Charity Blackstock Books in Order

A standalone historical romance about Adam and Evelina, two people whose relationship is shaped by opposing temperaments and difficult circumstances. Their story balances emotional conflict with the social rules that make an honest choice hard.

At London's Inter-Libraries Despatch Association, gossip, ambition, and private grudges simmer among the staff. When the office busybody is murdered, aspiring novelist Barbara Smith finds that a killer may be hiding among the books and microfilm.

A standalone historical romance in which a southern setting, strong emotions, and a reckless choice set events in motion. Love is complicated by pride and social expectation as the characters discover the cost of their mistakes.

A historical romance of conflict and attraction, centered on a woman whose reputation for cleverness and defiance makes her a dangerous opponent. Revenge may be her aim, but love complicates every move she makes.

When two boys find a skeleton in the woods outside a small town, the obvious suspect is only the beginning of the puzzle. Solving the victim's identity means piecing together fragments of knowledge held by the whole community.

A crusty Scottish anthropologist travels to Central Europe to rescue refugee children from Communist control. This quick-moving thriller thrives on disguises, shifting appearances, and the uncertainty of whom to trust across a dangerous border.

In 1720, impoverished and recently jilted Emma Forbes leaves England to become governess to a French marquis's sisters. In southern France, an uneasy attraction and the approach of plague make her new beginning increasingly dangerous.

A standalone historical romance where victory comes with emotional cost. The characters are pulled between pride, old grievances, and an attraction neither can easily admit, making every hard-won gain feel uncertain.

In postwar France, a young Englishwoman at a finishing school meets Max, a Jewish survivor living in a nearby hostel. Their growing connection is tested by prejudice, grief, and the difficult work of beginning again after war.

A standalone historical romance about a love affair made dangerous by rebellion, divided loyalties, and the risks of choosing a side. Its central couple must decide whether passion is worth the price of defying their world.

A woman trapped in an unhappy marriage turns to Ahab, the man she once tried to have hanged. Their old enmity becomes harder to hold onto as he helps her escape and both must reckon with desire and revenge.

Writer Tamar Brown visits an English village to research Abigail Parkes, a woman burned as a witch three centuries earlier. Tamar's red hair stirs old superstition, while the return of a former lover and a suspicious death raise the stakes.

A historical romance set in a world where respectability can be both protection and trap. The people of Paradise Row must navigate class, reputation, and private longing while deciding how much of themselves they can reveal.

Miss Parkington-Smith appears entirely respectable, but appearances are never the whole story in this historical romance. Social rules, guarded emotions, and hidden history complicate her path toward independence and love.

Twenty years after her twin brother Johnny's death in a wartime prison camp in Thailand, Sue searches for the man she believes killed him. Her journey from England to Bangkok forces her to confront painful truths about Johnny and herself.

A standalone mystery centered on the enigmatic Mr. Christopoulos, whose presence unsettles the people around him. As relationships grow strained, the novel turns everyday suspicion into a sharper question of who is hiding what.

In wartime England, Octavia's secret novel becomes the scandal of the London season when her identity is exposed. Accused of turning real people into fiction, she stumbles onto a spy plot hidden beneath aristocratic gossip.

A midnight visitor disrupts the uneasy balance of a household and sets a suspenseful chain of events in motion. The novel builds tension through secrets, divided loyalties, and the fear that someone has arrived with bad intentions.

Six passengers share a journey on the Sweet Bird, bringing private histories and conflicting motives into close quarters. The confined setting gives this standalone novel a strong sense of suspense as tensions steadily deepen.

A standalone mystery in which widowhood leaves a woman exposed to new scrutiny, old resentments, and troubling questions. Her attempt to regain control of her life draws her into danger where grief and suspicion overlap.

A historical romance centered on Emily, whose hopes for love are complicated by timing, social expectations, and painful misunderstandings. The story follows her through uncertainty toward a clearer understanding of what she wants from life.

A historical romance about a woman left in an impossible position when a wedding and its promises go wrong. Hurt pride, family pressure, and unexpected feeling turn waiting at the church into the beginning of a larger reckoning.

A tense standalone novel about people pushed toward dangerous decisions by fear, loyalty, and group pressure. As the consequences mount, the characters must decide whether they will follow the crowd or break away from it.

A standalone suspense novel with an offbeat title and a dark undercurrent. Beneath an apparently ordinary setting, personal tensions and buried secrets create the kind of pressure that makes even familiar places feel unsafe.

A gothic romantic suspense novel in which a new relationship is shadowed by an unsettling past. As the central characters search for trust, old secrets and a lingering sense of menace threaten to shape their future.

A standalone novel focused on the pressures placed on a daughter as family history and personal desire pull in opposite directions. The emotional stakes rise when long-held assumptions begin to unravel around her.

