Lauren Asher
Lauren Asher has published 11 books across 4 series. The recommended reading order starts with Collided (2020).
Lauren Asher is an American author who writes contemporary romance featuring flawed, relatable characters and the fictional worlds that frame their stories. She has published two series: Dirty Air and Dreamland Billionaires, both of which have appeared on multiple lists including the New York Times, USA Today, and the Sunday Times.
Asher describes herself as having an overactive imagination, which she channels into writing characters designed to win readers over despite their flaws. Her books take readers to places she dreams of visiting herself, blending aspiration with the emotional arcs her stories are built around. Outside of writing, she spends time on DIY projects, rewatching old episodes of Parks and Rec, and browsing Yelp for new restaurants before ultimately returning to her trusted favorites. She works best after her morning coffee and will never turn down a nap.
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Order of Dirty Air Books
- TagsfantasyDescriptionCollided is a romance about a woman whose naughty bucket list catches the attention of the one man she cannot afford to want. Sophie Mitchell works for a Formula 1 team, and Liam Zander drives for their biggest rival. Their friendship already defies her father, his boss, and the politics of the sport. When Liam discovers the list she created, he offers a deal: one season traveling the world together, crossing off every item. Sophie agrees to a bet instead, convinced she can keep him in the friend zone. Liam is Formula 1's golden boy, charming and unattainable, and a closet nerd who reads novels between races. He is also a threat to Sophie's resolve and a danger to his own contract renewal. The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to pretend friendship is enough. By the time Sophie realizes she has broken her own biggest rule, the friendship they built is already in pieces, and so is her heart.Publication dateMay 5, 2020Amazon rating4.2/5Print length438LanguageEnglishPublisherLauren Asher
- TagsromanceDescriptionThrottled is a Formula 1 romance about a woman who falls for her brother's biggest rival on the track. Maya Alatorre joins her sibling for the World Championship season with one rule: stay away from Noah Slade. Twenty-one races, two drivers who hate each other, and a forbidden attraction she promised to ignore. Noah is Formula 1 royalty, ruthless both on and off the track, and Maya's new obsession. Press tours and sponsor events throw them together. Sneaking around becomes inevitable. Then desire turns into something neither of them planned for — feelings that don't end when the cameras stop rolling. For Noah, no woman is worth risking the championship title over. For Maya, falling for the man her brother warned her about means choosing between family loyalty and the one person she can't stay away from. The season has an ending. Whether their relationship survives it is the question neither of them can answer.Publication dateJanuary 9, 2020Amazon rating4.2/5Print length376LanguageEnglishPublisherLauren Asher
- TagsromanceDescriptionWrecked is a Formula 1 romance about a driver spiraling into self-destruction and the woman hired to save his career. Jax Kingston numbs his pain with pills, alcohol, and adrenaline until one catastrophic mistake forces his team to act. Their solution is Elena Gonzalez, a public relations specialist desperate for money and tasked with keeping him in check for an entire race season. Jax turns their shared hotel suite into a battlefield, wielding cruelty and chaos to make her quit before the undeniable chemistry between them becomes something neither can ignore. Elena knows that to manage Jax, she has to find his weaknesses and exploit them. What she discovers is that she has become his biggest one. The attraction pulling them together is the same force that could destroy her future and whatever remains of his reputation. Love becomes a war zone where surrender means risking everything, and the question neither of them can answer is whether winning is worth the wreckage they leave behind.Publication dateSeptember 30, 2020Amazon rating4.3/5Print length440LanguageEnglishPublisherLauren Asher
- TagsromanceDescriptionSantiago Alatorre was Formula 1's most eligible driver until one mistake ended his career and turned him into a recluse. When Chloe Carter breaks into his house accusing him of stealing her phone, he decides not to have her arrested — he asks her to pretend to be his girlfriend instead. The arrangement could solve his family problems, and Chloe has her own reason to say yes: she just used an ancestry kit to find a long-lost father in Italy who happens to be Santiago's biggest fan. The catch is that she had no idea who Santiago was when she agreed to the ruse, so now she has to keep pretending. Redeemed is a romance that follows their fake relationship as it shifts into something neither of them planned. Santiago is falling for a woman who hates liars, and he happens to be the biggest one of all. Chloe promised herself she wouldn't fall in love with him. The question is whether either of them can stop what they started, or whether the lie between them will undo everything.Publication dateJanuary 27, 2021Amazon rating4.5/5Print length480LanguageEnglishPublisherLauren Asher
Order of Dreamland Billionaires Books
