Bachelor Arms books in order

Bachelor Arms is a romance series set around a Los Angeles apartment building with a colorful history, where the residents find love amid the building's longstanding legends and secrets.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Never a Bride 1995 JoAnn Ross Buy
2 For Richer or Poorer 1995 JoAnn Ross Buy
3 The Strong, Silent Type 1995 JoAnn Ross Buy
4 A Happily Unmarried Man 1995 JoAnn Ross Buy
5 Three Grooms And A Wedding 1995 JoAnn Ross Buy
6 Seduced and Betrayed 1995 JoAnn Ross Buy
7 Passion and Scandal 1995 JoAnn Ross Buy
8 Bachelor Husband 1995 JoAnn Ross Buy
9 Lovers and Strangers 2012 JoAnn Ross Buy

The Bachelor Arms series takes a shared-setting approach, using the apartment building itself as the constant thread while rotating through different characters’ stories. The building’s reputation and its rumored legends give the series a light sense of mystery underneath the romance.

With nine books published across nearly two decades, the series attracted contributions from multiple Harlequin authors alongside Ross, making it a collaborative project built around a single fictional address.


Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Bachelor Arms series?

There are nine books in the Bachelor Arms series, published between 1995 and 2012.

What is the first book in the Bachelor Arms series?

The first book in the Bachelor Arms series is Never a Bride, published in 1995.

What connects the books in the Bachelor Arms series?

All the books center on residents or people connected to the Bachelor Arms apartment building in Los Angeles, with the building’s history and a running legend threading through the stories.

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