Stephanie Laurens

An international New York Times best selling author, Stephanie Laurens has been a published novelist for over twenty years. She is a romance novelist who’s had 29 of her 50 books end up on the New York Times best seller list. Some of her titles include Cynster, Bastion Club, Black Cobra Quartet, and Casebook of Barnaby Adair novels.

The best place to start is the Regencies series, the earliest of Stephanie Laurens's multi-book series: it opens with Tangled Reins (1992) and runs to 6 books across 1992–1997, ending with A Comfortable Wife (1997). Stephanie Laurens's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Stephanie Laurens has 130 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1992 and 2026. 111 of them belong to 18 named series — the largest being the Cynster series with 18 books — and 19 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. Stephanie Laurens's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Regencies (1992–1997, 6 books), Lester Family (1994–1996, 3 books) and The Regency Collection (1996–1999, 3 books), plus 15 more.

This guide splits Stephanie Laurens's 130 books into 18 named series and 19 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Cynster (18 books, 1998–2012); Cynster Next Generation (15 books, 2014–2024); Governess Brides (13 books, 1998–2022); Casebook of Barnaby Adair (12 books, 2008–2025); Bastion Club (9 books, 1997–2009), plus 13 further series.