Jade Lee Books in Order: The Complete Reading Guide

The reassuring part: Jade Lee's books don't demand a strict reading order. Each novel is a standalone romance with its own couple and happy ending, and her series are linked by theme, setting and the occasional returning face rather than one continuing storyline. That means you can start any series at book one and read straight through, and you can hop between her Regency and China-set worlds however you please. Here's the lay of the land.

The Regency Rags to Riches series in order

Classic Regency comfort reading — heroines climbing out of hardship into love and security, with plenty of wit along the way.

1. No Place for a Lady
2. Devil's Bargain
3. Almost an Angel
4. The Dragon Earl

The Bridal Favors series in order

A trio of Regency romances centred on weddings, scandal and the tangled paths that lead there.

1. Engaged in Wickedness
2. Wedded in Scandal
3. Engaged in Passion

More Regency series from Jade Lee

Lee has returned to Regency England many times. Look for the Rakes and Rogues series, in which London's bad boys meet their matches, and Lords of the Masquerade, where three gentlemen throw a masked party at Vauxhall for their own secret reasons and three ladies find far more than they bargained for in the shadows of the pleasure garden. Each is its own connected set of standalones, so pick the premise that appeals and read that series in order.

Jade Lee's China-set historicals

Jade Lee's other great love is 19th-century China, and it's where she first made her name. Her award-winning Way of the Tigress series — White Tigress, Hungry Tigress, Desperate Tigress, Burning Tigress, Cornered Tigress and Tempted Tigress — follows Western women drawn into the philosophy, culture and romance of Imperial China. These are sensual, atmospheric historicals with a strong sense of place, and they're a genuinely distinctive corner of the genre. She has continued to mine Chinese and Chinese-British settings in later work, including newer Regency-era stories that bring Chinese heritage into London society. If you want romance that takes you somewhere unexpected, this is the thread to pull.

What to expect from a Jade Lee romance

The through-line across Jade Lee's very different settings is emotional depth and a strong sense of place. Whether she's writing a London season or the streets of 19th-century Shanghai, she grounds her romances in vivid, well-observed detail, and her heroines tend to be resourceful women navigating worlds that don't make things easy for them. Her Regency titles offer the familiar comforts of the genre — courtship, banter, second chances and hard-won security — while her China-set books bring a richness and cultural texture you simply won't find in a standard ballroom romance.

It's worth knowing that Lee's China-set historicals, particularly the Way of the Tigress series, are more sensual and adult in tone than her sweeter Regency work, so choose your starting point to match your mood. And if you ever spot the name Kathy Lyons on a cover, that's Lee too — the pen name she uses for contemporary romance. However you come to her, you're getting a writer who takes her research and her characters seriously.

Where to start with Jade Lee

If you came for Regency, start the Regency Rags to Riches series with No Place for a Lady — it's the most straightforward on-ramp to her ballroom side. If you're curious about her China-set work, begin with White Tigress, the book that launched the series that put her on the map. Whichever you choose, expect emotionally rich storytelling and a heroine worth rooting for. And don't be surprised if you arrive for one setting and stay for the other — plenty of Jade Lee readers come for the Regency and leave having fallen hard for Imperial China, or vice versa.