Nancy J Parra Books in Order

Brianna McGraw travels west to rescue her kidnapped brother and decides the fastest way to raise money is to collect a bounty. Arresting Trey Morgan is the easy part. Surviving the journey with him is harder.

Reporter Samantha Herrington heads to Wyoming hunting a career-making story and collides with protective cowboy Matthew Morgan. As murder and mayhem build around them, both have to decide what matters more, duty or love.

Lana Tate wants to escape Wyoming and chase an opera career, while Taggart Morgan wants the reward for a legendary wild stallion. Forced into an uneasy partnership, they discover bigger dreams, and bigger risks, along the way.

To stop a parade of suitors, Maddie Morgan's family invents a lost fiance and hands her a run-down ranch. Then the wrong Montgomery brother comes home, and the harmless lie turns into a risky romance.

Charming Shay Morgan rides out to bring stubborn doctor Jenny Edwards home to her dying father. Instead he finds a woman who distrusts men, an epidemic to fight, and feelings that complicate his simple wager.

Amelia Morgan gambles that a threat of marriage will scare off the card shark who won her prized stallion. Instead Alex Laird calls her bluff, and their battle over a horse becomes a battle over the heart.

Beth Morgan bolts from her own wedding and is hauled back by the one man she cannot stand. A rough trip west with Quaid Blair forces both of them to look past pride, gossip, and first impressions.

Dr. Eva Stanford wants to help an elderly patient sleep, not step into a thirty-year-old political mystery. But when FBI agent Nate Cancaid's recurring dreams begin matching real clues, Eva can't ignore the danger.

Single mother Jennifer Sumner agrees to hide a wealthy playboy who is supposed to be dead, thanks to her brother's investigation. The arrangement puts her past, her heart, and her life in a killer's sights.

In 1870s Colorado, Lillian Picken invents a husband so she can run her business in peace. When a Secret Service agent takes over the role to hunt counterfeiters, the lie turns into real trouble, and real attraction.

Allie McMurphy returns to Mackinac Island to restore her family hotel and fudge shop, then finds a body hidden on the property. With suspicion falling on her family, she has to untangle old grudges before the business is ruined.

Opening a gluten-free bakery in wheat country is hard enough before a farmer is murdered outside Toni Holmes's shop. With suspicion and vandalism closing in, she has to find the killer before Baker's Treat is finished.

Out-of-work event planner Pepper Pomeroy helps stage her sister's dream proposal on a private jet, then finds a corpse in the hangar restroom. To protect her sister's new fiance, Pepper starts asking dangerous questions.

When Grandma Ruth is arrested for killing her longtime enemy, Toni Holmes knows the police have the wrong woman. Their hunt for the truth turns up old grudges, town secrets, and fresh danger in Oiltop.

During Lilac Festival, Allie's dog digs up human remains, and her stint on a cooking show leads into a fresh trail of danger. To protect her sweet new life on Mackinac Island, she has to outthink a killer.

Jenn Christensen comes back to snowy Mackinac Island for the Santa Fun Run, hoping to reconnect with Shane, and instead finds a dead Santa in the snow. With suspicion falling on her, Jenn and Allie hunt for the killer before Christmas is spoiled.

Pepper Pomeroy's new proposal business is taking off, but wedding dress shopping for her sister ends with a murdered boutique owner. Untangling the case may be even harder than finding the perfect gown.

Toni Holmes is busy baking holiday treats when a dead man is found in a local inn room rented under her brother's name. To clear him, she and Grandma Ruth dig into secrets that someone wants buried.

Preparing for the Fourth of July, Allie hires a star pyrotechnician for Mackinac Island's fireworks, only to find him murdered before the warehouse explodes. With the holiday and her reputation on the line, she starts chasing answers.

As Allie creates chocolate centerpieces for the annual yacht race, she and Mal pull a body from the marina. When someone close to Rex becomes a suspect, Allie digs into feuds and buried secrets around the island.

