Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Treasure Hunt Vacation | 1988 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 2 | The Devil You Know | 1992 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 3 | Stone Angel | 1992 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 4 | And The Bride Wore Black | 1993 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 5 | Cold Fire | 1993 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 6 | Cruel Conspiracy | 1993 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 7 | Sweet Betrayal | 1993 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 8 | Gentle Savage | 1993 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 9 | Lovers Not Friends | 1994 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 10 | Web Of Darkness | 1994 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 11 | Knight in Black Velvet | 1994 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 12 | A Heartless Marriage | 1994 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 13 | The Sultan’s Favourite | 1994 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 14 | Dark Oasis | 1994 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 15 | The Twisted Cord | 1995 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 16 | Lace and Satin | 1995 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 17 | Reckless Flirtation | 1996 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 18 | Satisfaction Guaranteed | 1997 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 19 | For a Mother’s Love | 1997 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 20 | Mistletoe Mistress | 1998 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 21 | The Bride’s Secret | 1998 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 22 | A Very Private Revenge | 1998 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 23 | Alone Beneath the Heaven | 1998 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 24 | A Man Worth Waiting For | 1998 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 25 | The Marriage Solution | 1998 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 26 | Reach for Tomorrow | 1999 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 27 | Mistress To A Millionaire | 2000 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 28 | Ragamuffin Angel | 2000 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 29 | A Whirlwind Marriage | 2000 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 30 | The Stony Path | 2001 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 31 | Sleeping Partners | 2001 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 32 | The Urchin’s Song | 2002 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 33 | Christmas at His Command | 2002 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 34 | Candles in the Storm | 2003 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 35 | The Parisian Playboy | 2003 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 36 | The Most Precious Thing | 2004 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 37 | The Passionate Husband | 2005 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 38 | A Ruthless Agreement | 2005 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 39 | Always I’ll Remember | 2005 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 40 | The Rainbow Years | 2006 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 41 | Skylarks At Sunset | 2007 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 42 | Above The Harvest Moon | 2007 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 43 | Eve and Her Sisters | 2008 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 44 | Gilding the Lily | 2009 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 45 | Born to Trouble | 2009 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 46 | Forever Yours | 2010 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 47 | The Beautiful Widow | 2011 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 48 | Break of Dawn | 2011 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 49 | In the Italian’s Sights | 2012 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 50 | Dancing in the Moonlight | 2013 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 51 | Beyond the Veil of Tears | 2014 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 52 | The Colours of Love | 2015 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 53 | Snowflakes in the Wind | 2016 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 54 | A Winter Love Song | 2018 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 55 | Beneath a Frosty Moon | 2018 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 56 | One Snowy Night | 2020 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 57 | The Storm Child | 2021 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 58 | The Winter Rose | 2021 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 59 | After the First Frost | 2023 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
| 60 | Believing in Tomorrow | 2023 | Rita Bradshaw | Buy |
Rita Bradshaw’s sixty standalone novels represent the full range of her career, from early Harlequin romances in the late 1980s and early 1990s to the sweeping historical sagas she became best known for. The Harlequin titles — Stone Angel, Sweet Betrayal, A Heartless Marriage — are compact contemporary romances, while her later work grew into the multigenerational family sagas set in England’s industrial north.
Books like Alone Beneath the Heaven, Ragamuffin Angel, and The Urchin’s Song follow working-class women through hardship and war in the early twentieth century. Her more recent novels — The Storm Child, The Winter Rose, and Believing in Tomorrow — continue this tradition, drawing on the landscape and social history of northern England to tell stories of resilience and love across difficult times.