Valerie Holmes

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2003
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • The Master of Monkton Manor

    Homeless, Megan Clegg is forced to take up a position as lady's maid in Manor House, the home of Lady Mary Jarvis and her son, Samuel, who runs the estate. But soon Megan begins to suspect that behind the manor's dignified exterior something sinister...

  • The Kindly Light

    Annie Darton's life was happiness itself, living with her father, the lighthouse keeper of Gannet Rock, until an accident changed their lives forever. Forced to move, Annie's path crosses with the attractive stranger, Zachariah Rudd. Shrouded in myst...

  • Hannah of Harpham Hall

    Hannah Harpham's world is thrown into turmoil when the maid she has had since childhood is summarily dismissed. Hannah then faces an uncertain future as she is sent away from her family home, as dictated by her stepmother, Lady Alicia Harpham. Determ...

  • Phoebe's Challenge

    Phoebe and her younger brother Tom escape from the cotton mills that fate had left them in; and, therefore, from the evil grip of Benjamin Bladderwell...Helped by a stranger, they make their way to the north-east coast to trace their mother's family....

  • Amelia's Knight

    Amelia and her sister Ruth have mixed feelings when their impetuous mother decides they should stay with her sister, Sarah, in the harbour town of Whitby, for Amelia cannot envisage them finding suitable husbands there. However, once she has set eyes...

  • Oberon's Child

    Faith is wilful and beautiful and loves her mother, Prudence, dearly. However, she hates the man she calls 'Father'. Oberon Wild is a proud, overbearing man who succeeded in making a fortune through his mill, but who failed at the one thing he wanted...

  • Rebecca's Revenge

    Rebecca's life is thrown into turmoil when she cannot keep up rent payments. Help is offered by Paignton of Gorebeck Lodge, although Rebecca is reluctant to leave with him. However, determined to survive, Rebecca takes the offered position at the Lod...

  • The Captain's Creek

    Maggie's life is interrupted when she discovers an exhausted stranger on the beach. With her father away, she trusts her own intuition, and risks sheltering the man. Little does Maggie realize that this will jeopardize her plans to open up a school....

  • Miss Georgina's Cure

    When Georgina's path crosses with that of William Philip Carter's horse, her life takes a dramatic and unexpected turn for the better. The affluent and mysterious Mr Carter placates her anxious mother and takes both of them into his manor house. Unwi...



  • Caleb's Faith

    Faith Berry's naivety nearly lands her in gaol when she tries to warn a gathered crowd of villagers that the militia is about to arrive to arrest them. Little does she realise that the leaders are not the good men that she has always presumed them to...

  • The Seabright Shadows

    Elizabeth, bound to a marriage she wants no part in, is strong willed and determined to free herself from the arrangement her father Silas has made. But she is trapped. The family's fortunes are linked to and dependent upon her marriage to Mr Timothy...

  • Heart And Soul

    After shame and scandal mar her good name, Flora escapes from the village in which she has grown up. However, she finds that fate has placed her destiny in the hands of the mysterious Mr Simkin. Together they brave the treacherous weather in order to...

  • A Stranger's Love

    Megan has good reason to hate the prosperous Ackton family, the mill owners whom she holds responsible for her mother's death. However, determined that they will not shorten her life, she runs away. After falling into a canal, she is accused of being...

  • Bethany's Justice

    When Bethany walks with her friend, Kezzie, to the neighbouring fair, she has no way of knowing that their journey will lead to peril and humiliation. Her friend's infatuation with Bill Judd nearly causes the fall of both young women....

  • Felicity Moon

    Felicity Moon hits her employer, Julian Cannon, in self defence, forcing her to leave the place where her father had sent her for her own safety. She is given one last chance by Cannon's housekeeper in the form of a reference to Lucas Packman, a man ...

  • The Valiant Fool

    Emma and her mother, Lydia, do not anticipate the consequences of Emma's kindly actions when she stumbles across an injured man on the dunes. In saving Montgomery Wild's life, she unwittingly finds the key to unlock their family's future...

