Start reading Sarah Sprinz with Dunbridge Academy – Anywhere if you want a Scottish boarding-school setting, What if we Drown for university life, or Infinity Falling – Mess Me Up for the pressures of a film production. Choose In unserem Universum sind wir unendlich when you specifically want a separate young-adult love story and are prepared for its publisher-described themes of illness and loss. There is no reason to assemble these books into one enormous compulsory reading list before choosing your first series.
The important complication is inside Dunbridge. Its original group now has four novels, while a later generation has three more. A shop’s fifth Dunbridge volume can therefore also be the first book of the spin-off. This guide separates those groups, keeps the German bibliography visible and explains which edition details actually change your next choice.
The main groups at a glance
The following is a map of the books published under Sarah Sprinz, rather than a chronological biography or a list of every format. English words on the German covers do not automatically indicate an English-language edition.
- Dunbridge Academy, original generation: Anywhere, Anyone, Anytime, Anymore.
- Dunbridge Academy, next generation: Wherever, Whoever, Whenever. These also appear as volumes five, six and seven in the broader German series.
- University of British Columbia, often called What If: What if we Drown, What if we Stay, What if we Trust.
- Infinity Falling: Mess Me Up, Change My Mind, Bring Me Home.
- Separate novel: In unserem Universum sind wir unendlich.
The German publisher’s Dunbridge hub explicitly distinguishes the two generations. That distinction matters more than matching cover decoration. Read the original Dunbridge group in the order shown if you want to meet its school community from the beginning; use Wherever as the clearly marked beginning of the newer group if that is the premise attracting you.
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Anywhere: the clearest introduction to the original Dunbridge
The publisher’s description of Anywhere, in German, introduces Emma, her search for her father and Henry at a Scottish boarding school. That is enough to identify its particular doorway: arrival in an unfamiliar institution, a personal reason to investigate it and a romantic attachment complicating that purpose.
Choose it over What if we Drown when the idea of entering a school community is the main attraction. Choose it over Mess Me Up when school routines interest you more than professional publicity. Those are choices about the kind of social environment you want to explore, not claims that one book is better written or emotionally easier than another.
Anywhere also makes sense for someone who remembers Dunbridge from recommendations but cannot remember a couple’s name. Begin with the actual opening volume rather than whichever attractive edition the shop displays first. A new cover, a sprayed edge or a recent paperback date does not make an earlier story a sequel.
The word academy can create the wrong expectation. This is a boarding-school entry point, not a promise of a university research mystery. If your main interest is adult campus life, the UBC group is a more direct place to compare premises. If your interest is the academic atmosphere itself, our dark academia and romance guide helps separate the appeal of the setting from the kind of plot you want inside it.
Anyone, Anytime and Anymore are different choices
Anyone focuses on Tori and Sinclair, with friendship and a school theatrical production in the publisher’s premise. The German book page identifies it as volume two. Its appeal is different from Emma’s arrival: you are considering an already established connection rather than two people meeting as strangers.
That makes Anyone worth putting on your list if your favourite romantic question is what happens when a familiar person becomes difficult to see merely as a friend. It does not justify relabelling the book an unrelated standalone. For a first visit to this community, Anywhere remains the more orderly introduction.
Anytime centres on Olive and Colin; its German publisher page places it third and introduces Olive after injuries disrupt her schooling. The reader decision here is whether you want a story beginning with the consequences of disruption. That is a stronger reason to save it for later than a simple rule that all titles beginning with Any must be read together.
Anymore, the fourth German volume, shifts attention to Grace and Gideon. Keep it after the first three for the original-generation route. Older descriptions that stop at a Dunbridge trilogy describe an earlier publishing configuration; they do not erase this fourth novel.
Avoid reading the later blurbs in exhaustive detail if you want earlier relationships to unfold without advance information. To choose the original route you need the sequence and its starting point, not every event that gives the next protagonist a problem.
Wherever starts the next generation, not a new translation of Anywhere
The Wherever book page, in German, calls it the spin-off opening and introduces academic rivals Scarlett and George. This offers a concrete alternative for readers whose interest is competition for achievement rather than arriving to search for family history.
There are two sensible Dunbridge plans. The broad plan starts with Anywhere, continues through Anymore, then moves to Wherever. The shorter generational plan starts with Wherever and continues with Whoever and Whenever. The publisher also presents Wherever as an entry for newcomers. The shorter plan is a choice to begin with the newer group, not a guarantee that you will encounter no references to the earlier books.
Whoever is the second spin-off novel, with Cleo and Alexander and a second-chance premise. Whenever is the third, introducing Elsa and Oscar through a rugby-related bargain. These distinctions help readers who remember a recommendation as “the academic rivals one,” “the reunion one” or “the rugby one.”
If you are drawn to the rugby premise, write Whenever on your future list but use Wherever as the start of that group. If competition over grades is the attraction, Wherever already supplies the relevant opening. If you have just finished Anymore and want another book with Grace as the central character, the shift in generation is worth noticing before continuing.
This also resolves a common counting problem. You do not need to find four missing spin-off novels before Wherever. Five refers to its position in the umbrella sequence; one refers to the new-generation subgroup. Both can describe the same German book correctly.
What If: choose university rather than boarding school
The UBC route is What if we Drown → What if we Stay → What if we Trust. Its official German series label is University of British Columbia. Keep both labels in a library search, since a catalogue may index the group under one and a recommendation may use the other.
The first novel’s publisher description introduces Laurie, medical study in Vancouver and Sam, against a background of bereavement. Pick this opening if the transition into university is more appealing than Dunbridge’s boarding-school world. Do not choose it solely because medicine sounds like a guarantee of procedural detail; a romance premise and a clinical textbook promise different things.
