Donna Ball

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1982
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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About the Author

Donna A. Ball born in 1951 in Georgia, USA. Her ancestors were one of the first pioneer families of North Georgia, and her family still lives on the land they purchased from the Cherokee in 1782. She lives in a restored turn-of-the-century barn in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northeast Georgia with her dogs, they have won numerous awards for agility, obedience, and canine musical freestyle. Her hobbies include oil painting, hiking and dog obedience training.

Her first book was published in 1982 as Donna Ball, since them she has written over a dozen works of commercial fiction under her name and under diferent pseudonyms: Rebecca Flanders, Donna Carlisle and Donna Boyd. She also signed novels with Shannon Harper as Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady. And a novel with Linda Dano as Felicia Gallant. She is known for her work in women’s fiction and suspense, as well as supernatural fantasy and adventure. Her novels have been translated into well over a dozen languages and have been published in virtually every country in the world. She has appeared on Entertainment Tonight and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and has been featured in such publications as the Detroit Free Press, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and even T.V. Guide. She is the holder of the Storytelling World award, 2001, the Georgia Author of the Year Award, 2000, Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards for consecutive years 1991-1996, the Georgia Romance Writer’s Maggie Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times, among others.

Full Series List in Order

A Buck Lawson Mystery

1 - Unfixable (Sep-2021)
2 - Unstoppable (Jun-2023)

Dogleg Island Mystery

1 - Flash (May-2015)
2 - The Sound of Running Horses (Jul-2016)
3 - Flash of Brilliance (Jun-2017)
4 - Pieces of Eight (Sep-2019)
5 - Flash in the Dark (Jan-2021)
6 - Flash of Fire (Nov-2023)

The Hummingbird House

1 - The Hummingbird House (Oct-2013)
2 - Christmas at the Hummingbird House (Dec-2015)

Ladybug Farm

1 - A Year on Ladybug Farm (Mar-2009)
2 - At Home on Ladybug Farm (Oct-2009)
3 - Love Letters from Ladybug Farm (Oct-2010)
4 - Christmas on Ladybug Farm (Dec-2011)
5 - Vintage Ladybug Farm (Sep-2012)
6 - A Wedding on Ladybug Farm (May-2014)

Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries

1 - Smoky Mountain Tracks (Mar-2006)
2 - Rapid Fire (Dec-2006)
3 - Gun Shy (Aug-2007)
4 - Bone Yard (May-2011)
5 - Silent Night (Nov-2011)
6 - The Dead Season (Jun-2012)
6.1 - All That Glitters (Dec-2012)
7 - High in Trial (Mar-2013)
8 - Double Dog Dare (Dec-2013)
9 - Home of the Brave (Sep-2014)
10 - Dog Days (Jul-2015)
11 - Land of the Free (Nov-2016)
12 - Deadfall (Dec-2017)
13 - The Devil's Deal (Nov-2018)
14 - Murder Creek (Mar-2020)
15 - The Judge's Daughter (Sep-2022)

Multi-Author Series List

Mossy Creek

Fingerprints (May-2000)
Grandma Tells A Tale (May-2000)
Up Jumps the Devil (May-2000)
A Day in the Life (Jun-2001)
Reunion at Mossy Creek (Oct-2002)

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • Winners

    This is a spellbinding love story in which two young skaters learn that victory in competition is not enough. Neither Lee nor Tammy wish to abandon individual figure skating pairs competition but their coach insists that they skate together just once...

  • Summer Masquerade

    Psing as her young cousin, Annabelle goes to Brighton where matchmaking relatives introduce her to Devon Lanson. Though the young people detest the meddling of their elders, they are attracted to each other....

  • A Cry in the Woods

    Architect Laura Kane and her small daughter Christy moved to a new house that Laura designed in the tranquil Smoky Mountains. Then Christy's nightmares began. "Something bad" was lurking in the woods, Christy insisted.......

