The de Montforte Brothers Books in Order

The de Montforte books are family-centered historical romances set mostly in Georgian England, with the American Revolution always close enough to change lives. The series begins with The Wild One, when Juliet Paige crosses from war-torn Boston to England with her baby daughter and lands in the orbit of the grand, complicated de Montforte clan. From there, the books move between English estates, busy roads, drawing rooms, and the wider Atlantic world that keeps pressing in on private lives.

At the center of that family is Lucien, Duke of Blackheath, brilliant, controlling, and far too used to arranging other people’s futures. Around him are siblings with very different tempers and troubles: Gareth, the reckless charmer with more heart than discipline; Charles, the dutiful soldier; Andrew, stubborn and brooding; and Nerissa, the sheltered youngest sister who wants more freedom than her brothers think she should have.

Lucien is always meddling.

Each main novel gives one sibling a central love story, but the series works best when read as a running family drama. The Beloved One brings the war in Massachusetts close through Charles and Amy Leighton. The Defiant One turns a compromising situation into a reluctant marriage between Andrew and Celsiana Blake. The Wicked One finally gives Lucien a heroine strong enough to meet him head-on in Eva de la Mouriére. The Wayward One widens the world even further by pairing Nerissa with Irish captain Ruaidri O'Devir and pushing the story more openly across the Atlantic.

What makes these books memorable is the mix of scale and closeness. You get titled families, castles, carriages, glittering rooms, and the pressure of reputation, but you also get bruised feelings, private griefs, unexpected laughter, and people learning how badly they need one another. Harmon likes strong-willed couples, sharp dialogue, and emotional messiness. She also likes showing how love can force proud people to grow up.

The supporting novellas keep that same feeling while shifting the focus. The Admiral’s Heart is a second-chance romance with an older ache to it. The Fox & the Angel and My First Noel bring in Christmas atmosphere, lonely hearts, and the quieter magic of being seen at the right moment. Then The Homecoming returns to the core family and asks what happens after the grand escape and the happily-ever-after, when a daughter comes back to Blackheath and old resentments are still waiting in the hall.

If you like historical romance that feels both elegant and lively, this is a strong place to start. The books have plenty of chemistry, but the real glue is family. These siblings quarrel, interfere, protect, forgive badly, love deeply, and keep turning up in one another’s lives. That is what makes the series feel less like a neat line of couples and more like a house full of people you come to know.