Katie Flynn Books in Order

Set in the glittering yet dangerous court of Elizabeth I, this historical romance imagines the life of Lettice Knollys, the queen’s beautiful cousin. As Lettice falls in and out of royal favour, she must balance passion, ambition and survival under the gaze of a jealous monarch.

Against a backdrop of tall ships and distant ports, a spirited heroine falls for a charismatic sea captain whose past is far from spotless. Storms, separation and scandal test their bond as she learns what it really means to tie her fate to a master mariner.

In an England poised between old certainties and modern change, family members scattered by war and work find their lives reconnecting in surprising ways. Old mistakes surface, new loves are tested and everyone must face the fact that the bright days of youth cannot last forever.

A young woman raised far from power discovers a hidden link to royalty and is thrust into a world of court manners, political scheming and carefully arranged marriages. Torn between duty and desire, she must decide what sort of ‘princess’ she wants to be.

Set in a frost‑rimmed royal court, this novel follows a proud yet vulnerable queen as she navigates intrigue, exile and an uneasy marriage. Surrounded by enemies and fair‑weather friends, she fights to protect both her children and the fragile crown on her head.

Born of a love affair that defied class and convention, a passionate heroine grows up caught between two worlds. Her struggle to claim her inheritance, choose her own husband and forgive those who wronged her drives this sweeping historical romance.

Orphaned Sherida Winyard expects to inherit her mother’s estate only if she marries or turns twenty‑five while living with family friends, the McNaughtons, in London. Just as she begins to settle, accidents and threats suggest someone will kill to claim the Winyard fortune for themselves.

In this second Neyler family novel, Ted and Tina Neyler’s grown children are drawn into the First World War. From the trenches that scar Frank to Louis’s tangled love life, the saga shows how even a privileged dynasty cannot escape loss—but may still hold together.

Beginning in 1901, Tina Rose, beloved daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, falls in love with New Zealander Edward Neyler, who has fled an abusive childhood. Cast out and separated, they fight their way back to each other and lay the foundations of a powerful, complicated family.

By 1931, a new Neyler generation faces a world sliding toward catastrophe. Black sheep Louis Rose returns to England to family turmoil, while his son Simon navigates first love and cousin Valentine witnesses Nazi hatred in Berlin, becoming entangled in one Jewish family’s desperate bid to escape.

In the final Neyler novel, the Second World War engulfs every branch of the family. Val drives ambulances through blazing London streets while loving a man who flies for the Luftwaffe, Jenny works as a land girl and others serve in the WAAF—watched over by indomitable matriarch Tina.

This warm‑hearted saga follows a sprawling extended family over years of quarrels, crises and celebrations. Through marriages, births, betrayals and reconciliations, they discover that ‘family feeling’ can be both exasperating and the strongest comfort they have.

A poor but determined girl stumbles on the chance to change her fortunes, only to find that sudden wealth brings new dangers and false friends. To protect herself and those she loves, she must learn whom to trust—and what truly counts as ‘gold’.

Published as Judith Saxton, this family saga follows Madeleine and the twin daughters she leaves behind. Separated at birth, the girls grow up in very different circumstances, yet an enduring connection draws their lives back toward each other and their troubled mother.

Two people meet when they are young and everything seems possible, then lose each other through pride, war or family plotting. Years later, with new ties and old wounds between them, they must decide whether their first love should also be their last.

Generations descended from a royal liaison struggle with the privileges and burdens of their bloodline. Some embrace duty, others chase pleasure, but all must decide what it really means to belong to ‘this royal breed’ in changing times.

A newborn girl abandoned on a Liverpool orphanage doorstep in 1905 is taken in by maid Nellie McDowell and raised as her sister, Lilac. As poverty, first love and the shadow of war close in, the two girls fight to keep their fragile happiness.

In the hard years after the First World War, hungry Kitty Drinkwater dreams of escaping her Liverpool slum, while self‑possessed Lilac Larkin expects a bright future. A chance meeting in a milliner’s shop entwines their lives in ways neither could imagine.

Orphaned Biddy O’Shaughnessy toils for a harsh sweet‑shop owner until she runs away to start again. Lodging with a friend, then serving a well‑to‑do family, she finds love with Welsh trawlerman Dai—only to discover that her employer’s secret could shatter everything.

Seventeen‑year‑old Evie Murphy leaves rural Ireland for Liverpool in 1913 with baby daughter Linnet, leaving frail twin Lucy behind. Years later, tragedy drives Linnet into the city’s slums and sends Lucy across the water, determined to find the sister who vanished from her life.

