Maeve Greyson Books in Order (Updated April 28, 2026)

Maeve Greyson writes Scottish time-travel romance, Highland historical romance, Regency romance, and fantasy romance. Her catalogue is built around recurring clans, fated pairings, magical interference, and heroines who usually arrive with more stubbornness than patience.

There is no single master order that every reader must follow. The cleanest approach is to choose one series and read that series in order.

The most accessible starting points are My Highland Lover for Highland time travel, The Guardian for Highland historical romance, Blessing’s Baron for Regency romance, and A Fine Scottish Time for newer Scottish romantasy.

The Fast Route

1. Read Highland Hearts first if you want the earlier published time-travel Highland romances.
2. Read Highland Heroes first if you want a historical Highland series with a prequel and several connected heroes.
3. Read Seven Unsuitable Sisters first if you want Regency romance.
4. Read The Magical Matchmakers of Seven Cairns first if you want the newest Scottish romantasy lane.

Continuity Notes Before You Start

Maeve Greyson’s series are mostly separate reading lanes, but some books share themes and Scottish fantasy elements. The safest order is publication order within each series.

The MacKay Clan Legends have an unusual reading-order issue. Some older books were later folded into that series structure, while newer origin-style books were added in 2024. For modern readers, the author’s current series order is the clearest order to use.

The standalone books do not need to be read before any series. They can be saved for later or used as one-book samples of Greyson’s fantasy-romance style.

Highland Hearts Books in Order

The Highland Hearts books are Scottish historical time-travel romances. Read them in order because the premise, family links, and magical movement through time are introduced gradually.

1. My Highland Lover (2015): A modern Kentucky heroine is drawn into Highland danger and romance, making this the best doorway into Greyson’s earlier time-travel style.
2. My Highland Bride (2015): The second book keeps the Southern-meets-Scotland time-travel pattern moving, with another heroine pulled toward Highland love.
3. My Tempting Highlander (2016): A wolf-shifting Highland chieftain and a modern heroine push the series deeper into paranormal and time-crossed romance.
4. My Seductive Highlander (2016): The fourth book closes the listed Highland Hearts run with another Highlander-centered romance and should be read after the first three.

Highland Protectors Books in Order

This trilogy brings Highland warriors into a contemporary setting. It is separate enough to start on its own, but the numbered order is still the best reading path.

1. Sadie’s Highlander (2017): The series opens with Alec MacDara and a modern North Carolina setting, establishing the time-displaced Highland protector premise.
2. Joanna’s Highlander (2018): The second book follows another MacDara romance and works best after the first book has introduced the brothers’ situation.
3. Katie’s Highlander (2019): The third book gives Ramsay MacDara his turn and completes the listed Highland Protectors trilogy.

Highland Heroes Books in Order

This series is also listed as A Highlander’s Heart and Soul / Highland Heroes. Read The Chieftain first if you want the full setup, even though it is a prequel.

1. The Chieftain (2019): A prequel centered on Alexander MacCoinnich, giving emotional background before the main Highland Heroes sequence begins.
2. The Guardian (2019): The main series begins with Graham MacCoinnich, a protection assignment, and a romance shaped by duty and court danger.
3. The Warrior (2020): Duncan MacCoinnich’s story follows, using a foretold union and a healing marriage-of-necessity setup.
4. The Judge (2020): A broken promise and a delayed reunion drive this third main novel, so the family and clan context matters.
5. The Dreamer (2020): Ian Cameron’s story centers on grief, a promised year, and the possibility of a future he no longer expects.
6. The Bard (2020): Sutherland MacCoinnich’s charm meets resistance, giving the series another clan-linked romance after the earlier heroes are established.
7. The Ghost (2021): Magnus de Gray searches for his son and finds a difficult second chance, making this a later-series emotional turn.
8. Love’s Charity (2021): A holiday novella about a damaged marriage and the push toward reconciliation, best read after the main clan setting is familiar.
9. A Yuletide Yearning (2021): A Christmas novella with loneliness, regret, and a pirate hero, placed late in the Highland Heroes reading path.

Time to Love a Highlander Books in Order

This is one of Maeve Greyson’s largest Scottish time-travel romance series. Read it in order because the premise and recurring Highland world build across the books.

1. Loving Her Highland Thief (2021): The series starts with a modern heroine and a Highland thief, setting up the time-travel romance framework.
2. Taming Her Highland Legend (2021): A driven modern surgeon collides with a thirteenth-century Highlander, giving the second book a sharper clash of temperament and time period.
3. Winning Her Highland Warrior (2022): A microbiologist is pulled into the past and rescued by a Highland warlord, widening the series’ time-travel pattern.
4. Capturing Her Highland Keeper (2022): Lyla’s restless modern life is disrupted by a Highland connection, continuing the series’ movement between present needs and past dangers.
5. Saving Her Highland Traitor (2022): A tour guide and her godson are drawn into a dangerous past, raising the stakes beyond a simple romantic displacement.
6. Loving Her Lonely Highlander (2023): A bookshop owner’s anger leads to a leap through time and a romance complicated by the impossibility of staying untouched by the past.
7. Delighting Her Highland Devil (2023): A history professor falls into the world she studies, creating a romance where knowledge of the past does not guarantee safety.
8. When the Midnight Bell Tolls (2023): A later novella involving Grant and Lyla, a church bell, and lingering grudges among the living and the dead.

