Cat Sebastian Books in Order: All 22 Titles
Cat Sebastian is an American novelist who writes queer historical romance. She worked as a lawyer and as a teacher before her first novel, The Soldier's Scoundrel, was published by Avon Impulse in 2016. Her early books are Georgian- and Regency-set; from 2019 she moved steadily into the twentieth century, with the 1940s-set Page & Sommers mysteries, the midcentury American Cabots stories, and the 1950s New York newspaper novels We Could Be So Good (2023) and You Should Be So Lucky (2024), which broke her out to a much larger readership. Her books have had starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Booklist. She has published twenty-two books between 2016 and 2026.
Do you have to read Cat Sebastian in order?
None of her seven series are connected to each other, so any of them is a valid entry point and you never need to have read an earlier series first. Within a series, read in publication order: the Turner, Seducing the Sedgwicks and Cabots books all carry characters forward, and the two London Highwaymen books are a single continuous story that will spoil itself if read out of sequence. You Should Be So Lucky should follow We Could Be So Good, and The Missing Page should follow Hither, Page. The two standalones, After Hours at Dooryard Books and Star Shipped, need no prior reading at all.
Genres and eras: Queer historical romance throughout, in two distinct blocks. Georgian and Regency England: the Turner series, Seducing the Sedgwicks, the Regency Impostors and the London Highwaymen books (2016-2022). Twentieth-century Britain and America: Page & Sommers (1940s English village), The Cabots (midcentury America), the Midcentury New York novels (late 1950s-1960s) and After Hours at Dooryard Books (February 1968, Greenwich Village). Star Shipped (2026) is her first present-day contemporary and is the only book here that is not historical.
Pen names: Cat Sebastian — The only name she publishes under. It is widely understood to be a pen name and her legal name is not publicly disclosed; no other pseudonym has been verified, so nothing is excluded from this bibliography on pen-name grounds.
The Turner Series in order (2016-2019)
Regency England. Her debut series. Her own website lists A Little Light Mischief as the fourth title; Goodreads numbers it 3.5 because it is a novella set slightly later than the trilogy. It is an F/F romance, unlike the three novels.
More on the The Turner Series series →
| Book | Title | First published |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Soldier's Scoundrel | 2016 |
| 2 | The Lawrence Browne Affair | 2017 |
| 3 | The Ruin of a Rake | 2017 |
| 3.5 | A Little Light Mischief novella | 2019 |
Seducing the Sedgwicks in order (2017-2020)
Regency England, following three Sedgwick brothers. Each book is a complete romance but the brothers recur, so publication order is the intended order.
| Book | Title | First published |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | It Takes Two to Tumble | 2017 |
| 2 | A Gentleman Never Keeps Score | 2018 |
| 3 | Two Rogues Make a Right | 2020 |
Regency Impostors in order (2018-2019)
Regency England, linked by the theme of assumed and concealed identity rather than by a family. The three books are effectively standalone; her website spells the series Regency Impostor, other listings use Regency Imposters.
| Book | Title | First published |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unmasked by the Marquess | 2018 |
| 2 | A Duke in Disguise | 2019 |
| 3 | A Delicate Deception | 2019 |
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Page & Sommers in order (2019-2022)
Cozy mystery romance set in an English village in the late 1940s. These two must be read in order.
| Book | Title | First published |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hither, Page | 2019 |
| 2 | The Missing Page | 2022 |
The Cabots in order (2020-2023)
Described on her own site as 'short novels and novellas set in America in the middle of the 20th century, revolving around a prominent American political family.' Tommy Cabot Was Here first appeared in the 2020 multi-author anthology He's Come Undone and was reissued as a standalone in 2021, which is why some listings date it 2021. Her site numbers Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue as the fourth book; Goodreads numbers it 3.5.
| Book | Title | First published |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tommy Cabot Was Here novella | 2020 |
| 2 | Peter Cabot Gets Lost | 2021 |
| 3 | Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots | 2022 |
| 3.5 | Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue novella | 2023 |
London Highwaymen in order (2021-2022)
Georgian England, 1751. The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes picks up directly from The Queer Principles of Kit Webb and does not work as a standalone.
| Book | Title | First published |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Queer Principles of Kit Webb | 2021 |
| 2 | The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes | 2022 |
Midcentury New York (the Chronicle books) in order (2023-2024)
Her own site's name for the pair. Both are set around a New York newspaper, the Chronicle, in the late 1950s and early 1960s; You Should Be So Lucky is set later and reuses the first book's cast, so read them in order.
| Book | Title | First published |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | We Could Be So Good | 2023 |
| 2 | You Should Be So Lucky | 2024 |
Cat Sebastian: standalone novels
These sit outside the numbered series and can be read in any order.
| Title | First published | |
|---|---|---|
| — | After Hours at Dooryard Books | 2025 |
| — | Star Shipped | 2026 |
Where to start with Cat Sebastian
We Could Be So Good
Her biggest crossover hit and the most common entry point, a 1958 New York newsroom romance that requires no prior reading.
