Eloisa James
The debut trilogy is here complete, and so is a spread across five later sequences. This is the widest single-author sample on the shelf, the whole career in outline rather than one series read through.
What is here
Fifteen titles across six sequences
Most authors on this shelf are represented by one series read in a block. This one is different: three books from 1999, three from a fairy tale sequence, three across the Desperate Duchesses world, and singles from two more. It reads like someone who kept coming back over years rather than binging once.
The Pleasures Trilogy
Her first three novels. All three turn on somebody being misidentified: a stranger in a mask, the wrong bride carried down a ladder, a portrait standing in for a man.
- Potent Pleasures · #1 · her debut, August 1999
- Midnight Pleasures · #2
- Enchanting Pleasures · #3
Fairy Tales
A sequence of Regency-set romances each built on a recognisable fairy tale. The shelf has three of them, and their titles are explicit about which tale each one takes.
- When Beauty Tamed the Beast · #2
- The Duke Is Mine · #3
- The Ugly Duchess · #4
Book one is not on this shelf. The specific tale behind each title is evident from the titles themselves and is not asserted beyond that here.
The duchess books
Three sequences, one world
Desperate Duchesses
- A Duke of Her Own · #6 · the last of the original run
Desperate Duchesses by the Numbers
The follow-on sequence, and the second complete run on this shelf.
- Three Weeks With Lady X · #1
- Four Nights with the Duke · #2
Duchess Quartet and Essex Sisters
- Duchess in Love · Duchess Quartet #1 · the opening of the quartet
- Pleasure for Pleasure · Essex Sisters #4 · the closing book of that one
A first book and a last book from two different quartets, which is a fairly common way to end up owning a series without owning it.
The rest
- My American Duchess · standalone
- With This Kiss: Part One · novella
- Winning the Wallflower · novella
- Storming the Castle · short story
Note that With This Kiss is a serialized novella published in parts; only part one is on the shelf.
Coverage
What still has no hub
The Pleasures Trilogy has its own page. The Fairy Tales set and the Desperate Duchesses by the Numbers pair are the next candidates, three books and a complete two-book run respectively.
Compiled from the shelf record and standard series bibliographies. No part of these novels has been read directly for this page.