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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2012
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Corral Nocturne (Nov-2014)

Book List in Order: 21 titles



  • A collection of Western short stories that go beyond the standard action and adventure of the genre to focus on character and conflict. In the award-winning "Disturbing the Peace," honorable mention in the 2010 Rope and Wire short story competition, ...



  • At the bottom of an old trinket-box lies a misshapen bit of lead -- a bullet from the Civil War, an old family keepsake preserved, but mostly forgotten, by later generations. And behind it lies a story -- the story of a young girl’s experiences in ...



  • In a small town in turn-of-the-century Colorado, a young woman has disappeared from the boarding-house where she lives. Her distraught fiancé is certain that she must have been kidnapped. But the case takes a new turn when a city detective appears o...



  • Mrs. Meade is not the only one in Sour Springs who is shocked at the news when Clyde Renfrew is accused of a drunken assault on a woman. Clyde, a sober, steady young rancher, seemed the last person likely to do such a thing. Between an emphatic witne...



  • On a snowy December evening during the Great Depression, a high-spirited college student impulsively decides to do some spying on a quiet classmate -- with unexpected results. A short story both funny and touching, in which mischief brings about a sm...



  • Mrs. Meade had been looking forward to a pleasant visit with old friends -- but their house party turns to disaster when a fire destroys the house during the night. Even worse, the fire appears to have been deliberately set. Which of the people who w...



  • Meet Mrs. Meade, a gentle but shrewd widow lady with keen insight into human nature and a knack for solving mysteries. Problems both quaint and dramatic find her in Sour Springs, a small town in Colorado at the turn of the twentieth century. Here in ...



  • Sixteen-year-old Lew Kelly grew up idolizing his enigmatic ex-gunfighter father. Everyone thought Lew's habit of practicing his quick draw was a harmless amusement-until the day when a boys' hot-headed quarrel exploded into gunplay, with disastrous r...



  • There's no fairy godmothers on the prairie.
    But there just might be a prince.
    Life on her brother’s ranch is lonely for Ellie Strickland. Ed’s ungracious manners and tight-fisted habits keep visitors away and his mother and sister close...






  • A gunfighter refuses to explain to his friends why he backed down from a fight.The proprietress of the busiest eating-house in town deals with a stagecoach-load of troubles at the height of the noonday rush.A hotel night clerk finds himself in on odd...



  • Major Cambert and his grandson Jim were known to have quarreled bitterly over Jim’s choice of a wife, so when the Major is found shot dead by his own fireside a few nights later, Jim is the prime suspect -- and a suspect without an alibi. But there...



  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses meets the heady glamor and danger of the Jazz AgeAll Dorothy Perkins wants is to have a good time. She’s wild about dancing, and can’t understand or accept her father’s strictness in forbidding it. Night after nigh...



  • A Western re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood in which a girl is willing to walk into the wolf's den--but will she really find what she is seeking?In the shadow of the mountain, Rosa Jean Kennedy lives alone, waiting. Vengeance for her brother's d...



  • Meredith Fayett needed to marry someone before the week was out or she would lose her ranch. It sounded simple, so ranch hand Chance Stevens agreed to take on the job, in spite of his friend Marty's warnings that it could only lead to trouble. But...



  • Three men poised on the brink between honesty and crime. A spunky young woman determined to foil claim-jumpers. Christmas Eve among the wolves and the winds. Rebellion by a brother, and betrayal from a friend.Five short stories of the West and its pe...



  • Her inheritance came with an unsolved mystery.If she can't find out the truth, she may lose more than she gained.Lena Campbell never knew her grandfather—but she always dreamed of visiting Wyoming, where her mother was born and raised. When she...



  • Jeanette Pierpont is out of patience.On the run from hurt and humiliation, she's fled back to her home in the Montana mountains in search of solitude. But to her unpleasant surprise, she discovers she's not alone there. In fact, there are altogether ...



  • Was it a joke gone wrong—or something more sinister?It’s summer in Colorado, and Sir Edmund Marsland’s family are enjoying their visit to the West—though not everyone at the Wellman ranch is quite as happy with the company of ...



  • Mrs. Meade, might I speak to you a moment? It's—it's quite absurd, but most distressing, and I really don't know what to do.Mrs. Meade's landlady has an unnerving problem: her new lodger doesn't seem to exist! No one in Sour Springs besides Mrs...






  • I do believe in coincidences, surely, said Mrs. Meade, but when they coincide with perfect alibis and impossible thefts I tend to doubt them.When the Wellmans receive a letter from their son's boarding-school informing them that Allen has been accuse...



  • A new bride faces questions about her marriage in the shadow of a prairie blizzard. A minister's decision to raise sheep in cattle country stirs up controversy among his new congregation. A spunky ranch girl matches wits with a thief. ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elisabeth Grace Foley has published 21 books.

Elisabeth Grace Foley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Smoking Iron and Other Stories, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Elisabeth Grace Foley, The Ranch Next Door and Other Stories, was published in March 2012.

No. Elisabeth Grace Foley does not write books in series.