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The Heiress Hunters Books in Order

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Explore The Heiress Hunters by Shana Galen in order, with summaries, family background, Regency romance stakes, and a guide for starting the series.

Last updated: July 15, 2026

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A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord

by Shana Galen

2026

Desperate to recover her missing siblings, impoverished Tamsin Archer steals from the rich and is caught by Garret Kildare, an earl's son meant to court heiresses. Their uneasy alliance tests class boundaries, family duty, and trust.

The Heiress Hunters books in chronological order

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    A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord

    by Shana Galen

    2026The Heiress Hunters, Book 1

Series background & context

The Heiress Hunters begins with a family problem that calls for an unromantic solution. The Kildare family is facing financial ruin, and the sons of the Earl of Glenister decide that one of them must marry an heiress to save their household. What begins as a practical competition quickly becomes much more complicated when real people, real feelings, and sharp differences in class get involved.

The first book, A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord, introduces Garret Kildare, the second son of an earl. He should be looking for a rich bride, but he meets Tamsin Archer instead. Tamsin is struggling to support her injured mother and younger siblings in London, and she has been pushed into desperate choices as she searches for the children after they disappear.

Money is not the same thing as safety.

Garret catches Tamsin while she is trying to steal from wealthy households, but he does not simply turn her in. Learning what her family has endured, he offers help. Their partnership gives the story a strong class-crossing tension. He has privilege and family obligations. She has every reason to be wary of a gentleman who says he wants to help.

The series uses the familiar marriage-for-money setup, but it looks closely at the cost of social inequality. Regency London is not only ballrooms and fine clothes. Tamsin's world includes insecure housing, exploitative work, and the constant effort to protect the people she loves. Garret's family has its own crisis, but the imbalance between their choices remains part of the romance rather than something the story ignores.

The Kildare brothers create the ongoing series connection. Each has a different temperament and a stake in saving the family, so the competition to find an heiress promises plenty of interference, loyalty, and romantic trouble. Their younger sister's future also adds urgency to the question of how the family will survive.

Expect a warmer, more grounded Regency romance with banter and attraction alongside serious stakes. The central couple has to work through trust, pride, family pressure, and the social rules designed to keep them apart. Tamsin is determined to act for herself, while Garret must learn that helping someone means respecting her choices.

Start with A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord. It establishes the Kildare family's dilemma, introduces the tone of the series, and gives the clearest foundation for the heiress-hunting plan that will shape the books to come.

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