Murray Pura

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  • Bibliography:
    76 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1988
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Danforths of Lancashire

1 - Ashton Park (Jan-2013)
2 - Beneath the Dover Sky (Aug-2013)
3 - London Dawn (Feb-2014)

Islands

1 - Far On The Ringing Plains (Apr-2020)
2 - The Scepter And The Isle (Apr-2021)

The Name of The Hawk

1 - Legion (Sep-2013)

The Painted Sky

1 - Rio Oro (Mar-2013)
2 - The Widow & The Preacher (May-2013)
3 - The Australian Way (Jun-2013)
4 - A Church Called Lazarus (Jul-2013)
5 - The Fight (Aug-2013)
6 - Betrayal (Sep-2013)
7 - The Shadow of The Almighty (Oct-2013)
8 - All The Colors of Heaven (Dec-2013)

Preacher Man

1 - The Devil to Pay (Mar-2014)
2 - The Devil & All His Works (Apr-2014)

The Ranchers of Montana

1 - Ride the Sky (Mar-2019)
2 - Hong Kong Amish (Nov-2020)

A Road Called Love

1 - The Highway (Jan-2013)
2 - Heavens Gate (Feb-2013)
3 - Shooting Stars (Mar-2013)
4 - Thunder Road (Apr-2013)

The Rose of Lancaster County

1 - The Rose Garden (Sep-2012)
2 - The Covenant (Oct-2012)
3 - The First Frost (Nov-2012)
4 - A Rose Among Thorns (Nov-2012)
5 - The Trial (Dec-2012)
6 - The Kiss (Dec-2012)
7 - A Rose in Winter (Jan-2013)
8 - Resurrection (Feb-2013)
9 - The Execution (Mar-2013)
10 - The Wedding Quilt (Apr-2013)

Seven Oaks

1 - Plantation (Jan-2013)
2 - Stonewall (Feb-2013)
3 - The Storm (Mar-2013)
4 - Firebrand (May-2013)
5 - A Wedding In Virginia (Jun-2013)
6 - Raindrops (Oct-2013)
7 - A Seven Oaks Christmas (Dec-2013)

Snapshots in History

1 - The Wings of Morning (Feb-2012)
2 - The Face of Heaven (Aug-2012)
3 - Whispers of a New Dawn (Apr-2013)

The Zoya Septet

1 - Zo (Dec-2008)
2 - The White Birds of Morning (Mar-2011)
3 - Beautiful Skin (Jan-2017)
4 - A Sun Drenched Elsewhere (Sep-2019)
5 - The Sunflower Season (Sep-2021)

Multi-Author Series List

Murray Pura's Blue Heaven

1 - Emalyn's Treasure (Aug-2013)
2 - Blister Creek (Sep-2013)
4 - Heaven is Not Far (Oct-2013)
5 - The Whispers of Angels (Oct-2013)
9 - Love's Eternal Flame (Feb-2014)

Book List in Order: 76 titles

  • Mizzly Fitch: The Light, the Sea, the Storm

    Mizzly Fitch struggles to come to terms with the destructive forces of the sea, the deaths of fellow fishermen, and his growing religious despair, which pits him against his mother, who has hopes that he will become a minister. This entralling and po...

  • Mister Good Morning: Stories of Flesh, Blood and Holy Spirit

    This is a collection of stories about men and women and children who stumble upon crossroads. Their stories are parable, they are allegory, they are realism and short fiction -- and they are stories that will enter into you and make you part of them,...

  • The Poets of Windhover Marsh

  • Zo

    The Zoya Septet - 1

    Thick walls. Cool shadows. Sunsets fringed by blue hills and tall cornfields. A daily routine of walking dairy cattle to pasture, hoeing an herb garden, preparing meals of vegetables and cheese and bread. The smell of hot candle wax. The quiet eyes o...

