Victoria Thompson Books in Order

Schoolteacher Priscilla Bedford comes to Rainbow, Texas and collides with ranch foreman Dusty Rhoades. Buried gold, local grudges, and growing attraction turn a frontier fresh start into real trouble.

Maggi Colson is cornered, sell her ranch or marry Jack Sinclair, the scoundrel she cannot stand. Their fight over land and power soon becomes a battle neither of them can keep purely practical.

Felicity Morrow is rescued into frontier life by rancher Josh Logan, who swears he wants a quiet, obedient wife. Felicity is anything but, and their clash of wills quickly turns personal.

After her father's murder, Rachel McKinsey proposes a marriage of convenience to ranch foreman Cole Elliott to protect the Circle M. The arrangement works on paper, but love and old enemies refuse to stay tidy.

Prim Elizabeth Livingston expects a respectable guardian and finds Chance Fitzwilliam, a saloon owner and gambler in Dodge City. As she tries to reform the town, she discovers the rogue at its center may be her best ally.

Originally published as Angel Heart, this western romance throws Angelica into danger on the Texas frontier and into the path of a hired gunslinger. Trust comes hard when protection and desire arrive together.

Molly Wade has loved Ben Cantrell for years, even while his heritage keeps him on the edge of Texas society. When the past turns him into a wanted man, proving his innocence may cost them both.

Art teacher Catherine Eaton wants to help a gifted young painter on Sam Conners's ranch, but the stubborn ranch owner wants her gone. A range war and a battle of tempers make their attraction impossible to ignore.

In this frontier romance, a spirited heroine and a charming scoundrel circle each other through danger, temptation, and questions of trust. Love may be the riskiest wager either of them makes.

Set in Texas, this standalone historical romance follows a determined heroine whose bid for an independent life brings danger with it. On the frontier, desire and survival can be equally hard to control.

Eden Campbell hires gunslinger Linc Scott to protect her ranch from cattle thieves, then resents every order he gives. The more danger closes in, the harder it is to deny how much she needs him.

Widow Sarah Hadley hires notorious gunslinger Travis 'Colt' Taylor to protect her sheep from rustlers. She wants safety, not surrender, but the man she hired has other ideas about what they might become.

Leah Harding is already battling landgrabbers when rugged Calhoun Stevens arrives with a claim of his own. Their standoff grows hotter as outside danger makes choosing sides, and each other, unavoidable.

After seven years as a Comanche captive, Rebekah Tate is finally given a chance to go home. Trader Sean MacDougal risks everything to bring her back, and together they must build something new from a harsh land.

After the loss of her husband and child, a Tate woman is forced to face the Texas frontier again. Grief, danger, and the possibility of love make this family saga both hard and hopeful.

This Tate family romance follows love under pressure in a changing Texas shaped by land, loyalty, and old wounds. Family ties matter here, but so do the private choices that decide a future.

This standalone follows a professional wolfer in the Old West, a hard and lonely trade even by frontier standards. Danger is constant, and so is the chance that one unexpected relationship could change everything.

Set against the upheaval of the Spanish-American War, this Tate family story mixes Texas ambition with public duty. Love has to survive distance, conflict, and the pull of history.

When her husband dies, former Philadelphia debutante Emma Winthrop is left penniless and dependent on her brooding brother-in-law, Grayson Sinclair. Rumors, pride, and uneasy attraction make refuge feel a lot like danger.

This standalone historical romance centers on love tested by duty, reputation, and the rules of its time. Building a future together proves far harder than making the first promise.

This memoir looks back on a childhood in Alexandria after World War II and the life that followed. It is a reflective story about memory, family, and what it means to lose a home.

Midwife Sarah Brandt finds a young girl murdered in a Manhattan rooming house and pushes reluctant detective Frank Malloy to pursue justice. Their first case opens a long, uneasy partnership across class lines.

Called to assist at a birth, Sarah instead finds a young German immigrant dead. She and Frank Malloy follow the trail from Coney Island to Fifth Avenue to find a killer few people care about.

Sarah arrives at a fashionable home to deliver a baby and finds a celebrated healer dead of an apparent suicide. A sick newborn and buried scandal soon convince her and Frank that it was murder.

When a neighbor's gentle son is blamed for the death of his pregnant mistress, Sarah refuses to believe it. She and Frank Malloy must fight gossip, scandal, and the press to uncover the truth.

Sarah volunteers at a mission for women trying to leave prostitution behind, then one of the girls is found dead. Her search for justice draws Frank into a case that turns unexpectedly dangerous.

After a wealthy industrialist dies in an explosion, Frank is told to hunt anarchists. Sarah is not convinced, and together they find a more personal motive hidden behind Fifth Avenue respectability.

A prominent family asks Sarah to examine their sheltered daughter, only for a shocking pregnancy and a poisoned minister to upend everything. Sarah and Frank must navigate scandal inside an upright congregation.

