Livia J Washburn Books in Order

This historical romance follows an Irish girl and her family from 1850s Ireland to New York and then west to Kansas. Along the way come hardship, villains, frontier change, and the promise of love in a brutal new land.

Teenage sharpshooter Hank Littleton watches fake Confederate soldiers murder his grandfather and steal a cache of gold. With only his rifle and his nerve, he heads south after them into harsh and dangerous country.

Former western gunman Lucas Hallam lands in 1920s Hollywood as a stuntman and private eye. Beneath the glitter of the silent era, he finds a murder case that needs frontier grit more than movie glamour.

Lucas Hallam takes on another dangerous mystery in the uneasy borderland between early Hollywood make-believe and real violence. What begins as trouble around him soon turns into a case that demands old instincts and steady nerve.

Lucas Hallam is hired to escort a spoiled New York actor to a Texas ranch and teach him how to pass for a cowboy star. Then a ranch hand is murdered, and Hallam has to solve the case before the wrong man pays for it.

Shunned for a crime he did not commit, Jacob Travers falls in with bank robbers and is left for dead after a wounding. Recovering in deserted Ghost River only drops him into the middle of an even bloodier range war.

Former Texas Ranger Billy Cambridge and his sidekick Nacho Graves are carrying twenty thousand dollars when stagecoach robbers hit. Chasing the stolen money means riding straight into outlaw country with very little margin for error.

This fantasy adventure opens a larger saga of war, prophecy, and dangerous loyalties. As the struggle widens, heroism and obsession start to look alarmingly close to one another.

The California Gold Rush opens a rough new world for a carpenter, a fugitive, a Texas Ranger, and a sharp businesswoman. Their hopes point toward fortune, but greed and danger keep closing in beside them.

Dr. Thomas Black leaves home to tend the wounded on Civil War battlefields and discovers how deeply war can alter a family. Medicine, duty, and private longing all pull in different directions as the conflict grows.

Sara Black is determined to prove herself as a doctor despite war, prejudice, and her father’s doubts. Her ambition takes her from Civil War medicine into even rougher country, where skill and courage are tested every day.

Viktor escorts a Russian delegation across dangerous country and senses trouble almost from the start. When one reckless act sparks violence, the trip becomes a desperate struggle to stay alive in hostile territory.

Set against the fence-cutting troubles of 1880s Brown County, Texas, this romance pairs young writer Brianna Stark with ranch foreman Seth Van Dale. Love has a chance, but so do violence, old reputations, and local grudges.

During Emperor Maximilian’s rule in Mexico, a Texan running with bandits begins to question the life he has chosen. After a massacre, he turns toward rescue, revenge, and one last dangerous ride.

Alura’s compromised future collides with magic when a bewitched bracelet and a pair of trapped royal spirits enter her life. Connor Warwick, wounded and newly returned, may be her salvation or her greatest complication.

Skeeter Barlow is a Fort Worth private investigator who also works nights bouncing rowdy cowboys at a bar and grill. A simple missing dog case quickly spins into a much nastier mess full of mayhem and bad intentions.

A firefighter from modern San Francisco is thrown back to 1906, just before the great earthquake. There she finds danger, a city on the edge, and a love that may be worth giving up her own time for.

Charleston in 1860 is alive with secession fever, and friends Robert Gilmore and Allard Tyler are swept up in it. What starts as excitement and conviction soon becomes a march toward war neither can fully understand yet.

Phyllis Newsom and her circle of retired teacher friends get tangled in a string of killings linked to Weatherford’s annual Peach Festival. It is a warm, witty small-town mystery with recipes, gossip, and plenty of suspects.

The war deepens, and the hopes that once carried young men into the fight begin to crack under real loss. Robert Gilmore and Allard Tyler have to face what the Civil War is truly asking of them.

A school carnival and baking contest bring Phyllis Newsom and her retired teacher friends together for a little local fun. Of course, the event soon serves up murder, and Phyllis cannot resist following the clues.

Freshly divorced Delilah Dickinson launches a literary tour business in Atlanta and takes her first group to a plantation inspired by *Gone with the Wind*. A murder on the trip makes her new venture look cursed unless she finds the killer fast.

