Sherry Thomas Books in Order
Explore Sherry Thomas books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and easy suggestions on where to start across romance, fantasy, and mystery.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
29 books
Delicious
by Sherry Thomas
2008
Chef Verity Durant has built a life around her talent, until the estate changes hands and brings Stuart Somerset back into her orbit. Food, class, and a decade-old connection turn this romance into something rich, tender, and complicated.
Private Arrangements
by Sherry Thomas
2008
Gigi Rowland wants freedom from her estranged husband, Camden, but he returns with a shocking price for granting it. Their polished separation quickly turns into a bruising second chance full of secrets, pride, and unfinished desire.
Not Quite a Husband
by Sherry Thomas
2009
Doctor Bryony Asquith is working on the North-West Frontier of British India when Leo Marsden, the husband she left behind, comes to fetch her home. A dangerous journey forces them to face a broken marriage neither has truly escaped.
His at Night
by Sherry Thomas
2010
Elissande Edgerton needs a husband to escape her tyrannical uncle, and Lord Vere looks like the perfect fool to trap. He is anything but foolish, and their marriage of convenience becomes a battle of secrets, strategy, and desire.
Beguiling the Beauty
by Sherry Thomas
2012
When the Duke of Lexington falls for a mysterious baroness on an ocean liner, he has no idea she is really Venetia Easterbrook in disguise. What begins as a calculated deception turns into a dangerous, deeply personal romance.
Ravishing the Heiress
by Sherry Thomas
2012
Millie and Fitz enter an arranged marriage with clear rules and no promise of love. Eight years of friendship, loyalty, and buried feeling make those rules harder and harder to keep, especially when Fitz's first love returns.
Tempting the Bride
by Sherry Thomas
2012
After a terrible accident leaves Helena Fitzhugh with gaps in her memory, she sees Viscount Hastings in a startling new light. For a man she once mistrusted, it is one dangerous chance to win the woman he has long wanted.
The Bride of Larkspear
by Sherry Thomas
2012
This playful, very steamy novella is the scandalous story Lord Hastings writes for Helena Fitzhugh. It follows a proud bride and the husband determined to turn their battle of wills into something much more intimate.
A Dance in Moonlight
by Sherry Thomas
2013
Widow Isabelle Englewood meets a man who looks uncannily like the love she lost, and grief pushes her into a reckless bargain. What follows is a short, bittersweet romance about longing, projection, and the possibility of beginning again.
The Burning Sky
by Sherry Thomas
2013
Iolanthe Seabourne learns she may be the elemental mage destined to defeat the Bane, the greatest tyrant in the magical world. Prince Titus vows to protect her, even as love threatens to wreck his carefully laid plans.
The Luckiest Lady in London
by Sherry Thomas
2013
Felix Rivendale looks like the perfect gentleman, but Louisa Cantwell sees the danger behind the polish. Their sparkling courtship becomes a tense game of seduction, self-protection, and dark truths neither can easily control.
Claiming the Duchess
by Sherry Thomas
2014
Widowed Duchess Clarissa treasures two attachments, a quiet man she loves and a female correspondent she has never met. When both are about to arrive under her roof, she discovers neither relationship is what she imagined.
My Beautiful Enemy
by Sherry Thomas
2014
Catherine Blade has finally found a chance at independence when the one man she has loved and never forgiven reenters her life. Betrayal, buried history, and dangerous secrets pull her and Leighton into the same fight.
The Hidden Blade
by Sherry Thomas
2014
In late imperial China, a girl discovers her scandalous parentage and is offered a path into martial arts and self-possession. In England, a boy is torn from safety and forced to survive cruelty, as their fates move steadily toward collision.
The Perilous Sea
by Sherry Thomas
2014
Separated, hunted, and shaken by memory loss, Iolanthe and Titus are forced onto even more dangerous ground. The war against Atlantis grows wider, and prophecy begins to look less like guidance than a trap.
The Immortal Heights
by Sherry Thomas
2015
With the Bane closing in and Atlantis tightening its grip, Iolanthe and Titus decide to stop running and strike back. The final book turns the trilogy into an all-out battle of love, prophecy, and impossible odds.
The One in My Heart
by Sherry Thomas
2015
Evangeline Canterbury and Bennett Somerset begin with an unexpectedly tender one-night stand, then slide into a fake relationship for reasons neither fully trusts. It is a contemporary romance about fear, vulnerability, and very persuasive chemistry.
A Study in Scarlet Women
by Sherry Thomas
2016
When a string of deaths throws suspicion on her father and sister, Charlotte Holmes decides to investigate herself. To do it, she creates a male consulting detective named Sherlock Holmes and steps into a far riskier life.
A Conspiracy in Belgravia
by Sherry Thomas
2017
Charlotte Holmes is settling into her work as Sherlock Holmes when Lady Ingram asks her to find a missing man who turns out to be Charlotte's own half brother. The case grows deadlier, stranger, and much more personal.
The Heart Is a Universe
by Sherry Thomas
2017
Vitalis is the current Chosen One on Pax Cara, marked for sacrifice and desperate to escape her fate. Then Prince Eleian offers marriage, and a girl with only days left to live must decide whether hope is worth the risk.
