Alyssa Maxwell Books in Order

Emma rushes to Marble House when cousin Consuelo Vanderbilt begs for help over a forced marriage. After a fortune teller is strangled and Consuelo vanishes, Emma must untangle scandal, family pressure, and murder before the truth disappears too.

At a Vanderbilt ball in Newport, reporter Emma Cross watches a man fall to his death and soon finds her brother accused of murder and theft. To save him, she has to pick through family secrets and Gilded Age power games.

Emma is caring for an abandoned infant when a textile magnate dies during a Beechwood sailboat race. With Derrick Andrews under suspicion and a scrap of lace linking the baby to the case, Emma has two mysteries on her hands.

A peaceful Christmas at Foxwood Hall collapses when Julia's suitor vanishes and disturbing clues turn up in Boxing Day gift boxes. Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her maid Eva Huntford start sleuthing before the wrong servant pays the price.

At a charity luncheon for wounded veterans, the headmistress of Phoebe's old school is poisoned at the table. Phoebe and Eva sort through students, teachers, and family influence to find who turned a good deed deadly.

Sent to cover an artists' retreat at Rough Point, Emma is startled to find her estranged parents among the guests. When one artist dies at the bottom of a cliff and another murder follows, even family becomes suspect.

A summer visit to cousin Regina's new estate turns grim when their hostess is found murdered in bed. Phoebe and Eva must navigate inheritance quarrels, uneasy houseguests, and a maid with secrets to catch the killer.

After a woman causes a scene at a polo match, Emma is called to Chateau sur Mer and finds her dead at the foot of the stairs. Blackmail, class shame, and hidden ties turn a society scandal into murder.

A glittering coming-out ball at Ochre Court goes dark when debutante Cleo Cooper-Smith is electrocuted during a staged tableau. Emma follows tampered wiring and buried connections into a much uglier corner of Newport society.

Lady Julia's hurried marriage to a wealthy older viscount already looks unhappy before the wedding night ends in death. When the groom is found in the water below his yacht, Phoebe and Eva race to clear Julia's name.

At Newport's lavish Harvest Festival, Emma expects spectacle, not a dead Austrian prince in the garden. The killing appears linked to another mysterious corpse, forcing her to probe old family shadows as the summer season closes.

Eva's sister arrives in Little Barlow without her husband, and trouble soon follows. When the new head gardener is found stabbed with hedge clippers and a local orchard owner is blamed, Phoebe and Eva uncover family secrets and village resentment.

New automobiles bring excitement to Newport until a reckless young driver leaves a butler crushed beneath his car. Emma suspects murder, and the trail leads through family money, abuse, and dangerous backroom dealings beyond Bellevue Avenue.

To raise money, Phoebe opens Foxwood Hall to guided tours, and one visitor ends up dead in the library. A missing photograph and rumors of hidden treasure make the grand old house more dangerous than ever.

A trip to Staffordshire to commission family china turns deadly when one of Crown Lily Potteries' designers is killed. Phoebe investigates the rival artists while Eva goes undercover among the women workers to uncover the real motive.

Still grieving Cornelius Vanderbilt, Emma reluctantly attends an Elizabethan fête at Wakehurst. When a judge is found with an arrow through his chest during the festivities, she must look past the pageantry to expose a killer with unfinished business.

Emma joins Derrick at an exclusive Yacht Club gathering at Beacon Rock and finds a young woman's body in the water below. Police call it suicide, but Emma digs into boat crews, designers, and Newport privilege for the truth.

What should have been a quiet gathering turns into a glamorous house party when Coco Chanel arrives with models and hangers-on. After a guest dies in a bedroom fire, Phoebe and Eva uncover rivalry, ambition, and ugly secrets behind the glamour.

Newly married Emma and Derrick return to Newport just as servants strike at the newly built Elms. When a chambermaid dies in a coal tunnel and a necklace goes missing, the shining modern mansion reveals a darker side.

An Audubon fundraiser at Vinland seems harmless until poisoned sweets sicken one of the society wives in attendance. As more tainted gifts and letters appear, Emma and Jesse Whyte have to stop a poisoner stalking Newport's elite.

At a wedding hosted at Arleigh, Emma is asked to help a wife who fears her charming husband is staging deadly accidents. What looks like cruel mischief may be a planned killing, and Emma has to decide before it is too late.

Phoebe and Owen's wedding day is interrupted when Chief Inspector Perkins is found shot in his parlor. With Miles Brannock under suspicion and a Scotland Yard man taking over, Phoebe and Eva postpone celebration to hunt the real killer.

At Tessie Oelrichs's White Ball at Rosecliff, a blackmailer crashes the party and winds up dead in the fountain. When Emma and Derrick's young society reporter is suspected, they dig through forged papers, scandal, and ruined reputations.