Where to Start with Anneka R. Walker
For readers new to Anneka R. Walker’s charming regency worlds, there are three excellent starting points depending on your favorite tropes. If you want a standalone mystery-romance with plenty of wit, start with her debut novel, Love in Disguise (2019). If you enjoy cozy fairy-tale retellings set in the Regency era, begin with The Masked Baron (Book 1 of the Enchanted Regency Romance series). For those who love meddlesome parental figures and friends-to-lovers stories, the Swoony Award-winning Bargaining for the Barrister (Book 1 of the Matchmaking Mamas series) is highly recommended.
The Matchmaking Mamas Series
The Matchmaking Mamas series is one of Walker's most beloved series, focusing on a group of tight-knit friends who find themselves at the mercy of the Matchmaking Mamas Society. While each story features a separate couple and can technically be read as a standalone, reading them in order allows you to follow the overarching character relationships and recurring cameos.
- Bargaining for the Barrister (2022) – Book 1: A marriage of convenience and reluctant courtship that earned a Swoony Award.
- An Unwitting Alliance (2023) – Book 2: Focuses on an unlikely alliance between two strong-willed leads.
- The Gentleman's Confession (2024) – Book 3: A sweet friends-to-lovers story set in 1822 Brookeside, England, where a rector guides his secret love through courtship with another man.
- The Rules of Matrimony (2025) – Book 4: The series conclusion featuring a marriage of convenience set in London in 1823.
Enchanted Regency Romance Series
This series reimagines classic fairy tales within a Regency England setting, adding subtle elements of mystery and historical charm. These books should be read in publication order to appreciate how the stories build upon the world.
- The Masked Baron (2020) – Book 1: A Beauty and the Beast retelling focusing on Andalin and a mysterious highwayman.
- The Dreaming Beauty (2022) – Book 2: A Sleeping Beauty retelling involving dream-related mysteries and curses.
- The Lady Glass (2024) – Book 3: A Cinderella retelling centered around an orphan trying to retrieve her stolen inheritance (a glass vase).
Regency Ever After Series
The Regency Ever After series features sweet romances inspired by classic nursery rhymes. They are quick, delightful reads that can be enjoyed in order:
- Her Three Suitors (2019) – Book 1 (inspired by Three Blind Mice).
- Lady Mary Contrary (2020) – Book 2 (inspired by Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary).
- The Earl and Miss Muffet (2025) – Book 3 (inspired by Little Miss Muffet, featuring Elena escaping her strict household at a house party).
Standalone Novels and Multi-Author Anthologies
Beyond her main series, Walker has written standalone Regency romances and contributed individual stories to collaborative holiday anthologies. These can be read in any order at your convenience.
Standalone Regency Novels
- Love in Disguise (2019) – Walker's debut novel about a young woman navigating deception and love.
- Refining the Debutante (2021)
- Brides & Brothers (2021)
Holiday & Multi-Author Series Contributions
- To Marry a Wallflower (2022) – A novella published in the multi-author anthology To Kiss a Wallflower (Book 20 of the Timeless Regency Collection).
- Sir Jack and Lady Jill (2022) – A nursery-rhyme inspired story in the Horses, Hounds & Happily Ever After anthology.
- Merry Kismet (2023) – A sweet contemporary second-chance holiday romance, published as Book 2 of the multi-author Gift-Wrapped Romance series.
- Amorwich Novellas (Christmas in Amorwich) – This collection includes Lord Blakely's Gift and Healing Hearts for the Holidays (both in the 2020 anthology A Hopeful Christmas) and A Season to Love (in the 2022 anthology The Holly and the Ivy).