  • The White Birds of Morning

    The Zoya Septet - 2

    Hidden among his Trappist friends at a secluded monastery, Andrew Chornavka has already faced one aggressive investigation into his past by the Vatican. He is certain all that his behind him, and he can return to his life of prayer and meditation, bu...

  • A Bride's Flight from Virginia City, Montana

    Join the chase as an unlikely foursome, threatened by a ruthless gang of ne'er-do-wells, strives to reach safety. Montana ranchers Zephaniah Parker and Charlotte Spence are determined to get two Amish children, who witnessed their family's massacre, ...

  • The Wings of Morning

    Snapshots in History - 1

    Lovers of Amish fiction will quickly sign on as fans of award-winning author Murray Pura as they keep turning the pages of this exciting new historical romance set in 1917 during America's participation in World War I. Jude Whetstone and Lyyndaya ...

  • The Face of Heaven

    Snapshots in History - 2

    Following on the heels of The Wings of Morning, the first book in Murray Pura's Snapshots in History series, comes this compelling saga of the Civil War. In April 1861, Lyndel Keim discovers two runaway slaves in her family's barn. When the men ar...

  • The Rose Garden

    The Rose of Lancaster County - 1

    Rose Lantz is overjoyed with her life. Her Amish family has a lovely farm in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, she has a good friend in Lydia Beiler who loves to quilt with her, her faith in God is strong and her Amish community warm and supportive, ...



  • The Covenant

    The Rose of Lancaster County - 2

    Rose's friend Lydia Beiler has striking good looks - raven black hair and brilliant blue eyes that make her look ethereal. Unfortunately, when things go wrong with their cattle and crops and families, English neighbors suspect witchcraft and immediat...

  • The First Frost

    The Rose of Lancaster County - 3

    Rose Lantz has always despised "the wild man" who lives alone in a cabin in the woods. Ethan Daniels is a frontiersman who spends half the year hunting and exploring the vast forests far west of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and she wants not...

  • A Rose Among Thorns

    The Rose of Lancaster County - 4

    Once her best friend is arrested and jailed on a charge of witchcraft Rose Lantz's life begins to unravel like thread from a quilt. The jailhouse where Lydia Belier is imprisoned is cold and bleak, the sheriff harsh and bitter, and Rose is made to fe...

  • The Kiss

    The Rose of Lancaster County - 6

    When a mob descends upon the farm of Rose Lantz only a handful of men are there to try and protect her and her family - the sheriff, his five deputies, and Ethan Daniels. Confronted with such danger and the threat to her life, Rose nevertheless finds...

  • The Trial

    The Rose of Lancaster County - 5

    Rose's best friend Lyda Belier is on trial for witchcraft and murder. As law was practised in Colonial America, Lydia's defense attorney can do little but watch the prosecution bring up witness after witness claiming to have seen Lydia do everything ...

  • Ashton Park

    The Danforths of Lancashire - 1

    Among the green hills and trees of Lancashire, only a few miles from the sea, lies the beautiful and ancient estate of Ashton Park. The year is 1916. The First World War has engulfed Europe and Sir William's and Lady Elizabeth's three sons are all...

  • The Highway

    A Road Called Love - 1

    There was nothing the police could do - the Amish girl was of age, she was leaving the community of her own free will,no laws had been broken. The state troopers could not force her back home even if the boy she was running from Pennsylvania with was...

  • Plantation

    Seven Oaks - 1

    Sarah Nunley is her Uncle Thomas’ favorite niece. Uncle Thomas is a godly man, telling her stories about Jesus and the Bible and taking her for walks in the Virginia woods to point out the marvels of Creation when she is a child. But war comes to V...

  • A Rose in Winter

    The Rose of Lancaster County - 7

    The winter snows may be falling on Lancaster County but the cold does not have a chilling effect on Rose Lantz orEthan Daniels - their love for one another, suddenly set free, blossoms from day to day. There are hay rides andsleigh rides and learning...

