Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Primrose and the Dreadful Duke | 2018 | Emily Larkin | Buy |
| 2 | Violet and the Bow Street Runner | 2022 | Emily Larkin | Buy |
Emily Larkin’s Garland Cousins series follows members of the Garland family in Regency-era England. Primrose and the Dreadful Duke (2018) opens the series, and Violet and the Bow Street Runner (2022) continues it.
Each book pairs a Garland cousin with a love interest from a different social sphere. Primrose’s duke carries a reputation that scares most people away, while Violet’s Bow Street Runner works on the opposite side of polite society. The four-year gap between the two books means this is a series Larkin returned to rather than rushed through.
Larkin also writes under the name Emily Gee and has published several other Regency romance series. The Garland Cousins books share that world but stand apart from her other families, so readers can start here without catching up on her backlist.