Somerset Books in Order

Nicola Cornick's Somerset series contains two traditional Regency romances, True Colours and The Larkswood Legacy. The books are linked by family, inheritance, and the complicated lives of two sisters. Both stories use the familiar pleasures of the Regency period, including country estates, titles, old promises, and the pressure to marry well, while keeping the emotional stakes close to the characters.

True Colours introduces Alicia Broseley, whose life changes abruptly when the man she has been forced to marry dies on their wedding night. Alicia inherits wealth and, with it, a chance to reconsider the future that others had arranged for her. Reconnecting with James, Marquess of Mullineaux, means facing the possibility that freedom and love may not fit together as easily as she hopes.

An inheritance can be a burden too.

The second book, The Larkswood Legacy, turns to Alicia's sister Annabella. Annabella enters a marriage that is closely tied to money and family expectations, only to find that promises surrounding her inheritance are far less secure than they seemed. When Sir William Weston challenges her claim to a property, the conflict pushes Annabella to defend both her rights and her ability to choose her own life.

The Somerset books are romantic, but they are also about the practical realities behind a seemingly glittering society. Money affects who has power. Marriage can change a woman's legal and social position in an instant. Property is not merely a backdrop, it can determine safety, independence, and belonging.

Cornick writes the sisters as women who must learn what they want after years of being told what is expected. Their love stories are shaped by that process. The heroes are not simply prizes at the end of the plot, they are people whose intentions and loyalties need to be tested.

Both novels stand alone, but True Colours is the natural place to begin because it establishes the family situation that carries into The Larkswood Legacy. Readers who enjoy traditional Regency romances with inheritance disputes, family ties, and heroines finding room to act for themselves will find this compact two-book series a good fit.