M. Lee Prescott

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Morgan's Fire

1 - Lucy's Hearth (Jun-2019)
2 - Tim's Hands (Aug-2019)
3 - Pam's Garden (Oct-2019)
4 - Rich's Dilemma (Aug-2020)
5 - Lolly's Wish (Mar-2021)
6 - Greta's Goat (Aug-2021)
7 - A Horseshoe Crab Cove Christmas (Dec-2021)
8 - Joe's Calling (Dec-2022)

Morgan's Run

1 - Emma's Dream (Aug-2015)
2 - Lang's Return (Oct-2015)
3 - Jeb's Promise (Jan-2016)
4 - Rose's Choice (Oct-2016)
5 - Hope's Wonder (Jun-2017)
6 - Ruthie's Love (Nov-2017)
7 - Polly's Heart (Jul-2018)
8 - Kyle's Journey (Nov-2018)
9 - Gus's Home (Apr-2019)
10 - A Valley Christmas (Dec-2019)
11 - Aria's Song (May-2021)
12 - Tom's Ride (Mar-2022)
13 - Bella's Touch (Oct-2022)
14 - Mia's Crossing (Jul-2023)

A Ricky Steele Mystery

1 - Prepped to Kill (Sep-2013)
2 - Gadfly (Oct-2013)
3 - Lost in Spindle City (Aug-2014)
4 - Poof! (Dec-2017)
5 - Lady Love (Jul-2022)

A Roger and Bess Mystery

1 - A Friend of Silence (Dec-2013)
2 - In the Name of Silence (Jun-2015)
3 - The Silence of Memory (Oct-2015)
4 - Silencing the Pen (May-2023)

Well Loved

1 - Widow's Island (Aug-2014)
2 - Hestor's Way (Mar-2015)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Jigsaw

    After their dear friend, Rosie is found dead, business partners, friends and one-time lovers, Juls Whitman and Tuck Potter find themselves tracking a serial killer. When they realize they might be in over their heads, the pair enlists the aid of fami...

  • Prepped to Kill

    A Ricky Steele Mystery - 1

    What happens when you send phony news to your boarding school’s alumni magazine? Ricky Steele, a fifty-eight year old odd jobber, finds out when she returns to campus pretending to be a private investigator. Before long, the niece of Massachusettsâ...

  • Gadfly

    A Ricky Steele Mystery - 2

    “Upper middle aged” sleuth, Ricky Steele, shows no signs of slowing down as she closes in 60. After stumbling and bumbling through her first case, she now has her license and is back, this time investigating the suspicious bicycle accident of vil...

  • A Friend of Silence

    A Roger and Bess Mystery - 1

    What safer haven could there be than a Quaker boarding school in a tiny New England coastal village? What secrets lie beneath its serene and quiet beauty? Out of the blue, the campus is laid open, the peace of Old Harbor Friends shattered by the murd...

  • Song of the Spirit

    In the late 1800s, post-Civil War, two young Cheyenne sisters are wrenched from a loving family, kidnapped and incarcerated at Rose Academy, a harsh, Indian boarding school established to assimilate native young people, teach them English, and eradic...

  • Lost in Spindle City

    A Ricky Steele Mystery - 3

    After discovering a child prostitute on her doorstep, P.I. Ricky Steele begins a wild search for her client’s 12-year-old friend. Her quest plunges her deep into Spindle City’s thriving underworld of drugs and prostitution. From there, the invest...

  • Widow's Island

    Well Loved - 1

    Biologist, Ned Fielding leaves the tattered remains of his marriage behind to spend six months on Winward Island, a property shared by SENCA, his land conservation group, and the reclusive, Widow Barlow. Dispatched to the island to study a rare speci...

  • Hestor's Way

    Well Loved - 2

    A May-December romance and the return of an old love keep this sexy romance sizzling from start to finish! Love is the last thing on gifted artist, Beth Hadley’s mind as she prepares for a one-woman show while enjoying a bittersweet summer before h...

  • In the Name of Silence

    A Roger and Bess Mystery - 2

    A shocking murder on the eve of a wedding sends Roger Demaris, and his elite homicide team to the village of Old Harbor where the son of the village’s wealthiest citizen is found dead in the woods with an arrow through his heart. No hunting acciden...



