Oh, the Bridgertons. "I am a rake because I am male." Total rakefail.
Kleypas is pretty good for families and sets, but she has twice missed the last book-- the last Wallflower and the last Hathaway are both out-of-nowhere and not as satisfying. I think Sabrina Jeffries is another good one for sets.
Nora Roberts: I started with Tribute, which is unfortunately exactly wrong in every way except that I like it. Maybe the In Deaths, at least the first three. Blue Smoke is really good, and High Noon made me realize that she is just willing to do things I would never think of.
Daisy meets a guy connected to her family, rather than to Wallflower society. Something might happen, but he wasn't foreshadowed at all-- couldn't be, unless there was a mention of the guy her father wants her to marry back in America, who is a surrogate son. It isn't signaled as sequelbait at all.
Kleypas is pretty good for families and sets, but she has twice missed the last book-- the last Wallflower and the last Hathaway are both out-of-nowhere and not as satisfying. I think Sabrina Jeffries is another good one for sets.
Nora Roberts: I started with Tribute, which is unfortunately exactly wrong in every way except that I like it. Maybe the In Deaths, at least the first three. Blue Smoke is really good, and High Noon made me realize that she is just willing to do things I would never think of.