Maureen Peters Books in Order

Jenny Hargreaves leaves teaching to become companion to Verity Morgan on a remote Welsh coast. At Crearty House, fearful villagers, unanswered questions, and a figure on the cliffs turn the job into a Gothic trap.

Tarn Chester marries the charming Robert Hunter and follows him to his home on the Norfolk coast. What begins as a romantic escape grows darker as shadows gather around her new husband and his world.

Joan Quincey travels to a Cornish household tied to her fiance and the ominous words Fair Kilmeny. Old passions, strange movements on the moor, and attempted murder show the past is not done with Witchwood.

Eighteen-year-old Melody Fletcher arrives at Moonflete, the house her father built for her Chinese mother on the Lancashire moors. Family tensions and long-hidden secrets make the grand house feel more threatening than welcoming.

After her mother's dying message, Rowan Spindle goes alone into Yorkshire to uncover a buried past. Her few clues lead to Needfire Hall, frightened villagers, and a mystery tangled with the gypsies on the moor.

Newly widowed Anne Trent finds a photograph of a beautiful French girl among her late husband's things. Her search takes her to Lourdes, where miracles, memory, and a candlelit grotto hide the truth about his past.

Helen rushes to rural Linton after an unsettling plea from her friend Margaret, only to arrive too late. With Margaret dead, she is drawn into the Carew family's curse and the dangers surrounding Malcarew.

Verona Dean travels to Yorkshire after Sister Hyacinth's sudden death. At Minstrel's Leap, old legends, a troubadour's love story, and the nearby nuns turn grief into a classic Gothic mystery.

A haunted past lies at the heart of this moody standalone, where grief and hidden truths keep pressing into the present. Black lets the suspense build slowly, turning memory itself into a source of danger.

Susan takes her niece Jill to the countryside for a short break and stumbles into a community where time seems frozen. Ancient rites, local fear, and a helpful writer suggest something much older is at work.

Kate Rye goes to pre-revolutionary Russia to meet her late father's relatives and enters a world of rank, secrecy, and danger. At a grand country house, the mystery of her birth may also be a plan for her death.

Imelda Lawson travels to Cornwall as companion to her flirtatious relative Charity Hesketh and finds intrigue on every side. Smugglers, Napoleonic tension, and three very different men make danger feel close and personal.

A moody standalone about love under pressure, loyalty, and the risks of being bound to the wrong person. Black keeps the emotional stakes high while the sense of danger slowly closes in around her heroine.

Sister Joan is sent to a Cornish convent to quietly investigate after one nun dies and another vanishes. As she teaches local children, the house fills with secrets, fear, and the sense that something is badly wrong.

Small disturbances in the convent chapel and the strange behavior of Sister Joan's pupils hint at trouble. When a missing gypsy boy is found dead, Joan starts asking questions nobody wants answered.

Single mother Joy Prentice's three-year-old daughter is kidnapped from the London restaurant where she works. As troubling notes arrive and the investigation stalls, Joy must decide which man from her life may have taken Sally.

Researcher Jessica Cameron rents a room in an old Liverpool house while studying Victorian family life. A scrap of paper, a vanished servant, and ghostly echoes pull her into a mystery shared by past and present.

On a solitary retreat above a remote Scottish loch, Sister Joan hopes for silence and prayer. Instead she senses hidden watchers, village hostility, and an old mystery that surfaces with a body in the water.

Two young women arrive to test their vocations with the Daughters of Compassion. As roses appear in odd places and one postulant seems deeply afraid, Sister Joan suspects obsession and murder have entered the convent.

Back in Cornwall, Sister Joan finds a missing schoolgirl laid out in white inside the abandoned schoolhouse. A second death and threats near the convent point to a killer obsessed with innocence and the sisters.

During Lent, a cheerful housekeeper dies in an apparent suicide just as a stern priest and a difficult new nun arrive. Sister Joan senses murder, then uncovers links to a crime buried for years.

Sister Joan travels to London for an art school reunion and to promote the convent as a retreat. But several old classmates have died under suspicious circumstances, and the survivors may be sharing a killer.

While exploring the moors, Sister Joan finds a dead man in a ruined chapel. Soon a desperate young woman asks for help finding her missing sister, and Joan follows a trail the police barely seem to notice.

Money is tight, so Sister Joan sorts through the convent attic and old Tarquin family possessions in search of anything valuable. Instead she uncovers stranglings, hidden remains, and a past that will not stay buried.

Joy-in-the-Lord Jones waits in the English Separatist colony in the Netherlands for her sweetheart to send for her. Then a proud sea captain offers passage to the New World, forcing love, faith, and future onto the same voyage.

When Mother Dorothy inherits money from her godmother, the gift brings danger instead of relief. A death, an apparent suicide, and a missing abused child draw Sister Joan into one of her bleakest investigations.

Friends Catherine Benson and Julie Grant volunteer to spend a week in a haunted house for psychic research. What starts as an experiment becomes a tense confrontation with fear, secrets, and the possibility that the house remembers.

After a quiet spell, vandalism, a devil sighting, and candles left in the postulancy unsettle the village. Then Sister Joan finds a body and a young police officer disappears, pulling her back into darkness.