Stephanie Laurens
Ten of these eighteen are Cynsters. This is a shelf built by someone who found one family and kept going, then picked up the offshoots, the investigators and the novellas around the edges.
What is here
Eighteen titles, and a clear center of gravity
Laurens writes long interlinked family sequences, and this shelf reflects exactly how people read her: find the Cynsters, read the core run, then follow the next generation, then start filling in the adjacent series. Ten Cynster titles, two Bastion Club, and a scatter of everything else.
Cynster, the Bar Cynster
The core sequence: six Cynster cousins, each with his own book, in the order they fall.
- The Promise in a Kiss · prequel
- Devil’s Bride · #1
- A Rake’s Vow · #2
- Scandal’s Bride · #3
- A Rogue’s Proposal · #4
- A Secret Love · #5
Cynster Sisters Trilogy
The next generation. A complete run on this shelf, which is rare for an author whose sequences are this long.
- Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue · #1
- In Pursuit of Eliza Cynster · #2
- The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae · #3
Cynster Sisters Duo
- The Taming of Ryder Cavanaugh · #2
The Bastion Club
Laurens’s other major sequence: a group of noblemen who served in the Napoleonic wars and form a club to protect one another from the marriage market on their return. The prequel and one novel are here.
- Captain Jack’s Woman · prequel
- A Fine Passion · #4
Elsewhere on the shelf
- The Masterful Mr. Montague · Casebook of Barnaby Adair #3 · her mystery-forward sequence, where the investigation carries as much weight as the romance
- Four in Hand · Lester Family #1 · early work, predating the Cynsters
The short pieces
Four novellas sit on this shelf without a home series attached. Laurens publishes these steadily, often as anthology contributions later reissued alone, and they typically attach to one of the larger families.
- Melting Ice
- The Fall of Rogue Gerrard
- The Seduction of Sebastian Trantor
- Scandalous Lord Dere
Series membership for these four has not been verified and is not claimed here.
Coverage
What still has no hub
The Bar Cynster run has its own page. The Cynster Sisters Trilogy, a complete three-book run, is the strongest candidate for the next hub, followed by the Bastion Club.
Compiled from the shelf record and standard series bibliographies. No part of these novels has been read directly for this page.