Ashley Herring Blake Books in Order: Bright Falls, Clover Lake & Every Standalone (2026)
Ashley Herring Blake books in order now covers two complete adult romance series, because 2026 is the year Clover Lake finished. Get Over It, April Evans arrived in February and Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair closed the trilogy on September 29, which means you can now binge both Bright Falls and Clover Lake start to finish. Below is every Ashley Herring Blake romance in order, where to start, her holiday standalone, how spicy the books are, a quick guide to her young adult and middle grade novels, and hotter picks for when you’ve read them all.
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Ashley Herring Blake Books in Order: Where to Start
Start with Delilah Green Doesn’t Care. It made her a sapphic romance bestseller and set the template she still writes to: a prickly heroine dragged back to a small town, a rooted heroine with a life and a spine, and a found family of friends who will carry into the next two books. If you’d rather start with something newer, Dream On, Ramona Riley opens Clover Lake and needs no Bright Falls knowledge at all.
Every book follows a new couple to a happy ending, so you can read any of them alone. Inside each trilogy, reading in order pays off because the friend group carries over and the next heroine is always already in the room.
On heat: Blake writes open door. The sex scenes are on the page, frank and emotionally loaded, without running for chapters. Call it 🌶️🌶️🌶️ across both series.
The Bright Falls Series in Order
- Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (2022): Delilah has built an adult life around not caring about Bright Falls or the stepfamily that made her feel like a guest in her own childhood. Then her stepsister’s wedding drags her home, and Claire Sutherland, with a bookstore, a daughter and no patience for Delilah’s act, is standing in the wedding party. Our list of books like Delilah Green Doesn’t Care has the readalikes.
- Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail (2022): the most buttoned-up member of the Bright Falls circle gets her own book, and learns what happens when the woman who never fails meets someone who refuses to be managed.
- Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date (2023): Iris, the friend group’s loudest, funniest member and its firmest believer in not getting attached, closes the trilogy with a story about why she stopped dating and the woman who makes her reconsider. Our guide to books like Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date picks up from here.
Bright Falls is the trilogy to hand anyone new to sapphic romance. Each book is a little funnier than the last, the friendships do as much work as the romance, and the town is small enough that everyone’s business is everyone’s business.
The Clover Lake Series in Order
- Dream On, Ramona Riley (May 13, 2025): Ramona gave up art school and a Hollywood costume-design dream to come home to Clover Lake, New Hampshire, and raise her younger sister after their father’s accident. Twelve years later she’s still waiting tables at the town café when a big-budget romantic comedy arrives to film, and its star, Dylan Monroe, child of rock icons and Hollywood’s favorite wild child, is the girl who gave Ramona her first kiss at fourteen. Dylan wants to prove she’s more than a nepo baby, so she shadows Ramona at the café. Iris Kelly makes a cameo.
- Get Over It, April Evans (February 3, 2026): April, Ramona’s best friend, has lost her Clover Lake tattoo shop and sublet her house to cover the mortgage, so she takes a summer job teaching art at Cloverwild, a new New Hampshire resort. Her cabinmate is Daphne Love, the woman April’s ex-fiancée left her for, who doesn’t seem to know who April is. Then they become rivals for a chance to show their work at a London museum. Enemies to lovers with forced proximity.
- Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair (September 29, 2026): Sasha, a sunny aspiring filmmaker, is determined to finish her late parents’ documentary about Alice Bishop, the “Rose Witch” who opened an apothecary in Clare Mountain, North Carolina, in 1901. Margot Bishop, whose family runs Thornrose Apothecary and an occult-themed amusement park called Ghostlight, doesn’t want outsiders telling their story, but she becomes Sasha’s point person anyway. Witchy small-town lore, a haunted woods and a historical mystery about how queer women’s stories survive.
Clover Lake trades Bright Falls’ Pacific Northwest for New England and leans harder into career dreams: costume design, tattooing, filmmaking. Read Ramona first; April is in her book from the start.
Make the Season Bright: The Holiday Standalone
- Make the Season Bright (2024): Blake’s standalone Christmas romance, published between the two series and readable with no other books under your belt. If you’re building a December reading stack, our roundup of sapphic Christmas romance books for 2026 has this season’s new releases and the FF holiday backlist with heat ratings on every pick.
Ashley Herring Blake’s Young Adult and Middle Grade Books
Before the adult romances, Blake wrote for younger readers, and that backlist is worth knowing if you’re buying for a teen or want to see where her voice started. These are not romance novels in the adult sense and have no explicit content.
- Young adult: Suffer Love (2016), How to Make a Wish (2017) and Girl Made of Stars (2018).
- Middle grade: Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World (2018), The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James (2019) and Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea (2021).
- Anthology: Fools in Love (2021), a young adult romance anthology she co-edited.
