Ace Collins Books in Order

Collins explores the origins of classic American patriotic songs, from national standards to military anthems. The book mixes music history with stories about the writers, performers, and moments that gave these songs their emotional power.

This biography looks at the Mandrell family's rise in country music, with Louise, Barbara, and their musical roots at the center. It is part family story, part career history, and part backstage portrait.

This children's holiday story uses Flag Day to help Jenny see what the American flag means beyond the fabric itself. It turns a civics lesson into a warm, kid-sized adventure.

Mitzi thinks her big, clumsy father is anything but ideal, especially when his attempts to help go badly. By Father's Day, she starts to understand what makes him the right dad for her.

This Valentine's Day story gives young readers a playful tale about crushes, kindness, and seeing people more clearly. It keeps the tone light while steering toward a warmer idea of love.

This Holiday Adventure story follows a child-sized search for what really matters when big hopes start to wobble. The tone stays light, but the lesson lands on family, gratitude, and perspective.

Built around Columbus Day, this picture book turns discovery and curiosity into a lesson young readers can follow. It uses adventure to talk about courage, perspective, and looking beyond the familiar.

Centered on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, this children's story follows Kimi as ideas about fairness and hope become personal. It is a gentle introduction to dreams of dignity, belonging, and equal worth.

A family Thanksgiving goes off course in this light holiday tale, turning travel, confusion, and last-minute trouble into a reminder of what the day is really about.

A kid-friendly story for Veterans Day, this book points readers past celebrity and toward real service. It shows how courage, sacrifice, and love of country can look in ordinary life.

Using Presidents Day as its springboard, this picture book turns history into a story children can enter. It points young readers toward leadership, learning, and the larger meaning behind a national holiday.

A gentle holiday story about new beginnings, family feeling, and the moment a child starts to understand what a celebration is really for. It is warm, simple, and aimed at younger readers.

One mix-up leads to another in this fast-moving holiday picture book, where kid-sized trouble becomes a chance to learn about patience, family, and seeing past the chaos.

Nurse Meg Richards learns she is pregnant on the same night her husband is killed by a drunken teen from a powerful family. Grief and rage push her toward revenge in this tense, morally charged suspense novel.

Collins digs into the stories behind classic country hits, showing how songs were written, recorded, and turned into standards. It is a fun mix of music history, artist biography, and behind-the-scenes trivia.

Rance and Kelly barely notice how much their mother does until they scramble to find her the right Mother's Day gift. The search becomes a lesson in gratitude, family, and everyday love.

Baseball-loving Eddie Roe thinks heroes live on cards and in ballparks, until World War II reaches his family. A telegram and his father's letter help him understand what Memorial Day really means.

Collins helps tell the story of gospel quartet legends Glen Payne and George Younce, tracing the group's long road in Southern gospel. It blends music history, personal testimony, and the story behind a beloved act.

This holiday favorite explains how many of the best-known Christmas carols and songs came to be. Collins blends music history, human drama, and seasonal tradition in a book that rewards rereading every December.

This book traces the roots of familiar Christmas customs, symbols, and celebrations. Collins combines history, folklore, and faith to show how the season's best-known traditions took shape.

Collins explores the people and moments behind beloved hymns that have shaped American worship. Each chapter blends song history with the lives, struggles, and beliefs that gave the music staying power.

A shorter holiday history book that looks at the origins of familiar Christmas customs and observances. Collins explains how old practices, legends, and faith traditions came together over time.

This companion volume returns to more Christmas songs and carols, explaining how they were written and why they lasted. Collins pairs music history with memorable human stories behind the lyrics.

Collins examines Easter hymns, symbols, and observances, following their paths through history and church life. The result is part songbook backstory, part holiday history, and part devotional reflection.

Lije Evans survives an ambush on a mountain road, but his wife, Kaitlyn, does not. Left with almost no help and a trail that keeps going cold, he begins a dangerous hunt for the people who wanted them dead.

Collins gathers readable profiles of men whose faith shaped their decisions, work, and legacy. Each chapter highlights the story behind the name and the human struggle inside the example.

This collection profiles women remembered for courage, conviction, and spiritual endurance. Collins focuses on the stories behind their lives rather than abstract praise, making the book easy to dip into.

Attorney Lije Evans fights to save Omar Jones, a man condemned after a post-9/11 murder case, while also digging into the mystery of his own wife's death. The search opens into racism, betrayal, and an international secret.

Instead of older carols alone, this volume follows the stories behind popular Christmas hits from the recording era. Collins shows how singers, writers, and unexpected moments turned seasonal songs into standards.

History professor Jefferson Burke gets drawn into a global race for an ancient scroll that could shake Christian belief. The chase pits him against a ruthless billionaire and sends him across a thriller-sized landscape of spies, faith, and danger.

Burned-out journalist Tell Boyer discovers a secret technology that has carried people from the 1930s into the present, including Jean Harlow and an undercover American spy. Soon he is chasing a modern Nazi conspiracy financed by old gold and older ambitions.

Set in Arkansas just after World War II, this Christmas novel follows Jimmy Reed, a boy still angry over his father's death. Over a few holiday days, grief, memory, and grace begin to reshape his heart.