At her sister's country club wedding, Pepper Pomeroy befriends the bartender just before the woman dies from a poisoned drink. The deeper Pepper digs, the more high-society secrets and old crimes surface.

Sonoma tour guide Taylor O'Brian launches her wine-country business just as a client turns up dead with Taylor's corkscrew in her neck. Clearing her name means uncorking a tangle of secrets, grief, and suspicious new marriages.

Newlywed seniors Frances and Douglas Devaney spot a horse-drawn sleigh carrying a corpse through the snow. What should be a postcard-perfect Mackinac Christmas quickly turns into a chilly little murder puzzle.

American chef Carrie Ann Cole arrives at Kensington Palace for her dream job and promptly finds a body beneath the royal kale beds. To keep the kitchen running, she has to navigate palace politics and murder.

Allie's estranged cousin Tori returns to Mackinac Island just in time to be found beside a corpse in the butterfly house. Family tension and old resentments collide as Allie tries to clear her cousin's name.

Over Labor Day weekend, a TV crew descends on Mackinac Island, and Allie's dog finds a real murder behind the hotel. A taunting note makes the case personal and pushes Allie into a dangerous game with the killer.

A lemon meringue pie meant as a thank-you turns deadly at a Kensington Palace event, and Carrie Ann Cole ends up under suspicion. Another body soon follows, pushing her deeper into palace intrigue.

During Mackinac Island's annual zombie walk, Allie's cat leads her to a body in the alley behind the hotel and fudge shop. To expose the killer, Allie and Rex have to look past costumes, tricks, and local secrets.

When an FDA inspector is found dead in a vat of crushed grapes, Taylor O'Brian rushes to help winery owner Tim Slade. Then a second body appears, and loyalty starts to look dangerous.

While waiting for renovations to end, Allie spends Christmas baking fudge and staying with a friend, then answers a mysterious note and finds a woman dead in a snowdrift. Holiday cheer quickly gives way to another icy investigation.

On the Oregon coast, honey shop owner Wren Johnson finds a dead woman on the beach with one of Wren's lip balm labels in her hand. Now Wren, helped by her cat Everett, must clear her name and find the killer.

As Jenn's wedding approaches, Allie and Jenn find Shane standing over a body with a bloody knife. To keep the ceremony from turning into a jailhouse disaster, Allie has to clear the groom.

Wren heads out to meet a local bee wrangler for honey, only to find him murdered among smashed hives. With Oceanview buzzing over its UFO festival, she and Aunt Eloise set a trap for the killer.

After the queen of Mackinac Island's midsummer celebration turns up dead in the lake, Allie is pulled into the case while juggling festival duties and fudge making. Rumors, pranks, and threats make the summer event anything but charming.

At the Mackinac County Fair, Allie is focused on the fudge competition until she finds a body inside the haunted house. When a second suspicious death hits close to home, she realizes the fairground mystery is bigger than it first looked.

Carol Tunisian is busy with the senior center Christmas Ball when she finds a dead man inside the building. Breaking her promise to stay out of it, she teams up with her silver-haired friends and leans on Allie to solve the case.

This collection gathers the Mackinac Island holiday novellas, following Allie and her friends through snowy murders, Christmas parties, and seasonal trouble. It is a handy way to read the festive side of the series in one volume.

Jenn is overdue, the island's busy season is starting, and Allie's hands are full before a doula is found holding a gun over her fiance's body. With time running short before the baby arrives, Allie races to prove the woman innocent.

Two weeks before her wedding to Rex, Allie is already dealing with family chaos when she finds a woman dead and another woman weeping nearby. She wants a quiet June ceremony, but first she has to solve one more dangerous case.

Newly married Allie brings fudge to Rex's ex-wife as a peace offering and instead finds her dead in the studio mid-photo shoot. With gossip swirling and several people fleeing the scene, she has to sort out old grudges and hidden secrets.