MacKay Clan Legends Books in Order

Use the author’s current series order. The publication years do not match the internal series numbering because older titles were later positioned after newer origin material.

1. Blessed by a Highland Curse (2024): The current series order begins with Rachel Hawkins and a Highlander from the past, framing the MacKay legend from an origin point.
2. A Heartsong Back to the Highlands (2024): Ronan’s story pairs a fifteenth-century Highlander pirate with a modern woman after divine interference rewrites the path through time.
3. Beyond a Highland Whisper (2011): Latharn MacKay’s curse story brings dark magic, a trapped soul, and the older fantasy-romance roots of the series.
4. The Highlander’s Fury (2012): Faolan’s story adds an immortal Fury, divine matchmaking, and a romance shaped by magic rather than ordinary Highland politics.
5. A Highlander in Her Past (2013): Trish Sullivan’s accidental trip to the 1400s gives the series a time-travel problem with direct consequences for MacKay family history.

Once Upon a Scot Books in Order

This is a medieval Scottish historical romance trilogy. It can be read on its own.

1. A Scot of Her Own (2022): The trilogy begins with a Scottish romance that establishes the Once Upon a Scot style and medieval setting.
2. A Scot to Have and to Hold (2022): The second book continues the medieval romance sequence with another couple and should follow the first for series rhythm.
3. A Scot to Love and Protect (2022): The third book completes the listed trilogy with another protection-centered Scottish romance.

Sisterhood of Independent Ladies Books in Order

This Regency romance trilogy is best read in order because the titles and premise build around women who resist the rules written for them.

1. To Steal a Duke (2023): Cecilia’s story begins the trilogy with a bold secret, an imaginary duke, and a heroine who has built her own protection.
2. To Steal a Marquess (2024): The second book shifts to a duke, betrayal, and a heroine returning to England with unfinished emotional business.
3. To Steal an Earl (2024): The trilogy closes with espionage, a dangerous past connection, and a queen-commanded marriage that turns vengeance into forced proximity.

Seven Unsuitable Sisters Books in Order

This Regency series centers on the Broadmere sisters after an inheritance clause pressures the family toward genuine love matches. Read in order because the family setup is shared.

1. Blessing’s Baron (2024): Lady Blessing resists being married off so her brother can unlock the family fortune, making this the proper introduction to the Broadmere problem.
2. Fortuity’s Arrangement (2025): Fortuity’s marriage-of-convenience story follows, shifting the series toward a quieter heroine whose writing life and heart become entangled.
3. Grace’s Saving (2025): Grace’s book pairs a reckless, unconventional heroine with a rigid forbidden match, continuing the sisters’ pattern of refusing Society’s expectations.
4. Joy’s Willful Wager (2025): Joy’s love of wagers creates the next romantic complication, making this a later-family entry rather than a standalone starting point.
5. Felicity’s Eloquent Earl (2026): Felicity’s story brings a shy, overlooked sister into a romance shaped by food, poetry, and the need to be seen clearly.

The Magical Matchmakers of Seven Cairns Books in Order

This is Greyson’s newer Scottish romantasy series. Read in order because Seven Cairns, its magic, and its immortal guardians are introduced as an ongoing setting.

1. A Fine Scottish Time (2025): Jessa Tamson is pulled into a Highland-set magical romance involving tarot, time travel, and the first clear view of Seven Cairns.
2. A Fine Scottish Spell (2025): Emily’s misfired spell sends her into an alternate eighteenth-century Scotland, expanding the series’ magical rules.
3. A Fine Scottish Dream (2025): Lexi Vine’s story brings an equine vet, a scarred heroine, and a dream-shaped fated connection into the Seven Cairns world.
4. A Fine Scottish Love (2026): A cursed immortal shifter and a grieving mortal woman bring the first four-book arc to its latest confirmed release point.

Standalone Maeve Greyson Books

These books are listed outside the main numbered series. They can be read whenever their premise appeals to you.

1. Eternity’s Mark (2012): A fantasy romance about Hannah MacPherson, a hidden mystical inheritance, and a Scottish castle that draws her into a much larger destiny.
2. Stone Guardian (2014): A Scottish fantasy romance involving realm portals, ancient power, and a heroine and guardian forced into a dangerous magical bond.
3. Loving the Lady of Skye (2020): A fantasy romance about a Seelie prince and a mortal woman, best treated as separate from the main Highland series.
4. Guardian of Midnight Manor (2022): A gothic-leaning romance about Arthur Preston, an inheritance, and a love strong enough to challenge death.
5. Once Upon a Haunted Highland Mist (2023): A medieval historical romance built around haunted Highland fog, old vengeance, and a deadly legend.

Best Maeve Greyson Reading Order

New readers do not need to read every Maeve Greyson book in publication order. The better route is to choose the lane that matches the kind of romance they want.

