The Sisterhood of Secrets
Six fierce young women. One unbreakable bond. A headmistress with a gift for matchmaking.
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• Clean Regency Romance • Finishing School Setting • Sweet & Smoldering
• Female Friendship • Standalone Romances • Slow-Burn • Rake Redemption
• Enemies to Lovers • Friends to Lovers • Fake Engagement • Second Chance • Holiday Romance
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Eight books total (including prequel and holiday novella) — each a complete standalone with its own guaranteed happy ending, yet the Sisterhood pact ties every heart together.
Miss Rutley's Finishing School isn't just a backdrop — it's the secret-spun heart where six unbreakable friendships ignite every swoony love story.
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The Sisterhood of Secrets is a sweet and clean Regency romance series following six young women who meet at Miss Rutley's Finishing School for Ladies and form a bond that will shape every love story that follows. Bound by shared secrets and an unbreakable pact — and gently guided by their enigmatic headmistress Miss Rutley — each woman's romance is a standalone swoon with the warm, steady thread of sisterhood woven through every page. Kisses-and-longing-only closed-door romance with zero explicit content.
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Perfect for readers who love clean Regency romance with strong female friendships, emotionally complex heroes, and the kind of happy endings that feel truly earned.
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Perfect for fans of Sarah M. Eden, Julianne Donaldson, and Mimi Matthews.
Duke of Madness
Book 1
Heroine: Miss Julia Wallace
Hero: Matthew, 5th Duke of Elmhurst
Tropes: Opposites attract, tortured hero, good luck charm, fear of madness
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The Duke of Elmhurst is convinced he will one day lose his mind — just like his father. When his lucky watch disappears and spinster Julia Wallace accidentally becomes his new good luck charm, what begins as desperate superstition sparks into something neither expected. Julia is the only one who can quiet his demons. He is the last man she ever thought would steal her heart.
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Baron of Rake Street
Book 2
Heroine: Miss Emma Hunter
Hero: Andrew St. John, Baron of Rake Street
Tropes: Rake redemption, fake engagement, dowry chase, high-stakes gamble
To escape her father's despicable plans for her future, Emma Hunter turns to the most notorious rake in London — Andrew St. John and his infamous gambling den. A fake engagement seems like the perfect solution. But when the baron's carefully constructed lies begin to crumble, the highest-stakes wager of all becomes winning Emma's heart for real.
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Heroine: Miss Diana Kendricks
Hero: James, Marquess of Foxworth
Tropes: Sworn off love, secret identities, magic and illusion, truth revealed
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Diana Kendricks has closed her heart after one too many disappointments. Then a mesmerizing magic show throws her into the path of the enigmatic Marquess of Foxworth — a man whose illusions run deeper than any stage trick. When the truth behind his secrets threatens to expose them both, the greatest magic of all might be learning to trust again.
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Marquess of Magic
Book 3
Earl of Deception
Book 4
Heroine: Miss Jenny Clifton
Hero: Nicholas Dowding, Earl of Dowding
Tropes: Friends to lovers, fake fiancée, revenge plot, unguarded hearts
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Jenny Clifton never imagined her childhood friend Nicholas — now the brooding Earl of Dowding — would drag her into a scheme against a vengeful rival. Posing as his fiancée seems harmless enough. But the deception awakens feelings neither of them planned for, and the greatest lie turns out to be the one the earl's own heart has been telling all along.
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Knight of Destiny
Book 5
Heroine: Miss Louisa Duston
Hero: Sir Aaron
Tropes: Enemies to lovers, battle of wills, arrogant hero meets strong-willed heroine
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Louisa Duston will fight with everything she has to protect the theater she loves. Sir Aaron arrives equally determined to claim it. What begins as a fierce battle of wills between two equally stubborn people ignites into something far more dangerous than either expected — and the knight discovers the only destiny worth claiming is the woman who refuses to surrender.
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Captain of Second Chances
Book 6
Heroine: Miss Ruth Lockhart
Hero: Luke Bannerman, former Captain
Tropes: Second chance romance, haunted past, redemption and forgiveness
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Ruth Lockhart wants one last chance at happiness with the man who once broke her heart. Luke Bannerman has returned from years at sea — haunted, changed, and carrying wounds he has never spoken aloud. As old hurts and buried secrets resurface, they discover that second chances are never given freely. They are earned — by the only man who can finally make her whole.
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Gentleman of Christmas Past (Prequel)
Book 7
Heroine: Miss Agnes Fitzsimmons
Hero: Mr. Phillip Rutley
Tropes: Holiday romance, letters and longing, love tested by circumstance
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Miss Agnes Fitzsimmons will go to extraordinary lengths to get her love letters to the tall, handsome Mr. Phillip Rutley — even bribing a courier at Christmas. But when his looming bankruptcy threatens to silence any hope of a proposal, both must find the strength within themselves — and trust in a small holiday miracle — to secure the future they both desperately want.
The story of the couple behind Scarlett Hall's most beloved headmistress.
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Mistletoe Magic (Holiday Novella)
Book 8
Heroine: Miss Amy Felton
Hero: Mr. Tobias Deverell, clergyman
Tropes: Holiday romance, duty versus heart, mistletoe magic, forced choice
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Headstrong Miss Amy Felton dreams of sailing to America. Devoted clergyman Tobias Deverell refuses to leave England. With her father threatening a forced match and Christmas Eve closing in, Amy turns to a mystical sprig of mistletoe in a last bid to bridge their worlds — while Tobias wrestles the pull of duty against the woman he secretly adores.
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Why Readers Love The Sisterhood of Secrets
The Sisterhood of Secrets is perfect for you if you love:
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Sweet and clean Regency romance with zero explicit content — closed-door, kisses and longing only, fade-to-black
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​Strong female friendships woven through every romance — the sisterhood bond is as central as any love story
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​A finishing school setting that brings the full colour of Regency society to life
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​Standalone romances with a guaranteed happy ending in every book — easy to pick up anywhere in the series​
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Emotionally complex heroes — a tortured duke, a reformed rake, a haunted sea captain, a knight who meets his match
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Holiday romance in Books 7 and 8 — perfect Christmas reading
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A gentle matchmaking headmistress whose own story is as swoony as her pupils'
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Authors like Sarah M. Eden, Julianne Donaldson, and Mimi Matthews
Series Details
Series: The Sisterhood of Secrets
Author: Jennifer Monroe (USA Today Bestselling Author)
Genre: Sweet and Clean Regency Romance, Historical Romance, Finishing School Romance
Heat Level: Closed-door, no explicit content — kisses and longing only
Setting: Miss Rutley's Finishing School and Regency England, early 19th century
Books in Series: 8 (6 main novels, 1 prequel, 1 holiday novella — each standalone)
Available on: Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, Paperback
The complete series is available now. Start with Duke of Madness and fall for the whole Sisterhood.
Novels
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The Riddle Sisters
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Sisterhood of Secrets
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Those Regency Remingtons
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Secrets of Scarlett Hall
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Regency Hearts
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Lady Marigold's Matchmaking Service
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Victoria Parker Regency Mysteries
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Box Sets and Anthologies