Liar's Club Books in Order

The Liar's Club is one of Celeste Bradley's signature series, and it shows why her version of Regency romance feels so lively. The central idea is simple and irresistible: a band of rogues, thieves, gamblers, and gentlemen work in secret service to the Crown. They are spies, but not polished state functionaries. They are clever, morally flexible men with useful talents and a strong sense of loyalty to one another.

That setup lets Bradley bring together several pleasures at once. The books have espionage plots, secret codes, political danger, missing people, false names, and hidden rooms, but they also have banter, sexual tension, and heroines who refuse to stand quietly on the sidelines. Simon Rain, Dalton Montmorency, James Cunnington, Collis Tremayne, and Ethan Damont all get their turns, and the club itself remains the thread running through the series.

Everybody is pretending to be someone else.

The first book, The Pretender, makes that clear right away. Agatha Cunnington needs a fake husband to move through Society while searching for her missing brother, and Simon Rain is a spy trying to uncover a traitor. From there the series keeps widening. The Impostor folds in a secret cartoonist. The Spy adds a heroine in male disguise and a hunt for a code breaker's daughter. The Charmer brings in Rose Lacey, the first female Liar. The Rogue closes on gambling tables, kidnapping, and suspicion tied to treason.

What makes the series satisfying is the balance between playfulness and real stakes. Bradley enjoys a good disguise scene, a ridiculous misunderstanding, or a hero suddenly realizing he is in far deeper emotionally than he planned. But the books are not weightless. Betrayal matters. The shadow of Napoleon matters. Social ruin matters. And for several characters, love means risking not just embarrassment but mission failure, prison, or death.

The heroines are a major strength here. They are often outsiders to the club's masculine world, but they are rarely naive. Agatha, Clara, Phillipa, Rose, and Jane all bring their own intelligence and agenda into the story. The men may think they are running the operation, but Bradley is always happy to let a heroine upset the whole plan.

If you want to see her blend of adventure, humor, and romance in its purest early form, Liar's Club is probably the place to begin. It is a connected Regency spy series with real momentum, memorable pairings, and just enough chaos to keep everything fun.