Mary Lancaster

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  • Bibliography:
    71 Books (12 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2004
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Blackhaven Brides

1 - The Wicked Baron (Jun-2017)
2 - The Wicked Lady (Aug-2017)
3 - The Wicked Rebel (Sep-2017)
4 - The Wicked Husband (Dec-2017)
5 - The Wicked Marquis (Jan-2018)
6 - The Wicked Governess (Mar-2018)
7 - The Wicked Spy (Jun-2018)
8 - The Wicked Gypsy (Jul-2018)
9 - The Wicked Wife (Sep-2018)
10 - Wicked Christmas (Apr-2019)
10.5 - The Wicked Wolfe: De Wolfe Connected World (Feb-2019)
11 - The Wicked Waif (May-2019)

Crime & Passion

1 - Mysterious Lover (Feb-2021)
2 - Letters to a Lover (Apr-2021)
3 - Dangerous Lover (Jun-2021)
3.5 - Merry Lover (Jul-2022)
4 - Lost Lover (Oct-2023)
4.5 - Ghostly Lover (Oct-2023)

The Duel

1 - Entangled (Mar-2023)
2 - Captured (Apr-2023)
3 - Deserted (Jun-2023)
4 - Beloved (Aug-2023)

Gentlemen of Pleasure

1 - The Devil and the Viscount (May-2022)
2 - Temptation and the Artist (Jun-2022)
3 - Sin and the Soldier (Jul-2022)
4 - Debauchery and the Earl (Aug-2022)

The Imperial Season

1 - Vienna Waltz (Aug-2016)
2 - Vienna Woods (Dec-2016)
3 - Vienna Dawn (Jan-2017)
4 - Vienna Wolfe (Jul-2018)

Last Flame of Alba

1 - Rebellion's Fire (Sep-2022)
2 - A Constant Blaze (Oct-2022)
3 - Burning Embers (Feb-2023)

A Lord Petteril Mystery

1 - Petteril's Thief (Sep-2023)
2 - Petteril's Corpse (Sep-2023)
3 - Petteril's Ladybird (Nov-2023)
4 - Petteril's Portrait (Feb-2024)
5 - Petteril's Wife (Apr-2024)
6 - Petteril's Folly (Jul-2024)
7 - Petteril's Christmas (Nov-2024)

One Night in Blackhaven

1 - The Captain's Old Love (Nov-2023)
2 - The Earl's Promised Bride (Jan-2024)
3 - The Soldier's Impossible Love (Mar-2024)
4 - The Gambler's Last Chance (Jan-2024)
5 - The Poet's Stern Critic (Jul-2024)
6 - The Rake’s Mistake (Sep-2024)
7 - The Spinster's Last Dance (Nov-2024)

Pleasure Garden

1 - Unmasking the Hero (Aug-2021)
2 - Unmasking Deception (Oct-2021)
3 - Unmasking Sin (Dec-2021)
4 - Unmasking the Duke (Mar-2022)
5 - Unmasking the Thief (Apr-2022)

Rebel of Ross

1 - Rebel of Ross (Jul-2016)
2 - Lady of Ross (May-2017)

Season of Scandal

0.5 - Fed to the Lyon (Apr-2020)
1 - Pursued by the Rake (Jul-2020)
2 - Abandoned to the Prodigal (Jan-2020)
3 - Married to the Rogue (Jan-2020)
3.5 - Her Star From the East (Dec-2020)
4 - Unmasked by Her Lover (Jan-2021)

Unmarriageable

1 - The Deserted Heart (Nov-2018)
2 - The Sinister Heart (Dec-2018)
3 - The Vulgar Heart (Feb-2019)
4 - The Broken Heart (Jan-2020)

Multi-Author Series List

The Lyon's Den

3 - Fed to the Lyon (Apr-2020)

Book List in Order: 71 titles

  • An Endless Exile

    “Hereward is dead.”His estranged wife, Torfrida, doesn't believe it. Beautiful, clever and wise in the lore of the stars, she assumes it's a trick to win back her wifely submission. Hereward the Wake, the legendary English hero who defied and def...

