Victoria Holt Books in Order

After Edwin Bartlett dies with chloroform in his stomach, his wife Adelaide faces trial for poisoning him. This novel draws on the real case, exploring a baffling death and the questions surrounding how the poison was administered.

Jane Shore's beauty leads her from marriage to a London goldsmith into the court of Edward IV. Becoming the king's mistress gives her influence, but royal favor leaves her vulnerable to changes in power.

Housemaid Euphrasie Mercier wants to protect her vulnerable half-sisters from institutional care. When her employer demands that they leave, the conflict leads to murder and a precarious effort to keep their household's secret concealed.

Raised at the French court, Mary Stuart returns to Scotland after the death of her royal husband. A Catholic queen in a Protestant country, she faces hostile nobles, religious conflict and difficult choices about marriage.

Martha Leigh becomes governess to a difficult child at Mount Mellyn in Cornwall. Her attraction to the girl's father, Connan TreMellyn, grows amid rumors of an earlier tragedy and secrets that threaten her new life.

This historical novel follows adventurer John Smith's journeys and his involvement in the Virginia colony. His encounters with Pocahontas and the people around the settlement place him between unfamiliar communities and competing expectations of his role.

Catherine accepts Gabriel Rockwell's proposal and moves to his isolated family estate in Yorkshire. After his mysterious death, she is left pregnant and increasingly frightened by disturbing events that make her question whom she can trust.

Favel Farrington marries Roc Pendorric and leaves Capri for his family's Cornish home. Stories of earlier brides who died young become frighteningly personal when unexplained incidents suggest that someone intends her to share their fate.

Ambitious cottage girl Kerensa Carlee becomes a lady's maid in a Cornish mansion built from an old convent. A legend of seven wayward novices shadows her efforts to rise above her origins and shape her future.

Harriet Delvaney marries Bevil Menfrey, the heir to a Cornish estate she has loved since childhood. Rumors about his past and doubts about his motives turn her hoped-for refuge into a source of jealousy and fear.

Dallas Lawson travels alone to a French chateau belonging to the notorious Comte de la Talle. Drawn to its handsome owner, she encounters an atmosphere of danger that threatens her chances of leaving the castle safely.

This historical novel follows Marie Antoinette from childhood in Vienna to life as Queen of France. Court luxury, public hostility and the gathering Revolution place her personal relationships and royal position under increasing strain.

Caroline Verlaine travels to a coastal estate to investigate her sister Roma's disappearance. The Stacy family's secrets and the nearby quicksands make her search dangerous, especially as she tries to understand the enigmatic heir Napier.

Governess Anna Brett sails toward the South Seas with Captain Redvers Stretton, hoping to escape her troubled English life. A murder, missing treasure and the captain's hidden past complicate both the voyage and her growing attachment.

In Australia, Nora Tamasin comes under the guardianship of Charles Herrick, known as the Lynx. Her love for his son Stirling becomes entangled with gold hunting and a revenge scheme that reaches an English estate.

Helena Trant is fascinated by the legends of Germany's Black Forest, including a moonlit festival associated with mischief and love. During its celebrations, an experience that seems enchanted begins to turn into a frightening mystery.

Judith Osmond marries archaeologist Tybalt after an unexpected inheritance changes her prospects. Their honeymoon takes them to Egyptian tombs, where earlier mysterious deaths make an ancient curse seem increasingly connected to her own future.

In Elizabethan England, Catherine Farland is pressured into marriage with sea captain Jake Pennlyon. Her determination to escape collides with Anglo-Spanish rivalry when captivity aboard a Spanish ship draws her into a scheme of revenge.

Jane Lindsay unexpectedly gains wealth and falls in love with a man she cannot trust. Moving between nineteenth-century England and Hong Kong, she encounters a house whose long-held promise becomes tangled with fear and uncertainty.

Damask Farland grows up during Henry VIII's reign, fascinated by Bruno, an orphan found on an abbey altar. As religious upheaval changes England, her attachment to the mysterious young man encounters troubling questions about his origins.

An advantageous marriage proposal offers orphan Ellen Kellaway escape from dependence on her wealthy relatives. Yet a recurring nightmare draws her toward her family's island home off Cornwall, where she hopes to understand her forgotten past.

Pregnancy forces Linnet Pennlyon to marry Colum Casvellyn, whose first wife's death remains suspicious. When a beautiful stranger arrives from the sea, the secrets of their castle threaten Linnet's place in her own family.

Identical twins Angelet and Bersaba Landor have sharply different temperaments. Separated and later reunited at Far Flamstead, they encounter family secrets and forbidden attachments that strain their bond amid the turmoil of seventeenth-century England.

Jessica Clavering accepts a marriage of convenience that brings her an inheritance and an Australian opal mine. Once there, she discovers family secrets and a connection to a coveted gemstone whose attraction threatens her marriage.

Exiled to France during England's political upheaval, Arabella Tolworthy becomes separated from her parents. Her encounters with an actress and a nobleman shape her search for belonging as the Restoration brings new possibilities and unexpected threats.

Eighteen-year-old Minella is drawn to French aristocrat Charles-Auguste despite suspicions that he murdered his wife. As the French Revolution approaches, her attachment entangles her in a world of betrayal, danger and unanswered questions.

Lettice Knollys becomes the rival of Elizabeth I when she marries the Earl of Leicester, the man the queen loves. Their competing attachments draw Lettice and her family into the dangerous politics of royal favor.

In Restoration England, Priscilla Eversleigh conceals a pregnancy by traveling to Venice and placing her daughter with another woman. The arrangement creates secrets that later expose both mother and child to fortune hunters and revenge.

