A. Lady Books in Order (Updated May 10, 2026)

A. Lady is best treated here as Shana Granderson A Lady, the author of many Pride and Prejudice variations. Her books are mostly alternate Austen timelines, with several clearly marked multi-book sequences.

Do not read the whole catalogue as one story. Read The Discarded Daughter, The Duke’s Daughter, Lady Beth Fitzwilliam, and Take Charge in series order. Treat the rest of the Pride & Prejudice Variation books as separate “what if?” stories unless a title clearly belongs to a named sub-series.

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A note on the name: some older retailer listings use “A Lady” generically or in connection with other authors, including Meg Osborne’s Pathway to Pemberley books. This guide focuses on the Shana Granderson A Lady bibliography.

Fast Orientation

Best starting point for a connected series:

Charlotte Lucas Takes Charge

Best starting point for a longer dramatic sequence:

Discarded

Best starting point for a standalone-style variation:

A Change of Fortunes

Latest confirmed release found:

Abandoned – 2026

Series where order matters most:

The Discarded Daughter
The Duke’s Daughter
Lady Beth Fitzwilliam
Take Charge

The Discarded Daughter Books in Order

This is a connected four-book sequence. Read it in order because Elizabeth’s situation, recovery, reunion, and later life develop across the books.

Discarded (2021): Opens the series with Elizabeth Bennet cast out or rejected, forcing her into a new life away from the usual Longbourn path.
Recovery (2021): Follows Elizabeth after the first rupture, focusing on rebuilding, safety, and the emotional cost of what happened.
Reunited (2021): Brings separated characters back into contact, making recognition, family ties, and renewed trust central to the story.
Loving and Living (2021): Concludes the sequence by moving beyond survival into settlement, family healing, and the long-term shape of Elizabeth’s future.

Reading note: Do not begin with book 2, 3, or 4. This is one of the clearest serial arcs in the A. Lady catalogue.

The Duke’s Daughter Books in Order

This is another connected sequence and should be read in order.

Assumptions and Consequences (2021): Begins the story with mistaken beliefs and the serious results that follow, reshaping Elizabeth’s place in the Darcy-and-Bennet world.
Highs and Lows (2021): Continues the consequences of book 1, pushing the characters through reversals, revelations, and emotional testing.
Conclusions (2021): Brings the trilogy to its resolution, settling the central misunderstandings and the altered family relationships.

Reading note: This is not a loose theme collection. Treat it as a three-part story.

Lady Beth Fitzwilliam Books in Order

This two-book series is one of the author’s most popular connected sequences.

Kidnapped (2022): Begins Lady Beth Fitzwilliam’s story with abduction, family danger, and a sharply altered identity path for an Austen-inspired heroine.
Consequences (2022): Follows the aftermath of the kidnapping plot, showing how the earlier danger changes family alliances, romance, and long-term security.

Reading note: Read Kidnapped before Consequences. The second title depends on the first.

Take Charge Series Books in Order

The Take Charge books are linked by premise rather than by one single couple. Each title gives a different Austen character the power to intervene, redirect events, or repair damage.

Charlotte Lucas Takes Charge (2021): Opens the series by giving Charlotte Lucas a more active role in steering the future around Longbourn, Hunsford, and Elizabeth’s choices.
Lady Catherine Takes Charge (2021): Reimagines Lady Catherine as a stronger driver of events, using Rosings power and family authority to change the usual Austen route.
Miss Darcy Takes Charge (2022): Gives Georgiana Darcy more agency, allowing her choices and courage to affect Darcy, Elizabeth, and the Wickham shadow.
Mr. Bingley Takes Charge (2022): Lets Bingley act with more firmness, changing the Netherfield departure and the pain caused by outside interference.
Anne de Bourgh Takes Charge (2022): Moves Anne de Bourgh from the margins to the center, letting her decisions affect Rosings, Lady Catherine, and the Darcy connection.
Jane Bennet Takes Charge (2022): Gives Jane a more active hand in her own future, especially around Bingley, family pressure, and the consequences of silence.
Mary Bennet Takes Charge (2023): Turns Mary Bennet into a more decisive figure, using her intelligence and moral seriousness to alter family outcomes.
Colonel Fitzwilliam Takes Charge (2023): Places Colonel Fitzwilliam in a stronger intervention role, especially around Darcy, Elizabeth, and the larger Fitzwilliam family.
Fanny Bennet Takes Charge (2024): Reworks Mrs. Bennet as a more effective force, letting maternal energy redirect the Bennet daughters’ prospects.
Thomas Bennet Takes Charge (2024): Gives Mr. Bennet the responsibility he often avoids, changing Longbourn’s future by making him act sooner.
The Gardiners Take Charge (2025): Centers the Gardiners as practical, protective adults whose intervention can repair or prevent Bennet-family disaster.
Hurst Takes Charge (2026): Gives Mr. Hurst an unexpectedly active role, continuing the series pattern of letting a usually secondary figure redirect the familiar plot.

