Evie Dunmore Books in Order

The series follows four women connected to Oxford in the late Victorian era — among the university's first female students — who are also foot soldiers in the fight to amend the Married Women's Property Act. Every book is one woman's romance, complete with its own happily-ever-after. But the friendships deepen book by book, the political campaign escalates, and couples from earlier books keep walking through later ones. Read out of order and you will spoil three proposals and at least one scandal.

A League of Extraordinary Women in order

1. Bringing Down the Duke (2019) — Annabelle, a brilliant vicar's daughter on scholarship, is sent to recruit the coldly powerful Duke of Montgomery to the suffrage cause and instead starts a war of wits neither of them can afford to lose.
2. A Rogue of One's Own (2020) — Lady Lucie, the movement's fearsome leader, needs control of a publishing house; the infuriating rake who owns the other half is her oldest enemy, and he is not selling.
3. Portrait of a Scotsman (2021) — Dreamy banker's daughter Hattie is compromised into marriage with a self-made Scottish financier, and their honeymoon detour into his past turns a cold bargain into something much more dangerous to her heart.
4. The Gentleman's Gambit (2023) — Quiet, bookish Catriona, the last unmarried member of the League, meets her match in a charming antiquities scholar with a hidden agenda and very good reasons for it.

Where should you start?

Start with Bringing Down the Duke. That is not just the safe answer — it is genuinely the right one. It introduces all four women, sets up the suffrage storyline that threads through the series, and delivers the icy-duke-thaws romance that made Dunmore a phenomenon. It is also the book everyone means when they say "if you liked Bridgerton, read this."

If you are the type who reads for a specific flavour, here is the cheat sheet: A Rogue of One's Own is the enemies-to-lovers entry, with the sharpest banter in the series. Portrait of a Scotsman is the marriage-of-convenience book and the moodiest, most emotionally intense of the four — many readers' secret favourite. The Gentleman's Gambit is the gentlest, a bookish slow burn that rewards you most if you have watched Catriona hover shyly in the margins of the previous three books. Which is the argument for order, really: the quartet is built like a friendship, and it pays off the same way.

Does the series continue?

The quartet is complete: each of the four founding members of the League — Annabelle, Lucie, Hattie, and Catriona — has her book. That makes it a rare pleasure in romance: a fully finished series you can binge start to end without waiting on a cliffhanger. If you finish it and need something with the same brainy-heroine, powerful-hero energy, Courtney Milan's Brothers Sinister series and Eloisa James's backlist are the natural next steps — both are linked below.