Loretta Chase Books in Order
Explore Loretta Chase books in order, with short summaries, linked series, and help finding where to start with her witty historical romances.
Last updated: June 30, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
Isabella
by Loretta Chase
1987
Thought past her marriageable prime, Isabella Latham comes to London as a chaperone and ends up at the center of attention herself. Suitors, family complications, and looming scandal turn the Season into something far less predictable.
The English Witch
by Loretta Chase
1988
Alexandra Ashmore is pushed toward an unwanted engagement, then kidnapped in a foreign land before the wedding can happen. Her rescuer, Basil Trevelyan, is charming enough to be dangerous, and the road to safety grows unexpectedly romantic.
Viscount Vagabond
by Loretta Chase
1988
Fleeing an arranged marriage, Catherine Pelliston is drugged, abducted, and trapped in a brothel until a disheveled, drunken lord becomes her unlikely rescuer. What starts in chaos turns into a brisk, witty Regency romance.
The Devil's Delilah
by Loretta Chase
1989
Delilah Desmond races to suppress her rogue father's memoirs before they ruin her. Her best ally is bookish Jack Langdon, a quiet man hiding far more heart, and trouble, than anyone expects.
Knaves' Wager
by Loretta Chase
1990
Lilith Davenant is outraged when Lord Julian Brandon kisses her within sight of the man she is meant to marry. Worse, his pursuit begins as a wager, and the game threatens both her reputation and her heart.
The Sandalwood Princess
by Loretta Chase
1990
Amanda Cavencourt sets out to recover a stolen sandalwood statue and finds herself hunting the notorious Falcon. The mystery leads straight to a charming rogue who may be more than a simple thief.
Falling Stars
by Loretta Chase
1992
Ten years after an angry parting, Marcus Greyson and Christina Travers meet again at Christmas. Time has changed them, but not the feelings that once burned hot and ended badly.
The Lion's Daughter
by Loretta Chase
1992
Esme Brentmor sets out to avenge her father's murder and wants no distractions, especially not ruined aristocrat Varian St. George. Their dangerous journey turns an uneasy alliance into a combustible partnership.
Captives of the Night
by Loretta Chase
1994
Comte d'Esmond is supposed to clear Leila Beaumont of suspicion and move on. Instead her husband's murder pulls them into a deeper search for truth, and into feelings neither of them can easily afford.
Lord of Scoundrels
by Loretta Chase
1995
Jessica Trent goes to Paris to rescue her foolish brother from Sebastian Ballister, Marquess of Dain, only to discover Dain is as dangerous as his reputation. Their war of wills makes the romance as fierce as the attraction.
The Mad Earl's Bride
by Loretta Chase
1995
Gwendolyn Adams agrees to propose to a dying earl and save his family line, expecting illness and madness, not fascination. The more she learns about her supposedly doomed bridegroom, the stranger and more compelling the match becomes.
The Last Hellion
by Loretta Chase
1998
Wild Duke Vere Mallory seems bent on self-destruction until reformer Lydia Grenville quite literally knocks him flat. Their clash over London's injustices turns into a fierce romance with real stakes beyond the ballroom.
Miss Wonderful
by Loretta Chase
2004
Alistair Carsington retreats to Derbyshire to avoid temptation and lands in a battle with sharp-minded Mirabel Oldridge, who has troubles enough already. Their clash over land, family, and attraction turns gloriously unruly.
Mr. Impossible
by Loretta Chase
2005
Rupert Carsington, handsome disaster, is stranded in Cairo when scholar Daphne Pembroke hires him to rescue her kidnapped brother. Brains, brawn, treasure hunting, and mounting chemistry make this a grand adventure romance.
Lord Perfect
by Loretta Chase
2006
Impeccable Benedict Carsington meets his match in Bathsheba Wingate, a clever widow from a notorious family. When two children in their care vanish on an adventure, the chase forces them into dangerous proximity.
Not Quite a Lady
by Loretta Chase
2007
Darius Carsington is a brilliant rake who can spot the crack in any polished facade. Lady Charlotte Hayward has spent years perfecting hers, until desire and old wounds force both of them to risk more than reputation.
Your Scandalous Ways
by Loretta Chase
2008
Spy James Cordier goes to Venice to steal a packet of letters from the notorious Francesca Bonnard. Instead he finds a woman with sharper instincts than his, and danger closing in from every side.
Don't Tempt Me
by Loretta Chase
2009
Zoe Lexham returns to England after years in the East with a scandalous reputation and no easy place in society. The Duke of Marchmont might rescue her standing, but resisting Zoe is the harder task.
Last Night's Scandal
by Loretta Chase
2010
Olivia Wingate-Carsington drags the steady Peregrine Dalmay into one last adventure that ends at a gloomy Scottish castle. Ghost stories, murder, and years of unresolved feelings make a lively finale.
