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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2011
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A By the Sea Novel

1 - True to Me (Dec-2019)
2 - No Place Too Far (Sep-2020)

Hart's Ridge

1 - Hart's Ridge (Jan-2023)
2 - Lucy In the Sky (Feb-2023)
3 - In My Life (Mar-2023)
4 - Borrowed Time (Apr-2023)
5 - Instant Karma (May-2023)
6 - Nobody Told Me (Aug-2023)

Sworn Sisters

1 - A Welcome Misfortune (Dec-2020)
2 - To Move the World (Dec-2020)

Tales of the Scavenger's Daughters

1 - The Scavenger's Daughters (Aug-2013)
2 - Tangled Vines (Dec-2013)
3 - Bitter Winds (Apr-2014)
4 - Red Skies (Aug-2015)
5 - The Palest Ink (Nov-2015)

The Wishing Tree

1 - The Wishing Tree (Feb-2022)

Multi-Author Series List

Sail Away

5 - Caroline, Adrift (Feb-2023)

Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • After an episode of prejudice rocks her usually secure world, Mia hops a plane back to the country of her birth to search for details about her birth parents, and confront the feelings of abandonment she has kept buried throughout her life. What begi...



  • Mei Li has just about had it with Cameron's teasing, and she daydreams of having a fairy godmother. Instead she is granted with a wise old teacher from China who appears at her bedside! With his magic cane and his gentle ways, Laoshi takes Mei Li on ...



  • Chai and Josi share a bond that transcends ordinary friendship. While Chai has always been Josi’s protector -- ever since they were toddlers, growing up together in a small Chinese village -- she finds herself helpless when they are both abducted f...



  • Sometimes only a Daddy's dose of wisdom high up in a tree house can make you see it's not what we look like on the outside, but instead the love on the inside that makes us family. Eyes Like Mine is a story of a father and son, but more importantly -...



  • Having survived torture and imprisonment during China’s Cultural Revolution, Benfu escaped to find love with his compassionate and beautiful Calla Lily. Together they build a fulfilling life around the most menial of jobs -- Benfu’s work collecti...



  • With the bad memories of the Cultural Revolution and a life of hard work behind them, Benfu and his treasured Calla Lily are content watching their daughters blossom -- six young women who they adopted as their own. But when a clue to the whereabouts...



  • The third book of the Tales of the Scavenger’s Daughters series, Bitter Winds continues the saga of Chinese couple Benfu and Calli, and the abandoned young women in their care. Since the night her sister was almost burned alive in a fire and the...



  • In the fourth book of the Tales of the Scavenger’s Daughters series, the fates of three people who’ve never met converge in profound and unexpected ways. Mari, the daughter of the town scavenger, grew up knowing hardship, but she never could h...



  • A sheltered son from an intellectual family in Shanghai, Benfu spends 1966 anticipating a promising violinist career and an arranged marriage. On the other side of town lives Pony Boy, a member of a lower-class family -- but Benfu’s best friend all...






  • In her first work of contemporary women’s fiction, bestselling author Kay Bratt draws on her own life experiences to create a raw, yet inescapably warm, novel about friendship and a wary heart’s unexpected capacity to love. A hungry, stray dog...



  • A heart-racing tale of resilience and hope. When Sadie Harlan visits her daughter, Lauren, at her summer internship in Yosemite National Park, it seems like the perfect way to forget about her empty nest and failing marriage back home. But when th...



  • From the bestselling author of Wish Me Home comes a breathtaking novel about the secrets that families keep and one woman’s illuminating search for the truth. Quinn Maguire has a stable life, a fiancé, and what she thinks is a clear vision for ...



  • Maggie Dalton was forced to uproot her entire life to protect herself and her son. Just when she thinks she’s outrun her past, she’ll have to face her fears in this emotional and suspenseful novel by the bestselling author of Wish Me Home. Aft...



  • Inspired by real events, To Move the World weaves a story of family loyalty and love. A historical fiction piece set during a tumultuos time when Chinese Americans faced persecution. They had to overcome many obstacles to establish an identity in a n...




  • Wishes in branches tied with string. Someone's hopes. Another's dreams. Welcome to Linden Falls, Vermont, the picturesque small town that everyone dreams of living in. Within the charming streets of a community of people who care about one anoth...



  • ★ If Robyn Carr and Melinda Leigh had a book-baby, Hart's Ridge would be it. Join Kay Bratt in this small town mystery series with cases to solve, and a small-town deputy determined to do it.When five-year-old Molly walks into a gas station on ...



  • After the death of her beloved James, one woman faces a future of feeling adrift and must find a reason to go on without the love of her life, from the bestselling author of Wish Me Home.When Caroline McClellan's beloved husband passes away, she...










  • In Nobody Told Me, the sixth book in the Hart's Ridge small-town mystery series by Kay Bratt, Deputy Taylor Gray is called upon to investigate the sudden disappearance of a beloved young man. With time running out, she races against the clock to unco...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kay Bratt has published 23 books.

Kay Bratt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Nobody Told Me, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Kay Bratt, Chasing China, was published in November 2011.

Yes. Kay Bratt has 5 series.