Susan Holloway Scott Books in Order
Browse Susan Holloway Scott books in order, including Miranda Jarrett novels, with summaries, series notes, and simple where-to-start help.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
36 books
Columbine
by Susan Holloway Scott
1992
Wrongly condemned English gentlewoman Dianna Grey is shipped to the American colonies to serve out her sentence. In harsh New England, Kit Sparhawk sees past her pride and pain, but starting over means facing betrayal and desire alike.
Spindrift
by Susan Holloway Scott
1993
Beatrice Allyn rescues a shipwrecked stranger from the Rhode Island shore, only to fear he may be tied to the pirates haunting the coast. As Jonathan Sparhawk struggles with lost memory, danger and attraction grow together.
Desire My Love
by Susan Holloway Scott
1994
Desire Sparhawk hates the sight of a British uniform, yet Captain Jack Herendon awakens everything she wants to deny. As duty pulls them onto opposite sides, passion collides with betrayal in a dangerous colonial romance.
Mariah's Prize
by Susan Holloway Scott
1994
Set in colonial New England, this Sparhawk tale follows Mariah as love and survival become tangled in a world shaped by the sea, family loyalties, and sudden danger. The real prize may be a future she never expected.
Christmas Rogues
by Susan Holloway Scott
1995
This holiday anthology gathers historical romances full of snow, surprises, and hard-to-resist rakes. The stories pair Christmas warmth with the risks, misunderstandings, and happy endings the season invites.
Sparhawk's Lady
by Susan Holloway Scott
1995
Countess Caroline Moncrief needs a champion strong enough to defy society and danger alike. Jeremiah Sparhawk knows she belongs to another, yet he cannot resist the woman who seems bound to him by fate.
The Sparhawk Bride
by Susan Holloway Scott
1995
Jerusa Sparhawk is abducted on her wedding day by Michel Gericault, a man driven by old family vengeance. Their perilous journey turns into a battle between revenge and love, with both their futures hanging in the balance.
Gift of the Heart
by Susan Holloway Scott
1996
During the Revolution, Rachel Sparhawk Lindsey shelters wounded Jamie Ryder as winter closes in around them. He brings passion and hope into her lonely life, but the secrets and scars he carries may shatter both.
Sparhawk's Angel
by Susan Holloway Scott
1996
Nickerson Sparhawk has enough trouble without a meddling ghost trying to match him with her younger sister, Rose Everard. What begins as an unwelcome push toward romance soon becomes a lively, heartfelt colonial love story.
The Captain's Bride
by Susan Holloway Scott
1997
In London, American sea captain Joshua Fairbourne sets out to find a proper wife and instead falls for spirited Anabelle Crosbie. Their hasty elopement and Atlantic crossing test love, pride, and the promise of a new life.
The Secrets of Catie Hazard
by Susan Holloway Scott
1997
Widowed Catie Hazard has rebuilt her life in Newport and buried the past, including the man who seduced her years ago. When Anthony returns in a British uniform, her carefully guarded secret is suddenly at risk.
Cranberry Point
by Susan Holloway Scott
1998
Serena Fairbourne meets Fitzgerald Crosbie in a burst of fog and instant attraction off Cape Cod. He means to return to England, she means to protect her heart, and both are changed by the quiet pull of home.
Moonlight
by Susan Holloway Scott
1999
Boston dressmaker Amelie Lacroix has no time for romance until a moonlit kiss with Captain Zach Fairbourne unsettles her careful life. When threats close in on her shop, love begins to look as risky as business.
Wishing
by Susan Holloway Scott
1999
As a joke, Captain Samson Fairbourne tosses a list of the perfect wife into the sea. When independent Polly Bray finds it and crosses his path, a playful wish turns into a stormy battle of wills and hearts.
Star Bright
by Susan Holloway Scott
2000
Diana Fairbourne heads to England planning a brilliant marriage, then begins to doubt the man she chose. A wounded sea captain and a string of unsettling discoveries force her to reconsider what kind of future she truly wants.