  • Heavens Gate

    A Road Called Love - 2

    Michal and Milwaukee's hunt for her missing sister Tabitha takes them to the beaches of Florida and east into Mississippi and Louisiana and New Orleans. They meet up with the biker who helped them after their accident and are welcomed into the home o...



  • Resurrection

    The Rose of Lancaster County - 8

    March and April are seasons of new life in Pennsylvania and Rose Lantz desperately needs that new life to heal the wounds in her soul. But along with the green leaves and bright flowers spring also brings an unwelcome guest to Lancaster Co...

  • Stonewall

    Seven Oaks - 2

    Sarah Felicity Nunley could not be more excited - her coming of age celebration is being held in the mansion's ballroom, guests have arrived from all over the county, and her uncle has brought a lovely burgundy dress for her to wear as well as dozens...

  • The Execution

    The Rose of Lancaster County - 9

    It is the most dangerous day of Rose Lantz's life, the day most full of threat and hazard and harm. Yet it swiftly becomes one of the most wonderful days of her life, a day that shines with heroism, love, and blessing. At its close she is full of gra...

  • Rio Oro

    The Painted Sky - 1

    A town of lost souls the desert wind was about to blow away. A church ready to close its doors. A preacher down on his luck and down on his faith. Five widows with nowhere to turn and no one to care. A ruthless cattle baron who wanted the town and it...

  • Shooting Stars

    A Road Called Love - 3

    The chase takes Milwaukee and Michal out of the American South and into the west: Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. The romance grows as warm as the Mojave Desert that surrounds Las Vegas and a surprise reunion only adds to the sense of joy and b...

  • The Storm

    Seven Oaks - 3

    In a few minutes everything in Sarah Nunley's life has changed and now she finds herself mistress of the plantation of Seven Oaks. The fact that Malcolm Beckett Ross has been ordered to remain at her side is both a blessing and a curse - a blessing b...

  • Whispers of a New Dawn

    Snapshots in History - 3

    The year is 1941 and Jude and Lyyndy, with their adult daughter, Rebecca, are summoned to far-off, exotic Honolulu where Rebecca, a flyer like her father, meets a likeable young pilot. The two enjoy a friendship that seems to be turning into somethin...

  • Thunder Road

    A Road Called Love - 4

    Michal is reunited with her sister Tabitha and things should be the best they have ever been. But the gang Tabitha rode with aren't about to let her disappear into the sunset. Tabitha knows where a huge stash of heroin is located and they want her to...

  • The Wedding Quilt

    The Rose of Lancaster County - 10

    Rose can't do anything about her church's decision to forbid her marriage to Ethan Daniels. But she can try and do something about another matter that upsets her - she can try and stop the hanging of Archibald Kendall, the man who did everything in h...

  • The Desperate Road

    Wells Fargo agents Remington Holt and his assistant Amos Drewery do not expect to be robbed by the infamous Pittman Gang when they are on a stagecoach run between Kansas City and St. Louis. Nor does Remington expect to fall for the most beautiful wom...



  • Olivia's Wedding

    150 years ago the history of America changed forever. Live 1863 through the stories of some of our finest writers â€" the passion, the romance, the tragedy, and the triumph.Carrie Fancett Pagels. Kathleen Maher. Joy Ross Davis. Sarah Price. Karen Ann...

  • Firebrand

    Seven Oaks - 4

    War has come to the Shenandoah Valley and to Seven Oaks but so has a romance that bit-by-bit begins to turn Sarah's mind towards thoughts of marriage. A surprise visit by her uncle, Stonewall Jackson, accompanied by cavalry commander Jeb Stuart and o...

  • The Widow & The Preacher

    The Painted Sky - 2

    Life has changed quickly for widow Marianne Freeman. Strangers on horseback who followed her on a mountain trail have turned everything in her world inside-out and upside-down. A man with vivid blue eyes, quiet strength, and a gentle touch has storme...