- TagsromanceDescriptionZahra sends a drunk email tearing apart the most expensive ride at Dreamland theme park and expects to be fired. Instead, Rowan Kane, the billionaire heir who needs to renovate Dreamland to claim his inheritance, offers her the job of a lifetime. The Fine Print is a workplace romance about what happens when the grumpy boss who hired her becomes impossible to ignore. Rowan is difficult, off-limits, and building an empire out of fairy tales — theme parks, hotels, production companies. Zahra is supposed to help him transform Dreamland, not fall for him. Then he kisses her. Then he starts texting her under an alias, and she has no idea the messages are coming from the same man who makes her workdays miserable. By the time she discovers his secret, the lines between boss and something more have already blurred past repair. Now Zahra has to decide whether a billionaire who hides behind false identities and believes he ruins every happy ending can be trusted with her heart — or whether some things break too easily to be fixed with money, power, or even love.Publication dateJuly 4, 2021Amazon rating4.2/5Print length448LanguageEnglishPublisherLauren Asher
- TagsromanceDescriptionDeclan is set to inherit his family's media empire, but his grandfather's will has one condition: marriage and an heir. Terms and Conditions is a contemporary romance about what happens when his assistant Iris volunteers to solve the problem. The plan is transactional — move in, marry, have a baby, follow the rules they set to keep feelings out of it. Declan needs the CEO position. Iris needs whatever brought her to yes. The contract is clear, and breaking Iris's heart is a risk Declan already knows he carries. Then the performance starts to feel real. The more they act in love for the public, the harder it becomes to separate the terms of the deal from what is happening between them. Declan begins to care in ways the contract never accounted for. Iris finds herself tempted past every boundary they drew. The rules were never meant to be broken, but their fake relationship is bleeding into something neither of them planned for. Falling in love was never part of the deal — which means neither of them knows what happens when it does.Publication dateFebruary 21, 2022Amazon rating4.4/5Print length492LanguageEnglishPublisherBloom Books
- TagsromanceDescriptionFinal Offer is a second-chance romance in which Callahan Kane returns to the one place he swore never to go and finds the woman he left behind now standing in his way. His grandfather's will requires him to spend a summer at the family lake house before selling it — a condition that seemed straightforward until he arrives and discovers Lana Castillo living there. She also claims her name is on the deed. Lana was Callahan's childhood best friend and the only woman he ever loved. Six years ago, he broke her heart and promised never to return to Lake Wisteria. Now he is back, forced by inheritance terms to stay the summer in close quarters with the person he hurt most. Callahan is the Kane brother everyone whispers about — trust fund brat, washed-up athlete, high-functioning alcoholic — and no one knows the real him but her. The house cannot be sold unless they both agree, which means a summer together whether either of them wants it or not. Lana believed his promise that he would never come back. The question is whether proximity will reopen old wounds or whether two people who once knew each other better than anyone else can find a way forward from the wreckage Callahan left behind.Publication dateJanuary 31, 2023Amazon rating4.4/5Print length592LanguageEnglishPublisherBloom Books
Order of Lakefront Billionaires Books
- TagsromanceDescriptionLove Redesigned is a romance about two childhood rivals who agree to renovate a house together and discover that years of animosity have been hiding something else. Dahlia Muñoz returns to Lake Wisteria after a broken engagement, determined to avoid Julian Lopez, the billionaire she has considered an enemy since they were young. Julian plans to avoid her just as carefully — until his mother manipulates him into helping Dahlia recover her creative confidence so she will leave town faster. Then Julian makes Dahlia an offer she cannot refuse: renovate a historic property together and triple their profits. The temporary truce forces them into close quarters, and the tension between them shifts. What felt like hatred begins to reveal years of denied attraction and feelings neither of them wanted to name. Desire becomes impossible to ignore. The renovation has an endpoint, and so does their agreement, but the pull between them does not. Dahlia came home to heal from one broken engagement. Julian intended to speed her departure, not give her a reason to stay. The question neither of them planned for is whether what they are building together can outlast the project that brought them back into each other's lives.Publication dateNovember 7, 2023Amazon rating4.2/5Print length528LanguageEnglishPublisherBloom Books
- TagsromanceDescriptionLove Unwritten is a contemporary romance about a nanny and the billionaire single father she once crushed on in high school. Ellie Sinclair is an unemployed songwriter who takes a job teaching music to Rafael Lopez's son, and for eight months they keep their distance. Rafael is a workaholic still guarding his heart after divorce, and Ellie is careful not to admit she had feelings for him at Wisteria High. Then a fourteen-day vacation across two islands forces them into close quarters. Spending time together was inevitable, but the old attraction Ellie thought she had buried returns as lines blur between employer and employee. Rafael notices it too, though he swore after his divorce to protect his heart no matter the cost. Ellie faces a choice that could rewrite everything: being his son's nanny is safe, but wanting more from a man determined not to let anyone in sounds like the heartbreak song she will have to live instead of write.Publication dateJune 18, 2024Amazon rating4.2/5Print length626LanguageEnglish