  • A World to Win

    The governess and the revolutionary...In 1847, with Europe on the verge of revolution, Katie Kettles travels to Hungary as governess to the family of Count Istvan Szelenyi. On the journey, she first encounters peasant-born radical Lajos Lazar making ...

  • A Prince to be Feared

    The love story of Vlad Dracula Europe’s most fearsome prisoner, Vlad Dracula, gifted military commander and one time Prince of Wallachia, the notorious Lord Impaler himself, is about to be released after twelve long years, in order to hold back the...

  • Rebel of Ross

    Rebel of Ross - 1

    Scotland, 1156. Malcolm MacHeth, one time Earl of Ross, languishes a prisoner in Roxburgh Castle while his sons raise rebellion in his name. Optimistically, the King of Scots promises the earldom to landless Norman, Sir William de Lanson, if he can s...

  • Vienna Waltz

    The Imperial Season - 1

    "Mary Lancaster is flawless...." ~ USA Today bestselling author Kathryn Le Veque, author of "THE WOLFE" A fabulous new Regency author makes her debut.... In 1814, with Napoleon finally defeated, the great and the good of Europe descend on Vienna to p...

  • Vienna Woods

    The Imperial Season - 2

    Intrigue, suspicion, and true love at the Congress of Vienna. Esther Lisle, daughter of a general turned diplomat, wakes up in the Vienna Woods to find her royal betrothed dead and an agent of the dreaded Austrian secret police asking her awkward que...

  • Vienna Dawn

    The Imperial Season - 3

    En route to Vienna, where the great powers of Europe are making peace and elaborate entertainments, spirited Russian countess, Dunya Savarina, is rescued from ruin by Captain Richard Trelawny, a wounded British officer who has given up on life and ha...

  • Lady of Ross

    Rebel of Ross - 2

    Born to a great destiny and an eternal love…or so he once believed.Malcolm MacHeth, one time Earl of Ross and pretender to the throne of Scotland, has languished in prison for half his life when his eldest son is betrayed and joins him in captivity...

  • The Wicked Baron

    Blackhaven Brides - 1

    The Wicked Baron is the first in the Blackhaven Brides series, set in a newly fashionable spa town on the beautiful Cumbrian coast, where the great and the bad of visiting Regency society turn local life upside down. Orphan Gillie Muir makes ends ...



  • The Wicked Lady

    Blackhaven Brides - 2

    The scandalous widow…and the curate? Newly widowed, wicked Kate Crowmore is in trouble. Scandal has broken over her head and someone is trying to kill her. When she seeks refuge in Blackhaven, she doesn’t expect a clergyman to be the solution...

  • The Wicked Rebel

    Blackhaven Brides - 3

    At eight-and-twenty, Lady Arabella Niven is gentle, sickly, and firmly on the shelf. Having disobliged her father by refusing her last chance of marriage, she has been sent in disgrace to Blackhaven with two domineering aunts. Her one wish is to be l...

  • The Wicked Husband

    Blackhaven Brides - 4

    Welcome to Book 4 in the bestselling BLACKHAVEN BRIDES series! Notorious young rakehell, Lord Daxton, wakes up in Blackhaven with a monumental hangover " and a wife. Willa Blake, his old childhood friend and poor relation of his sworn enemy, has he...

  • The Wicked Marquis

    Blackhaven Brides - 5

    Get Book Five in the exciting and sensual BLACKHAVEN BRIDES series! Or read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited! The lady meets her match - and he's hopelessly ineligible. Poverty stricken marquis, Lord Tamar, is regarded in Blackhaven as an amiable eccentr...