  • Tabitha's Trials

    Tabitha is reluctantly released from St Mary's Establishment for Impoverished Girls to go into service. With a heavy heart, she contemplates years of hard work and predictability stretching before her, little realising just what the future has to off...

  • The Baker's Apprentice

    Molly Mason dreams of escaping the clutches of her stepmother, Cecilly Cresswell. She plans to make her escape by becoming apprentice to her friend, local baker Alice Arndale. However, when Julian Cresswell, a missing soldier, presumed dead, returns ...

  • Ruth's Reality

    Ruth's sisters' marriages are planned for the following spring. When she overhears a conversation about her own future between her sister, Agatha, and her sickly father, she is devastated. They want her to accept a marriage to local fisherman, Jacob ...



  • Leap of Faith

    When Carole falls in love she thinks William feels the same about her but he's a man of faith. Carole is hesitant about expressing her true feelings to him. Then, when she resolves to tell him, his beautiful ex-girlfriend arrives and Carole decides t...

  • Moving on

    Hailey had prepared her younger sister, Kate, for a life at university; a brighter future than her own. But then Kate falls in love with an older man, David, suddenly leaving Hailey free. Meanwhile, James, a successful, wealthy but unfulfilled PR man...

  • Molly's Secret

    When Molly helps a man to escape from an old mill where two Ebton villagers have left him trussed up, she unwittingly changes her own destiny, her family's and that of the village. Her secret, if discovered, would have her ostracised. The opportunity...

  • Chloe's Friend

    Miss Chloe Branton has been found a position as a laundry maid in a wealthy country house. Although she dislikes the life, she respects her father's wishes, knowing the position will be temporary. Chloe has been placed there for her own safety - wher...

  • A Phoenix Rises

    Jemma Ward's dream of a happy fmily home with her fiance, Luke, is shattered by his obsession to chase a dream of riches. Her self-esteem plummets further when, in a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, Jemma must dine alone because Luke has stood her up. Des...

  • Teresa's Treasure

    Teresa, as a child, dreamt of the day when the secret inside a tin box would be revealed to her. However, as she grows into a young woman her life changes dramatically, shattering her childhood dreams, yet she still remembers her treasure. Risking a ...

  • Stolen Treasure

    In 1809 Elizabeth Matthews shares many a childhood adventure with her soul-mate, Thomas Lamb, son of the estate’s handyman. Elizabeth is entrusted with the safe keeping of a tin box by her Mama but instead, leaves the task to Thomas’s father Jose...

  • Dead to SIn

    Nicholas Penn is summoned to Gorebeck Gaol by a man accused of rape and murder. Having been found holding the body of the last victim in his arms, the man's fate seems sealed. Nicholas is torn between a sense of duty and feelings of disgust when in t...

  • Abigail Moor

    Abigail Hammond has been raised as a lady by her guardian, Lord Edmund Hammond. However, her sheltered life ends when he falls ill. His heir, Frederick, returns to force her into a marriage of convenience. Abigail has to flee to York with her lifelon...

  • Betrayal of Innocence

    Annie works hard to keep her father from the poorhouse. However, she is wracked with guilt as she watches her friend, Georgette Davey, being used by Lady Constance. Annie longs to escape her life at the Hall, taking Georgette with her - but how? The ...



  • Roses Are Dead

    Jen has broken free of a stifling relationship and is celebrating life afresh, enjoying her independence in a new flat - until strange gifts start to arrive. With Valentine's Day approaching, the mystery of who is sending them disturbs her. She fears...

  • Augusta's Charm

    Attending her stepfather's dinner, Augusta is surprised to find that all the guests are single men. She quickly realises that she is being offered to the highest bidder. Faced with few options, Augusta finds herself leaving her home with Mr Benjamin ...

  • A Stolen Heart

    When her coach jolts to an abrupt halt, stopped by a highwayman, Ruth and her companions fear for their lives. But the gentleman robber seeks only to retrieve the papers held by Mr Upton, a business associate of Ruth's guardian; released unharmed, sh...

