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Happily Ever After

by Eloisa James

The Happily Ever After series by Eloisa James has 4 known books (4 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Storming the Castle (2010).

Books
4 known books (4 novellas)
Published
4
First published
2010
Status
completed
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Start here: Storming the Castle (2010) — then read straight through in publication order.

Book one

Cover of Storming the Castle

Storming the Castle (2010)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. Storming the Castle

    Novella

    Storming the Castle (2010) opens this run of connected Regency novellas, centered on the Reeve and Barry families, at 158 pages -- the longest of the four.

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  2. Winning the Wallflower

    Novella

    Winning the Wallflower followed a year later, in 2011, trimmed to 100 pages -- one of the shorter, faster-paced novellas in this run of connected Regency-era stories centered on the Reeve and Barry families. Like Storming the Castle, it's more loosely connected to the rest of the run than the Barry family novellas that follow.

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  3. Seduced by a Pirate

    Novella

    Seduced by a Pirate (2012) runs 120 pages and begins the Barry family thread that With This Kiss continues directly, giving these two novellas a tighter internal continuity than the more loosely linked Storming the Castle and Winning the Wallflower.

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  4. With This Kiss

    Novella

    At just 52 pages, With This Kiss (2013) is the shortest entry, a three-part serialized novella that closes out the Barry family story Seduced by a Pirate began.

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About the Happily Ever After series

Happily Ever After is a run of connected Regency-era novellas by Eloisa James centered on the Reeve and Barry families, each shorter and more tightly focused than her full-length series entries. Storming the Castle (2010) and Winning the Wallflower (2011) open the run, followed by Seduced by a Pirate (2012) and the three-part serialized novella With This Kiss (2013), which follows two linked romances -- Lady Grace Ryburn and Colin Barry, and Sir Griffin Barry's return to claim the wife he left behind.

The novella format let James move at a faster pace than her full novels, and With This Kiss in particular directly continues the Barry family story that Seduced by a Pirate began, giving the run a tighter internal continuity than some of her longer series.

Frequently asked questions

How many books are in this Happily Ever After novella run?

Four: Storming the Castle (2010), Winning the Wallflower (2011), Seduced by a Pirate (2012), and With This Kiss (2013).

Is With This Kiss connected to Seduced by a Pirate?

Yes -- both involve the Barry family; With This Kiss was originally serialized in three e-book parts before being collected into one edition.

Is As You Wish a separate book?

No -- As You Wish is a single-volume print bind-up combining With This Kiss and Seduced by a Pirate, not a new original work, so it isn't tracked here as a separate entry.

Do I need to read these novellas in order?

Seduced by a Pirate and With This Kiss share characters and are best read in that order; Storming the Castle and Winning the Wallflower are more standalone.

Is this series connected to James's Fairy Tales books?

No -- despite overlapping publication years, they're separate, unconnected series.

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