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Series
The Wallflowers series follows four young women overlooked by fashionable society who form an alliance to help one another navigate the Victorian marriage market. Again the Magic supplies a class-crossing prequel; the four central novels trace Annabelle, Lillian, Evie and Daisy as friendship allows each to resist family…
The Hathaways series follows five unconventional siblings who unexpectedly inherit an aristocratic title and a neglected Hampshire estate. Each novel focuses on one family member’s relationship, but the household remains a continuous character: chaotic, loyal and repeatedly strengthened by people whom conventional Victorian society treats as outsiders. Estate…
The Ravenels series begins when Devon Ravenel unexpectedly inherits an earldom, a bankrupt estate and responsibility for a widowed cousin and three unmarried sisters. Later books follow the extended family into relationships with a department-store owner, a woman inventor, a female doctor, an estate manager, a railway magnate…
The Gamblers of Craven’s series centres on the social world surrounding Derek Craven’s London gaming club. Then Came You introduces reckless Lily Lawson and controlled aristocrat Alex Raiford; Dreaming of You brings country novelist Sara Fielding into Craven’s dangerous urban world and makes Derek the hero of his…
The Bow Street Runners series combines historical romance with crime and investigation in London before the creation of a modern metropolitan police force. Its heroes include an admired investigator, a renowned magistrate and a former crime lord forced into official service, each confronting a case that becomes inseparable…
The Vallerands series follows a powerful Louisiana family in a world of Creole society, imperial rivalry and danger at sea. When Strangers Marry begins with a protective marriage overshadowed by secrets and grief; Only with Your Love expands the family story into piracy, captivity and a disputed identity.…
The Capitol Theatre series follows actors, managers and aristocratic outsiders drawn into London’s commercial stage. Somewhere I’ll Find You concerns an actress hiding a secret marriage, while Because You’re Mine follows a young woman who seeks scandal as an escape from an arranged match. The novella I Will…
The Berkley–Falkner novels are Lisa Kleypas’s earliest connected historical romances, written in the expansive style of the late 1980s. They follow aristocratic families through pursuit, separation, damaged trust and eventual reconciliation, using Regency Europe as a setting for intense personal conflict. The sequence is less closely tied to…
The Stokehurst Family novels connect an English aristocratic household with Imperial Russian exile, secrecy and supernatural memory. Midnight Angel follows a Russian noblewoman hiding as a governess; Prince of Dreams develops the family story through a Russian prince whose relationship with Emma Stokehurst crosses ordinary boundaries of time…
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