Julie Anne Long Books in Order

Long has two major historical series. Pennyroyal Green is the classic run: a Sussex village, two feuding families (the respectable Redmonds and the wilder Everseas), and a heartbreak in the backstory that hangs over everything. The Palace of Rogues is her current series: a dockside London boarding house run by two enterprising women, where every guest arrives with a secret and leaves with a love story. Each book in both series is a complete romance — but Pennyroyal Green in particular rewards strict order.

Pennyroyal Green series in order

The engine of this series is Lyon Redmond and Olivia Eversea — the couple whose broken hearts open book one and whose story does not resolve until book eleven. Read in publication order and the finale hits like a freight train.

1. The Perils of Pleasure (2008) — Colin Eversea is rescued from the gallows by a mercenary with a mission, and the series bursts out of the gate.
2. Like No Other Lover (2008) — A nearly penniless beauty and a methodical naturalist play a careful game at a house party where both need to marry money.
3. Since the Surrender (2009) — A soldier and the widow he once loved untangle a mystery in London's shadier corners.
4. I Kissed an Earl (2010) — A sheltered Redmond daughter talks her way onto a ship captained by the man hunting her brother.
5. What I Did for a Duke (2011) — A vengeful duke sets out to seduce his enemy's sister and gets utterly out-played by her; widely considered Long's masterpiece.
6. How the Marquess Was Won (2011) — A schoolteacher with nothing and the most eligible man in England, in the series' most quietly devastating slow burn.
7. A Notorious Countess Confesses (2012) — A scandalous former actress moves to Pennyroyal Green and sets her sights, catastrophically, on the vicar.
8. It Happened One Midnight (2013) — Jonathan Redmond and a chaotic, secret-keeping heiress strike sparks all over London.
9. Between the Devil and Ian Eversea (2014) — An American miss armed with excellent aim takes on the Eversea family's most incorrigible rake.
10. It Started with a Scandal (2015) — A ruined housekeeper and an icy Bourbon prince thaw each other out in the series' beloved grumpy-sunshine entry.
11. The Legend of Lyon Redmond (2015) — Lyon and Olivia, at last; eleven books of longing pay off in the finale readers waited seven years for.

The Palace of Rogues series in order

The Grand Palace on the Thames: a scrupulously respectable boarding house with a curious knack for attracting dukes, smugglers, opera singers, and pirates. The proprietresses' found family grows book by book, so order adds warmth even though each romance stands alone.

1. Lady Derring Takes a Lover (2019) — A widow and her late husband's mistress open a boarding house together, and a suspicious king's-agent checks in.
2. Angel in a Devil's Arms (2019) — A man presumed dead for a decade returns with a legend attached and meets the one woman who is not afraid of it.
3. I'm Only Wicked with You (2021) — A wild American heiress-to-be and a glacial English lord are forced toward the altar by one catastrophic compromising scene.
4. After Dark with the Duke (2021) — An opera singer in disgrace and a national war-hero duke trade Italian lessons in the series' most beloved slow burn.
5. You Were Made to Be Mine (2022) — A spy hired to find an earl's runaway fiancée finds her first — and hides her.
6. How to Tame a Wild Rogue (2023) — A privateer and a proper lady's companion ride out a storm under one roof, fake courtship included.
7. My Season of Scandal (2024) — A country doctor's daughter's first London Season collides with the ton's most calculating rising politician.
8. The Beast Takes a Bride (2024) — An estranged marriage of convenience reignites when a battle-hardened soldier finally comes home to the wife he barely knows.
9. Game of Rogues (2026) — The newest arrival at the Grand Palace on the Thames, and the latest reason the sitting room's epithet jar keeps filling up.

Where should you start with Julie Anne Long?

Two good doors in. If you want the full saga experience, start Pennyroyal Green at The Perils of Pleasure and let the Lyon-and-Olivia mystery build properly. If you want proof of concept first, read What I Did for a Duke — it is the book that converts skeptics — then decide whether to loop back to the beginning (you will). If you would rather start where the author currently lives, Lady Derring Takes a Lover opens the Palace of Rogues with no homework required, and After Dark with the Duke is the series' consensus standout once you are in.