A yellow Packard sedan seems cursed as it passes from owner to owner through the late Depression and wartime years. Helen Meeker follows the car's tangled trail while trying to solve a kidnapping and prove herself as an investigator.

In the early days of World War II, Helen Meeker is handed a case that could cost either an innocent pastor or a world leader his life. The result is a fast historical mystery packed with spies, danger, and impossible choices.

After a brutal assault leaves her scarred, top model Alexa Williams has to rebuild her life while the attacker keeps circling back. It is part suspense novel, part story about beauty, fear, and survival.

Helen Meeker races to save her partner and her sister while a shadowy scientific threat grows in the background. The stakes stretch from the White House to secret labs and foreign battle zones.

Helen Meeker's fight against wartime evil grows more personal in a case shaped by loyalty, betrayal, and hidden ties. To find the truth, she must figure out whether blood really means trust.

Helen Meeker impulsively heads toward Nazi Germany to save Henry Reese, while a sinister drug-fueled plot threatens far more than one life. The rest of the team scrambles to stop a scheme that could enslave whole populations.

In 1964 Mississippi, attorney Coop Lindsay risks everything to defend a Black teenager accused of murdering a white girl. Decades later, his grandson takes a similarly explosive case and uncovers buried truths about both crimes.

Helen Meeker faces another high-stakes World War II case, where danger wears a human face and evil hides in plain sight. The deeper she looks, the more deadly the answers become.

What begins as another wartime mystery turns dangerous when Helen Meeker uncovers a scheme with deadly consequences. To stop it, she has to move fast through lies, fear, and a trail that keeps twisting.

Dust Bowl survivor Shelby Beckett lands a job in a 1930s Hollywood wardrobe department and gets drawn into glamour, romance, and danger. When a killer starts targeting women, a detective asks her to serve as bait.

Helen Meeker enters a darker case where appearances deceive and danger hides just beyond the obvious. The story blends suspense, wartime intrigue, and the kind of night journey that never feels safe.

Helen Meeker talks the president into sending her behind enemy lines in Germany on a desperate mission. The case turns into a high-risk race through wartime Europe, where survival depends on nerve and timing.

Chicago detective Lane Walker investigates three postwar murders linked by an absurd weapon, old fruitcake tins. The setup is funny, but the case is not, and a stubborn reporter only makes the chase messier.

Helen Meeker faces a new wartime conspiracy in which science, power, and ideology turn deadly. As the case widens, she has to sort real allies from dangerous zealots before the plan spreads.

This nonfiction collection shares true stories of service dogs and the people whose lives they change. Collins mixes history, heart, and practical insight into the bond between working dogs and their partners.

A strange case draws Helen Meeker into a closed world of secrets, suspicion, and wartime danger. As clues pile up, she has to work out who is trapped, who is lying, and who may not leave alive.

Helen Meeker is pulled toward a case that touches the hidden resistance to Nazi power. Murder, courage, and secret messages shape a story about people fighting back from the shadows.

Football drives this novel, but the real stakes are character, pressure, and the choices made off the field. Collins mixes sports energy with a story about fame, family, and what makes someone worth cheering for.

Forced to work with people she cannot fully trust, Helen Meeker enters a wartime investigation full of shifting loyalties. Every partnership feels temporary, and one bad decision could hand victory to the enemy.

A kidnapped child, a murdered Japanese American woman, and a hidden Nazi project send Helen Meeker across continents. The case mixes Chicago murder, wartime espionage, and a desperate mission behind enemy lines.

On the eve of Christmas, Helen, Teresa, and Lancelot tackle three seemingly separate mysteries, from a child who thinks Santa was murdered to a deadly case of mistaken identity. Their investigations collide in a tense hunt for a Nazi contact in Washington.

Collins turns to brave working dogs again, this time focusing on canines whose lives are regularly on the line. These true stories highlight courage, loyalty, and the missions dogs share with the people beside them.

Helen Meeker, Teresa Bryant, and Napoleon Lancelot split up across Hollywood, Mexico, the Pacific, and the American West to solve linked cases. Nazi spies, movie-star intrigue, and wartime danger converge in one breathless 1943 adventure.

This collection explores the writers, occasions, and beliefs behind songs about heaven and eternity. Collins connects hymn history with the hope and grief that made these pieces endure.

Helen Meeker and her wartime team chase a case built on deception, hidden enemies, and layered double-crosses. What looks manageable soon opens into a far bigger threat to national security.

A new case pulls Helen Meeker into a coordinated wartime threat where enemies move fast and strike together. To stop the damage, her team has to read the pattern before the next attack lands.

Helen Meeker faces a case where nothing stays simple and every answer splits into two possibilities. In wartime, moral lines blur fast, and she has to reach the truth before someone else decides it for her.

Part devotional and part automotive history, this book pairs classic cars with short reflections on faith. Collins moves from one admired model to another, using stories from the road to spark encouragement and perspective.

Dr. Maxine Factor can relive the past through the memories of her ancestors, a gift that quickly becomes a curse. As governments and extremists close in, history itself turns into the most dangerous secret in the book.

In late 1943, Helen Meeker and her team reunite to learn why a soldier refuses the Medal of Honor he earned. The answer leads into hit men, buried treasure, Nazi intrigue, and hard choices about honor and sacrifice.