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Nancy Holder Books in Order

Explore Nancy Holder’s books and series in order, with short summaries and reading lists to help you find your next book and decide where to begin reading.

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Heart's Victory

by Nancy Holder

1983

After earlier disappointments ended her performing ambitions, Karen Meredith builds a life around her ballet school. Falling for champion skier Erik Nylund brings a painful choice when he wants her to abandon it and travel with him.

Jessie's Song

by Nancy Holder

1983

Treasure of Love

by Nancy Holder

1983

Jane Burton joins a voyage in search of sunken treasure and clashes with its commanding captain, Francisco Portalba. Attraction complicates her resistance to his authority, while doubts about his intentions make trusting him difficult.

Boundless Love

by Nancy Holder

1984

Whale trainer Andrea is drawn to Quinn, a charismatic businessman intent on making money from Ocean Kingdom's animals. As their attraction grows, she questions his motives and risks both her career and her trust in him.

The Greatest Show on Earth

by Nancy Holder

1984

Melinda Franklin is determined to preserve her family’s old-fashioned circus, despite its financial difficulties and her chaotic methods. When banker Evan Kessel arrives to review her loan application, his professional judgment becomes tangled with growing attraction.

Winner Take All

by Nancy Holder

1984

Executive Holly Johnson meets her match when corporate specialist Dick DeWitt takes over her company. His offer of a career opportunity sparks a contest of wills, complicated by an attraction neither can easily fit into their plans.

Finders Keepers

by Nancy Holder

1985

Pet detective Allison meets wealthy bachelor David while searching for a missing dog in San Francisco. She resists becoming his latest passing romance, but an elusive Saint Bernard keeps drawing them into each other's lives.

His Fair Lady

by Nancy Holder

1985

Claire van Teiler has put raising her younger sister ahead of pursuing her own happiness. Meeting Jack Youngblood awakens long-suppressed romantic hopes, leaving her torn between the man she wants and the family responsibilities she cherishes.

Out of This World

by Nancy Holder

1985

Actress Janet Madison is drawn to Gary Wolf after they meet at a convention for her television series. Discovering that he is the network executive controlling its future makes their attraction a difficult matter of trust.

Emerald Fire

by Nancy Holder

1986

Scientist Stacy Livingston travels to Hawaii to search caves for a legendary creature, then falls for Keith Mactavish. His family suspects she wants their treasure, making it difficult to explain her real purpose or trust their growing romance.

Once in Love with Amy

by Nancy Holder

1986

Costume designer Amy van Teiler meets actor Derek Morgan aboard a transatlantic cruise celebrating the 1930s. Their shipboard courtship awakens powerful feelings, but Amy must decide whether this romance is worth risking the independence she has built.

Rough Cut

by Nancy Holder

1990

Filmmaker Rosemary Stepanek struggles to build a Hollywood career amid sexism, drugs, and deception. As she pursues recognition in the movie business, the past she hoped to escape threatens both her professional future and her relationship.

The Ghosts of Tivoli

by Nancy Holder

1992

Neils cannot fully enjoy Tivoli Gardens while his sister Emilie is dying, knowing the fairground’s enchantment must end. Her final request sends him back there to search for the sense of magic missing from his life.

Making Love

by Nancy Holder

1993

Lonely schoolteacher Charlotte Tobias creates the lover she has imagined, and he transforms her secluded life. As her creation becomes increasingly independent, the relationship takes a terrifying turn that forces her to confront desires she cannot control.

Dead in the Water

by Nancy Holder

1994

A freighter leaves Long Beach carrying passengers burdened by grief, illness, and troubled relationships. Their voyage becomes a nightmare as supernatural forces and the restless dead draw them toward the terrors waiting beneath the water.

The Six Families

by Nancy Holder

1998

Deuce McNamara works as a dealer and bagman for one of the six families controlling Moonbase Vegas. As rival interests maneuver for power, he discovers that the competition is becoming a mob war for control of the Moon.

Legacies and Lies

by Nancy Holder

1999

An explosion aboard Gambler’s Star kills lunar crime leaders and plunges Deuce McNamara’s world into turmoil. Caught between feuding families, separatist rebels, and moralistic outsiders, he must find a way to halt the violence consuming Moonbase Vegas.

Door to Alternity

by Nancy Holder

2000

Buffy and Angel discover that missing teenagers in Los Angeles may be connected to dimensional experiments. Returning to Sunnydale, Buffy finds a portal admitting monsters, forcing the pair to venture into another reality before the captives are lost.

Invasions

by Nancy Holder

2000

Deuce McNamara’s rise to power on Moonbase Vegas leaves him facing threats from Earth and his own criminal associates. With an alien invasion looming and his family in danger, he must gamble on a way to prevent catastrophe.

The Burning

by Nancy Holder

2000

Supernatural gang conflict draws Buffy and her friends into Los Angeles, where Angel already faces dangerous troubles. Vampire-worshipping cults and unrest in local prisons complicate their efforts to understand the forces threatening both their communities.

