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Series
The Alastair–Audley novels form a loose multigenerational sequence linking Georgian family drama with the Regency and the Battle of Waterloo. These Old Shades introduces Justin Alastair and Léonie, while Devil’s Cub follows the next generation through their son, Dominic.
Regency Buck shifts to Judith and Peregrine Taverner under the guardianship of Julian Audley, Earl of Worth. An Infamous Army reunites members of the connected families in Brussels during the Waterloo campaign, bringing the sequence into direct contact with major military events.
Reading order
Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon, purchases a red-haired street boy named Léon in Paris and discovers that the child is Léonie, a young woman whose appearance offers him a way to settle an old score with the Comte de Saint-Vire. He takes her into his household…
Dominic Alastair, Marquis of Vidal, has inherited his father’s arrogance and a reputation for violence. When he plans to elope with the impressionable Sophia Challoner, her practical elder sister Mary takes Sophia’s place in an attempt to stop the scandal. Vidal carries Mary to France before…
Judith and Peregrine Taverner travel to London after their father’s death and discover that their appointed guardian is Julian St John Audley, Earl of Worth, a man Judith has already found intolerably high-handed. Their entry into Regency society brings them into contact with fashionable clubs, Brighton…
In Brussels during the summer of 1815, Lady Barbara Childe attracts the attention of Colonel Charles Audley, an aide-de-camp on the Duke of Wellington’s staff. Their volatile courtship unfolds among balls, military preparations and a society attempting to remain fashionable while Napoleon advances from France. The…