Mary Stanton Books in Order

Child psychiatrists Emma and Mark fall hard for each other and quickly marry, convinced their partnership can handle anything. When clashing work styles, professional pressures and unresolved personal wounds start to bubble over, they are forced to confront what lasting love really requires once the initial sparkle fades.

After a fairy-tale courtship sparked by a self-portrait, free-spirited painter Vicki Carrolton and controlled tycoon Max Randall have been married a year. As career demands, social expectations and family baggage collide, they must decide whether compromise and honesty can keep their marriage as vivid as their attraction.

In a sweeping animal fantasy, a mystical stallion called the Dancer leaves the Courts of the Outermost West to save the last true Appaloosa bloodline from a demonic Black Horse. Among ordinary barn horses and humans, he must choose between mortal desires and a destiny that could cost him everything.

Recovering from a terrible riding accident, Ari has lost most of her memories but not her bond with her horse, Chase. When her foster parents plan to sell him, she runs away with Chase and her dog, only to fall through a gateway into Balinor and discover her true identity as a lost princess.

Foaled from the union of the Dancer and Duchess, Piper grows up to be the prized stud of Sweetwater Ranch and leader of a thriving Appaloosa herd. When an ancient evil rises again, he is forced to defend both his mortal home and the fragile balance his sire once fought to protect.

During the town's popular History Days festival, a mock witch-trial execution is supposed to be pure theater. When a guest at the inn is actually crushed under a pile of stones, innkeeper Sarah Quilliam and her chef sister Meg must find out who turned reenactment into murder.

Facing a slump at the inn, the Quilliam sisters land a stylish television host to film a decorating show in Hemlock Falls. But when one contest winner disappears and another is found dead, the glamorous production hides a very ugly reason for murder.

A nosy newspaper reporter sniffing around a proposed mini-mall project in Hemlock Falls uncovers more than zoning issues and ends up dead. Quill and Meg follow a trail of small-town politics, development money and bruised egos to expose who decided to silence him.

Hosting the rehearsal dinner for an ambitious ex-senator seeking reelection turns the Inn at Hemlock Falls into a political battlefield. When a member of the party winds up dead, Quill and Meg must stir through campaign secrets and long-standing grudges to find the culprit.

Invited to Palm Beach for a week of sun in exchange for helping with a charity for phobic women, the Quilliam sisters think they have scored a working vacation. They soon learn the "charity" is a petty revenge scheme, and when tempers flare into murder, they are caught in the crossfire.

When seven-year-old Denny uses a strange powder to cast a spell, he accidentally merges his cranky Aunt Matty, his sister's cat and his parakeet into one ill-tempered griffin. Thirteen-year-old Natalie must hide the creature at her uncle's horse farm and find a way to "unmagic" it before disaster strikes.

Natalie and Denny take a job caring for a neighbor's horse and find a starved, scarred animal in the hands of a woman with a fearsome reputation. As strange events mount, the siblings must decide whether she is truly a witch and how far they will go to save the horse.

Natalie dreams of riding on an Olympic equestrian team, but her beloved horse is small and ordinary. Tempted by Denny's growing magical talents, she considers reshaping the pony into something grander, only to learn that changing another being's nature brings consequences no spell can erase.

Tourism has dried up in Hemlock Falls, leaving the Quilliam sisters reliant on a single group of guests, the Crafty Ladies, who turn recyclables into art. When a fire at the inn kills one artist and another soon after, Quill and Meg must uncover who is turning creativity into a motive.

This nonfiction work traces the life and murder of Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit housewife who joined the 1965 Selma voting-rights campaign and was killed by Ku Klux Klan members. Stanton examines Liuzzo's complex reputation and the federal smear campaign that followed, restoring nuance to a controversial civil rights martyr.

Having reluctantly sold the Inn at Hemlock Falls, Quill and Meg watch the new owner thrive until a visiting Texas cattleman is murdered on the premises. Drawn back into the business, they set out to clear the inn’s name and reclaim their place without becoming the next victims.

Arianna and Sunchaser are thrown back through the Gap to Glacier River Farm, upsetting the balance between worlds. To set things right, they must survive a trial by fire and an ordeal by moonlight, mastering new magic while deciding where they truly belong.

When a dragon named Naytin awakens and the evil Shifter steals his Indigo Star, chaos ripples across Balinor. As the Celestial Valley's unicorns fade and the dragon rampages in search of his jewel, Arianna and Sunchaser race to recover the Star before the land is destroyed.

Now in Balinor, Arianna learns that Chase is really Sunchaser, Lord of the Animals, and that his shattered horn has severed their telepathic bond. Guided by allies from the Celestial Valley, she undertakes a dangerous journey to recover the missing pieces and restore both Sunchaser's power and Balinor's hope.

To defeat the shapeshifter threatening Balinor, Arianna and Sunchaser must retrieve the Royal Scepter from the dreaded Valley of Fear. With friends and enemies at their heels and no food or water allowed in that nightmare landscape, one wrong move could doom their quest and their kingdom.

Desperate to buy back the Inn at Hemlock Falls, the Quilliam sisters see their plans derailed when a television producer filming on the property is killed. With money, pride and their beloved inn on the line, they must solve the crime before the bank says no.

As the Night of the Shifter's Moon approaches, magic across Balinor falters and Entia's forces gather. Back in the royal palace, Arianna assumes full leadership and, with Sunchaser and the Celestial herd at her side, faces the final, brutal battle that will decide the fate of her world.

With the Shifter defeated, Balinor begins to heal, but Arianna's parents are still missing. Her search for the lost royal family leads back through the Valley of Fear and into the path of a new menace called Kracken, forcing her to confront fresh darkness in a kingdom that is not yet safe.

