The Royal Saboteurs Books in Order

The Royal Saboteurs takes Shana Galen's love of spies into the Victorian era. The series follows a new group of Crown agents trained to do the jobs polite society would rather not notice. They are pickpockets, con artists, codebreakers, fighters, and people who have learned to survive by relying on their wits.

Their training camp gives the books a built-in family feeling. Recruits arrive with different skills and plenty to prove, then are pushed into missions that test both their courage and their loyalty. The work can take them from royal households and formal events to London streets where a wrong turn can be dangerous.

Romance is never separate from the assignment.

In Beauty and the Thief, Callahan Kelly, a talented conman, is offered a place among the agents and paired with Bridget Murray for an undercover mission. Lady and the Scamp sends Willoughby Galloway toward a plot against young Queen Victoria, while Saved by the Belle brings an injured agent into the orbit of a fearless tea-shop owner. Each book centers a different couple, but the agents' shared work and friendships carry forward.

The series is interested in people who do not fit neatly into the roles chosen for them. Some characters come from famous spy families and feel burdened by the comparison. Others are outsiders who have fought for the chance to serve. Women agents are expected to prove themselves again and again, often while their male colleagues discover that protection and respect are not the same thing.

There is danger here, but the tone stays energetic and warm. Missions involve assassins, political plots, anarchists, secrets, and treachery, while the romances lean on forced partnerships, second chances, and rivals who become allies. The books work as individual love stories, yet they are more enjoyable in order because each new operation adds to the group history.

At its heart, this is a series about found family under pressure. The Saboteurs have to decide who deserves their trust, what they are willing to risk for the Crown, and whether they can make room for love in lives built around secrecy.