  • The Australian Way

    The Painted Sky - 3

    The time has come for the nine brothers to go to work - five of them on the building of a new church near Dianna's and Dana's ranches, four of them on the erection of a ranch house for Marianne, Joyeux, and Noelle. But a surprise visitor, a tall woma...

  • A Wedding In Virginia

    Seven Oaks - 5

    War still hovers over America like a dark winter cloud but it can't stop the love Malcolm and Sarah have for one another. After many changes of date and changes of plan their marriage is finally set for Saturday, February 14th, 1863 - Valentine's Day...

  • A Church Called Lazarus

    The Painted Sky - 4

    A Church is going up. So is a homestead for the widows Noelle, Joyeux, and Marianne. And while nails are hammering walls together and saws are making boards just the right length, big things are happening in the hearts of Dianna Charming and Dana Fle...

  • Beneath the Dover Sky

    The Danforths of Lancashire - 2

    For fans of the hugely popular Downton Abbey television series and lovers of British historical sagas, award-winning author Murray Pura continues the enthralling story of the Danforths of Lancashire. The second book in the series (following Ashto...

  • Emalyn's Treasure

    Murray Pura's Blue Heaven - 1

    Since the time she was six years old, the Lady Emalyn has kept a treasure hidden in the cushion of a green velvet chair, a treasure no other living soul has seen, not even her beloved husband, Owen, or her devoted housekeeper, Fiona. When Emalyn disc...

  • The Fight

    The Painted Sky - 5

    The Apache attack on the Lazarus church is swift and lethal. But the combined force of clergymen, widows, lawmen, settlers, ranchers, and Ahab Hawthorne's hired men is enough to blunt the first assault. After that the Apache surround the church and u...

  • Sweet Child of Mine

    Other fathers are going to war but young Kitt Burns sees no reason why her father should have to join them. The two of them live in another country and she doesn't believe the American Civil War is their fight. But her father has his own reasons for ...



  • Betrayal

    The Painted Sky - 6

    In the aftermath of the Apache raid, Sheriff Teddy Westcott has some questions for Marianne Freeman, questions about the murder of Ahab Hawthorne that are difficult for her to answer. Yet before the air has cleared from the attack by Blood Lance, or ...

  • Blister Creek

    Murray Pura's Blue Heaven - 2

    Justice is a young man who was raised in the Arizona desert by lawmen and had studied the law as well, but instead of choosing that path, he has turned into a hard drinking, gambling, womanizing gun fighter. After a gun fight with the wrong family tu...

  • Legion

    The Name of The Hawk - 1

    No one knows anything about him.Not where he's from or who his mother and father are.Not even the beautiful woman at his side, or the community of men and women and monks who have raised him from a child know his real name or what is in his heart and...

  • All The Pretty Little Ponies

    Young Jay Price only has a few pleasures left in life after a serious accident incapacitates her. One of them is watching the wild horse herds run and dreaming of running with them on the back of a mustang pony. But the doctors have told her not only...

  • An Amish Family Christmas

    After tragedy strikes the family of young Naomi Miller, her friend Rebecca Bachman does all she can to help. But things get complicated when Rebecca's brother, Micah, returns from a combat tour in Afghanistan. For one thing, he chose to serve in the ...

  • Heaven is Not Far

    Murray Pura's Blue Heaven - 4

    Since the time she was six years old, the Lady Emalyn has kept a treasure hidden in the cushion of a green velvet chair, a treasure no other living soul has seen, not even her beloved husband, Owen, or her devoted housekeeper, Fiona. When Emalyn disc...

  • Raindrops

    Seven Oaks - 6

    Sarah is a young bride, newly married, filled with happiness and joy, and she fills Seven Oaks with that same exuberant and bright spirit. But her marriage to dashing cavalry officer Malcolm Beckett Scott does not stop the Civil War. Soon the spring ...

  • The Shadow of The Almighty

    The Painted Sky - 7

    The hot desert of New Mexico. A band of men and women and children struggling to survive against all odds. Love blooming despite the danger and the fear. And now the coming of the outlaws nicknamed The Five Hundred led by a ruthless bandit named El S...

