Cathy Maxwell

Cathy Maxwell’s love for stories and history came from the family tales that were shared around the dinner table in their house in Olathe Kansas where she was born and raised. She is currently living in Virginia and Dick Cheney shares the same Mayflower ancestor with her. Cathy Maxwell worked in television news as a broadcaster after which she spent six years in the navy it was only after the six years in the navy that she started her career in writing fictional romantic novels.

The best place to start is the Marriage series, the earliest of Cathy Maxwell's multi-book series: it opens with Married in Haste (1999) and runs to 3 books across 1999–2001, ending with The Marriage Contract (2001). Cathy Maxwell's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Cathy Maxwell has 64 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1994 and 2027. 48 of them belong to 10 named series — the largest being the Cameron Sisters series with 5 books — and 16 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. Cathy Maxwell's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Marriage (1999–2001, 3 books), Cameron Sisters (2004–2008, 5 books) and Scandals and Seductions (2008–2011, 5 books), plus 6 more.

This guide splits Cathy Maxwell's 64 books into 10 named series and 16 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Cameron Sisters (5 books, 2004–2008); Scandals and Seductions (5 books, 2008–2011); Marrying the Duke (4 books, 2015–2016); The Brides of Wishmore (3 books, 2014); The Chattan Curse (3 books, 2012–2013), plus 5 further series.