Girl

About the Girl series

Girl is a four-book series of short, punchy contemporary romances, each centered on a different woman thrown into an unexpected, out-of-her-element situation -- a cross-country road trip, a chaotic escape, a Renaissance fair gone sideways -- opposite a hero who's equally in over his head. Lighter and more comedic than Bailey's family-saga series, Girl leans hard into fish-out-of-water premises and fast, breezy pacing, with each entry functioning as a self-contained romantic comedy rather than part of a serialized plot.

Published across 2018 and 2019, the four books (Getaway Girl, Runaway Girl, Renaissance Man, Halfway Girl) don't share characters or a fixed setting; the connective thread is tone and structure -- a 'girl' (or, in Renaissance Man's case, a hero) dropped into a wild scenario opposite a love interest who becomes the one steady thing in the chaos. It's a good entry point for readers who want Bailey's voice in a quicker, more comedic dose than her longer family sagas.

How to read this series

The four Girl books are unconnected standalones with no shared characters or timeline, so they can be read in any order; publication order (Getaway Girl, Runaway Girl, Renaissance Man, Halfway Girl) is listed here simply as the order they were released.