Historical Romance Books with the Word “Devil” in the Title

The Devil’s Own Duke by Lenora Bell (2021)

Book 2 of the Wallflowers vs Rogues series. Hetty’s father is a totally uninterested duke who is overjoyed to find that a distantly related heir has appeared. Somehow her father comes up with the idea that Hetty and Ash should get married so that Hetty will be taken care of and that she will continue to live on the estate. These two disagree with what to do with the lands on the country estate. Hetty has plans for a vineyard and her winemaking, while Ash wants to start a horse breeding stable and operation. Even though these two are married early on in the story, it takes awhile for them to truly trust each other.

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The Devil Is a Marquess by Elisa Braden (2016)

Book 4 of the Rescued from Ruin series. Wealthy heiress Charlotte has not had success in finding a husband in her many London seasons, so her father decides to select Benedict, the wastrel impoverished marquess to be her husband. Benedict promises sobriety and fidelity to claim his payout after one year. Charlotte goes along with the marriage, but really has plans to take half the dowry in a year and establish her own independence. Somehow these two are stuck together in an impoverished country estate and need to fix it up. They start a tentative friendship… and once Benedict stops being a drunkard and actually works hard at his land, we get to see a really nice slow-burn romance develop.

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The Devil in Her Bed by Kerrigan Byrne (2021)

Historical romance, Victorian England. Book 3 of the Devil You Know series. We start with another tragic prologue telling us about the Mont Clair Massacre, where the entire household was slaughtered and burned. It seems that Pippa (the cook’s daughter) has survived and now assumes the identity of Francesca (the new countess) and is seeking revenge. As she gets deeper into infiltrating her enemy’s lair, she catches the attention of a spy, Chandler, who is also targeting the same enemy. It turns out that Chandler is her childhood friend who she loved and saved her, but he was in love with Francesca and believes her to have truly survived the massacre. It’s a tangle of lust and secrets here and slightly heartbreaking for the woman who is actually in front of the man she loves.

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The Devil’s Submission by Nicola Davidson (2017)

Book 2 of the Fallen series. We start with the couple being estranged and the wife not really knowing why. She had enjoyed the marital bed, but tries to tamp down her enthusiasm, thinking that she’s supposed to be proper and docile and obedient. Meanwhile her husband is hiding the fact that he’s the submissive one and wants her to take charge in the bedroom. Neither of them talk about what it is that they really want, mostly because of propriety and all that. But they’ve got to have it out at some point if they’re going to get back together.

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Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas (2006)

Book 3 of Wallflowers Series. Evie Jenner is desperate to escape her overbearing guardians. She knows the only way to do that and to see her father before he dies is to wed. Evie proposes a marriage of convenience to an equally desperate gentleman: Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. After their elopement, they return to Evie’s father’s gambling club, where he is on his deathbed. Evie has assumed that she and Sebastian would lead separate lives after he collects her dowry, so she is surprised to find him integrating himself into running the club. As Evie finds herself in peril from others, Sebastian is compelled to protect her. Their marriage may turn out to be more emotionally entangled than initially intended. This one gets a lot of positive reviews for the reformed rake trope here. St. Vincent is essentially a villain towards Evie’s friend Lillian in the previous book, and Evie totally takes advantage of that desperation for her own purposes. It’s crazy to see the amount of turnaround that St. Vincent goes through over the course of the book when you see him slowly fall in love with his own wife.

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Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas (2017)

Book 3 of Ravenels Series. Pandora Ravenel is completely uninterested in marriage. She plans to build her business creating board games and is unwilling to hand over control to a husband. However, she gets herself stuck (literally, in fact) in a situation with Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, and finds herself embroiled in scandal. Gabriel has been successfully avoiding marriage for many years, but still tries to do the honorable thing. After some advice from dear old dad (Sebastian from Devil in Winter, the previous Lord St. Vincent, and now the Duke of Kingston), the Ravenels are invited to the family house for a week. As Gabriel and Pandora get to know each other, he finds her charmingly irresistible, and she finds herself torn between wanting him and keeping her independence. Of the books I’ve read thus far, this one actually had a scene that made me laugh out loud. Pandora is my absolute favorite with her feminist ideals and outspoken nature. She speaks plainly and directly, leaving no room for misinterpretation of what she wants.