Phyllis Newsom is looking forward to the holiday cookie exchange and a chance to show off her best recipe. Instead she finds an elderly neighbor dead in a heap of lime sugar cookies and has to figure out who made the season lethal.

Delilah Dickinson’s Mark Twain themed cruise down the Mississippi turns grim when one of her clients vanishes and later turns up dead. Trapped on a riverboat with too many secrets, she has little room to dodge the truth.

A stay at a cousin’s bed-and-breakfast near Rockport’s Just Desserts competition sounds like a welcome break for Phyllis. Then she and Sam discover a body, and her quiet getaway turns into another case full of prickly suspects.

Reporter Jessie Morgan uncovers a secret world when she crosses paths with playboy tycoon and vampire hunter Michael Brandt. Attraction comes quickly, but so does a deadly fight against the most dangerous undead in sight.

A Tennessee Williams literary trip to New Orleans should be a cultured getaway for Delilah Dickinson. Instead, she finds herself surrounded by academic drama, hidden motives, and another murder that threatens to wreck the whole tour.

While caring for her grandson, Phyllis gets drawn into a local harvest festival built around charity, contests, and community fun. It would almost be wholesome, if one of the attractions did not turn out to be murder.

This collection gathers Lucas Hallam stories set in the dangerous shimmer of early Hollywood. Cowboy, stuntman, and private eye, Hallam keeps running into killers, secrets, and trouble that movie magic cannot hide.

A haunted past and a restless spirit pull one woman into a romance touched by the supernatural. The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger and longing begin to feel like parts of the same mystery.

Phyllis Newsom is juggling a holiday home tour, a bridal shower, and New Year’s wedding treats when someone attacks one of her friends. With Christmas cheer wearing thin, she has to catch a killer before the season gets uglier.

This collection introduces Laura Bailey, a young Dallas private investigator trying to carry on her late father’s agency. Cases that look manageable at first turn hardboiled and dangerous in a hurry.

Aren McAllister has spent her life feeling shy and limited by her stutter, until she learns she is a witch. Worse and better, her spells only work when she sings, and that gift drops her into a hidden magical war.

Aren McAllister is back, still tangled in witch politics, old lies, and dangerous magic. To rescue her father from another realm, she has to trust a talisman, outrun enemies, and decide whether an old love can ever be trusted.

Delilah Dickinson leads a literary tour to Key West, where Hemingway’s legend hangs over everything. When a supposed suicide starts to look like murder, she has to sort through old secrets, strange local lore, and a very jumpy tour group.

Cole Tyler rides into another hard frontier dispute where law, land, and revenge are tightly tangled. The deeper he gets into Ransom Valley, the clearer it becomes that no one there is ready to forget old wrongs.

Phyllis opens her home for her best friend Eve’s Christmas wedding and bakes the perfect coconut cake for the big day. Soon after the vows, the groom turns up dead, and Eve lands at the top of the suspect list.

At the State Fair of Texas, Phyllis Newsom’s funnel cake earns her a spot in the spotlight beside a celebrity TV chef. Then the chef dies after one bite, and Phyllis goes from prize contestant to prime suspect.

Fifth grader Codi Jackson is already tired of being the new girl when a history project changes everything. An old Texas Ranger badge brings the ghost of her ancestor into her life, and suddenly school problems turn into a real adventure.

A simple pie sits at the center of this warm western tale about memory, need, and unexpected kindness. Washburn turns an everyday object into the spark for a story with grit, heart, and quiet feeling.

Julia Courtland is headed west for an arranged marriage when an undercover Texas Ranger named Grant Stafford shares her stagecoach. An ambush, a crash, and growing trust force both of them to rethink what fate had planned.

A talkative Blackfoot girl and a gruff circuit court judge make an unlikely team in the Old West. When a man’s future hangs on a missing dog and the truth behind an accusation, Mockingbird has to find the clues first.

Halloween brings baking contests, a newly adopted Dalmatian, and a shocking arrest when a local veterinarian is accused of murdering his wife. Phyllis Newsom is not convinced the police got it right, and that makes her a target too.

