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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Nancy Holder books in publication order
30 books
Wings and Other Poems
by Nancy Holder
1972
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.
Cannibal Dwight's Special Purpose
by Nancy Holder
1992
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.
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