Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Caribbean Heiress in Paris | 2022 | Adriana Herrera | Buy |
| 2 | An Island Princess Starts a Scandal | 2023 | Adriana Herrera | Buy |
| 3 | A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke | 2025 | Adriana Herrera | Buy |
Las Léonas is Adriana Herrera’s historical romance series, featuring Caribbean women as the heroines in 19th-century European settings. The series began with A Caribbean Heiress in Paris (2022), which follows a Dominican rum heiress who travels to Paris for the 1889 World Exposition and falls for a Scottish distiller. The historical backdrop is used to explore questions of wealth, race, and independence that Caribbean women of means would have faced in that period.
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (2023) continues the series with a LGBTQ+ romance, pairing a Caribbean princess with a French art dealer in Paris. A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke (2025) extends the series into a third book, maintaining the combination of lush European settings and Caribbean protagonists who refuse to be defined by the expectations placed on women of their time.
The Las Léonas series sits at the intersection of historical romance and multicultural fiction. Readers who enjoy richly researched settings, unconventional heroines, and slow-burn romantic tension will find plenty to like here.