Elizabeth Johns Books in Order
Browse Elizabeth Johns books in order, with series guides, short summaries, background on her Regency worlds, and quick help choosing where to start.
Last updated: June 9, 2026
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Publication Order
38 books
Seasons of Change
by Elizabeth Johns
2014
A cruel prank wrecks Lady Beatrice Chalcroft's betrothal and sends her to an orphanage in Scotland far from society's glare. There she crosses paths with Lord Vernon, who must decide whether love can survive pride, pain, and a very imperfect past.
Surrender the Past
by Elizabeth Johns
2014
Elinor Abbott has spent years hiding from the aftermath of a brutal attack. Returning to England during wartime, she meets the wounded Viscount Easton, and their voyage home becomes the start of a careful, deeply felt healing romance.
Seeking Redemption
by Elizabeth Johns
2015
Lydia Markham and Nathaniel Fairmont fall hard during a whirlwind season, then a tragic event tears them apart and sends him to war. When they meet again, love is still there, but so are old mistakes and painful secrets.
Shadows of Doubt
by Elizabeth Johns
2015
After her parents are gone, Gwendolyn Lambert is left poor, unprotected, and dependent on the Dowager Duchess of Loring's help. The duchess has matchmaking plans, but distance, storms, and meddling mothers make the road to love anything but direct.
Melting the Ice
by Elizabeth Johns
2016
A disillusioned duke tries to find a wife through his solicitor, only to be rejected by the very woman rumored to want a title. Forced into close company, both discover that pride thaws more slowly than attraction.
Through the Fire
by Elizabeth Johns
2016
One of three triplet sisters, a sharp-tongued heroine meets a Scottish doctor after both have been marked by painful pasts. The romance balances banter and tenderness as they figure out whether love can heal what fire has already touched.
With the Wind
by Elizabeth Johns
2016
Already secretly married, the third triplet crosses the ocean to find the husband she thinks she has lost. The voyage becomes part investigation, part reckoning, as a ship's captain threatens to matter more than her original plan.
After the Rain
by Elizabeth Johns
2017
Orphaned Christelle Clement leaves her school in France and travels to England to find the father she has never known. A chance accident throws her together with Dr. Seamus Craig, a kind man looking for family and a future of his own.
Out of the Darkness
by Elizabeth Johns
2017
Waterloo veteran John Holdsworth becomes steward on a Scottish estate and tries to keep his wounds, outward and inward, under control. Catriona Craig's gift for healing draws him close, but accepting love is harder than surviving war.
Ray of Light
by Elizabeth Johns
2017
Maili Craig enters her longed-for London Season only to find rank and gossip colder than she imagined. When she meets Hugh, Duke of Cavenray, smugglers, pride, and family complications turn attraction into real peril.
The Loring-Abbott Series Box Set of Regency Romances
by Elizabeth Johns
2017
This set gathers the main Loring-Abbott romances in one volume, following linked families through war, scandal, ruin, and hard-won love. It also includes a bonus later-life novella, making it the easiest way to sink into the whole saga.
A Season in London
by Elizabeth Johns
2018
A collection of three clean Regency novellas set during the London Season, where reputation, timing, and family pressure shape every choice. Each story follows a different couple and ends with a complete romance arc. Ideal when you want a quick, proper historical read.
Moon and Stars
by Elizabeth Johns
2018
At twenty-eight, Lady Charlotte Stanton believes her romantic chances are over until a secret dance under the stars changes everything. The man behind it is David Douglas, a former smuggler pulled back into danger just as Charlotte starts unraveling his past.
The Orient Express
by Elizabeth Johns
2018
This Timeless Victorian collection brings together three clean romance novellas set aboard the famous train. Elizabeth Johns's contribution follows Kate Worthington, traveling under an alias while trying to escape an old betrothal and a growing attraction.
An Evening at Almack's
by Elizabeth Johns
2019
This Timeless Regency collection unfolds over one unforgettable evening at Almack’s, London’s most exclusive ballroom, where several couples navigate scandals, secret identities, and hesitant courtships amid lemonade, country dances, and sharp wits.
Not Forgotten
by Elizabeth Johns
2019
Captain Philip Elliot, presumed dead, has been hiding in France while tracking a plot tied to Napoleon's circle. Lady Amelia Blake joins the mission to spy on her aunt, and old longing becomes dangerous once the two are forced to work together.