The second volume gives Amber and Emmett a shared architectural project. That is useful differentiation within the series: What If is not simply three copies of a medical-school premise. Someone interested in collaboration, conflicting ambitions and work shaped by family expectations has a concrete reason to note this title.
The third volume introduces Hope’s fan fiction and Scott in a premise involving a masked singer. For a reader fascinated by writing, fandom and the boundary between public and private identity, this is the volume to remember. It belongs to the UBC group even though its hook might initially sound closer to Infinity Falling’s entertainment setting.
For a first encounter with What If, follow the numbered route. If only Hope’s premise appeals, distinguish that personal preference from a verified claim that the third book requires no earlier context. A useful book choice does not need an exaggerated promise of total independence. You can reserve the later title and sample the opening volume before deciding whether the wider group interests you.
Infinity Falling: actors, managers and public image
The sequence is Mess Me Up → Change My Mind → Bring Me Home. Infinity Falling names the fictional production as well as the series. This route takes you to a film-production world rather than the school community introduced by Dunbridge.
The German opening-volume page introduces actress Aven and former boy-band member Hayes during a Vancouver film shoot. Choose this route when you want romance negotiated around visibility and work rather than classes and school standing. Its entertainment setting gives you a clear reason to select it without requiring a claim about how glamorous or relaxing the actual reading will feel.
In Change My Mind, Holly and Ruben are rival managers. That changes the professional position from which you approach the same production world. If career competition is the attraction, make a note of volume two; starting with Mess Me Up still gives the orderly series introduction.
Bring Me Home pairs actress Megan and doctor Cole in a fake-relationship premise. The useful comparison with What If is the question you want foregrounded: university transition or public presentation of a relationship. Vancouver and medical characters create reasons to notice similarities, but neither fact by itself establishes a compulsory cross-series reading order.
There is a real connection to consider: the publisher’s German sample of Bring Me Home includes Laurie, Sam, Scott and Amber from What If. If preserving their earlier introductions matters to you, choose the three What If books before the three Infinity books. That is a recommendation for protecting discoveries across the Canadian groups, not proof that Aven’s opening requires the entire earlier trilogy. Avoid browsing the later sample if you want to keep those earlier relationships unfamiliar.
The standalone requires a different expectation
In unserem Universum sind wir unendlich sits outside the three series listed above. The Thienemann description, in German, presents Ansel and Emil, a love story involving incurable illness and a road trip. Those are publisher-disclosed themes, not a diagnosis inferred by this guide or a report of having read the full novel.
Choose this book because you want that specific separate story. Do not choose it merely because standalone sounds like the easiest emotional commitment. A single volume can suit a limited reading schedule while still being the wrong subject for the week you are having. Narrative length and emotional suitability answer different questions.
For someone wanting to try Sprinz without keeping track of a school community, it is the distinct alternative in this map. For someone seeking the social continuity that makes a series attractive, the same independence may be a disadvantage. The right comparison is not one book versus seven; it is a self-contained selection versus returning to a setting across several focal relationships.
This guide does not assign an ending category to the series romances or a heat rating to any title. If either determines your choice, check edition-specific publisher information before committing. The standalone’s openly stated subject deserves more attention than a vague recommendation that all the author’s books deliver the same feeling.
English and translated editions: match the story before the cover
English readers can use the official English Dunbridge series page. Its author credit and translation credit are separate: Rachel Ward is credited as translator on the listed editions, not as a second novelist. English edition schedules should not be inferred from the longer German list.
Other verified starting labels illustrate why a title map helps. Portugal’s Presença publishes Anywhere under that name; this confirms a Portuguese edition, not a Brazilian edition. Spain’s Planeta uses Anywhere: Donde estés tú, Anyone: Nadie como tú and Anytime: Siempre fuiste tú. TEA’s Italian catalogue uses Anywhere. Ovunque tu sia, Anyone. Chiunque tu sia and Anytime. Quando tu vorrai. Hachette’s French listings identify the first two Dunbridge books by volume and by Emma & Henry or Tori & Sinclair; Dans notre univers, nous sommes infinis identifies the separate novel.
These are examples of verified edition names, not a declaration that every book in this guide exists in every language. An English-looking German title and a translated edition can share almost all their cover wording. Check the actual language field and translator, then confirm the protagonist or volume number. That prevents buying the same story twice under different packaging.
Sarah Sprinz’s official FAQ, in German, also confirms that she previously published as Sarah Heine. Treat that as an author-name distinction. This guide’s main sequence covers the Sprinz-named groups above; it does not merge earlier pseudonymous editions into Dunbridge or claim to catalogue every historical reissue.
Three practical first-book decisions
Consider three hypothetical readers. One wants a Scottish school and would rather explore a community from its first introduction. Their next title is Anywhere; the next decision comes after that book, not after purchasing all seven. A second wants academic competition and is specifically interested in the newer cast. Their plan is Wherever, Whoever, Whenever, with the understanding that this is the next-generation route.
A third reader wants celebrity careers and has no interest in boarding school. Their opening is Mess Me Up. The fact that Dunbridge is more prominent in recommendations does not make it a prerequisite for enjoying a film-set premise. If that same reader prefers student life after comparing descriptions, What if we Drown supplies a different opening without requiring them to alternate series.
For a more general explanation of these choices, use our romance series reading-order guide. Here, the practical answer remains book-specific: select the setting, select the correct group, then select its opening edition. Once you know whether you want a school, university, film production or separate love story, you have enough information to begin.
For other authors after this choice, browse Alisson Bento’s romance catalogue. It is a separate catalogue, not a stock list for Sarah Sprinz. Keep your next Sprinz title beside its series name so your reading plan survives a change of cover, language or shop display.