On Christmas Day 1924, rich but neglected Sara Cordwainer’s act of kindness toward a destitute girl and baby ends in heartbreak. Years later, her work at the Salvation Army home Strawberry Fields brings her together with Irish siblings Brogan and Polly, and long‑buried secrets are revealed.

Separation by war shapes this story of lovers, families and friends scattered across battlefields and home fronts. Letters, brief leaves and half‑promised plans keep hope alive as everyone waits for the day they might finally ‘meet again’ in peacetime.

Drawing on the pull between Ireland and England, this saga follows a family separated by emigration, poverty and old grievances, and the long emotional journey toward reunion, forgiveness and a place that finally feels like home.

A young woman learns that chasing her own rainbow means leaving behind familiar streets and facing betrayal, hardship and unexpected kindness, before she can reach the security, friendship and love she has always longed for.

In 1925 Liverpool, tram‑driver’s daughter Rose Ryder longs to drive the trams herself. When Dublin lad Colm O’Neill and his father lodge in her mother’s new boarding house, grief, hard work and shared ambition draw Rose and Colm together despite the obstacles between them.

Opening in the turbulent years around the Second World War, this novel traces intertwined lives along the Thames. As children grow up in the shadow of Waterloo Bridge, their work, loves and losses show how a city and its people change across the decades.

A spirited heroine and the man she loves cling to each other through lean times and emotional storms, each trying to be the other’s source of warmth. But when jealousy and misfortune intrude, they must fight to keep their hard‑won happiness from slipping away.

From modest beginnings to glittering society, a young woman with a gift for fashion rises through the world of dressmaking and jewels. Love, rivalry and a scandalous commission test her resolve to keep both her integrity and her hard‑won place in the world.

On the Connemara coast, dutiful Dympna Byrne shoulders her family’s worries and wonders why her mother’s love feels so uneven. Crossing to bustling Liverpool to earn money, she finds new chances and a half‑starved boy, Jimmy, whose future soon becomes entwined with her own.

Set amid sea battles and court intrigue, this adventure follows a daring captain who sails for his queen and the woman who loves him. Pirate raids, royal commands and shifting loyalties force them to choose between personal happiness and dangerous service to the Crown.

A single silken thread—a family heirloom, a secret letter or a forbidden love—links generations in this historical romance. As the heroine follows that thread through ballrooms and back streets, she unravels betrayals and discovers where her true future lies.

In 1936, Polly Gilbert’s family swap the countryside they love for grim central Liverpool. With money short and war looming, Polly is torn between glamorous sailor Sunny Anderson and steady Tad Donoghue, and must decide where her heart—and her future—truly lie.

A British heroine finds herself trapped in pre‑war Peking, caught between diplomatic tensions, local unrest and a romance that crosses cultural lines. When she is falsely accused and imprisoned, courage and unlikely allies become her only hope of freedom.

In an era when status and appearance mean everything, a sudden scandal forces a family to disguise the truth. Masquerades, mistaken identities and an unexpected love affair reveal how easily ‘false colours’ can hide a loyal heart.

Shrimp‑sellers Bill and Isobel Logan scrape a living on the Liverpool streets, but their daughter Amy loathes the smell and the taunts of neighbour Paddy Keagan. After her mother’s death and a disastrous remarriage, Amy escapes to the city centre, where riots, work and romance reshape her life.

Orphan Lizzie lives with a kind aunt and brutal uncle near the Leeds and Liverpool canal. Friendship with fellow orphan Geoff Gardiner and canal‑boatman Clem Gilligan gives her hope, until violence at home forces her to flee and search for safety along the waterways she loves.

Dreaming of warmth and wider horizons, a young couple leave grey skies behind for a sun‑drenched new life abroad. Farming failures, culture shocks and tempting new friends all threaten their marriage as they search for the elusive place in the sun they imagined.

Practical governess Hester Lowe leaves India for 1930s Liverpool to care for spoilt Lonnie Hetherington‑Smith. In chilly Shaw Street she faces a hostile aunt, class snobbery and divided loyalties, but also finds warmth with the lively Bailey family down the hill when circumstances overturn her comfortable position.

In the glittering court of Elizabethan England, a proud noblewoman becomes entangled with Sir Walter Raleigh and the dangerous politics that swirl around him. Loving a man so close to the queen brings both intoxicating passion and the constant risk of ruin.

