Jennifer Donnelly Books in Order

Set between parts of The Winter Rose, Where Roses Fall focuses on Sid Malone in 1900 East London, a feared gangster who rules Whitechapel’s streets but cannot master his love for idealistic doctor India Selwyn Jones, especially after a violent raid on her new hospital tests how far he will go to protect her.

Beastly Beauty offers a gender flipped take on Beauty and the Beast, trapping fierce, hot tempered noblewoman Arabella and charming thief Beau inside a cursed French castle. As secrets and magic slowly surface, both must confront the ways they have been called beastly and learn to love themselves and each other.

Molly's Letter returns to early 1890s New York in the Tea Rose world, where newly married Fiona Finnegan and Nick Soames try to nurture a quiet romance between Fiona’s widowed uncle Michael and his neighbor Mary Munro, even as grief, pride, and an unwelcome suitor threaten to pull them apart.

Poisoned reimagines Snow White through Princess Sophie, a kind but doubting heir whose heart is cut out on her stepmother’s orders and replaced with a fragile clockwork one. Nursed back to life by seven brothers, she must face the true source of the poisonous voice that has defined her.

Stepsister picks up where Cinderella ends, following so called ugly stepsister Isabelle after she hacks off her toes to fit the glass slipper and fails. Marked a villain by her village, she is offered a magical chance to reclaim her heart and rewrite her destiny.

Fatal Throne is a collaborative novel in which Henry VIII and each of his six wives speak in turn, offering first person accounts of courtship, marriage, betrayal, and survival inside the Tudor court, illuminating familiar history from sharp, intimate angles.

Set between scenes of the classic tale, this novel finds Belle exploring an enchanted volume called Nevermore that offers endless parties, Parisian glamour, and even a chance to see her lost family again, while Death and Love wager whether she will abandon the Beast forever.

Sea Spell concludes the Waterfire Saga as Astrid, stripped of her songcasting voice, confronts her ancestor Orfeo for control of a deadly talisman, while Serafina trains goblin troops and rallies allies for a final stand against her uncle Vallerio and the forces threatening the mer realms.

These Shallow Graves follows Jo Montfort, a wealthy young woman in 1890s New York who dreams of being a reporter. When her father dies in a supposed gun accident, Jo teams up with street smart journalist Eddie Gallagher to investigate, uncovering corruption, danger, and a different future for herself.

Rogue Wave sends Serafina and her fellow mermaids back to their scattered home realms to search for magical talismans that can stop the monster Abbadon. Separated from her friends, Sera hunts shipwrecks while Neela battles disbelief, dragons, and family expectations in the glittering kingdom of Matali.

In Dark Tide, Serafina has become leader of the Black Fin Resistance, organizing daring raids against traitors in her own palace while trying to hold fragile alliances together. Far from her, Ling, Becca, Ava, and Astrid confront prisons, secrets, and divided loyalties as the war under the waves escalates.

In Deep Blue, Mediterranean mermaid princess Serafina wakes on the day of her betrothal and coming of age ceremony haunted by dark dreams. When assassins strike and her mother is poisoned, she and her friend Neela flee, following a witch’s prophecy to find five other mermaids and face an ancient evil.

Closing the Rose trilogy, The Wild Rose follows fearless explorer Willa Alden and globe trotting adventurer Seamie Finnegan from prewar London into deserts, war zones, and polar expeditions, as their unresolved past collides with espionage, shifting alliances, and the coming of World War I.

Modern teen Andi Alpers is failing school and numbing her grief after her brother’s death when a trip to Paris leads her to an old diary from the French Revolution, entwining her life with that of street performer Alexandrine Paradis across centuries.

Set in turn of the century London and beyond, The Winter Rose centers on India Selwyn Jones, a newly qualified doctor defying her aristocratic family to treat the poor, whose work tangles her life with charismatic crime boss Sid Malone and ruthless politician Freddie Lytton.

In 1906 upstate New York, farm girl Mattie Gokey longs for college but is tied to her family’s struggling homestead. A summer job at a lakeside hotel, and a dead guest’s hidden letters, force her to choose between duty and her own future.

Set in 1888 East London and later New York, this first Rose novel follows tea factory worker Fiona Finnegan as tragedy destroys her family and dreams, forcing her to rebuild a life in business while secretly pursuing justice and lost love.

Picture book Humble Pie tells the story of Theo, a spoiled boy whose fed up grandmother literally bakes him into a gigantic pie, sending him rolling into the wider world to learn humility, generosity, and what real hunger looks like.