Sparhawk (Miranda Jarrett) Books in Order

The Sparhawk books are a historical romance family saga set largely in colonial New England. The stories follow branches of the Sparhawk family through Rhode Island and the wider Atlantic world, with each book giving a different couple the center of the stage. Read together, they create a long view of a family shaped by the sea, war, money, and old loyalties.

The series begins with Columbine, when Dianna Grey is sent from England to the American colonies after a false conviction. Her difficult new life brings her into the orbit of Kit Sparhawk. Spindrift continues the coastal setting with Beatrice Allyn and a shipwrecked stranger whose missing memory may hide a dangerous past. Right away, the books establish that safety is never a given on this shore.

The weather has a say in everything.

As the series grows, the focus moves through later generations and different corners of the family. There are sailors, widows, fighters, captains, and women trying to make an independent place for themselves. The Sparhawks are connected by blood and reputation, but they are not protected from hardship. Loss, scandal, money trouble, and family grudges keep finding their way into the romances.

War becomes an important source of pressure. In Desire My Love, Desire Sparhawk cannot easily trust Captain Jack Herendon, whose British uniform represents everything she has been taught to hate. Gift of the Heart and The Secrets of Catie Hazard return to the personal cost of conflict, when private secrets and old attachments become harder to manage in a divided world.

The later books also let the tone shift without losing the family thread. The Sparhawk Bride turns on an abduction and a feud, while Sparhawk's Angel adds a lighter touch through a ghost determined to meddle in a romance. That variety is part of the series' appeal. The books have danger and emotional stakes, but they also make room for humor, hope, and the stubbornness it takes to start again.

This is not a neat, drawing-room family chronicle. It is a coastal saga, full of ships, storms, distance, and people whose choices keep echoing through the generations.

Start with Columbine for the clearest introduction to the setting and the family world. From there, the books are best read in order, because recurring names and long-held tensions gain more weight as the Sparhawk story moves forward.