Valerie Anand Books in Order

Before the Norman Conquest, Brand Woodcutter serves Earl Godwin and learns secrets surrounding a royal betrayal at Gildenford. As England's succession crisis deepens, Brand must choose between his lord, his conscience, and his king.

England moves toward 1066 as Harold Godwinson struggles to protect a fragile kingdom and Duke William presses his claim. Oaths, family conflict, and political ambition push the country toward the Battle of Hastings.

William the Conqueror holds England, but rebellion survives in the fens and north. Through divided families, strategic marriages, and bitter resistance, the novel follows those forced to choose between accommodation and defiance.

A contemporary novel about the lives shaped by British prejudice toward Sikh people. Anand explores family, belonging, and the difficult gap between the country someone calls home and the way others choose to see them.

Young Norman Ralph de Aix seeks a future in England and catches the attention of King William Rufus. Court favor, the New Forest, and dangerous secrets draw him into a conflict where ambition carries a brutal price.

In the final years of the Wars of the Roses, England's crown changes hands amid fear, ambition, and divided loyalties. The story follows the turbulent path toward Richard III's reign and the rise of the Tudors.

Captured Norman knight Ivon de Clairpont is sold into bondage in Northumbria after a disastrous crossing to England. His fierce memory of freedom becomes a legacy that shapes his descendants across the years after the Conquest.

In thirteenth-century Rushley, Isabel of Northfield dreams of escaping the bondage that governs her life. Later generations inherit the same hunger for freedom, risking everything to create a less restricted future for their family.

A historical drama set against a changing English world, where private loyalties and hopes are tested by forces beyond one family's control. Anand brings together personal relationships, social pressure, and the cost of difficult choices.

During the Wars of the Roses, Susannah Whitmead is married to a neighboring landowner and learns to love both husband and home. Her descendants face the Tudor years, when family security is never separate from politics.

On the eve of England's Civil War, Ninian Whitmead gives shelter to Parvati, the lone survivor of a shipwreck. Their growing love challenges a Puritan community unwilling to accept her customs or her place in his family.

From eighteenth-century England to British India, several women endure marriages shaped by control and unequal power. Lucy-Anne Whitmead and later generations search for affection, independence, and a way out of inherited harm.

In 1560, impoverished widow Ursula Blanchard is sent to attend Amy Robsart, Robert Dudley's fearful wife. When Amy dies under suspicious circumstances, Ursula uncovers murder, court scandal, and a plot that could endanger Queen Elizabeth.

Ursula goes undercover as a governess at Lockhill, where a murdered spy's message points to a Catholic conspiracy. Strange inventions, counterfeit coins, and her exiled husband's ties to the household make loyalty dangerously complicated.

Ursula is drawn into another dangerous mission for Elizabeth's government when political threats and personal loyalties collide. To protect the queen and those she loves, she must navigate a web of secrets, faith, and treason.

Living in France with her husband, Ursula is lured back to England when her daughter disappears. At Vetch Castle, she must investigate rumors of treason before a murder and a hidden conspiracy put her family in further danger.

Ursula is sent ahead of Queen Elizabeth's summer progress to Cambridge, responsible for the monarch's comfort and safety. Local rivalries and political ambition turn a ceremonial journey into a tense investigation.

At Queen Elizabeth's court, Ursula is caught between private hopes and a new political threat. As plots gather around the crown, she must decide whom she can trust before other people turn her into a pawn.

Ursula faces a case shaped by flight, divided loyalties, and the continuing danger around Elizabeth's throne. Her search for the truth leads through a Tudor world where a single secret can place an entire household at risk.

A new mystery pulls Ursula into perilous Elizabethan intrigue, where appearances can hide political schemes and murder. With threats closing in, she must use her court connections and hard-earned instincts to protect those in danger.

During the Wars of the Roses, the Lanyons are prosperous Exmoor tenants tied to the powerful Sweetwater family. As national conflict reaches their farms and homes, generations must choose between loyalty, love, land, and survival.

Jane Sweetwater faces the religious upheaval and court politics of sixteenth-century England. With family property and old alliances at stake, her life at Allerbrook becomes entangled with secrets, power, and the changing crown.

Ursula hopes to leave espionage behind after marrying Hugh Stannard. But a private job becomes cover for investigating rebel barons who want Mary, Queen of Scots on England's throne, placing home and country in danger.

Threatening messages from the exiled Countess of Northumberland are followed by strange events at Ursula's home. Accused of witchcraft, Ursula must expose the plot against her before fear and gossip send her to the gallows.

While escorting her foster daughter to the Netherlands, Ursula learns that a wealthy banker may be plotting to replace Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots. Old enemies and unexpected faces make the journey especially dangerous.

Recently widowed Ursula finds her neighbor stabbed to death, while her loyal servant Brockley is blamed. Clearing his name brings her into the orbit of Walsingham and a deadly web of espionage around Elizabeth's court.

Ursula is ordered to marry a French count to secure an alliance, despite having no wish for a fourth husband. When a servant dies, she follows a trail of conspiracy and murder that could lead to national disaster.

On Exmoor, Peggy Shawe falls for Ralph Duggan, the son of a prosperous shipbuilder and smuggler, despite her family's plans for her. A murder accusation and forced separation shape a love story that spans decades.

Ursula travels to a remote Yorkshire house to obtain an ancient book sought by John Dee. Two earlier emissaries vanished, and the women guarding the manuscript disagree over whether it is valuable, dangerous, or heretical.

A troubled family reunion leads Ursula to murder, just as Elizabeth's proposed marriage to the Duke of Alençon divides the country. When a nobleman is accused, Ursula must untangle domestic secrets from high political stakes.

The final Bridges Over Time novel follows women confronting the limits placed on them by money, marriage, and family duty. Across another changing period of English history, old hopes for freedom remain urgent and unfinished.

Ursula's young son is kidnapped during a tense debate over Elizabeth's French marriage plans. To save him, she is forced toward an unthinkable act of treason and must decide whether the queen can help.

Ordered to spy on a neighbor suspected of serving Spain, Ursula enters his household as an embroidery teacher. A corpse, a stolen dowry, and shattered glass suggest that her seemingly safe assignment is a lethal trap.

A visit to relatives in a Devon village becomes a mission for Walsingham when two agents die in suspicious accidents. Ursula must uncover what they learned about a possible invasion before the killer reaches her.

Reports of strange rites draw Ursula into an isolated New Forest village. With fears of a plot to replace Elizabeth with Mary Stuart, she must decide whether old customs conceal harmless belief or a real conspiracy.

Ursula attends a tenant's wedding, only to find the reluctant bride surrounded by a family with unexplained wealth. A murdered herbalist and stolen English cargoes point to dangerous secrets, and someone is ready to kill for them.

As Spain prepares its Armada, Ursula follows her runaway ward to Brussels. There she must rescue the girl, investigate a murdered courier, and judge whether an alliance with the Duke of Parma can save England.

After Walsingham's funeral, Ursula returns to her childhood home, where a relative's death is followed by violence. Old enemies, the Mercer brothers, close in on her family, forcing Ursula to fight for their survival.

In 1594, Ursula investigates disappearances along the Cornish coast after a survivor tells of pirates and a slave ship. Murders and an audacious kidnapping scheme reveal a threat that could make Elizabeth herself the ultimate prize.