Mary Ellis Books in Order

On the verge of a new marriage, Laura Stern knows unfinished business from her boarding school years still haunts her. Returning to Holy Innocents to dig through old records, she uncovers buried scandals and a blackmailer whose secret could destroy her son’s rising political career.

Travel writer Jill Curtis is sent to Kentucky to discover why bourbon tours draw so many visitors and stays at a relative’s B and B. When she trips over a corpse at a distillery and becomes a suspect, Jill must untangle feuding families, hidden motives, and an unexpected romance.

On the Louisville leg of her bourbon-country assignment, Jill Curtis looks forward to time with detective Nick Atkins and tours with her cameraman. The sudden “heart attack” of a famed master distiller looks wrong to his daughter, drawing Jill into a case steeped in rivalry, inheritance, and murder.

Kate Weller returns to her hometown of Pensacola to investigate a socialite’s suspicious death aboard a luxury yacht and to revisit the robbery that put her brother in prison. As old threats resurface and repressed memories stir, she races to prove Liam’s innocence before a killer silences them both.

Kate’s boss treats the Price Investigations team to an exclusive getaway on Elysian Island, where a staged murder mystery is supposed to be a game. Delayed onshore, Kate arrives to find real bodies and her colleagues in danger, forcing her to unravel a deadly script someone is determined to finish.

Fleeing a violent past, PI Kate Weller takes a case in Charleston to find an adopted woman’s birth family and rents a room above a waterfront restaurant. When sabotage against her landlord’s business turns deadly and his father is accused of murder, Kate risks exposure to clear his name.

Hired to tail a possibly unfaithful husband, investigators Michael Preston and Beth Kirby travel to Savannah and quickly find their subject dead. With the wife as prime suspect, they sift through mistresses, business grudges, and family tensions while a new coworker’s troubled past shadows the agency.

A distressed phone call from a childhood friend sends PIs Nicki and Nate Price from New Orleans to Memphis. They arrive to find him dead, his life far messier than they knew, and soon juggle his murder investigation with a decades-old jewel mystery tied to their hotel and the blues scene.

Nate Price and his new wife Isabelle head out on a belated honeymoon, only to cross paths with Isabelle’s gambling ex-husband on the Gulf Coast. Back in Natchez, Beth Kirby and Michael Preston probe a pastor’s apparent suicide and missing church funds, uncovering dangerous secrets and unexpected chemistry.

British textile heiress Amanda Dunn sails to Wilmington, North Carolina, to repair cotton shipments disrupted by the Civil War. She falls for American shopkeeper Nathaniel Cooper, but family disapproval, class divides, and Nate’s possible enlistment on the Confederate side threaten their fragile future.

New Orleans stockbroker Hunter Galen suspects his partner of embezzling funds, but before he confronts him the man turns up dead. Ambitious PI Nicki Price takes the case, chasing missing money and a killer through bayous and boardrooms while facing unresolved pain from her own family’s past.

Quaker abolitionist Emily Harrison leaves her foreclosed Ohio farm to work as a governess in Confederate Virginia, hoping to continue aiding fugitive slaves. There she clashes and then falls in love with Alexander Hunt, a secret partisan leader, as war and divided loyalties close in.

After serving briefly as a nurse at Gettysburg, Madeline Howard saves the life of Confederate colonel Elliot Haywood but secretly favors the Union and loves a Northern officer. In Richmond’s high society, she overhears battle plans that could save him and must decide where her true allegiance lies.

On her family’s Ohio farm in 1861, Emily Harrison juggles milking cows, tending crops, and hiding fugitives on the Underground Railroad while preparing a special dinner for the man she hopes will propose. News of war and a shattering announcement upend her carefully laid plans.

Hope Bowman quietly believes God is punishing her for giving up a baby boy for adoption as a teenager, a secret she has never shared with her husband. Longing for another child, she faces the past she has tried to bury in a gentle tale of confession, forgiveness, and family.

After years living Englisch, Caleb Beachy returns to his Amish hometown hoping to reclaim his faith and place in the community. Tension with his father, lingering guilt, and his renewed feelings for childhood friend Josie Yoder make coming home far more complicated than trading jeans for plain clothes.

Believing herself in love, Nora King leaves Harmony, Maine, to follow free-spirited Elam Detweiler to Paradise, Missouri. There she finds steady work and discovers that Elam’s charm hides recklessness, especially when Lewis Miller arrives and offers a very different kind of devotion and future.

Rachel King heads to Kentucky to work at a thoroughbred farm, thrilled to spend her days with racehorses. She’s drawn to Jake, an engaging Englisch man, but a string of mishaps involving Amish suitors forces Rachel to question his motives and where her loyalties, and heart, truly lie.

After a house fire claims her parents, Amish bride-to-be Amy King moves with her fiancé John and sister Nora from Lancaster to a tight-knit district in Harmony, Maine. As they adjust to new rules, Amy’s desire to reconnect with a shunned aunt shakes her plans for marriage and belonging.

During a rumspringa trip to Niagara Falls, Phoebe Miller meets gifted storyteller Eli Riehl and begins illustrating his tales for a children’s book. When family illness pulls Eli back to the farm, their creative dream and growing affection must weather sacrifice, distance, and Phoebe’s fear of loss.

Amish midwife Abigail Graber is shattered when a difficult birth ends in the mother’s death and a judge sends her to jail. Her sister Catherine steps in to run the household, reaching out to reclusive, deaf cousin Isaiah and discovering unexpected gifts, grace, and love amid sorrow.

Meghan Yost, the bishop’s lively nineteen-year-old daughter, is determined to prove she can teach in the Amish school. A defiant student, a pushy suitor, and a string of crimes that bring FBI agent Thomas Mast to town test her courage, reputation, and the stirrings of her heart.

Leah Miller pours her savings and talents into a small-town Amish diner that quickly becomes a local favorite, drawing the attention of steady Jonah Byler. While Leah wrestles with love and independence, her sister Emma and husband James face new temptations that test their young marriage and faith.

Amish young woman Sarah Beachy seems poised for marriage and a settled life, yet her missing brother weighs on her heart. As Christmas nears, she slips away to Cleveland to find him, testing her family’s trust, her own courage, and what home and grace really mean.

Teenage Emma Miller launches a wool business in Holmes County and dreams of romance, only to fall for an English sheep farmer with fast trucks and modern methods. As her deacon father worries about her future, the family learns hard lessons about waiting for God’s timing and trusting close to home.

Widowed Hannah Brown sells her Pennsylvania farm and moves with her sheep to her sister’s Amish household in Ohio for a fresh start. Her prickly deacon brother-in-law resents the upheaval, while quiet widower Seth Miller draws her heart, challenging Hannah to risk love and home again.