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The Wilmot Sisters

by Chloe Liese

The Wilmot Sisters series by Chloe Liese has 3 books and is best read in publication order, starting with Two Wrongs Make a Right (2022).

Books
3 books
First published
2022
Status
completed
Last checked

Start here: Two Wrongs Make a Right (2022) — then read straight through in publication order.

Cover of Two Wrongs Make a Right, the first book in The Wilmot Sisters

Reading order

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

  1. Two Wrongs Make a Right

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  2. Better Hate than Never

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  3. Once Smitten, Twice Shy

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About The Wilmot Sisters

The Wilmot Sisters is Chloe Liese's second interconnected romance series, built on a deliberate conceit: each of three sisters gets a contemporary romance loosely reimagining a different Shakespeare comedy. Two Wrongs Make a Right riffs on Much Ado About Nothing, pairing two people who agree to a fake courtship to throw their meddling friends off the scent of an actual attraction neither wants to admit to. Better Hate than Never takes on The Taming of the Shrew with a prickly, enemies-first dynamic between a sister who's spent her life being underestimated and the man who made the mistake of underestimating her loudest. Once Smitten, Twice Shy closes the trilogy with a Twelfth Night-inspired story of mistaken identity and a slow-build romance that only works once both leads stop performing the roles they think they're supposed to play. As with her Bergman Brothers series, Liese folds in own-voices representation — neurodivergent and chronically ill leads drawn from her own life — without making it the plot's whole engine.

What carries the trilogy is the Wilmot family itself: three sisters who needle, defend, and occasionally exasperate each other in equal measure, giving each stand-alone romance a warm, lived-in backdrop of sibling history. Readers who enjoyed the found-family warmth of Bergman Brothers will recognize the same instinct here, aimed instead at blood sisters working out who they are to each other as adults.

How to read this series

Publication order is also sister order: Two Wrongs Make a Right (2022) comes first, followed by Better Hate than Never (2023) and Once Smitten, Twice Shy (2025). Each book is a complete, self-contained romance for a different Wilmot sister, so you could technically start anywhere, but reading in order lets the family dynamic build naturally and avoids seeing later sisters' happy endings spoiled early. No prior familiarity with the source Shakespeare plays is required — the connections are structural and thematic rather than plot-for-plot retellings.

Frequently asked questions

How many books are in the Wilmot Sisters series?

Three: Two Wrongs Make a Right (2022), Better Hate than Never (2023), and Once Smitten, Twice Shy (2025), one romance per Wilmot sister.

What order should I read the Wilmot Sisters books in?

Publication order, starting with Two Wrongs Make a Right. Each book is a standalone romance for a different sister, but the order lets the family's story unfold naturally.

Are the Wilmot Sisters books connected to Chloe Liese's Bergman Brothers series?

No — they're separate casts and settings. Both series share Liese's signature warmth, banter, and neurodivergent/chronic-illness representation, but there's no crossover cast.

Is the Wilmot Sisters series based on Shakespeare?

Loosely, yes. Each book takes a Shakespeare comedy as a springboard: Two Wrongs Make a Right nods to Much Ado About Nothing, Better Hate than Never to The Taming of the Shrew, and Once Smitten, Twice Shy to Twelfth Night. They're modern romances, not retellings scene-for-scene.

Is the Wilmot Sisters series complete?

Yes, at three books as of Once Smitten, Twice Shy (2025), with no further Wilmot Sisters title announced.

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