Mary Stewart Books in Order

This volume pairs a short romantic suspense novella with a rediscovered story. In The Wind Off the Small Isles, secretary Perdita West’s research trip to Lanzarote uncovers a century-old elopement and peril in an underwater cave; The Lost One follows a tense night search in lonely English countryside.

In the summer of 1947, young war widow Kate Herrick goes back to her grandmother’s thatched Rose Cottage to empty it before it’s sold. Missing family papers, village tales of ghosts and old scandals lead her toward long-buried secrets—and a chance at new love.

Young Prince Alexander rides to Camelot to seek justice for his murdered father and vengeance on the king of Cornwall. His path crosses that of Alice, a quiet pilgrim guarding an enchanted silver cup, and together they face Morgan le Fay’s temptations on a wandering quest.

Exhausted Cambridge lecturer and novelist Rose Fenemore retreats to a tiny cottage on the Hebridean island of Moila to write and watch seabirds. A summer storm brings two very different young men to her door, and their hidden quarrel entangles her in island land deals and danger.

This poetry collection gathers decades of Mary Stewart’s verse, turning the same clear eye she used in her novels on classical myths, wild landscapes, birds, seasons and memories of war. The poems are brief, lyrical reflections rather than long narrative pieces.

Shy, solitary Gilly Ramsey unexpectedly inherits her cousin Geillis’s country cottage, Thornyhold, along with its reputation for white witchcraft. As she explores herb-lined rooms and tangled woods, Gilly faces scheming neighbours, strange dreams and a quietly blossoming love story of her own.

Told largely through Mordred’s eyes, this fourth Arthurian novel follows the king’s secret son from a fisherfolk childhood to uneasy power at Camelot. Loyal to Arthur yet shadowed by prophecy, Mordred is swept toward the disastrous final battle on the wicked day.

On a holiday walk in Germany’s Black Forest, siblings John and Margaret follow a weeping stranger into the trees and find themselves in fourteenth-century Wolf Wood. There they befriend gentle lord Mardian, cursed to become a wolf, and race to break the spell.

Merlin narrates the height of Arthur’s reign, from the first hard years of unifying Britain to the building of Camelot. As plots coil around the young king, Merlin falls in love, feels his powers ebb and must decide when to step back from the world he shaped.

Bryony Ashley has grown up with a secret telepathic bond to an unseen male cousin she calls her lover. After her father dies in a suspicious accident, she returns to decaying Ashley Court to decode his last message and discover which relative she can truly trust.

When Bavarian farm boy Ludo chases his beloved horse Renti into a blizzard, they slip through a fissure into the star country. There they must travel through all twelve Houses of the Year, facing unfriendly zodiac rulers, if they ever hope to see home again.

In this second Arthurian volume, Merlin hides the infant Arthur from enemies, then quietly guides the boy’s upbringing across wild Britain and Brittany. As rival kings scheme and Saxons press in, Merlin prepares Arthur to claim a sword, a crown and a country.

Lonely Mary Smith follows a mysterious black cat to a strange purple flower and a small broomstick that suddenly comes to life. Swept to Endor College, a school for witches, she stumbles on gruesome experiments and must outwit its teachers to rescue her friends.

This first Arthurian novel follows Merlin from unwanted child in Wales to seer and strategist in the turbulent years after Rome’s fall, as his visions and hard-earned skills draw him toward Ambrosius, Uther Pendragon and the yet-unborn Arthur.

Perdita West, assistant to a bestselling children’s author, travels to Lanzarote to research pirates and house-hunt along the island’s lava cliffs. A snorkelling trip turns deadly when a landslide seals her in a sea cave, forcing her to uncover an old elopement’s tragic end to escape.

Christy Mansel leaves her tour group in Damascus to call on Great-Aunt Harriet, an eccentric recluse living in a crumbling palace in Lebanon’s Adonis Valley. Inside Dar Ibrahim she finds hostile servants, family legends of death-howling hounds and a plot far darker than old gossip.

When Vanessa March spots her husband, supposedly on business in Stockholm, in a newsreel of a circus fire in Austria with another woman at his side, she rushes to the Alps. With teenage Tim in tow, she uncovers stolen goods, a vanished Lipizzaner stallion and marital truths.

Out-of-work actress Lucy Waring visits her sister on sunlit Corfu, where a tame dolphin, a reclusive Shakespearean legend and his guarded son share the same bay. When a local boy vanishes and a body washes ashore, Lucy uncovers smuggling, betrayal and unexpected love.

Nicola Ferris, a young secretary from the British Embassy in Athens, arrives early for her holiday on Crete and stumbles on a wounded Englishman hiding in the hills. Helping him pulls her into jewel theft, kidnapping and peril along the island’s wild coast.

In Roman Wall country, quiet Mary Grey is approached by a stranger who’s sure she is his vanished cousin Annabel, heir to a Northumberland farm. Paid to impersonate the missing girl, Mary is drawn into family feuds, buried passion and a deadly inheritance game.

On holiday in Greece, recently jilted Camilla Haven is handed car keys meant for a stranger and impulsively drives to Delphi. There she meets Simon Lester, tracking his brother’s wartime death, and joins a dangerous search through ruined villages and mountain caves.

Orphaned governess Linda Martin takes a post at remote Château Valmy, caring for young Philippe, heir to a vast estate. As accidents mount, she realises his charming guardians may be plotting murder, and must outwit them to save the boy.

Jenny Silver travels to a remote convent in the Pyrenees to visit her cousin, only to be told the young woman is dead. Clues that don’t add up push Jenny into a storm-lashed mystery of impostors, smuggling and attempted murder.

Fashion model Gianetta Brooke flees London for a small hotel on the Isle of Skye, only to find her ex-husband among the guests and a ritual murder haunting the nearby mountain. Trapped by storms, she must unmask a killer in their midst.

War widow Charity Selborne expects a quiet holiday in sun-drenched Provence until she befriends anxious teenager David, whose father is accused of murder. Protecting him draws her into high-speed chases, divided loyalties and a dangerous hunt for the real killer.