  • The Wicked Governess

    Blackhaven Brides - 6

    Read Book Six in the bestselling Blackhaven Brides series... a lonely governess, a mute pupil, and secrets abound in this captivating tale. Purchase the novel or read FREE in Kindle Unlimited! Can the governess teach a damaged hero? Caroline Grey is ...

  • The Wicked Spy

    Blackhaven Brides - 7

    Can her enemy melt her cold heart? Lady Anna Gaunt comes to Blackhaven on a government commission - to free a French prisoner of war, thought to be Napoleon’s spymaster, Colonel Delon, and learn his secrets. But Anna has to find him first, for the ...

  • Vienna Wolfe

    The Imperial Season - 4

    Vienna, 1814: Europe makes a historic peace...and dances. Colonel Francis Wolfe, military hero and the new Earl of Warenton, is prepared to do his duty and marry well. He has almost decided upon the well bred and beautiful Miss Sylvia Renleigh, witho...

  • The Wicked Gypsy

    Blackhaven Brides - 8

    An old Blackhaven tragedy merges with a new quarrel. When Gervaise, the Earl of Braithwaite, first sees beautiful gypsy Dawn, he is struck by her likeness to his political enemy, Julius Gardyn. In his cups, he grasps the opportunity for a little veng...

  • The Wicked Wife

    Blackhaven Brides - 9

    Can a wife hide behind a mask? Lady Frances married her Scottish earl for love. Now one year and one child later, she feels bored, trapped and lonely, convinced Lord Torridon only married her for convenience. When she can stand it no longer, she flee...

  • The Deserted Heart

    Unmarriageable - 1

    Unmarriageable? Or simply unusual?There can only be one reason for the proud Duke of Alvan’s proposed visit to Audley Park. He means to offer for Lord Overton’s beautiful daughter, Thomasina, thus saving the family’s waning fortune. In the mids...



  • The Sinister Heart

    Unmarriageable - 2

  • The Vulgar Heart

    Unmarriageable - 3

    Get Book Three in the bestselling The Unmarriageable Series - read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited!When convention clashes with love… Eager to outshine her older sisters, Henrietta Maybury is disappointed to discover the first man to make her heart ra...

  • The Wicked Wolfe: De Wolfe Connected World

    Blackhaven Brides - 10.5

  • Wicked Christmas

    Blackhaven Brides - 10

    Mystery, murder and the miracle of new love " it’s Christmas in Blackhaven!Widower Nicholas Lampton, Blackhaven’s dour and sharp-tongued doctor, is oblivious to the Christmas season. Not best pleased to be called out late at night for nothing m...

  • The Wicked Waif

    Blackhaven Brides - 11

    Welcome to Blackhaven, where the great and the bad of visiting Regency society STILL turns local life upside down!Book 11 "The Wicked Waif" in the Blackhaven Brides Series is now available. Read for Free with Kindle Unlimited!Where there is love, the...

  • The Wicked Sister

    The debutante meets the radical…The 14th and final book in the Blackhaven Brides series is now available! Read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited!Lady Maria returns to Braithwaite Castle from her first London season with a scandal about to break over h...

  • Abandoned to the Prodigal

    Season of Scandal - 2

    Who knew that love could be fun? Ruined and abandoned by her betrothed, Lady Juliet has no choice but to take the stagecoach home to her family in Yorkshire. Fortunately, she is protected on the journey by a handsome and amusing self-styled "w...

  • The Broken Heart

    Unmarriageable - 4

    Danger, loyalty and loving the enemy…Book 4 in The Unmarriageable Series is now available! Read for Free with Kindle Unlimited!Shunned by society and even by her own family after the treachery of her late husband, Isabelle de Renarde has long given...

  • Married to the Rogue

    Season of Scandal - 3

    Free to follow her heart...just not to her husband!Deborah needs a husband to protect her from the scandal breaking over her head; Christopher Halland, a radical and ambitious member of parliament, needs a wife to get at his fortune and Gosmere Hall....

