Merryn Allingham Books in Order

In the uneasy years after the war, Daisy is drawn back to India when the past returns to her door. The journey forces her to confront family secrets, unfinished love, and the future she still hopes to claim.

Raised in an East London orphanage, Daisy Driscoll thinks marriage will finally give her a home. Instead, 1938 India brings secrets, danger, and a husband who is not the man she believed him to be.

As war reshapes Daisy Driscoll's life, she finds purpose in nursing while old wounds and new dangers refuse to stay buried. It's a wartime saga of hard choices, resilience, and love tested under pressure.

A Regency romance of hidden identities and risky attraction. When two people meet behind polite society's masks, deception, danger, and growing trust make every move feel like part of a far more serious dance.

Duty and desire collide in this Regency romance as a duchess faces tangled loyalties, unwelcome expectations, and a future she never planned. Love offers hope, but only if she can see past appearances and choose her own path.

Grace Latimer helps investigate missing designs linked to the Great Exhibition and becomes absorbed in a forgotten Victorian love story. The deeper she digs, the more the past begins to mirror the fractures in her own life.

After her lover dies, Megan Lacey retreats to the coast and discovers that much of her life has been built on illusion. Her grief draws her into the story of a Victorian woman whose betrayal echoes her own.

Masks, secrets, and sharp social maneuvering drive this Regency romance. What begins as polished playacting turns into a much riskier game as hidden motives surface and two wary hearts are forced to decide whom they can trust.

In Sussex on the eve of the First World War, Elizabeth Summer faces family pressure, class divisions, and a choice between duty and love. The future of Summerhayes House hangs over every decision she makes.

Set in early twentieth-century Constantinople, this historical drama follows English sisters Alice and Lydia Verinder through love, loss, and mounting unrest. Family loyalties and private secrets shape both their futures.

Disguise and deception set the pace in this Regency romance. As danger closes in, two people are forced into close quarters, where attraction grows quickly and the truth becomes the one thing neither can avoid.

A notorious rake meets a woman who refuses to be dazzled, and their clash of wills soon turns personal. Beneath the flirtation lies real risk, old reputations, and the chance of a love neither expected.

In Venice, beauty and memory are hard to separate. This historical mystery follows a woman forced to face old betrayals, difficult choices, and the emotional cost of trying to make peace with the past.

A new opportunity becomes a trap when Nancy is swept into a Caribbean mystery charged with ambition, suspicion, and danger. Far from home, she has to decide whom she can trust before events turn deadly.

Lizzie is clever, independent, and not easily impressed, until she meets someone who can challenge her at every turn. Their lively battle of wits becomes a warm Regency romance with just enough complication to keep things interesting.

On Coronation Day in 1953, lonely Nancy Nicholson thinks romance has finally arrived. Instead, the charming man she meets draws her into lies, fear, and a nightmare in which nowhere feels safe.

A modern woman researching a Victorian past becomes entangled in a hidden love story and the unanswered questions it left behind. As the mystery deepens, the echoes between then and now grow impossible to ignore.

Nancy Tremayne is pulled into danger in Venice, where beauty, betrayal, and revenge move side by side through the canals. What looks glamorous at first soon becomes a tense mystery with very real stakes.

At her husband's Cornish family home, Nancy Tremayne senses that a heart attack and a recent death are not what they seem. Threatening letters, a disputed mine, and buried resentments make the village anything but peaceful.

A walk by the sea turns deadly when Flora spots a young woman in the waters below the pier. With Jack's help, she digs into tangled relationships and village secrets to learn whether Polly Dakers was pushed.

Rio gives Nancy dazzling scenery and fresh danger in equal measure. As revenge and long-hidden motives close in, she finds herself in another high-stakes mystery where escape is never as easy as it looks.

When Flora Steele opens her bookshop one morning in 1955 Sussex, she finds a dead young man among the shelves. To save her shop and uncover the truth, she teams up with brooding crime writer Jack Carrington.

Back in London, old secrets and unfinished conflicts catch up with Nancy in a tense final reckoning. Personal stakes and mounting danger push this mystery toward a sharper, darker endgame.

Flora and Jack head to Cornwall for a quiet break and find a body in the orchard of their rental cottage. The case soon opens onto old wartime secrets and troubling questions about Jack's family.

At St Saviour's church, Flora and Jack find the curate dead beneath the bell tower, a strange note in his hand. Bell ringers, mistaken identities, and fresh accidents turn the case into one of their trickiest yet.

At the grand reopening of the Priory Hotel, a singer drops dead mid-performance. Flora follows the trail of a missing ruby ring into jealousy, lies, and another death waiting in the Sussex woods.

When unpopular newcomer Percy Milburn disappears, Flora and Jack find his body in a ruined farmhouse cellar. Plans to modernize Abbeymead have made him enemies everywhere, and soon the killer strikes again.

A plea from Jack's estranged mother sends Flora and Jack to France, where a killing in Paris leads them to a Provençal village full of tensions. Soon Flora suspects Sybil was the real target.

In 1914 Sussex, Elizabeth Summer watches family duty, class expectations, and war close in around her beloved home. Her growing feelings for an architect's apprentice force her to choose between obedience and the life she actually wants.

After wartime London is shattered by bombs, Bethany Merston takes refuge at Summerhayes House as companion to elderly Alice Summer. There she finds romance, anonymous threats, and a family mystery buried deep in the old Sussex estate.

Freshly married Flora and Jack are drawn into another case when a stranger dies outside Abbeymead with clues leading to Cleve College. At the uneasy campus, past drownings and academic ambition make a dangerous mix.

During a historical reenactment at a Sussex castle, a well-liked council worker falls from the ramparts. Flora and Jack dig through money troubles, love triangles, and a second death before history repeats itself.

When Flora visits the village library with a retirement gift, she finds the librarian murdered and an old acquaintance standing nearby. A missing first edition and a second body turn books into deadly evidence.

War gives Daisy a new role and a new strength as she works as a nurse through loss, fear, and uncertainty. But the past refuses to loosen its hold, and the next step in her life may be the hardest yet.

Bombay, 1938. Daisy Driscoll arrives to marry the cavalry officer she loves, only to find a husband changed by secrets and drink. Far from home, she must survive scandal, loneliness, and a dangerous marriage.

At a Sussex bonfire celebration, a respected society chief falls from his parade float and Flora knows it was no accident. Rivalries, smoke, and a second corpse bring real danger to the festival night.

Flora and Jack's Venetian honeymoon ends abruptly when a hotel receptionist is found in the Grand Canal. A stolen painting, a missing housekeeper, and a vengeful family drag them straight back into sleuthing.

Abbeymead's autumn fair turns deadly when cheesemaker Gilbert Barrow crashes in, killed by his own prize cheese. Flora and Jack investigate jealous relatives, business rivals, and a case stranger than it first appears.

At a party for Ambrose Finch's long-lost son, the cook collapses on the kitchen floor with cyanide in the air. Flora and Jack soon find that every guest seems tied to the Finch family's buried conflicts.