Laura Strickland

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  • Bibliography:
    64 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1984
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure

1 - Dead Handsome (Mar-2015)
2 - Off Kilter (Sep-2015)
3 - Sheer Madness (Jul-2016)
4 - Steel Kisses (Jun-2017)
5 - Last Orders (May-2018)
6 - Tough Prospect (Dec-2018)
7 - Cross Checking (Mar-2020)
8 - Steam Tinker (May-2021)
9 - Plague Doctor (Nov-2022)
10 - Snow City (Apr-2024)

Christmas Cookies

1 - Margie's Magic Cookie Bars (Oct-2017)
2 - Snowdrop Cookie Wishes (Nov-2021)

Fairy Tales Retold

1 - RapAnn's All (Jul-2020)
2 - The Pied Wizard of Regis Towne (Jul-2022)

The Guardians of Sherwood Trilogy

1 - Daughter of Sherwood (Nov-2013)
2 - Champion of Sherwood (Apr-2014)
3 - Lord of Sherwood (Aug-2014)

Hearts of Caledonia

1 - Loyal and True (Jan-2018)
2 - Valiant and Wise (Sep-2018)
3 - Noble and Blessed (Feb-2019)

The Three Sisters MacBeith

1 - Keeper of the Gate (Oct-2023)

The Viking Brides

1 - The Berserker's Bride (Nov-2019)
2 - The Shaman's Bride (Feb-2022)
3 - The Seafarer's Bride (Jan-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

Lobster Cove

The White Gull (Oct-2015)
Forged by Love (Jan-2016)

One Scoop or Two

Devil's Food Ripple with a Cherry on Top (Apr-2020)

Twelve Brides of Christmas

10 - The Tenth Suitor (Nov-2014)

The Wylder West

A Walk on the Wylder Side (Dec-2020)
A Wylder Undertaking (Mar-2021)
Forever Wyld (Aug-2021)
A Wyld Night for St. Nick (Dec-2021)

Book List in Order: 64 titles

  • Queen's Knight

  • The God's Song

  • The Shadow Ground

    The Shadow Ground is the place where wonder meets fear, and the flickering succession of light and darkness deceives the eyes. In a time when gods and men share the earth, legends abound, and mythical islands come and go in the mist of the Celtic Sea...

  • The Waking Dream

    When she is sent to Alba (ancient Scotland) to fulfill a marriage agreement made in her youth, Trelagh Mahon discovers her new husband, Colain, is a brutal man who despises her and has agreed to marry her only to please his father. Cold and merciless...

  • The War Raven

    When Siula is captured in a brutal raid by Celtic warriors, she is sustained only by the comfort that comes to her through her dreams of the war raven. Like her ability as a Seer, awareness of the raven is something she has known all her life. But ev...

  • Devil Black

    Disgraced in her father's eyes, Isobel Maitland travels to Scotland, determined to purchase her sister's happiness at the cost of her own. But when her coach is held up and she is abducted by a dangerous highwayman, she faces an unexpected choice: s...

  • Daughter of Sherwood

    The Guardians of Sherwood Trilogy - 1

    Raised in the kitchens of Nottingham Castle, Wren has no idea she is the daughter of the legendary Robin Hood until she is summoned to Sherwood Forest. Since Robin's death many years before, the resistance against Norman tyranny has been upheld by a...

  • Champion of Sherwood

    The Guardians of Sherwood Trilogy - 2

    When Gareth de Vavasour, nephew of the Sheriff of Nottingham, is captured by the outlaws of Sherwood Forest and held for ransom, he knows he will be fortunate to escape with his life. Amid the magic and danger that surround him, he soon realizes his ...

  • Lord of Sherwood

    The Guardians of Sherwood Trilogy - 3

    Curlew Champion, master archer, has always known his destiny. With his cousin, Heron Scarlet, he will become a guardian of Sherwood Forest and further his people's fight against Norman tyranny. But the third member of the triad is still to be revea...



  • Mrs. Claus and the Viking Ship

    Scottish chief's daughter Tinnie MacAieth can think of only one way to ransom her clan's folk, defeated by the fierce Viking, Claus -- agree to his demand that she become his bride. She hopes the faith she holds to and the love she has for ...

  • The Tenth Suitor

    Twelve Brides of Christmas - 10

    When Edwina’s father invites ten titled lords to spend Christmas at his medieval estate so Edwina may choose one for a husband, she finds the idea romantic. She dreams of gazing into the eyes of one of her suitors and falling deeply in love. But it...

  • Dead Handsome

    A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure - 1

    Clara Allen needs a husband in order to keep a roof over the heads of her assorted dependents, a roof her nasty grandfather will re-appropriate unless she is married by her 21st birthday, only a few days away. Strong-minded, unwilling to take orders ...

