Mary Kingswood Books in Order

After her father's death, Amy must marry first if any of her sisters are to receive their dowries. Faced with several possible suitors, she has to decide what she wants now that his rigid rules no longer guide her.

Plain, practical Belle hopes to solve everything sensibly by marrying a cousin who values her dowry. Friendship, poetry, and a gentler kind of courtship soon upset the tidy future she had planned.

Fresh from her father's oppressive rule, Connie wants admiration without surrendering her freedom. She sets out to make the perfect man fall in love, only to discover that managing real feeling is far harder than flirting.

Sharp-tongued Dulcie swaps places with a neighbor's ailing sister and ends up running a humble cottage instead of enjoying life at the hall. Hard work and wounded pride teach her more about honesty, humility, and love than she ever expected.

Mary Allamont had settled into spinsterhood until family scandal and a returned stepmother upset everything. An unexpected proposal offers escape, but it also brings fresh duties and the risk of loving the wrong life.

Grace is tired of quiet days, dull suitors, and the cramped life expected of women. Longing for something more exciting than tapestry and polite calls, she finds herself facing change sooner than she imagined.

Hope does not want to marry, but the final clause of her father's will leaves Allamont Hall in danger. To save her home, she may have to wed her cousin Hugo and give up the dream of being loved for herself.

Humphrey needs an heiress to fund his dream of opening a gaming house, and Hortensia Blythe seems ideal. The problem is that her lively, penniless companion is the one he actually wants, and desire is bad for business.

Pleasure-loving Reggie Marford sets out to court a rich heiress and rescue his extravagant way of life. When charm and title are not enough, he must decide whether he wants the money, the lady, or the better man he might become.

Horse-mad Gus Marford travels north on business and finds himself caught in a duke's family complications instead of enjoying a quiet commission. A demure widow with a hidden past proves far more unsettling than any stud horse.

Disgraced, wounded, and furious, Gilbert Marford is sent home from the Hussars and promptly tries to escape. A snowstorm lands him unconscious at a country physician's house, where practical Genista Hamilton changes everything.

Kind-hearted clergyman Monty offers marriage to a bedraggled young woman who appears to call in an old debt. Melissa is hiding a dangerous truth, and their hasty bargain may save them both or ruin them utterly.

Rosamund Winterton's fiance dies days before the wedding, and his younger brother suddenly seems her only practical escape. Their uneasy marriage begins under suspicion, with the dead man's fate threatening any chance of happiness.

Young widow Lucy takes a post guiding two quarrelsome girls through society and quickly discovers their household is far from peaceful. Her curiosity draws charming Leo Audley into family secrets, disappearances, and the threat of murder.

Quiet Margaret Winterton goes to Cornwall as companion and helper to elderly relations, only to be caught up in a troubling will and fierce inheritance dispute. A patient young curate offers kindness, but old secrets make everything harder.

Penniless Annabelle Winterton becomes governess to a widowed earl's daughters and finds herself in a house full of grief, rebellion, and suspicion. When her past resurfaces, she must decide whether love is worth the risk.

Clever Annie Dresden finally accepts the long-ago suitor who returns wealthy after the shipwreck. Marriage should secure her future, but her husband's controlling ways and hidden secrets make home feel unexpectedly perilous.

When the brig Minerva goes down, a young clerk sees the chance of a very different future. This prequel novella sets in motion the shipwreck, losses, and surprising inheritances that shape the whole series.

This prequel novella introduces the wider family circle before the Marford brothers take center stage. It sets up the inheritance links, ambitions, and romantic complications that echo through the whole series.

Caroline Milburn and her sisters are lifted from near poverty when an unknown grandfather leaves them a cottage after the Minerva disaster. New comfort brings prying neighbors, buried money, and a duty-bound gentleman who expects obedience.

Fanny Winterton dreams of overwhelming romance while earning her living as a seamstress. Ferdinand Makenham falls fast, but winning Fanny is complicated by her ideals and a mysterious death that pulls them both into danger.

After her brutal husband dies aboard the Minerva, Nell Caldicott is left with freedom and a maze of unanswered questions. A search for her late husband's true identity draws her toward both danger and a second chance.

Ten years after the sisters lost Woodside, the past returns through a young man who cannot move forward without looking back. The final book uncovers the darkest Winterton family secrets and brings the long-running mysteries home.

Widow Louisa Middlehope rents the long-empty Dower House to escape her in-laws and start again. A hidden body in the wine cellar, and an unexpected bond with widower Laurence Gage, quickly make her quiet new life far more complicated.

A handsome new parson arrives in Great Maeswood and sets more than one heart fluttering, especially Cass Saxby's. Then tragedy strikes the Saxby family, and romance is pushed aside by grief, disorder, and an uncertain inheritance.

Lord Randolph Litherholm inherits a dukedom, and the arranged bride meant for his dead twin. Ruth Grenaby has been raised to obey, but grief, duty, and the final revelations of the series force both of them to choose their own future.

