Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deceptions | 2010 | Marilyn Clay | Buy |
| 2 | A Petticoat And Lambskin Gloves | 2013 | Marilyn Clay | Buy |
The Jamestown series by Marilyn Clay is a pair of historical suspense novels set in Colonial-era Jamestown, Virginia. The series draws on the real history of England’s early American colony, where disease, starvation, and political intrigue made daily life a matter of survival.
Deceptions (2010) opens the series, placing characters in the middle of the colony’s struggles and the secrets people kept to get by. A Petticoat And Lambskin Gloves (2013) continues the story with more intrigue in the settlement. Clay brings the same attention to historical detail that she applies to her Regency-era fiction, but the Colonial American setting gives these books a rougher, more frontier-oriented feel.
Clay has a long history of writing about specific periods, from her Regency romances to her Colonial American suspense novels. The Jamestown series offers readers a different slice of history from her English-set works, grounded in the harsh realities of America’s earliest colonial days.