  • Fed to the Lyon

    Season of Scandal - 0.5
    The Lyon's Den - 3

    A high-stakes game…but who is playing? On the day the Princess of Wales goes into exile, Diana loses both her court place and her betrothed. Devastated, she staggers home in the small hours of the morning, alone, drunk -- and ruined in the eyes ...



  • Madeleine

  • Pursued by the Rake

    Season of Scandal - 1

    Four innocent young ladies-in-waiting to the Princess of Wales spend the night sheltering from a wild party in her residence -- only to discover in the morning that Her Highness was never there. And the news is already out. The ladies flee the s...

  • Her Star From the East

    Season of Scandal - 3.5

    Can Christmas bring Emma the miracle of a second chance? Although Emma is about to accept a marriage proposal, she has never forgotten her brother’s friend, Prince Selim, who once flirted with her and made her feel special. But everyone had pron...

  • How to Fool a Duke

    Welcome to book 1 in a new series The Husband Dilemma by USA Today Bestselling Authors Mary Lancaster and Violetta Rand!Young women in need of second chances find sympathy and assistance with the enigmatic Lady Whitmore in her seaside castle and vill...

  • Unmasked by Her Lover

    Season of Scandal - 4

    Revealing the true love of her life! The thrilling conclusion to the Season of Scandal series! Lady Meg’s parents decide that the best solution to the scandal breaking over her head, is to marry her to her old childhood friend, Harry. Meg will n...

  • Mysterious Lover

    Crime & Passion - 1

    Welcome to a thrilling new series "Crime & Passion" from USA Today Bestselling Author Mary Lancaster. London, 1851 In the shadow of the Great Exhibition, poverty and crime stalk the meaner backstreets of the city. But sin is not confined t...

  • Letters to a Lover

    Crime & Passion - 2

    Will blackmail wreck their marriage? Or save it? Welcome to Book 2 in the bestselling Crime & Passion series by USA Today Bestselling Author Mary Lancaster. When Azalea, the beautiful Viscountess Trench, receives a note threatening to expose he...

  • Dangerous Lover

    Crime & Passion - 3

    A danger to the world? Or just to her heart? Alexandra Battle is desperate enough to accept a new post as governess to the illegitimate daughter of Sir Nicholas Swan, without having met either of them. Fortunately, Evelina turns out to be delightf...

  • Unmasking the Hero

    Pleasure Garden - 1

  • Unmasking Deception

    Pleasure Garden - 2



  • Unmasking Sin

    Pleasure Garden - 3

  • Unmasking the Duke

    Pleasure Garden - 4

    Love at first smile...Charmingly wicked, Johnny Winter has spent his adulthood drifting from scandal to scandal. However, inheriting the dukedom of Dearham has him considering his responsibilities, one of which is to right the wrong done to a distant...

  • Unmasking the Thief

    Pleasure Garden - 5

    Thief or gentleman, he is uniquely dangerous!Governess Matty Mather has grown to love her pupils of the Dove family. When a borrowed ring is stolen from Catherine Dove and her friend, now in their first London Season, the redoubtable Matty goes alone...

  • The Devil and the Viscount

    Gentlemen of Pleasure - 1

    Rollo Darblay has been going to the devil for most of his adult life, thanks to frustrated ambitions and natural hedonism. When his father dies, leaving him finally in charge of ruined finances and failing estates, there is only one solution left: to...

  • Temptation and the Artist

    Gentlemen of Pleasure - 2

    It takes an artist to see the real woman...Aline has been many things in her life. She has faced countless dangers to keep her country and her family safe. But when quiet, handsome Stephen Dornan asks permission to paint her in a series of portraits,...

  • Merry Lover

    Crime & Passion - 3.5

    Home alone with a tragic mystery on Christmas Eve. God rest ye merry, gentlemen… When she discovers a smiling corpse at her front door on Christmas Eve, Lady Grizelda Tizsa finds fresh meaning in the old carol. With her servants gone for the ...

