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Legendary Lovers

The Legendary Lovers series by Debbie Macomber has 3 books and is best read in publication order, starting with Cindy and the Prince (1988).

Books: 3 books
First published: 1988
Status: completed
Last checked: 15 August 2026

Start here: Cindy and the Prince (1988) — then read straight through in publication order.

Reading order

The order the books were released — the default way to read the series.

Book 1:
Cindy and the Prince
Novel1988
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Book 2:
Some Kind of Wonderful
Novel1988
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Book 3:
Almost Paradise
Novel1988
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About the Legendary Lovers series

Legendary Lovers is a short-lived early Debbie Macomber trilogy, with each book putting a contemporary romantic spin on a classic fairy-tale or storybook premise -- a modern Cinderella-adjacent office romance, a makeover-driven reinvention story, and an island paradise courtship. Published in a single year, 1988, the three books are unconnected by cast or setting, tied together only by their shared fairy-tale-inspired concept, in keeping with a category-romance publishing trend of the era that grouped short, thematically linked romances into miniseries.

As with much of Macomber's late-1980s catalog, these are compact, self-contained category romances rather than a continuing storyline, aimed at genre readers looking for a quick, trope-driven read rather than an ongoing cast to follow across books.

How to read this series

Each Legendary Lovers book is a standalone romance with its own unconnected couple, so there's no reading order to follow -- pick whichever fairy-tale premise appeals most.