Nancy Connor Springer Books in Order

When Ellid is kidnapped, a mysterious stranger rescues her and unsettles her future with her betrothed, Cuin. In the land of Isle, their changing loyalties become entangled with divine ancestry, rival rulers, and an awakening evil.

Hal and Alan become blood brothers in a forest reputed to shelter thieves and warlocks. Joining forces with an outlaw leader, they challenge a tyrannical king and seek to fulfill a prophecy promising peace for Isle.

Prince Trevyn leaves home and falls in love with the village girl Meg, provoking a powerful warlock. Captured and enslaved overseas, he must find his way back before dark sorcery destroys his kingdom and those he loves.

After his father has his beloved killed, Prince Tirell seeks an army to overthrow the king. His healer brother Frain accompanies him into the mysterious Vale, where a spreading supernatural menace threatens more than their royal family.

Dair, the changeling son of King Trevyn, follows a vision toward the wandering healer Frain. Bound by a shared destiny, they journey through enchantment and lost love, seeking to understand a prophecy that connects their futures.

An orphaned girl survives as a disguised stable boy until she rescues Prince Kyrem during his peace mission. Together with a healer king, they confront the supernatural hatred threatening two kingdoms already divided by war.

Cerilla arrives on the Sacred Isle to become the doomed Summer King’s consort, but falls in love with him instead. Their escape depends on another man’s sacrifice, creating a debt that follows them into their new life.

Shy Erin longs for a horse, and an eccentric riding teacher helps her acquire a mare named Spindrift. Caring for an animal whose temperament defies her expectations forces Erin to develop confidence, patience, and practical riding skills.

Fantasy stories and poems explore love, acceptance, grief, and healing through enchanted lives. A nameless stable boy, a silver-harp bard, and a forest warden facing hidden beings encounter powers that expose the longings and vulnerabilities beneath their magical worlds.

In a world emptied by monstrous Devourers, a tribal king joins a man driven mad by forgotten horrors. Their magical bond sends them across a devastated landscape to discover what is destroying the last surviving communities.

King Kor searches for a way to save his dwindling people while his bonded companion Dannoc pursues his lost memories. Their journey through ruined lands and underwater realms brings them toward a death goddess’s destructive anger.

With the bond between three companions fractured, Dannoc resumes his search for an absent god. Accompanied by a wolf, the troubled prince must face his fears and recover his identity while a dying world depends on him.

Rhiannon discovers a lost white Arabian horse near her struggling Pennsylvania mining town. As she learns about the animal and confronts the difficulties surrounding her, she begins to recognize her own ability to shape her future.

Bobbi Yandro fears the visions she experiences in the Allegheny Mountains. Her dead father’s journals and a mysterious black mustang lead her to a village witch, revealing a magical struggle in which Bobbi has a part to play.

After enduring years of cruelty over her appearance, Joanie Musser disappears from a Pennsylvania town. Her transformed return coincides with uncanny omens, drawing four local horsewomen into a threatened reckoning with the community’s buried prejudice.

An incompetent wizard accidentally summons seventh-grader Ryan while searching for the perfect shade of red. Stranded in a magical kingdom, Ryan encounters a rebellious warlock and finds that the adventure also touches his troubled relationship with his father.

Jenny and Shanterey share a love of horses and build a friendship around a palomino called Wildfire. Racism directed at Shanterey threatens their growing bond, forcing both girls to confront the hostility within their community.

Colt Vittorio, who has spina bifida, resists joining a riding program for children with disabilities. Meeting a horse named Liverwurst opens new possibilities, challenging his fears and changing how he approaches family life and his own independence.

A sheltered sixteen-year-old girl becomes drawn to a disfigured schoolmate after he saves her from a dangerous dog attack. Their emerging romance blends the intensity of first love with supernatural elements in this short fantasy novella.

Harper reluctantly moves into her future stepmother’s strange, sculpture-filled home. A new friendship with fellow music fan Rawnie helps her adjust, but unsettling sounds and the house’s connection to spirits draw the girls toward another world.

Two sets of ten-year-old twins become stepsisters when their parents marry. Their already awkward new household grows more competitive when one girl is promised a pony that another desperately wants, stirring jealousy over animals, attention, and belonging.

Painter and mother Larque Harootunian can generate physical manifestations of her thoughts. When a version of her younger self refuses to disappear, a midlife crisis becomes a magical exploration of creativity, gender, and the choices shaping her identity.

Bored with heaven, the angel Volos descends to Earth hoping to become a heavy-metal star. He borrows lyrics from a sheltered woman’s secret poetry, drawing their lives together through music, spiritual questions, and unexpected desire.

Poems and realistic illustrations capture horses’ movement, strength, and grace. Through rhythmic verse, Nancy Springer explores the affection and excitement these animals inspire in riders of different ages, bringing an equestrian’s emotional connection with horses onto the page.