- TagsromanceDescriptionLove Arranged is a fake relationship romance in which a mayoral candidate and the woman he has history with agree to a five-month arrangement that neither of them is prepared for. Lorenzo Vittori needs to improve his public image before the election, and Lily Muñoz needs someone powerful enough to save her shop from a threat she can't handle alone. When a dating app matches them despite a year of careful avoidance, they strike a deal: she helps him win, he protects her business. The plan has an expiration date and clear terms. Lily's family is already suspicious — her sister's boyfriend hates Lorenzo, her mother doesn't trust him — but she agrees because her livelihood depends on it. Lorenzo agrees because his political future does. Faking it in public is straightforward enough. The problem is what starts happening when no one is watching. Lily discovers quickly that she is terrible at pretending. Lorenzo, on the other hand, has spent so long performing that a real relationship may be beyond him. As the five months tick down and the lines between performance and feeling blur, the question becomes whether two people who entered an arrangement can find their way to something neither of them knows how to build.Publication dateAugust 19, 2025Amazon rating4.2/5Print length562LanguageEnglish
Order of Short Stories/Novellas
- TagsromanceDescriptionCatalina Martinez arrives in Lake Wisteria to serve as maid of honor at her sister's wedding — to her ex-boyfriend. The ceremony she can handle. The best man is another problem. Luke Darling is her ex's closest friend, which means he has always been off-limits, and she has spent years making sure their paths never cross. My December Darling is a Christmas romance about what happens when avoidance turns into something neither of them planned on. Luke has kept his distance from Catalina just as carefully, but wedding duties throw them together, and the more time he spends with her, the harder it becomes to remember why he stayed away. She is only in town until January. He wants her to stay, or at least to give him a chance before she leaves. Catalina knows all the reasons this is a bad idea — he is her ex's best friend, her time in Lake Wisteria has an expiration date, and letting herself want him means risking the one thing she has carefully avoided. But Luke is determined, and Christmas in a small town has a way of making the impossible feel within reach. The question is whether she will let herself fall before the season ends.Publication dateNovember 21, 2024Amazon rating4/5Print length252LanguageEnglish
Frequently Asked Questions about Lauren Asher
Lauren Asher's books are best enjoyed when read within their respective series. The recommended reading order begins with the Order of Dirty Air Books, followed by the Order of Dreamland Billionaires Books, and then the Order of Lakefront Billionaires Books. Within each series, the books are designed to be read in the order they were published. This allows readers to follow the character development and interconnected storylines as they unfold. Reading them in this sequence provides the most complete experience of Asher's interconnected narratives and character arcs.
A good starting point for Lauren Asher's books is with the first novel in the Order of Dirty Air series, Collided, published in 2020. This series introduces readers to her writing style and the types of contemporary romance stories she tells. Alternatively, many readers begin with the first book of the Order of Dreamland Billionaires, The Fine Print, which was published in 2021. Both series offer a strong introduction to her work and can be read independently of each other.
While many of Lauren Asher's books can be enjoyed as standalone novels, reading them within their series order is recommended for the best experience. The storylines and character relationships often carry over between books in a series, and following the publication order allows readers to appreciate the full development of these connections. However, each book does provide enough context for new readers to understand the plot without having read previous entries.
Lauren Asher writes both series and standalone novels. Her published works are organized into several distinct series, including the Order of Dirty Air Books, the Order of Dreamland Billionaires Books, and the Order of Lakefront Billionaires Books. Within these series, individual books often focus on different couples or storylines, allowing them to be read with a degree of independence. She has also written shorter works that may stand alone.
As of early 2024, Lauren Asher has written a total of 10 books. This includes four books in the Order of Dirty Air Books, three books in the Order of Dreamland Billionaires Books, and three books in the Order of Lakefront Billionaires Books. She also has a novella, My December Darling, published in 2024. This count reflects her novels published up to and including early 2024.
The first book Lauren Asher wrote was Collided, published in 2020. This novel is the first in her Order of Dirty Air Books series. It established her signature style of contemporary romance, often featuring strong character dynamics and engaging plots. Collided set the stage for the subsequent books in the series and introduced readers to the world she creates.
Lauren Asher's most recent book is Love Unwritten, published in 2024. This novel is part of her Order of Lakefront Billionaires series. It continues the themes and style readers have come to expect from her contemporary romance work, focusing on character relationships and romantic development. It follows the previous books in the Lakefront Billionaires series.
Lauren Asher primarily writes contemporary romance novels. Her books often feature strong romantic relationships, engaging plotlines, and relatable characters. She is known for creating interconnected series where characters from previous books may reappear. The settings and themes within her novels are generally focused on modern relationships and personal growth within those contexts.
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