On My Honour
by Elizabeth Johns
2019
Lady Margaret Blake runs from an arranged match and straight into the path of Luke, Duke of Waverley, a soldier just home from war. His sense of honor sends him after her, but her uncle has darker reasons for refusing to let her go.
The Governess
by Elizabeth Johns
2019
Orphaned and nearly out of options, Adelaide Elliot accepts a governess post far from everyone she knows. Her new employer, Major Robert Fielding, may be charming enough in society, but two young wards and a country household change the game.
An Officer, Not a Gentleman
by Elizabeth Johns
2020
Lieutenant Tobin O'Neill, an able officer of humble birth, and Bridget Murphy, an army nurse raised on campaign, survive Waterloo on different sides of rank. Back in Ireland, family pressure and reversed fortunes test the bond they forged in war.
Black Knight
by Elizabeth Johns
2020
Heath Knight plans a deliberately inconvenient marriage to spite his overbearing brother, then discovers convenience is not so simple. Cecilia Dudley is rich, sharp, and determined to live freely, which makes their sudden match anything but easy.
Duke of Knight
by Elizabeth Johns
2020
Rowley Knight needs a governess for his younger sister, not a romance. Emma Lancaster needs respectable work after her father's gambling ruins her prospects, but living under a duke's roof proves far more complicated than either expected.
Holiday Knights
by Elizabeth Johns
2020
This holiday collection returns to the world of the Knight books with three festive Regency romances. Expect Christmas settings, second chances, unexpected attachments, and familiar faces weaving in and out of the celebrations.
Knight and Day
by Elizabeth Johns
2020
Lord Edmund Knight rescues Lady Isabella Hartmere from being sold off to settle her father's debts and hides her away in Devonshire. Their uneasy refuge soon tangles with an old feud, making safety and love equally uncertain.
The Headmistress
by Elizabeth Johns
2020
Hannah Bell has spent years running a finishing school and quietly putting her own life aside. A Christmas invitation brings her into the orbit of widower Oliver, Lord Wolford, where matchmaking relatives and holiday warmth begin to unsettle both of them.
Dangerous Knight
by Elizabeth Johns
2021
Spy and officer Jack Owens comes home to inherit an estate, a ward, and a mess left by his manipulative grandmother. Kate Rafferty has just claimed her own crumbling inheritance, and neither of them wants the tie that may bind them.
Dark of Knight
by Elizabeth Johns
2021
Major Felix Knight returns to the Peninsular War determined to serve the Crown, not fall in love. Then he meets Lady Catalina Mendoza, who is quietly gathering intelligence, and the hunt for a traitor throws them into shared danger.
Shining Knight
by Elizabeth Johns
2021
Lady Eugenia Knight is a duke's only daughter, a notorious hoyden, and always one mishap from scandal. Graham Tinsley has spent years rescuing her from trouble, but when ruination threatens, friendship is no longer a safe place to hide.
Lord of the Knight
by Elizabeth Johns
2022
Lady Maria Mottram has loved Philip Everleigh for years, but scandal and a stay in Paris leave her watching from the sidelines as the famed spy falls for someone else. Friendship, jealousy, and danger turn this into a tender, aching Regency romance.
A Midnight Masquerade
by Elizabeth Johns
2023
This anthology of clean historical romance novellas turns a masquerade ball into a place for hidden identities and quick connections. Elizabeth Johns's story follows Arthur, Lord Claremont, and Phoebe Cartwright, who meet in disguise and misread each other afterward.
Leap of Faith
by Elizabeth Johns
2023
Faith Whitford plans a quiet future in Bath and sensible matches for her sisters, not a fashionable guardian with plans of his own. Lord Westwood treats their London debut as entertainment, until Faith turns his orderly bachelorhood upside down.
Return of the Knight
by Elizabeth Johns
2023
Rose Sutton is tired of waiting for a sweetheart who is not coming home and desperate for a life of her own. Gabriel Lloyd, newly returned to England, decides at first sight that she is the woman he wants, if only he can change her mind.
Finding Hope
by Elizabeth Johns
2024
Hope Whitford finally gets the London Season she has dreamed about, but it comes with danger as well as glamour. Max, Lord Rotham is already battling his mother's plans for his future, and their growing attachment only raises the stakes.
The Gift of Patience
by Elizabeth Johns
2024
Patience Whitford is restless, curious, and far too interested in adventure for society's comfort. When Major Ashley Stuart investigates suspicious crimes near his brother's estate, her meddling becomes useful, and unexpectedly irresistible.
