Books
Find your next read
Explore Cadence Keys’ contemporary romance by the world you want to visit or the relationship you want to root for. These are optional starting points; the numbered series lists below show each series’ order.
Choose a story
Football and found family
Start with In the Grasp for a second chance between childhood best friends in LA Wolves Football, or Defending the Backfield for a protective hero and a woman on the run in LA Wolves Defense.
For a curvy heroine, a longtime crush and her brother’s best friend as a roommate, try Taking the Handoff.
Campus hockey and close quarters
Campus Crush pairs a tutor and a hockey player with an online friendship and a secret identity. In Campus Rival, Harper’s music house is next door to Drew’s hockey house at CFU; a shared psychology project brings the rivals closer still.
Campus Fake brings friends, roommates and fake dating together. Check its book page for preorder and edition-specific release details.
Friends, frenemies and second chances
After the Snap offers best friends and fake dating. Down by Contact follows Nikki and Matt’s frenemies-with-benefits arrangement, complicated by work and her father being the head coach.
For a standalone small-town romance, One Weekend in Montana reunites Maggie with her brother’s best friend, Cody, after his military service.
Rockstars and forbidden attraction
Noble Intent begins Rapturous Intent with childhood friends and a brother’s best friend. Forbidden Intent follows an age-gap romance between a rockstar and his producer’s daughter.
Prefer a novella? Breaking the Rules contains three: Only a Kiss, Just for Tonight and About Last Night.
A second chance off the field
Scorched Turf pairs firefighter Daniel McKay with football coach Alison Fairbright. It is an unnumbered LA Wolves Defense companion novella and is temporarily unavailable.
A new football world on the horizon
Wreck My Plans introduces Montana Thunder Football: team owner Vivienne Gordon discovers her vacation hookup, Tanner Russell, is her new head coach. Upcoming in 2027; its page carries the current release information.
Books and reading order
LA Wolves Football and LA Wolves Defense are separate numbered series in the same football world. Use the order within each list; you do not need to finish one entire series before starting another.
LA Wolves Football
The original LA Wolves Football series, beginning with In the Grasp.
LA Wolves Defense
A separate LA Wolves series, beginning with Defending the Backfield. Scorched Turf sits outside the numbered order as a companion novella.
Unnumbered companion
Temporarily unavailable.
CFU Hockey
College hockey romance at CFU, beginning with Campus Crush. Campus Fake has edition-specific preorder and release details.
- Campus Crush
- Campus Rival
- Campus Secret
- Campus Fake
Available now in the direct store via BookFunnel. Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, and wide audiobook release October 15, 2026.
Rapturous Intent Rockstars
Rockstar romance, beginning with Noble Intent.
Breaking the Rules
Three novellas in series order: Only a Kiss, Just for Tonight and About Last Night.
Montana Thunder Football
A new football series beginning with Wreck My Plans, upcoming in 2027.
- Wreck My Plans
Upcoming.
Standalone books
Connected worlds, optional paths
Family ties, friendships and familiar faces connect these stories. Follow a connection if it interests you; these links are not a mandatory chronological reading order.
- In Wreck My Plans, Tanner Russell is Ty’s brother from Closing the Distance, and Vivienne Gordon is Gordy’s sister from Campus Fake. These ties connect Montana Thunder Football with LA Wolves Defense and CFU Hockey.
- One Weekend in Montana is a standalone romance with connections to CFU and to Connor from Just for Tonight. Cody and Connor served in the Army together.
- Jenna in Just for Tonight is Travis’s daughter and Sadie’s best friend from Only a Kiss. You can meet her there before following her own romance.
- Will from Across the Middle is Becka’s brother and Trent’s friend in Noble Intent; their stories have overlapping moments. Emma from Taking the Handoff opens for Rapturous Intent, connecting the football and rockstar worlds.
More confirmed connections and the accompanying graphics appear further down this page.
Reader questions
Where should I start?
Choose a relationship setup above or begin with the first title in a series list. For a small-town story outside a numbered series, choose One Weekend in Montana. These are preference-based starting points, not a required route through every book.
What is the reading order?
The numbered lists above show the approved order within each series. LA Wolves Football starts with In the Grasp; LA Wolves Defense starts with Defending the Backfield. Scorched Turf is an unnumbered Defense companion. Breaking the Rules is a series of three novellas.
Can I choose a standalone or read across series?
One Weekend in Montana is a standalone. Many individual book pages also identify their central romance as a standalone within a connected series. Follow those title-specific notes; a cameo or family connection does not mean you must read an unrelated series first.
Where can I find ebooks, print books and audiobooks?
Open a book page for its available formats and approved buying links. Direct-store offers and retailer editions are listed separately. Check the edition’s status before ordering: an audiobook or ebook may be a preorder even when another edition is available. Scorched Turf is temporarily unavailable and Wreck My Plans is upcoming.
Are the ebooks in Kindle Unlimited?
Use the Kindle Unlimited information on each book page. Published KU ebooks, upcoming titles and temporarily unavailable editions have different statuses; a preorder does not mean you can read that edition now.
Are Spotify playlists the same as audiobooks?
No. “Book playlist on Spotify” means music inspired by the story. “Audiobook on Spotify” means the narrated book. Cadence creates music playlists for her books. Visit the series hubs for saved playlists; the CFU Hockey hub has four separately labeled music playlists and Spotify audiobook links, with Campus Fake’s release status. A Spotify audiobook link does not promise subscription inclusion.
Where are content advisories?
Look for title-specific content warnings in the book description and on its series hub before choosing a story. For example, the Rapturous Intent hub includes warnings for its stories. Advisories can contain spoilers.