Jean Grainger Books in Order

As World War II draws to a close, Grace Fitzgerald and Richard Lewis finally confront the full cost of years spent apart by conflict. Between Knocknashee, Savannah and a battered Europe, they face one last test of loyalty, love and the futures they once barely dared to imagine.

In 2022, Orla Lynch retreats to Dunmara House in County Clare after her husband shatters their thirty year marriage. Decades earlier, ambitious Jeannie leaves Yale for Ireland in the turbulent late 1960s. As the house slowly gives up its secrets, both women discover how tightly their lives are linked.

By 1941, Grace Fitzgerald has finally carved out a peaceful life in Knocknashee after childhood loss and illness, and has even married. When sinister events threaten her closest friends and Richard's letters grow distant from wartime London, she must decide how much of her heart she dares to risk.

In 1940, Grace Fitzgerald observes "the Emergency" from quiet Knocknashee while Richard Lewis reports from bomb scarred London. Their letters cross oceans filled with U boats and fear, each of them exploring tentative romances at home yet finding that their deepest bond remains the friendship they share with one another.

In the harsh winter of 1942, a letter from a distant land shatters Grace Fitzgerald’s fragile calm and sets her village debating what she should do. Meanwhile, journalist Richard Lewis faces the chance of a career making assignment in London, knowing that every story he chases might cost him his life.

When Richard Lewis's plane is shot down over occupied France in 1943, Grace Fitzgerald is invited to Savannah to stay with the family of the man she loves. Surrounded by strangers and haunted by uncertainty, she must find the strength to endure whatever news the war may bring.

As Europe edges toward World War II, Grace Fitzgerald in Knocknashee and Richard Lewis in America feel the coming storm from opposite sides of the Atlantic. Ireland's neutrality cannot keep trouble away, and a resurfaced mystery about a stolen child forces their tight knit community to question long held beliefs.

Peter Cullen finally realises his dream of taking Cullen's Celtic Cabaret to America, landing a coveted residency in Prohibition era Atlantic City. Seduced by bright lights and easy money, the troupe soon discovers the dark power behind the glamorous boardwalk and learns that success can come at a deadly price.

On the brink of war in 1937, Irish dreamer Grace Fitzgerald longs to escape her Dingle village while Savannah heir Richard Lewis suffocates under expectations. A mysterious connection binds them across the ocean, drawing them into a relationship that challenges family duties, social norms and their own understanding of fate.

Mags Munroe already feels stretched thin by teenage daughters, an overbearing mother in law and a husband with a noisy new hobby. When an elderly couple arrive in Ballycarrick claiming to be a witch and a warlock, curiosity turns to unease, and a bizarre situation reveals a far more sinister threat.

In Ballycarrick, celebrity arrives in the form of a missing international showjumper nicknamed Chance Your Arm and a troubled star hiding out in a nearby castle. Teaming up with Conor O'Shea, Mags Munroe juggles high profile investigations, small town politics and her own patience as secrets come to light.

In 1975, modern music and new ideas unsettle traditional Kilteegan Bridge. Emmet Kogan dreams of Stanford University, his cousin Nellie plots her own escape, and their elders conceal a dangerous secret. In vibrant San Francisco, the young Irish visitors learn that breaking unspoken rules can carry heavy costs.

Touring a seaside town in Ireland, Cullen's Celtic Cabaret expects packed houses and summer fun. Instead they stumble into a community where the war for Irish freedom is being used to settle personal scores, and their colourful show becomes entangled in dangerous local rivalries.

Dublin, 1915, finds restless May Gallagher sneaking out to watch charismatic actor Peter Cullen on stage. When the Great War sends Peter to the trenches, his unlikely friendships with other talented soldiers lead to an impromptu troupe that keeps morale alive and plants the seeds of Cullen's Celtic Cabaret.

When a harmless prank spirals into a town wide scandal, Garda Sergeant Mags Munroe finds herself arresting children she has known since they were toddlers. Juggling outraged parents, outside protesters and a decades old family secret, she must decide how much to bend the rules to do what feels right.