  • The Darkest Hour

    Mistaken for someone else, Cathy Hamilton is set upon by a group of men intent on carrying out a terrible act, and she must soon rely on the assistance of police officer Dave Jenks....

  • Exposure

    Jessamine Cray, the charming co-host of a popular Philadelphia talk show, is used to getting strange fan mail. But when her mail begins to include frightening threats, followed by items from her past, Jessamine realizes that someone knows way too muc...

  • Just Before Dawn

    In a quiet, resort community in Florida, a chilling scenario emerges--the parents of a missing teenage girl are receiving cryptic midnight phone calls from a young woman who sounds unmistakably like their daughter. Worse yet, they're finding they're ...

  • Dark Angel

    WHAT SHE REMEMBERS IS TERRIFYING. WHAT SHE CAN'T REMEMBER COULD KILL HER The lucky survivor of a freak accident, Virginia Beach teacher Ellen Cox is pulled from the wreckage of her car shaken...and deathly afraid. Her name belongs to a stranger. T...

  • Fingerprints

    in Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
    Mossy Creek

    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Grandma Tells A Tale

    in Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
    Mossy Creek

    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...



  • Up Jumps the Devil

    in Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
    Mossy Creek

    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • A Day in the Life

    in Mossy Creek
    Mossy Creek

    Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...

  • Reunion at Mossy Creek

    in Reunion at Mossy Creek
    Mossy Creek

    Welcome back to Mossy Creek! The warm-hearted but stub-born residents of the small town whose motto is "Ain't Going No Where--And Don't Want To" are once again sorting out the joys, sorrows, and everyday mysteries of life. This time around they'v...

  • Smoky Mountain Tracks

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 1

    Mountain Secrets Folks native to the Smoky Mountain community of Hanover County, North Carolina, are as much a part of the rugged landscape as timber rattlers and mountain laurel. That includes local Raine Stockton, dog trainer, ex-wife of a deput...

  • Rapid Fire

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 2

    Mountain Shadows With her kennel business booming and her part-time job with the Forest Service taking up all her free time, Raine Stockton is having a hectic summer when the FBI drops in to see her. It seems her old flame Andy Fontana may be back...

  • Gun Shy

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 3

    Warm Heart, Cold Nose Nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Hanover County draws tourists every fall to hike and to look at leaves. But, unlike them, Michelle White came to die. The cops don't know if it was suicide, but for days, her b...

  • A Year on Ladybug Farm

    Ladybug Farm - 1

    Their husbands were gone, their families were grown, and the future stretched out before them like an unfulfilled promise? Tired of always dreaming and never doing, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget make a life-altering decision. Uprooting themselves fro...

  • At Home on Ladybug Farm

    Ladybug Farm - 2

    From the award-winning author of A Year on Ladybug Farm comes the continuing story of three women who learn what it takes to turn a house into a home. A year after taking the chance of a lifetime, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget are still trying to mak...

  • Love Letters from Ladybug Farm

    Ladybug Farm - 3

    Renovating a broken-down mansion in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley gave three lifelong friends a welcome second chance. But after taking the biggest risk of their lives, are these women also willing to risk their hearts? All the effort Cici, Lindsay, ...

  • Keys to the Castle

    When a dashing French poet swept forty-something workaholic Sara Graves off her feet, she did something completely unexpected: She married him. Then three weeks later he died, leaving her a house she can't afford to keep in a country she's never been...



  • Night Flight

    In the rivetting tradition of Mary Higgins Clark...Cathy Hamilton was just a small town schoolteacher who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now her head is full of information that could get her killed, and she is forced to flee through the n...

  • Sanctuary

    In the terrifying tradition of Dean Koontz...Fleeing the violence and crime of life in the city, architect Laura Kane and her five year old daughter Christy move to an exclusive planned community deep in the untouched mountain wilderness of the Smoky...

  • Bone Yard

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 4

    Fourth Installment in the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Series: a short novella.