  • His Wicked Highland Ways

    Widowed following a marriage of convenience, Jeannie MacWherter has fled lowland Dumfries, Scotland, for the highland cottage bequeathed to her late husband by his brother-in-arms, laird of the glen. Though she’s never met the laird, local rumor la...

  • Off Kilter

    A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure - 2

    James Kilter has few illusions about himself. Maimed in a boiler accident when young and routinely reviled by those he encounters, he’s no prize for any woman. He’s content working security for a good friend until he sees Catherine Delaney disemb...

  • The White Gull

    Lobster Cove

    When the trawler White Gull was lost in a storm off the coast of Lobster Cove, Lisbeth O'Shea's husband, Declan, was lost along with it. At least that’s what Lisbeth believes until, a year later, she hears Declan’s voice in the night and sees him...

  • Forged by Love

    Lobster Cove

    Newly returned home to Lobster Cove from the War Between the States, blacksmith Douglas Grier can’t forget the horrors he’s witnessed or the beautiful young woman he helped break free from her shackles one dark night after her master’s plantati...

  • Ask Me

    Alone on Valentine’s Day, Leo Rankin attends the library’s Blind Date With a Book event hoping for something he can take to bed with him that night, and finds himself competing against Gerri Webb for the last remaining book. Wild child Gerri is n...

  • Honor Bound

    Following the disastrous defeat of the clans at Culloden, Scottish Chief’s son Diarmad Ramsay makes his dying father a promise. Diarmad will play the part of Bonny Prince Charlie in an effort to help the true Prince escape the Highlands. With only ...

  • Sheer Madness

    A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure - 3

    All her life, Topaz Hathor has denied her ability to see the spirits of the dead. She despises her father'an infamous spiritualist'for exploiting his wealthy patrons and the souls that flock to him. But when the spirit of an attractive man appears in...



  • The Hiring Fair

    Brutally dispossessed during the Highland Clearances, Tam Sutherland comes to the hiring fair at Oban, Scotland hoping to find a job for the season. But his maimed right hand, inflicted by the same cruel factor responsible for his parents’ deaths, ...

  • Awake on Garland Street

    Brendan O’Rourke hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep since he arrived back at the family home in St. John’s, Newfoundland. The famed Celtic fiddler’s being haunted by the ghost of his great-grandfather, Charlie, who’s bent on keeping Brend...

  • Code Redhead - A Serial Novel: Volume 3

    Thirteen of your favorite Best-Selling authors have come together to be part of a fundraising project called Code Redhead â€" A Serial Novel. Each writer has their own interpretation of the title ‘Code Redhead’. There's a story to satisfy and en...

  • Words and Dreams

    Dorothea Sinclair has left her small home town in Maine and come to Boston to begin a career as a newspaper reporter. But so far her job on the Guardian has proved disappointing. More skivvy than reporter, she’s even been subjected to a humiliating...

  • Steel Kisses

    A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure - 4

    Reynold Michaels might not be the smartest man in the city, but he knows a beautiful woman when he sees one. The lovely creature he watches disembark from the steam tram every morning simply cannot be a prostitute…or an automaton. Yet at the high-p...

  • Northern Magic

    When Santa asks his worker, Olja, to help make another elf’s Christmas wish come true, she believes the job calls for a love potion. Brewing it up will require her to travel all around the North Pole gathering unusual supplies, and to take a few da...

  • Margie's Magic Cookie Bars

    Christmas Cookies - 1

    Margie’s mom taught her to bake, and to believe in Christmas magic. She also promised this would be the year Margie found love. When Margie draws the name of her office crush, Trent in the Secret Santa Pool, she decides to make it happen by baking ...

  • Stars in the Morning

    Accused of ruining Mae Ballard and faced with a shotgun wedding, Jefferson Lind knows exactly who's to blame. He's been taking the fall for Jedediah's sins as long as he can remember. Mae's a shrieking shrew, and he hasn't seen Jed, his identical...

  • Christmastime on Donner's Mountain

    For most of her life, Becca Monroe’s been running. The urge to see what lay beyond the next horizon took her away from Donner’s Mountain and the man she loved. Now, back for what will surely be her grandfather’s last Christmas, she’s caught i...

  • The Clue of the Red Tresses

    Stephen Longstreet has been charged with a task: find out who's been borrowing his Uncle Anthony's greatest invention, a time machine, without permission. He never expects the miscreant to be a lovely, red-haired woman, or that in apprehending her on...



  • Loyal and True

    Hearts of Caledonia - 1

    In defiance of her father, Caledonian tribeswoman Barta leads a daring raid against invading enemy warriors. But the fight goes badly, and her beloved war hound, Loyal, is killed. Unable to imagine existing without her dearest companion, she never...

