Alexandria Bellefleur Books in Order: Written in the Stars, Standalones & 2026 Releases
Alexandria Bellefleur books in order has never been busier. After the Written in the Stars trilogy made her one of sapphic romance’s signature voices, she has moved into demons, publicists and murder mysteries, and 2026 alone brings Playing for Keeps, Damned If I Do (September 22), a story in the holiday anthology The Twelve Loves of Christmas (September) and another novel listed for December. Below is every Alexandria Bellefleur book in publication order, which ones are sapphic and which are not, where to start, the heat level and hotter picks for when you’ve read them all.
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Alexandria Bellefleur Books in Order: Where to Start
Start with Written in the Stars. Her debut won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award and a 2020 Ripped Bodice Award for Excellence in Romantic Fiction, and it is still the purest version of what she does: opposites who drive each other up the wall, a fake relationship that was always going to turn real, and banter you’ll want to read out loud. If you want a standalone instead, The Fiancée Farce is the sapphic fake-engagement book; if you want her newest sapphic romance, The Devil She Knows.
One thing to know before you buy: not every Bellefleur book is sapphic. Hang the Moon and Truly, Madly, Deeply are MF, Damned If I Do is a bisexual heroine with a male lead, and Playing for Keeps runs two couples, one sapphic and one MF. Each entry below says which is which.
Heat runs open door at around 🌶️🌶️🌶️. The scenes are on the page and frank, but the banter carries more of the book than the bedroom does.
The Written in the Stars Series in Order
- Written in the Stars (2020, FF): Darcy Lowell, an analytical skeptic, goes on a disastrous blind date with Elle Jones, an astrologer and her brother’s business partner. To get her matchmaking brother off her back, Darcy lies and says it went well, then asks Elle to play her girlfriend through the holidays. Real feelings follow. Our list of books like Written in the Stars has the readalikes.
- Hang the Moon (2021, MF): Darcy’s brother Brendon, who built a dating app, meets his sister’s best friend Annie while she’s visiting Seattle before moving abroad. Annie has given up on dating; Brendon sets out to prove love is real.
- Count Your Lucky Stars (2022, FF): Margot Cooper, Elle’s no-strings best friend, reunites with Olivia Grant, her childhood friend and first love, now a wedding planner who has just moved to Seattle and needs somewhere to stay. Close quarters force Margot to rethink everything. Our books like Count Your Lucky Stars guide continues the mood.
Each book has its own couple and its own ending, but the Seattle friend group runs through all three, so read in order if you can. Sapphic-only readers can go Written in the Stars to Count Your Lucky Stars and lose very little.
Alexandria Bellefleur Standalones in Order
- The Fiancée Farce (2023, FF): bookstore owner Tansy Adams invents a girlfriend to stop her family’s questions, borrowing the name of Gemma van Dalen, the wild-child heir to Van Dalen Publishing. Then the real Gemma appears, needing a spouse to inherit the company, and announces she’s engaged to Tansy. Our books like The Fiancée Farce list has more fake engagements.
- Truly, Madly, Deeply (2024, MF): bestselling romance novelist Truly Livingston, reeling from her parents’ separation and a broken engagement, agrees to co-host a relationship-advice podcast with Colin McCory, a cynical divorce lawyer. They clash, then become friends, then more.
- The Devil She Knows (October 21, 2025, FF): after a failed proposal leaves her single and homeless in one day, Samantha Cooper gets stuck in an elevator with Daphne, a woman who says she’s a demon and offers six wishes in exchange for Samantha’s soul. Samantha plans to exploit a loophole and win back her ex. Daphne grants every wish with a twist, and the two of them end up having to outsmart the Devil himself.
- Playing for Keeps (2026, FF and MF): publicist Poppy Peterson is horrified when her client and childhood best friend, NFL quarterback Cash Curran, publicly flirts with pop superstar Lyric Adair, and it works. Lyric’s cool, unreadable publicist Rosaline Sinclair is determined to protect her client from Poppy. As Cash and Lyric’s romance goes public, Poppy and Rosaline’s rivalry turns into a secret romance of their own, until paparazzi, tabloids and fans test everyone’s loyalties.
- Damned If I Do (September 22, 2026, bisexual heroine, MF): Effie MacLeod sold her soul to Lucifer to save someone she loved and has spent centuries as a demon. She is engaged to Belphegor, a Prince of Hell, but still technically married to Finn, her sixteenth-century Scottish husband, who has been reincarnated over and over. She needs him to renounce their vows. She finds him in small-town Georgia, with no memory of her and no intention of signing anything.
The Twelve Loves of Christmas and the Short Fiction
- Frostbite (2017): an early short story.
- Merriment and Mayhem (2024): a holiday novella, the fourth story in the Under the Mistletoe collection.
- The Twelve Loves of Christmas: An Advent Romance Collection (September 2026): an advent calendar in book form, twelve sealed holiday short stories, one per day before Christmas, ranging from sweet to spicy and covering forced proximity, second chances, rivals to lovers and fake dating. Bellefleur contributes alongside Elise Bryant, Olivia Dade, Alexis Daria, Sarah Hogle, Zakiya N. Jamal, Rebecca Jenshak, Jessica Joyce, Susan Lee, Joss Richard, M. A. Wardell and Rebekah Weatherspoon. The audiobook from Simon & Schuster Audio released September 29, 2026. Our sapphic Christmas romance books for 2026 roundup has the rest of this season’s FF holiday reads.