In South Florida, Pageant encounters disfigured Iver and his handsome twin Evan. Their contrasting appearances conceal a history of cruelty, while a mysterious group of outsiders intensifies a disturbing search for love, acceptance, and the truth about her family.

Gray is drawn to Chav, a guarded new classmate who shares her love of horses. When his younger siblings fall ill, she must earn his trust and understand the troubled family history that has made him fiercely protective.

Tuff’s older brother is killed while they are riding a dirt bike through the mountains. Determined to identify the murderer, Tuff leaves his troubled household and seeks help from a man his mother identifies as his father.

Fourteen-year-old Jamie Bridger’s grandparents refuse to explain what happened to her parents. Determined to uncover her origins, she follows a possible lead to New York, risking the familiar life built around her family’s evasions and secrets.

Divorced storyteller Buffy brings home a talking frog who claims to be a cursed prince. When her teenage daughter kisses him and disappears into a magical realm, Buffy must use her storytelling gifts to bring her back.

Tess lives with her disabled stepfather in an Appalachian shack and remembers nothing before age ten. A scarred young stranger searching for his father awakens questions about her past, while her passion for music offers a possible future.

Mordred discovers that King Arthur is his father and that prophecy marks him as Arthur’s killer. Entering Camelot, he struggles to build an identity beyond that prediction and escape a fate he desperately wants to reject.

Dusty faces the impending loss of her sick horse while coping with a back injury and family grief. A young ghost offers to take the animal away, then draws her into the unresolved circumstances of his own death.

After her marriage collapses, Sassy Hummel takes work as a hotel maid and begins seeing people as birds. Her friendship with a boutique owner opens a magical path toward lost dreams, concealed identities, and a renewed sense of self.

Young Morgan discovers her magical abilities amid the violence and uncertainty of a country without a king. Linked to the faerie world and to her half-brother Arthur, she must navigate ambitions that threaten to determine her future.

Recently widowed Libby finds herself struggling with loss and the absence of love in middle age. Her relationship with her aging mother becomes the focus of an urgent attempt at reconciliation before the opportunity slips away.

After her mother is murdered, thirteen-year-old Rowan disguises herself as a boy and seeks the father she has never met, Robin Hood. A growing band of young companions helps her face the dangers of Sherwood Forest.

Donni and Trisha live apart after their parents’ divorce, responding with anger and withdrawal. When Donni’s behavior brings serious school trouble, the sisters must confront the hurt each has failed to recognize in the other’s changed life.

Gentle Lionel has found refuge with Rowan’s young outlaws after rejecting his warrior father’s demands. When his father encounters him among Robin Hood’s followers, renewed hostility threatens the band and tests Lionel’s understanding of courage.

Jeremy’s longtime friend Aaron is brutally murdered, leaving their small town gripped by suspicion. As the last person to see Aaron alive, Jeremy faces police scrutiny and community hostility while weighing a disturbing fact he has withheld.

Etty has escaped an arranged marriage and found happiness with Rowan Hood’s band. Her father arrives determined to reclaim her, using her captive mother as bait and forcing the young outlaws into a battle of resolve and ingenuity.

Rook dreams of avenging the father killed by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Finding the sheriff’s son caught in a mantrap gives him an unexpected opportunity, forcing him to confront the conflict between his grief, hatred, and compassion.

Rowan finally learns the names of the four men who murdered her mother and sets out with her friends to find them. Pursuing revenge threatens the healing gifts and woodland connections that have become central to her life.

When her mother vanishes on her fourteenth birthday, Enola Holmes escapes her brothers' plans for boarding school and heads for London. Her search leads to another disappearance and the dangers of the Victorian city's streets.

Thirteen-year-old Dusie discovers that her mother's family descends from Gorgons when snakes suddenly sprout from her scalp. With anger capable of turning people to stone, she must manage puberty while keeping her dangerous inheritance secret.

Hiding from Sherlock in London, Enola Holmes discovers drawings by a missing young woman, Lady Cecily. Following clues through dangerous streets, she risks exposing her own identity as she searches for the artist behind them.

Doctor Watson has disappeared, and Enola Holmes cannot ignore the mystery despite needing to evade Sherlock. A bouquet delivered to Watson's home contains flowers associated with death, offering a disturbing clue to his whereabouts.

A coded plea from Lady Cecily draws Enola Holmes into another dangerous investigation. With her friend being held against her will, Enola must weigh accepting Sherlock's help against risking the independence she has fought to preserve.

A fifteen-year-old girl has spent years moving between towns with her father and brother, never understanding why. Remembering that her real name is Sherica sends her online to investigate her mother and the past her family conceals.