On a wild Liverpool night in the 1930s, midwife Patty Peel delivers a baby whose mother dies moments later. Ordered by the drunken father to get rid of the child, Patty—herself raised in institutions—cannot abandon the girl and discovers how one tiny ‘bad penny’ can change every life around her.

In wartime Liverpool, Irish seaman Michael Gallagher falls head over heels for Stella Bennett the moment he sees her on the quay. Their marriage plans are derailed by suspicion and tragedy, leaving daughter Ginny to battle a harsh upbringing and search for the father she barely knew.

In 1935 Liverpool, bright Kathy Kelling is thrilled to win a place at the High School, until a terrible accident leaves her brother needing constant care and money scarce. Far away in Norfolk, farmer’s son Alec faces his own disaster; war will bring their paths together and test every loyalty.

A charismatic woman makes her own way in a man’s world, first as someone’s mistress and later as a figure of influence in her own right. Balancing survival, generosity and hard‑headed self‑interest, she leaves her mark on every life she touches.

Rose McAllister does her best to shield daughters Daisy and Petal from their violent seaman father as Christmas 1938 approaches. Evacuation, a cruel billet and the horrors of the May Blitz tear them apart, and Rose throws herself into war work before she can face what really happened to her girls.

Emmy Dickens and her widowed mother see only a sliver of sky from grim Nightingale Court, and Emmy pins all her hopes on marriage to ship’s officer Peter Wesley. Widowhood, poverty and an increasingly headstrong daughter force her to start again and discover strengths she never knew she had.

Leaving their beloved canal barge for a flat on Scotland Road, the Todd family struggle with noisy city life. As daughters Seraphina and Angela take jobs and fall in love, war scatters the family, and young Evie and mother Martha must endure rationing, separation and devastating air raids.

Abandoned by her mother, Liverpool girl Dot McCann lives uneasily with a cold aunt and uncle. When she overhears a conversation that could lead to prison and the gallows, she joins forces with runaway Corky, jeweller Emma and reporter Nick to expose a crime and claim a better life.

Leaving the hills and fields she loves, a young woman steps into an unfamiliar world of factory floors, cramped streets and new responsibilities. As families are scattered and reunited, she learns that courage, friendship and quiet determination can carry her far beyond the blue hills of home.

On a bitter night by the Mersey, distraught Sylvie Dugdale slips into the river and is dragged out by off‑duty constable Brendan O’Hara. Their brief connection leads Sylvie to refuge in Dublin with his relatives, where a crippled girl and a missing child will change both their futures.

Friends Jess and Nancy nurse on the Western Front during the Great War and return to Liverpool with broken hearts. Years later, Nancy’s son Pete joins the RAF and, arriving in Blitz‑hit Liverpool to visit Jess, finds her home destroyed and her daughter missing—forcing him into a desperate search.

Lottie Lacey is a child star at the Gaiety Theatre, sharing digs with magician Max Magic, his son Baz and her mother Louella. After a road accident steals her memory, strange dreams and a boy who calls her ‘Sassy’ force Lottie to confront a hidden past and choose her future.

Two young people meet in hopeful times and are quickly parted by duty, distance and family expectation. As years of upheaval follow, they must decide whether first love can survive heartbreak, new attachments and the quiet disappointments of ordinary life.

This gentle saga traces one family through years of modest joys and sudden shocks, showing how love, neighbourly support and a few strokes of luck can bring light even when work, money worries and old hurts cast long shadows.

During a wartime blackout, a terrified girl abandons a basket in a sheltered doorway, intending to come back. Years later, drifter Martin and weeping Rose meet on a windswept road and briefly travel together, unaware of how shared secrets and an old act of desperation link their lives.

Claudia and younger sister Jenny enjoy a settled life in their grandmother’s Liverpool house while their parents work nearby. When their grandfather’s illness forces the family back to the remote Kilnevin croft, the girls must adjust to country hardships and discover what ‘home’ truly means.

Sisters Addy and Prue Fairweather live above their widowed mother’s shop, one plain and rebellious, the other golden and adored. In crumbling Devon manor Frobisher Hall, twin Giles and Gillian face their own troubles. War and time transform the children they were into adults who might finally find love.

Edited in partnership with the Romantic Novelists’ Association, this collection offers over forty romantic short stories—from holiday flings to Regency interludes—by a wide range of authors, with Katie Fforde contributing and introducing the “box of chocolates” mix of styles.

