Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Letter from Briarton Park | 2022 | Sarah E. Ladd | Buy |
| 2 | In the Shelter of Hollythorne House | 2023 | Sarah E. Ladd | Buy |
| 3 | The Cloverton Charade | 2024 | Sarah E. Ladd | Buy |
The Houses of Yorkshire series runs to three novels published between 2022 and 2024: The Letter from Briarton Park, In the Shelter of Hollythorne House, and The Cloverton Charade. Each is set in a different Yorkshire manor and features a new heroine uncovering secrets connected to the house and its inhabitants. The grand house setting is used to frame questions about inheritance, identity, and social expectation that recur across all three books.
The series represents Ladd’s most recent sustained series work and shows her continued focus on atmospheric historical settings with strong female protagonists. Yorkshire’s distinctive landscape — moorland, stone halls, isolated villages — gives the books a different texture from her Cornish or Surrey settings. Each novel stands alone, but the thematic consistency across the three books makes reading them in sequence a satisfying experience.