Evie Parfitt tries to protect an orphaned heiress who, after the Minerva sinking, chooses a notorious rake as her guardian. Eliot Armitage treats it as a game until Evie challenges him to prove he is worth trusting.

After a merchant dies in the Minerva sinking, governess and art teacher Felicia must deliver his two daughters to their guardian. The reclusive man who takes them in has wounds of his own, and the household hides more than one mystery.

Deborah Hollingsworth comes to Great Maeswood hoping to start a school and secure her future. Reclusive widower David Exton has secrets of his own, and their quiet acquaintance leads back to older crimes that were never fully buried.

Malcolm Gage returns to Great Maeswood after sixteen years to satisfy a peculiar will and tutor his gifted nephew. Reconciliation proves difficult, and the mysterious lady's maid who fascinates him is hiding a dangerous truth.

A destitute man arrives to seek help from his cousin and offers to untangle the estate accounts in return. What begins as an act of dependence turns into a search for the truth behind some very suspicious goings-on.

Susannah Winslade keeps her chaotic family going while drifting toward spinsterhood in Great Maeswood. The arrival of physician Samuel Broughton brings hope, attraction, and alarming questions about what is really happening at his surgery.

Lucinda Willerton-Forbes discovers anonymous love tokens appearing in her locked room during a family celebration. Captain Michael Edgerton means only to protect her, but the mystery draws them into a romance neither expected.

Will Fletcher wants to pass as a gentleman and break into London society, but sharp-eyed Eloise Whittleton sees through every pose. Their season turns into a lively clash of pride, class, and reluctant attraction.

Mischievous Angie Fletcher thinks one small prank in Bath will do no harm. Instead she tangles with precise, principled Mr B Appleby and sets off a chain of misunderstandings, anonymous letters, and unexpectedly serious feeling.

As the wealthy Fletcher family settles into its new estate, clumsy, outdoorsy Julia Fletcher catches the eye of local rector James Plummer. Class resentment, gossip, and Julia's fierce dislike of marriage make their courtship anything but simple.

Cameron learns he is the new Baron Saxby and is pulled from Edinburgh into the uneasy world of Maeswood Hall. Among resentful relatives and lingering suspicions around the last baron's death, practical Cass becomes impossible to ignore.

Wealthy widower Harry Fletcher has no wish to remarry or turn himself into a gentleman landowner. Poor widow Lizzie Haygarth thinks otherwise, but winning Harry means convincing his whole family as well.

Michael Plummer finally gets a second chance with the woman he once loved when his family needed an heiress instead. At a Christmas gathering, old mistakes, half-buried truths, and a planned betrothal force several hearts into the open.

An ill-tempered spinster and an even pricklier bachelor find themselves thrown together just when both seem to have run out of useful roles. Their uneasy alliance becomes a late-in-life romance complicated by family history and old resentments.

Cambridge scholar Johnny Fletcher wants books, not marriage, until a house-party scandal links him to widowed Lady Jemima Corsfield. Gossip, custody pressures, and real feeling soon turn a quiet visit into a very public tangle.

One woman in the Rennington circle is left isolated and furious by the family scandal unleashed after the chaplain's murder. Trying to choose a different path means confronting old hurts, stubborn pride, and dangerous truths.

With the Atherton family thrown into chaos, scholarly Bertram suddenly finds expectation pressing hard on him. House-party intrigue, social ambition, and the lingering murder case force both him and his would-be bride to rethink their plans.

Walter Atherton is about to inherit an earldom and marry well when the murder of the family chaplain proves his parents were never legally wed. Stripped of his future, he must find a new purpose and decide whom he can truly love.

Olivia Atherton refuses to let scandal, mourning, and illegitimacy end her long-delayed hopes for society. As she pushes for the future she wants, the family's murder mystery and tangled fortunes finally come to a head.

Kent Atherton wants a life built around machinery and useful work, not a gentleman's idleness. Orphaned Katherine Parish enters his world from a very different one, and their growing closeness is tested by shocking discoveries and divided loyalties.

Tess Nicholson has spent too long neglected and waiting on other people's choices. After her father's murder throws everything open, she begins making plans of her own, where secrecy, desire, and family scandal are tightly knotted.

Sophia Merrington hates life at Staineybank, while struggling architect Simon Payne arrives there on a commission nobody seems to have sent. Their unexpected meeting opens a romance and deepens the mystery of the household's unexplained invitations.

Another unexpected arrival unsettles Staineybank as the duke's new gardener enters a house already full of strangers, family strain, and unanswered questions. The larger mystery moves on while a fresh romance takes root.

Quiet Richard Merrington is summoned to become the Duke of Brinshire's heir and finds his whole family uprooted overnight. The equally mysterious arrival of Rowena Holt hints that Staineybank's past is far from settled.

An ambitious painter arrives at Staineybank and walks straight into a household already crowded with secrets. Between the duke's secretary, a widowed companion, and yet another unexplained summons, art becomes part of the larger puzzle.