  • Sin and the Soldier

    Gentlemen of Pleasure - 3

    A damaged soldier bound to a musician with a past.They have never spoken. But for two years, the haunted soldier has attended Natalie's concerts at Maida Gardens, bringing her a little self-belief and a few harmless daydreams.Captain Lord Richard Gor...

  • Debauchery and the Earl

    Gentlemen of Pleasure - 4

    Love plays havoc with the worst of intentions!The Earl of Calton is such an infamous rake that Josephine is not surprised when her sister names him as the father of her unborn child. The bored and world-weary Calton, however, is both astonished and i...

  • Rebellion's Fire

    Last Flame of Alba - 1

    The MacHeths are coming!By 1156, Malcolm MacHeth, one time Earl of Ross, languishes a prisoner in Roxburgh Castle while his rampaging sons raise rebellion in his name. Optimistically, the King of Scots promises the earldom of Ross to landless Norman ...

  • The Others of Ochil

    A determined earl, a penniless lady, and far too many ghosts...Justina is a debutante's poor relation, forbidden to disgrace the family by any insane talk of ghosts. When they are invited to Hillfoot Tower in Scotland, it seems her cousin Anne is des...



  • A Constant Blaze

    Last Flame of Alba - 2

    Great destiny or enduring love?Malcolm MacHeth, one time Earl of Ross and pretender to the throne of Scotland, once believed he could have it all. Yet he has already languished in prison for half his life when his eldest son is betrayed and joins him...

  • Burning Embers

    Last Flame of Alba - 3

    From the fires of war, a new hero rises.Fifty years after Earl Malcolm MacHeth made peace with the King of Scots, the embers of rebellion remain half-hidden in Ross, ready to be ignited by ambition and resentment.From childhood, Affrica MacHeth has a...

  • Entangled

    The Duel - 1

    A deadly quarrel, an impossible love On his way to rejoin Wellington’s gathering army near Brussels, Major Giles Butler fights a duel with the opinionated Duke of Cuttyngham. It was never meant to be a killing affair, and yet the duke lies dead ...

  • Captured

    The Duel - 2

    Awakening life and love… On the sudden death of her oppressive father in a duel, the cool and distant Lady Hera Severne finds herself floundering in her new freedom, and instantly attracted to sardonic doctor, Justin Rivers. Determined to change...

  • Deserted

    The Duel - 3

    Abandoned by all, save a cold-hearted rake… Sophia, once betrothed to Major Giles Butler, who shot the Duke of Cuttyngham in a duel, has become the companion of the widowed duchess. In theory, at least. But when the duchess also abandons Sophia ...

  • Beloved

    The Duel - 4

    The mystery of the duel reaches its thrilling resolution. Torn by conflicting loyalties, Olivia is driven by her conscience to warn the new Duke of Cuttyngham of a threat she does not wish to believe in. But Victor, the young duke, is very far fro...

  • Petteril's Corpse

    A Lord Petteril Mystery - 2

    A murdered stranger in his home wood...The discovery of a naked corpse upsets the new Viscount Petteril's return to his ancestral acres. The local magistrate, Robert Lindon, has no idea how to proceed with so heinous a crime. Neither has Petteril, bu...

  • Petteril's Thief

    A Lord Petteril Mystery - 1

    A missing family heirloom -- and one of the family stole it. In the spring of 1812, Piers Withan is dragged from his beloved Oxford to be the new Viscount Petteril. Burdened by responsibilities he doesn’t want and the remnants of a family who ...

  • Ghostly Lover

    Crime & Passion - 4.5

    Is the ghost of a Jacobite bride the clue to murder? Duke's daughter Lady Grizelda and her gorgeous revolutionary husband Dragan are not in perfect charity with each other when he goes haring off from a family reunion to help a friend. But whe...

