Grace Hitchcock Books in Order

If you want true-crime suspense: The White City → The Gray Chamber
If you want Gilded Age romance and social drama: My Dear Miss Dupré → Her Darling Mr. Day → His Delightful Lady Delia
If you want Harvey Girls and Western charm: The Finding of Miss Fairfield → The Pursuit of Miss Parish → The Enchanting of Miss Elliot → The Courting of Miss Cady
If you want Regency adventure: To Catch a Coronet → To Kiss a Knight
If you want a quick sample of her shorter work: Miss Beaumont's Companion → Hearts of Gold

Grace Hitchcock writes historical romance with a knack for mixing charm, pressure, and the occasional shadow of danger. Her stories roam from Gilded Age ballrooms and opera houses to New Mexico Harvey Houses, Chicago fairgrounds, and Regency England, but they keep returning to the same kind of heroine, smart, determined, and not especially interested in staying inside the box society has built for her.

Reading came first.

Hitchcock has said that library trips were a highlight of her childhood, and that she read her way through shelves of historical fiction until she ran out of authors to chase. That love of setting is easy to spot in her fiction. She likes the texture of another time, but she also likes pace, humor, and characters who feel as if they might ignore good advice and do something brave anyway.

She knew early that she wanted to write. In high school, she turned a senior English project into her first novel, then kept going, studying creative writing in college with a minor in history before earning a master's degree in creative writing as well. She later used part of a novel as her thesis, finished it after graduation, and learned the lesson most writers learn sooner or later, finishing a manuscript is not the same as being ready.

Short form turned out to be good training.

After more practice and revision, Hitchcock found her footing with a Victorian manuscript that helped her land representation. She began publishing novellas first, which she has said taught her to write tight and give a story a full emotional shape without extra wandering. That led to longer work. Her debut, The White City, arrived in 2019, and The Gray Chamber followed in 2020, establishing her historical suspense side, where real American crime stories meet courageous women, clean romance, and genuine peril.

Another side of her writing is lighter and more playful. My Dear Miss Dupré launches her American Royalty trilogy with a husband-hunting competition tied to a sugar empire, and readers who enjoy glittery Gilded Age drama tend to click with it fast. Her Darling Mr. Day shifts the focus to New Orleans, riverboats, and a jilted bachelor who would rather hide in work than face his feelings. His Delightful Lady Delia brings in opera-house rivalry, stage performance, and a heroine who has spent too long in someone else's shadow.

Then there are the books that head west. In The Finding of Miss Fairfield and The Pursuit of Miss Parish, and across the wider Aprons & Veils world, women take jobs as Harvey Girls and try to build respectable lives on new ground. Hitchcock has written about how fascinating the real Harvey Girls were to her, and that interest shows. These stories care about work, class, reputation, and the quiet courage it takes to start over.

She is also comfortable in a shorter format. Miss Beaumont's Companion and the Hearts of Gold collection show how much she enjoys hidden identities, sharp social setups, and heroines who have to keep their balance when the room is tilted against them. More recently, To Catch a Coronet and To Kiss a Knight move into Regency England and lean into wit, scandal, and plans gone wrong. Across her work, certain patterns repeat. Hitchcock likes women who are underestimated, or cornered by money, family plans, gossip, or social rules. She likes settings that glitter on the surface but have trouble underneath. And she likes heroes who can be protective without stealing the story from the heroine standing in the middle of it.

She now lives in South Louisiana, near New Orleans, with her husband, Dakota, and their children. Her official bio paints a home full of motion, baking, chickens, dogs, and books never far from hand. It sounds about right. Her novels may visit masked balls, railway hotels, and titled estates, but they are written by someone who clearly loves both history and home.