Judith Lennox Books in Order

Mall Conway is restless with country life until the return of Richard Galliers pulls her into a risky scheme and a deadly feud. This early Judith Lennox novel blends romance, danger and a heroine who wants more from life.

Serafina Guardi is captured on the way to her betrothal and sold into slavery, while shipwrecked pilot Thomas Marlowe dreams of the sea. Their paths cross through danger, betrayal and years of hard waiting, in a story shaped by survival as much as romance.

With Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned and invasion feared, the Anglo-Scots border becomes a nest of danger. Luke Ridley, Christie and Arbel Forster are drawn into old feuds, shifting loyalties and deadly intrigue.

In sixteenth-century Europe, Joanna Zulian refuses to let powerful men decide her fate. As she sets out to design the garden at Marigny, art, love and ambition draw her into a dangerous contest for control.

Thomasine Thorne longs to escape the limits of her childhood, while Nicholas and Lally Blythe and blacksmith's son Daniel Gillory struggle with old loyalties of their own. Their lives tangle across war, class divisions and bitter betrayals.

Robin, Maia and Helen grow up in the Fens with the Winter House as their private refuge. Between the wars, friendship sustains them, but love, ambition and loss test the bond they thought would always hold.

Recovering from a failed love affair, Rebecca agrees to write the life of the formidable Tilda Franklin. The deeper she digs into Tilda's past, the more family history, old betrayals and present-day feelings begin to intertwine.

The Mulgraves drift across Europe as a charming, chaotic family with no real home, until war stops them in their tracks. In London, Faith becomes the steady one, building a life through ambulance work, love and loss.

During a family holiday in France on the eve of the First World War, little Charlie Lanchbury disappears and Alix Gregory is blamed. The loss follows her through marriage and another war, as the mystery refuses to stay buried.

Liv, Rachel and Katherine grow up as inseparable friends, then face adulthood with very different hopes and blind spots. When they fail Rachel at the moment she needs them most, guilt and a hidden truth shape all three lives.

In postwar England, Topaz Brooke watches two cousins fall for the same captivating girl, Julia Temperley. Over the years, love, jealousy and long-buried family secrets threaten to pull their close-knit world apart.

Romy Cole grows up with a fierce sense of injustice after her family loses its home. Her ambition carries her into the orbit of glamorous hotelier Mirabel Plummer, but social climbing and old wounds prove a risky mix.

Before the First World War, four Maclise sisters dream of very different futures, from marriage and love to independence and escape. War scatters them, tests them and forces each woman to decide what freedom might really mean.

Widowed Bess Ravenhart leaves India for Britain in 1915, trusting her mother-in-law to care for baby Frazer until she can send for him. She never gets him back, and years later the hoped-for reunion brings pain instead of comfort.

Richard Finborough falls for Isabel Zeale in Devon in 1909, unaware of the secrets shadowing her past. As their children grow up, an old figure returns and threatens the family Isabel has fought to protect.

Kay Garland becomes companion to wealthy Miranda Denisov and steps into a world of privilege, secrecy and European travel. Friendship, hidden love and the gathering threat of war carry Kay from Berlin toward a life-changing future.

Tessa and Freddie Nicolson's last carefree summer in Italy gives way to glamour, heartbreak and war. After Tessa's affair with a married writer ends badly, both sisters are swept into dangerous choices in Florence and London.

In 1952 Cambridge, Ellen Kingsley starts a career in scientific research and finds herself caught in ambition, rivalry and old loyalties. When her friend India falls for the dangerous Mark Pharoah, private desire and workplace politics collide.

Devlin Reddaway dreams of rebuilding Rosindell on the Devon coast for Camilla Langdon, but war and betrayal send his life in another direction. Years later, Esme, the sister he married instead, must reckon with the house and the ghosts it holds.

Juliet arrives in Essex as the new wife of wealthy jeweller Henry Winterton, only to discover how cruel he can be. Her attraction to politician Gillis Sinclair opens the door to passion, danger and secrets that reach into the next generation.

Rose Martineau inherits a strange Sussex house after her grandmother's death and discovers a hidden aunt she never knew existed. As she digs into Sadie's lost 1930s life, a scandal in Rose's own marriage forces her to rethink the future.

When sisters Rowan and Thea visit their dying father in Scotland, his death exposes a double life neither family knew about. As war closes in, Rowan, Thea and Sophie must face betrayal, grief and the fragile possibility of happiness.

Every summer Bea, Marissa and Emma retreat to Seastone on the Suffolk coast, where friendship offers shelter from heartbreak, trauma and regret. Emma's mother Tamar carries a wartime secret of her own, and the women must decide what can still be mended.