May McGoldrick

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1995
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Clan MacPherson

0.5 - The Thistle and the Rose (Sep-1995)
1 - Angel of Skye (May-1996)
2 - Heart of Gold (Nov-1996)
3 - The Beauty of the Mist (Apr-1997)
4 - The Intended (Mar-1998)
5 - Flame (Nov-1998)
6 - Tess and the Highlander (Oct-2002)

Highland Treasure Trilogy

1 - The Dreamer (May-2000)
2 - The Enchantress (Aug-2000)
3 - The Firebrand (Nov-2000)

The Pennington Family

1 - Romancing the Scot (Nov-2017)
1.5 - Sweet Home Highland Christmas: A Novella (Nov-2017)
2 - It Happened in the Highlands (Mar-2018)
3 - Sleepless in Scotland (Aug-2018)
3.5 - Dearest Millie: A Novella (Nov-2018)

Rebel Promise

1 - The Promise (Sep-2001)
2 - The Rebel (Jul-2002)

Royal Highlander

1 - Highland Crown (Mar-2019)
2 - Highland Jewel (Sep-2019)
3 - Highland Sword (Apr-2020)

Scottish Dream Trilogy

1 - Borrowed Dreams (Jun-2003)
2 - Captured Dreams (Dec-2003)
3 - Dreams of Destiny (May-2004)

Scottish Relic Trilogy

1 - Much Ado About Highlanders (May-2016)
2 - Taming the Highlander (Sep-2016)
3 - Tempest in the Highlands (Dec-2016)
3.5 - A Midsummer Wedding (Apr-2018)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • The Thistle and the Rose

    Clan MacPherson - 0.5

    DESPERATE DECEPTION Celia Muir must escape from a burning castle into the Scottish Highlands before English soldiers capture her. With her are loyal friends and servants, all united to protect the infant Kit from unknown enemies. For her clandestine...

  • Angel of Skye

    Clan MacPherson - 1

    NOTHING COULD HIDE HER PASSION... Fiona does not remember the years before she came to the priory on the Isle of Skye. Only the gentle Prioress knows the truth about the spirited, red-haired lass's true birth. So it is in a simple cowl and peasant...

  • Heart of Gold

    Clan MacPherson - 2

    RITE OF PASSION Elizabeth Boleyn has been ordered to yield to a lecherous king what she most prizes---her innocence. His physicians have instructed him to sleep with a virgin to cure his pox, though it will mean her death. Now, at the tournament hel...

  • The Beauty of the Mist

    Clan MacPherson - 3

    CRUEL BETROTHAL Maria, had been forced to marry at 17, then was left widowed shortly thereafter. Now 5 years later, her brother had chosen another husband for her sight unseen--the boy king of Scotland. Maria, who had never known passion or love, re...

  • The Intended

    Clan MacPherson - 4

    A BRIDE ABANDONED Lady Jaime MacPherson learned the meaning of betrayal on the Isle of Skye when her beloved Malcolm MacLeod wed another woman to save his inheritance. Her dreams of happiness crushed, she sought refuge in the elegant palace of the D...

  • Flame

    Clan MacPherson - 5

    TO BE CONSUMED BY LOVE... Ironcross Castle was called cursed by the Highlanders. Its most recent lairds had perished in accidents, falls, or fires. The newest owner, Gavin Kerr, did not fear death. It was feeling he dreaded--the pain of betrayal and...

  • The Dreamer

    Highland Treasure Trilogy - 1

    When her late father was branded a traitor to the king, Catherine Percy found sanctuary in Scotland. But a case of mistaken identity put her in a compromising position with the Highland earl sworn to protect her. Marriage to him saved her reputation,...

  • The Enchantress

    Highland Treasure Trilogy - 2

    Three sisters each hold key to their family's treasure--and to the hearts of three Highland warriors.... Fleeing persecution from the English king, the three Percy sisters scattered to different corners of Scotland. But when the level-headed Laura...

  • The Firebrand

    Highland Treasure Trilogy - 3

    Adrianne Percy was hidden in the Western Isles, safe from her family's enemies - until her sisters sent a notorious pirate to return her to the Highlands. But when she hatches a plan to free her kidnapped mother, it requires her to marry the handsome...