Shy librarian Miss Preece tells herself a mistletoe kiss means nothing, yet it warms her lonely heart. When she quietly helps canal child Hetty Gilbert feed her hunger for books, the unlikely pair form a bond that carries them through wartime dangers and gives that fleeting kiss new meaning.

In the anxious months before and during the Second World War, a young woman’s hopes for family, security and love seem constantly out of reach. A tangle of friendships, shortages and small kindnesses shows her that some Christmas wishes are answered in unexpected ways.

A long‑ago summer of friendship, first love and family quarrels still haunts the adults who shared it. As they meet again years later, buried memories surface and they must decide whether to cling to regret or reclaim the best of what they once had.

Two girls brought up with very little try to make Christmas special on just a few coins, taking whatever work they can find and relying on stubborn hope. Along the way, community spirit and a chance at love help turn a harsh winter into something brighter.

Set against the rhythms of the farming year, this story follows a family through seasons of lean harvests, hard choices and quiet joys. One fateful autumn brings romance and loss that will change the shape of the farm—and their lives—forever.

A girl raised among remote hills and valleys yearns for something beyond the horizon. Moving to town, she finds work, friendship and heartbreak, then must choose whether to return to the peace of the hills or build a new life far from home.

Dana and Caitlin meet on the ferry from Ireland, each fleeing secrets and hardship for a new start in Liverpool. Backed by a new friend, they open a tearoom that becomes a haven—until looming war and personal betrayals force both women to fight for survival yet again.

In a year of air raids, ration books and sudden goodbyes, one close‑knit group of friends and relatives fight to keep Christmas traditions alive. Small acts of bravery and generosity prove that even in wartime, there can be moments you’ll remember with warmth forever.

A shy heroine convinced she is ordinary slowly realises how much she matters to the people around her. As war, work and tangled romances swirl through her world, she learns to see herself as someone special—and to risk her heart at last.

A shared summer by the sea brings together children and young adults from very different backgrounds. Secrets, first romances and painful choices leave their mark, and years later those ‘forget‑me‑not’ days still shape the way they see family, loyalty and home.

Marriages, affairs and buried resentments tangle two families together more tightly than they ever expected. As scandals erupt and loyalties are tested, each member must decide whether to protect their own heart or keep the wider family whole.

Set over successive wartime and peacetime holidays, this story follows one extended family as they squeeze around the table, mend rifts and welcome newcomers. Blackouts give way to fairy lights, and each Christmas brings its own trials, surprises and reasons to be thankful.

A change of fortune—good and bad—shapes this heroine’s life, from unexpected inheritance to devastating loss. Forced to reassess what really counts as ‘fortune’, she rebuilds her future on sturdier foundations of friendship, work and chosen love.

Bright‑eyed and impulsive, the central heroine keeps chasing one glittering dream after another—better work, grander suitors, livelier cities. Only when war and hardship strip away illusions does she see where the real rainbow ends.

Overlooking a busy harbour, a once‑gracious house becomes home to a new family with old wounds. Neighbours, lodgers and returning sailors all play their part as the woman at its heart turns Harbour Hill into a place of safety and second chances.

Left to fend for herself after a sheltered upbringing, Jenny must find work, lodgings and allies in an unfamiliar town. Mistakes, misplaced trust and new friendships teach her the difference between loneliness and the kind of independence she can truly value.

Named for an ancestor and raised on stories of the past, Sophie grows from sheltered girl to capable woman as she uncovers family mysteries and tests her own strength in love and work.

Beneath the calm surface of a country town run hidden passions, grudges and long‑kept secrets. When an outsider arrives and falls in love, ripples spread through several households, proving that still waters truly can run deep.

A once‑grand Liverpool arcade shelters shops, boarding rooms and a swirl of intertwining lives. As a new arrival takes a job there, she’s drawn into neighbours’ quarrels, romances and secrets, discovering that the battered building holds chances for her own fresh start.

When illness, war or emigration pull loved ones apart, several families must learn how to let go without losing the ties that matter. Following them over years of change, this saga balances painful farewells with reunions, new beginnings and the quiet comfort of friendship.

A sun‑drenched season of farm work, seaside outings and whispered secrets seems to hold all the answers for a young heroine determined to improve her lot. But a single promise made that summer will echo far beyond the holiday and test her loyalties.

As church bells ring out over a country at war, evacuees, sweethearts and families torn apart by service all dream of reunion. This tender saga follows several of them through danger and separation toward the possibility of a shared Christmas once more.

