Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | 2017 | Claire Delacroix | Buy |
| 2 | A Duke by Any Other Name | 2019 | Claire Delacroix | Buy |
| 3 | A Baron for All Seasons | 2021 | Claire Delacroix | Buy |
| 4 | A Most Inconvenient Earl | 2022 | Claire Delacroix | Buy |
The Brides of North Barrows is Claire Delacroix’s most sustained Regency series, four books set in the early nineteenth century on a country estate where romantic complications arrive regularly. The series is a departure from her medieval work, using the Regency period’s conventions — aristocratic hierarchy, social reputation, the marriage market — as the framework for romantic plots.
Something Wicked This Way Comes (2017) opens the series with a suggestion of the Gothic alongside the Regency, and the subsequent titles lean into wordplay and Regency romance conventions: A Duke by Any Other Name, A Baron for All Seasons, A Most Inconvenient Earl. The four books together form a complete picture of the estate and its social world.