Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After the Kiss | 2008 | Suzanne Enoch | Buy |
| 2 | Before the Scandal | 2008 | Suzanne Enoch | Buy |
| 3 | Always a Scoundrel | 2009 | Suzanne Enoch | Buy |
The Notorious Gentlemen series by Suzanne Enoch is a Regency romance trilogy published in 2008 and 2009. The three books follow a group of male friends whose reputations in London society range from questionable to downright scandalous.
After the Kiss opens the series when an impulsive kiss between two people who should know better sets off a chain of complications. Before the Scandal follows a soldier returning home from the Peninsular War to find that everything he left behind has changed. Always a Scoundrel wraps up the trilogy with the most notorious of the three friends, a man everyone has written off as beyond redemption, who meets a woman from a sheltered, strictly proper family.
The three heroes are linked by friendship rather than blood, which gives Enoch room to create very different character types within the same social circle. The series is on the lighter side of Regency romance, with plenty of banter between the leads, though each book also deals with more serious underlying conflicts around reputation and personal responsibility.