    Dog trainer Raine Stockton has lived all her life in the quiet community of Hansonville North Carolina. She is the daughter of a judge, the niece of a sheriff, and the...

  • Silent Night

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 5

    A Christmas Raine Stockton Dog Mystery

    "An exciting, original and suspense-laden whodunit...A simply fabulous mystery starring a likeable, dedicated heroine..."

    --Midwest Book Review on the Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries

    It's Christmas tim...

  • Christmas on Ladybug Farm

    Ladybug Farm - 4

    "A must read." --Examiner.com

    Christmas on Ladybug Farm is a short novel with a bonus holiday recipe section!

    'Twas the Night Before Christmas...

    It’s Christmas Eve, and Cici, Bridget and Lindsay are busy preparing for their annual holi...

  • Shattered

    A missing teenage girl... a desperate mother... a frantic call in the night... is this a cruel hoax, or the work of a maniacal serial killer? The peaceful resort town of St. Teresa-by-the-Sea on Florida's Forgotten Coast is known for its low crime ra...

  • The Dead Season

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 6

    Praise for the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Series

    "An exciting, original and suspense-laden whodunit... A simply fabulous mystery starring a likeable, dedicated heroine..." --Midwest Book Review "A delightful protagonist...a well-crafted mystery."...

  • Vintage Ladybug Farm

    Ladybug Farm - 5

    Come home to Ladybug Farm, the place for everyone who has ever had a friend... or a dream.

    Four years have passed since best friends Cici, Bridget and Lindsay left the suburbs for an old mansion in the Shenandoah Valley. They’ve survived broken...

  • All That Glitters

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 6.1

    Raine Stockton looks back on how she first met Cisco, her incorrigible golden retriever pup, in this Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Christmas short story (approximately 50 print pages). Times are hard in the small Smoky Mountain town of Hansonville, No...

  • High in Trial

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 7

    A weekend competition turns deadly in this seventh Raine Stockton Dog Mystery.

    Dog trainer Raine Stockton and her happy-go-lucky golden retriever Cisco have been looking forward to the opening weekend of AKC competitive agility all winter. They ...



  • The Hummingbird House

    The Hummingbird House - 1

    In this eagerly anticipated spin off from Donna Ball’s beloved Ladybug Farm series, Paul Slater and Derrick Anderson set about opening the Hummingbird House B&B with their usual style and flair, only to find that they may have taken on more than th...

  • Double Dog Dare

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 8

    For dog trainer and search-and-rescue volunteer Raine Stockton the last few months have been marked by murder, danger, and betrayal. A luxury vacation to the Caribbean resort island of St. Bart’s sounds like the perfect antidote for stress, particu...

  • A Wedding on Ladybug Farm

    Ladybug Farm - 6

    When Bridget, Cici and Lindsay left behind their safe suburban lives for a stately old mansion in the Shenandoah Valley, they redefined the concept of family. The friends, like the house, have faced many challenges and undergone major changes over th...

  • Home of the Brave

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 9

    Raine Stockton and her high-spirited, big-hearted golden retriever Cisco are accustomed to being heroes wherever they go. But there’s a new dog in town, and Raine and Cisco find themselves unexpectedly upstaged by a flashy K-9 addition to the sheri...

  • Flash

    Dogleg Island Mystery - 1

    The first in a powerful new series from the author of THE RAINE STOCKTON DOG MYSTERIES...

    Aggie Malone is a dedicated young cop who has spent her entire life just looking for a place to call home. She never thought she'd find it in a quaint ...

  • Dog Days

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 10

    "A simply fabulous mystery starring a likable, dedicated heroine..." --- Midwest Book Review The dog days of summer bring murder to the Smoky Mountains in this tenth installment of the best-selling Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Series. For Raine Stockto...