As the Kilteegan Bridge story concludes, the O'Sullivans face choices that could expose everything they have tried to protect. With children scattered abroad, old lovers nearby and the law closing in on long buried truths, the family must finally decide which loyalties matter most.

After World War I, Cullen's Celtic Cabaret delights English audiences eager to forget the past. As Ireland erupts again in a fight for independence, resentment and anti Irish feeling grow, a vengeful theatre owner plots against the troupe, and Peter Cullen must fight to protect both his show and his friends.

By 1963, Lena and Eli Kogan have built a happy family in rural Ireland, far from his childhood flight from Nazi Germany. A single letter threatens to drag them back into that past, dividing them over whether to dig for the truth or protect their children from old horrors.

In 1950s Kilteegan Bridge, dutiful Lena O'Sullivan dreams of more than a life with a local farmer. Her friendship with wealthy heir Malachy Berger ignites gossip and resistance, and when long hidden wartime secrets come to light, both discover their futures were shaped by lies told long before they were born.

Garda Sergeant Mags Munroe is content to police the "most boring town in Ireland," worrying more about shrinking trousers and hot flushes than crime. When an unthinkable and baffling case erupts in sleepy Ballycarrick, she is forced to become the kind of detective she never imagined she would need to be.

In 1922 New York, Harp Devereaux and JohnJoe are dazzled by jazz clubs and skyscrapers, enjoying a freedom they never knew at home. Yet news from Ireland, where the treaty and civil war are tearing communities apart, forces them to decide which country truly holds their future.

By 1974, each member of the O'Sullivan Kogan family in Kilteegan Bridge faces turmoil. Eli's medical choices divide the community, Emmet heads toward a path his parents dread, Jack risks exposure of a long kept secret, and Maria must decide whether family loyalty should trump justice, even when it hurts.

When a stranger arrives in Ballycarrick clearly desperate to disappear, Mags Munroe knows a tiny Irish village is the worst place to hide. As neighbours gossip and small oddities escalate into real danger, she must untangle the newcomer's secrets before someone pays a fatal price.

By 1916, Harp Devereaux is sixteen and Queenstown is alive with transatlantic traffic and political tension. As her mother Rose works to keep the thriving Cliff House running, a dangerous relative returns and civil unrest grows, pushing Harp from sheltered girlhood into a world of risk, courage and hard choices.

In 1920, Harp Devereaux studies in Dublin while Ireland fights for independence. Back home in Queenstown, her family and friends are drawn into the conflict, and a vengeful enemy from the past resurfaces. Harp must balance love, education and the demands of a dangerous revolution that reaches her doorstep.

In 1936, Irish nun Sister Claire McAuliffe travels to the Australian goldfields town of Jumaaroo to help open a Catholic school. Between brutal heat, deadly wildlife, a charismatic but troubling mayor and injustice toward the local Aboriginal community, she is forced to choose between obedience and speaking out.

On the day Titanic sails from Queenstown in 1912, bookish twelve year old Harp Delaney’s world is upended. Living in the grand Cliff House with her mother Rose and reclusive Henry Devereaux, she discovers a shattering secret that forces them to reconsider everything about their home and their future.

By 1955, Erich Bannon is content in Ballycreggan until a magnetic Irish Catholic girl and whispers of opportunity elsewhere unsettle him. Drawn into a dangerous world he never intended to enter, he must protect those he loves while choosing between loyalty, faith and his own longing for something more.

In 1950, Liesl Bannon returns to Berlin as a university delegate, years after escaping on the Kindertransport to Northern Ireland. Confronting a city of ruins and ghosts, she uncovers long buried family secrets and must decide whether to forgive, forget or finally claim the parts of herself left behind.

When external crises threaten Castle Dysert’s survival, Conor O'Shea reluctantly agrees to host a reality show called "Grandma says we're Irish." As fame hungry contestants descend on the estate, hidden agendas, fake personas and real financial pressure leave Conor wondering if the show will save the castle or destroy it.

By 1950, three Kenefick sisters and the men who love them are all bound to Robinswood, a house that both shelters and endangers them. Ambition, romance and long held resentments collide as each must decide whether family loyalty and the pull of the estate are worth the sacrifices they demand.

