Rebellious Desires Books in Order

Rebellious Desires is a duet of longer historical romances that explore what happens when very proper aristocrats tangle with dangerous men and fraught marriages. Set mostly in London, the books blend glittering ballrooms with the shadows of the city’s underworld.

In Duchess by Day, Mistress by Night, Georgiana Rutherford appears to have everything. As the widowed Duchess of Hardcastle she has wealth, position, and the respect of the ton. What she lacks is passion. Her carefully ordered life begins to crack when she meets Rhys Tremayne, a ruthless businessman known in both high and low society as the Broker. Rhys has made a fortune dealing in secrets and information on the black market, and he plans to use his influence to free his sisters from a brutal past in the slums.

Georgiana is the perfect sponsor to launch Rhys’s sisters into respectable circles, but their arrangement quickly becomes more than a purely practical alliance. The attraction between duchess and Broker is intense and dangerous, made worse by the fact that their class difference means any future together would have to exist in the shadows. The book balances clandestine meetings and sensual encounters with hard questions about power, shame, and what a woman in Georgiana’s position is willing to risk.

The Earl in My Bed turns its attention to a marriage already made. Years earlier, Daphne Wentworth wed Sylvester Wentworth, Earl of Carrington, in a union more about duty than love. They have spent much of their marriage apart, shaped by misunderstandings and old hurts. When Sylvester suffers a near fatal accident and realizes how fragile life is, he returns to London determined to truly claim his wife and make their marriage real.

Daphne, who has built a life around independence and caution, is not easily won over. Their story unfolds through apologies, renewed courtship, and a great deal of heat, as they confront the secrets that separated them and the expectations of a society that always seems to know more about a marriage than the people inside it.

Taken together, Rebellious Desires is about adults navigating existing responsibilities while still reaching for joy. These are not ingenues and untested rakes, but people who know loss and compromise and choose to fight for a second chance at something better.