Time's Lost Treasures Books in Order

Time's Lost Treasures is Michelle Griep in treasure-hunt mode. These books are set in late Victorian England and built around objects pulled from the past: relics, ruins, rumors of curses, and the scholars or opportunists who want to claim them. If you like archaeology in fiction but still want a strong romance at the center, this series lands in a sweet spot.

The first book, Of Gold and Shadows, introduces Ami Dalton, who is trying to be taken seriously as an Egyptologist in a world that would rather listen to a man. By day she works in the scholarly sphere. By necessity, she also slips into a riskier role, trying to keep stolen antiquities out of the wrong hands. Edmund Price enters expecting to consult an expert and instead finds Ami, her father's capable daughter, and a gold griffin linked to talk of a curse. The story plays with black-market dealing, academic bias, and the thrill of not knowing whether the danger is ancient, modern, or both.

The second book, Of Silver and Secrets, turns from Egyptian artifacts to Roman ones. Eva Inman is trying to keep her family's estate afloat while caring for her blind sister, and the discovery of a silver ring suggests that the land itself may hold more than anyone guessed. To investigate, she has to work with Bram Webb, a professor of Roman antiquities tied to old hurts and unfinished feelings. Their dig is more than a research project. It is a last-chance gamble, a second-chance romance, and a race against time all at once.

These books love a buried object and a whispered warning.

What links the series is not just treasure, but the collision between scholarship and greed. Griep is interested in who gets to study the past, who gets shut out, and what people will risk for money, status, or family. She also keeps the books grounded in personal stakes. Ami isn't chasing relics for sport. Eva isn't digging because it sounds exciting. Each heroine is working under pressure, and that urgency keeps the history from feeling dusty.

The tone is adventurous, but not frantic. There are clues, villains, false leads, and a satisfying amount of atmosphere, yet the books still leave room for banter, wounded pride, and the small emotional shifts that make a romance believable. The settings, from Oxford circles to threatened country land, give the stories a lived-in Victorian feel without bogging them down.

Start with Of Gold and Shadows and then move to Of Silver and Secrets. The books can stand alone, but reading in order lets you enjoy the shared world and the way Griep builds this little corner of Victorian intrigue, one artifact at a time.