Michael Phillips

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  • Bibliography:
    62 Books (15 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1984
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Along Time's Edge

1 - Beyond the Empyrean (Aug-2022)
2 - The Lightning-Struck Tree (Mar-2023)

American Dreams

1 - Dream Of Freedom (Mar-2005)
2 - Dream of Life (May-2006)
3 - Dream of Love (Apr-2008)

Beyond

1 - Hell and Beyond (Feb-2013)
2 - Heaven and Beyond (Dec-2014)

Caledonia

1 - Legend of the Celtic Stone (Jul-1999)
2 - An Ancient Strife (Oct-2000)

Carolina Cousins

1 - A Perilous Proposal (Jul-2005)
2 - The Soldier's Lady (Mar-2006)
3 - Never Too Late (Jan-2007)
4 - Miss Katie's Rosewood (Jul-2007)

The Green Hills of Snowdonia

1 - The Treasure of the Celtic Triangle (Aug-2012)
2 - The Treasure of the Celtic Triangle: Wales (Jul-2020)

The Journals of Corrie & Christopher

1 - The Braxtons of Miracle Springs (Jul-1996)
2 - A New Beginning (Mar-1997)

The Maxwell Chronicles

1 - Pinnacles of Power (Aug-1991)
2 - Depths of Destiny (Jun-1992)

Mercy and Eagleflight

1 - Mercy & Eagleflight (Oct-1996)
2 - A Dangerous Love (Apr-1997)

Rift in Time

1 - A Rift in Time (Oct-1997)
2 - Hidden in Time (Aug-2000)

The Secret of the Rose

1 - The Eleventh Hour (Nov-1994)
2 - A Rose Remembered (Sep-1995)
3 - Escape to Freedom (Jun-1995)
4 - Dawn of Liberty (Aug-1995)

The Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall

1 - Wild Grows the Heather in Devon (Mar-1998)
2 - Wayward Winds (Mar-1999)
3 - Heathersleigh Homecoming (Oct-1999)
4 - A New Dawn Over Devon (Feb-2001)

Secrets of the Shetlands

1 - The Inheritance (Apr-2016)
2 - The Cottage (Oct-2016)
3 - The Legacy (Jul-2017)

Shenandoah Sisters

1 - Angels Watching Over Me (Dec-2002)
2 - A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton (May-2003)
3 - The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart (Jan-2004)
4 - Together Is All We Need (May-2004)

Tribulation Cult

1 - The Invisible War (Jul-2023)

Book List in Order: 62 titles

  • Philosophy and Science Fiction

    This accessible and provocative collection of science fiction acquaints readers with cutting-edge gender controversies in moral and political philosophy. By imagining future worlds that defy our most basic assumptions about sex and gender, freedom an...

  • Alec Forbes and His Friend Annie

  • Pinnacles of Power

    The Maxwell Chronicles - 1

    A Christian journalist researching a fast-growing global ministry uncovers a web of deception and scandal in this novel of faith, greed, and corruption.Evangelist Jacob Michaels has gained global renown with his successful ministry, Evangelize the Wo...

  • Depths of Destiny

    The Maxwell Chronicles - 2

  • Caledonia

    The issue of Scottish independence becomes a forum for reflection and revaluation by a young member of Parliament, Andrew Gordon Trentham, as he contemplates the turbulent history, strong spiritual heritage, and rich culture of his ancestral homeland...

  • The Eleventh Hour

    The Secret of the Rose - 1

    In 1930’s pre-war Prussia, Baron von Dortmann lives an idyllic life with his daughter Sabina. A devoted gardener and father, the Baron teaches his daughter powerful lessons about life, creation, and God’s love during treasured walks in the estate...

  • Escape to Freedom

    The Secret of the Rose - 3

    A dramatic escape from the Iron Curtain tests the convictions of a father and daughter on the run in the Secret of the Rose series.   Aided by her one-time love, the American Matthew McCallum, Sabina von Dortmann has succeeded in rescuing her f...

  • Russians: The Crown and the Crucible; A House Divided; Travail and Triumph; Heirs of the Motherland; The Dawning of Deliverance

    Against the vast and formidable backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia, the lives of two families, the Burenins and the Fedorcenkos, become inextricably intertwine, in this sweeping saga of love, faith, and courage from Michael Phillips and Judith Pell...

  • Dawn of Liberty

    The Secret of the Rose - 4

    Political unrest shakes the foundations of a war-torn country -- and of the McCallum family as they fight for their faith in the Secret of the Rose series.   Many years after their daring escape from a divided Germany, Sabina and Matthew McCallu...



  • A Rose Remembered

    The Secret of the Rose - 2

    The Secret of the Rose series continues with this thrilling novel of international intrigue, unexpected romance, and unshakable faith.   At the beginning of this second installment of Michael Phillips’s bestselling Secret of the Rose series, ...

