Sheila Simonson Books in Order

Jane Ash helps her aunt manage a household of bewildered children after two family deaths. When the absent heir Julian finally arrives, their shared responsibilities create an unexpected alliance that may develop into something more.

Lady Elizabeth Conway prefers searching for comets to fulfilling society's expectations of marriage. The new Earl of Clanross initially disappoints her, but his respect for her astronomy complicates her attachment to a more glamorous suitor.

Widow Emily Foster takes in Captain Richard Falk's motherless children while he fights Napoleon. Their correspondence nurtures unexpected affection, but his disputed aristocratic inheritance places the children's safety and their growing connection in jeopardy.

Lady Elizabeth and Lord Clanross reunite with Emily and Richard Falk when four young romantics disturb the peace of the English countryside. Their efforts to prevent disaster become entangled with the younger generation's unruly affairs.

Bookstore owner Lark Dailey and her police officer lover Jay Dodge attend a literary weekend at a poet's mountain lodge. When their host dies, the gathering becomes a murder investigation involving guests with secrets to protect.

At a London booksellers' conference, Lark befriends a Czech waiter who is stabbed after entrusting a manuscript to her companion. Another death intensifies police suspicion, forcing Lark to investigate the document and its dangerous connections.

Lark and Jay Dodge's move to Washington's Shoalwater Peninsula is disrupted by a corpse found on the beach. Suspicions center on a neighboring novelist, but Lark's doubts draw her into a dangerous dispute over development.

Lark Dodge agrees to help run a science writers' workshop on an organic farm. When a manager is found dead in a produce bin, the event proceeds anyway, leaving Lark and Jay to investigate its inhabitants.

Lark Dodge travels to Ireland to visit her recovering father and reconsider her troubled marriage. A corpse on their host's estate interrupts the respite, and further violence draws her into an increasingly personal murder investigation.

A stolen tribal petroglyph resurfaces alongside a buried corpse, reviving investigator Rob Neill's failed case from a decade earlier. Librarian Meg McLean helps untangle the theft and murders as tribal interests complicate their developing partnership.

A fatal landslide exposes suppressed warnings and possible corruption in Latouche County. With librarian Meg McLean's help, investigator Rob Neill follows evidence toward developers and public officials while someone uses murder to preserve the cover-up.

Mourning her sister, Lady Jean Conway returns to the family dower house and is rescued from a flood by steward James Sholto. A handsome neighbor's courtship then forces her to decide what her heart truly wants.

Librarian Meg McLean welcomes plans for a new branch until a hostile colleague contests the donated property's inheritance. Vandalism, arson, and her rival's fatal fall turn the dispute into a murder investigation that implicates Meg herself.

Artist Jane August visits her estranged father in the Columbia River Gorge and becomes caught in neighboring families' secrets. When his corpse is uncovered in an orchard, investigator Rob Neill confronts tangled loyalties and violence.