  • Last Orders

    A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure - 5

    Buffalo Police Sergeant Brendan Fagan, investigating a series of grisly murders spurred by clashes between humans and automatons, only wants to save his city. The last thing he needs in his life is a rule-bending, steam-cannon-toting, unpredictable f...

  • Cinder-Ugly

    From the moment Cindra is born, misshapen and ill-formed in face and body, her beautiful mother hides her away, allowing the world to see only her other three perfect children. Cindra, raised by an aged nurse and assigned humble duties in the kitchen...

  • The Toy Maker's Secret

    Meghan Martin fears it’s going to be a lean Christmas. Since her husband, Dustin, abandoned her and their six-year-old daughter, Angie, she’s been forced to give up their cozy house in the suburbs and move to a small apartment in the city. Though...

  • Valiant and Wise

    Hearts of Caledonia - 2

    Wick map Radoc has lost his direction. Following the death of his parents in a brutal raid, the Caledonian tribesman surrenders his place as chief and flees to the Scottish countryside. Tracked through snow by a band of enemy Gaels, he escapes by way...

  • Tough Prospect

    A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure - 6

    Mitch Carter's a hard man. He's clawed his way up from Buffalo's gutter through a combination of ruthlessness and stark loyalty to become the King of Prospect Avenue. But when he sees lovely Tessa Verdun, a crack appears in his tough veneer. He wants...

  • Noble and Blessed

    Hearts of Caledonia - 3

    Captured by Gaels in a vicious raid, Caledonian shaman Tally is taken by force to the western kingdom of Dal Riada, where he falls into the hands of the Celtic chief's daughter, Alanna. Having lost every freedom, and fearing he may also lose his fait...

  • The Issue is Love

    When scandal erupts around editor Adam Bevens at his big-city newspaper, he accepts his uncle's offer to fill in at a small-town paper in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He doesn't anticipate hostile employees, the chance to encounter extraterrestrials o...

  • Rum Paul Stillskin

    Abandoned as an infant at the edge of Dartmoor, Rum Paul Stillskin does not know his true name or parentage, but it's clear he's not completely human. The old man who raises him calls him evil. The village children, who throw stones, whisper the word...

  • One Enchanted Scottish Knight

    From a young age, Tansy Bellrose Gant has been getting into trouble and wanting what she should not have. Just because she can make certain things happen by wishing doesn't mean she's a witch. But when she rashly curses a neighbor, her fellow village...



  • A Promise Kept

    A Promise Kept by Laura StricklandJust because she'll be alone this Christmas, is no reason for Beth Manning to feel sorry for herself. A busy nurse with plenty of friends, she knows she can keep occupied and have a good holiday. But when a tiny pack...

  • The Berserker's Bride

    The Viking Brides - 1

    Captured by Viking raiders, Eadha MacEwan, daughter of a chieftain, dreads falling into the hands of the berserker, Tolljur Magnussen. An empath, she easily senses the emotions of others, but she can feel nothing from Tolljur until he succumbs to one...

  • Cross Checking

    A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure - 7

    When Maddie MacGillicuddy loses her job, she's desperate to find another. Though good jobs are available at the stables, only men are hired. A big, strapping girl, she becomes Matty in her brother's clothing. Complications arise when a city magnate, ...

  • Devil's Food Ripple with a Cherry on Top

    One Scoop or Two

    Fenady Clark's dream of owning an ice cream parlor has inspired her through some of life's hardest challenges. Just when the grand opening's within reach, that wicked rogue, Sebastian Bane, opens shop and starts serving Fenady's designer flavors, all...

  • RapAnn's All

    Fairy Tales Retold - 1

    Surrendered to a powerful witch at birth, RapAnn doesn't know her parents. When she resists becoming the mistress of a lecherous roué, her guardian imprisons her in a tall tower as punishment. There, she has only the music of her voice and the c...

  • The Reiver's Cub

    Ten years ago, Bess Mowatt promised to guard her newborn cousin from his father, Aleck Maxwell. Called the Reiver Wolf, Maxwell is the scourge of the Scottish marches, and no fit guardian for a child. But when the keep where Bess and the boy live sud...

  • A Walk on the Wylder Side

    The Wylder West

    Outspoken, rebellious Cissy Arkwright was sent west from her Chicago home to work at a boarding house in Wylder, Wyoming. The last thing she expects is friendship with the handsome new boarder, a man with an air of danger and the power to make her sm...

  • A Wylder Undertaking

    The Wylder West

    When town undertaker Gus Wright accepts delivery of a client's fancy casket, he certainly doesn't expect to find a beautiful young woman hidden inside. And when she throws herself on his mercy, his gentlemanly nature kicks in. He offers assistance de...

