Emma R. Alban Books In Order

Publication Order of Mischief & Matchmaking Books

Emma R. Alban is a published author who specializes in queer historical romance. Her stories often feature falling in love, managing to find yourself, and creating a world that is full of love for you and your friends and family.

Emma likes to write television drama that is all about the above topics, and also about vampires occasionally.

The author grew up in the Hudson Valley. Today she resides in Los Angeles, where there is always plenty of sunshine as well as mountains and oceans. She likes to manage her stress by baking with having the air conditioning on at maximum ability, going skiing as late as possible extending into the spring, and choosing to read any place that there can be somewhere comfortable for her to lean.

The first book to come out from Alban for readers to enjoy is Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend, which came out in 2024. It is the first in a series titled Mischief & Matchmaking as was followed by You’re the Problem, It’s You.

Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend is the first novel in the Mischief & Matchmaking series of fictional novels by Emma R. Alban.

When it comes to handling everything, Gwen has an idea that is pretty smart in her opinion. The year is 1857. Beth is an anxious debutante who only has one season in life to be able to nail down a husband with considerable wealth. She needs to do it in that time because she’s going to be out on the street if it doesn’t happen, along with her mother.

When it comes to playing a blushing young girl with no idea but sweet as pie, Beth is starting to get a little put off by the whole thing. The truth is that she would prefer to be a lot of places except for the one she is. But those are the cards that she has been dealt, so she is just going to have to play them.

Then you have Gwen, who couldn’t be more different. She has reached her fourth season and she might go on a little bit more and put a few more seasons under her belt. She doesn’t have any intention of locating a husband for herself, and that may never change.

Gwen thinks that she probably has lots of security because she is the sole daughter of an earl, and she can just maintain that lifestyle indefinitely. The earl was where she learned to be so fun, how to have flair, and how to throw party games that were less than proper.

Gwen comes up with her latest plan in no time at all. She thinks that they shouldn’t give Beth up to courting but instead get Beth’s mother (who has recently been made a widow) and Gwen’s father together. They can be the ones who get all of the attention and get married.

The only problem is that the parents are not seeming to get along, at all. The hatred between them actually seems to be palpable and going strong. Gwen and Beth aren’t that worried. They think they can get around the tension that is between the two and make it work somehow. It’s just going to take coming up with a little parent trap in the first place.

As their plan starts to be carried out, a wealthy and handsome viscount begins to come to court Beth. He brings with him the very attractive author of marrying him and being set up for life securely in marriage. It’s tempting, and Gwen has to realize that she might lose Beth to share with someone else for the rest of her life. Beth must also deal with the fact that she too has caught feelings for someone, and it’s not the man that wants to marry her.

Can they con their parents into getting together, or will they find that they must take on courtship even though it wasn’t in their plans? Read this fun romantic book to find out!

You’re The Problem, It’s You is the second novel in the Mischief & Matchmaking series of fictional novels by Emma R. Alban. If you thought the first story was fun, be sure to check out the second in the series!

This is a great queer Victorian romance story where enemies turn to lovers. When a second son and a lord start clashing, they find that they somehow are put together once more by their cousins who are getting in the middle of it.

Bobby Mason has always been the spare in his family. He’s been the second best for as long as he can remember. He isn’t give any responsibility in the family and hasn’t ever been expected to become much of anything in life.

Bobby wants to do something that is important and give back something that matters. His peers all around him are giving up their financial and political power while they’re making their way through life. This is part of why he really can’t get along with the new Viscount Demeroven.

James Demeroven has just made his way into the Viscountcy and has just come of age. He would be the first to tell you that he knows he’s disappointing. He just keeps to himself and doesn’t raise the expectations of anyone. It’s the way that he’s been able to manage life living with his stepfather.

To James, Bobby is a bright star that is even more alive and alluring than he was in his days at Oxford. Those were the times when James nursed a crush on him, witnessing him from afar. However, Mason is also unapologetic and pretty brash himself. When it comes to the safety that James knows, that might not end up lasting. Worse, he rubs everything James fails at in his face.

The two cannot talk hardly at all without things being tense. Bobby and James feel torn, as they find the other infuriating but also infatuating. The two might get away without coming together if they don’t see each other at all, but their cousins Gwen and Beth keep coming up with group outings for them to go on.

Things take a turn for the worst when an extortionist begins to set their sights on their families. Then an extortionist starts to target them, putting their reputations at risk. The two must collaborate, but will it end in something more? Read this romance to find out!