  • The Braxtons of Miracle Springs

    The Journals of Corrie & Christopher - 1

    Now married, Corrie Belle and Christopher Braxton make their first home in the small bunkhouse connected to the Hollister barn. As they pray for God's direction in their new life together, they find a purpose helping those in need. But when a long-fo...

  • Grayfox

    When Zach Hollister hears stories of the first Pony Express riders, he jumps at the chance to finally strike out on his own and leave Miracle Springs behind. But he soon learns that the Pony Express Trail holds more than the promise of adventure, ind...

  • Mercy & Eagleflight

    Mercy and Eagleflight - 1

    A young evangelist and a mysterious drifter search for God’s love across a lawless land in this Western adventure by the beloved Christian author.Kansas, 1890s. Evangelist Mercy Randolph is still young and inexperienced when she suddenly finds hers...

  • A New Beginning

    The Journals of Corrie & Christopher - 2

    Two surprise announcements bring difficult change to the Hollister-Braxton clan: Corrie's brother, Zack, is taking a dangerous new job, and Christopher and Corrie are leaving home to journey East. As Corrie and Christopher prepare to depart, a shock ...

  • A Dangerous Love

    Mercy and Eagleflight - 2

    A wedding is on the horizon for the preacher woman and the cowboy -- if evil-doings don’t separate them first. Second in the faith-filled Western series. After a visit to her family in Louisville, young evangelist Mercy Randolph returns to her new ...

  • A Rift in Time

    Rift in Time - 1

    From best-selling author Michael Phillips comes a gripping novel about an archaeologist who discovers Noah's Ark and searches for the Garden of Eden. A great book for all readers, especially those with an interest in end-times fiction like the Left B...

  • Wild Grows the Heather in Devon

    The Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall - 1

    On the windswept downs of Devonshire looms Heathersleigh Hall, the ancient and majestic home of the Duke of Heathersleigh and his family. But an age-old secret lies hidden within its walls -- the key to a mystery that will forever change the lives o...

  • The Garden at the Edge of Beyond

    A journey into a realm beyond imagination gives one man a glimpse into his own spirituality through messages of faith, hope, and love. A man lies down for a normal night of sleep and inexplicably awakens to find himself in a surreal garden bursting w...

  • Wayward Winds

    The Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall - 2

    A Continent and a War Separate Her From the Only Place of Safety She Knows High above the English coastline, political storms swirled far more turbulent than any natural storm. Indeed, the silent clouds moving steadily but inexorably westward were t...



  • Legend of the Celtic Stone

    Caledonia - 1

    When a legendary stone is stolen from Westminster Abbey, Great Britain is set astir. Both the IRA and the Scottish nationalists are suspected. Amid the uproar, young politician Andrew Trentham embarks on a personal quest for answers. But the more he ...

  • Heathersleigh Homecoming

    The Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall - 3

    Discarding Her Past Meant She Had Also Jeopardized Her Future. While war escalates on every side, twenty-one-year-old Amanda Rutherford wages her own internal battles. Betrayed by those who masqueraded behind claims of love, she takes flight from ...

  • Hidden in Time

    Rift in Time - 2

    Rift in Time #2: Hidden in Time follows the search for the Ark of the Covenant. Adam Livingstone's team successfully removes and transports Noah's Ark down Mt. Ararat while the world watches in awe....

  • An Ancient Strife

    Caledonia - 2

    Young Parliament member Anthony Trentham continues his quest to learn about his Scottish heritage in order to decide his next political move. Through stories read and told to him, he discovers more about his ancestors and the history of Scotland. He ...

  • A New Dawn Over Devon

    The Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall - 4

    Unearthing the Hall's Ancient Secrets Becomes Their Greatest Test of Faith Yet In the Devonshire countryside of her childhood, Amanda Rutherford learns that it is never too late to recapture the treasures of youth. Hearthbroken over past mistakes, he...

  • God, A Good Father

    Deep within every human heart lies a created hunger for the heavenly mountains of God's presence. The lungs of our soul ache to breathe the air of eternity. We thirst for waters that stream forth from divine springs. A divine restlessness exists with...

  • Angels Watching Over Me

    Shenandoah Sisters - 1

    A STORY AS FULL OF EMOTION AND DRAMA AS THE CHARACTERS THEMSELVES... Born within a year of each other and in the same North Carolina county, Mayme and Katie had grown up in two separate worlds. Mayme was a member of a slave family, and her future ...

  • King's Crossroads

    Behind every door is a life, and behind every life is a destiny fashioned by choices and crossroads.

    Kings Crossroads could be your town. It could be my town.

    Like any town, it is a microcosm of American life. But its politicians, pr...

