Maya Rodale Books in Order
Explore Maya Rodale books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy where-to-start advice for her historical romance, fiction, and nonfiction.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
28 books
It's My Pleasure
by Maya Rodale
2005
Co-written with Maria Rodale, this nonfiction book argues that women deserve pleasure without guilt. It mixes stories, advice, and a push to stop putting everyone else's needs first.
The Heir and the Spare
by Maya Rodale
2007
American beauty Emilia Highhart hits London society under the care of an inattentive chaperone and quickly attracts attention. What she does not know is that the man courting her may actually be one of identical twins playing a dangerous game.
The Rogue and the Rival
by Maya Rodale
2008
Angela Sullivan is about to take her vows when the rogue who once ruined her life lands injured at her abbey. Forced into close quarters, Angela and Lord Phillip must face old wounds and an attraction that never really died.
A Groom of One's Own
by Maya Rodale
2010
Newspaper writer Sophie Harlow is supposed to cover the wedding of a perfect duke, not fall for him. But secrets, a foreign prince, and one badly timed kiss turn her assignment into a full blown scandal.
A Tale of Two Lovers
by Maya Rodale
2011
Lady Julianna Somerset makes her living reporting society's scandals until she lands in one with notorious Lord Simon Roxbury. Their public feud, his need for a wife, and their undeniable attraction make for delicious trouble.
Dangerous Books for Girls
by Maya Rodale
2011
This nonfiction study looks at why romance novels have been mocked for so long and why readers keep loving them anyway. Rodale traces the genre's history and makes a lively case for reading pleasure without shame.
Seducing Mr. Knightly
by Maya Rodale
2012
Advice columnist Annabelle Swift has loved her boss from afar for years and finally decides to do something about it. The results are awkward, funny, and unexpectedly effective once Derek Knightly starts seeing her clearly.
The Tattooed Duke
by Maya Rodale
2012
Eliza Fielding is secretly writing about the dangerous Duke of Wycliff while posing as a lowly housemaid in his household. Falling for the penniless, scandal haunted duke is a terrible idea, which only makes it harder to stop.
Three Schemes and a Scandal
by Maya Rodale
2012
Lady Charlotte Brandon swears off scheming, then promptly lands in fresh disaster while trying to make amends. Stuck with the man who once broke her heart, she may discover that friendship and chaos can still lead to love.
Seducing the Single Lady
by Maya Rodale
2013
Susannah Grey is finally free to choose her own future, until the fiance who vanished years ago comes back to claim her. Damien's seductive return sparks gossip, old hurt, and a romance that might still work if scandal does not ruin it.
The Bad Boy Billionaire's Wicked Arrangement
by Maya Rodale
2013
Librarian Jane Sparks accidentally announces her engagement to bad boy billionaire Duke Austen. He needs the fake romance to clean up his image, but their public charade starts turning into something real.
The Wicked Wallflower
by Maya Rodale
2013
Emma Avery accidentally announces an engagement to the most eligible duke in England before she has even met him. He agrees to the charade for his own reasons, but neither expects the fake betrothal to turn so tempting.
That Rogue Jack
by Maya Rodale
2014
Jack, Lord Willoughby, is the last man who should be trusted with a ducal wedding ring, which is exactly how disaster begins. Prim Henrietta Black helps him hunt it down, and the search quickly turns romantic.
The Bad Boy Billionaire's Girl Gone Wild
by Maya Rodale
2014
Jane's faux engagement has already complicated her life, and publishing a romance novel based on it makes everything messier. As Duke Austen's business future hangs in the balance, the pair must decide whether scandal will break them or bring them together.
Wallflower Gone Wild
by Maya Rodale
2014
Olivia Archer has spent years being good, with little to show for it except an awful nickname and an unwanted match. Deciding to behave scandalously around her new fiance, the Mad Baron, only makes him want her more.
What a Girl Wants
by Maya Rodale
2014
Jane and Duke seem to have it all, until a violent encounter with her ex shakes their future. Trapped together during a hurricane, they have to rebuild trust before life pulls them in different directions.
What a Wallflower Wants
by Maya Rodale
2014
Prudence Payton has every reason to distrust romance after a past she keeps hidden. When a cowardly suitor fails her and the charming John Roark steps in, Prue has to decide whether love is worth the risk.
Chasing Lady Amelia
by Maya Rodale
2016
Tired of being proper, Lady Amelia sneaks out to see London and spends one unforgettable day with Alistair Finlay-Jones. Their chemistry is instant, but scandal and hidden motives make happily ever after anything but easy.
Lady Bridget's Diary
by Maya Rodale
2016
Bridget Cavendish arrives in London ready to become the perfect lady and conquer society. Her disastrous diary entries, missing journal, and growing feelings for the proper Lord Darcy make that plan delightfully impossible.
Lady Claire Is All That
by Maya Rodale
2016
Claire Cavendish wants a duke who can talk mathematics, not a glittering social lion. Lord Fox thinks he can polish her into society's next sensation, but their bargain turns into a smart, sexy contest neither expects to lose.
