Aincourt's Hearts Books in Order

Aincourt's Hearts is a Regency trilogy that mixes family connections with a steady undercurrent of mystery. The books are So Wild a Heart, The Hidden Heart, and Secrets of the Heart, and each one takes a different route into love while keeping the same tone of emotional intensity and suspense.

The first book, So Wild a Heart, brings together a disreputable earl and a practical American heiress in a marriage-of-convenience story touched by danger. The Hidden Heart turns toward a governess, a child in peril, a snowbound estate, and murder at a country castle. Secrets of the Heart shifts again, this time to a troubled marriage and a Bow Street investigation that pushes husband and wife back toward each other.

So the trilogy never feels repetitive.

What links the books is the way Camp balances romance with plot. The couples are not only sorting out desire. They are also dealing with threats, concealed motives, family expectations, and the risk that love may arrive too late if they keep misunderstanding one another.

Readers who enjoy Regency romance with a stronger suspense element will probably feel at home here. The Aincourt books have the elegance of the period, but they also like a snowstorm, a disguise, a hidden fortune, or a murder investigation. That mix gives the trilogy a little more edge than a straightforward society romance.