Lauren Willig Books in Order

Graduate student Eloise Kelly travels to England to research Napoleonic-era spies and discovers the elusive Pink Carnation. Her investigation into secret identities and historical romance becomes intertwined with her own search for love and a fresh start.

A murdered courier and stolen dispatch bring France’s dangerous Black Tulip to England in pursuit of the Pink Carnation. Henrietta Selwick and Miles Dorrington attempt to expose the spy, unaware that their growing attraction accompanies an enemy’s scrutiny.

Trying to prevent her sister’s elopement, Letty Alsworthy accidentally finds herself married to Geoffrey Pinchingdale-Snipe. When he leaves for a spying mission in Ireland, she follows him into a struggle involving French agents and an Irish rebellion.

Amy Balcourt and Richard Selwick spend their first Christmas together among the Uppington family. Married life brings its own adjustments, but holiday celebrations become more complicated when espionage intrudes amid the mince pies and familiar family company.

Mary Alsworthy accepts Lord Vaughn’s secret assignment to infiltrate the Black Tulip’s network and finance another London season. Her suitability as bait for the French spy creates danger, while unexpected attraction complicates her partnership with Vaughn.

Sent to India after a scandalous marriage, Penelope Deveraux becomes entangled in intrigue at the court of Hyderabad. Captain Alex Reid reluctantly joins forces with her against the Marigold, a spy whose schemes threaten British interests.

Returning from India, the Duke of Dovedale seeks his mentor’s killer within England’s Hellfire Club. His reunion with Lady Charlotte Lansdowne revives romantic hopes, but secrets from his past threaten their relationship and reach toward the royal court.

Schoolteacher Arabella Dempsey and Reginald Fitzhugh discover a cryptic French message on a Christmas pudding. Their pursuit of its meaning takes them from Bath to aristocratic holiday festivities, where romance and espionage complicate an unexpectedly dangerous Christmas.

Newlyweds Turnip and Arabella become lost in a snowstorm while traveling away from their wedding. This companion story to The Mischief of the Mistletoe finds them seeking shelter in a barn, with a Christmas pudding among their provisions.

Newly trained spy Laura Grey becomes governess to the children of a senior official in Napoleon’s police apparatus. Her assignment to watch for suspicious activity grows complicated when her employer’s secretive behavior reveals connections she never anticipated.

With Harvard Law’s dean mysteriously absent, respected scholar Arthur Agnelli takes charge. Student Megan Milner intervenes when a lecturer is accused of an affair with a student, confronting hypocrisy and questions of justice in a satirical academic setting.

British agent Augustus Whittlesby hides his espionage beneath atrocious poetry in Napoleonic France. To investigate a secret device at a house party, he must collaborate on a theatrical entertainment with American widow Emma Delagardie, his most outspoken critic.

Manhattan lawyer Clementine Evans hears hints of a family secret at her grandmother’s birthday celebration. Her search connects her unsettled present to Addie’s upbringing alongside aristocratic cousin Bea, tracing relationships across England, Kenya, and the upheavals of war.

Colonel William Reid returns from India to discover his daughter missing from her Bath school. Pink Carnation operative Gwendolyn Meadows investigates another missing pupil, forcing the two into an uneasy partnership as they search for the girls.

Julia Conley inherits an English house and discovers a hidden painting that opens questions about its history and her own childhood. A parallel Victorian story follows Imogen Grantham, whose unhappy marriage changes when an artist paints her portrait.

Sally Fitzhugh dismisses rumors that the Duke of Belliston is a vampire and seeks him out. When a woman is found with her throat drained of blood, they investigate a killer amid scandals surrounding his family’s past.

In French-occupied Portugal, Jane Wooliston must protect Queen Maria, secretly hidden rather than safely aboard ship for Brazil. The Pink Carnation needs rogue agent Jack Reid’s local knowledge, creating a difficult alliance with the unpredictable spy called Moonflower.

After her mother dies, governess Rachel Woodley learns that her supposedly dead father is an earl with another family. Discovering his acknowledged daughter’s privileged life forces Rachel to confront the deception underlying her own impoverished upbringing.

In a Gilded Age Manhattan mansion later turned into a hospital, three women in 1890, 1920, and 1945 cross paths through one ornate room and a ruby pendant. As maid, secretary, and doctor pursue love and identity, they slowly piece together a family secret spanning generations.

Camilla Frobisher, widow of a celebrated British wartime aviator, revisits the past behind her apparently romantic engagement. Returning in memory to Armistice Day in 1918, she confronts the choices that shaped her marriage and the years that followed.

Bayard Van Duyvil is murdered during a lavish party, and his English wife disappears. His sister Janie works with a reporter to challenge rumors of murder and adultery, uncovering unsettling secrets beneath the couple’s gilded New York life.

Three women linked to the doomed Lusitania confront love, espionage, and deception. In 1915, society bride Caroline and con artist Tess sail toward disaster; in 2013, writer Sarah Blake hunts the truth in family relics, uncovering how their choices shaped her own history.

In 1854, Emily Dawson unexpectedly inherits a ruined sugar plantation in Barbados. Questions about her grandfather’s secret property and neighboring owners’ eagerness to acquire it draw her into a family history shaped by slavery, rebellion, and concealed relationships.

At the Ritz Paris, three women across 1914, 1942, and 1964 lean on the same gilded hotel while war and loss reshape their lives. An heiress, a reluctant Resistance courier, and a grieving widow uncover how their stories and one elusive traitor are intertwined.

Kate Moran joins a Smith College relief unit helping French civilians during World War I. Amid shelling, ruined villages, and military bureaucracy, the volunteers struggle to deliver aid while old rivalries and personal betrayals threaten their fragile cooperation.

A crumbling Newport mansion links three women in 1899, 1957, and 2019, each drawn into the secrets of the privileged Sprague family. Music teacher, debutante, and reality‑TV host uncover hidden scandals, lost loves, and one stubborn mystery inside a boathouse on the cliff‑edge estate.

Aspiring archaeologist Betsy Hayes becomes a nurse when war erupts in Greece, fracturing her friendship with Ava. Two years later, she joins the Spanish-American War in Ava’s place, confronting the fears and memories she hoped to leave behind.

Three very different American novelists travel to a Scottish island castle for a writing retreat, only to find the celebrity author hosting them dead in his tower study. As a prickly detective probes their stories, satire, secrets, and a classic locked‑room mystery unfold.

After Elma Sands is found dead in a Manhattan well, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr defend the carpenter accused of killing her. Their investigation unfolds amid electoral rivalry, while the young woman’s life remains obscured by competing accusations and ambitions.

A nighttime cemetery tour brings unemployed Jess into contact with widowed arborist Adam and a mysterious ancient key. Strange behavior among his children draws them into a Gilded Age curse whose surviving spirits threaten their chance of happiness.