Raised with little more than each other, a close group of orphans face their first Christmas away from the only home they’ve ever known. New positions, uncertain employers and the threat of war make the season daunting—but friendship and unexpected kindness offer them a chance to belong.

A single candle in a frosty window becomes a symbol of hope for characters scattered by hardship and war. As their stories weave together over one pivotal winter, they find that small acts of love can light even the darkest nights.

In a bustling corner of Liverpool, shop girls, families and lodgers prepare for Christmas against a backdrop of shortages and worry. Tuppenny Corner becomes the heart of their community, where gossip, romance and generosity help them through the toughest festive season yet.

In 1939, sixteen‑year‑old Lizzy Atherton flees her violent stepfather and finds herself alone on a station platform. Teaming up with old friend Dolly and runaway evacuee Clara, she searches for the mother she left behind, hoping that courage and persistence will bring a Christmas miracle.

Spanning lean years and wartime upheaval, this story centres on a woman whose fierce love for her children pushes her to hard choices. As they grow up amid bomb sites and new opportunities, all of them must reckon with the sacrifices that love demanded.

In August 1940, beautiful Dana Quinn refuses to follow her parents back to the safety of Ireland when the Luftwaffe bomb Liverpool. Joining the WAAF with new friends Patty and Lucy, she finds comradeship, danger and love—and learns how deeply family ties can cut.

Orphanage friends Jessica Wilson and Ruby seize the chance to join the NAAFI in wartime Liverpool, using forged papers to escape their pasts. Independence, dances and romance follow, but Jessica’s search for the truth about her birth uncovers a web of lies that could change everything.

Olivia Campbell appears to have a comfortable life in 1939 Liverpool, but behind closed doors she fears her domineering father. War gives her the chance to join the WAAF, find real friendship and fall in love—until shocking news from home forces her to confront old loyalties.

Jewish teenager Rozalin Sachs flees Frankfurt on the Kindertransport as Nazi power grows, clutching a vow to stick by fellow refugee Felix. Separated from her parents, sent on to Liverpool and later into the Women’s Land Army, she must choose between first love and the new life opening before her.

Chosen as Rose Queen in her Welsh mining village in 1938, Cadi Hughes dreams of more than a life underground. When war breaks out she and best friend Poppy head to Liverpool, where hard work, danger and two very different young men force Cadi to decide what—and who—she truly wants.

By 1941 Cadi has built a life in Liverpool and joined the WAAF, keeping her close to her sweetheart Jez. When bombing, rumours and a posting to Africa threaten their relationship, she must decide whether to betray confidences or tell the truth and risk losing everything.

In 1942 Liverpool, Cadi and her airman sweetheart Jez are separated by war. A devastating call from his base forces them to make a solemn promise, and Cadi must rely on friends and fierce inner strength as fate tests her vow again and again.

Londoner Libby Gilbert loses everything in a 1940 tragedy and finds herself destitute on dangerous city streets. Rescued by a local lad, she heads to Liverpool in search of long‑lost family, determined to uncover the truth that tore them apart years before.

After her parents’ deaths, Libby builds a new life at Hollybank farm near Liverpool, only to discover that her relatives have lied about her late mother. Determined to uncover the truth, she digs into the past, risking fresh heartbreak to untangle a devastating family secret.

Tammy and her mother Grace flee a violent husband in the dead of night, leaving Scotland and their old identities behind. Separated for safety, Tammy joins the forces, falls in love and lives in constant fear that revealing the truth will destroy the fragile new life she’s built.

This companion novel explores how a long‑hidden family secret and a child lost to the past continue to shape the next generation. As war recedes but old wounds remain, characters connected by that ‘forgotten child’ must finally confront what was done and what can be healed.

In 1942 Liverpool, Isla Donahue clings to her sweetheart Rory as war closes in. Doubts about his shadowy past, and the return of his first love, shake her trust, but Isla is determined to fight for the white‑winter wedding she’s always dreamed of.

Just after the First World War, Nell Tanner rejoices at her father’s return, only to find post‑war Britain harsher than she hoped. When best friend Alfie is posted away and charming Thomas Evans enters her life with secrets of his own, Nell must decide whom to trust—and what kind of future she dares claim on the banks of the Mersey.

Liverpool, 1919: Polly Caveney flees into the winter night after a devastating discovery. She finds temporary refuge with a travelling fair and its owner’s son, Fergus, but their growing bond is tested by danger, different lives, and the past Polly cannot escape.