Lorraine Heath Books in Order: The Complete Series Guide

Heath's series are all standalone romances, but they share one loosely connected world across several decades of Victorian London. The orphaned "scoundrels" raised by a kindly thief in her earliest series grow up, and years later their circle threads through the Sins for All Seasons books. You do not have to read chronologically — most readers start with her newer series — but knowing the map makes every cameo hit sweeter.

Scoundrels of St. James in order

Where the shared world begins: five children who survived London's streets together under the wing of Feagan, a Dickensian master thief, grow into dangerous, devoted adults.

1. In Bed With the Devil — Luke, the "Devil Earl" claimed from the gutter by an aristocrat, and the proper lady who needs a favour only a scoundrel can grant. A genre classic.
2. Between the Devil and Desire — Jack Dodger, gambling-den king, is named guardian to a duke's heir — and to the widowed duchess who despises him.
3. Surrender to the Devil — Frannie, the crew's beloved pickpocket, finally gets her own love story with a duke who will not take no for an answer.
4. Midnight Pleasures With a Scoundrel — Swindler, Scotland Yard's finest, falls for the woman he is meant to be watching.
5. The Last Wicked Scoundrel — A novella epilogue for William, the crew's physician.

The Hellions of Havisham in order

Three boys raised by a marquess driven mad by grief — think Miss Havisham with a title — grow up gloriously feral.

1. Falling Into Bed With a Duke (2015) — A spinster decides to take a lover at a masked pleasure club. She picks the wrong duke. Or exactly the right one.
2. The Earl Takes All (2016) — A twin assumes his dead brother's identity — including his brother's wife. The premise everyone argues about and then sobs over.
3. The Viscount and the Vixen (2016) — The mad marquess's son and the mercenary bride who answers a marriage advertisement.

The novella When the Marquess Falls (2017) tells the Havisham backstory itself — keep tissues within reach.

Sins for All Seasons in order

Her modern masterpiece series: the Trewlove siblings, all byblows of the nobility, raised by a loving foster mother in Whitechapel and determined to conquer the society that discarded them.

1. Beyond Scandal and Desire (2018) — Mick Trewlove plots revenge on the father who abandoned him, using an innocent lady as his pawn. It backfires magnificently.
2. When a Duke Loves a Woman (2018) — A duke crashes — literally — into Gillie Trewlove's tavern. Cross-class yearning at its finest.
3. The Scoundrel in Her Bed (2019) — Finn and the highborn girl he loved and lost as a teenager. Second-chance devastation.
4. The Duchess in His Bed (2019) — Aiden's gaming club, a widowed duchess with a secret purpose, and rather a lot of feelings.
5. The Earl Takes a Fancy (2020) — Fancy, the bookshop-owning youngest, meant to marry up — falling for a man she believes is a commoner.
6. Beauty Tempts the Beast (2020) — Beast Trewlove's story closes the series with the family's last secret.

The Chessmen: Masters of Seduction in order

Her latest complete trilogy — three strategic, self-made friends known as the Chessmen, playing for the highest stakes in Victorian society.

1. The Counterfeit Scoundrel (2023) — A "professional co-respondent" who helps wives escape bad marriages meets a lady detective investigating him.
2. The Notorious Lord Knightly (2023) — An anonymous novel scandalises London; the earl it is clearly about wants answers from its author.
3. In Want of a Viscount (2024) — An American heiress shopping for a title, and the viscount who refuses to be bought.

Where to start

For most readers, Beyond Scandal and Desire is the ideal first Heath — modern pacing, maximum emotion, and the full Trewlove family waiting behind it. If you love a classic, start where the world starts with In Bed With the Devil. And if you only want a taste of why BookTok calls her the queen of the historical ugly-cry, The Earl Takes All will settle the question in one book.