Beatriz Williams Books in Order

Young widow Lucy Cooper returns with her daughter to her late father’s decaying estate on Winthrop Island, where rumors of pirate treasure and the reappearance of her first love upend her plans. As she probes his death, island legends and old heartbreaks demand a reckoning.

Chef Audrey Fisher reluctantly returns to exclusive Winthrop Island to help her actress mother sober up, and discovers a hidden cache of paintings tied to a woman lost in an 1846 shipwreck. Past and present collide as mothers, daughters, and artists reckon with long‑buried betrayals.

Three very different American novelists travel to a Scottish island castle for a writing retreat, only to find the celebrity author hosting them dead in his tower study. As a prickly detective probes their stories, satire, secrets, and a classic locked‑room mystery unfold.

Single mother Mallory Dunne races to find a kidney donor for her son, a search that forces her to revisit a shattered romance and her mother’s mysterious Irish past. In 1950s Cairo, refugee Hannah Ainsworth’s dangerous love affair amid revolution plants the seeds of Mallory’s present‑day dilemma.

On postwar Winthrop Island, caretaker’s daughter Emilia Winthrop is drawn to the wealthy Peabody family and their enigmatic aunt, only to be recruited by an FBI agent hunting a Soviet spy. Years later, she must face what that summer’s choices cost her and those she loved.

A crumbling Newport mansion links three women in 1899, 1957, and 2019, each drawn into the secrets of the privileged Sprague family. Music teacher, debutante, and reality‑TV host uncover hidden scandals, lost loves, and one stubborn mystery inside a boathouse on the cliff‑edge estate.

On the eve of her wedding in 1925, Gin Kelly is pulled back into the crosshairs of ruthless rumrunners and a powerful New York dynasty when her enemy turns up dead. In 1998, pregnant Ella Dommerich’s investigation into a political family’s finances echoes Gin’s dangerous past.

Twins Ruth and Iris Macallister take opposite paths through the early Cold War. After Iris vanishes behind the Iron Curtain with her diplomat husband, Ruth is recruited years later to enter Moscow under cover, forcing both women to gamble everything on loyalty and escape.

In 1947 Hawaii, war photographer Janey Everett tracks down a reclusive pilot she believes is legendary aviator Irene Foster, missing since 1937. As Irene reluctantly revisits her past with fellow flyer Sam Mallory, a decades‑old mystery about love and disappearance comes into focus.

At the Ritz Paris, three women across 1914, 1942, and 1964 lean on the same gilded hotel while war and loss reshape their lives. An heiress, a reluctant Resistance courier, and a grieving widow uncover how their stories and one elusive traitor are intertwined.

In 1924, red‑haired flapper Gin Kelly hides in Cocoa Beach with Prohibition agent Anson Marshall and her young sister, until new threats pull her back to New York’s bootlegging wars. In 1998, Ella Dommerich digs into Gin’s vanished life, chasing answers in a single photograph.

Reporter Lulu Randolph arrives in wartime Nassau to cover the glamorous Duke and Duchess of Windsor and instead uncovers a web of intrigue, murder, and divided loyalties. Decades earlier, a German baroness’s story slowly reveals how love and betrayal led to this Caribbean powder keg.

In 1951, outsider Miranda Schuyler joins her mother on elite Winthrop Island and falls for local lobsterman Joseph Vargas, shattering the fragile peace between summer families and year‑rounders. Returning in 1969 as a famous actress, she must untangle the crime and betrayals that destroyed them.

Three women linked to the doomed Lusitania confront love, espionage, and deception. In 1915, society bride Caroline and con artist Tess sail toward disaster; in 2013, writer Sarah Blake hunts the truth in family relics, uncovering how their choices shaped her own history.

After discovering her banker husband’s double life, Ella Gilbert flees to a Greenwich Village walk‑up with a haunted speakeasy in its basement. There she uncovers the 1920s story of flapper Gin Kelly, a bootlegger’s stepdaughter drawn into dangerous bargains with a Prohibition agent.

Haunted by her father’s crime, Virginia Fortescue drives ambulances in World War I France and falls for charismatic surgeon Simon Fitzwilliam. Years later in Prohibition‑era Florida, she arrives to settle his estate and discovers rumrunners, family lies, and whether Simon is truly dead.

Emmeline Truelove travels with Max Haywood to the Orkney Islands to investigate a selkie legend and an impossible antique garment. When Lord Silverton vanishes in a violent storm, Emmeline must confront ghosts, time‑slips, and her own guarded heart to bring him—and the truth—home.

