Beverley Watts Books in Order

Divorced and in her forties, Beverley Wilkins hopes her job at Britannia Royal Naval College will lead to romance with an officer. A new term offers possibilities, although her unruly dog threatens to complicate every opportunity.

Victory Shackleford's orderly life in Dartmouth unravels when her father rents their home to a Hollywood film production. Amid matchmaking schemes and celebrity chaos, she must decide whether to remain safely on the sidelines or risk change.

Susie celebrates Christmas by opening presents, sharing a turkey dinner, and playing in the snow. This first story in the Susie series introduces young readers to the familiar activities and small pleasures of a festive day.

Kit Davies launches her event-planning career by organizing her best friend's secret wedding to a Hollywood star. With the bride hiding something and Admiral Shackleford pursuing his own schemes, keeping the celebration private becomes increasingly difficult.

Victory's romance with actor Noah Westbrook brings intrusive photographers and relentless tabloid attention to Dartmouth. When reporters uncover a secret threatening her father's freedom and Noah's career, she must confront the cost of their public life.

Kit's relationship with a naval captain reaches a turning point when he asks her to move to Scotland. Torn between love and her Dartmouth business, she faces a family crisis intensified by Admiral Shackleford's interference.

When an old naval friend dies in a suspicious car accident, Admiral Shackleford questions the official verdict. With Jimmy Noon, he investigates a young widow's previous marriages and a trail of deception stretching back years.

Admiral Shackleford's attempt to revive his romance takes him to a murder mystery weekend where someone actually dies. Stranded by bad weather, he and Jimmy Noon must identify the killer before the police can arrive.

Susie enjoys a seaside outing filled with sand digging, seagulls, and ice cream. Alongside the illustrated story, young readers can search for objects at the beginning and complete a dot-to-dot activity at the back.

A Christmas lighthouse holiday turns into an investigation when Admiral Shackleford learns of a young woman's recent death. With her mother also missing, he and his companions have only days to uncover what really happened.

A wounded naval veteran inherits a dukedom and needs an heir, while Reverend Shackleford wants a wealthy husband for his eldest daughter. Their arranged match brings rebellious Grace into a household where grief has hardened into isolation.

Accompanying her father to Torquay, Faith becomes fascinated by an empty mansion and its absent naval captain. When Roan Carew returns, a decades-old secret makes their growing connection dangerous to anyone who investigates the house.

Reverend Shackleford hires a supposedly respectable lady to prepare his fiery daughter Temperance for society. Meanwhile, an earl determined never to marry finds his settled convictions overturned by an encounter with the outspoken young woman.

Presumed dead after a betrayal, Gabriel Atwood seeks help from his former mentor at Christmas. His arrival disrupts Hope Shackleford's already unwelcome family gathering, drawing the practical young woman into dangers concealed behind his ragged appearance.

Newly engaged after months renovating a Scottish estate, Kit hopes a Dartmouth celebration will offer respite. Instead, Admiral Shackleford investigates an unwelcome woman at the estate, uncovering secrets that threaten to complicate everyone's plans.

Patience Shackleford would rather pick locks than enter society, and her father shares her dread of a London Season. Meeting an enigmatic marquis changes matters when her unconventional skill proves exactly what he needs.

Expected to marry an heiress, Anthony Shackleford instead concentrates on restoring his manor and hires a ragged young helper. He does not know that George is a woman fleeing danger, or that her hidden identity carries larger stakes.

Charity accompanies her father to Dartmouth to keep him out of trouble, only to encounter smuggling and murder. A mysterious Cornishman offers protection, but trusting Jago Carlyon could endanger both her heart and her life.

Chastity's London Season brings the prospect of marriage to a newly inherited earl wanted for murder. As Christian Stanhope struggles to clear a seventeen-year-old accusation, her involvement threatens to complicate an already precarious return to society.

Prudence visits London for George IV's coronation and encounters a Bow Street Runner investigating an assassination plot. Her fascination with danger and growing attraction to Jamie Fitzroy collide with his urgent effort to protect the king.

Dismissed from the National Crime Agency, Teddy Shackleford retreats to Dartmouth with her reputation in ruins. An aristocrat's inheritance mystery offers a chance to reclaim her confidence, complicated by an attraction to the Duke of Blackmore.

Teddy's settled life with the Duke of Blackmore is disrupted when tabloids expose her estranged mother's unconventional profession. As the scandal deepens, her mother's hidden connections to Japanese organized crime turn embarrassment into a dangerous search.

Sent to Scotland after another social indiscretion, Lady Jennifer Sinclair finds unexpected peace at her family's estate. That calm dissolves when a prospective steward reveals a terrible secret and she insists on helping confront the danger.

After surviving an attempted kidnapping, Lady Mercedes Stanhope forms an unexpected bond with her rescuer, a scarred former soldier. Hired to protect her, Nathaniel must confront old wounds as they work together against a persistent threat.

In Victorian Paignton, Alexandra Shackleford reunites with the man who once vanished from her life. His mother's blackmail case draws her family into a dangerous investigation while unanswered questions threaten their renewed connection.

A plot against King William IV draws sensible Henrietta Carew into intelligence agent Raphael Augustin's secretive world. Their investigation carries them toward France, where growing attraction clashes with discoveries that put her trust in him at risk.

A family garden party draws Lady Roseanna Atwood into a political conspiracy and the orbit of secretive Tristan Bernart. Haunted by childhood imprisonment, he must trust the Shacklefords while protecting a woman who keeps encountering danger.

Arabella Shackleford expects a straightforward jewellery theft investigation, but missing servants and murder reveal a wider criminal operation. As she works with Chief Inspector Hartley, growing affection complicates a case that tests her judgment and courage.

With a criminal network still threatening the Shacklefords, Beatrix faces fresh danger when a boy disappears and Robert Noon arrives from Australia. His presence unsettles her dismissal of romance as the family's investigation grows more urgent.