Enola Holmes's landlady, Mrs. Tupper, is abducted, leaving the young investigator determined to find her. Codes concealed in a crinoline underskirt draw Enola toward Florence Nightingale and questions about her landlady's apparently ordinary life.

After her brother Jason dies in a car accident, Jessie tries to comfort their devastated mother by wearing his clothes and adopting his mannerisms. Her imitation becomes increasingly unsettling as Jason's presence seems to take hold.

While searching for Lady Blanchefleur del Campo, Enola discovers Sherlock is pursuing her with a mysterious package from their absent mother. The siblings face connected puzzles involving the missing duchess, their mother, and Mycroft.

Veronica enjoys visiting Mrs. Life, whose notebooks record the town’s details, until a lawn-mowing dispute sparks destructive rumors about a teacher. Watching suspicion spread, the girl begins to recognize the older woman’s concealed motives and the harm her gossip causes.

Haunted by her own sister’s disappearance, college student Kerri Ellen joins a search when another young woman vanishes. Working with her sorority sisters, she hopes for a better outcome, but the investigation challenges the belief that answers necessarily bring closure.

Cat-shelter volunteer Cindy finds a coworker unconscious and a mother cat’s litter missing in the snow. When a second attack becomes murder, her search for the animals entangles her in the case and brings police suspicion her way.

Dorrie White secretly watches the teenage daughter she gave up for adoption, hiding the connection from her husband. Witnessing the girl's abduction forces Dorrie into a desperate pursuit while her husband searches for her.

Picture framer Veronica Phillips discovers a hidden key while working on a customer’s picture. What begins as a curious find leads her into warehouses, murder, and police suspicion, leaving her trying to establish her innocence before the case closes around her.

Marietta Becker goes undercover at a singles dance while investigating the deaths of five men. Her husband’s unexpected arrival, and the regulars’ recognition of him, complicate the case with personal suspicions and new reasons someone might want revenge.

Fifteen-year-old loner Rig discovers that his popular older sister is being stalked while away at college. Determined to protect her, he undertakes a rescue effort that brings unexpected help from his divorced parents.

At an animal shelter, Xenia finds purpose in caring for rescued cats despite her own difficulties. When kittens are adopted soon after she renames them, the pattern prompts her to reconsider what nurturing vulnerable lives means for her own future.

A body in her pottery shop’s kiln leads Judith to suspect her troublesome ex-husband. Conversations with her Scrabble Club soon point elsewhere, drawing her into a murder puzzle in which language and the people using it may matter more than she expected.

A woman painting poetry on a car stopped in traffic intrigues teenager Brad Litwack, especially when his policeman father reacts angrily. Defying orders to stay away, Brad investigates the mysterious message and discovers a troubling secret connected to his family.

Seeking a fresh start after divorce, Liana Clymer visits a neighbor in her new Florida town and recognizes a kidnapped boy. Her discovery makes her another captive, trapped with the child in a dangerous struggle.

Already embarrassed by being his school’s shortest boy, Avery faces wearing mauve at his sister’s Victorian-style wedding. Determined to escape the outfit and his ceremonial duties, he recruits the groom into a plan that threatens to disrupt the celebration.

Twenty fantasy stories span Nancy Springer’s career, moving from mythic landscapes to strange transformations in contemporary life. Tales of magical gifts, troubled angels, and unsettling encounters explore the moments when disordered lives briefly find meaning or balance.

Widowed illustrator Beverly Vernon longs for grandchildren and paints an imaginary granddaughter in her Florida home. Discovering a child's skeleton in the garden coincides with disturbing changes to the portrait, prompting her to investigate.

A mysterious fey youth arrives in Calidon to save its king from a deadly enchanted ring. His secret threatens the royal family, while two young men raised apart confront loyalties that could determine the kingdom's future.

Letitia Glover refuses to believe her twin sister died as the Earl of Dunhench claims. Enola Holmes investigates suspicious documents and a mysterious black carriage, going undercover to uncover what happened inside the earl's household.

When a young boy substitutes for Enola Holmes's sick porter and disappears after one day, she searches London's rougher streets. Finding his uniform buttons without their wearer convinces her that urgent intervention is needed.

Lady Cecily escapes her father's control with Enola Holmes's help, then disappears again into London. Enola must locate her vulnerable friend before Sherlock, hired to find Cecily, can return her to the household she fled.

When an American publisher’s representative disappears in London, Rudyard Kipling seeks Sherlock Holmes’s help after dismissing Enola. Determined to investigate anyway, Enola follows suspicions of ruthless publishing rivals and tries to uncover what happened to the missing man.

A bell ringing from a fresh grave leads Enola Holmes to rescue a young woman buried alive. Protecting the frightened stranger draws Enola into a mystery linked to Sherlock’s work and a confrontation with his dangerous enemy, Professor Moriarty.