The Hollow of Fear
by Sherry Thomas
2018
When Lady Ingram is found dead and all signs point to Lord Ingram, Charlotte Holmes has to investigate from the shadows. The case cuts painfully close to home and forces her to risk more than she wants to admit.
The Art of Theft
by Sherry Thomas
2019
Charlotte Holmes does not steal art for a living, but as Sherlock Holmes she may have to stage a daring theft to recover the secrets hidden behind a famous painting. A French chateau and a glittering holiday gathering make perfect cover.
The Magnolia Sword
by Sherry Thomas
2019
Mulan has trained all her life for a family duel, but war arrives before that reckoning can come. Disguised as a man, she joins the army, enters an elite unit, and finds herself caught between loyalty, danger, and a princeling with secrets.
Murder on Cold Street
by Sherry Thomas
2020
Inspector Treadles is found locked in a room with two dead men, and the evidence looks terrible. Charlotte Holmes has to untangle a knot of lies, industry, marriage, and motive before her friend is lost to the gallows.
Miss Moriarty, I Presume?
by Sherry Thomas
2021
Charlotte Holmes gets the least welcome client imaginable when Moriarty asks her to find his missing daughter. The search leads into an isolated community full of occult talk, hidden motives, and traps within traps.
A Tempest at Sea
by Sherry Thomas
2023
Hiding after faking her own death, Charlotte boards the RMS Provence to retrieve a crucial dossier. Then a murder during a violent storm threatens both the mission and her secret identity as Sherlock Holmes.
A Ruse of Shadows
by Sherry Thomas
2024
Charlotte Holmes is used to solving murders, not being blamed for one. When suspicion turns on her, she must outthink the investigation while protecting everyone tied to the Sherlock Holmes facade.
The Librarians
by Sherry Thomas
2025
Four librarians at a small Austin branch are trying to keep their private troubles private when two patrons die after a murder mystery game night. To save their refuge, they have to trust one another and face what they have been hiding.
The Vanished Sister
by Sherry Thomas
2026
A request from Mrs. Watson's estranged sister draws Charlotte Holmes into a country house mystery by the sea. Then the woman disappears, a body turns up in the Bristol Channel, and family history becomes part of the case.
Where should I start?
If you want a very quick sample: Claiming the Duchess
If you want one standout historical romance first: The Luckiest Lady in London
If you want a connected historical romance run: Beguiling the Beauty → Ravishing the Heiress → Tempting the Bride
If you want mystery first: A Study in Scarlet Women → A Conspiracy in Belgravia → The Hollow of Fear
If you want fantasy or martial-arts adventure: The Burning Sky → The Perilous Sea → The Immortal Heights or The Hidden Blade → My Beautiful Enemy
Author bio
Sherry Thomas was born in Qingdao, China, and grew up there with her family before moving to the United States at thirteen. That move changed the language of her life, but not her appetite for stories. English was new territory, and she learned it the hard way, by reading widely and stubbornly until the words stuck.
Romance novels helped. So did science fiction. One of the books she has talked about reading with an English-Chinese dictionary by her side was Sweet Savage Love, which tells you something about both her determination and her taste for big feelings. Long before she published anything herself, she was already teaching herself how stories worked, sentence by sentence.
She later earned a degree in economics from Louisiana State University and a master's degree in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. Writing was not the obvious career plan at first. In 1998, as a young stay-at-home mother, she read a novel she disliked so much that she decided she ought to try writing one herself.
That impulse did not turn into instant success. She spent years learning on the page and wrote five manuscripts over seven years before finally selling a book. The novel that made the breakthrough was Private Arrangements, first sold in 2006 and published in 2008. It was followed the same year by Delicious, and readers quickly noticed what Thomas was especially good at: messy hearts, sharp intelligence, and people who want love but make it very hard on themselves.
A few books later, she had built a historical romance backlist that readers still pass from hand to hand. Not Quite a Husband and His at Night both won RITA Awards for best historical romance. Ravishing the Heiress became a favorite for readers who love a marriage of convenience that slowly turns into something much deeper. And The Luckiest Lady in London showed how much fun she could have with glittering surfaces and the darker truths hiding underneath.
Then she widened the map.
Thomas moved into young adult fantasy with The Burning Sky, a trilogy that mixes magic, danger, and a fierce romantic thread. She reinvented Sherlock Holmes as Charlotte Holmes in A Study in Scarlet Women, kicking off the Lady Sherlock mysteries, which blend Victorian detective plots with a sly, emotionally rich cast. And with The Magnolia Sword, her retelling of Mulan, she brought her love of history and martial arts storytelling together in a book that feels swift, sharp, and deeply rooted in character.
Across genres, some things stay the same. She likes clever women, hidden identities, impossible choices, second chances, and relationships shaped by secrecy, loyalty, and pride. Even when the setting shifts from drawing rooms to magical realms to crime scenes, her books tend to ask the same useful question: what happens when someone can no longer live behind the role the world handed them?
She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and sons. When she isn't writing, she has said she likes reading and playing computer games with her kids. It fits. Her books have range, but they also have the feel of someone following curiosity wherever it leads, then building a story strong enough to carry the rest of us along.
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