A Merry Christmas
by Elizabeth Johns
2025
Captain Joshua Fielding expects a quiet Christmas with his loud family, not a renewed clash with Merry Roxton, the girl who used to vex him. Their holiday reunion turns into a charming battle between ambition, class, and old feelings.
Only By Grace
by Elizabeth Johns
2025
Grace Whitford accidentally sails away on Lord Carew's ship after her sister's wedding and wakes to find herself a very inconvenient stowaway. Trapped together on the Channel, they must face family trouble, old feuds, and feelings neither planned for.
Unending Joy
by Elizabeth Johns
2025
Joy Whitford would rather keep her animals and independence than hunt for a husband during her Season. Freddy Cunningham wants to avoid marriage just as badly, so their plan to help each other find other matches is doomed in the best way.
An Inconvenient Duty
by Elizabeth Johns
2026
Heiress Francesca Vale wants reform and independence, not to be paraded through the Season. When problems in her estate accounts point to something darker, Major Arch Manners is assigned to protect her, and duty quickly becomes personal.
The Lost Cipher
by Elizabeth Johns
2026
Captain Edmund Cholmely hunts a stolen code that could expose years of secret operations. His trail leads to widow Elise Larkin and her seaside school, where suspicion, attraction, and wartime secrets are tangled together.
Where should I start?
If you want a big family Regency series: Duke of Knight → Black Knight → Knight and Day
If you like war and espionage: On My Honour → Not Forgotten → An Officer, Not a Gentleman
If you prefer healing, character-first romance: Out of the Darkness → After the Rain → Ray of Light
If you want lively sister stories: Leap of Faith → Finding Hope → The Gift of Patience
Author bio
Elizabeth Johns did not come to Regency romance by accident. She has said she was a reluctant reader until a school assignment put Pride and Prejudice in front of her. Jane Austen's wit and phrasing caught her, and that early spark clearly stayed with her. What followed was a writing life built around drawing rooms, soldiers, family complications, and happy endings that have to be earned.
She started writing for a simple reason. She ran out of the books she most wanted to read, so she tried writing one herself. That practical beginning feels very much in keeping with her fiction. Her catalog grew from there into several connected historical romance series, including books like Surrender the Past, Duke of Knight, On My Honour, Out of the Darkness, and Leap of Faith.
Her mother mattered a great deal to that story.
Johns has credited her mother, a retired English teacher, as one of her biggest influences. During their last summer together, she sat on a porch swing and read her work aloud while her mother encouraged her to keep going. It is a small, human detail, but it helps explain the warmth that runs through her books. Even when the stories touch on grief, war, old mistakes, or social pressure, they usually carry a steady belief that people can heal.
That belief shows up all across her work. The Loring-Abbott books lean into family history, hurt, and recovery. The Gentlemen of Knights novels widen the canvas with siblings, Society trouble, and men whose lives have been shaped by war and service. Brethren in Arms and Descendants keep some of that military shadow in view, but they also make room for tenderness, adopted family, and second chances. Then books like The Governess and The Headmistress pull the focus closer and build romance out of work, duty, companionship, and Christmas gatherings.
She likes families.
One of the pleasures of reading Johns is the way her books speak to one another. Brothers, sisters, cousins, officers, widows, and family friends keep turning up in later stories, so the world feels linked without becoming hard to follow. Readers who enjoy interconnected Regency romance usually find a lot to like here: heroines with backbone, heroes who may be bruised by battle or obligation, and plots that balance social pressure with real danger. Smugglers, spies, guardianships, inheritances, and old feuds all have a place.
Her newer work keeps that same pattern going. The Virtues follows the Whitford sisters after an unexpected change in guardianship throws them into London society, while Gentlemen of Virtue adds more covert work, family tension, and men whose sense of duty is tested by love. Johns also writes for shared historical collections such as A Season in London, An Evening at Almack's, The Orient Express, and A Midnight Masquerade, which makes it easy for newer readers to sample her style in novella form.
Away from the page, she has described herself as balancing several careers, including professional work in the medical field, alongside writing and family life. She is also a mother. That busy, practical reality may be part of why her books feel grounded even when they feature dukes and heiresses. Houses still need running, children still need care, and hearts do not mend themselves.
She has also been billed as a USA Today bestselling author, but the more useful fact for readers is simpler. She has built a sizable body of clean historical romance that rewards both dabbling and deep reading. You can start with a family saga, a war-linked romance, or one of the anthologies and get a clear sense of what she does well. Chances are you will come back for the relatives, the reunions, and the next person waiting at the edge of the dance floor.
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