It Takes Two to Tumble
The usual door into her Regency work and the head of a self-contained three-book series.
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb
Her best-known traditionally published historical, a Georgian highwayman caper, if you want plot and banter over quiet domesticity.
Frequently asked questions
Do Cat Sebastian's books need to be read in order?
Not across her whole catalogue. Her seven series are independent of one another, so you can start with any of them. Within a series you should read in publication order, because characters and events carry over; the two London Highwaymen books in particular are one continuous story.
What order should I read Cat Sebastian's books in?
Publication order within each series is the intended order. The Turner series runs The Soldier's Scoundrel, The Lawrence Browne Affair, The Ruin of a Rake, then the novella A Little Light Mischief. Seducing the Sedgwicks runs It Takes Two to Tumble, A Gentleman Never Keeps Score, Two Rogues Make a Right. The Cabots run Tommy Cabot Was Here, Peter Cabot Gets Lost, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots, Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue.
Are We Could Be So Good and You Should Be So Lucky connected?
Yes. Both are set around the same New York newspaper, the Chronicle, and You Should Be So Lucky is set later and features characters introduced in We Could Be So Good. Read We Could Be So Good first. Cat Sebastian's own website groups them as the Midcentury NYC or Chronicle books.
How many books has Cat Sebastian written?
Twenty-two, published between 2016 and March 2026. That is seventeen books in seven series plus two standalones, and includes three novellas: A Little Light Mischief, Tommy Cabot Was Here and Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue.
Does Cat Sebastian write Regency romance or something else?
Both. Her first six years of books were Georgian and Regency England, in the Turner, Seducing the Sedgwicks, Regency Impostors and London Highwaymen series. Since 2019 she has largely written twentieth-century historicals set in 1940s England and midcentury America. Star Shipped (2026) is her first present-day contemporary.
Are all of Cat Sebastian's books male-male romance?
Most are, but not all. A Little Light Mischief is a female-female romance, and Unmasked by the Marquess has a genderqueer main character. Her work is consistently queer historical romance rather than exclusively male-male.
What is Cat Sebastian's newest book?
Star Shipped, published in March 2026, an enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a long-running science-fiction television series. It is her first contemporary-set novel; the book before it, After Hours at Dooryard Books (2025), is a historical set in New York in February 1968.
How this list was counted
This guide lists 22 titles — 20 across 7 series and 2 outside them. Novels and novellas published under the name Cat Sebastian from 2016 to March 2026, counting each work once at its first publication. This matches the twenty-two titles listed on her own website. Tommy Cabot Was Here is counted once, at its 2020 anthology appearance rather than its 2021 standalone release. Box sets and reissues are not counted separately.
Deliberately omitted: 'Redressed' (2019), a short story listed by bookseriesinorder.com as a Turner-series newsletter freebie. It does not appear on the author's own website or on Goodreads' main list and I could not verify it from a second independent source, so it is not counted. Also omitted: the multi-author anthology He's Come Undone (2020) as a title in its own right; Cat Sebastian's contribution to it, Tommy Cabot Was Here, is counted once under The Cabots at its 2020 first appearance. Source disagreements found and resolved: (1) her own site numbers A Little Light Mischief as Turner book 4 and Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue as Cabots book 4, while Goodreads numbers them 3.5 - I have used the decimal positions because both are novellas sitting between or after the full-length books, and flagged the discrepancy in the series notes; (2) bookseriesinorder.com dates Tommy Cabot Was Here to 2021 and lists Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue and We Could Be So Good as standalones rather than as series entries - the author's own site is followed on both points. Cat Sebastian is understood to be a pen name but no legal name is publicly attached to it, so nothing is excluded on that basis. Sub-series naming varies between sources: her site uses 'Sedgwick Series', 'Regency Impostor Series' and 'Midcentury NYC'; retailers use 'Seducing the Sedgwicks', 'Regency Imposters' and 'The Chronicle'. Fantastic Fiction and FictionDB both refuse automated fetches, so neither was usable as a cross-check.