Emma V Leech Books in Order (Updated March 14, 2026)

Emma V Leech writes in several distinct lanes, but her Regency romances form one long, connected family saga. That is the key to reading her properly. The cleanest path is not to jump around by trope, but to move forward through the social world she builds: first Rogues and Gentlemen, then Girls Who Dare, then Daring Daughters, then Wicked Sons.

Her newer Venturesome Ladies of Little Valentine books begin a fresh Regency branch, while her mystery, vampire, and fae series can be read separately.

The one-sentence answer

For most readers, the best order is:

Rogues and Gentlemen → Girls Who Dare → Daring Daughters → Wicked Sons

That sequence preserves family connections, recurring houses, old scandals, inherited feuds, and the long emotional payoff of seeing one generation’s romances become the next generation’s history.

The Regency family saga in order

Rogues and Gentlemen

This is the true starting point for Leech’s main historical world: smugglers, aristocrats, scandals, and a large cast whose children and relations matter later.

1. The Rogue (2017): The book that opens Leech’s Regency world in Cornwall, introducing the wilder, more lawless edge of the setting and the kind of dangerous hero who defines the series’ tone.
2. The Earl’s Temptation (2017): A more aristocratic second entry that pulls the series further into society intrigue while keeping the romantic tension sharp and personal.
3. Scandal’s Daughter (2017): A title built around reputation and inheritance, where family history starts becoming as important as attraction itself.
4. The Devil May Care (2017): A redemption-leaning romance for a damaged, notorious man, showing how often Leech pairs emotional ruin with wit and tenderness.
5. Nearly Ruining Mr Russell (2017): A lively society romance where a determined heroine and a man who would rather avoid trouble collide in exactly the wrong way.
6. One Wicked Winter (2017): A winter-set romance that deepens the series’ atmosphere of gossip, longing, and dangerous charm.
7. To Tame a Savage Heart (2018): A fiercer, rougher love story in which emotional control matters as much as external propriety.
8. Persuading Patience (2018): A more character-driven romance where restraint, misunderstanding, and quiet emotional pressure do most of the work.
9. The Last Man in London (2018): A city-set entry with a stronger sense of urban society and a hero who resists the role everyone wants him to play.
10. Flaming June (2018): A vivid, emotionally charged romance that pushes the series toward bigger feelings and sharper social stakes.
11. Charity and The Devil (2018): A morally tangled pairing where kindness and darkness are set directly against each other.
12. A Slight Indiscretion (2018): A story where one breach of decorum becomes the hinge for a much larger emotional reckoning.
13. The Corinthian Duke (2018): A duke-centered romance that leans into rank, expectation, and the private cost of public control.
14. The Blackest of Hearts (2018): One of the darker emotional entries, where pain and desire are closely tied and the title signals the mood accurately.
15. Duke and Duplicity (2019): A deception-heavy romance in which truth arrives late and carries real social and emotional consequences.
16. The Scent of Scandal (2019): A later-series book that uses rumor, attraction, and the danger of exposure to keep the world feeling alive.
17. Melting Miss Wynter (2019): A thawing-hearts romance that closes the main numbered run while keeping the cast network intact for what follows.

Rogues and Gentlemen extras

These are best read after the main run or in the places they naturally fit around the later books.

18. The Winter Bride (2019): A Christmas novella that returns to the Rogues and Gentlemen world for a shorter, warmer romance with widowhood and hope at its center.
19. Winter’s Wild Melody (2020): Another festive novella, this time with a more swept-up, weather-and-feeling driven setup.
20. The Christmas Rose (2021): A holiday romance that focuses on one of the younger men of the world and keeps the series’ emotional generosity intact.
21. A Rogues & Gentlemen Christmas (2021): A compilation volume collecting the three Christmas novellas, useful as a convenience edition rather than a separate continuity step.
22. Winter Rogue (2024): A later return to the series world, best treated as an after-the-fact revisit once you already know the original cast and families.

Girls Who Dare

This series is the next major step. It belongs to the same broader Regency world, but with its own identity: eleven girls, eleven dares, and a more overtly connected internal arc.

