The Fenwick Sisters Affairs Books in Order

The Fenwick Sisters Affairs begins with a family in retreat. Lady Ivy Fenwick and her sisters have been living quietly in their crumbling Tudor manor since their father's death in a duel left the family marked by scandal. Money is nearly gone, the house has been stripped of valuables, and their old life in society is no longer available to them.

Ivy decides hiding cannot last forever.

In Forbidden to Love the Duke, she takes the practical step of applying to become governess to the wards of James Merrit, Duke of Ellsworth. It is not an easy position for a woman raised as a lady, and it becomes harder when Ivy realizes James is the masked stranger she kissed years earlier at a masquerade. Neither has forgotten it.

James has problems of his own. He has returned from war and unexpectedly become responsible for his brother's young children after their mother leaves. He needs order in his household, not a clever, impoverished neighbor who unsettles him at every turn. Hiring Ivy seems sensible. Keeping their relationship professional proves far less so.

The series is built around the Fenwick sisters, Ivy, Rosemary, Rue, and Lilac, and the way their father's disgrace has reshaped their choices. Their isolated home matters because it holds both the remains of their old status and the pressure of what they might lose next. The sisters have depended on one another for survival, even as each is pushed toward a different future.

The tone combines Regency romance with domestic complications and an undercurrent of danger. Ivy must protect her family, earn a living, and decide whether she can trust a powerful man whose life is very different from hers. James has to reckon with duty, desire, and people from his past whose secrets make the situation more dangerous.

The romance has a fairy-tale edge, but the stakes stay practical. A job is not merely a job, and a proposal is not merely romantic. Both can decide whether a family stays safe, solvent, and together.

Begin with Forbidden to Love the Duke. It introduces the sisters, Fenwick Manor, Ivy's history with James, and the threats surrounding both families. The book gives Ivy and James a complete central story while laying the groundwork for the sisters' wider world.