Evie heads west at Christmas expecting one sort of future and finds a very different man waiting for her. Pride, disappointment, and holiday hope all collide in this frontier romance.

This brisk adventure sends a young hero after clues tied to a vanished city of gold. Every answer promises treasure and excitement, but it also brings fresh danger and the risk of getting in far too deep.

A little girl brings her classroom’s pet mice home for Christmas break, and then the tiny escape artists vanish. Their disappearance nudges a single father and his daughter’s teacher toward long-buried secrets and an unexpected romance.

Weatherford’s Christmas festivities take a dark turn when a local rancher collapses after eating one of Phyllis Newsom’s cupcakes. He was actually shot, but that does not stop suspicion from swirling around family, money, and Phyllis herself.

Set in Roaring Twenties Hollywood, this holiday western romance follows movie actor Pecos as he rescues a young woman in danger. What starts as a gallant act quickly turns into something riskier and far more personal.

Sir Hugh Tarrant comes home from war with a limp, a grief he cannot shake, and little taste for happiness. Christmas Eve gives him one more chance to see whether a frozen heart can still be warmed.

Shawn Killian came to Briar Hill with his young son to escape the past, not to take a mail-order bride. Then Abby Demarest arrives by mistake, carrying secrets of her own and the possibility of a different future.

A bitter winter storm drives Lucas Hallam to an isolated railroad station crowded with uneasy strangers. He is there for the incoming freight, but before long it is clear that one of the people waiting may be a killer.

Emily Savage only meant to help her injured aunt, not get caught in a train robbery and an outlaw’s sights. Texas Ranger Nick Braddock uses her as bait at first, then realizes he may lose far more than the case.

Back in the classroom as substitute teachers, Phyllis Newsom and Sam Fletcher expect a little chaos, not murder. A killing tied to a Friday the Thirteenth school event proves that even retirement cannot keep Phyllis away from trouble.

Rookie Texas Ranger Hank Littleton and his veteran partner ride into Bandera County chasing outlaw trouble. The job gets uglier when they learn the gang is not acting alone and the local sheriff has troubles of his own.

When Mike Newsom asks his mother to help an old friend convicted of killing his wife, Phyllis cannot say no. Her search for the truth leads through salon gossip, lies, and a murder case that looks far messier than the verdict suggests.

A movie company comes to Weatherford to film a story based on Phyllis Newsom’s friend Eve and her sleuthing adventures. When a scene turns into a real murder, Phyllis has to sort through actors, egos, and a deadly pecan pie.

Phyllis and her friends head to West Texas for a Fourth of July chili cookoff in a ghost town packed with gamblers, cooks, and trouble. After an explosion kills the hated reigning champion, Sam may be closer to the case than Phyllis likes.

Old grudges and outlaw violence flare again in the world of Wind River. As danger closes around the town, Cole Tyler has to keep the peace against enemies who understand how to use blood ties as weapons.

In another frontier showdown, Cole Tyler stands between fragile order and men who still believe the gun is the only law that counts. Wind River’s future depends on whether he can hold that line.

An Easter celebration in Weatherford starts with games, food, and an egg hunt for the whole county. Then the prize egg disappears, and Phyllis Newsom has to untangle the mischief before the holiday fun turns fully sour.

Phyllis Newsom and Carolyn sign up for British cooking classes at the senior center, where rivalries simmer almost as hot as the stoves. When a trifle is poisoned, Phyllis is pulled into another lively small-town murder case.

After a movie-set accident, stunt performer Callista Kingfisher returns home to Texas and joins her brother Joseph on a fugitive hunt. What looks like a routine job soon drops them into a deadly feud between rival crime families.

The Kingfisher siblings are hired to investigate threats against a state senator’s granddaughter. Callie goes undercover at a therapeutic riding center and stumbles into a conspiracy with dangerous roots far beyond Texas.

Tracking a legendary swindler takes Callista and Joseph Kingfisher to a luxury resort in Mexico. The hunt soon leads deeper into the jungle, where another hidden secret may be even deadlier than the fugitive they came to catch.