  • Steam Tinker

    A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure - 8

    Known as the Steam Tinker, Lionel Pike rebuilds aged automatons, those cast off and bound for the scrap yard. When Sofia Gregory brings him her wrecked steam unit and confides it's also her best friend, he agrees to attempt a repair. He doesn't suspe...

  • Forever Wyld

    The Wylder West

    Newly retired, Earl Hanson wishes he felt happier about it. He's built a cabin up in the hills and has free time on his hands. He also has the most obnoxious widow in town eyeing him up as a possible husband. What's a beleaguered former sheriff to do...



  • Snowdrop Cookie Wishes

    Christmas Cookies - 2

    It's been a difficult year in Lissi Johansen's sixteenth-century Danish village. As Christmas approaches, she longs for holidays past when her parents visited their neighbors, distributing cookies and good wishes to all. She hopes to bake a single ba...

  • A Wyld Night for St. Nick

    The Wylder West

    When a train jumps the rails near Wylder during a blizzard one December night, mountain man Nick Robinson rushes to the rescue. It's only a few days before Christmas, and the young boy he saves from the wreck is convinced his rescuer is St. Nick. Sin...

  • The Shaman's Bride

    The Viking Brides - 2

    Daughter of a Viking berserker and a Celtic slave, Gyda Tolljursdottir is part warrior and part Seer. When her Sight gives warning of darkness and danger coming from the sea, she vows to defend her Faroe Island home, whatever it takes. Norse shaman, ...

  • This Tarnished Light

    All her life Polly Bridger has perceived a miraculous light in others. She sees it in her parents who sacrifice everything to keep her safe, and later in the eyes of young Albert Coward who offers her both solace and love. Victorian London is not an ...

  • The Pied Wizard of Regis Towne

    Fairy Tales Retold - 2

    When a spell to rid Regis Towne of rats goes awry, Marquell and Grandfather Rat are transformed into men. Marquell wants no part in playing servant to the wizard responsible for destroying his family and friends, but the mage promises to return him t...

  • Plague Doctor

    A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure - 9

    A menace stalks the streets of Victorian Buffalo. Costumed like a medieval physician, it brings panic, sickness, and death to a city already in turmoil over automaton rights. Fresh off a boat from Poland, Kasper Czak can't let politics or mysterious ...

  • The Seafarer's Bride

    The Viking Brides - 3

    A year ago, Magnus Tolljursson helped repel a treacherous attack from his father's enemies, and discovered he carries the berserker's seed of madness. Now he must sail to the settlement from whence those attackers came, and fulfill a promise to a fri...

  • White Hares and Midnight Dares

    Diana Gendarme has spent her life doing for others, so when she moves into her dream cottage, she's ready for some me time. But the cottage is shabby and her new neighbors quite close. One of them makes a din in his blacksmith's forge all day long ye...

  • Keeper of the Gate

    The Three Sisters MacBeith - 1

    Born enemies, is their destiny to become lovers?Since time out of mind, two clans have contested for dominance in bonny glen Bronach, known as the glen of sorrows. But now, fierce young Rory MacLeod has taken over as chief of his lands and vowed to s...

  • The Mistletoe Heart

    It's the Christmas season at Clarendon, and Genevieve DeClare is determined to provide a joyful holiday for her mother and sister, despite the losses they've endured the past year. The castle is decked with greenery and she's planned a lavish feast. ...

  • Keeper of the Heart

    He chooses laughter, and she chooses compassion. Will they both choose love?Ever since her mother's death, Rhian MacBeith has kept the flame burning at the heart of her family. A healer and born nurturer, she stepped in where needed without a thought...

  • Keeper of the Light

    Can old hatreds be laid aside for the sake of love?For as long as she can remember, Saerla MacBeith has been touched by magic. As a Seer, she is helpless to resist the Visions that come upon her, forewarning misfortunes that may befall those she love...

  • Snow City

    A Buffalo Steampunk Adventure - 10

    Benjamin Ambrose has an interesting problem: he keeps dying without cause and with very little warning. So far, he's died over a dozen times and been brought back again. It's disconcerting, and he needs a solution.Magenta Rask, of mixed race and limi...

  • Slow Train to Nowhere

    When Sean Hussey returns to the town where he lived as a boy, it's with revenge on his mind. He's made a success of himself out west and intends to get even with the farmer under whose thumb he once suffered. He'll show mercy only to the others who s...

  • The Secret of the Solstice Cakes

    Omens are not good at the end of AD 59 for the Dumnonii tribe in southern Britannia. There's war in the east, and the harvest has failed again. To improve the outlook, widower Chief Allaed agrees to remarry, to the first woman of the tribe to bring h...

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Laura Strickland has published 64 books.

Laura Strickland does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Secret of the Solstice Cakes, was published in December 2024.

The first book by Laura Strickland, Queen's Knight, was published in January 1984.

Yes. Laura Strickland has 7 series.
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