In a Gilded Age Manhattan mansion later turned into a hospital, three women in 1890, 1920, and 1945 cross paths through one ornate room and a ruby pendant. As maid, secretary, and doctor pursue love and identity, they slowly piece together a family secret spanning generations.

On a transatlantic voyage, the formidable Duke of Olympia hunts an anarchist and a missing dossier, only to be distracted by an observant governess with secrets of her own. Their shipboard alliance tests his instincts about loyalty, disguise, and whether he dares to trust his heart.

This anthology gathers nine historical short stories, including one by Beatriz Williams, set around the armistice at the end of World War I. Each tale explores how the war’s losses, reunions, and fragile hopes reshape lovers, families, and survivors on both sides of the trenches.

In this short story, war‑scarred pilot Octavian Rofrano wanders 1920s Paris clutching a photograph that saw him through the trenches. One lonely night forces him to confront the promises he made in wartime and whether he dares reach for a different kind of future.

Newly bereaved secretary Emmeline Truelove is dispatched to track down the late Duke of Olympia’s elusive heir, Max Haywood, last seen on Crete. Aboard a Mediterranean yacht with rakish Lord Silverton, she faces murder attempts, ancient puzzles, and unnerving hints that time itself may be misbehaving.

In Jazz Age New York, glamorous Theresa Marshall relies on a young war‑hero lover even as she stays married for convenience. Asked to vet her brother’s fiancée, Octavian Rofrano falls for the innocent Sophie Fortescue, igniting a dangerous triangle bound up with old family crimes.

In 1966, poised political wife Christina “Tiny” Hardcastle spends the summer on Cape Cod polishing her husband’s congressional campaign. When compromising photos, a war‑hero cousin, and her unruly sister arrive, Tiny must choose between the perfect image and the life she really wants.

Pregnant and on the run in 1966, Pepper Schuyler restores a rare Mercedes and sells it to elegant widow Annabelle Dommerich. As Annabelle reveals how that car once carried her from Nazi‑era Europe, Pepper’s own future becomes tangled with a decades‑old love story.

A mysterious suitcase addressed to young magazine researcher Vivian Schuyler pulls her into the buried scandal of her great‑aunt Violet, a pioneering physicist in pre‑WWI Europe. Shifting between 1910s and 1960s, the story unravels family secrets, ambition, and forbidden love.

Duty‑bound Princess Luisa hides in plain sight as secretary to notorious rake Philip, Earl of Somerton, hoping he’ll help her reclaim her threatened throne. Working side by side with a man sworn off love entangles her in political danger, scandal, and feelings she never planned on.

Rebellious Princess Stefanie, posing as a drab clerk in a London law office, can’t resist sparring with her employer’s charming nephew, the Marquess of Hatherfield. As attraction flares, secrets about her true identity and his dangerous past draw them into intrigue as well as romance.

Disguised as a tutor in 1888, studious Princess Emilie hides from assassins in the household of the battle‑scarred Duke of Ashland. Neither expects their masked encounters to turn into a fierce love, or to collide with the conspiracy that drove her into exile.

Socialite Lily Dane retreats to Seaview, Rhode Island, hoping for a quiet 1938 summer, only to be joined by her former best friend Budgie and ex‑fiancé Nick, now married. Old betrayals surface as a looming storm threatens to rip their world apart.

Free‑spirited Abigail Harewood comes to a remote Italian castle determined to take a lover instead of a husband; the brooding Duke of Wallingford has sworn a year of chastity. As odd events and family wagers swirl around them, self‑denial gives way to an unexpected, deeply felt match.

Investment analyst Kate Wilson falls for enigmatic client Julian Laurence, only to learn he mirrors a World War I officer presumed dead a century earlier. As past and present collide, she races to uncover the truth behind his seemingly impossible return.

Facing financial ruin, widowed Lady Alexandra Morley retreats to a Tuscan castle to scheme her way back to solvency, only to clash with inventor Phineas Burke, who has leased the same estate to perfect his motorcar engine. Their enforced proximity turns rivalry into a risky, consuming affair.

Trapped in a brutal marriage, Elizabeth, Countess of Somerton, hides in an Italian castle with her young son and two friends. There she reunites with her first love, Roland Penhallow, and together they must outwit her vengeful husband while deciding whether they dare claim a second chance.