Karen Harper Books in Order

In old Canton, the celebrated Jade Lotus lives among luxury and danger on the pleasure barges. Desire, power, and survival become tangled as her carefully controlled world starts to shift.

At Henry VIII's court, Mary Boleyn is swept into a world where passion and ambition can lift a family up, or destroy it. This early Karen Harper novel revisits the perilous world of the Boleyn sisters.

Mary Boleyn watches ambition, desire, and danger reshape her family at Henry VIII's court. Through her eyes, the rise of the Boleyns feels intimate, risky, and heartbreakingly human.

Karen Harper retells the love story of Joan of Kent and Edward, the Black Prince. Set in fourteenth-century England, it mixes court politics, passion, and the heavy cost of royal duty.

Eighteenth-century actress Susannah Cibber is trapped in a troubled marriage and a theatrical world full of gossip and risk. Her bond with Tenn Sloper offers love, but at a steep personal cost.

In a world of royal power and private longing, a young woman's heart becomes entangled with ambition, danger, and the demands of the crown. Karen Harper blends romance with high-stakes court intrigue.

Set against war and upheaval, this historical romance follows a determined heroine whose loyalties, courage, and heart are tested by danger on the frontier.

Brett Benton crosses the Atlantic to claim part of a shipping fortune, only to land in a web of intrigue and desire. In America, Alex Sanborn may be her strongest ally, or her greatest complication.

A headstrong heroine faces hardship, danger, and unexpected love in this sweeping historical romance. Karen Harper pairs adventure with the pull of a restless new world.

During the French and Indian War, French actress Claire Chandon disguises herself as a laundress and lands on the dangerous frontier. There she clashes with American frontiersman Ethan Trent, even as attraction grows.

Melanie McVey is kidnapped from her fiancé's ship and held on a pirate island off Florida. Her captor, the feared Silver Swords, is as dangerous to her future as he is to her heart.

In a time of upheaval and divided loyalties, one Morgan sister has to choose between the cause she believes in and the man who challenges everything she thought she knew.

On the raw frontier of the Ohio country, survival and divided loyalties shape a love story shadowed by violence and change. Karen Harper brings the uncertainty of early America vividly to life.

Young designer Lesley Westam finds love in Rome, but war changes everything. What begins as romance becomes a story about endurance, separation, and the life history can steal, or return.

Marriage plans, family pressure, and stubborn attraction drive this lively historical romance. What starts as a practical arrangement quickly turns far more complicated.

Rosalind thinks she can outwit the king's man, until smuggling, suspicion, and desire pull her too close to her enemy. A coastal setting gives this historical romance extra tension.

Set in a rugged Scottish world, this historical romance follows a fierce young woman as old loyalties, local danger, and the hope of love collide around her.

Love, ambition, and long-buried secrets collide in this sweeping historical romance. Karen Harper follows a heroine determined to claim a future on her own terms.

After plague kills her son, Abigail McQueen vows to find answers. Her journey carries her from a Scottish island to Victorian London and the Florida coast, with loss and love close behind.

Old vows, family duty, and second chances shape this emotional historical romance about what it costs to keep a promise when life has already changed course.

Widowed and nearly ruined, Kate Craig heads upriver to the Mandan with her young son and her husband's other wife. On the frontier, danger and a new chance at love arrive together.

Beauty and menace grow side by side in this romantic suspense novel. A woman caught in old wounds and fresh danger has to learn which secrets are deadly, and which people can be trusted.

Attorney Brooke Benton hides in Amish Maplecreek after a murder case puts her in danger. When a child's death raises hard questions, she and Daniel Brand have to face both the truth and the community's silence.

A missing baby and the shock of loss drive this tense suspense novel. Karen Harper turns a mother's worst fear into a mystery full of doubt, grief, and mounting danger.

As the young nation around her changes, one Morgan sister faces love, danger, and divided loyalties. Karen Harper blends romance with the pressure of history in a story of courage and choice.

Young Queen Elizabeth I faces treachery, secrets, and danger at court in the first of Karen Harper's historical mysteries. Poison, politics, and shifting loyalties make every clue matter.

Emma becomes entangled in the disappearance of two patients and a web of secrets that reaches far deeper than it first appears. Karen Harper mixes emotional stakes with steady suspense.

Emma, a midwife in rural Appalachia, is drawn into a disturbing mystery where childbirth, poverty, and power meet. The setting feels intimate, but the danger is anything but small.

A coastal mystery pulls Elizabeth I and her allies into a case where hidden motives are as dangerous as the tide. Court politics and murder intertwine in this Tudor puzzle.

After becoming the unexpected heir to a Shaker fortune, Kate Marburn heads to historic Shaker Run for refuge. Instead she finds suspicion, hidden agendas, and danger beneath the town's calm surface.

Violence and suspicion spread through Elizabeth's court as a shadowed tower becomes the center of another deadly mystery. Karen Harper keeps the tension tight and the stakes personal.

A search for healing turns into a search for truth as Elizabeth faces fear, treachery, and enemies hiding close to the throne. Tudor intrigue drives every page.

Jenna is found wandering among her grandfather's stone figures with no memory of what happened. To recover the truth, she has to face a haunting place and the secrets around it.

When Keith's body is found in the rapids at Bloodroot Falls, everyone calls it suicide except his wife. Claire's search for the truth leads straight into grief, danger, and unexpected love.

A court Christmas turns tense when festivity gives way to suspicion. Elizabeth has to solve a holiday mystery before celebration becomes tragedy.

At a country estate, a maze of hedges mirrors a maze of loyalties and lies. Elizabeth's court is drawn into another sharp-edged mystery where one wrong step can be fatal.