  • A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton

    Shenandoah Sisters - 2

    It's impossible to describe to anyone who's never been a slave what it's like to suddenly realize you're free. I would never forget what I felt like that day as long as I lived.... Two very different girls, one the daughter of a slave, the other t...

  • The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart

    Shenandoah Sisters - 3

    Book 3 of bestselling Shenandoah Sisters. Katie, the daughter of a plantation owner, and Mayme, the daughter of a slave, find themselves with only each other after the Civil War. They devise a scheme to keep Katie's plantation going, disguising the f...



  • Together Is All We Need

    Shenandoah Sisters - 4

    Shenandoah Sisters Book 4, the sequel to The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart. For over a year, Mayme--a former slave--and Katie have lived together on Katie's plantation, hiding the fact that they are orphans of war to avoid being s...

  • Dream Of Freedom

    American Dreams - 1

    The author of the Secret of the Rose series transports readers to the South, as the seeds of Civil War are sown -- and those against slavery take a stand.   In the antebellum South, Richmond and Carolyn Davidson live lives of ease as wealthy pl...

  • George MacDonald

    In this extensive biography, Michael Phillips paints a revealing portrait of George MacDonald. Phillips uses the facts of MacDonald's life to shape a picture of the man, set against the Scottish land he loved. Looking at both his strengths and shortc...

  • A Perilous Proposal

    Carolina Cousins - 1

    Two years have passed since the conclusion of the Shenandoah Sisters series, and Katie and Mayme are young women with big dreams, running Rosewood with the help of their two uncles and their friends Emma, Josepha, Jeremiah, and Henry. Jeremiah propos...

  • The Soldier's Lady

    Carolina Cousins - 2

    The young women of Rosewood face new challenges--and old enemies--when a wounded black soldier rides into town. Micah Duff is an educated, spiritual man, and even though he and "scatterbrained" Emma are very different, the two soon fall in love. But ...

  • Dream of Life

    American Dreams - 2

    From the coast of Africa to the Trail of Tears, the destiny of three races is altered forever as a country is plunged into Civil War. Chigua and Sydney LeFleure. Slaves with a past . . . and an unexpected future. Carolyn and Richmond Davidson. A ma...

  • Never Too Late

    Carolina Cousins - 3

    Fire. It had ripped Seffie from her family and stolen her dearest friend. Will she allow it to destroy her one chance at happiness? Growing up a slave, Seffie served as companion to a sickly white girl and learned to read and write and even speak Fre...

  • Miss Katie's Rosewood

    Carolina Cousins - 4

    Description: The Stirring Conclusion to the Carolina Cousins Series! A lone rider galloped through the night. He could not slow down or it would be too late.  Many lives, and his own future,  depended on his getting there in time.... Winds ...

  • Dream of Love

    American Dreams - 3

    In this third and final book in the series, the Davidson family continues to help slaves to freedom as conductors on the Underground Railroad. With one son, Seth, a war photographer for a newspaper in the North and their other son, Thomas, fighting f...

  • Angel Harp

    Widowed at 34, amateur harpist Marie "Angel" Buchan realizes at 40 that her life and dreams are slowly slipping away. A summer in Scotland turns out to offer far more than she ever imagined! Not only does the music of her harp capture the fancy of th...



  • Heather Song

    Newly married, Marie and Alaster Reidhaven's life seems idyllic. But things start to fall apart when the Duke's sister's curses and spells start to plague them. Alaster dies and again Marie is widowed. Marie returns to Canada to visit her dying fathe...

  • From Across the Ancient Waters

    Return to Wales with best-selling author Michael Phillips in his latest historical novel. After being sent to his uncle's estate, young Percy Drummond has no intention of letting the country atmosphere soften his rebellious ways. Then he meets a vill...

  • The Treasure of the Celtic Triangle

    The Green Hills of Snowdonia - 1

    Join Percy Drummond on a search that takes him from Scotland to Ireland and a treasure that is closer than imagined. Having accepted his uncle’s dying request, Percy begins an unforgettable quest to solve the hidden mystery of the Westbrooke estate...

  • Hell and Beyond

    Beyond - 1

    “Michael Phillips has done the impossible -- written a thriller on hell:” The final book in the spiritual fantasy trilogy, following Heaven and Beyond (C. Baxter Kruger, author of The Shack Revisited).   A prominent atheist dies unexpec...

  • The Cappuccino Club

    In this theological novel, the author of Hell and Beyond weaves a fascinating story that challenges the orthodoxies of Christian evangelism.On Eternity Drive sits a coffee shop called Cappuccino Heaven. There, Christian author Jack Ramsay gets togeth...

  • The Sword, the Garden, and the King

    In this Christian fantasy novel for children of all ages, a young boy embarks on a perilous adventure to save the creatures of a magical forest.When fourteen-year-old Matthew Robinson enters the Forest of Pellanor, he and his brother and sister have ...