Starlight
by Susan Holloway Scott
2000
Captain Alex Fairbourne is stuck in London society until a stray kitten leads him to Cora MacGillivray, a hidden Scottish exile. Their growing love is shadowed by politics, old loyalties, and the danger still trailing her family name.
Sunrise
by Susan Holloway Scott
2000
After a shipwreck, Juliette LaCroix washes ashore on Nantucket with no memory of who she is. Daniel Fairbourne gives her shelter, but as her past returns, so do the choices that could pull them apart.
The Very Comely Countess
by Susan Holloway Scott
2001
William Manderville needs a convincing pretend mistress for a dangerous trip tied to Admiralty business. He finds Harriet Treene, an Irish orange seller with grit to spare, and their false arrangement turns into real feeling.
The Very Daring Duchess
by Susan Holloway Scott
2001
As Napoleon's army closes in on Naples, artist Francesca Robin needs passage on an English ship and a husband to secure it. Captain Edward Ramsden offers both, and their convenient marriage quickly becomes anything but simple.
The Golden Lord
by Susan Holloway Scott
2003
After an accident on a duke's estate, clever survivor Jenny Dell pretends to have lost her memory. Brant Claremont is determined to uncover the truth, but scandal, secrets, and attraction make the mystery deeply personal.
The Silver Lord
by Susan Holloway Scott
2003
Fan Winslow seems to be the proper housekeeper of Feversham Hall, but she secretly runs a smuggling ring. When naval hero George Claremont takes over the estate, law, loyalty, and desire are set on a collision course.
Rake's Wager
by Susan Holloway Scott
2005
Cassia Penny runs fashionable Penny House with flair, but a lost wager binds her to self-made millionaire Richard Blackley and his crumbling estate. As she remakes his home, both discover how much of themselves might need rebuilding.
The Lady's Hazard
by Susan Holloway Scott
2005
Bethany Penny feeds London's poor from the kitchens of Penny House, then becomes the prime suspect when former soldiers are poisoned. Major William Callaway sets out to investigate and finds an ally he cannot stop wanting.
Duchess
by Susan Holloway Scott
2006
Sarah Jennings enters the court of Charles II as a poor young maid of honor determined to rise. Her bond with Anne and her love for John Churchill draw her into ambition, scandal, and dangerous politics.
The Adventurous Bride
by Susan Holloway Scott
2006
Practical Lady Mary Farren heads abroad on her Grand Tour hoping for one real adventure. A mysterious painting, a hidden fortune, and Lord Fitzgerald pull her into a fast-moving romance laced with danger.
The Duke's Gamble
by Susan Holloway Scott
2006
Amariah Penny protects Penny House with cool intelligence and hard-won reputation. When accusations of cheating threaten the club, Duke Eliot Fitzharding steps in to help, and their sharp alliance quickly turns personal.
Christmas Wedding Belles
by Susan Holloway Scott
2007
A festive historical anthology built around winter weddings, near misses, and last-minute romance. These stories bring together family pressure, seasonal sparkle, and the promise of love arriving just in time.
Royal Harlot
by Susan Holloway Scott
2007
Barbara Villiers captures King Charles II and becomes the most powerful woman at Restoration court. Wealth and influence follow, but so do rivals, political danger, and the constant risk of falling from favor.
Seduction Of An English Beauty
by Susan Holloway Scott
2007
Sent abroad after scandal, Lady Diana Farren vows to behave at last. Italy, however, has other plans, especially once the magnetic Antonio di Randolfo draws her into passion, uncertainty, and real danger.
The King's Favorite
by Susan Holloway Scott
2008
From Covent Garden poverty to the London stage and then Whitehall, Nell Gwyn reinvents herself again and again. Her wit wins King Charles II, but surviving court life takes more than charm.
The French Mistress
by Susan Holloway Scott
2009
Louise de Keroualle leaves France for England as more than a royal companion, she is expected to charm Charles II and serve French interests. In a hostile court, ambition and loneliness push her to shape her own fate.
