Margot St. James

About Margot St. James

Margot St. James writes high-stakes Regency romance where reputations are a currency and love is the ultimate gamble. Based in the wild, coastal beauty of Devon, she specialises in tales of powerful, brooding dukes and the scandalous secrets that set the ton ablaze.

Her novels lean hard into the tropes readers come to the Regency for — enemies to lovers, forced proximity, blackmail bargains, wallflowers with double lives, and morally grey heroes who fall devastatingly hard. Her heroines are apothecaries, artists, gossip columnists, thieves and mathematical prodigies: women who arrive with their own agendas and refuse to be underestimated by the men who underestimate them.

For Margot, a happily-ever-after is only earned through deep emotion and the courage to defy society's rigid rules. Every book is a standalone — a complete story with its own couple, its own scandal, and its own hard-won ending.

All Margot St. James books

Ten novels, no required reading order — every one is a standalone. Start wherever the premise grabs you.

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Where to start with Margot St. James

Because every novel stands alone, the best entry point is whichever trope you love most:

• If you want snowed-in tension — start with Caught in the Viscount's Bed: an apothecary framed for murder, a viscount being slowly poisoned, and a blizzard that seals them in together.
• If you want a morally grey hero — start with Seven Nights with a Notorious Earl: a ruined artist, a fallen earl the world believes is dead, and seven midnights to paint his soul.
• If you want a clever heroine running the scheme — start with Confessions of a Brazen Wallflower: a wallflower by day, a master thief by night, cornered into one last heist.
• If you want second-chance longing — start with Seducing the Duke Before Dawn: a decade apart, a royal cipher to steal, and a storm that traps her with the man she was forced to break.

Also by Margot St. James

Beyond the ten novels in this collection, Margot publishes further Regency romances — including The Rake's Accidental Engagement Scandal, The Duke's Ruthless Vow, The Saint's Sinful Bargain and The Duke's Infamous Command — as ebooks, paperbacks and audiobooks. You can browse her complete catalogue, including the latest releases, on her Amazon author page.

Her titles are also catalogued on romance.io, the romance-reader recommendation database.

If you like Margot St. James

Readers who enjoy her work tend to also read Lisa Kleypas, Sarah MacLean and Elizabeth Hoyt — the darker, higher-heat end of the Regency shelf. If you came here from the show, our books like Bridgerton list is the natural next stop.