Tea Cooper Books in Order

Christopher Matcham returns home to shoulder family duties and hires Matilda Sweet as companion to his sisters. Matilda's convict heritage and plainspoken ways set her against colonial society, even as she and Christopher are pulled toward each other.

Widowed young and back under her father's control, Lilibeth Dungarven is determined to save the family horse stud and breed a champion. A bushranger kidnapping turns her plans upside down and throws her into a dangerous, thrilling bargain.

Georgie Martin heads back to her parents' flower farm, bruised by city life and determined to stand on her own. Her bright idea for a crew of hired hands solves one problem, but not the sparks flying with Tom Morgan.

Artist Cassia leaves her beach life with Jake for Sydney and success, but neither distance nor work can settle what happened between them. When she goes back for closure, she finds secrets around Jake that make trusting him even harder.

Trying to outrun her convict past, Charlotte Oliver boards a ship to Sydney with a man she does not love. A mutiny at sea ties her fate to Captain Christian Charity and to keepsakes that could restore his name.

India Kilhampton dreams of breeding a Melbourne Cup winner and healing her fractured family. The horse breeder she hires, Jim Mawgan, arrives with secrets of his own, and old grudges soon threaten to brand him a thief.

Also published as The House on Boundary Street, this 1920s Sydney story follows country girl Dolly Bowman into a house built on lies. As Dolly and Cynthia Burton chase survival and a future, the city's glamour and criminal underworld close in.

Roisin Ogilvie hides in Wollombi with her young son, pretending to be a widow to escape a dangerous past. Irish cedar cutter Carrick O'Connor brings protection, trouble, and old grudges that refuse to stay buried.

When Catherine Cottingham learns marriage will hand her inheritance to a hateful suitor, she runs. A travelling circus carries her toward the goldfields and into a knot of fraud, greed, and unexpected loyalty.

In 1808, Rose Winton carries her father's platypus research toward the scientific world of England. A century later, Tamsin Alleyn follows an old sketchbook into the Hunter Valley and uncovers family secrets with surprisingly deep roots.

After learning her husband died in the Great War and left her an Australian fortune, Fleur Richards travels across the world to give it back. Instead she finds a remote property, a returned soldier, and a mystery wrapped around a cursed opal.

Orphan Jane Piper grows from gifted schoolgirl to sharp young woman in the Quinn household, until a gallery visit shatters Elizabeth Quinn's composure. Jane's search for the truth leads into old grief, hidden identity, and a long-buried mystery.

Evie Ludgrove is determined to solve the riddle of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, but her search leaves only a map and a disappearance. Decades later, Letitia Rawlings follows those clues into a family mystery with real danger at its center.

Theodora Breckenridge hopes a rare butterfly will make her name as a scientific illustrator, until a missing baby tears her world apart. Years later, Verity Binks follows a masquerade invitation into a decades-old scandal.

In 1847, young Mellie Vale falls in with fossil hunter Anthea Winstanley and the strange history of Bow Wow Gorge. In 1919, P.J. Martindale returns from war and finds bones, grief, and an old mystery waiting there.

Mary Greenway arrives in Sydney with three children, little money, and husband Francis Greenway in irons, but she means to build a life of her own. Friendship, ambition, and old secrets make that fresh start far harder than it looks.

After her brother's death, Viola Oswald suspects her celebrated surgeon stepfather has hidden something monstrous behind medical respectability. A coded letter sends her to Maitland, where a missing boy and a band of street children may hold the proof she needs.