With the Royal Scepter restored, Arianna must learn what its powers truly are and how to use them wisely. Traveling across Balinor to forge alliances and settle disputes, she discovers hidden rings, personal losses and the heavy cost of preparing a kingdom for war against the Shifter.

A convention of meteorologists promises full rooms and steady meals for the Inn at Hemlock Falls. But when the town’s new computer expert is murdered, forecasts darken. Quill and Meg dig through local rivalries and technological secrets to keep the killer from striking again.

Preparing for the 133rd anniversary of the Battle of Hemlock Falls, the Quilliam sisters host Civil War buffs and reenactors at their inn. When guests begin dying and buried truths about the town’s past surface, Quill and Meg must connect old grudges to a very modern poisoner.

Meg dreads judging a deep-fried food contest, so the Quilliams hire flamboyant celebrity chef Banion O'Haggerty instead. When a butcher knife vanishes and Banion disappears amid a feud between rival chicken franchises, the sisters have to uncover who is turning up the heat to murder.

March roars into Hemlock Falls when a high-profile jury is sequestered at the inn and protestors fighting the relocation of a Civil War cemetery flood the village. After the protest leader is found dead, Quill and Meg must navigate politics, history and fear to stop another burial.

This omnibus edition gathers all eight Unicorns of Balinor adventures, following Princess Arianna and her unicorn, Sunchaser, from a hospital bed on Earth to icy passes, dragon caves and royal courts. It offers the complete arc of their struggle to restore magic and reclaim a stolen kingdom.

As Meg Quilliam scrambles to finalize her wedding, Hemlock Falls reels from a barn fire that leaves a body in the ashes and rumors about a proposed nudie bar. When connections between the blaze and the new club surface, the Quilliam sisters hunt a killer before scandal engulfs the town.

Veterinarian Austin McKenzie would rather avoid high-society horse events, but money pressures push him to serve as veterinary delegate at an elite three-day competition. When a colleague is shot before they even leave town, Austin and his wife, Madeline, must navigate the competitive equestrian world to catch a killer.

Christmas in Hemlock Falls should bring full rooms and good cheer to the inn, yet someone is shooting down inflatable Santas and money is tight. When a magazine editor’s husband dies on the ski slopes during a feature shoot, Quill and Meg must prove it was murder before a lawsuit ruins them.

An inn full of quarrelsome guests would be bad enough, but when one of them is murdered at a nearby pig farm, Hemlock Falls gossip explodes. A visiting psychic predicts another death, bookings vanish and Quill and Meg must restore calm by exposing a very human killer.

On their upstate New York farm, Austin and Madeline McKenzie treat animals of every sort, but none as mean as turkey farmer Lewis O'Leary. After O'Leary is found dead in a dumpster, a turkey-feed salesman is arrested, and Austin suspects a frame-up among the many people who loathed the victim.

Newly settled in Savannah, lawyer Bree Winston Beaufort discovers her inherited firm represents dead clients in a Celestial Court. Her first case, a businessman murdered and accused of crippling greed, sends her digging into his life and death before the final verdict dooms his soul and endangers hers.

When womanizing milk inspector Melvin Staples turns up dead in a 400-gallon milk vat at a goat dairy, the suspect list stretches from his jealous wife to furious farmers and vengeful lovers. Austin and Madeline McKenzie dig into local politics and goat farming secrets to uncover the truth.

This omnibus volume collects the first two Hemlock Falls mysteries, *A Taste for Murder* and *A Dash of Death*. Readers join innkeepers Quill and Meg as a witch-trial reenactment turns lethal and a home-decorating TV contest leads to disappearance and death in their quiet village.

Money is tight at Beaufort & Company when Bree agrees to defend a spoiled teenager accused of stealing Girl Scout cookie money. The girl’s late millionaire father also demands help from beyond the grave, forcing Bree to juggle an unlikable client, a prickly ghost and a very human trail of crime.

Eager to focus on living clients, Bree Winston Beaufort jumps at the chance to help aging actress Justine Coville rewrite her will. But family tensions, old scandals and unseen spirits soon turn a simple estate matter into a dangerous case that pulls Bree back into celestial law.

After inheriting a haunted law firm, Bree Winston Beaufort takes on the case of a disgraced banker who supposedly killed himself after losing a fortune. As she appeals his fate before a Celestial Court and investigates on earth, she uncovers murder, greed and someone willing to silence her for good.

A notoriously temperamental chef opens an expensive cooking school in Hemlock Falls and starts poaching guests from the Quilliam sisters' inn. When he is found with a knife in his neck and a scrap of a lost recipe in his hand, Quill must clear Meg’s name and uncover who finally had enough of him.

Savannah attorney and celestial advocate Bree Winston Beaufort agrees to represent her Aunt Cissy's fiancé, a museum curator accused of fraud over an ancient cross. When he is murdered and Cissy becomes the prime suspect, Bree must untangle earthly motives and otherworldly claims to clear her aunt.

Television rivalries come to Hemlock Falls when a pompous antiques-show host arrives to film an episode and marry a local shop owner. During a live cook-off he drinks poisoned wine and collapses, leaving Quill Quilliam to sift through egos, ratings wars and old grudges to find a murderer.

When the Hemlock Falls Ladies' Auxiliary loses its formidable Spring Fete chairwoman, a professional organizer swoops in to save the day, then turns up dead in a used-car trunk. Innkeepers Quill and Meg Quilliam must calm a feuding town and catch a killer before the fete is ruined entirely.