  • The Promise

    Rebel Promise - 1

    TO PROTECT On a desperate journey to America, Rebecca Neville promises the dying wife of the Earl of Stanmore to raise and care for her newborn son, James. Once in the New World, Rebecca begins her new life--as a mother... . TO CHERISH Ten years...

  • The Rebel

    Rebel Promise - 2

    WANTED...for crimes against the king. In retaliation for the brutality of the English troops, the Irish rebel Egan is fighting back, leading a secret group of revolutionaries--and building his legend across the country. REJECTED...by her own fam...

  • Tess and the Highlander

    Clan MacPherson - 6
    Avon True Romance - 8

    Tess Tess Lindsay has spent most of her life on the remote Isle of May, uncertain of her identity. Raised by the two sole inhabitants of the island, she is left to fend for herself after their deaths, until a stranger washes ashore in a storm. Tess ...

  • Borrowed Dreams

    Scottish Dream Trilogy - 1

    THE PROPOSAL Driven to undo the evil wrought by her dead husband, Millicent Wentworth must find a way to save her estate and free the innocent people her husband enslaved. Her only hope is a marriage--in name only--with the notorious widower, the Ea...

  • Captured Dreams

    Scottish Dream Trilogy - 2

    THE CAPTAIN By day, colonist Pierce Pennington is one of Boston's most respected and successful merchants. But by night, he becomes the infamous Captain MacHeath, smuggling arms by sea under the pall of darkness--all in the name of liberty... TH...

  • Dreams of Destiny

    Scottish Dream Trilogy - 3

    THE HEIRESS Gwyneth Douglas, a young Scottish heiress in London, writes scandalous adventure books under a pen name, doing so to protect her identity and her fortune. When an unknown blackmailer threatens to expose her secret life, she has no choice...

  • Arsenic and Old Armor

    Arm yourself…for the wedding of the sixteenth century! Forget the English. Forget the Reformation. Forget your sanity… Try getting married when your betrothed can wield an iron pot with deadly accuracy, her mad uncle thinks he’s William Wallace...

  • Made in Heaven

  • Ghost of the Thames

    A stranger -- led back from the shadowy edges of death by a ghost -- finds herself cold and bloody on the filthy banks of a river in a city she does not know… From opium-drenched hovels and rat-infested warehouses of Limehouse to the glistening ...

  • Thanksgiving in Connecticut

    A Novella:Talented photographer Paige Coleman has stayed away from her beloved seaside Connecticut village of Stonington ever since being mortified by ‘viral’ YouTube video that captured her in the buff at the top of a whaling ship at Mystic Seap...



  • Secret Vows

    “A wonderful book…Don’t miss it.” -Heather Graham“The classic rebel-in-disguise story has never been more fun, exciting, or romantic…fabulous!”-Susan WiggsWinner of Holt Medallion for RebelTwo books in one collection.In our continuing e...

  • Much Ado About Highlanders

    Scottish Relic Trilogy - 1

    In the heart of Scotland, this Highlander is about to meet his match in a brand new romance from bestseller May McGoldrick. Highland warrior Alexander Macpherson has lost his wife. When he agreed to take Kenna Mackay as his bride to advance his cl...

  • Taming the Highlander

    Scottish Relic Trilogy - 2

    This spellbinding historical romance from USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick pits one spirited lass against her biggest challenge yet: a Highland lord who has no desire to lose his heart. Now a 2017 RITA Finalist! Innes Munro has the abil...

  • Tempest in the Highlands

    Scottish Relic Trilogy - 3

    He's a pirate. She's a stowaway. Don't miss the stunning conclusion to USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick's Scottish Relic trilogy with Tempest in the Highlands. Miranda MacDonnell is on the run. When she inherited a myste...

  • Romancing the Scot

    The Pennington Family - 1

    In this stunning series starter by USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick, meet the new generation of Penningtons...five brothers and sisters of passion and privilege. Enter their aristocratic world…where each will fight injustice and find...

