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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2012
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Lady's Guide

1 - A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem (Nov-2020)
2 - An Heiress's Guide to Deception and Desire (Nov-2021)
3 - A Spinster's Guide to Danger and Dukes (Apr-2023)
4 - A Governess's Guide to Passion and Peril (Apr-2024)

Lords of Anarchy

1 - A Good Rake Is Hard to Find (Apr-2015)
2 - Good Earl Gone Bad (Oct-2015)
3 - Good Dukes Wear Black (Apr-2016)

Studies in Scandal

1 - Ready Set Rogue (Jan-2017)
2 - Duke with Benefits (Jul-2017)
2.5 - With This Christmas Ring (Oct-2017)
3 - Wallflower Most Wanted (Feb-2018)
4 - One for the Rogue (Jul-2018)

Ugly Ducklings

1 - How to Dance with a Duke (Feb-2012)
2 - How to Romance a Rake (Aug-2012)
3 - How to Entice an Earl (Feb-2013)
3.5 - The Perks of Being a Beauty (Jun-2013)

Wicked Widows

1 - Why Dukes Say I Do (Aug-2013)
2 - Why Earls Fall in Love (Feb-2014)
3 - Why Lords Lose Their Hearts (Aug-2014)
3.5 - Once Upon a Christmas Kiss (Oct-2014)

Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • What's a wallflower to do when she's suddenly in need of a husband? Use all the pluck and moxie she can muster to get what she wants... Miss Cecily Hurston would much rather explore the antiquities of Egypt than the uncharted territory of marriage...




  • You can lead a wallflower to the ball, but you can't make her bloom -- unless one daring young bachelor turns up the heat... What's a nice girl like Miss Juliet Shelby doing at a place like Lord Deveril's ballroom? With her shy demeano...



  • Lady Madeline Essex is the last of the unwed "ducklings" in her family -- and by far the most outspoken. But when she boldly enters London's most notorious gaming house in search of fodder for her novel, even her sharp tongue can't sa...



  • The beautiful Miss Amelia Snow is not accustomed to being snubbed by the gentlemen of the ton. But when her mother dies unexpectedly, forcing Amelia to take employment as companion to a wealthy cit’s daughter, she quickly learns to play down her lo...



  • Even in London society -- where everyone knows what you did last season -- you never know who's next in line to walk down the aisle... TRUE LOVE IS OFTEN FOUND With her whirlwind social life in London, Lady Isabella Wharton has little inter...



  • Society often makes strange bedfellows -- and even more surprising betrothals... IS IT A REASON FOR ROMANCE? Young widowed Georgina Mowbray is settling into her role as Lady Russell's companion quite well -- until the lady's nephew Domin...



  • THE TRUTH COULD RUIN HER In Manda Collins's Why Lords Lose Their Hearts, Perdita, the widowed Duchess of Ormonde, keeps a dangerous secret -- the truth of how her brutish husband died. But a mysterious avenger seems to know it, too, and when ano...



  • ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS KISS is a sexy, romantic holiday e-novella, set in the world of Manda Collins's bestselling Wicked Widows trilogy. When Sir Lucien Blakemore arrives at his cousin's estate for a week-long Christmas party, he's shocked to see ...






  • A DANGEROUS GAME Heartbroken by the loss of her brother, Miss Leonora Craven vows to uncover the truth about his "accident," which seems to have been anything but. Jonathan Craven was involved with the Lords of Anarchy, a notorious driving...



  • TEMPTING FATE Marriage? To a gambler? You must be joking! Yet Lady Hermione Upperton has never backed down from a challenge. When her spendthrift father offers her at the gaming tables, she is given a difficult choice -- wed the Earl of Mainwaring...



  • Warning: This is a sexy, witty novella.Anthony Ogilvy, Earl of Leighton fell in love with his best friend’s elder sister years ago -- but she’d only had eyes for the dashing cavalry officer she’d later eloped with. Now, years later, and facing ...



  • LOVE IS ALWAYS A WILD RIDE. A writer for the Ladies Gazette, Miss Ophelia Dauntry’s passion is her pen. So when she sees a fellow writer kidnapped before her eyes―and the trail of evidence leads to the Lords of Anarchy―Ophelia vows to find h...



  • WHO WILL WRITE THE BOOK OF LOVE? When scholarly Miss Ivy Wareham receives word that she’s one of four young ladies who have inherited Lady Celeste Beauchamp’s estate with a magnificent private library, she packs her trunks straightaway. Unfortun...



  • LADY + DUKE = TRUE LOVE? Lady Daphne Forsyth is a brilliant mathematician with a burning passion for puzzles. When she learns that the library belonging to her benefactress houses the legendary Cameron Cipher―an encrypted message that, once solv...



  • A wallflower determined to fulfill a dying promise, the rogue she jilted years ago, and an orphaned baby are all brought together amidst the magic of Christmas in this new novella from Manda Collins. Miss Merry Parks makes a deathbed promise to a ...



  • THE PICTURE OF ROMANCE A dedicated painter, Miss Sophia Hastings is far more concerned with finding the right slant of light than in finding Mr. Right. But when an overheard conversation hints at danger for another local artist, Sophia is determined...



  • Two rivals join forces to solve a mystery, but might just find love, in One for the Rogue, the next thrilling novel in the Studies in Scandal series by Manda Collins. LOVE IS THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF ALL Geologist Gemma Hastings has no interest...



  • An intrepid female reporter matches wits with a serious, sexy detective in award-winning author Manda Collin's fun and flirty historical rom-com, perfect for readers of Evie Dunmore, Julia Quinn, and Tessa Dare! England, 1865: As one of Englan...






  • Former lovers become reluctant allies in this delightfully witty historical rom-com from the bestselling author of A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem -- for fans of Evie Dunmore, Enola Holmes, and Netflix's Bridgerton! England, 1867 : A...



  • It is a truth universally acknowledged that a lady in danger must be in need of rescue, but whether she wants to be rescued is up for debate -- for fans of Evie Dunmore and Netflix's Bridgerton from the bestselling author of A Lady's Guide to...



  • Two friends reunite and discover hidden feelings while investigating a murder in this sensual, witty historical romance -- perfect for fans of Evie Dunmore and Netflix's Bridgerton! Jane Halliwell once dreamed of a home of her own -- but those ...



  • A sunshine spinster and a grumpy viscount use their marriage of convenience to solve a murder mystery in the first book of a new series from Manda Collins. A wallflower by choice, wealthy Lucy Penhallow would rather sit out the dancing all season tha...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Manda Collins has published 23 books.

The next book by Manda Collins, A Wallflower's Guide to Viscounts and Vice, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Manda Collins, How to Dance with a Duke, was published in February 2012.

Yes. Manda Collins has 5 series.