  • Christmas at the Hummingbird House

    The Hummingbird House - 2

    A heartwarming holiday tale from the author of A YEAR ON LADYBUG FARM

    Paul and Derrick have hit their stride with the Hummingbird House Bed and Breakfast, a destination of distinction in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. Guests are coming ...

  • The Sound of Running Horses

    Dogleg Island Mystery - 2

    Enthralling
    --Kirkus Reviews

    The second book in the riveting new Dogleg Island mystery series from the author of FLASH.

    Still recovering from the traumatic events of the past year, newlyweds Aggie Malone, police chief of Dogleg Is...

  • Land of the Free

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 11

    Winner of the "Best Fiction Book of the Year" Award by the Dog Writers Association of America *****No one knows the mountains of North Carolina like Raine Stockton and her search and ...

  • Flash of Brilliance

    Dogleg Island Mystery - 3

    There’s nothing like family during the holidays... unless one of those family members is in jail, and you’re the cop who was responsible for putting him there.

    Police Chief Aggie Malone is facing her first Christmas as a married woman, and...



  • Deadfall

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 12

    Book #12 in the Best-Selling Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Series Hollywood has come to the scenic Smoky Mountain community of Hanover County, and dog trainer Raine Stockton can’t resist the opportunity when her dogs are offered a chance at a role in ...

  • The Devil's Deal

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 13

    From the winner of the Dog Writer’s Association of America “Best Fiction Book of the Year 2017”award comes this thrilling new installment in the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery series.The annual Hansonville, North Carolina Founder’s Day Festival a...

  • Pieces of Eight

    Dogleg Island Mystery - 4

    From the award- winning author of FLASH… A deadly explosion at an archaeological dig on Dogleg Island plunges police chief Aggie Malone and her canine partner Flash into a dark mystery from the past. On the other side of the bridge, Deputy Sheriff ...

  • Murder Creek

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 14

    Book #14 in the Award-Winning Raine Stockton Dog Mystery SeriesRaine Stockton knows dogs, not kids. Nonetheless, she is supremely confident in her ability to take care her fiancé's ten year old daughter, Melanie, for a week while he is out of to...

  • Flash in the Dark

    Dogleg Island Mystery - 5

    This is the book readers have been waiting for...Dogleg Island Police Chief Aggie Malone has spent years searching for the identity of her birth father. Now, thanks to a home DNA test, she has a lead... but it's taking her in a direction she never co...

  • Unfixable

    A Buck Lawson Mystery - 1

    In the long-waited spin-off to the award-winning Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Series:Former Hanover County Sheriff Buck Lawson leaves the mountains of North Carolina to take a job as the police chief of the small south Georgia town of Mercy, and soon f...

  • Deck the Halls

    Three holiday parties, three holiday mysteries featuring your favorite sleuths:Raine Stockton and Cisco in Angels in the SnowWhile preparing for the annual Dog Daze Christmas party, Raine leaves on a secret Christmas errand and becomes trapped in a b...

  • The Judge's Daughter

    Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries - 15

    An Epic Installment in the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Series From the Winner of the 2017 Dog Writers of America Best Fiction Book of the Year awardIn this pivotal fifteenth book in the ground-breaking Raine Stockton Dog Mystery Series, the death of ...

  • Unstoppable

    A Buck Lawson Mystery - 2

    Buck Lawson faces his most difficult challenge yet this thrilling second installment of The Blood River seriesWith the Fourth of July coming up and the Mercy police force already stretched to its limit, police chief Buck Lawson investigates a fraud c...

  • Flash of Fire

    Dogleg Island Mystery - 6

    Eco-terrorists threaten Dogleg Island in this thrilling new installment from the award-winning author of Flash in the Dark. The peaceful Gulf Coast community of Dogleg Island has almost returned to normal after the terrifying battle with a drug carte...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donna Ball has published 49 books.

Donna Ball does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Flash of Fire, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Donna Ball, Winners, was published in February 1982.

Yes. Donna Ball has 5 series.
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