A Hart/McQueen Steampunk Adventure Books in Order

This series takes Jennifer Harlow's love of action, banter, and monsters and drops it into a steampunk version of Victorian Britain. The heroine is Lady Verity Hart, a sharp-tongued inventor who lives in a society that has no idea what to do with a woman like her. On paper she is an aristocratic spinster with a family reputation to protect. In practice she is the real mind behind many of her brother David Hart's inventions, forced to let a man take the credit because the world around her would rather doubt her sanity than admit her talent.

Everything changes when David is kidnapped by vampyres. That crisis kicks off the whole serial and gives Verity no choice but to move from drawing room frustration into full pursuit mode. She teams up with Jamie McQueen, an American bounty hunter who is rude, secretive, and much more useful than she wants to admit. Their uneasy alliance is the heart of the series. Verity brings brains, nerve, and gadgets. Jamie brings experience, muscle, and secrets of his own.

The chase does not stay in London for long.

Across the five parts of Verity Hart Vs The Vampyres, the story moves by train, road, sea, and air as Verity and Jamie follow the trail through England, Wales, and Ireland. The chapter titles alone give you the flavor, murder on the train, countryside chaos, aerial danger, wolf dens, and a final push into vampyre territory. Because the books were released as a serial, each installment tends to end with fresh momentum rather than a neatly boxed conclusion.

The steampunk side is not just window dressing. Verity's inventions matter, and so does the larger social machinery around her. Harlow uses corsets, manners, class expectations, and family pressure as real obstacles, not just background decoration. Verity has to fight monsters, but she also has to fight a culture that keeps trying to define her as difficult, unstable, or unfeminine. That tension gives the story some real spark.

Jamie adds a paranormal twist that keeps widening the world beyond vampyres alone. His history, his family ties, and the werewolf thread complicate what starts as a rescue mission. At the same time, the romance between him and Verity grows out of mutual irritation, respect, and a lot of forced proximity. It never erases the central goal, saving David, but it gives the adventure a strong emotional current.

If you like witty heroines, gothic monsters, and fast-moving adventure with a Victorian coat of paint, this series is easy to fall into. It is brisk, serialised fun, but it also has a heroine worth rooting for, because Verity is not just chasing her brother's kidnappers. She is claiming space in a world that would prefer she sit down and be quiet.