Reading note: These are best read in publication order. Each book can be understood by readers who know Pride and Prejudice, but the series works best as a sequence of “who takes charge next?” reversals.

Pride & Prejudice Variation Books in Publication Order

These books are mostly separate alternate timelines. They use Austen’s characters and settings, but one title does not usually continue directly into the next.

A Change of Fortunes (2020): Starts the author’s Pride and Prejudice variation catalogue with a changed family or financial situation that redirects Elizabeth and Darcy’s future.
The Hypocrite (2020): Builds the story around moral double standards, forcing familiar Austen characters to face conduct that does not match their public principles.
Surviving Thomas Bennet (2021): Recasts Mr. Bennet’s family history and character influence, making survival inside the Bennet family a central pressure.
Unknown Family Connections (2021): Uses hidden kinship and unexpected relationships to alter the social map around the Bennets and Darcys.
Cinder-Liza (2021): A Cinderella-flavored Pride and Prejudice variation that places Elizabeth in a more openly mistreated and fairy-tale-adjacent role.
A Bennet of Royal Blood (2021): Gives the Bennet family a much grander lineage, raising the social and political stakes around Elizabeth’s position.
Banished (2021): Begins from exile, rejection, or removal, pushing Elizabeth into a changed life before the usual romance can unfold.
The Repercussions of Extreme Pride & Prejudice / Colonel & Mrs. Richard Fitzwilliam (2022): Explores the consequences of pride, prejudice, and altered Fitzwilliam-family outcomes.
Mrs. Caroline Darcy (2022): Reimagines Caroline Bingley’s place in Darcy’s life, turning one of Austen’s most persistent rivals into the center of a changed marital premise.
Lives Begun in Obscurity (2022): Focuses on hidden beginnings, altered identities, or obscure origins that reshape how the familiar families understand each other.
Separated at Birth (2022): Uses a lost-family or switched-family premise to change the identities and loyalties surrounding the Bennet and Darcy circles.
Admiral Thomas Bennet (2022): Recasts Mr. Bennet with a naval identity, changing his authority, history, and the Bennet family’s position.
Lady Catherine’s Forbidden Love (2023): Gives Lady Catherine a romance-centered backstory or alternate path, making Rosings and de Bourgh history more emotionally complicated.
A Curate’s Daughter (2023): Places a clerical-family connection at the center of the variation, changing Elizabeth’s position and the social assumptions around her.
Love Unrestricted (2023): A sequel to Lady Catherine’s Forbidden Love, continuing that altered emotional thread rather than standing fully alone.
Much Pride, Prejudice, and Sensibility – Without Enough Sense (2023): Combines Pride and Prejudice with Sense and Sensibility, using a crossover structure to multiply family and romantic complications.
The First Mrs. Darcy (2023): Changes Darcy’s marital history, making Elizabeth’s place in his life more complicated from the beginning.
A Change of Heart (2023): Uses emotional reversal as the key device, letting altered judgment and softened pride redirect the romance.
Her Grace (2024): Raises Elizabeth or another central figure into a ducal sphere, using rank, coercion, and family pressure to reshape the match.
Anne de Bourgh’s Best Friend (2024): Builds a friendship between Anne and Elizabeth into the force that changes Rosings, Lady Catherine, and Darcy’s future.
My Brother, Your Sister (2024): Uses sibling relationships and family pairings to complicate Darcy and Elizabeth’s courtship.
An Epic Surprise (2024): Turns an unexpected revelation into the main engine of the variation, changing the characters’ assumptions about family, rank, or affection.
Elizabeth’s Self-Discovery (2024): Focuses on Elizabeth’s inner growth and changing understanding of herself before the romantic resolution can settle.
A Change of Family (2024): Uses altered family structure or newly discovered relations to redirect the Bennet-Darcy story.
Bravery & Treachery (2024): Combines courage and betrayal, placing danger or deceit at the center of the variation.
Aunt Felicity (2025): Introduces or foregrounds an aunt figure whose intervention changes Elizabeth’s family situation and marriage prospects.
The Next Mrs Bennet (2025): Reimagines the Bennet household through a new Mrs. Bennet figure, changing Longbourn’s domestic balance.
A Life Diverted (2025): Sends the familiar story onto a different path from an early turning point, changing the sequence before Darcy and Elizabeth can reach canon.
Great Uncle Henry (2025): Uses an older family relative as the catalyst for inheritance, protection, or social change.
A Change of Jane’s Personal Philosophy (2025): Centers Jane Bennet’s altered outlook, giving her more agency and changing the emotional consequences of Bingley’s behavior.
The Collins Effect (2026): Uses Mr. Collins or his influence as the disruption point, making his presence more consequential than in the original novel.
Abandoned (2026): The latest confirmed Pride and Prejudice variation found, beginning from abandonment or rejection and rebuilding the story from that injury.

