The Bareknuckle Bastards Books in Order

The Bareknuckle Bastards books are set in the bruised heart of Regency London, far from polite drawing rooms. The series follows three siblings who grew up as pawns in a cruel duke's succession games and escaped into the alleys of Covent Garden. By the time the stories begin they are smugglers, crime lords, and fighters, ruling an East End kingdom built to protect the vulnerable as much as to enrich themselves.

Devon, known as Devil, and his half brother Whit, called Beast, run the docks and market lanes with quiet efficiency. Their sister Grace has reinvented herself as Dahlia, the unseen queen behind a notorious pleasure club that caters to women's desires. The one person who threatens the empire they have built is Ewan, now Duke of Marwick, the brother whose betrayal almost killed them and who is determined to drag them back into the world of titles and power.

Wicked and the Wallflower pairs Devil with Felicity Faircloth, a former society darling turned anxious wallflower whose family fortunes are collapsing. Desperate to repair her place in the world, she makes a reckless claim about being engaged to the reclusive Duke of Marwick, which puts her directly in Devil's path. He decides to use her as a pawn in his revenge plan, promising to make the false engagement real, only to find himself falling for the very woman who threatens his hard won control.

In Brazen and the Beast Lady Henrietta Sedley has declared her twenty ninth year the Year of Hattie and drawn up a list that includes taking over her father's shipping business and sampling pleasure on her own terms. Instead she finds Whit tied up in her carriage, the unintended consequence of her feckless brother's latest scheme. Their partnership starts as a negotiation over revenge and trade routes and turns into a story about competence, desire, and who gets to captain a life.

Daring and the Duke brings Grace and Ewan face to face after years of believing each other lost. She is now the fiercely independent ruler of a women's club in the heart of the rookery, he is a haunted duke desperate for atonement. Their romance wrestles directly with questions of abuse, complicity, and whether some harms can ever be fully healed, all while delivering the grand gestures and hard won happiness readers come to this subgenre for.

Taken together, the trilogy feels like a love letter to the people history books tend to leave out. Dockworkers, shop girls, sex workers, and street fighters move through these pages with agency and humor, and the dukes and earls have to earn their place in that world rather than the other way around. It is a good fit for readers who like their historicals a little darker, with a strong through line of found family and female friendship.