Fear spreads through Amish Maplecreek as sickness, suspicion, and hidden danger take hold. To stop a killer, outsiders and locals alike have to question what the community would rather keep buried.

Clothing, status, and court display become clues in a stylish Elizabethan mystery. Beneath the surface glamour, Karen Harper builds a deadly case of appearance versus truth.

A mirror, a murder, and dangerous gossip draw Elizabeth into another court mystery where vanity and power turn quickly lethal.

As a hurricane bears down, two parents fight to save their children from rising water and human danger alike. Karen Harper turns the storm into both setting and threat.

Leah's adopted baby is switched in the cradle, opening the door to older disappearances and older grief. In Amish country, love and terror arrive hand in hand.

Bush pilot Lauren Taylor spots a stranger who looks like an FBI-wanted arsonist, then watches her quiet Montana town catch fire with danger. To save her missing son, she has to work fast.

A hooded menace stalks the edges of Elizabeth's world, and the queen's trusted circle must move fast to stop a larger conspiracy. Suspense and court intrigue stay tightly linked.

When Briana Devon survives a stormy scuba dive but loses her twin sister, she refuses to believe it was an accident. Her search for answers drags her into the perilous world beneath the surface.

A return home stirs up buried secrets and a threat that never really went away. Karen Harper mixes family history, suspense, and danger that feels uncomfortably close.

When Mariah disappears, Jessie Lockwood returns to Deep Down, Kentucky, and joins Sheriff Drew Webb to find her. The search uncovers family wounds, mountain secrets, and real danger.

Anne Whateley, imagined here as Shakespeare's secret wife, narrates a life shaped by love, ambition, theater, and plague. Harper turns an old literary mystery into intimate historical fiction.

Katherine Ashley rises from obscurity to become Queen Elizabeth's governess, protector, and surrogate mother. Karen Harper follows her through court intrigue, loss, and the making of a queen.

A high-stakes law firm retreat in Alaska turns deadly when rivalry, ambition, and the wilderness collide. Karen Harper uses the remote setting to keep the suspense tight.

Sarah Kauffman's barn murals bring attention to Home Valley, then fire and suspicion follow. Arson inspector Nate MacKenzie arrives as the Amish community tries to protect both faith and home.

In 1830s Baltimore, Violet McClellan and trader Nathan Stone struggle with love, work, and the life-changing choices that shape a future. Karen Harper packs a lot of feeling into this historical novella.

Elizabeth Fitzgerald, the fair Geraldine, is torn from Ireland into Henry VIII's dangerous world. Her fight for family, revenge, and love makes this one of Harper's strongest Tudor novels.

A woman running from the outside world finds shelter in Home Valley, where safety, truth, and second chances all come at a price.

Widow and wax chandler Varina Westcott serves Queen Elizabeth of York and is drawn into two famous unsolved royal mysteries. Murder, grief, and Tudor politics drive the story.

A wounded heart comes back to Home Valley and finds that forgiveness, family, and love can be harder, and more necessary, than starting over.

Snow, old grief, and new hope shape this Home Valley holiday story, where faith and love are tested in the dark of winter.

Back in Cold Creek, social worker Char Lockwood senses a cover-up almost at once. When a man is run off the road, old family wounds and new local secrets collide.

Anthropologist Kate Lockwood comes home for her sister's wedding and becomes obsessed with a burial mound on Grant Mason's land. Murder, archaeology, and attraction make a volatile mix.

Kidnapped as a child, Tess Lockwood returns to Cold Creek with almost no memory of the crime that shattered her family. When another child disappears, the past becomes urgent again.

Forensic psychologist Claire Britten heads to a South Florida estate to look into a suspicious death. Old secrets, tropical menace, and danger to her family launch the South Shores series.

Former Amishman Ben Kline returns home after years away and finds Abby Baughman in danger. Their second chance at love unfolds against mystery, shunning, and rising fear.

Charlotte Bill, called Lala, becomes nanny to the children of the future George V and Queen Mary. Through her eyes, royal childhood looks tender, political, and quietly heartbreaking.

After a shocking abduction and a suspicious death, Claire and Nick are forced into a ruthless game. In South Florida, every clue drags them deeper into danger.

Claire Britten is thrown into rough water, loss, and another deadly puzzle as the South Shores series turns darker and more desperate.

Lucy Duff Gordon and Elinor Glyn rise from genteel poverty to fame, scandal, and influence. Harper turns two remarkable sisters into a lively novel about ambition, reinvention, and family ties.

When buried secrets surface in South Florida, Claire and the South Shores team dig into a case where the past is anything but dead.

On an archaeological dig in Florida's Black Bog, Claire Britten finds preserved bodies that may tell a violent story. A linked modern murder case turns curiosity into real danger.

Consuelo Vanderbilt enters a glittering marriage to the Duke of Marlborough and learns how expensive a title can be. Harper gives her a story of duty, reinvention, and independence.

As violent weather closes in on South Florida, the South Shores team faces another case of vanished lives, hidden motives, and danger gathering with the storm.

Alexandra Collister heads to her cousins' lodge in Lost Lake, Alaska, hoping for a fresh start. Instead she finds claw marks, a body, and a wilderness tracker who may be her best hope.

During World War II, Elizabeth, the future Queen Mother, presents calm resolve to the public while guarding secrets that could shake the monarchy. Harper blends royal history with private strain.

When a bush plane crashes through the ice near Falls Lake Lodge, Megan Metzler and investigator Bryce Saylor are pulled into a mystery that was no accident.