Reading note: Only Love Unrestricted clearly needs a prior book, because it follows Lady Catherine’s Forbidden Love. The rest can generally be chosen by premise.

A. Lady Publication Order

This order combines the author’s major series and standalone-style variations by year. It is useful for readers who want to follow the catalogue as it appeared.

A Change of Fortunes (2020): A changed-fortune premise reshapes the Bennet and Darcy worlds.
The Hypocrite (2020): A moral-contrast variation built around conduct, judgment, and exposed inconsistency.
Discarded (2021): The first Discarded Daughter book, beginning Elizabeth’s separation from the expected Longbourn path.
Recovery (2021): The second Discarded Daughter book, focused on repair after the opening rupture.
Reunited (2021): The third Discarded Daughter book, bringing separated people and truths back together.
Loving and Living (2021): The fourth Discarded Daughter book, completing Elizabeth’s long recovery arc.
Assumptions and Consequences (2021): The first Duke’s Daughter book, where mistaken assumptions create lasting fallout.
Highs and Lows (2021): The second Duke’s Daughter book, continuing the emotional and social reversals.
Conclusions (2021): The third Duke’s Daughter book, closing the altered family story.
Surviving Thomas Bennet (2021): A Bennet-family variation built around the consequences of Thomas Bennet’s history and behavior.
Unknown Family Connections (2021): A hidden-family variation that redraws the map of relationships.
Cinder-Liza (2021): A Cinderella-shaped Elizabeth variation.
A Bennet of Royal Blood (2021): A royal-lineage variation that changes the Bennets’ social meaning.
Banished (2021): A rejection-and-exile variation that moves Elizabeth away from the ordinary canon path.
Charlotte Lucas Takes Charge (2021): The first Take Charge book, giving Charlotte a more decisive role.
Lady Catherine Takes Charge (2021): The second Take Charge book, giving Rosings authority a more active function.
Kidnapped (2022): The first Lady Beth Fitzwilliam book, beginning a danger-centered two-part arc.
Consequences (2022): The second Lady Beth Fitzwilliam book, following the aftermath of the kidnapping.
The Repercussions of Extreme Pride & Prejudice / Colonel & Mrs. Richard Fitzwilliam (2022): A Fitzwilliam-linked variation about the fallout from extreme pride and prejudice.
Mrs. Caroline Darcy (2022): A Caroline-centered alternate-marriage premise.
Lives Begun in Obscurity (2022): A hidden-origin variation.
Separated at Birth (2022): A lost-family or switched-identity variation.
Admiral Thomas Bennet (2022): A naval Mr. Bennet reimagining.
Miss Darcy Takes Charge (2022): The third Take Charge book, centered on Georgiana.
Mr. Bingley Takes Charge (2022): The fourth Take Charge book, making Bingley more decisive.
Anne de Bourgh Takes Charge (2022): The fifth Take Charge book, giving Anne a stronger voice.
Jane Bennet Takes Charge (2022): The sixth Take Charge book, increasing Jane’s agency.
Lady Catherine’s Forbidden Love (2023): A Lady Catherine romance-history variation.
A Curate’s Daughter (2023): A variation shaped by a clerical-family premise.
Love Unrestricted (2023): A sequel to Lady Catherine’s Forbidden Love.
Much Pride, Prejudice, and Sensibility – Without Enough Sense (2023): A Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility crossover.
The First Mrs. Darcy (2023): A variation built around Darcy’s altered marital past.
A Change of Heart (2023): A variation centered on altered feeling and revised judgment.
Mary Bennet Takes Charge (2023): The seventh Take Charge book, giving Mary a stronger role.
Colonel Fitzwilliam Takes Charge (2023): The eighth Take Charge book, turning Colonel Fitzwilliam into an active fixer.
Her Grace (2024): A rank-and-power variation involving ducal status.
Anne de Bourgh’s Best Friend (2024): A friendship-centered Rosings variation.
My Brother, Your Sister (2024): A sibling-pairing variation.
An Epic Surprise (2024): A revelation-driven variation.
Elizabeth’s Self-Discovery (2024): A self-knowledge and growth-focused Elizabeth story.
A Change of Family (2024): A family-structure variation.
Bravery & Treachery (2024): A danger-and-betrayal variation.
Fanny Bennet Takes Charge (2024): The ninth Take Charge book, recasting Mrs. Bennet as more effective.
Thomas Bennet Takes Charge (2024): The tenth Take Charge book, forcing Mr. Bennet into responsibility.
Aunt Felicity (2025): A family-intervention variation built around an aunt figure.
The Next Mrs Bennet (2025): A Bennet-household variation involving a new Mrs. Bennet.
A Life Diverted (2025): A diverted-timeline variation.
Great Uncle Henry (2025): A relative-and-inheritance variation.
A Change of Jane’s Personal Philosophy (2025): A Jane-centered change-of-outlook variation.
The Gardiners Take Charge (2025): The eleventh Take Charge book, centered on the Gardiners’ intervention.
The Collins Effect (2026): A Mr. Collins-driven variation.
Hurst Takes Charge (2026): The twelfth Take Charge book, giving Mr. Hurst an unexpected role.
Abandoned (2026): The newest confirmed release found, built around rejection or abandonment as the story’s starting wound.