  • Sweet Home Highland Christmas: A Novella

    The Pennington Family - 1.5

    May McGoldrick's Sweet Home Highland Christmas is a 2018 RITA® finalist for Romance Novellas!

    Freya Sutherland is a desperate aunt trying to keep custody of her precocious young niece, Ella. After the death of her father, Freya is willing ...

  • It Happened in the Highlands

    The Pennington Family - 2

    It Happened in the Highlands is the next book in the new historical highland series, The Penningtons, from USA Today bestseller May McGoldrick...

    Lady Josephine Pennington was jilted by her fiancé once rumors spread about her questionable o...

  • A Midsummer Wedding

    Scottish Relic Trilogy - 3.5

    Previously released in the Say Yes to the Scot digital anthology, fans of May McGoldrick will fall in love with A Midsummer Wedding, a novella in the Scottish Relic series.

    Their marriage was two decades in the making. The young, educated wo...

  • Sleepless in Scotland

    The Pennington Family - 3

    From USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick, Sleepless in Scotland is a charming tale of loss, justice, and passion.

    Captain Ian Bell is a tortured man fighting through grief and guilt over the loss of his sister. When she went missing,...

  • Dearest Millie: A Novella

    The Pennington Family - 3.5

    From USA Today Bestselling Author May McGoldrick... Dearest Millie A Pennington Family Novella Lady Millie, youngest of the Pennington family, has always lived in the shadow of her talented and powerful siblings. She's been the rock of stabi...



  • Highland Crown

    Royal Highlander - 1

    Scottish pride, persuasion, and passion―this is Highland romance at its breathtaking best. Inverness, 1820 Perched on the North Sea, this port town―by turns legendary and mythological―is a place where Highland rebels and English authoritie...

  • How to Ditch a Duke

    in Dukes by the Dozen

    A DUKE FOR ALL SEASONS! What’s better than a dashing duke? A dozen of them! In this case, a baker’s dozen -- thirteen of your favorite historical romance authors have come together to bring you more than a dozen tantalizing novellas, with one ...

  • Two Novels

    From USA Today Bestselling Author May McGoldrickTwo of their beloved Macpherson Clan novels in one volume for the first time…THE INTENDEDA novel rich with love, intrigue, and ruthless ambition in the court of Henry VIII -- the story of two Highland...

  • Highland Jewel

    Royal Highlander - 2

    A REBEL AT HEART Maisie Murray’s sweet, docile exterior masks the courageous spirit of a firebrand determined to champion women’s suffrage with like-minded friends. But fighting for her principles has swept her directly into harm’s way―and i...

  • Highland Sword

    Royal Highlander - 3

    Scottish pride, persuasion, and passion―this is Highland romance at its breathtaking best. From USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick comes Highland Sword, the third book in the Royal Highlander series. A VOW FOR VENGEANCE Fleeing to t...

  • A Prince in the Pantry

    A PRINCE IN THE PANTRYFrom USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick, a romantic tale of two people trapped by fate...The most anticipated ball of the Season awaits!Prince Timour Mirza, an heir to the Persian throne, is visiting England on a diplom...

  • Jane Austen Cannot Marry

    A comically offbeat, fish-out-of-water, time travel novel set in Regency England and the 21st century Colorado Rockies. Nadine Finley is a Scribe Guardian from the future who must play 'un-matchmaker' to Jane Austen, a British naval offic...

  • Scottish Relic Trilogy

    A pirate lord after his runaway bride. A Highland lass who tames the heart of a beastly earl. A shipwreck that leads to the romance of a lifetime. Fall in love with the heroes and heroines of USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick's Scottish Rel...

  • Erase Me

    Love and Loyalty Clash in a World of Secrets and Deception!From USA Today Bestselling Author May McGoldrick and Jan CoffeyERASE MEIn the sun-soaked streets of a California beach town, two strangers' paths collide, sparking an unexpected and fiery con...

Award-Winning Books by May McGoldrick

Borrowed Dreams
2003 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- British Isles Historical Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

May McGoldrick has published 38 books.

May McGoldrick does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Erase Me, was published in March 2024.

The first book by May McGoldrick, The Thistle and the Rose, was published in September 1995.

Yes. May McGoldrick has 7 series.
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