  • The Whispers of Angels

    Murray Pura's Blue Heaven - 5

    After being shunned by society for most of his childhood, Raymond Foss has learned to let ridicule roll off his back. Abandoned by his father and despised by his step-father, he does his best to run the farm and ensure his family can survive on what ...

  • All The Colors of Heaven

    The Painted Sky - 8

    The final volume in the Painted Sky series and the dramatic conclusion to the epic drama of New Mexico in the year following the Civil War. Will ruthless cattle barons have their way and turn southern New Mexico into a vast grazing land for their her...



  • A Seven Oaks Christmas

    Seven Oaks - 7

    1863 is a banner year for Seven Oaks plantation and the South. The victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville in the spring seems to be the next to last step to seeing the South win her independence. But suddenly everything begins to go wrong, all the...

  • London Dawn

    The Danforths of Lancashire - 3

    Readers everywhere are clamoring for books like Downton Abbey, the hit PBS Masterpiece Theater series that's taken America by storm. Those readers have become enthusiastic about The Danforths of Lancashire by award-winning author Murray Pura. In t...

  • Love's Eternal Flame

    Murray Pura's Blue Heaven - 9

  • The Preacher Man

    For some it's all myth or fantasy. Ouija boards, fortunetelling, voodoo, Satan, devil worshipers, black magic, spells and curses – none of it is real. Even for many churchgoers, it's a topic that has nothing to do with faith or worship and is b...

  • The Devil to Pay

    Preacher Man - 1

    Jude Aaron Blackstone has a new name, a new face, and a new life. Now a pastor at Blue Sky Baptist Church in Montana, Jude can leave in the past his tumultuous years as a special agent who brought the wealthy and powerful to justice when they mixed d...

  • The Devil & All His Works

    Preacher Man - 2

    One thing Jude Aaron Blackstone was never permitted to enjoy when he worked undercover as Dirk Austen was a romantic relationship with a woman. Now that he is a pastor in a small city in Montana those rules have been relaxed, at least to his way of t...

  • Beautiful Skin

    The Zoya Septet - 3

    Once upon a time there was a war and Andrew Chornavka and his family were caught up in its fires. Love, betrayal, sacrifice, heroism, savagery, things amazing and miraculous - it was all part of his world, and the world of his brothers and sisters, a...

  • All My Beautiful Tomorrows

    She wanted to be Amish more than anything else.Kirsten found herself in a unique position. She stood on the precipice of another world. She watched that world of peace and simplicity from the edge of her hectic life.Kirsten worked at Zook’s Amish D...

  • My Heart Belongs in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Clarissa's Conflict

    When War Reaches Clarissa’s Back Door, the Trustworthy Become Even Fewer. Journey into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of 1863 where Clarissa Avery Ross lives a full life. By day she is the daughter of a respectable shoemaker being courted by seminary...

  • Ride the Sky

    The Ranchers of Montana - 1

    David Lapp had been courting Tabitha Reimer for over a year before he finally decided to take her out to a special place and ask her to be his wife. That Saturday had started out in a special way -- Tabitha had dreamed once again of vast open rang...

  • Grace Rider

    Michal Troyer and Milwaukee Bachman were still in Rumspringa. Which meant they had not been baptized into the Amish faith. And after biking across America to rescue Michal's sister, they weren't sure if they did want to become Amish. They had seen...

  • A Sun Drenched Elsewhere

    The Zoya Septet - 4

    Yura's total existence has had a rough start. His mother's breakdown, his brother's chronic illness and his father's physical abuse have turned his 24/7 into a quest for healing on every level imaginable â€" mental, emotional, spiritual.But where wil...

  • Abigail's Christmas Miracle

    Abigail and her Grandfather have always enjoyed a special relationship. Especially at Christmas time on their farm in Ohio.Until this year.This year, something is wrong with Abigail's beloved Grandpa. He will not eat, he will not drink, he will not r...