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Devil’s Daughter by Lisa Kleypas (2019)

Book 5 of Ravenels Series. Phoebe and her entire family are at the Ravenel estate for the wedding of her brother Gabriel to Pandora Ravenel (our couple from Devil in Spring). Phoebe is just coming out of mourning for her late husband and childhood sweetheart and encounters West Ravenel, who was her late husband’s childhood bully. However, West has matured and is no longer that bullying oaf. As the estate manager, West gives a tour of the farms to Sebastian (Duke of Kingston, Phoebe’s father), Phoebe, and her son Justin (Lord Clare). Since Justin is set to run his own estate when he comes of age, it would benefit Phoebe to learn about land management. She grows closer to West in learning all these things, but he believes he isn’t worthy of her. This book overlaps the timeline for Devil in Spring and Hello Stranger, which I adore because I love reading different perspectives of common events. Oh, and we get to see our beloved Sebastian being an awesome dad. This book is where you see West’s transformation from Book 1 pay off. You really needed to meet West as a lazy drunkard back then to appreciate how knowledgeable and responsible he is now. And the bonus about West Ravenel is that he didn’t suddenly improve himself after meeting the lady he falls in love with; his entire transformation happens before he ever meets Phoebe, showing that it was for his own sense of self-worth and responsibility.

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Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas (2021)

Merritt Sterling is the daughter of Lillian and Marcus (who were the couple from It Happened One Autumn, Book 2 of the Wallflowers series) now all grown up, widowed, and running the shipping business her late husband left behind. Somehow, she meets Keir MacRae who is a Scottish whiskey distiller, probably trying to sell his product. Well, they meet, they hit it off, they tryst… but Keir is somehow a target for harm, so at some point, he’s attacked and loses his memory, and needs Merritt to take care of him. And… there’s an ongoing joke about him being as handsome as a certain duke that we all know and love from previous Kleypas books. So there’s some sort of connection there that is yet to be uncovered.

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The Devilish Mr. Danvers by Vivienne Lorret (2015)

Book 2 of the Rakes of Fallow Hall series. Hedley has inherited a crumbling cottage and decides she’ll live there to get away from her abusive family. Rafe wants access to the same cottage because of some family artifact hidden there and decides he should try to help Hedley marry someone else so that she’ll move out. Of course in their arguing and bickering, they end up with each other instead.

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The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe (2020)

Historical romance set in Gilded Age New York; book 3 of the Uptown Girls series. This one has the youngest sister of the series out doing charitable works and asking the local crime boss for assistance. In exchange for his help, he wants to be seen in public with her to get closer to a business associate. And then after that, we snowball into their intense chemistry and attraction and then deal with their opposite stations in life.

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The Devil and the Heiress by Harper St. George (2021)

Historical romance. Victorian-era England. Book 2 of the Gilded Age Heiresses series. This book deals with August’s younger sister Violet and Evan’s best friend Christian in a road trip escape from the suitor that Violet’s parents have selected for her. Believing that she is safe from her parents’ meddling now that her sister has settled with the duke in Book 1, Violet is caught off guard when she realizes that her father has agreed to a match with a viscount. She plans to run away and is aided by an earl, Christian, who has his own designs on her and hopes to force a marriage when they’re caught together. Of course, during the trip, these two actually talk and get to know each other, so Christian feels guilty for his planned betrayal. Violet is also opening up to the idea of marriage, since she feels so connected to Christian. In the background, Violet is working on writing a novel and has based her main hero on Christian without him realizing it. This book has all the calamities you would expect in a road trip novel plus the added dread of uncovering Christian’s deception. We also introduce the pairing on Violet’s brother Maxwell with her friend Lady Helena when they team up to chase after the runaway pair.

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