A historical romance centered on Eliza and the complicated bond suggested by the name Miss Jonas's Boy. Social boundaries, personal loyalty, and the risk of loving the wrong person shape a story with a strong gothic-romance flavor.

A standalone novel of romantic suspense, where a hostile environment mirrors the tangled pressures between its characters. The story puts emotional loyalties under strain as hidden motives and danger make escape far from simple.

A historical novel that begins with a boy named Coll and a formative journey to Edinburgh with his father. It follows lives shaped by separation, belonging, and the ways strangers can become unexpectedly important to one another.

A standalone romantic suspense tale in which an affair tied to the Carradine name brings private emotions into dangerous territory. As loyalties shift, the central characters have to sort real feeling from deception and self-interest.

Alex, a writer of romantic fiction, takes a trip to escape an unhappy relationship and meets a man named Mirek. Their encounter forces her to revisit old attachments and confront the parts of her emotional life she has avoided.

A standalone novel that plays with the gap between society's polite expectations of women and the force of their real wants. Romantic entanglements and social pressures create a story of choices, vulnerability, and resilience.

This historical romance follows a young woman whose family position cannot protect her from difficult choices. Love, duty, and the expectations attached to being a doctor's daughter pull her toward a future she did not plan.

A historical adventure-romance featuring a man with the manners of a gentleman and the reputation of a rogue. Danger, hidden motives, and a spirited love story drive this tale of risk-taking in an elegant but perilous world.

A standalone historical romance where inheritance, family expectations, and personal pride weigh heavily on a changing relationship. Its characters must face the damage caused by old assumptions before they can build a future of their own.

A standalone suspense novel about people whose respectable lives depend on keeping private mistakes out of view. Once secrets begin to surface, fragile relationships and carefully maintained appearances are put under sharp pressure.

A standalone historical romance about attraction between people divided by past injuries and opposing loyalties. As danger closes in, the pair must decide whether their growing attachment can overcome the bitterness that first set them apart.

This standalone suspense novel takes its characters into a place marked by abandonment, memory, and old secrets. The uneasy setting becomes central as a personal search reveals that the past still has power over the living.

A stern Irishwoman runs a boarding house in the Scottish Highlands, complete with antiques and the ghost of a young woman. When she arranges an exorcism, she exposes a hidden necklace and gives a ruthless guest an opening.

A historical romance built around a marriage planned for practical reasons rather than love. Duty brings two wary people together, but family pressure, pride, and unexpected feeling make their arrangement far more complicated than either expected.

In mid-eighteenth-century London, actress Clary, once a poor Romany orphan, has built a precarious new life on the stage. She wants the freedom to love on her own terms, but her past and a powerful protector complicate everything.

In prewar London, a teenager's unsettling premonition is followed by a shooting at her father's dinner party. As she falls for a journalist, the adults around her reveal loyalties and secrets far more dangerous than she expected.

After her mother's death, sensible but impoverished Philadelphia Smith is left vulnerable when her fiancé abruptly leaves. A charming neighbor offers help, but rivalry, a cruel plot, and a dangerous escape force Philadelphia to find her own footing.

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Katona is haunted by a vision of a bloodstained shirt front before a dinner party in prewar London. When murder follows, romance with a foreign journalist draws her into an alarming web of political secrets.

In 1776 England, Harriet begins communicating across two centuries with Nancy, an American woman visiting the same village in 1976. Their conversations uncover troubled loves, local cruelty, and danger growing around Harriet's life.

A standalone suspense novel centered on a woman known as Miss Charley, whose life is unsettled by secrets and difficult attachments. The story mixes emotional pressure with the steady unease of a mystery waiting to break open.

Set in eighteenth-century London, this historical romantic suspense novel follows a woman caught in a world of love, treachery, and social pressure. Trust is hard won when private desire collides with the risks of public scandal.

Orphaned sisters Nanette and Leonie are sent to live with their cold aunt at Cudden Hall in 1744. Strange lights, a remote marshland estate, and sudden deaths turn their new home into a lively gothic mystery.

A standalone novel of emotional suspense, where affectionate memories and polite appearances conceal harder truths. As relationships are tested, a woman must decide whom she can believe and what parts of the past she can live with.

Julia and Rick Burton buy Fontenoy, a beautiful seventeenth-century house near Matley Bishop, despite warnings that it is haunted. What begins as a daring fresh start becomes a supernatural drama where the house's past will not stay quiet.

This standalone romantic suspense story brings love and danger uncomfortably close together. As a woman is pulled toward a man she cannot easily trust, private feelings become tangled with a threat that could prove deadly.

A standalone historical romance in which a formidable man and a determined woman are drawn into a conflict shaped by old loyalties, strong tempers, and desire. Their uneasy bond has to survive the dangers surrounding them.