Chronological Order

A single chronological order does not work for A. Lady’s full catalogue.

Most of the books are different versions of Pride and Prejudice. One book may change Elizabeth’s parentage, another may change Mr. Bennet, another may empower Charlotte Lucas, and another may start with abduction or banishment. These cannot all fit into one shared timeline.

Use chronological order only inside connected sequences:

The Discarded Daughter:

Discarded (2021): Starts Elizabeth’s altered-life arc.
Recovery (2021): Follows her rebuilding.
Reunited (2021): Reconnects people and truths.
Loving and Living (2021): Resolves the long arc.

The Duke’s Daughter:

Assumptions and Consequences (2021): Opens the trilogy.
Highs and Lows (2021): Continues the fallout.
Conclusions (2021): Ends the sequence.

Lady Beth Fitzwilliam:

Kidnapped (2022): Starts the danger arc.
Consequences (2022): Follows the aftermath.

Take Charge:
Read from Charlotte Lucas Takes Charge through Hurst Takes Charge in publication order.

Latest A. Lady Book

As of May 10, 2026, the latest confirmed Shana Granderson A Lady release I found is Abandoned, released in April 2026.

The latest confirmed Take Charge book is Hurst Takes Charge, released in March 2026.

I did not find a reliably confirmed later upcoming Shana Granderson A Lady title with a set publication date.

FAQs

Who is A. Lady?

For this guide, A. Lady refers to Shana Granderson A Lady, an author of Pride and Prejudice variations. The wording is sometimes confusing because older Austen-inspired works and retailer pages may also use “A Lady” as a generic author label.

What A. Lady book should I read first?

Start with A Change of Fortunes for a standalone-style variation. Start with Charlotte Lucas Takes Charge if you want the author’s best-defined series concept.

Are A. Lady’s books connected?

Some are connected, but most are separate Pride and Prejudice variations. The connected sequences are The Discarded Daughter, The Duke’s Daughter, Lady Beth Fitzwilliam, and Take Charge.

What is the order of The Discarded Daughter?

Read Discarded, Recovery, Reunited, and Loving and Living.

What is the order of The Duke’s Daughter?

Read Assumptions and Consequences, Highs and Lows, and Conclusions.

What is the order of Lady Beth Fitzwilliam?

Read Kidnapped, then Consequences.

What is the order of the Take Charge series?

Read Charlotte Lucas Takes Charge, Lady Catherine Takes Charge, Miss Darcy Takes Charge, Mr. Bingley Takes Charge, Anne de Bourgh Takes Charge, Jane Bennet Takes Charge, Mary Bennet Takes Charge, Colonel Fitzwilliam Takes Charge, Fanny Bennet Takes Charge, Thomas Bennet Takes Charge, The Gardiners Take Charge, and Hurst Takes Charge.

Is Love Unrestricted standalone?

Not ideally. Love Unrestricted is listed as a sequel to Lady Catherine’s Forbidden Love, so read Lady Catherine’s Forbidden Love first.

Are the Pathway to Pemberley books by Shana Granderson A Lady?

No. Public listings show Pathway to Pemberley as a Meg Osborne series with “A Lady” also credited on some retailer pages. Because this guide is for Shana Granderson A Lady, those titles are separate.

What is the newest A. Lady book?

The newest confirmed release found is Abandoned, published in 2026.

Conclusion

A. Lady’s catalogue is large, but the reading order becomes manageable once the series are separated.

Read The Discarded Daughter, The Duke’s Daughter, Lady Beth Fitzwilliam, and Take Charge in order. Treat the rest as standalone Pride and Prejudice variations unless a title clearly points to a prior book, as Love Unrestricted does with Lady Catherine’s Forbidden Love.

For most readers, the safest first choices are A Change of Fortunes for a standalone-style start, Charlotte Lucas Takes Charge for the main series concept, or Discarded for a longer connected arc.

Frank

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