  • Regan's Fall

    After the death of their father and the removal of their gentle mother to debtors' prison, Regan and her brother Isaac are left in desperate circumstances. Their only hope is to appeal for aid from an estranged relative at Marram Hall, Lady Arianne, ...

  • Laura's Legacy

    Laura Pennington is the wilful daughter of self-made man Obadiah Pennington. Having risen from being a humble fisherman's daughter, she is still adjusting to her new position in society. Then fate crosses her path in the person of Mr Daniel Tranton, ...

  • Parthena's Promise

    1815: Parthena arrives in a small Yorkshire village to take up a post as governess, only to find that the family has moved away, leaving her stranded on her own in an unfamiliar place. Here she meets Jerome Fender, a soldier returning from the wars. ...

  • The Husband and Heir

    1820: Major Buckleby seeks to marry his wilful eldest daughter, Charlotte, to his former captain, Mr Travis Williamson. However, she wishes to seek out a better match of her own choosing. Her younger sister, Rhea, wants to escape from Charlotte's tem...

  • The Rose and the Rebel

    In stifling summer heat, Miss Penelope Rose decides to take a swim - scandalously, in an outdoor pool on her father's estate. Having sent off her maid, Penelope strips to her underclothes and indulges herself in the coolness of the secluded water. Bu...

  • Dead Man's Pain

    A man being pursued collides with Nicholas Penn. Assuming his pocket has been pilfered in the scuffle, Nicholas also gives chase. But the stranger fails to see a horse careering down the road, and is trampled by the animal, seemingly mortally. Later,...

  • Freedom's Flow

    1815: Raised in a convent, Ruby has been taken from its shelter to be placed in the service of Mr Sedgwick of Tilbury. Her new master is elusive, and the reason for her presence there seems a mystery. Meanwhile, Giles Marram has returned home from th...



  • The Root Of All Evil

    When Bartholomew Denton, the owner of Leaham Hall in North Yorkshire, is discovered dead in his bed, Detection Officer Sergeant Hector Blagdon is called in. Young and fit as Denton was, the death seems suspicious. Blagdon is also intrigued by the qui...

  • Maddie Mulligan

    Desperate to leave a life of poverty and ill treatment behind her, Mairead Mulligan agrees to marry Samuel Blackman, a man she has never met, and leave Ireland for the Settlement Straits of Malaya. On the way to Dublin, she has the good luck to fall ...

  • The Secret Friend

    Sophia has a secret friend, James Dalesman, her soul mate. In their youth, the two pledged that no one would ever come between them. Ten years later, Sophia is an heiress to a wealthy estate and must provide a respectable heir to carry on the family'...

  • One Man's Loss

    Sir Christian Leigh-Bolton had never intended to gamble that night the vultures circled around Sir Howard. Losing heavily and in desperation, Sir Howard foolishly wagers away his inheritance, Kingsley Hall - and Christian steps in and wins the prize....

  • Secrets

    1816, Dibbledale, a North Yorkshire village in England.Lieutenant Micah Arrow returns to the village of Dibbledale after serving in Wellington's army. Micah's mentor, Intelligence Officer Lord Oscar Farrington, is impressed with Micah's plan to turn ...

  • In Sickness And In Health

    Motherless, with a cold and distant father, Sophia Baxter-Lodge sought comfort with Isaac, the stable lad. But when Sir Kenneth found them locked in an embrace, he drove them both out in a fury. Isaac was sent to fight in the Peninsular War, and Soph...

  • To Have And To Hold

    Yorkshire, 1819. Laura is the only daughter of self-made man Obadiah Pennington. Proud of his success, Obadiah is keen to see his daughter secured in marriage to an eligible suitor. And he has his sights set on local mill owner Daniel Tranton. Wilful...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Valerie Holmes has published 46 books.

The next book by Valerie Holmes, To Have And To Hold, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by Valerie Holmes, The Master of Monkton Manor, was published in November 2003.

No. Valerie Holmes does not write books in series.
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