  • Emma's Dream

    Morgan's Run - 1

    A woman is the last thing on Ben Morgan’s mind as he comes home to Morgan’s Run, his family’s ranch in Saguaro Valley. Doctor’s orders, he’s home to heal, but the sooner he can get back to Santa Barbara, the better. Then he runs into Maggie...

  • Lang's Return

    Morgan's Run - 2

    On his reluctant return home for his parents’ fortieth anniversary, Lang Dillon’s life is changed forever on a dusty road in Saguaro Valley where he discovers Beth Morgan bent over her truck’s hood sobbing. Beth’s neat ordered life shattered,...

  • The Silence of Memory

    A Roger and Bess Mystery - 3

    Once again the quiet, seaside village of Old Harbor is shaken by a series of murders. Someone is killing members of a women’s mystery book club and all clues lead back to lothario, Dennis Harrison, who appears to have slept with half the women with...

  • Jeb's Promise

    Morgan's Run - 3

    Spark Foster drags his daughter Amy kicking and screaming on an extended vacation to Morgan’s Run. After a painful break-up, Amy has sworn off men. Then she takes a ride with adorably cute, wrangler Jeb Barnes and her broken heart skips more than o...

  • Rose's Choice

    Morgan's Run - 4

    His career as successful architect in shambles when he finds himself in the midst of a sexual harassment suit, Sam Morgan returns to his family’s ranch a broken man. There he finds comfort in the arms of Rose Dillon, a gifted pediatric neurosurgeon...

  • Hope's Wonder

    Morgan's Run - 5

    One of the Southwest’s most successful painters, Hope Seymour leaves behind a year of grief and despair to nanny for her friend, Beth Morgan’s new baby. Not five minutes after arriving in the Valley, she comes face-to-face with Beth’s brother, ...

  • Ruthie's Love

    Morgan's Run - 6

    Ruthie Morgan and Harley Langdon have been doing their passionate dance for years. In love with the drop-dead, gorgeous wrangler for as long as she can remember, Ruthie is frustrated that he regards her as his kid sister. When she learns he is leavin...

  • Poof!

    A Ricky Steele Mystery - 4

    Ricky Steele is on the case, this time hired to find two missing children, who have vanished, poof! The investigation plunges her into the underworld of child trafficking and exploitation as she moves from dark city streets to a wealthy beach front c...

  • Polly's Heart

    Morgan's Run - 7

    Polly Granger comes to Morgan’s Run to help run the ranch’s new day care, never dreaming she’ll find love with the scruffy, gorgeous Kevin Larrabee, a contractor, whose crew is building a thoroughbred farm and training center north of the ranch...

  • Kyle's Journey

    Morgan's Run - 8

    Once again Saguaro Valley works its magic when Harriet Winthrop agrees to a vacation with her mom Helen a friend of the Morgans and Spark Foster. After wrenching heartbreak, Harriet has sworn off men forever. Her first valley evening she meets “swo...



  • Gus's Home

    Morgan's Run - 9

    Hoping a fresh start will be good for him and his two young children, widower Gus Casey takes a job as assistant trainer at Spark Foster and Ben Morgan Senior’s thoroughbred training facility north of Morgan’s Run. A deathbed promise to his wife,...

  • Lucy's Hearth

    Morgan's Fire - 1

    Heart in pieces post-divorce, Lucy Winthrop visits her Uncle Ben Morgan’s ranch where she meets his younger brother, Richard. Her new neighbor back east, Richard is a self-made billionaire who goes after what he wants, and he wants Lucy. Back home ...

  • Tim's Hands

    Morgan's Fire - 2

    Gail Morgan has never left home. An accomplished PR person for her father’s companies, her dad calls her his little hedgehog because, although open and in control in business, Gail is closed and prickly when it comes to her personal life. That is u...

  • Pam's Garden

    Morgan's Fire - 3

    As Pam Morgan adjusts to life in Horseshoe Crab Cove, the last thing she expects is to fall head over heels for dark, dangerous Sandy Rodriguez, owner of a wildly successful music venue north of the village. While every fiber of her being screams no,...

  • A Valley Christmas

    Morgan's Run - 10

    A Valley Christmas is Leonora and Ben’s story. The beloved Morgan matriarch and patriarch reminisce about when they fell in love as they plan their fortieth wedding anniversary party and deal with an unexpected health issue. All this against the ba...

