I've been trying to get Grace Burrowes to create a book list by chronological order....her books were definitely published "out-of-order".
She told me it had a lot to do with the books her publisher felt were most likely to get people's interest. Then when they did some re-writes/updates to the ones they wanted to publish, some of the dates get out of sync.
Very few of her books have identifiable dates in them - I've tried to create a calendar based on a character's being at Waterloo, then count back and forth based on the seasons she mentioned.
I gave up.
