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[quote=Anonymous]If you really liked the adventure side and like longer series, you might like Jo Beverley.  She has a long series, the Company of Rogues, set in Regency, starting with The Arraigned Marriage.  She has another Georgian Series that starts with My Lady Notorious.  Be warned that it's a bit Old School, so there is some assault and alpha-hole heroes (although nothing as bad as Outlander).

Beverly Jenkin's (mentioned above) writes great historicals featuring parts of African-American history that are not as well known.  I like the series starting with Forbidden.

If  espionage during the Napoleonic Wars sounds intriguing, Joanna Bourne has a really compelling series starting with The Spymaster's Lady.

If you want totally different world, I ripped through Bec McMaster's London Steampunk series, starting with Kiss of Steel.  She does an excellent job of world building.  Although the setting is pretty dark, the books didn't feel dark to me.

Ilona Andrew's has a number of series that I love.  Almost all of them are set in a contemporary world with magic. I would start with the Hidden Legacy series.  The first book is Burn for Me.  Unlike the other series mentioned here, multiple books follow the same couple and there is no happily ever after at the end of book 1. I would read the phone book if Ilona Andrews wrote it.

If you want sexy dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, check out Kit Rocha's Beyond Series- it's very, very explicit.  Starts with Beyond Shame.  (They also have another dystopian series that is shorter and not nearly as explicit that starts with Deal with the Devil.

For sci-fi romance, I really liked Jessie Mihalik series that starts with Polaris Rising, but it's only 3 books.

I want to second the suggestion of Grace Burrowes.  I love her books but she has a very distinctive voice and is pretty angsty- especially her earlier books. She is very prolific and a lot of her books are interconnected, so it can be a bit of a rabbit hole.

One other historical writer that I really like is Mary Balogh.  My favorite is the Bedwyn series, starting with Slightly Married.  The books are well written but in a quieter way than some of the other series I mentioned here.

Good luck, and let us know what you choose!
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