The Countess and the King
by Susan Holloway Scott
2010
Katherine Sedley grows up clever, wealthy, and unwilling to play by polite rules. Her affair with the Duke of York pulls her into the center of a court where one false move can mean exile or worse.
The Duke's Governess Bride
by Susan Holloway Scott
2010
Former governess Jane Wood expects her Grand Tour to end the moment the Duke of Aston arrives in Venice. Instead, shared grief, growing desire, and a lurking threat give both of them a second chance at love.
I, Eliza Hamilton
by Susan Holloway Scott
2017
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton steps out from her husband's shadow in this novel of marriage, politics, scandal, and loss. It follows Eliza from youthful romance through the long work of preserving Alexander Hamilton's legacy.
The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr
by Susan Holloway Scott
2019
Mary Emmons is sold into slavery as a child and carried into a turbulent revolutionary world. In the Burr household, her intelligence and resilience shape a secret, unequal relationship with Aaron Burr.
Martha
by Susan Holloway Scott
2023
This novel imagines Martha Washington as more than a symbol, tracing her from young Virginia wife and widow to partner of George Washington. Public duty, private grief, and endurance shape every stage of her life.
Where should I start?
If you want Stuart court drama: Duchess → Royal Harlot → The King's Favorite → The French Mistress → The Countess and the King
If you want early American historical fiction: I, Eliza Hamilton → The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr → Martha
If you want colonial family saga romance as Miranda Jarrett: Columbine → Spindrift → Sparhawk's Lady
If you want seafaring romance with a warmer family feel: The Captain's Bride → Wishing → Moonlight
If you want Regency London intrigue: Rake's Wager → The Lady's Hazard → The Duke's Gamble
Author bio
Susan Holloway Scott was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in northern New Jersey, in a place where colonial history never felt very far away. Old houses, old stories, and the long afterlife of the American past seem to have stayed with her.
She studied art before earning a B.A. in art history from Brown University. That visual training shows up all through her fiction. Her books pay close attention to portraits, clothing, rooms, and the small objects people handle every day, the details that make the past feel lived in rather than distant.
Before she was publishing novels, she worked in college communications, including jobs connected to Brown, the University of Pennsylvania, and Bryn Mawr. Then writing took over. She wrote her first novel while on maternity leave, sold it, and began publishing historical romance in 1992 under the pen name Miranda Jarrett.
That was the start.
As Miranda Jarrett, she went on to write more than thirty historical romances. Books like Columbine, The Captain's Bride, Wishing, and The Very Daring Duchess show what readers often enjoy most in her work: strong heroines, lively settings, a real feel for the period, and stories that move. Some are set in colonial America, some in Regency and Georgian England, and many involve ships, travel, family loyalties, or people trying to build a life after everything has gone sideways.
Later, writing as Susan Holloway Scott, she shifted more fully into biographical historical fiction. Her Restoration novels, Duchess, Royal Harlot, The King's Favorite, The French Mistress, and The Countess and the King, focus on women close to power in seventeenth-century England. These are not just costume dramas about kings and court scandal. They are books about ambition, survival, friendship, sex, money, politics, and what it costs a woman to matter in a world run by men.
She likes the women history remembers only in passing.
That same instinct shapes her American novels. I, Eliza Hamilton looks at Alexander Hamilton through the eyes of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, while The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr turns to Mary Emmons, a woman long pushed to the margins of the story. Martha continues that interest in well-known history seen from a woman's angle. Readers who like Scott usually talk about the same things: the research feels solid, the emotions are easy to follow, and the women at the center of the books come across as people first, not museum figures.
She has also written as Isabella Bradford, and across her different names she has published more than fifty novels and novellas. Her books have reached millions of readers and have been published internationally, but what feels most consistent is the kind of story she returns to: women making hard choices inside the limits of their time.
She now lives with her family outside Philadelphia in what she has described as a book-filled house. That fits. Even away from the novels themselves, she is clearly drawn to the texture of the past, from clothing and furniture to food, travel, and the practical business of everyday life. It is one reason her fiction feels so grounded.
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