1. To Dare a Duke (2019): The proper starting point for this generation, introducing the wallflower pact and the blend of friendship, risk, and romance that drives the whole sequence.
2. To Steal a Kiss (2019): A bolder follow-up where desire and action move faster, but the friendship web remains just as important as the couple.
3. To Break the Rules (2019): A rules-versus-feelings romance that pushes the series’ central idea: respectability is often the first thing these women must challenge.
4. To Follow Her Heart (2019): A more openly emotional entry about choosing love over expectation, and one that strengthens the cumulative series arc.
5. To Wager with Love (2019): A gamble-driven romance where risk becomes emotional as well as social.
6. To Dance with a Devil (2019): A darker and more seductive installment, built around the appeal of danger and the cost of trusting the wrong man.
7. To Winter at Wildsyde (2020): A house-party style romance that expands the setting and gives the series one of its strongest “world in motion” entries.
8. To Experiment with Desire (2020): A more playful but still emotionally serious book where curiosity leads quickly into trouble.
9. To Bed the Baron (2020): A title that signals exactly what it promises: a more sensual, high-stakes romance with society consequences close behind.
10. To Ride With The Knight (2020): A later-series entry that carries more weight if you already know the family connections and prior dare stories.
11. To Hunt the Hunter (2020): A pursuit-based romance where power shifts back and forth and nobody stays safely detached for long.
12. To Dance until Dawn (2020): The final numbered Girls Who Dare novel, giving this generation a fittingly romantic and emotionally complete close.

Girls Who Dare side entry

13. Matilda And Montagu (2020): A companion piece rather than a main numbered step, useful for readers who want more of the series’ emotional texture.

Daring Daughters

This is where the earlier series really pays off. These books follow the daughters of the Girls Who Dare world, so reading the previous series first makes a noticeable difference.

1. Dare to be Wicked (2021): The first daughters book, reopening the famous hat of dares and shifting the long-running family saga to the next generation.
2. Dare to be Brazen (2021): A spirited follow-up where boldness is not just romantic but personal, as the younger generation tests the limits left to them.
3. Dare to be Wild (2021): A more untamed, emotionally forceful romance that shows these daughters are not simply copies of their mothers.
4. Dare to Cause a Scandal (2021): A scandal-centered installment that uses public risk and private longing in equal measure.
5. Dare it all for Love (2021): A high-stakes romance where the title says the whole point plainly: love here demands real sacrifice.
6. The Trouble with a Dare (2021): A playful title that still turns serious once dares lead to consequences no one can easily reverse.
7. Dare to Risk it All (2021): A later-arc book where the series becomes more emotionally invested in long family memory and inherited tension.
8. The Mistletoe Dare (2021): A Christmas entry that keeps the daughters’ continuity moving while adding festive warmth.
9. Just a Little Daring (2022): A slightly lighter-sounding book that still fits the series pattern of risk leading to deep emotional change.
10. An Enchanting Dare (2022): A romance with a more dreamlike or idealistic edge, but still firmly grounded in the family network around it.
11. To Dare the Devil (2022): A sharper, more dangerous entry where the balance tips toward darker temptation.
12. Sinfully Daring (2022): A title that signals heightened chemistry and moral tension, with the same interwoven cast behind it.
13. To Dare the Darkness (2022): One of the heavier later books, where pain, secrets, or fear play a larger role in the romance.
14. Wildly Daring (2022): A fuller-throttle emotional entry that keeps the late-series momentum strong.
15. The Dare Before Christmas (2022): A seasonal novel that still matters most as part of the daughters’ growing continuity.
16. Indecently Daring (2023): A later entry with a knowingly provocative title and the emotional confidence of a series deep into its world.
17. Truly, Madly, Daring (2023): A romance that leans into intensity and devotion, rewarding readers already attached to the family web.
18. Truth or Dare (2023): A revealing title for a book where emotional honesty becomes unavoidable.
19. A Daring Desire (2023): The nineteenth daughters novel, bringing this branch of the family saga to a strong current stopping point.

Daring Daughters recap companions

These are not substitutes for the novels, but they help orient readers in the longer arc.

20. Evie and Louis: The Story so Far (2022): A recap-style companion focused on one central relationship thread inside the larger daughters sequence.
21. Cat and Kilbane, The Story so Far (2023): Another continuity companion, useful once you are already inside the series rather than before it.

Wicked Sons

This branch follows the sons of the Girls Who Dare world. It is not the place to begin, but it is the right place after Daring Daughters.

