Restoration (Sabrina Jeffries) Books in Order

The Restoration books show a different side of Sabrina Jeffries, one shaped by her Deborah Martin years and by her interest in darker historical settings. These novels are set in the age of Charles II, when politics felt slippery, reputations could change overnight, and London theater was becoming a place where women finally appeared onstage in female roles.

That world gives the series its charge.

By Love Unveiled and Silver Deceptions both lean hard into disguise, reinvention, and mistrust. In the first book, danger reaches all the way up to the crown, so the romance grows out of pursuit, suspicion, and a heroine who cannot safely be herself. In the second, the stage becomes its own kind of mask. Annabelle, known publicly as the Silver Swan, uses performance to chase truths about her past, while the hero is drawn in by exactly the mystery he has been told to unravel.

Compared with Jeffries's later Regency series, these books are more intense and more overtly shadowed by politics and survival. The emotional stakes are not light. People are often hiding names, histories, motives, or loyalties. That makes the love stories feel urgent, because trust is not a decorative extra. It is the whole battle.

The setting matters in practical ways too. Court life, rumors, London playhouses, and the unsettled mood of the Restoration period are not just wallpaper. They push the plots forward. Characters can use performance as protection, but public life can also expose them very quickly.

If you are coming to this series from Project Duchess or The School for Heiresses, expect fewer sparkling-house-party pleasures and more intrigue. But the central appeal is still recognizable. Jeffries loves a strong-minded heroine, a hero forced to rethink his assumptions, and a romance that has to fight its way through secrets before it earns its ending.