  • Rich's Dilemma

    Morgan's Fire - 4

    Rich Morgan runs Morgan Enterprises the same way he lives his life – with steadiness and competence. That is until sizzling, sweet Karen Miller comes along and their white hot love affair turns his world upside down. As they support, nurture a...

  • Lolly's Wish

    Morgan's Fire - 5

    Heart shattered, Lolly Rogers vows she'll never love again. She's got her work, as partner in Merlin's Closet, a successful children's book catalogue, and her daughter Maisie. She does not, I repeat, does not need a man. Besides, even if she wanted a...

  • Aria's Song

    Morgan's Run - 11

    Despite her incessant flirting, Aria Firorelli is actually quite inexperienced and clueless when it comes to men. Then gorgeous Jonas Miller breezes into town and sweeps her off her feet. When passion sparks between them, they share a sizzling night ...

  • Greta's Goat

    Morgan's Fire - 6

    When Murph O'Neill captures Daisy the goat scampering down Coast Road, he also captures the heart of her mistress, Greta Jeffers. The chance meeting brings these two together and it's love on second sight. When they met earlier, both were dating othe...

  • A Horseshoe Crab Cove Christmas

    Morgan's Fire - 7

    As the village of Horseshoe Crab Cove sparkles, community members gather for sidewalk days, tree lighting on the Green and family parties. Join your favorite couples from earlier Morgan's Fire stories -- Lucy and Richard, Kyle and Harriet, Lolly and ...



  • Tom's Ride

    Morgan's Run - 12

    After a scorching divorce, Tom Jacobi is left burned, the ashes of his life scattered all around him. Attempting to heal, he leaves his home in Montana and comes to Saguaro Valley. There he settles into a job as assistant manager at the magnificent V...

  • Lady Love

    A Ricky Steele Mystery - 5

    Private investigator, Ricky Steele is on the case, trailing the philandering spouse of an old schoolmate. When the lothario turns up dead, Celeste, his widow, hires Ricky and her team to find his killer. Celeste slaps down a huge retainer, then insis...

  • Bella's Touch

    Morgan's Run - 13

    Running from heartbreak, Bella Jacobi comes to Valley Stables to live with her brother, Tom. As she makes friends and settles into her new job as midwife at Valley Ob-Gyn, the last thing she expects is to fall head over heels for Whip Kittredge, a wr...

  • Joe's Calling

    Morgan's Fire - 8

    Can love flourish in middle-age when a handsome ex-priest steps into your life? Steady, down-to-earth Meryl Stockdale is about to find out. Meryl has made her first real home in the village of Horseshoe Crab Cove. As chef of the town's hottest new re...

  • Silencing the Pen

    A Roger and Bess Mystery - 4

    The wait is over! Silencing the Pen, book four of the Roger and Bess Mysteries is here.This time, Roger Demaris brings his RHD team (Regional Homicide Division), including his second in command, Pete Dugan, to Gooseberry Island to investigate the bru...

  • Mia's Crossing

    Morgan's Run - 14

    When troubled, anorexic, Mia Brooks flies from London to stay with her aunt and uncle, Leonora, and Ben Morgan, she is immediately embraced by the loving communities of both ranch and town. Support and love surround her soon after she sets foot on th...

  • Valley Home

    In this east -- west love story, smart, sexy sixty-somethings, billionaire, Spark Foster and artist, Helen Winthrop, decide to take their friendship to the next level in a story that sizzles with passion and heat. All is not rosy, however, when Helen...

  • Hazel's Cousins

    Thrown together before their parents' wedding, Buck Foster and Hazel Winthrop's white hot attraction ignites. Each has a string of failed relationships and neither wants to get serious, or do they? How could she not fall for the man who saved her lif...

  • Cottage at Barnum's Ledge

    Wild horses, sizzling passion and the craggy New England coast as setting! Veterinarian, Kiki Bloom comes to Horseshoe Crab Cove, leaving a violent, traumatic past behind. Then, Morgan son, Ben, comes home to accept a position as pediatric surgeon ne...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

M. Lee Prescott has published 38 books.

The next book by M. Lee Prescott, Cottage at Barnum's Ledge, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by M. Lee Prescott, Jigsaw, was published in August 2011.

Yes. M. Lee Prescott has 5 series.
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