Amanda Forester Books in Order
Browse Amanda Forester's historical romances in order, with book summaries, series background, and clear suggestions for where new readers should start.
Last updated: July 14, 2026
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Publication Order
16 books
The Highlander's Sword
by Amanda Forester
2010
Lady Aila Graham becomes an heiress after her brother's death and is hastily married to knight Padyn MacLaren. With both clans in danger and a traitor at work, their uneasy union must become a real partnership.
The Highlander's Heart
by Amanda Forester
2011
Escaping her abusive husband, Lady Isabelle Tynsdale runs into the Scottish wilderness and Laird David Campbell. He sees an English countess as ransom for his troubled clan, but Isabelle refuses to be anyone's compliant prisoner.
True Highland Spirit
by Amanda Forester
2012
Morrigan McNab fights beside her brothers to keep their struggling clan alive. Sir Jacques Dragonet is a French knight on a secret mission, and their rivalry becomes more complicated as war, loyalty, and attraction pull them together.
A Midsummer Bride
by Amanda Forester
2013
American heiress Harriet Redgrave reaches England after her ship is seized during the war with Napoleon. Her grandfather wants a titled match, but scientific experiments and the wary Earl of Thornton make a proper courtship delightfully complicated.
A Wedding in Springtime
by Amanda Forester
2013
Miss Eugenia Talbot ruins her court presentation by laughing at the wrong moment, leaving her family desperate to arrange a quick marriage. The roguish William Grant caused the scandal, then realizes he doesn't want Eugenia to marry anyone else.
The Highland Bride's Choice
by Amanda Forester
2013
Practical Elyne Campbell accepts that her brother will choose her husband, until she meets Tavish Grant, cousin to her intended. Trapped outside the castle during a siege, they have little choice but to face their inconvenient attraction.
A Winter Wedding
by Amanda Forester
2014
The Duke of Marchford hires expert matchmaker Penelope Rose to find him a bride. When his spy-catching work exposes a dangerous traitor, Penelope's social knowledge becomes vital, and their business arrangement turns unexpectedly personal.
The Trouble with a Highland Bride
by Amanda Forester
2014
Gwyn Campbell expects May Day festivities to help her find a husband, until an English attack disrupts everything. When she discovers wounded Captain Jack Lockton, caring for an enemy could ignite a forbidden romance and offer a path to peace.
The Wrong Highland Bridegroom
by Amanda Forester
2014
Effie Campbell refuses to marry a stranger just because her brother arranged it. Her intended, Connor MacLachlan, also wants a love match, but as conflict nears the castle, their search for other partners changes both their minds.
The Highlander's Bride
by Amanda Forester
2015
Sir Gavin Patrick must escort Lady Marie Collette from France to her Scottish betrothed, along with her dowry. As enemies close in and the journey grows perilous, the pair must pretend to be married while fighting a growing attachment.
The Highlander's Noel
by Amanda Forester
2015
Lady Sabine flees an arranged marriage in France, only to arrive in Scotland with nowhere to go. Guarded by Sir Braden of Clan MacLaren, she brings Christmas traditions to the castle and begins to thaw his resolve against marriage.
Highland Christmas Bride
by Amanda Forester
2016
Kenna, daughter of a feared Highland warlord, escapes rather than be sold into marriage. She seeks protection from Gregor Brodie during a winter storm, offering valuable information in return for a marriage that may become something more.
If the Earl Only Knew
by Amanda Forester
2016
After years at sea with her privateer twin, Lady Katherine Ashton returns to England with a troubled past and enemies nearby. The Earl of Wynbrook finds her anything but conventional, and their old attraction becomes impossible to ignore.
Miss Devine’s Christmas Wish
by Amanda Forester
2017
Miss Frankie Devine dodges her aunt's determined matchmaking and finds purpose helping others. At a Christmas ball, she uncovers a secret tied to the quiet Mr. Everett, and a little mischief may help her recognize true love.
My Highland Rebel
by Amanda Forester
2017
Lady Jyne Campbell leads a desperate fight to protect Kinnoch Abbey. Cormac MacLean infiltrates her rebellion to satisfy his warlord father, but the book-loving reluctant conqueror soon finds his loyalties, and his heart, shifting.
Earl Interrupted
by Amanda Forester
2018
Privateer Robert Ashton is shot while rescuing his sister, then meets Emma St. James as both flee dangerous pursuers. Emma needs protection from relatives after her inheritance, but Robert wants far more than a convenient alliance.
Where should I start?
For medieval Scottish romance: The Highlander's Sword → The Highlander's Heart → True Highland Spirit
For Highland adventure and arranged-marriage tension: The Highlander's Bride → The Highlander's Noel → My Highland Rebel
For Regency matchmaking and wit: A Wedding in Springtime → A Midsummer Bride → A Winter Wedding
For Regency romance with privateers and danger: If the Earl Only Knew → Miss Devine’s Christmas Wish → Earl Interrupted
Author bio
Amanda Forester came to historical romance after spending years in a very different world. She has a PhD in clinical psychology, a master's degree in theology, and experience as both a clinical researcher and a university instructor. Then she gave the stories in her head a place to go.
Her route into writing was personal. While her husband was deployed to Iraq for 14 months, she turned to historical romance for a little escape during a stressful time. The books she found were full of adventure, humor, and satisfying endings. Before long, she recognized something familiar in them: the kinds of stories she had been quietly imagining herself.
So she started writing them down.
Forester's first novel, The Highlander's Sword, launched her into fourteenth-century Scotland. It follows Lady Aila Graham, an heiress pushed into marriage with the battle-worn Padyn MacLaren while danger closes in around their clans. The book set the pattern for much of her work: practical heroines, difficult bargains, family loyalties, and plenty of outside trouble to make romance complicated.
She returned to that world in The Highlander's Heart and True Highland Spirit. Those books bring together an English countess on the run, a Highland laird with too many responsibilities, a sword-wielding clan woman, and a French knight with secrets of his own. Forester uses the unsettled politics of medieval Scotland as more than wallpaper. Her characters have to think about land, safety, alliances, and the people depending on them.
The danger is real, but there is room for teasing too.
Her later Highland books, including The Highlander's Bride and My Highland Rebel, keep that blend of travel, sieges, forced proximity, and stubborn people who don't quite follow the plans made for them. Arranged marriages show up often in her fiction, not as a shortcut, but as a pressure cooker. Two people may begin with duty, survival, or a family agreement, then have to work out whether trust and affection can grow from there.
Forester also writes Regency romance. The Marriage Mart books move to London drawing rooms, country house parties, and the rules of the marriage-minded ton. In A Wedding in Springtime, a laugh at the wrong moment threatens Eugenia Talbot's future. A Midsummer Bride introduces an American heiress whose scientific curiosity does not fit neatly into English society, while A Winter Wedding gives a matchmaker and a spy-catching duke a problem neither expected.
Her Daring Marriages novels add privateers, family secrets, kidnappings, and sea-going adventure to Regency courtship. Across both settings, readers can expect quick banter, capable women, men learning to listen, and romances that have to survive a few practical obstacles before the happy ending.
Forester has named Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer among the writers she loves, and the influence shows in her interest in humor, social rules, and complicated courtship. She also enjoys digging into historical details, including the less glamorous parts of the past, though she has joked that she usually leaves out the fleas.
She lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest, outside Tacoma, Washington. When she isn't sending fictional couples into trouble, she has mentioned enjoying camping, scrapbooking, chocolate, and the occasional zip-line.
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