A Little Bit Wicked: The Arcs
Two ruined marriages running side by side. Hers took years to finish her, his took a single day, and the book never once points at the symmetry.
A Little Bit Wicked: Tropes & Themes
Merry widow, the arrangement, the reformed rake. Every trope on the tin is here, and every one of them is doing a second job underneath.
A Little Bit Wicked: Four Scenes
Four scenes that would not leave. A supper with a self-portrait on the walls, a joke about Spain, a guest list built as a weapon, and the coldest room in the book.
A Little Bit Wicked
Book hub for A Little Bit Wicked, Last Man Standing #1 by Victoria Alexander. Written from the novel itself rather than a blurb: two people each wrecked by one early marriage, and ten years of guilt somebody else allowed.
Singles & Strays
Collection hub for the twenty titles on this shelf that belong to no run, abandoned series openers, orphaned middle books, and four small clusters. Completes the shelf.
Westerns & the Frontier
Collection hub for the American frontier romances on this shelf, nine titles across six authors, set in Texas, Wyoming, Montana and the Washington Territory rather than Regency London.
Julia London
Author hub for Julia London, six titles on this shelf across three sequences, including the complete Cabot Sisters trilogy.
Suzanne Enoch
Author hub for Suzanne Enoch, three unconnected titles, a sampling rather than a run, recorded without invented plot summaries.
Katy Madison
Author hub for Katy Madison. Three titles the Library had filed as unrelated standalones turn out to be The Dueling Pistols Series, complete at three books, all of them owned.
The Cynster Sisters Trilogy
Series hub for Stephanie Laurens’s Cynster Sisters Trilogy. Three sisters, three abductions, and one villain whose plot runs from the prologue of book one to the epilogue of book three. Complete run.
Johanna Lindsey
Author hub for Johanna Lindsey. 14 titles on this shelf, nine of them Malorys, plus five singles scattered across four other worlds.
Victoria Alexander
Author hub for Victoria Alexander, five titles, three of them from Last Man Standing, plus a flagged conflict between the shelf’s numbering and the publisher’s.
Julia Quinn
Author hub for Julia Quinn. 19 titles on this shelf across five series, from the 1995 debut through the Bridgertons, the Rokesbys and the Smythe-Smiths.
Stephanie Laurens
Author hub for Stephanie Laurens. 18 titles on this shelf, ten of them Cynsters, plus the Bastion Club, Barnaby Adair and four novellas.
Eloisa James
Author hub for Eloisa James. 15 titles across six sequences, the widest single-author sample on this shelf, with the 1999 debut trilogy complete.
Mary Balogh
Author hub for Mary Balogh, eight shelf entries but nine novels, sampled one or two at a time across five different sequences including the Survivors’ Club.
The Sherbrooke Brides
Series hub for Catherine Coulter’s Sherbrooke Brides. The largest holding in the Library, eleven novels hiding behind three shelf entries, because two of them are omnibus bundles.
The Cabot Sisters
Series hub for Julia London’s Cabot Sisters. A dying stepfather, a mother losing her mind, and a stepbrother’s fiancée who means to put them all out of the house. Complete run on this shelf.
The Pleasures Trilogy
Series hub for Eloisa James’s Pleasures Trilogy, her first three novels, 1999 to 2000. Owning the complete run means owning the start of the career. Three books built on mistaken identity.
The Duchess of Love
Series hub for Sally MacKenzie’s Duchess of Love. A duchess named Venus is the ton’s best matchmaker and writes an advice column under a pen name, and cannot settle her own three sons.
The Blackwater Brides
Series hub for Jane Feather’s Blackwater Brides. A vindictive uncle wills his fortune to three broke nephews on one condition: each must marry a woman society calls ruined. Complete run on this shelf.
The Runaway Brides
Series hub for Celeste Bradley’s Runaway Brides. A small girl is abandoned at a gentlemen’s club with a note naming no father, and three of the residents each conclude she might be theirs.
The Smythe-Smith Quartet
Series hub for Julia Quinn’s Smythe-Smith Quartet. The famously dreadful musicale was a running joke across eight Bridgerton novels; here Quinn goes back and gives the girls holding the instruments their own books.
To Woo an Heiress
Series hub for Lindsay Randall’s To Woo an Heiress. Three sweet traditional Regencies in which the inheritance is the problem rather than the solution. Complete run on this shelf.
The Duke’s Men
Series hub for Sabrina Jeffries’ The Duke’s Men. A Regency investigation agency run by a disinherited younger son and his illegitimate half-sister, all four books, a complete run on this shelf.
The Hellions of Halstead Hall
Series hub for Sabrina Jeffries’ Hellions of Halstead Hall. Five siblings, a grandmother’s collective ultimatum, and a nineteen-year-old question about their parents’ deaths. The shelf holds the last two books.
Muses of Mayfair
Series hub for Sara Ramsey’s Muses of Mayfair. Four Regency romances about women with secret creative lives, an actress, a novelist, a forger, plus a correction to how one title was filed on this shelf.
The Wetherby Brides
Series hub for Jerrica Knight-Catania’s Wetherby Brides. The first four books complete, plus the short stories and second epilogues, and an honest account of how little is verifiable about them.
The Company of Rogues
Series hub for Jo Beverley’s Company of Rogues. A schoolboy alliance formed at Harrow that outlives school, reassembled in 1814 when one of them needs help with the Crown.
London Fairy Tales
Series hub for Rachel Van Dyken’s London Fairy Tales. Eight Regency romances built on fairy tale shapes, and an honest note about why this one has no cover art.