  • Lost Lover

    Crime & Passion - 4

    From suspects to lovers… In the midst of a thick London fog, underworld chief, Joshua Jarman is found murdered in the bedroom of a poor seamstress. Lord James Andover, icily vengeful after three years in Newgate Prison, should be the prime su...

  • The Captain's Old Love

    One Night in Blackhaven - 1

    His dashing days are behind him -- until an old flame dances back into his life. A hero of Trafalgar and many battle since, Captain Julius Vale, has retired from the Royal Navy and moved himself and all his siblings back to the family home near ...

  • Petteril's Ladybird

    A Lord Petteril Mystery - 3

    An earl’s son, shot in the home of his mistress… Lord Petteril, with his redoubtable assistant April, is called back to London to help prove the innocence of his friend, Percy Austen, who is suspected of murder. Percy was once the lover of th...

  • The Earl's Promised Bride

    One Night in Blackhaven - 2

    A chance-meeting of soulmates? Or is everything a lie? Betrothed since birth to some stuffy earl she has never met, Lucy is torn between family duty and a longing for love and fun. Naturally, she determines to enjoy her last days of freedom - and ...

  • The Gambler's Last Chance

    One Night in Blackhaven - 4

    He’s playing for love, but can either of them win? After two years of widowhood, Felicia Maitland, nee Vale, is ready to take on the world at cards and to indulge in a discreet romantic liaison. In short, she attends the Blackhaven Assembly Ball...

  • Petteril's Portrait

    A Lord Petteril Mystery - 4

    A defaced portrait and the death of an artist -- but is anything quite what it seems? To the furious disapproval of his assistant, April, Lord Petteril insists on calling in on Lady Haggard’s country house party -- only to discover his hoste...

  • The Soldier's Impossible Love

    One Night in Blackhaven - 3

    A damaged hero battles love at first sight… Even experienced soldiers have their limits of endurance. For Major Roderick Vale it was Waterloo. Sent on enforced leave of absence after attacking his fellow officers, he returns with his siblings to...

  • Petteril's Wife

    A Lord Petteril Mystery - 5

    Incognito in Portugal…Lord Petteril’s cousin, the newly commissioned Major Bertie Withan, has gone missing somewhere between landing in Lisbon and joining his regiment on the front line of the Peninsular War. Piers and trusty assistant April, ...

  • Petteril's Folly

    A Lord Petteril Mystery - 6

    Time to confront reality – and a worrying mystery.Lord Petteril and his new viscountess return to England to face the consequences of their unequal marriage, only to discover that Petteril's valet, the enigmatic Stewart, has been arrested for ...

  • The Poet's Stern Critic

    One Night in Blackhaven - 5

    An elusive poet clashes with an opinionated young lady… Cornelius Vale, hard-working steward of his brother’s land, has another secret identity as acclaimed poet Simon Sacheverill. No one has ever met the mysterious poet -- except the woman ...

  • The Rake’s Mistake

    One Night in Blackhaven - 6

    Beauty doesn’t always bring true love… As soon as charming rake Aubrey Vale glimpses the stunningly lovely Henrietta Gaunt, he wants her. But she, weary of being pursued merely for her looks, proves to be both a challenge and a delight -- no...

  • Petteril's Christmas

    A Lord Petteril Mystery - 7

    A merry Christmas for the Petterils? Piers wants to make their first Christmas together special, and so it proves to be -- just not quite in the way he planned. His eccentric Great Aunt Prudence summons him to London with the news that she is...

  • The Spinster's Last Dance

    One Night in Blackhaven - 7

    “He was my last dance, and it is already over” At thirty years old, Delilah Vale attends the Blackhaven assembly room ball for only one reason -- to enjoy a symbolic final waltz before embracing spinsterhood and an independent career as a tr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Lancaster has published 71 books.

Mary Lancaster does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Spinster's Last Dance, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Mary Lancaster, An Endless Exile, was published in April 2004.

Yes. Mary Lancaster has 12 series.
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