witnessed it. Their so-called undates come with rules, but the attraction refuses to cooperate.

The Summer Proposal

by Vi Keeland

2022

She thinks Max is her blind date and falls for his dimples before learning he was never the man she was meant to meet. Their carefree summer arrangement looks simple until the expiration date starts to matter.

Something Unexpected

by Vi Keeland

2023

A man races to stop his terminally adventurous grandmother from taking one more wild trip, only to discover her travel companion is the gorgeous stranger he just stood up. Being forced together turns irritation into something far more dangerous.

The Game

by Vi Keeland

2023

A coder who builds matchmaking algorithms learns that a father she never knew has left her part ownership in a pro football team. Getting close to the team's injured quarterback feels like the one variable she cannot control.

The Rules of Dating My Best Friend's Sister

by Vi Keeland

2023

Holden has spent years trying not to want Laney, his late best friend's little sister. When she moves close by for work, old feelings reignite and being good starts to feel impossible.

The Rules of Dating My One-Night Stand

by Vi Keeland

2023

One fiery night with a stranger should have been the end of it. Instead, he finds the woman he cannot forget standing behind the door of an apartment tied to his next big problem.

Indiscretion

by Vi Keeland

2024

A booking glitch leaves two enemies sharing the same cabin for a wedding weekend with nowhere else to go. Surviving the forced stay is bad enough, until the man she loathes turns out to be her new boss.

The Rules of Dating a Younger Man

by Vi Keeland

2024

What begins as email arguments turns into real-life chemistry when a charity founder meets Alex in person. Their age gap is obvious, but a bigger complication soon proves even harder to overcome.

The Unraveling

by Vi Keeland

2024

After a devastating loss, New York psychiatrist Meredith McCall becomes obsessed with a man tied to her grief. When he walks into her office as a patient, her judgment and her life start unraveling in dangerous ways.

What Happens at the Lake

by Vi Keeland

2024

Escaping New York for the summer, a woman heads to Laurel Lake and immediately runs into gruff neighbor Fox Cassidy. Their bickering sparks fast, but leaving town was always supposed to be part of the plan.

Denim & Diamonds

by Vi Keeland

2025

A burned-out New York executive slips away from a wellness retreat in small-town Maine and falls for Brock, a rugged bar owner who feels nothing like her usual life. The pull is easy. Leaving is not.

Jilted

by Vi Keeland

2025

A wedding columnist who was left at the altar gets paired with an infuriatingly handsome groomsman at an assignment she never wanted. On Monday, he is still around and tied to the job she cannot escape.

Someone Knows

by Vi Keeland

2025

Professor Elizabeth reads a student manuscript that seems to know about the killing she buried twenty years ago. To find the anonymous writer, she must return to Louisiana and face the past she thought was safely hidden.

New

Crooked

by Vi Keeland

2026

Juliette has escaped her mob family life until her father sends live-in bodyguard Wes Callahan to protect her. Their attraction is dangerous enough before secrets, fake dating, and family war make it worse.

New

Snowed

by Vi Keeland

2026

This holiday collection serves up three short romances, including enemies snowed in at a cabin, a fake boyfriend at a Christmas party, and sparks at a holiday dating event. It is festive, playful, and quick to read.

New

The Exception

by Vi Keeland

2026

A woman joins the wrong dating app, has one unforgettable date, and laughs off the mistake. Then she walks into her internship and finds that her accidental date, Jagger Langston, is now her boss.

New

The Fall Affair

by Vi Keeland

2026

After losing out on partnership, Manhattan lawyer Allegra Bianchi heads to Tuscany to settle her grandmother's estate. A three-month inheritance clause and a stubborn winemaker next door turn escape into the start of an entirely different life.

Where should I start?

If you want sharp workplace romance: BossmanEgomaniacInappropriate
If you like sports and high chemistry: The BallerThe GameWorth the Fight
If you want travel, banter, and big meet-cutes: Cocky BastardPlayboy PilotMy Favorite Souvenir
If you prefer softer grumpy-sunshine energy: What Happens at the LakeThe Summer ProposalSomething Unexpected
If you want a darker, suspense-heavy side of Vi: The UnravelingSomeone Knows

Author bio

Vi Keeland grew up in New York City, and New York still runs through a lot of her work. She now lives on Long Island with her husband and their three children. The husband part is a good story on its own, she has said he is the boy she met at age six.

Before writing fiction full time, she worked as a tax attorney.

That earlier life helps explain why so many of her books feel comfortable around offices, contracts, deadlines, power imbalances, and people who know how to argue for a living. Even when the setup is light, there is usually someone in a sharp job trying very hard to stay in control.

Writing had been sitting in the background for a long time. After college, she filled a spiral notebook with the start of a story, but law school and work pushed fiction aside. She kept reading, kept thinking about stories, and eventually started writing again without making a big announcement about it.

Then Hurricane Sandy hit her family's Long Island home and upended life for a while. The flood damage was severe enough that the family had to relocate, and the disruption gave Keeland the push to take a chance on publishing. Her debut novel, First Thing I See, arrived in 2013. What had started as a private side project stopped being private pretty quickly.

A lot of readers first meet her through the romances that feel slick, funny, and a little chaotic in the best way. Books like Bossman, Egomaniac, and The Baller run on sharp banter, big attraction, and leads who look polished until the story finds the bruise underneath. She likes confident men who need humbling, women who can match them line for line, and setups that trap two people together before either one is ready.

She also writes well in motion. The Invitation begins with a crashed wedding. The Spark starts with a switched suitcase. What Happens at the Lake slows things down in a small town, but it still opens with the kind of off-balance arrival she clearly enjoys. Even when the premise sounds playful, her books usually carry more hurt, grief, or family baggage than the first chapter lets on.

The partnership with Penelope Ward became another big part of her career. Together they wrote books such as Cocky Bastard, Stuck-Up Suit, Hate Notes, and the two-book Rush story, Rebel Heir and Rebel Heart. Those collaborations helped make Keeland a familiar name to romance readers who like meet-disasters, fast chemistry, and stories that can pivot from funny to emotional without much warning.

She has not stayed in one lane, either.

More recently, she has moved into darker suspense with books like The Unraveling and Someone Knows. The genre changes, but some of the same interests remain. She is still drawn to secrets, obsession, old wounds, and the moment a carefully managed life starts to crack.

Her books have landed on major bestseller lists, been translated into more than two dozen languages, and a few of her shorter works have been adapted for film. But the human scale is still what stands out. Whether she is writing about a billionaire boss, a quarterback, a fighter, or a psychiatrist making bad decisions, the hook is usually personal. Someone is trying not to feel too much. Someone else makes that plan impossible.

These days she writes from New York, still close to the city she grew up in, and still turning messy first meetings into long nights and complicated endings. That seems to suit her just fine.

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Richard Reis

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Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

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