Elizabeth Essex

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2010
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Dartmouth Brides

1 - The Pursuit of Pleasure (Dec-2010)
2 - A Sense of Sin (Apr-2011)
3 - The Danger of Desire (Nov-2011)

Highland Brides

1 - Mad for Love (Mar-2016)
2 - Mad About the Marquess (Apr-2016)
3 - A Fine Madness (Apr-2017)
4 - Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Marry (Mar-2018)
5 - Mad Rogues and Englishwomen (Sep-2023)

Kent Brothers Chronicles

1 - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Jun-2017)

A Reckless Brides Novel

1 - Almost a Scandal (Aug-2012)
2 - A Breath of Scandal (Dec-2012)
3 - Scandal in the Night (Jul-2013)
3.5 - The Scandal Before Christmas (Oct-2013)
4 - After the Scandal (Mar-2014)
5 - A Scandal to Remember (Sep-2014)
5.5 - A Lady’s Gift for Scandal (Oct-2019)
6 - The Difference One Duke Makes (Apr-2019)
7 - She Walks in Scandal (Oct-2021)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Pursuit of Pleasure

    Dartmouth Brides - 1

    Never Say "Never" To Passion... Lizzie Paxton's dream in life is to be a widow -- if only she could skip the wedding and the husband. When her childhood friend Captain James Marlowe proposes a marriage in name only, she accepts, knowing she'll hav...

  • A Sense of Sin

    Dartmouth Brides - 2

    He Could Be Her Ruin After a shocking letter and then a mysterious warning about the dangers of unworthy men, Celia Burke is on edge. With her precarious position in society, the merest look could tear her reputation to tatters. And the roguish vi...

  • The Danger of Desire

    Dartmouth Brides - 3

    An Unlikely Partnership and an Uncontrollable Desire... Naval Captain Hugh McAlden is accustomed to taking on deadly, high-stakes assignments -- and being rewarded handsomely for his success at them. But to accomplish his latest mission, he'll nee...

  • Almost a Scandal

    A Reckless Brides Novel - 1

    Bold, brazen, and beautiful, the Reckless Brides refuse to play by society’s rules of courtship. But -- come hell or high water -- they always get their man… For generations, the Kents have served proudly with the British Royal Navy. So when ...

  • A Breath of Scandal

    A Reckless Brides Novel - 2

    THE LADY IS A KNOCKOUT Forced by her family into an engagement with a man she can never abide, Antigone Preston knows only a scandal will save her from a loveless marriage. But knocking a man down to the ballroom floor with her fists brings dangerou...

  • Scandal in the Night

    A Reckless Brides Novel - 3

    Assuming a false identity as a prim and proper governess, the bold and beautiful Cat Rowan thinks she has finally escaped the wild misadventures of her past -- and the wickedly handsome spy who seduced her in India. Imagine her surprise when her empl...

  • The Scandal Before Christmas

    A Reckless Brides Novel - 3.5

    Lieutenant Ian Worth needs a wife by Christmas, and he can't afford to be choosy. He has to find her, woo her, and wed her before he goes back to sea--all within a matter of days. Anne Lesley is a shy spinster with no prospects, and nothing and no...

  • After the Scandal

    A Reckless Brides Novel - 4

    In English society, the rules of engagement have stood the test of time. Until a Reckless Bride falls in deeply, scandalously in love… CAN AN INDECENT PROPOSAL When Lady Claire Jellicoe agreed to a walk in the moonlight, she never imagined he...

  • A Scandal to Remember

    A Reckless Brides Novel - 5

    The rules of courtship are swept out to sea when a shipwreck offers a Reckless Bride a true taste of paradise… CAN A WHIRLWIND ROMANCE In Elizabeth Essex's A Scandal to Remember, for too long, Miss Jane Burke’s father has taken advantage of...



  • Mad for Love

    Highland Brides - 1

    Set a thief…Rory Cathcart’s appreciation of the exquisite makes him the perfect man to expose forgeries and root out fraud in London’s tempestuous art world. But when his latest investigation into forged paintings puts him squarely in Mignon du...

  • Mad About the Marquess

    Highland Brides - 2

    WHEN A LADY TAKES TO THE ROADS TO PLAY ROBIN HOOD Lady Quince Winthrop has been robbing from society's rich and giving to Edinburgh's poor for years. But everything changes the day she can't resist the temptation to steal from the Marquess of Cairn...

  • A Fine Madness

    Highland Brides - 3

    “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village,she must seek them abroad.” Jane Austen Miss Otis regrets…The entirely of Miss Elspeth Otis’s inheritance from her wastrel father is a battered old trunk with some scrawled-upon f...

  • Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    Kent Brothers Chronicles - 1

    Nessa Teague has never believed in the magic that swirls around her village like a fine Cornish mist. She’s never had need of it. Until the day Lord Harry Beck returns to Bocka Morrow and Nessa realizes there is nothing, including the blackest of m...

  • Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Marry

    Highland Brides - 4

    The fourth highly anticipated novel in the Highland Brides series by award-winning author Elizabeth EssexHow would you know your one true love, if you didn’t even know your own self?A man stripped of his pastEwan Cameron, 5th Duke of Crieff has his...

  • The Difference One Duke Makes

    in Dukes by the Dozen
    A Reckless Brides Novel - 6

    A DUKE FOR ALL SEASONS! What’s better than a dashing duke? A dozen of them! In this case, a baker’s dozen -- thirteen of your favorite historical romance authors have come together to bring you more than a dozen tantalizing novellas, with one ...

  • A Lady’s Gift for Scandal

    in Betrothed by Christmas
    A Reckless Brides Novel - 5.5

    Miss Tamsin Lesley desires above all else to be a bluestocking and lead an intellectual life. The only thing standing in her way is her father’s heir, who wants her along with her father’s estate. To foil him, Tamsin enlists the services of mascu...

  • She Walks in Scandal

    A Reckless Brides Novel - 7

    A man who stands alone.Nicholas Gowan is forced to make his way in the world with his sword, teaching fencing to young lordlings with more money than sense. But when he takes on a remarkable—and remarkably attractive—new student, his pr...

  • Mad Rogues and Englishwomen

    Highland Brides - 5

    From award-winning author Elizabeth Essex comes the adventurous final novel of the highly acclaimed Highland Brides, a quintet of bold, brilliant lasses determined to make their own happily ever afters.A thing of beauty can be a joy forever.But beaut...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elizabeth Essex has published 18 books.

Elizabeth Essex does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mad Rogues and Englishwomen, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Elizabeth Essex, The Pursuit of Pleasure, was published in December 2010.

Yes. Elizabeth Essex has 4 series.
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