Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
The complete full-spoiler franchise hub for Tad Williams’s four-volume publication of the original Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The Cynsters
Series hub for Stephanie Laurens’s Cynsters. The six cousins of the Bar Cynster, the reading order, and where the sprawling extended series goes after them.
The Malory-Anderson Family
Series hub for Johanna Lindsey’s Malory-Anderson family. Four aristocratic brothers, one of them an ex-pirate, an American shipping family, and forty years of the two colliding.
Bridgerton
Series hub for Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton. Eight siblings named alphabetically, one anonymous scandal sheet, and the reading order for all eight novels plus the Rokesby prequels and second epilogues.
The School for Heiresses
Series hub for Sabrina Jeffries’s School for Heiresses. A widow who lost her fortune to a charming man opens a school teaching heiresses to spot fortune hunters. All six books plus the anthology.