1. The Devil to Pay (2023): The opening sons novel, shifting the saga again and showing how the next generation inherits both charm and trouble.
2. Wrecking Belle (2023): A disruptive, high-energy romance where emotional collisions arrive early and stay loud.
3. Return to Wildsyde (2023): A return-to-place story that pays off especially well if Wildsyde already means something to you from earlier books.
4. The Thorn and the Rose (2024): A sharper, more emotionally contrasted romance pairing pain and beauty in classic historical-romance style.
5. A Landscape of Love (2024): A more expansive-sounding book that uses setting and feeling together, rather than relying only on society scandal.
6. Venus in Disguise (2024): A masquerade- or identity-tinged romance where concealment is part of the attraction.
7. Kidnapping Cordelia (2024): A title that promises immediate trouble, action, and a romance built under pressure.
8. Walk on the Wildsyde (2024): Another Wildsyde-linked entry that feels like a deliberate conversation with the older series history.
9. Eight for Losing, One for Loving. (2024): A later-series romance with a more playful title but the same emotionally serious stakes underneath it.
10. A Wicked Business (2025): A business-of-marriage or business-of-desire style setup that fits the sons’ more knowing tone.
11. Debtor’s Daughter (2025): A romance shaped by money, obligation, and family burden, giving the series one of its weightier premises.
12. What Lies Beneath (2025): The current endpoint of the sons sequence, bringing hidden truths and buried feeling to the surface.

Separate Regency branch

The Venturesome Ladies of Little Valentine

This is Leech’s current Regency series, but it reads like a fresh branch rather than a direct continuation of the older family saga. It is a good modern entry if you want her current style without first committing to dozens of earlier books.

1. Cupid Comes to Little Valentine (2025): A seaside-village opener where scandalous newcomers and clever local women set the tone for a more self-contained new world.
2. The Song of the Siren (2025): A second book centered on secrets, second chances, and a more intimate emotional triangle of history and desire.
3. The Return of the Rake (2025): A classic rake-returns setup, ideal for readers who like reputations under pressure and unfinished business.
4. Christmas Comes to Little Valentine (2025): A festive village entry that deepens the setting and community rather than pausing the series.
5. A Devil’s Bargain (2026): A mystery-tinged romance involving a stolen brooch and unwanted partnership, showing the series’ appetite for village intrigue.
6. A Taste of Miss Honey (2026): The newest listed Little Valentine book, continuing the seaside series rather than starting another branch.

Regency mystery

The Regency Romance Mysteries

These are separate from the main romance-only reading path. Read them if you want murder, investigation, and a stronger mystery structure layered onto Leech’s historical voice.

1. Dying For A Duke (2017): A Regency mystery-romance opener that balances murder and manners without abandoning the romantic core.
2. A Dog in a Doublet (2018): A second case with a lighter-sounding title that still keeps the investigative thread front and center.
3. The Rum and The Fox (2018): The third mystery, blending wit, danger, and period intrigue in a more overtly case-driven format.

Paranormal and fantasy books

The French Vampire Legend

This is one of Leech’s earlier non-Regency branches and should be read entirely separately from the historical sagas.

1. The Key to Erebus (2012): A vampire-world opener built on dark mythology, danger, and a much more fantastical scale than her historical romances.
2. The Heart of Arima (2014): A second book that expands the supernatural world and deepens the emotional stakes inside it.
3. The Fires of Tartarus (2016): A darker continuation in which the mythology grows larger and more infernal.
4. The Son of Darkness (2020): The concluding volume of the vampire sequence, bringing the long supernatural arc to its payoff.

The French Fae Legend

Another separate fantasy line, distinct from both the Regency books and the vampire novels.

1. The Dark Prince (2015): A fae-fantasy opener with romantic intrigue and a larger magical world than the historical books ever attempt.
2. The Dark Heart (2016): A second installment that pushes both the emotional and fantasy conflicts further.
3. The Dark Deceit (2017): A deception-centered continuation where loyalty and identity become more unstable.
4. The Darkest Night (2018): The fourth main fae novel, escalating the magical stakes and dark-romance atmosphere.

French Fae companion

5. A Dark Collection (2016): A companion collection for readers already invested in the fae world, not the right place to begin.

Standalones

1. The Book Lover (2017): A standalone romance, separate from the big family series and best treated as its own one-book experience.
2. The Girl is Not For Christmas (2020): A witty Regency standalone that has become one of her best-known single titles and works well without broader series knowledge.

What matters most about order

Emma V Leech is one of those authors where “series order” really means “family chronology.” The books are full of parents, children, siblings, old friends, recurring estates, and reputational echoes. You can read a single romance on its own, but the richer experience comes from watching one social generation hand the story to the next.

That is why the safest route is still:

Rogues and Gentlemen → Girls Who Dare → Daring Daughters → Wicked Sons

Read The Venturesome Ladies of Little Valentine separately as the newer branch. Read the mysteries, vampires, and fae books as their own lanes.

Current release status

Emma V Leech’s official site presents The Venturesome Ladies of Little Valentine as her current Regency focus, and cross-checks with catalog pages show the newest listed title is A Taste of Miss Honey (2026), following A Devil’s Bargain (2026) in the same series. Wicked Sons currently runs through What Lies Beneath (2025), while the older family sagas are already substantial and complete enough to binge in sequence.