Long Way Home

by Nancy Holder

2001

Buffy and Angel enter an alternate reality filled with dragons and other legendary creatures to rescue kidnapped teenagers. Discovering that Spike and Faith have also crossed the portal adds further uncertainty to an already dangerous mission far from home.

Pearl Harbor, 1941

by Nancy Holder

2001

Returning home to Hawaii, twenty-year-old Bekah Martin meets naval ensign Scott DeAngelo and resists their mutual attraction. The attack on Pearl Harbor interrupts their uncertain relationship, confronting her with decisions that will change the course of her life.

Pretty Little Devils

by Nancy Holder

2006

Hazel longs to join the most popular girls at Brookhaven High, despite their ruthless rivalries. As romantic jealousy and social ambition intensify, a killer within their circle turns the struggle for popularity into a deadly threat.

Possessions

by Nancy Holder

2009

New student Lindsay senses something wrong with the powerful clique at Marlwood Academy. As she investigates its leader's strange behavior, spirits awakened by a centuries-old tragedy seek revenge by taking possession of the school's girls.

The Evil Within

by Nancy Holder

2010

Lindsay hoped she had escaped Marlwood Academy and the hostile girls possessed by its ghosts. Discovering a spirit inside herself forces her back to the school, where buried secrets threaten her attempt to regain control.

The Screaming Season

by Nancy Holder

2011

Lindsay wakes restrained in Marlwood's infirmary, unable to remember whether she attacked her enemies. Haunted by an untrustworthy spirit and doubted by her friends, she joins a former rival to uncover who threatens their lives.

The Rules

by Debbie Viguie

2015

Robin Brisset thinks she is heading to an exclusive party, but the night's scavenger hunt turns into something deadly. Told through multiple teens, this thriller keeps everyone under suspicion.

Witch-Light

by Nancy Holder

Valerie Kittridge travels to New Mexico to care for her father after a stroke. Disturbing memories and omens accompany her journey, and a mysterious man from her childhood draws her toward a dangerous romance steeped in witchcraft.

Gambler's Star books in order

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  1. Book cover for "The Six Families"

    The Six Families

    by Nancy Holder

    1998
  2. Book cover for "Legacies and Lies"

    Legacies and Lies

    by Nancy Holder

    1999
  3. Book cover for "Invasions"

    Invasions

    by Nancy Holder

    2000

Possessions books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Possessions"

    Possessions

    by Nancy Holder

    2009
  2. Book cover for "The Evil Within"

    The Evil Within

    by Nancy Holder

    2010
  3. Book cover for "The Screaming Season"

    The Screaming Season

    by Nancy Holder

    2011

The Unseen Trilogy books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Door to Alternity"

    Door to Alternity

    by Nancy Holder

    2000
  2. Book cover for "The Burning"

    The Burning

    by Nancy Holder

    2000
  3. Book cover for "Long Way Home"

    Long Way Home

    by Nancy Holder

    2001

Standalone Nancy Holder books

  1. Book cover for "Wings and Other Poems"

    Wings and Other Poems

    by Nancy Holder

    1972
  2. Book cover for "Heart's Victory"

    Heart's Victory

    by Nancy Holder

    1983
  3. Book cover for "Jessie's Song"

    Jessie's Song

    by Nancy Holder

    1983
  4. Book cover for "Treasure of Love"

    Treasure of Love

    by Nancy Holder

    1983
  5. Book cover for "Boundless Love"

    Boundless Love

    by Nancy Holder

    1984
  6. Book cover for "The Greatest Show on Earth"

    The Greatest Show on Earth

    by Nancy Holder

    1984
  7. Book cover for "Winner Take All"

    Winner Take All

    by Nancy Holder

    1984
  8. Book cover for "Finders Keepers"

    Finders Keepers

    by Nancy Holder

    1985
  9. Book cover for "His Fair Lady"

    His Fair Lady

    by Nancy Holder

    1985
  10. Book cover for "Out of This World"

    Out of This World

    by Nancy Holder

    1985
  11. Book cover for "Emerald Fire"

    Emerald Fire

    by Nancy Holder

    1986
  12. Book cover for "Once in Love with Amy"

    Once in Love with Amy

    by Nancy Holder

    1986
  13. Book cover for "Rough Cut"

    Rough Cut

    by Nancy Holder

    1990
  14. Book cover for "Cannibal Dwight's Special Purpose"
  15. Book cover for "The Ghosts of Tivoli"

    The Ghosts of Tivoli

    by Nancy Holder

    1992
  16. Book cover for "Making Love"

    Making Love

    by Nancy Holder

    1993
  17. Book cover for "Dead in the Water"

    Dead in the Water

    by Nancy Holder

    1994
  18. Book cover for "Pearl Harbor, 1941"

    Pearl Harbor, 1941

    by Nancy Holder

    2001
  19. Book cover for "Pretty Little Devils"

    Pretty Little Devils

    by Nancy Holder

    2006
  20. Book cover for "The Rules"

    The Rules

    by Debbie Viguie

    2015
  21. Book cover for "Witch-Light"

    Witch-Light

    by Nancy Holder

    Publication date unknown

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