In 1939 Berlin, Jewish widow Ariella Bannon makes the agonising decision to send her children on the Kindertransport to Northern Ireland. Taken in by lonely widow Elizabeth Klein, Liesl and Erich must adapt to a strange new world, where wartime danger and unexpected kindness go hand in hand.

By 1944, Ariella Bannon is still hiding in Berlin, determined to survive long enough to see her children again. In safe Ballycreggan, Liesl and Erich wrestle with their identities and the possibility of losing the only parents they remember, even as news of the Holocaust slowly reaches their Irish village.

In 1946, the new Lord Kenefick and his young wife Kate return to the war damaged Robinswood estate determined to revive it. Their hopes collide with lingering class prejudice, painful memories and the intertwined fortunes of the Murphy family, raising the question of whether the house can ever truly be a haven.

Reeling from her father’s death and her mother’s swift remarriage, twenty five year old Billie Romano wants nothing to do with a family DNA test. When shocking results upend her identity, the trail leads to Ireland and Castle Dysert, where Conor O’Shea helps her uncover a past no one expected.

Dublin journalist Kieran McCarthy vanishes while reporting from Nazi occupied France, leaving his nineteen year old daughter Catriona desperate for answers. In neutral Ireland, she must decide whether to obey his last instructions to stay safe or plunge into occupied Europe to try to bring him home.

Now happily settled in London, Carmel Sheehan wants to leave Ireland and its ghosts behind. When her beloved father suggests a family road trip along the Wild Atlantic Way, old fears and loyalties resurface, and Carmel must reconcile her painful past with the future she has built.

On the eve of World War II, the grand but fading Robinswood estate houses aristocratic Keneficks upstairs and the hardworking Murphy family downstairs. As war reshapes their world, class lines blur, loyalties are tested and both families discover that everything they believed about their place in life can change.

Managing Castle Dysert keeps Conor O'Shea busy, but nothing prepares him for the boisterous crowd from Bubbles O’Leary’s New York bar. As the group arrives during a famed matchmaking festival, hidden motives, old regrets and one life changing secret make this homecoming far more than a fun holiday.

Tired of life on the road, Conor O'Shea jumps at the chance to restore Castle Dysert into a luxury resort. A difficult business partner, unhappy family members and the tragic history of the castle’s former owners all collide, leading Conor to uncover long buried truths that mirror his own struggles.

Carmel Sheehan has escaped her convent childhood only to find herself trapped in a stifling marriage. When her late birth mother’s friend, Dr Sharif Khan, offers her a new life in London, Carmel must decide whether to defy small town judgment and finally live on her own terms.

On Conor O'Shea's Irish bus tour, a mysterious American couple try to disappear into the group, fleeing a vengeful mob boss. As the bus winds through peaceful landscapes, a scarred priest and a dangerous secret force Conor to choose between safety and doing what is right.

In 1960s Ireland, three boys from very different backgrounds forge an unlikely friendship at a Catholic boarding school. As Liam, Patrick and Hugo grow into men, class divides, family expectations and shocking events test the bond that once seemed strong enough to last a lifetime.

Forty year old Carmel Sheehan, abandoned at birth and raised in a convent, is stuck in a loveless rural marriage. A message from a stranger claiming to know the truth about her past sends her on an emotional journey through hidden family history that could finally free her, or break her heart.

In 1913 Dublin, maid Mary Doyle is swept into the Easter Rising, while in 2016 New York, disgraced journalist Scarlett O'Hara and elderly Eileen Chiarello uncover the story behind a battered rebel flag. Their lives, separated by a century, intertwine around sacrifice, rebellion and unfinished promises.

Irish tour guide Conor O'Shea expects another routine week shepherding American tourists around the country. Instead, a banker, a serial divorcee, a lonely cop and an elderly woman with a secret force him to confront heartbreak, second chances and his own past.

After the First World War, exhausted Irish doctor Richard Buckley returns home hoping for peace, only to watch his marriage crumble as Europe heads toward another conflict. His twins, James and Juliet, grow up determined to choose their own paths in the coming war, even if it tears the family apart.