For Scottish time travel, read:

1. My Highland Lover (2015): Start here for Greyson’s earlier Highland time-travel romance voice.
2. My Highland Bride (2015): Continue the same family and time-crossed pattern.
3. My Tempting Highlander (2016): Move into the more paranormal side of Highland Hearts.
4. My Seductive Highlander (2016): Finish the Highland Hearts sequence.
5. Sadie’s Highlander (2017): Shift into Highland Protectors and the MacDara brothers.
6. Joanna’s Highlander (2018): Continue the protector trilogy.
7. Katie’s Highlander (2019): Finish that trilogy.
8. Loving Her Highland Thief (2021): Begin Time to Love a Highlander.
9. Continue Time to Love a Highlander through When the Midnight Bell Tolls (2023): This gives you the largest complete time-travel Highland route.

For Highland historical romance, read:

1. The Chieftain (2019): Begin with the Highland Heroes prequel.
2. The Guardian (2019): Start the main sequence.
3. The Warrior (2020): Continue the MacCoinnich-centered run.
4. The Judge (2020): Follow the emotional promise-and-reunion thread.
5. The Dreamer (2020): Continue through Ian Cameron’s grief-and-healing romance.
6. The Bard (2020): Stay with the later clan romances.
7. The Ghost (2021): Read before the holiday novellas.
8. Love’s Charity (2021): Add the reconciliation novella.
9. A Yuletide Yearning (2021): Finish with the Christmas novella.

For Regency romance, read:

1. To Steal a Duke (2023): Begin with the Sisterhood of Independent Ladies.
2. To Steal a Marquess (2024): Continue the same independent-heroine theme.
3. To Steal an Earl (2024): Finish that trilogy.
4. Blessing’s Baron (2024): Move into Seven Unsuitable Sisters.
5. Fortuity’s Arrangement (2025): Continue the Broadmere family pressure.
6. Grace’s Saving (2025): Stay with the sisters in order.
7. Joy’s Willful Wager (2025): Read before Felicity’s book.
8. Felicity’s Eloquent Earl (2026): Read as the fifth confirmed Seven Unsuitable Sisters entry.

For fantasy-romance continuity, read:

1. Blessed by a Highland Curse (2024): Start the current MacKay Clan Legends order.
2. A Heartsong Back to the Highlands (2024): Continue the newer origin portion.
3. Beyond a Highland Whisper (2011): Move into the older MacKay material as placed by the author.
4. The Highlander’s Fury (2012): Continue the goddess-and-immortal side of the series.
5. A Highlander in Her Past (2013): Finish the listed MacKay Clan Legends sequence.
6. A Fine Scottish Time (2025): Start the newer Seven Cairns romantasy setting.
7. A Fine Scottish Spell (2025): Continue the magical disruption.
8. A Fine Scottish Dream (2025): Follow the fated-love arc into the third book.
9. A Fine Scottish Love (2026): Read the latest confirmed Seven Cairns book.

Publication Order: When It Helps

Publication order is useful for seeing Maeve Greyson’s career development, but it is not the easiest reading method.

The main problem is that some later series orders place older books after newer origin titles. That is especially true with MacKay Clan Legends.

For most readers, series order is better than total publication order.

Latest Maeve Greyson Book

At the time of writing such as April 28, 2026, the latest confirmed Maeve Greyson novel I found is A Fine Scottish Love (2026), book 4 in The Magical Matchmakers of Seven Cairns.

The most recent confirmed Seven Unsuitable Sisters title is Felicity’s Eloquent Earl (2026).

I did not find a reliably confirmed next unreleased title beyond the current listings checked for this article.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Maeve Greyson book should I read first?

Start with My Highland Lover for Highland time travel, The Guardian for Highland historical romance, Blessing’s Baron for Regency romance, or A Fine Scottish Time for Scottish romantasy.

Do Maeve Greyson books need to be read in order?

Read each series in order. Many romances center on a new couple, but the families, magical rules, and shared settings make the series order smoother.

Are Maeve Greyson’s series connected?

Some share similar Highland, magical, and time-travel elements, but they are best treated as separate series unless the author lists them together. Do not force every book into one single timeline.

Where should I start with the MacKay Clan Legends?

Use the author’s current order and begin with Blessed by a Highland Curse. Older publication dates in the middle of the series can be confusing if you sort only by year.

Which Maeve Greyson series is best for Regency readers?

Start with Seven Unsuitable Sisters if you want a larger family premise. Start with Sisterhood of Independent Ladies if you want a shorter trilogy first.

Which series is best for Scottish romantasy?

Start with A Fine Scottish Time, the first book in The Magical Matchmakers of Seven Cairns.

Can I read the standalone books first?

Yes. Eternity’s Mark, Stone Guardian, Guardian of Midnight Manor, Loving the Lady of Skye, and Once Upon a Haunted Highland Mist can be read without committing to a full series.

Final Reading Advice

For most readers, the best Maeve Greyson starting point depends on genre preference rather than one universal first book.

Choose My Highland Lover for classic Greyson time-travel Highland romance. Choose The Guardian for Highland historical romance. Choose Blessing’s Baron for Regency family romance. Choose A Fine Scottish Time for the newest Scottish romantasy direction.