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Karen Hawkins

Karen Hawkins has 42 known credited books (42 published) across 10 series. Start with The Abduction and Seduction.

Karen Hawkins is an American author and New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist best known for Scottish-set historical romance, including long-running series built around Highland lairds, clan politics and marriage-of-convenience plots. Her books are frequently noted for their comic touch, pairing the genre's expected period romance with broader humor than much of the field, and she has written both single-title Regency and Scottish historical romances as well as connected family series. Hawkins is one of the contributors to the Lady Whistledown continuity novels — The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown and Lady Whistledown Strikes Back — anthology-format books built around Julia Quinn's gossip-columnist device from her Bridgerton series, with each participating author writing a novella-length entry set inside the same Regency London and sharing the Whistledown framing device. Hawkins contributed alongside Quinn, Suzanne Enoch and Mia Ryan. Across her career Hawkins has published widely within Avon and other major romance imprints, and her Scottish historical romances in particular have remained a consistent throughline connecting much of her broader bibliography, distinguishing her within a Regency-dominated subgenre.

Series
10
Credited books
42
Published
42
Latest published book
The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams 2024
Active
2000–present
Best known for
The Abduction and Seduction

Key facts about Karen Hawkins

Our list holds 42 books by Karen Hawkins. 37 of them belong to a series, while 5 stand alone. Since all 42 are out now, every book here is ready to read. Their series sit on our historical romance and contemporary romance shelves.

Karen Hawkins has 10 series on file. The Abduction and Seduction has 3 books, while The Talisman Ring has 5 books. Just Ask Reeves has 2 books, starting in 2006.

The MacLean Curse has 6 books, starting in 2007. Glory, NC has 2 books, starting in 2008. In particular, The MacLean Curse is the longest, with 6 books.

The Abduction and Seduction starts with The Abduction of Julia, while The Talisman Ring starts with An Affair to Remember. Just Ask Reeves starts with Her Master and Commander.

Since The Abduction and Seduction is the first series on file, it is the place to start. Their first published book on file came out in 2000. Meanwhile, The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams is the latest published book, out in 2024.

There are also 5 standalone books. You can read them in any order, since each one stands alone. The newest one that is out is The Legend of Nimway Hall: 1794 -- Charlotte, from 2018. The oldest on file is Catherine and the Pirate, from 2002.

Series by Karen Hawkins

Standalone books

Read these in any order — each is a complete story, listed newest first.

Frequently asked questions

What should I read first by Karen Hawkins?

Start with the The Abduction and Seduction series, since it is the first on file. Its first book came out in 2000. Then read it in publication order.

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