Ariana Franklin Books in Order

Diana Norman joins clairvoyant Tom Corbett on visits to haunted English country houses. The result mixes ghost lore, old family stories, and the layered history of famous estates.

Norman tells the true story of John Dodd, a wartime survivor of Changi Jail who later devoted himself to helping former prisoners return to society. It is biography with a reporter’s eye.

Three modern teenagers commit a cruel crime and wake in the reign of Henry II, each trapped in a new medieval life. To return, they must face justice, law, and themselves.

After fire leaves Glastonbury Abbey desperate, monks uncover bones rumored to be Arthur and Guinevere, along with a legendary sword. A young monk must carry the dangerous prize to King Henry.

In twelfth-century England, young Matilda de Risle is married off for land and power. Her remote Fenland gift becomes a refuge as civil war threatens her home, child, and survival.

Raised in France and sent to Ireland as Abbess of Kildare, Finola is broken by powerful enemies and rebuilt by exile. Her fight for independence becomes tied to Ireland’s own peril.

This biography follows Constance Markievicz from Anglo-Irish privilege into suffrage work, socialism, rebellion, prison, and Irish politics. Norman traces a woman who refused the quiet life expected of her.

Elizabeth I wants the O’Flaherty treasure, and London survivor Barbary Clampett may be the missing heir to Grace O’Malley’s line. In Ireland, Barbary is forced to choose her loyalties.

Puritan Penitence Hurd arrives in Restoration London just as plague does. Searching for her aunt, she finds a brothel, Aphra Behn, the theatre, and a harsh education in freedom.

In 1706, soldier Martin Millet returns from Flanders to find his aunt murdered and Daniel Defoe tangled in espionage. His search leads through royal succession plots, piracy, Jamaica, and dangerous secrets at home.

Ruined by the South Sea Bubble and trapped by Sir Robert Walpole’s schemes, Lady Cecily Fitzhenry turns a failing inn into a refuge, a business, and a doorway into Jacobite plots.

Boston tavern keeper Makepeace Burke rescues an English aristocrat from a Patriot mob and falls in love. Branded a traitor, she must cross the Atlantic and face an England that despises colonials.

Makepeace Hedley searches for loved ones seized during the American Revolution and trapped in Britain’s prison system. Her rescue mission draws in smugglers, reformers, and a countess seeking freedom of her own.

In 1922 Berlin, refugee Esther Solomonova is pulled into a scheme to pass Anna Anderson off as Anastasia Romanov. Then bodies appear, and a decent police inspector hunts a killer in a city turning poisonous.

Makepeace Burke’s daughter Philippa steps into danger during the French Reign of Terror, hoping to save an old friend from the guillotine. Family, politics, and love collide on both sides of the Channel.

In medieval Cambridge, murdered children are being blamed on the Jewish community. King Henry II secretly brings in Adelia Aguilar, a Salerno-trained doctor of the dead, to expose the real killer.

When Henry II’s mistress Rosamund Clifford is poisoned, suspicion falls on Eleanor of Aquitaine. Adelia is dragged from rural peace into a winter maze of politics, murder, and civil war threats.

After a fire at Glastonbury Abbey reveals two skeletons, Henry II wants Adelia to test whether they could be Arthur and Guinevere. The bones may calm rebellion, unless someone buries the truth first.

King Henry II orders Adelia to escort his daughter Joanna to Sicily for a royal marriage. The journey promises homecoming, but deaths along the procession suggest an assassin is hunting someone close.

During the civil war between King Stephen and Empress Matilda, young Emma is rescued by the archer Gwil and reborn as Penda. Their road leads to a besieged castle and a secret worth killing for.

In 1191, Adelia Aguilar is aging into uneasy retirement while training her daughter, Allie. When missing village girls near Ely point to a predator, Allie’s medical skill and stubborn curiosity put her in danger.