Silk Is for Seduction
by Loretta Chase
2011
Dressmaker Marcelline Noirot wants the future duchess as a client, which means getting past the Duke of Clevedon first. Business turns personal fast when two expert charmers start playing for higher stakes.
Scandal Wears Satin
by Loretta Chase
2012
Sophy Noirot can sell anything except peace and quiet, especially with the Earl of Longmore blundering into her plans. When his sister runs off, their pursuit becomes a road to scandal and desire.
Vixen in Velvet
by Loretta Chase
2014
Leonie Noirot is focused on remaking a dowdy young lady, not sparring with Simon Blair, Marquess of Lisburne. A wager, a makeover, and too much attraction turn her careful scheme inside out.
Dukes Prefer Blondes
by Loretta Chase
2015
Lady Clara Fairfax wants to be taken seriously, not admired and proposed to on schedule. Barrister Oliver Radford is the last man she expects to help, or the one most likely to upend her future.
Royally Ever After
by Loretta Chase
2015
This pair of linked novellas follows Chloe Sharp, who challenges an earl to a duel over her sister's royal match, and Barbara Findley, who breaks her engagement to a marquess. Both stories lean into wit, pride, and courtship under pressure.
A Duke in Shining Armor
by Loretta Chase
2017
When bookish Lady Olympia bolts from her wedding, Hugh, Duke of Ripley, chases after her to do the honorable thing. The journey back turns into a funny, chaotic road romance neither of them wanted.
Ten Things I Hate About the Duke
by Loretta Chase
2020
Outspoken Cassandra Pomfret is already a problem in polite society before the Duke of Ashmont wrecks what is left of her reputation. The obvious fix is marriage, which may be the most disastrous idea of all.
My Inconvenient Duke
by Loretta Chase
2025
Lady Alice Ancaster needs a husband before family disaster hands her future to a hateful cousin. The one man she cannot stop wanting is the Duke of Blackwood, a childhood connection with terrible timing.
Where should I start?
If you want her signature romance: Lord of Scoundrels → The Last Hellion
If you want a funny family series: Miss Wonderful → Mr. Impossible → Lord Perfect → Last Night's Scandal
If you want fashion and scheming in 1830s London: Silk Is for Seduction → Scandal Wears Satin → Vixen in Velvet → Dukes Prefer Blondes
If you want the newer dukes: A Duke in Shining Armor → Ten Things I Hate About the Duke → My Inconvenient Duke
If you want shorter early Regencies: Isabella → The English Witch → Viscount Vagabond → The Devil's Delilah
Author bio
Loretta Chase was born in 1949 into a family of Albanian origin and grew up in New England. Long before she published a novel, she was already inventing stories, and once she learned to write them down, she did not seem inclined to stop.
Writing came early.
She went to public schools in New England and later studied English at Clark University. By her own telling, she picked that major because it let her read constantly and spend plenty of time writing, which suited her much better than anything practical. She also kept producing plays, poems, letters, and an enormous Great American Novel that never quite found an ending.
After college she stayed connected to Clark in clerical, administrative, and part-time teaching jobs. She also worked in retail and even spent six months as a meter maid, an experience she later described as Dickensian. Her first paid writing work came through an exhibition catalog, and then through corporate video scripts.
That video job changed the course of things. It brought her into contact with a producer who encouraged her to try writing novels, and he later became her husband. Her first Regency manuscript, Isabella, sold to the first New York editor who read it, which is one of those publishing stories that sounds made up but apparently was not.
The early books, including The English Witch, The Sandalwood Princess, and The Lion's Daughter, already show the qualities readers still come to Chase for. She likes intelligence, momentum, and heroines who do not wait passively for rescue. She also likes difficult men, but only when they meet women fully capable of outthinking them.
A lot of readers first meet her through Lord of Scoundrels.
That novel, with Sebastian Ballister and Jessica Trent locked in a battle of wits and desire, became her best known book and won a RITA Award. Later favorites like The Last Hellion, Mr. Impossible, Lord Perfect, and Silk Is for Seduction kept building on the same strengths: vivid period detail, sharp comedy, and romances that feel both high-spirited and emotionally serious. In 2021, Ten Things I Hate About the Duke won the Vivian Award, a nice reminder that her later books still have plenty of snap.
Chase has said that her comic muse is the stronger one, and that feels true on the page. Even when the stakes turn dark, murder, ruin, family pressure, public scandal, there is usually some quick line or sideways observation keeping the story lively. Her books travel, too, from London and Paris to Venice, Egypt, and the Balkans, but wherever she sets them, she comes back to the same pleasures: smart women, overconfident men, meddling relations, and the rules of society being bent to their limit.
In more recent years she has written the Dressmakers novels and the Difficult Dukes books, including A Duke in Shining Armor, Ten Things I Hate About the Duke, and My Inconvenient Duke. Clark University described her as Worcester-based, and her author site shows her still writing, reading, and blogging about the history that feeds her fiction. After all these years, she still seems happiest in the company of unruly aristocrats and women who know exactly how to handle them.
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