Jennie Goutet Books in Order
Browse Jennie Goutet books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple suggestions for where to start with her romances and memoir.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
23 books
Stars Upside Down / A Lady in France
by Jennie Goutet
2013
This memoir follows Jennie Goutet from a teenage dream of France through travel, loss, depression, faith, and family life abroad. It is an honest account of how hope can survive even when life turns upside down.
Happy People Everywhere
by Jennie Goutet
2014
A cheerful illustrated children's book filled with simple rhymes and bright, happy scenes. It celebrates joy in everyday people and invites young readers to notice delight all around them.
A Noble Affair
by Jennie Goutet
2018
In modern France, American teacher Chastity wants nothing to do with titled men or old wounds. But a widowed viscount, a dangerous past, and a mystery tied to stolen art keep drawing her into a romance she never meant to risk.
A Sweetheart in Paris
by Jennie Goutet
2018
April comes to Paris to study painting and honor her father's last wish, not to fall in love. Friendship with Victor feels safe at first, until his past, her precarious life, and the city itself make distance harder to keep.
A Regrettable Proposal
by Jennie Goutet
2019
Eleanor Daventry can only claim her inheritance if she marries, and Stratford Tunstall thinks he has found a practical answer. His blunt proposal sends her running, and he must prove that what began badly can still end in love.
The Christmas Ruse
by Jennie Goutet
2019
Lavinia Dresden is ready to sacrifice herself to rescue her family from ruin, until Lord Cranleigh steps in. With Christmas only days away, he races to change her fate before duty closes the door on happiness.
A Faithful Proposal
by Jennie Goutet
2020
Anna Tunstall was made for London society, not a country parish or a serious clergyman. But after an unexpected meeting with Harry Aston, her carefully planned future starts to give way to a quieter, harder, and more honest kind of love.
His Disinclined Bride
by Jennie Goutet
2020
Kitty marries Lord Hayworth out of duty, while Phineas marries for money to save his estate. In a cold marriage of convenience, both discover that pride is much easier to manage than growing affection.
A Yorkshire Carol
by Jennie Goutet
2021
Juliana returns to Yorkshire for Christmas after chasing the shine of London society. Back among old friends and old habits, she must decide whether the life she wanted is really better than the love she left behind.
A Daring Proposal
by Jennie Goutet
2022
Phoebe Tunstall has loved her brother's friend for years, but Lord Ingram only notices her when war is looming. In Brussels, on the edge of Waterloo, long-hidden feeling finally collides with the fear that time may run out.
A Fall from Grace
by Jennie Goutet
2022
After her family's ruin, Selena Lockhart expects little kindness from society or from her new neighbor, Sir Lucius Clavering. But when she needs help, his prejudice gives way to protectiveness, and both must rethink what honor and love require.
A Whimsical Notion
by Jennie Goutet
2022
Honoria Bassett and Philip Townsend are neighbors, friends, and in many ways perfectly suited, except for the feud between their fathers. As estate troubles and daily life draw them closer, friendship starts to look like something much riskier.
Philippa Holds Court
by Jennie Goutet
2022
Philippa Clavering is sure she can save her friend from the wrong suitor, until the friend's gruff brother starts blocking every move. Their battle of wills turns into a sharper, sweeter kind of courtship than either planned.
The Sport of Matchmaking
by Jennie Goutet
2022
George Clavering treats matchmaking like a game, until a spirited lady makes the stakes feel uncomfortably real. What begins in teasing rivalry slowly becomes a test of whether either one is ready to stop playing and mean it.
A Brilliant Match
by Jennie Goutet
2023
Lady Dorothea wants an advantageous marriage, and Miles Shaw needs money enough to save his estate. One dance throws practicality into chaos, and both must decide whether a careful plan is worth more than a real attachment.
A Stroke of Good Fortune
by Jennie Goutet
2023
Widowed Arabella hopes for a safe new life with her baby son, but her brother-in-law is determined to control both. Theo Dawson wants to protect her, yet duty and danger keep their path to happiness far from easy.
An Amiable Foe
by Jennie Goutet
2023
Marianne Edgewood refuses to leave the castle that has always been her home, even after a new heir claims it. Perry Osborne wants to restore the place, but constant clashes soon turn into unwanted and undeniable feeling.
A Presumptuous Hope
by Jennie Goutet
2024
Christine Grey is content with spinsterhood, her animals, and a peaceful life in Lincolnshire, until a new neighbor unsettles everything. A compromising situation forces her and Sir Alexander Thorne into a marriage neither expected to want.
