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The Ravenels

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 and people connected to the earlier Wallflowers.

Set in Victorian Britain, the series treats romance alongside agricultural reform, consumer culture, medicine, engineering, shipping and women’s professional ambition. Inherited privilege is repeatedly tested against industrial wealth and practical skill, while family continuity links the changing social world of the Ravenels to Kleypas’s earlier characters.

Reading order

Books in this series (7 books)

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#1 – Cold-Hearted Rake

Lisa Kleypas

Devon Ravenel unexpectedly inherits an earldom, a failing estate and responsibility for his cousin’s widow and three younger sisters. He initially plans to sell what he can and escape, but Kathleen’s resistance and the needs of the household force him to reconsider what obligation and reform…

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#2 – Marrying Winterborne

Lisa Kleypas

Welsh department-store owner Rhys Winterborne believes his engagement to Lady Helen Ravenel has ended, but Helen takes the initiative to restore it. Their union is tested by a secret about her birth and by the social contempt directed at a self-made businessman seeking entry into aristocratic…

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#3 – Devil in Spring

Lisa Kleypas

Pandora Ravenel wants to build a business around the board game she has designed and has no intention of surrendering control of her life through marriage. A compromising accident with Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, creates intense pressure to wed, and the pair must decide whether their…

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#4 – Hello Stranger

Lisa Kleypas

Dr Garrett Gibson, England’s only licensed female physician, develops a dangerous relationship with Ethan Ransom, an investigator working through covert government channels. Their work draws them into political violence, surveillance and an attempted killing that turns professional respect into a fight for survival. Garrett was inspired…

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#5 – Devil’s Daughter

Lisa Kleypas

Phoebe, Lady Clare, arrives at a family wedding expecting to dislike West Ravenel, whom her late husband remembered as a cruel schoolboy. She instead meets a capable estate manager whose adult character conflicts with the story she has carried, while West doubts that a widowed aristocrat…

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#6 – Chasing Cassandra

Lisa Kleypas

Railway and engineering magnate Tom Severin approaches emotion as a problem that can be solved through acquisition and contract. His determination to marry Cassandra Ravenel forces him to recognize that affection cannot be negotiated like a business transaction and that his own moral limits are not…

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#7 – Devil in Disguise

Lisa Kleypas

Widowed businesswoman Merritt Sterling meets Scottish distiller Keir MacRae while managing the shipping enterprise left by her husband. Attempts on Keir’s life and the discovery of his concealed family history draw the pair into a conflict that reconnects the Ravenels with the Wallflowers. The novel centres…