The Season of Secrets Books in Order

This is the later title for the series first published as Sisterhood of Scandal, and the newer name fits well. Secrets run through everything here, hidden money, hidden feelings, hidden histories, and women who have learned to keep parts of themselves out of male hands until they decide otherwise.

The series opens with Miss Serena Wakes Up, then moves into the fuller novels centered on Tiffany, Farah, Courtney, and Ashley. Read together, the books create a shared Regency world where friendship matters as much as flirtation. The heroines do not move through society alone. They compare notes, protect one another, and, most importantly, refuse to let male relatives quietly settle their futures for them.

That resistance is the spine of the whole series.

The official series description says it plainly: this is a group of ladies whose friendship is based on making sure they can take on a world dominated by men. That gives the romance a stronger frame than simple debutante drama. Marriage is always on the table, because this is Regency fiction and society demands it, but Evans keeps asking what kind of marriage, to whom, and at what cost. The answer is never just rank or security.

The books themselves show the range inside that setup. One heroine hides financial power. Another tries to create a scandal rather than submit to the wrong match. Another gets back the man she thought she had lost forever, only to find he returns as a stranger. Even before you know every plot turn, you can see the pattern: these are women pushed toward one fate who insist on choosing another.

The tone blends sensual romance with emotional suspense. There are ballrooms, titles, and social rules, but there is also grief, pressure, memory loss, rumor, and the constant risk that one wrong move could change a woman's life for good. Evans likes that kind of edge, and it suits this series particularly well.

If you want a connected historical series where female friendship is part of the engine, not just decoration, The Season of Secrets is one of the clearest places to find it in Bronwen Evans's work.