Below is the complete list of Jude Deveraux’s Montgomery books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Montgomery Books
About Montgomery
Jude Deveraux’s Montgomery series is one of the central family sagas in her body of romantic fiction, linking stories across generations and historical periods through members of the Montgomery family. Rather than functioning as a tightly serialized sequence with one continuing couple, the series follows different Montgomery men and women in separate romances that share family history, recurring names, inherited traits, and occasional character connections. The books range from medieval and Tudor-era settings to later historical periods and, eventually, contemporary stories.
The Montgomery family first became especially prominent through Deveraux’s early historical romances. The Black Lyon is one of the foundational books, introducing Ranulf de Warbrooke and Lyonene, whose story helped establish the blend of aristocratic conflict, passion, danger, and family loyalty that would define many of the connected novels.
The Velvet sequence forms one of the best-known branches of the Montgomery saga. Beginning with The Velvet Promise, it follows members of the family through sixteenth-century England and Scotland. The novels combine romance with feuds, political danger, arranged marriages, questions of loyalty, and the pressures of family expectation. Because several protagonists are related, the emotional payoff is stronger when these books are read in sequence rather than as isolated historical romances.
Other Montgomery novels move across different branches of the family tree. Deveraux frequently uses the series to explore how family reputation and personality echo across generations, even when the setting and romantic conflict change completely. Some books are directly connected through siblings or close relatives, while others are linked more distantly through ancestry.
One of the most famous Montgomery stories is A Knight in Shining Armor. The novel follows Dougless Montgomery, a modern American woman who encounters Nicholas Stafford, an English nobleman from the sixteenth century. Its time-travel premise connects the contemporary Montgomery line with the historical world that shaped the family’s past, while also allowing Deveraux to examine fate, love, and the possibility of altering history.
The wider Montgomery bibliography is also closely connected with the Taggert family. In many reading lists, the two families are grouped together as the Montgomery/Taggert series because their stories intersect across generations. Some novels center primarily on Montgomery characters, others on Taggerts, and several use marriages and family relationships to connect the two lines.
That structure can make the series appear more complicated than a conventional numbered romance sequence. A strict chronological order would require moving between centuries and subseries, while publication order reflects how Deveraux originally introduced family connections to readers. For most readers, publication order is the more natural approach, particularly when encountering the Montgomery world for the first time.
The books also vary considerably in tone. Some are traditional historical romances built around castles, inheritance, and political rivalry. Others lean toward adventure, comedy, family drama, or supernatural elements. Later stories may take place in contemporary America while still drawing on the idea that Montgomery history remains important to the identities of present-day characters.
Family is the real organizing principle. Deveraux is less interested in maintaining a single uninterrupted plot than in showing how one lineage can generate many different romantic stories across time. Characters may inherit wealth, responsibilities, stubbornness, courage, or the burden of family expectations, but each generation has to negotiate those qualities differently.
That multigenerational approach is what gives the Montgomery series its distinctive scale. Individual books can often be read on their own, but reading more broadly reveals a network of connections that stretches across centuries. The result is not simply a collection of romances sharing a surname, but a long-running family chronicle in which love stories become part of a much larger history.