Cat Sebastian Books in Order
Browse Cat Sebastian books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and simple tips on where to start, from Regency romances to midcentury love stories.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
22 books
The Soldier's Scoundrel
by Cat Sebastian
2016
Jack Turner uses underworld skills to solve problems polite society would rather ignore. When war-scarred soldier Oliver Rivington crosses his path in Regency London, suspicion and desire quickly become tangled with a dangerous case.
It Takes Two to Tumble
by Cat Sebastian
2017
Country vicar Ben Sedgwick agrees to care for Captain Phillip Dacre's unruly children and promptly falls for the whole household. Phillip means to keep his distance, but grief, blackmail, and undeniable chemistry make that impossible.
The Lawrence Browne Affair
by Cat Sebastian
2017
Con man Georgie Turner hides out in Cornwall by pretending to be secretary to reclusive scientist Lawrence Browne. As danger closes in and the disguise frays, their wary connection grows into something unexpectedly steady.
The Ruin of a Rake
by Cat Sebastian
2017
After scandal wrecks his reputation, Lord Courtenay agrees to let proper Julian Medlock help repair his image. Their time together turns an old fascination into a sharp, funny, and unexpectedly vulnerable romance.
A Gentleman Never Keeps Score
by Cat Sebastian
2018
Reclusive Hartley Sedgwick joins forces with pub owner Sam Fox to find and destroy compromising paintings from Hartley's past. What starts as a small crime turns into a tender story about trust, desire, and reclaiming a life.
Unmasked by the Marquess
by Cat Sebastian
2018
Charity Church has spent years living as Robert Selby, helping her employer's sister navigate society. When the disguise collides with prickly marquess Alistair, attraction grows alongside hard questions about identity, respectability, and what kind of life Charity actually wants.
A Delicate Deception
by Cat Sebastian
2019
In the Derbyshire countryside, reclusive novelist Amelia Allenby keeps running into Sydney Goddard, a civil engineer with secrets of his own. Their quiet walks and growing attraction become harder to sustain once the truth about Sydney's identity comes out.
A Duke in Disguise
by Cat Sebastian
2019
Radical bookseller Verity Plum and illustrator Ash have been best friends for years, which makes falling in love inconvenient enough. Then Ash learns he may be a duke's heir, and class, loyalty, and desire collide at once.
A Little Light Mischief
by Cat Sebastian
2019
Former pickpocket Molly Wilkins is trying to stay honest as a lady's maid, until Alice Stapleton needs help with a problem from her past. A house party, old danger, and mutual fascination pull the two women together.
Hither, Page
by Cat Sebastian
2019
In 1948 England, shell-shocked doctor James Sommers meets weary spy Leo Page while a murder rattles a quiet village. Solving the case means facing secrets, wartime scars, and feelings neither man expected to survive.
Two Rogues Make a Right
by Cat Sebastian
2020
Will Sedgwick whisks his lifelong friend Martin Easterbrook to the countryside to recover from illness. In a tiny cottage filled with tea, books, and old feelings, friendship finally deepens into the love they have both been skirting.
Peter Cabot Gets Lost
by Cat Sebastian
2021
In the summer of 1960, privileged Peter Cabot and prickly classmate Caleb Murphy share an unwanted cross-country drive. Miles of road, motel stops, and family baggage turn mutual irritation into something far harder to ignore.
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb
by Cat Sebastian
2021
Retired highwayman Kit Webb wants a quiet life at his coffeehouse until aristocrat Percy needs help stealing a book from his own father. Their lessons in crime become a risky, class-crossing romance.
Tommy Cabot Was Here
by Cat Sebastian
2021
Two former best friends reunite at their old boarding school, where Tommy Cabot's chaos crashes into Everett's carefully ordered life. The past is still raw, but so is the attraction they never really escaped.
Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots
by Cat Sebastian
2022
In 1973 New York, adrift Daniel Cabot finds himself drawn to prickly pediatrician Alex Savchenko. As a vacant lot garden and a fragile friendship start to matter, both men have to decide whether they can build a life that lasts.
The Missing Page
by Cat Sebastian
2022
When James Sommers inherits a strange final request, he and former spy Leo Page head to Cornwall and into a house full of secrets. A decades-old disappearance pulls them deeper, testing both their growing relationship and their trust.
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes
by Cat Sebastian
2022
After Marian Hayes shoots her monstrous husband, the only person she can turn to is the cheerful criminal who has been blackmailing her. Marian and Rob flee across 1750s England, committing fresh crimes and stumbling into a surprisingly tender partnership.
Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue
by Cat Sebastian
2023
After an injury and sudden disappearance, baseball player Luke Novak turns up at Billy Reardon's isolated mountain house just before a storm. Forced together at last, the two teammates can no longer pretend their feelings are ordinary.
We Could Be So Good
by Cat Sebastian
2023
In 1959 New York, hard-working reporter Nick Russo is assigned to show his boss's son the newsroom ropes. Nick and Andy's friendship deepens into love, but the world outside the office gives them very little room to be careless.
You Should Be So Lucky
by Cat Sebastian
2024
A grieving arts reporter is assigned to profile Eddie O'Leary, the struggling shortstop everyone blames for his team's bad luck. Across one baseball season, loneliness, grief, and growing trust turn a bad idea into a real chance at love.
After Hours at Dooryard Books
by Cat Sebastian
2025
In 1968 New York City, bookseller Patrick takes in a mysterious drifter and accidentally builds a whole makeshift household around him. Inside a scruffy secondhand bookstore, romance grows alongside grief, politics, and found family.
Star Shipped
by Cat Sebastian
2026
Feuding actors Simon and Charlie fake a friendly truce to protect their reputations after years on a cult sci-fi show. A road trip and family trouble force them closer, until the line between performance and real feeling disappears.
Where should I start?
If you want midcentury New York: We Could Be So Good → You Should Be So Lucky → After Hours at Dooryard Books
If you want cozy postwar mystery: Hither, Page → The Missing Page
If you want Regency comfort reads: It Takes Two to Tumble → A Gentleman Never Keeps Score → Two Rogues Make a Right
If you want crime and chaos: The Queer Principles of Kit Webb → The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes
If you want classic Regency intrigue: The Soldier's Scoundrel → The Lawrence Browne Affair → The Ruin of a Rake
Author bio
Cat Sebastian grew up mostly in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, with stretches in New York and overseas. She has said she read everything she could get her hands on, from kid series to classics to crime fiction, and that wide reading still shows up in her books.
She did not take a straight path into writing.
Before fiction became her full-time work, she practiced law in Phoenix for a year, which is also where she met her husband. After that she taught high school English and college writing. She has joked that she held a variety of jobs she liked much less than writing happy endings for queer people, and she did not start writing seriously until her 30s.
When her kids were small, romance became a major part of her reading life. She has talked about discovering how much the genre could do, especially after reading Courtney Milan's The Governess Affair. That book helped convince her that a romance novel could be deeply character driven, emotionally generous, and still full of tension. Eventually she sat down to try one herself.
That first completed manuscript led to The Soldier's Scoundrel in 2016. It was a Regency romance, but it also announced a lot of what would define her work: queer characters treated as central rather than exceptional, a sharp awareness of class, and plots that care as much about emotional safety as they do about attraction.
Soft landings matter in her books.
Her early connected series, the Turner books, the Sedgwick books, and the Regency Impostors, made her a favorite for readers who like historical romance with warmth and bite. The Lawrence Browne Affair pairs a reclusive earl with a con man. A Gentleman Never Keeps Score turns a search for scandalous paintings into a story about shame, care, and community. The Queer Principles of Kit Webb adds coffeehouses, theft lessons, and Georgian chaos.
She kept stretching after that. Hither, Page and The Missing Page bring mystery into the mix through a lonely spy and a country doctor in postwar England. The Cabot books and the Chronicle novels move into midcentury America, where road trips, newsroom deadlines, neighborhood politics, and baseball matter just as much as ballroom rules once did. Sebastian makes each setting feel lived in rather than decorative.
Recent standouts like We Could Be So Good and You Should Be So Lucky show how good she is at writing working lives and private longing side by side. She can give you office gossip, rented rooms, grief, sandwiches, and a devastatingly tender love story in the same book. We Could Be So Good won a Lambda Literary Award in 2024. By 2025 and 2026, she had moved on to After Hours at Dooryard Books and then Star Shipped, her first contemporary romance.
Across all of it, her characters tend to be a little bruised, a little stubborn, and very good at caring even when they do not know how to say so plainly. She writes found family well. She writes friendship well. And she is especially good at people who seem difficult from the outside but are mostly scared of wanting too much. These days she lives in Connecticut with her family. Away from deadlines, she has talked about reading constantly, talking to her dog, bird-watching, doing crossword puzzles, collecting too many houseplants, and forever wondering where she left her coffee cup.
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