Wicked Worthingtons Books in Order

The Wicked Worthingtons books are built around one of Celeste Bradley's best series premises, a large, eccentric family with big hearts, bad reputations, and more schemes than sense. The Worthington siblings move through Regency society trailing gossip, debt, and general alarm, but inside their chaotic household there is also affection, loyalty, and a surprising amount of intelligence. This is the series to pick up if you like your historical romance with family uproar baked in.

Worthington House is almost a character in its own right. Bradley has described it as a place packed with art, science, mischief, Shakespeare, and love, and that is exactly how it reads on the page. The siblings are not interchangeable. Callie is impulsive, Castor is charming, Elektra is strategic, Orion is fiercely brainy, Bliss is determined, and Lysander carries deeper wounds than the rest. Because the family is so distinct, each book feels connected without feeling repetitive.

Order is not the family's strong suit.

The series opens with When She Said I Do, where Calliope Worthington stumbles into a marriage bargain with the reclusive Ren Porter. From there Bradley keeps widening the emotional range. And Then Comes Marriage leans into romantic confusion and comic rivalry. With This Ring has kidnapping and marriage plotting. I Thee Wed brings science and sexual tension together in one of the series' most unusual pairings. Wedded Bliss and On Bended Knee show that the books can stay funny while making room for damaged heroes, grief, and recovery.

What holds the series together is the contrast between surface chaos and genuine feeling. The Worthingtons can be ridiculous, and Bradley clearly enjoys letting them run wild, but she also takes their vulnerabilities seriously. Money worries, social ruin, old scandals, illegitimacy, war trauma, and fear of rejection all thread through the romances. Even when a setup sounds almost farcical, there is usually a bruise underneath it.

This series is also a good showcase for Bradley's range inside Regency romance. Some books feel close to comedy of manners. Some brush up against fairy tale shapes. Some connect back to earlier spy characters and shared-world history. All of them are driven by strong personalities and a family dynamic that keeps bursting through the formal surfaces of the period.

If you want Bradley at her funniest, warmest, and most emotionally expansive, Wicked Worthingtons is a very good place to land.