Tessa Dare Books in Order

Bookish Nicola, daughter of an eccentric scholar, once jokingly agreed to marry the future Duke of Westleigh if they were still single in ten years. When the duke returns intent on enforcing their bargain, stubborn banter, clashing plans, and inconvenient longing complicate every wedding arrangement.

At a glittering Christmas Eve ball, mischievous Chloe Garland humiliates her stiff, disapproving neighbor by luring him into a gaudy holiday waistcoat. Lord Cheverell's icy control hides a simmering attraction, and his chosen punishment for her prank is one unforgettable kiss.

Animal mad Lady Penelope Campion refuses to give up the motley menagerie she shelters in her London townhouse. Her ruthless new neighbor, self made Gabriel Duke, agrees to help re home her creatures so he can sell his property, only to find himself tamed instead.

Clock setter Alexandra Mountbatten accidentally becomes governess to two unruly orphans under the care of pleasure seeking heir Chase Reynaud. Teaching lessons between mock funerals for a doll, she slowly turns their chaotic house into a home, challenging Chase's rules about attachment and desire.

Four connected novellas follow dukes and determined heroines through snowstorms, balls, and enchanted shortbread at Christmas. Tessa Dare's story pairs desperate London wallflower Louisa Ward with the very duke threatening her family's home, turning one fateful holiday waltz into unexpected possibility.

On the day Mary Clayton is left standing at the altar, her brother's closest friend, Sebastian Ives, refuses to let scandal ruin her. His impulsive solution is simple, and utterly life changing, for them both: marry her himself and finally claim the woman he's always loved.

When seamstress Emma Gladstone storms into the scarred Duke of Ashbury's study to demand payment for a discarded wedding gown, he offers marriage instead. Their cold bargain to produce an heir soon melts into banter, late night confessions, and a chance at healing on both sides.

Determined to prevent her match making mother from targeting a marquess, Charlotte Highwood corners Piers Brandon in a library and ends up hiding with him behind a curtain during someone else's tryst. Branded the culprit, she must solve the mystery and decide whether to accept his proposal.

To escape society, shy illustrator Madeline Gracechurch invented a Scottish officer fiancé and wrote him letters for years. When battle hardened Captain Logan MacKenzie arrives at her isolated Highland castle claiming to be that man, her harmless lie becomes a marriage of convenience with real stakes.

Years after her first love left without a word, bookish Nora Browning poured her heartbreak into a scandalous pamphlet titled Lord Dashwood Missed Out. On a snowbound journey to Spindle Cove, she is trapped in close quarters with the very man whose name she made infamous.

After eight years of waiting for her absent fiancé, Clio Whitmore inherits a castle and decides to call off the match. To secure her freedom she needs his brother, bruiser and rake Rafe Brandon, whose attempts to plan the perfect wedding keep turning into seduction.

Plain, penniless Isolde 'Izzy' Goodnight expects little from life until she unexpectedly inherits a crumbling castle. Its brooding, half blind resident, Ransom, Duke of Rothbury, refuses to leave, turning a battle over ownership into a prickly, fairy tale romance neither one expected.

Everyone expects delicate, elegant Diana Highwood to wed a titled gentleman. Instead, her thoughts keep straying to Spindle Cove's rugged blacksmith, Aaron Dawes. Stolen visits to his forge fan a forbidden attraction that could either forge a future or shatter her family's plans.

Dragged to Spindle Cove by his scheming mother, Griffin York, Duke of Halford, chooses barmaid Pauline Simms as the most unsuitable bride possible. He pays her to botch a week of duchess training, but Pauline's wit and ambition overturn every lesson, including his own.

Because of one youthful scandal, Eliza Cade must hide in the shadows until her older sisters wed. Trying to behave, she keeps colliding with infamous charmer Harry Wright, whose kisses threaten her reputation and whose unexpected tenderness tempts her heart.

Scholarly Minerva Highwood will do anything to present her fossil discovery in Edinburgh, even propose a sham elopement to notorious rake Colin Sandhurst. One madcap week of coaching inns, highwaymen, and shared beds turns an outrageous bargain into unexpected intimacy.

Orphaned music teacher Kate Taylor has finally found a home in Spindle Cove, until a strange aristocratic family appears, claiming her as their kin. To protect her, grim militia commander Samuel Thorne offers a fake engagement that feels dangerously real.

At the Spindle Cove Christmas ball, quiet linguist Violet Winterbottom is the only one who understands the wounded stranger who collapses at her feet speaking a foreign tongue. With one winter's night to question him, she must choose between safety, old heartbreak, and a dangerous new love.

In the secluded village of Spindle Cove, Susanna Finch has built a retreat for unconventional ladies. When wounded war hero Bram, the new Earl of Rycliff, arrives to raise a militia, their clash over the town's future quickly turns into something far more explosive.

Battle scarred Rhys St. Maur returns to his desolate home village seeking oblivion, not redemption. Instead he finds innkeeper Meredith Maddox, the childhood friend who once saved him, and a tangle of secrets, smugglers, and desire neither of them can outrun.

Julian Bellamy plans to use his charm and ruthlessness to avenge his murdered friend and secure a safe, titled husband for Leo Chatwick's beloved sister. Gentle, stubborn Lily has other ideas, demanding three scandalous evenings to prove Julian is the only man she wants.

Known as the Duke of Midnight, reclusive Spencer Dumarque claims one waltz at every ball, then vanishes. When outspoken Lady Amelia d'Orsay uses that dance to save her feckless brother, she is drawn into a marriage of convenience and a deadly Stud Club mystery.

Runaway heiress Sophia Hathaway jilts her groom and slips aboard a privateer’s ship under a false name. Captain Benedict Gray Grayson plans to seduce and then leave his mysterious passenger, until danger and desire at sea change both their courses.

At a country house party, Cecily Hale refuses to accept that war has turned her former sweetheart into a cold stranger. Pursuing wounded veteran Luke Trenton into the haunted woods, she has only a few nights to coax back the man she loves.

Determined to win her childhood crush, headstrong Lucy Waltham practices her seduction skills on her brother's forbidding friend, Jeremy Trescott. Their pretend kisses ignite real longing, forcing them to face old wounds, scandalous temptation, and the risk of true love.

Fiercely idealistic Isabel Grayson vows to marry a powerful lord and use her fortune for reform. Charming rake Sir Tobias Aldridge pursues her first for revenge, then for love, as their battle of principles turns into a high stakes seduction.