The valuable Ashington Pearls draw Sarah Ashington into danger and intrigue. Her journey moves from London society to the jungles of Ceylon, where the family's extraordinary jewels become the focus of an increasingly threatening struggle.

Suewellyn longs to claim the Mateland family castle despite her concealed, illegitimate origins. A deception offers a way in, but assuming another woman's identity brings her into a family history that threatens her love and future.

Half-sisters Carlotta and Damaris grow up amid conflict during Queen Anne's reign. Carlotta's reckless attachments disrupt their relationship, while her daughter Clarissa draws Damaris into a struggle that tests her loyalty and quiet determination.

Clarissa Field falls in love with Jacobite rebel Dickon Frenshaw during the unrest of 1715. His exile and her marriage to another man leave her navigating scandal, divided loyalties and accusations that she is a spy.

Pippa Ewell returns to investigate her sister's mysterious death after leaving Greystone Manor and memories of Conrad behind. The search takes her back into a seemingly romantic world where hidden danger undermines appearances and trust.

Married Zipporah Ransome visits her ancestral home and meets Gerard d'Aubigné, a Frenchman whose attraction unsettles her life. Their affair creates a secret that threatens her family and echoes the scandal surrounding her grandmother.

Kate Collison secretly completes her father's portrait commission as his sight fails. Recognition from Baron de Centeville opens Parisian society to her, but his plans threaten the independence she hopes to gain through her painting.

Teenage Lottie learns that the man who raised her is not her biological father. Traveling to France and Versailles, she discovers another family while political unrest and doubts about her childhood love complicate her future.

Cordelia Grant encounters a mysterious stranger during the hunter's moon and wonders whether he is her destined husband. Later, her attraction to Sir Jason Verringer forces her to weigh desire against rumors that he has murdered.

Caroline Tressidor's privileged life conceals a secret that could destroy her inheritance and position. Searching for answers takes her from London to Cornwall and toward Paul Landower, whose own past may be connected to murder.

Claudine de Tourville flees revolutionary France with her family and settles at Eversleigh Court in England. Torn between two very different stepbrothers, she makes choices that draw her into deception, divided loyalties and returning attachments.

Jessica Frenshaw falls for a stranger known as Romany Jake, whose murder trial drives him from England. When he returns, their forbidden attachment exposes her to scandal and danger against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.

Annalice Mallory discovers an ancestor's diary and a map to a distant island. When her brother follows its promise of riches and disappears, she sets out for the South Seas to find him and uncover the diary's secrets.

After witnessing a horrifying event, Annora Cadorson leaves Cornwall and the man she expected to marry. Scandal drives her onward from London to Australia, where a secret from her father's past complicates her search for a new life.

Susanna Pleydell's marriage exposes her husband's dependence on opium and his unsettling relationship with Dr. Damien Adair. After tragedy, she becomes a nurse in the Crimea, but her suspicion of Damien follows her into her new life.

Angelet's life in Cornwall changes after Ben, a visitor from Australia, intervenes during a violent attack at St. Branok's pool. The secret they share binds them together as their story moves between England and Australia.

Lenore Cleremont grows up at the Sallonger family's Silk House, neither servant nor family member. Her talent for dressmaking and the attention of two very different brothers promise a future, but tragedy threatens everything she values.

Shipwrecked off Africa, Rosetta is rescued by a man accused of murder, then captured by pirates and sold into a pasha's harem. She plans an escape while trying to uncover the truth behind her rescuer's accusation.

Drusilla Delaney, a parson's daughter, is drawn to the wealthy Framling family and their son Fabian. A peacock-feather fan with a deadly reputation deepens her involvement, leaving her uncertain whether Fabian offers protection or another threat.

Rebecca Mandeville arrives at her stepfather's estate amid rumors that he murdered his first wife. Homesick for Cornwall, she becomes bound to her half-sister and an orphan girl as family tragedy, scandal, and betrayal reshape their lives.

Davina Glentyre is suspected when her father dies of arsenic poisoning after opposing her marriage plans. She leaves Edinburgh for Africa, but the Boer War brings fresh danger while unresolved secrets continue to threaten her reputation and safety.

After witnessing her father's assassination and later losing her fiancé, Lucie Lansdon hopes marriage will offer security. Strange events in the home she shares with her husband and his sister make her fear that her own life is threatened.

Lucinda and Annabelinda's finishing-school years are disrupted by a secret pregnancy and the German invasion of Belgium. Escaping to England cannot protect them from the past, as their efforts to conceal it expose them to blackmail.

Noelle Tremaston's life as an actress's daughter falls apart after her mother takes in a struggling performer. A troubling revelation sends Noelle to Paris, where further secrets and approaching war force her to confront the mysteries she left behind.

Frederica Hammond moves to live with her aunt and forms friendships with Rachel and Tamarisk. Questions about her absent father and a former nursemaid's hidden knowledge surround the girls as romance and murder disrupt their adult lives.

Violetta refuses to accept that her twin sister drowned and travels to her sister's Cornish home. Discovering that an earlier wife also died suspiciously, she investigates a family history that may place her own life in danger.

Carmel March returns to England after a childhood tragedy sent her to Australia. Learning she was removed from a murder scene, she searches her memories and her former home for evidence that an innocent man was convicted.

During the Second World War, Violetta waits for her fiancé to return from the European front. Her twin sister Dorabella's relationship with a new man draws the family into treason, adding personal danger to the uncertainties of wartime.

Sarah Standish runs away to pursue a theatrical career in Restoration London and marries Lord Rosslyn. His deception leaves lasting consequences for their daughter Kate, who becomes entangled in his ambitions for property and must defend her future.