Bright Falls or Clover Lake: Which Series First?
Pick Bright Falls if you want the books everyone else has already read, a tight friend group that functions like a family, and the classic prickly-meets-steady pairing. It is the more emotional of the two, built around stepfamilies, old wounds and what it costs to go home.
Pick Clover Lake if you want career stakes front and center. Every heroine is chasing a creative dream she gave up or never got to try, the settings rotate from a lake-town café to a summer resort to a witchy mountain town, and the tropes are bolder: celebrity homecoming, enemies forced to share a cabin, a documentary with a ghost story in it.
Either way, the two series never require each other. Iris Kelly’s cameo in Dream On, Ramona Riley is a wink for longtime readers, not homework.
All Ashley Herring Blake Romance Books in Publication Order
- Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (2022, Bright Falls #1)
- Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail (2022, Bright Falls #2)
- Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date (2023, Bright Falls #3)
- Make the Season Bright (2024, standalone)
- Dream On, Ramona Riley (2025, Clover Lake #1)
- Get Over It, April Evans (2026, Clover Lake #2)
- Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair (2026, Clover Lake #3)
What’s Next for Ashley Herring Blake
With Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair out, Clover Lake is complete at three books, which matches the shape of Bright Falls. Penguin Random House already lists another title on her author page, Flora, Finally, but has not yet posted a date or description, so watch that space. No screen adaptation of either series has been announced. If you’ve finished both trilogies, Make the Season Bright is the obvious next read for December.
See Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair on Amazon →
Read Next: Hotter Picks From Fractal Enigma
Ashley Herring Blake readers come for small towns with long memories, women chasing creative dreams and the found family that shows up for both. These Fractal Enigma reads keep the setting and open the door all the way.
Make Me Your Secret — Aurora North
Five years ago, Laura King left Savannah for Hollywood and left Mia Bennett behind, no explanation, after a secret affair while Mia was her assistant. Now Laura is an A-list actress back in town for a six-week prestige film shoot, and she wants Mia in her bed and out of the pictures. Dream On, Ramona Riley’s movie-comes-to-town setup, with a second chance and no fade to black.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Second Chance, Celebrity Romance, Secret Relationship, Small Town Return, Forced Proximity, Coming Out
Start reading Make Me Your Secret →
Cottagecore with Benefits — Aurora North
Sophie Kim is done being excellent. After burnout ends her corporate career, she inherits her late aunt’s crumbling lakeside inn, and the only contractor in town is Riley Ortiz: butch, capable, quietly devastating in a tool belt and done being left. A lake town, a renovation and a found family, for readers who want Clover Lake with the heat turned up.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Small Town, Forced Proximity, Grumpy/Sunshine, Bi Awakening, Slow Burn, Found Family, Cottagecore
Start reading Cottagecore with Benefits →
Sweet Ruin — Blair Lennox
Pippa “Pip” Morales is a chaotic bisexual baker whose micro-bakery is one dead oven from closing. The wedding-cake contract that could save it comes with a catch: the bride is the ex who broke her heart, and the ruthlessly organized wedding planner is the ex’s older sister and Pip’s former one-night stand. Delilah Green’s wedding-week chaos with an ice queen in charge. Free with Kindle Unlimited.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Ex’s Older Sister, Wedding Forced Proximity, Age Gap, Secret Affair, Ice Queen x Chaotic Baker, Grumpy/Sunshine
Wrapped Around Her Finger — Riley Kendra
Madison Prescott has a business she built, a life she chose and a mother who thinks both would improve with the right partner. So she makes up a fiancée. Then the fiancée shows up in a suit. One fake engagement, one bed, one holiday week to keep their hands to themselves. The Make the Season Bright pick for readers who want their Christmas romance explicit.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Fake Engagement, One Bed, Holiday Romance, Opposites Attract, Class Difference, Suit Kink, Romantic Comedy
Start reading Wrapped Around Her Finger →
Want the whole shelf? Our list of the best queer small-town romance books has more homecomings, bakeries and towns that won’t mind their own business.
FAQ: Ashley Herring Blake Reading Order
Do you need to read Ashley Herring Blake’s books in order?
No, every book has its own couple and ending. Within Bright Falls and Clover Lake, reading in order means you’ll already know each new heroine, and the friend groups carry over.
Which Ashley Herring Blake book should I read first?
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care. For her newest series, start with Dream On, Ramona Riley; for a December read, Make the Season Bright.
How spicy are Ashley Herring Blake’s books?
Open door, around 🌶️🌶️🌶️: the scenes are on the page and honest without dominating the book. Her young adult and middle grade novels have no explicit content. Our romance spice levels guide explains the scale; every Fractal Enigma pick above is Inferno.
Is Bright Falls or Clover Lake being adapted?
No film or TV adaptation has been announced for either series as of October 2026.
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