Lucy Monroe

The American writer Lucy Monroe is well known for her fun and enticing brand of romance that really sizzles on the page. Drawing the reader in, she manages to engage them with her evocative style and entertaining characters that really come to life. Selling over seventy different books and counting to various different publishers, she has fast become a household name, with many of her novels becoming bestsellers.

The best place to start is the Italian Husbands series, the earliest of Lucy Monroe's multi-book series: it opens with Secret Baby, Convenient Wife (2002) and runs to 22 books across 2002–2009, ending with One-Night Baby (2009). Lucy Monroe's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Lucy Monroe has 225 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1996 and 2026. 209 of them belong to 28 named series — the largest being the Italian Husbands series with 22 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. Lucy Monroe's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are DiRinaldi Brothers (1996–2004, 2 books), Italian Husbands (2002–2009, 22 books) and Petronides Brothers (2003–2009, 2 books), plus 22 more.

This guide splits Lucy Monroe's 225 books into 28 named series and 16 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Italian Husbands (22 books, 2002–2009); In Bed With The Boss (16 books, 2006–2011); Royal Brides (9 books, 2004–2012); Children of the Moon (8 books, 2007–2022); Goddard Project (8 books, 2007–2025), plus 23 further series.