Madeline Hunter Books in Order: The Complete Reading Guide

A quick orientation before the lists: Hunter builds her series around tight friend groups — four women running a business, three brothers with terrible reputations, three dukes with worse ones. Every book delivers a complete romance, but within each series the couples walk through each other's stories constantly, so internal order matters. Between series? Total freedom. Pick whichever premise makes you clutch your imaginary pearls and dive in.

The Rarest Blooms series in order

Four women live quietly at a country house, growing rare plants and selling flowers — and every one of them is hiding something. Published in quick succession across 2010 and 2011, this quartet is peak Hunter: found family, slow-burning secrets, and heroes who are far too perceptive for anyone's comfort.

1. Ravishing in Red — Audrianna goes to a tavern to clear her late father's name and ends up compromised by the one man investigating him.
2. Provocative in Pearls — an earl finds the runaway wife who vanished two years ago, living under an assumed name among the blooms.
3. Sinful in Satin — Celia inherits her courtesan mother's house, and the lodger upstairs is not what he seems.
4. Dangerous in Diamonds — the scandalous Duke of Castleford inherits the flower farm itself, much to its owner's horror. The fan favourite.

The Fairbourne Quartet in order

Centred on a London auction house and the glittering, slightly shady world of the art trade — spies, forgeries, and inconvenient attraction included.

1. The Surrender of Miss Fairbourne (2012) — Emma intends to run her late father's auction house herself; the Earl of Southwaite has other ideas.
2. The Conquest of Lady Cassandra (2013)
3. The Counterfeit Mistress (2013) — a French émigrée who may or may not be a spy, and the officer determined to find out.
4. The Accidental Duchess (2014) — a gambling debt, a compromising position, and a very reluctant duchess.

The Wicked trilogy in order

Three brothers — one illegitimate, one a barrister, one accused of murder — and the women who take them on.

1. His Wicked Reputation (2015)
2. Tall, Dark, and Wicked (2015)
3. The Wicked Duke (2016)

The Decadent Dukes Society in order

Three dukes, lifelong friends, all allergic to respectability. If you came to Madeline Hunter for wicked banter and enemies-to-lovers energy, this is your series.

1. The Most Dangerous Duke in London (2017) — a duke pursues his family's sworn enemy's granddaughter for revenge. It backfires magnificently.
2. A Devil of a Duke (2018) — a duke catches a thief mid-burglary and is more intrigued than outraged.
3. Never Deny a Duke (2019) — a Scottish land dispute, a stubborn poet, and the last duke standing.

A Duke's Heiress series in order

Hunter's most recent Regency trilogy runs on a delicious hook: a late duke's will leaves fortunes to three women nobody in the family has ever heard of. Each book follows one heiress — and one deeply suspicious member of the duke's circle.

1. Heiress for Hire (2020) — Minerva Hepplewhite, professional inquiry agent, wakes to find an intruder in her bedchamber and handles it with a fire iron. Obviously, he falls for her.
2. Heiress in Red Silk (2021) — a milliner with ambitions and the new duke's rakish cousin.
3. The Heiress Bride (2023) — the final mystery heiress, and the answer to who these women were to the late duke.

Where to start with Madeline Hunter

If you love found-family warmth with simmering secrets, start with Ravishing in Red and read The Rarest Blooms straight through — it is the series readers press into each other's hands. If you want maximum duke energy and a faster, funnier ride, start with The Most Dangerous Duke in London. And if you like your heroines employed, armed, and unimpressed, Heiress for Hire is one of the best series openers Hunter has ever written. Whichever door you choose, finish the series before hopping — the friend-group cameos are half the pleasure.