Skye's Legacy Books in Order

Skye’s Legacy picks up the sprawling O’Malley family story a generation or two after Skye herself, following her children and grandchildren as they carve out lives across Europe, North Africa, and India. Where the original O’Malley saga focuses on Skye’s rise from Irish sea captain to powerful matriarch, this companion series asks what it means to grow up in the shadow of such a formidable ancestor.

The tone is still lush and adventurous, but the world has shifted. The Elizabethan age has given way to the Stuarts, trade routes have widened, and the O’Malley descendants are as likely to find themselves in a Mughal palace or a Moroccan harbor as in an English great house. Each book centers on a different member of the clan, tying their stories back to Skye while letting them stand on their own.

Darling Jasmine follows Jasmine, Skye’s granddaughter, born a princess in India and widowed young. Summoned back to England for a politically convenient remarriage, she has to reconcile her memories of a passionate first marriage with the expectations of a new husband and a suspicious court. Later books like Bedazzled and Besieged trace the fortunes of Jasmine’s children and cousins as they are pushed into arranged matches, kidnapped into foreign harems, or tempted by lovers who have little to offer beyond desire.

Intrigued, Just Beyond Tomorrow, and Vixens keep weaving the family tree outward. Some heroines start in relative safety, only to be flung into exile or captivity; others begin on the margins—half‑foreign, illegitimate, or inconveniently outspoken—and find power in places their elders never imagined. Royal politics, shifting alliances, and changing fashions all play their part, but family loyalties remain the series’ backbone.

Throughout Skye’s Legacy, you’ll recognize echoes of the original saga: strong‑willed women negotiating between duty and passion, men who have to learn that marrying an O’Malley woman means accepting her spine as well as her beauty, and a steady hum of sensuality that never quite drowns out questions of survival and honor.

You don’t have to have every detail of the earlier books memorized to enjoy this series, but it does reward readers who like seeing how children respond to the legends they’ve inherited. If you want more time in Bertrice Small’s world of seafaring merchants, courts, and harems—and you’re curious about what happens after “happily ever after”—Skye’s Legacy is where those answers live.