A Sham Betrothal
by Jennie Goutet
2024
In Paris in 1774, Sophie Twisden accepts Basile de Gervain's fake engagement to escape an overbearing protector. It seems like a simple bargain, until freedom, reputation, and genuine feeling become impossible to separate.
A Gentleman's Reckoning
by Jennie Goutet
2025
Disgraced John Aubin lives under an assumed name while plotting revenge on the earl who destroyed him. Then he meets Lady Eugenia, the earl's daughter, and his careful reckoning begins to look far more dangerous to his own heart.
A Secret Infatuation
by Jennie Goutet
2025
Lady Sophia Rowlandson has quietly cherished the memory of Felix Harwood since he once came to her rescue. When he returns years later, hidden admiration becomes a far more dangerous thing, especially when hope begins to answer back.
A Love Once Lost
by Jennie Goutet
2026
Amy Bridwell joins her family on a Grand Tour of the Continent and runs straight into the man she once loved. In Spa, old regrets and unfinished feeling make a second chance look both irresistible and painfully uncertain.
Wit, Wiles and Courtship
by Jennie Goutet
2026
Lady Camilla Rowlandson uses wit to keep herself safe, while Lord Robert Pembroke is used to easy admiration. When indifference turns into fascination, their clever game becomes a courtship neither of them can fully control.
Where should I start?
If you want a first taste of her Regency series: A Fall from Grace → Philippa Holds Court → The Sport of Matchmaking
If you like linked sibling romances: A Regrettable Proposal → A Faithful Proposal → A Daring Proposal
If you prefer gentler village-set stories: A Whimsical Notion → A Stroke of Good Fortune → A Presumptuous Hope
If you want standalones with a strong setting: A Yorkshire Carol → A Sham Betrothal → A Gentleman's Reckoning
If you want the nonfiction and modern-France side first: Stars Upside Down / A Lady in France → A Noble Affair → A Sweetheart in Paris
Author bio
Jennie Goutet is an American writer who made her home in France, and that mix of distance and attachment runs through almost everything she writes. She lives with her French husband and their three children in a small town outside Paris, while her fiction often looks back to Regency and Georgian England. It is a nice contrast, and it suits her work.
She has spent a good part of her adult life crossing borders.
Before she was publishing historical romance, she was building a life that gave her a lot to observe. She has written about years spent traveling and living in different places, including Asia, New York City, East Africa, and France. That habit of noticing how people live, what they fear, what they eat, how they talk, and what a place feels like on the ground shows up clearly in her books.
Her path to longer writing started with blogging. After settling in France, she began writing online about ordinary life, her house and garden, her children, cooking, faith, and the oddities and pleasures of daily life abroad. Over time, more of her past entered those posts too. A second-trimester miscarriage then pushed her toward a bigger, more personal project, and that became her memoir Stars Upside Down, later also published as A Lady in France. It tells the story of travel, grief, depression, faith, and the long road that eventually led her back to hope.
That book seems to have opened the door.
After the memoir, Goutet tried fiction in a very practical way. She published A Noble Affair chapter by chapter on her blog to prove to herself that she could finish a novel, then followed it with another contemporary romance, A Sweetheart in Paris. From there she moved fully into historical romance, beginning with A Regrettable Proposal and then building out linked series such as the Clavering books, the Daughters of the Gentry novels, and the Earl's Sisters stories.
Readers who pick up her fiction usually know what they are coming for. She writes clean historical romance with emotional restraint, strong social settings, and a lot of attention to manners, class, and family pressure. In A Fall from Grace, a ruined heroine and an overburdened baronet have to learn to look past first impressions. Philippa Holds Court leans into witty clashes and matchmaking. A Whimsical Notion keeps things close to the village and the home, while A Brilliant Match and A Secret Infatuation turn to the London Season and the awkward business of love across lines of rank and confidence. Even when the books are light on the page, they usually have a solid spine of responsibility, embarrassment, loyalty, and hard-won tenderness.
She also likes to place romance inside a strongly felt world. Sometimes that means Yorkshire at Christmas or a small Lincolnshire community. Sometimes it means Brussels on the eve of Waterloo, or Paris in an earlier century, or a crumbling castle that becomes almost a character in its own right. Her stories tend to stay grounded in daily pressures rather than huge melodrama, which is part of their charm.
In recent years, her historical romances have earned a first-place New England Reader's Choice Award in historical romance, reached a wide digital audience, and been translated into several languages. But the facts that matter most to the feel of her work are simpler than that. She writes from France, keeps one eye on history, and still seems interested in the everyday details that make people believable. That is true in the memoir, and it is true in the love stories too.
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