  • Jesus, an Obedient Son

    For many years, best-selling author Michael Phillips assumed he clearly understood the life of Jesus. Though Jesus was in truth his Savior, and even his Lord, Phillips felt challenged to understand more of the remarkable life lived two thousand years...

  • Murder by Quill

    A writer’s retreat in northern Scotland becomes a master class in murder in this clever mystery novel.The winners of a prestigious writing contest have been gathered for a writer’s retreat in the home of wealthy philanthropist Hugh Barrabault. Lo...

  • Heaven and Beyond

    Beyond - 2

    The author of The Garden at the Edge of Beyond continues his Christian fantasy saga as a tragedy on Earth sends a man on a journey through eternity.The man started his Easter Sunday at sunrise, as he did every year. Amidst the beauty of God’s creat...

  • The Inheritance

    Secrets of the Shetlands - 1

    The death of the clan patriarch has thrown the tiny Shetland Islands community of Whale's Reef into turmoil. Everyone assumed MacGregor Tulloch's heir to be his grand-nephew David, a local favorite, but when it is discovered that MacGregor left no wi...



  • The Cottage

    Secrets of the Shetlands - 2

    When Loni Ford is informed that she has inherited property in the Shetland Islands, she laughs. She wants nothing more than to sell it and be done with it. But when she arrives in the North Sea enclave, she is stunned to find that "the Cottage" is no...

  • The Legacy

    Secrets of the Shetlands - 3

    The Dramatic Conclusion to Michael Phillips's Shetland Islands Saga Loni Ford's unexpected inheritance of substantial real estate--not to mention a title--in the Shetland Islands has caused more than a stir in the quiet fishing hamlet of Whales Re...

  • American Dreams Trilogy

    All three novels in the acclaimed Christian author’s historical fiction series about a Southern family following God’s will as Civil War tensions rise.Dream of FreedomIn the pre-Civil War South, Richmond Davidson and his family decide to follow G...

  • The Beyond Trilogy

    All three novels in the devotional author’s Christian fantasy saga inspired by the works of George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis.The Garden at the Edge of BeyondWhen a middle-aged man embarks on an enlightening and dreamlike theological journey, he awak...

  • The Eyewitness Gospel

    The acclaimed Christian novelist and devotional author brings the Bible to life with this engaging fictionalized account of the Gospel and its writing.A small and insignificant village a few miles south of Jerusalem has been chosen by the heavens for...

  • Where's Jesus

    Where's Jesus is a story about a man obsessed with finding the physical man Jesus Christ. In his obsession he explores his sexuality with his mistress and alienates his wife who also strays from the marriage....

  • The Treasure of the Celtic Triangle: Wales

    The Green Hills of Snowdonia - 2

    A “heart wrenching and beautiful” adventure in the series set on the rugged Welsh coast from the bestselling author of From Across the Ancient Waters (Eclectic Reading).Join Percy Drummond on a search that takes him from Scotland to Ireland and a...

  • The Scorned and the Slayer

    In the tropical continent of Gutom exists dense jungles and bustling cities. To the north lies the nations established by the human and dwarven refugees of the continent of Umin. To the south lies the native nations of Gutom. For years, a fragile sta...

  • When Morpheus Overslept

    Brilliant physicist Henry Sullivan attempts to colonize TRAPPIST-1e in order to prove his superluminal theories, but is instead marooned and trapped by a terrifying alien in a ruined city and haunted by the ghost of his wife. When he discovers the t...

  • Beyond the Empyrean

    Along Time's Edge - 1

    27th century metahuman Heliodore 'Hel' Brand is a genetically engineered warrior who has the physical strength and endurance of a demigod. Like many of his fellow metahumans, his immense gifts are wasted in the mines of Gehenna for one of the oligarc...

  • The Lightning-Struck Tree

    Along Time's Edge - 2

    In this sequel to Beyond the Empyrean, Hel Brand-a genetically engineered hero and rebellion leader-fights demons, dragons, and wizards, encounters talking animals, and meets a few old friends and enemies along the way. Part fantasy, part horror, and...

  • The Invisible War

    Tribulation Cult - 1

    What will the political and cultural landscape look like to Christians in 2050? Will progressivism have eliminated Christian values altogether? Will the Christian foundations of America stage a comeback? Will Christians be anticipating the end times?...

  • Birth of a Remnant

    After a shocking presidential assassination in the early 2030s, this second installment of the Tribulation Cult series continues to follow the lives of four former college friends. Their divergent life paths take two of their number to the very summi...

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Michael Phillips has published 62 books.

Michael Phillips does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Birth of a Remnant, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Michael Phillips, Philosophy and Science Fiction, was published in April 1984.

Yes. Michael Phillips has 15 series.
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