Beverly Jenkins

Beverly Jenkins is one of the USA Today bestselling authors of the African-American descent, who likes to write her novels based on the contemporary and historical romance genre. In most of her novel, she has given a particular importance to the 19 the century Afro-American life. So far, she has written around 5 historical romance book series in her writing career, from which many novels have gone on to become bestsellers all over the world.

The best place to start is The Le Veq Family series, the earliest of Beverly Jenkins's multi-book series: it opens with Through the Storm (1998) and runs to 3 books across 1998–2009, ending with Captured (2009). Beverly Jenkins's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Beverly Jenkins has 64 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1994 and 2025. 31 of them belong to 8 named series — the largest being the Blessings series with 13 books — and 33 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Beverly Jenkins's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Grayson Family (1995–2008, 2 books), The Le Veq Family (1998–2009, 3 books) and Belle / Josephine (2002–2003, 2 books), plus 5 more.

This guide splits Beverly Jenkins's 64 books into 8 named series and 33 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Blessings (13 books, 2009–2025); Destiny (3 books, 2013–2014); Old West (3 books, 2016–2018); Women Who Dare (3 books, 2019–2022); The Le Veq Family (3 books, 1998–2009), plus 3 further series.