It's Hard Out Here for a Duke
by Maya Rodale
2017
James Cavendish becomes a duke overnight and spends his last free evening with a stranger he cannot forget. When that woman turns out to be Meredith Green, the companion charged with teaching him duty, desire suddenly gets very inconvenient.
Duchess by Design
by Maya Rodale
2018
In Gilded Age Manhattan, the Duke of Kingston plans to marry money and save his estate. Instead he falls for Adeline Black, a talented seamstress who agrees to help him hunt for an heiress and may steal his heart instead.
Some Like It Scandalous
by Maya Rodale
2019
Daisy Swan wants to build a future around the cosmetics she creates, not marry a rake. But a fake engagement to scandal magnet Theodore Prescott III may solve both their problems, until pretending starts to feel dangerously real.
An Heiress to Remember
by Maya Rodale
2020
Beatrice Goodwin returns to Manhattan as a divorced duchess, determined to rescue her family's fading department store. Her fiercest rival is Wes Dalton, the self made man she once left behind, and old wounds make their renewed attraction even messier.
Lady Miss Penny Goes to Lunch
by Maya Rodale
2020
Lady Miss Penny loves going out to eat and knows exactly how a well behaved pup should act at a restaurant. Teaching those rules to her rowdy animal friends is a lot harder, and much funnier, than she expects.
Alice and Gabby's Excellent Adventure
by Maya Rodale
2021
Gabrielle Fox and Lady Alice Fellows wake up in each other's bodies, centuries apart, after a lightning strike. Figuring out school, society, crushes, and identity is hard enough without also being stuck in someone else's life.
The Mad Girls of New York
by Maya Rodale
2022
In 1887 New York, Nellie Bly fights for real reporting work and lands a terrifying assignment. Going undercover inside Blackwell's Island asylum could make her career, if she survives long enough to tell the story.
When Jane Met Duke
by Maya Rodale
2023
Jane Sparks accidentally announces her engagement to billionaire Duke Austen, and he decides to play along. Their fake romance is supposed to solve a business problem, but it soon creates one much more complicated.
Where should I start?
If you want witty Regency romance: The Wicked Wallflower → Wallflower Gone Wild → What a Wallflower Wants
If you want an American family in England: Lady Bridget's Diary → Chasing Lady Amelia → Lady Claire Is All That → It's Hard Out Here for a Duke
If you want Gilded Age Manhattan: Duchess by Design → Some Like It Scandalous → An Heiress to Remember
If you want a modern rom-com arc: The Bad Boy Billionaire's Wicked Arrangement → The Bad Boy Billionaire's Girl Gone Wild → What a Girl Wants
If you want nonfiction first: Dangerous Books for Girls
Author bio
Maya Rodale did not come to romance by sneaking paperbacks under the covers. Quite the opposite. As an undergraduate English major at New York University, she thought romance novels were trashy and that serious readers were supposed to keep their distance. Then her mother insisted she try one. She did, and the whole argument fell apart. What she found was wit, feeling, pleasure, and stories centered on women's lives, and that discovery changed the direction of her work.
She has been making the case for happily ever after ever since.
That early switch from skeptic to fan shows up all through her career. Rodale went on to earn both a BA and an MA from New York University, and her master's thesis became Dangerous Books for Girls, her nonfiction book about why romance novels have been mocked, hidden, and misunderstood. It is not a dry defense of the genre. It reads like someone who knows the jokes, knows the snobbery, and still thinks readers deserve their joy.
Her fiction moves easily between different corners of the past and present, but there is a clear throughline. Rodale likes women who are smart, restless, and slightly out of step with what the world expects of them. In books like The Wicked Wallflower, Lady Bridget's Diary, and Seducing Mr. Knightly, she writes Regency romance with a light touch and a good sense of comic timing. The setups are often deliciously messy, fake engagements, scandal sheets, missing diaries, but the emotions underneath are sincere.
She also has a thing for cities.
London is one playground, but New York City is another, and Rodale has called it her adopted hometown. The Gilded Age Girls Club novels, beginning with Duchess by Design, bring that energy to late nineteenth century Manhattan, where money, fashion, business, and desire keep colliding. Later, The Mad Girls of New York turns toward historical fiction and follows Nellie Bly through the brutal investigation that helped make her famous. Rodale often circles back to radical women from history, which helps explain why so many of her heroines are pushing against limits, not politely accepting them.
She has also written contemporary romantic comedy, YA, a children's book, and plenty of shorter fiction. The books first published as the Bad Boy Billionaire stories show her in modern fauxmance mode. Alice and Gabby's Excellent Adventure jumps between centuries with a body swap twist. Lady Miss Penny Goes to Lunch heads younger and sweeter. The range is wide, but the tone stays recognizable. Rodale likes sharp banter, women with strong inner lives, and plots that let pleasure and self determination sit side by side.
Outside her novels, she has reviewed romance for NPR Books and written for outlets such as Bustle and HuffPost. She has appeared on PBS, her books have been translated into multiple languages, and The Wicked Wallflower won an RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Historical Hero. She lives in New York City, and her work still carries the mix that first drew readers in: fun on the surface, a little rebellion underneath, and a real belief that happy endings are worth taking seriously.
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