Which Alexandria Bellefleur Book Next? Pick by Trope
Fake dating: Written in the Stars. Fake engagement: The Fiancée Farce. Second chance and roommates: Count Your Lucky Stars. Rivals with a celebrity backdrop: Playing for Keeps. Paranormal bargain: The Devil She Knows, then Damned If I Do if you don’t mind an MF lead. Holiday: Written in the Stars again (the fake relationship runs through the holidays) or The Twelve Loves of Christmas.
All Alexandria Bellefleur Books in Publication Order
- Frostbite (2017, short story)
- Written in the Stars (2020)
- Hang the Moon (2021)
- Count Your Lucky Stars (2022)
- The Fiancée Farce (2023)
- Truly, Madly, Deeply (2024)
- Merriment and Mayhem (2024, novella)
- The Devil She Knows (2025)
- Playing for Keeps (2026)
- Damned If I Do (2026)
- The Twelve Loves of Christmas (2026, anthology)
- If These Walls Could Talk (listed for December 8, 2026)
- Someone Borrowed, Someone Blue (May 18, 2027)
What’s Next for Alexandria Bellefleur
Two more books are on the calendar. If These Walls Could Talk is listed for December 8, 2026, though the publisher hasn’t posted a description yet. Then Someone Borrowed, Someone Blue arrives from Berkley on May 18, 2027, and it is a sapphic romance with a body count: former best friends Wren “Byrdie” Beaufain and Juniper Legare, the black sheep of a wealthy Charleston family, reunite at Byrdie’s marriage-of-convenience wedding, and when Juniper’s father turns up dead, the wedding party becomes a funeral procession and both women become suspects. No screen adaptations have been announced.
See Someone Borrowed, Someone Blue on Amazon →
Read Next: Hotter Picks From Fractal Enigma
Bellefleur readers come for the fake relationship that turns real, the bookish heroines and the banter. These Fractal Enigma reads keep the arrangement and the jokes and take the heat all the way to Inferno.
The U-Haul Ultimatum — Blair Lennox
Estate attorney Mireille “Miri” Sloane inherits her late aunt’s historic Hudson Valley house, but only if she establishes a shared household within sixty days. Her rival needs a place to sleep. A fiancée is the sensible solution. The Fiancée Farce’s inheritance clause and fake engagement, with forced cohabitation and one bed. Free with Kindle Unlimited.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Fake Engagement, Forced Cohabitation, One Bed, Enemies to Lovers, Grumpy/Sunshine, Found Family, Bisexual Awakening
Start reading The U-Haul Ultimatum →
Lease, Lies & Lesbian Alibis — Aurora North
Maeve Collins is a broke, brilliant illustrator fighting to keep the rent-controlled apartment her grandmother left her. When the housing board demands proof of the live-in girlfriend listed on her lease, the girlfriend who doesn’t exist, she needs someone to play the part. The woman who does is her landlord, who has her own reasons to stop being the woman everyone expects. Written in the Stars’ one lie that snowballs, with an age gap and only one bed. Free with Kindle Unlimited.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Fake Dating, Landlord/Tenant, Age Gap, Only One Bed, Ice Queen/Chaotic Creative, Forced Proximity
Start reading Lease, Lies & Lesbian Alibis →
Scoring My Publicist — Isla Wilde
Sage Morales, star striker for the New York Comets, is one viral breakup video away from losing the sponsorship that funds her family’s future. She needs a fake girlfriend to save her season, and she picks the publicist who wrote the rules against dating clients. Playing for Keeps’ publicist-in-the-spotlight dynamic, with the publicist as the love interest and the door wide open.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Fake Dating, Athlete/Publicist, Closeted Celebrity, Grumpy/Sunshine, One Bed, Slow Burn
Start reading Scoring My Publicist →
Lavender & Lore — Aurora North
Hannah Liu, a broke, anxious college grad stuck in a soul-crushing data-entry job, ducks into a queer bookstore to escape the rain and finds the first place that has ever felt like home, plus a boss who makes her forget her own name: Rowan “Ro” Martinez, the butch owner who walked away from a six-figure publishing career. For Fiancée Farce readers who loved Tansy’s bookshop.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Bi Awakening, Boss/Employee, Butch/Femme, Found Family, Slow Burn, Grumpy/Sunshine
Start reading Lavender & Lore →
Want the whole shelf? Our guide to sapphic fake-dating romance has more leases, rings and lies that turn real.
FAQ: Alexandria Bellefleur Reading Order
Do you need to read Alexandria Bellefleur’s books in order?
Only the Written in the Stars trilogy benefits from order, because the Seattle friend group carries through all three. Every other book is a standalone.
Which Alexandria Bellefleur book should I read first?
Written in the Stars. For a standalone sapphic start, The Fiancée Farce or The Devil She Knows.
Are all Alexandria Bellefleur books sapphic?
No. Written in the Stars, Count Your Lucky Stars, The Fiancée Farce and The Devil She Knows are FF; Hang the Moon and Truly, Madly, Deeply are MF; Playing for Keeps has one couple of each; Damned If I Do pairs a bisexual heroine with a male lead.
How spicy are Alexandria Bellefleur’s books?
Open door, around 🌶️🌶️🌶️, with the banter doing more work than the explicit detail. Our romance spice levels guide explains the scale; every Fractal Enigma pick above is Inferno.
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