Sarah discovers a young mother has died under suspicious circumstances, and blame quickly flares between Irish and Italian relatives. As tensions rise toward violence, she and Frank race to stop a killer.

In Chinatown, Sarah helps search for a missing half-Irish, half-Chinese girl who later turns up dead. Prejudice on every side makes the case harder, and Sarah and Frank have suspects everywhere.

Frank reopens the unsolved murder of Sarah's husband, Dr. Tom Brandt. What he learns about old patients, shaky methods, and long memory could finally bring justice, and break Sarah's heart.

Sarah reluctantly attends a séance with her mother, and a woman is murdered in the dark. To spare the family scandal, she and Frank must expose trickery before fear and gossip take over.

A wealthy businessman is murdered, and Frank is pulled into a case tied to rival schools for deaf students. Sarah soon finds herself in a world full of family secrets and people who refuse to listen.

Summoned to a birth, Sarah discovers the mother is being held in a brothel against her will. After a rescue leads to murder, she and Frank uncover ugly truths about charity, vice, and power.

Sarah's father asks Frank to quietly investigate the murder of a deeply disliked clubman. The case probes old-money hypocrisy and puts Frank's future with Sarah under a very personal kind of scrutiny.

When a woman claims to know the truth about Catherine's birth mother, Sarah wants answers, not threats. Then the woman is murdered, sending Sarah and Frank into the darkest corners of the child's past.

Frank searches for a missing young woman who answered lonely-hearts ads and vanished. As he and Sarah uncover a cruel scam aimed at single women, their own future is put at risk.

During their wedding preparations, Sarah and Frank investigate the suspicious death of a young man from a prominent family. The trail leads to old secrets, quiet poison, and danger that feels uncomfortably close.

While Sarah and Frank are away, a new bride is found with her dead husband and no way to defend herself. Their household must untangle who Randolph Pollock really was, and why someone wanted him dead.

A bright young instructor at a women's college is murdered, and the police dismiss it as random violence. Frank and Sarah dig into academic politics, private lives, and the cost of being a New Woman.

On the run from a vicious mark, con woman Elizabeth Miles slips into New York high society and finds a chance at a new life. Keeping it means fooling dangerous men and an honest lawyer she might actually trust.

Frank locates a missing newsboy for a wealthy brother, only for the reunion to end in murder. A reckless society woman may hold the key, if Sarah and Frank can cut through the lies around her.

Elizabeth helps a young widow whose second husband is dead and whose fortune seems to have vanished with him. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that the marriage, and the death, were built on lies.

As Sarah and Frank try to adopt Catherine, a trip to settle matters with her legal father ends with Frank as the prime suspect in his murder. Clearing his name means entering a world of theater and deceit.

Gideon faces the draft as Elizabeth helps protect a secret bride and her unborn child after a soldier's will goes missing. To keep them safe, Elizabeth may have to break a few rules of her own.

At a crowded New Year's celebration, Frank notices a man behaving strangely. By morning the man is dead, and Sarah and Frank must quietly investigate a past the family would rather keep buried.

As Elizabeth plans her wedding, an old enemy resurfaces and a friend's plea from France may be a scam. Saving her future means spotting the con before the con destroys her.

When Gino Donatelli is framed for murdering a gangster, Sarah and Frank refuse to let him hang for it. Their search leads straight into Black Hand violence in Italian Harlem.

A grieving mother is being fleeced by a fashionable medium, and Elizabeth is the perfect woman to fight fraud with fraud. To win, she must pull together a con before the swindlers disappear with everyone's money.

A hated banker is shot, and reformed tough Jack Robinson looks like the obvious culprit. Sarah and Frank uncover a trail of greed, cruelty, and enemies stretching from society drawing rooms to the streets.

At the Belmont Stakes, sabotage hurts a promising jockey and a prized horse, drawing Elizabeth into the racing world. To help the couple at the heart of the scandal, she must build one more careful con.

A desperate woman asks Frank to help her divorce her husband, then that husband dies under his own motorcar. Sarah and Frank sift through money, lies, and early automobile glamour to find the truth.

Elizabeth takes her talents to Tennessee as suffragists fight for the final vote needed to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Dirty tricks, political pressure, and real danger make this her biggest gamble yet.

Frank and Sarah take on the case of a young wife committed to an asylum by her cruel husband. A suspicious maid's death and a threatened child suggest the family hides more than one monster.

When a young magazine writer investigating patent medicines is found strangled, Sarah wants justice. She and Frank soon learn the victim had secrets of her own, and that nothing about her life was simple.

When Sarah and Frank Malloy fear their adopted daughter is about to marry a fraud, Gideon and Elizabeth step in. Elizabeth's old instincts tell her a con is underway, and she may be the only one who can stop it.