  • Hawk

    I am the man Morah. I have a story to tell.It is a story of history, a story of faith, a story of love.Five hundred years after the birth of Christ, a fledgling faith is on the verge of extinction. Visigoths, Vikings and Picts have destroyed a way of...

  • The Bride from Virginia City

    Zephaniah and Charlotte scarcely knew each other and never spent any time together. He just admired her from afar. Both had their ranches to maintain in Montana. Both were busy from long before dawn to long after the sun set. Both only had a hat tip ...

  • Far On The Ringing Plains

    Islands - 1

    ISLANDS: Far On The Ringing Plains INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS In the spirit of The Thin Red Line, Hacksaw Ridge, Flags of our Fathers and Pearl Harbor.Realistic. Gritty. Gutsy. Without taking it too far, Craig and Pura take it far enough to bring war ho...

  • Hong Kong Amish

    The Ranchers of Montana - 2

    I am Solina Cheng. I led protests against the Chinese crackdown in Hong Kong. The police wanted me in a maximum security prison. They began to hunt me down. I was granted refugee status in the United States. My sponsors were an Amish church. I knew n...

  • The Light at St. Silvan's

    Sara King had lost her husband. Her son. Her faith. She wanted just to disappear. So she made her way to an island off the coast of Massachusetts, changed her name to Lyyndenna Patrick, moved into an old lighthouse keeper's cottage, and began to writ...

  • The Scepter And The Isle

    Islands - 2

    It did not end with Guadalcanal. It did not end with one island. There were more islands... an island with snow-capped peaks, friendly people, blue seas, where Bud found love with his Tongan princess. Where Billy breathed the clean air of mountains w...

  • The Sunflower Season

    The Zoya Septet - 5

    Exquisitely written, the tale is as simple as it is complex in its scope. Freeman Chernenko's maternal grandmother, a Ukrainian immigrant to America, is known in the Russian Orthodox Church as a saint because of her Joan-of-Arc-like role during ...

  • The Rose of Lancaster County

    Rose Lantz is overjoyed with her life. Her Amish family has a lovely farm in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, she has a good friend in Lydia Beiler who loves to quit with her, her faith in God is strong and her Amish community warm and supportive, a...

  • Nevena in Love

    Andrew Chornavka took on the Trappist's cowl and disappeared from the 21st century in order to forget the century before.Yet even at the secluded monastery in America the past finds him. A delegation from the Vatican arrives with questions about his ...

  • Kingfisher Cross

    LIFE HAPPENS   LOVE HAPPENS   GRACE HAPPENSThere is a great mix of lives here - the Schlabach Amish, the English, immigration from Scandinavia, Europe and Asia. No different than the rest of the world, really. In all, Kingfisher C...

  • Clara Raven

    Merck McIntyre had survived the Great War and dodged the Spanish Flu. Now he was back in the United States and had signed on with the U.S. Marshal. His plans were for a good career in law enforcement in his home state of Massachusetts. It was Th...

  • Under the Stones

    The 20s are roaring. Prohibition makes them roar even louder. After a month in the wilds enforcing Prohibition, Marshal Merck (Wednesday) McIntyre returns to Winston, Idaho to find a striking woman named Jenny Roades waiting for him. She demands...

  • Clara Raven / Under the Stones

    The combined paperback edition of the first two adventures of Wednesday McIntyre, U. S. Marshall. Clara RavenMerck McIntyre had survived the Great War and dodged the Spanish Flu. Now he was back in the United States and had signed on with the U.S. Ma...

  • Tara of Hawthorne's Hope

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Murray Pura has published 76 books.

Murray Pura does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tara of Hawthorne's Hope, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Murray Pura, Mizzly Fitch: The Light, the Sea, the Storm, was published in December 1988.

Yes. Murray Pura has 11 series.
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