Samantha Holt

Samantha Holt is a fantasy and contemporary novelist from Warwickshire England. As a woman married to a military man, she has lived with her husband all across the UK for nearly a decade. As a child, she grew up in Hampshire where she was inspired by the likes of Elizabeth Gaskell and Jane Austen that lived and wrote their novels a few miles from the town she called home.

The best place to start is the Borderland Legacy series, the earliest of Samantha Holt's multi-book series: it opens with Borderland Bride (2013) and runs to 3 books across 2013–2014, ending with Borderland Betrayal (2014). Samantha Holt's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Samantha Holt has 81 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2012 and 2026. 58 of them belong to 14 named series — the largest being the Duchess's Investigative Society series with 10 books — and 23 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. Samantha Holt's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Borderland Legacy (2013–2014, 3 books), Highland Fae Chronicles (2013–2014, 3 books) and Cynfell Brothers (2015–2016, 7 books), plus 11 more.

This guide splits Samantha Holt's 81 books into 14 named series and 23 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Duchess's Investigative Society (10 books, 2021–2023); Bluestocking Brides (7 books, 2017–2022); Cynfell Brothers (7 books, 2015–2016); The Inheritance Clause (4 books, 2019); The Kidnap Club (4 books, 2020–2021), plus 9 further series.