Jess Michaels Books in Order: The Complete Reading Guide

The good news for newcomers: you don't have to read Jess Michaels in strict order. Every book is a complete standalone romance with its own couple and its own happily ever after. Her series are held together by friendships and families rather than one continuing plot, so reading in order simply rewards you with familiar faces and cameos. Below are her flagship series, grouped so you can pick a thread and follow it.

The 1797 Club in order

Her most beloved series: a secret society of young men who met at school and grew up to become dukes. Ten friends, ten love stories, one gloriously interconnected world.

1. The Daring Duke (2017)
2. Her Favorite Duke (2017)
3. The Broken Duke (2017)
4. The Silent Duke (2017)
5. The Duke of Nothing (2018)
6. The Undercover Duke (2018)
7. The Duke of Hearts (2018)
8. The Duke Who Lied (2018)
9. The Duke of Desire (2018)
10. The Last Duke (2018)

The Kent's Row Duchesses series in order

A newer trio centred on a fashionable London street and the duchesses who live there.

1. No Dukes Allowed (2023)
2. Not Another Duke (2023)
3. Not the Duke You Marry (2023)

More Jess Michaels series to binge

Michaels has a deep back catalogue of connected Regency series. Recent favourites include the Theirs series (Their Marchioness, Their Duchess, Their Countess, and more), the Regency Royals series (beginning with To Protect a Princess), and the About an Earl series (starting with The Wallflower List). She's written many more over the years, so once you've fallen for her voice there's a long, happy road ahead. Each series is a self-contained set of standalones — just start with book one and go.

What to expect from a Jess Michaels romance

Michaels writes emotionally driven, sensual Regency romance with a real knack for the connected-series format. Her books tend to pair wounded or guarded heroes with heroines who see past the armour, and she's especially good at the slow thaw — the gradual, believable falling-in-love that keeps you turning pages. There's often a secret, a scandal or a bit of intrigue driving the plot, but the emotional relationship is always the main event. The heat leans steamy, so these are romances for readers who like their chemistry fully on the page.

The connected worlds are a big part of the appeal. The 1797 Club in particular functions like a found family of dukes, and half the fun is watching the friend group needle each other and show up for one another across all ten books. That same warmth runs through her newer series, so once you've found a group of characters you love, there's usually a whole set of linked stories waiting. It's comfort-read Regency with genuine feeling underneath — easy to binge, easy to get attached to.

Where to start with Jess Michaels

Start with The Daring Duke. It opens the 1797 Club, introduces the friend group that anchors her most popular series, and sets you up for ten interconnected romances. If you'd rather sample something shorter and newer first, the Kent's Row Duchesses trilogy is a tidy three-book commitment beginning with No Dukes Allowed. Either way you'll get the Michaels signature: deep emotion, real chemistry, and dukes worth swooning over.

A quick note for series-minded readers: within the 1797 Club, reading in the numbered order above lets the friend-group dynamics and running references build the way Michaels intended, and a couple of couples you meet as side characters become leads later on. That said, every book resolves its own romance in full, so you're never stranded on a cliffhanger. Pick your entry point based on the trope you're craving — marriage of convenience, second chance, grumpy hero, forbidden attraction — and the connected world will happily take it from there.