Susanna Kearsley Books in Order

In 1707 Edinburgh, former soldier Adam Williamson is asked to test the claim of young widow Lily Aitcheson, who insists she married a missing Jacobite sailor and is owed his wages. As Lily’s tangled past unfolds, Adam must decide whether she is liar, victim or something far more dangerous.

A cursed gold watch named La Sirène links four historical mysteries, beginning in 1730s Italy and surfacing again in Edinburgh, Victorian London and the twentieth century. As the watch brings misfortune to each new owner, a handful of determined sleuths fight to break its deadly hold.

In 1759, captured French Canadian lieutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran is billeted with the Long Island Wilde family, where forbidden feelings grow between him and Lydia Wilde. Centuries later, museum curator Charley Van Hoek uncovers the truth behind their haunted love story and the secrets of Wilde House.

Three centuries after Jacobite exile Mary Dundas kept her adventures in a coded journal, modern-day codebreaker Sara Thomas is hired to decipher it in France. As Sara painstakingly unlocks Mary’s story, both women face shifting loyalties, hidden dangers and the chance to remake their lives.

Art dealer’s assistant Nicola Marter hides her ability to see an object’s past—until she touches a small wooden firebird linked to Russia’s empress. With psychic ex-lover Rob as her guide, she follows a girl named Anna from Scotland to St Petersburg, uncovering love, sacrifice and hard-won redemption.

After her film-star sister dies, Eva Ward returns to the Cornish house where they spent childhood summers to scatter the ashes. There she slips between centuries, drawn into the dangerous world of smugglers and a man long dead, and forced to decide where she truly belongs.

Writer Carrie McClelland settles beside the ruins of Slains Castle to tell the forgotten Jacobite story of 1708, only to find her novel pouring out as if from memory. Through visions of her ancestor Sophia, past and present lives entwine in a love story shadowed by treachery.

After an elderly stranger speaks to journalist Kate Murray about a long-buried murder and her grandmother’s wartime past, he is killed moments later. Following his cryptic clues from London to Lisbon, Kate uncovers espionage secrets someone is still willing to kill for.

Struggling actress Celia Sands accepts a once-in-a-lifetime role in a legendary play at an Italian lakeside villa, even though her namesake vanished there decades earlier. As rehearsals begin at Il Piacere, missing servants, whispered ghosts and family secrets turn the production into a perilous mystery.

Still grieving the loss of her baby, literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw escapes to the Welsh coast for Christmas. There she meets a fragile young mother terrified for her infant son, and is drawn into eerie dreams, ancient legends and a dangerous struggle to keep the child safe.

Archaeologist Verity Grey joins an eccentric dig on Scotland’s windswept coast, where her boss is convinced he has found the lost Ninth Roman Legion. As ghostly hoofbeats thunder at night and a young boy sees a Roman sentinel, Verity uncovers both sabotage and unexpected love.

Emily Braden agrees to meet her unreliable cousin in the French town of Chinon, only to find he has vanished without a trace. Surrounded by strangers, legends of lost treasure and old tragedies, she must untangle past and present to learn what happened to him.

Years after fleeing her family’s prestigious racing stables, Karen Caldwell is summoned home by news of her twin brother’s death. No one admits to sending the message, and a string of “accidents” convinces her it was murder, forcing her to rely on the one man she isn’t sure she can trust.

When Julia Beckett finally buys the old house she has always felt was hers, she is swept back to seventeenth-century England in the life of Mariana. Each return makes the past more seductive, threatening her identity and her chance at love in the present.

Suffering writer’s block, mystery novelist Laura Callaghan retreats to her sister’s isolated beach house on the Nova Scotia coast. As she uncovers the inn’s smuggling past and grows closer to her enigmatic neighbour, a present-day crime pulls her into real danger.