Mysteries and Suspense with a Dash of Romance
Coming Soon
The Bride in Ghostly White is part of the Miss Beale Writes series :: A Touch of Mystery, A Touch of Gothic, A Touch of Romance.
This Vintage Gothic series began with The Dark Lord. The six novellas will each capture a different era of English history.
- Already published is The Dark Lord, set during the Regency period.
- The Bride in Ghostly White will be Victorian.
While these novellas may be purchased separately, they will be collected in the duology Perils in Lace and Hard Iron.
- The following two novellas will be set in Medieval and Renaissance England.
- The final two will be set in Cavalier / Restoration and Georgian England.
- The ghosts, however, are outside of time constraints =).
The Dark Lord
~ Regency England ~ the Northern Moors ~
Everyone knows there’s no such thing as ghosts.
Tell that to the two ghosts haunting Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Fortescue comes to Feldstone Grange seeking the position of housekeeper. She expects the Baron Harcourt to claim she’s too young and pretty for the position, even though she’s qualified and has excellent references.
Yet the baron is desperate to hire someone, having lost five housekeepers over the past six months. He doesn’t know what drove them away.
On her first night at the Grange, Elizabeth encounters two ghosts. One is the well-known Silent Lady; none of the servants know anything about the other ghost.
Over the next week, her connection with Lord Harcourt becomes more than servant to employer. She likes her position and her employer. He also appears to like her, wanting to meet with her daily.
One ghost, though, persists in its haunting of her, enticing her to follow it.
Is it a real ghost? Is a fellow servant attempting to terrify her? Or does someone have a wicked reason to haunt the new housekeeper?
Elizabeth doesn’t know the answer—but she has more incentive to stay than leave.
Will she remain at the Grange? Or will the second ghost’s increasing hauntings drive her away?
Or will the ghost lead her into death?
This novella released in 2022.
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2025 Release ~ Courting Trouble
Courting Trouble ~ 3 novelettes that offer 3 Invitations to Death. Each features the private secretary Nedda Courtland, introduced in the Sailing with Mystery collection, the 2024 release.
It’s 1925, and Nedda comes with her wealthy boss to the southern United States to invest in the petroleum industry. She never expects to meet Death.
View the trailer here.
Spanish Moss ~ A Death, a Will, and a Way
“Poison” is one of the last words Nedda Courtland’s wealthy employer speaks in the hours before his death.
With no evidence of murder, she can only fulfill Mr. Ingram’s last wishes as the executrix of his will and wield her proxy to disrupt the negotiations with an oil company.
She never expects another murder.
Read the opening at M.A. Lee’s blog.
Texas Sun ~ Methods, Means, and Opportunity.
The grime of a working oil field draws together people at odds with the summer heat and with each other.
In the heady flush of a new romance, Nedda tries to ignore the blazing tensions, yet troubling shadows have gathered.
Then Death makes his entrance, and the grim pressures erupt.
Gulf Storm ~ Bribe. Conspire. Die.
A hurricane threatens to disrupt the wedding festivities of Nedda and Hank.
With the approaching storm are a whirl of human crimes, and an accusation of a past misdeed rages from the shadows.
Will the hurricane’s landfall shred Nedda’s dreams, or will Death wreak its lethal destruction?
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Poison. Sabotage. Blackmail. Murder. What’s a private secretary to do?
2024 Release ~ Sailing with Mystery
The collection of puzzle mysteries, Sailing with Mystery, is available in ebook and paperback. See below for LINKS!
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Puzzling crimes and dangerous intrigue confront Isabella as she sails from England to India.
“Amber Dreams” :: Blackmail threatens a young bride. Can Isabella recover a stolen diary before the bride loses all hope?
“Purple Poison” :: Poison pen letters filled with vicious invective attack the passengers on the ship Nomadic. Will Isabella discover the culprit before tragedy occurs?
“Black Heart” :: A trickster targets the passengers aboard ship. When one prank causes injury, can Isabella locate the trickster before the next mishap turns deadly?
“Silver Web” :: Accusations fly when passengers discover a jewel thief at work. When the thief dies, proof of theft in his hand, will Isabella locate his accomplice and the missing jewelry before they reach the next port?
“Red Mask” :: Isabella receives a disturbing letter—only for it to be stolen before she deciphers it. The letter claims that a spy is aboard, but is that the only person hiding their true identity on the passenger ship?
2022 Release with Edie Roones
Visit Edie Roones’ page on this site to discover M’s collaboration with Edie, a fusion of the legends of Robin Hoods and the dangerous Faeries of British myth ~ Wild Sherwood
The collection Into Wild Sherwood, with five short stories:
“Tod the Fox and the Faeries in the Ring”
“The Poisoner and the Faerie Huntsman”
“Three Yule Feasts for the Faeries”
“Friar Tuck and the Faerie in the Pool”
“Alan a Dale and the Harp of Elandrielle”
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2020 Release ~ The Lion’s Den
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Set in London, 1922 ~ The Lion’s Den
Jack Portman had never forgotten Filly Malvaise.
Then she walked into his pub and into the clutches of a loan shark.
Can he rescue her before she falls victim to evil?
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2016 to 2021 ~ Into Death series
A 1919-1920 Series featuring the artist Isabella Newcombe
1st ~ Look for more on Digging into Death .
View the Trailer here or below and purchase here.
Stranded on Crete, Isabella Newcombe finesses a refuge with English archaeologists resuming their dig after WWI. Her sketches fortuitously land her a
job illustrating the dig for Prof. Gawen Tarrant. His magnetic brother Madoc charms her with his interest.
The dig seethes with undercurrents, revealed when a worker is murdered. Suspicions escalate. Then the dig sites are vandalized. Artifacts go missing.
Are the Tarrant brothers stealing to fund more digs? Is Nigel Arkwright undermining the dig as revenge for Gawen’s flirtation with Nigel’s wife? Is Monty Standings damaging Gawen’s reputation? Even the archaeological students could be involved.
Falling in love with Madoc, Isabella doesn’t know who to trust. Then one of the students is murdered while his photographic archive is destroyed. With her illustrations as the only record of the artifacts, Isabella belatedly recognizes the dangers of Digging into Death.
2nd ~ Find CHRISTMAS WITH DEATH here.
Christmas is for miracles, merriment, and murder.
An English country Christmas in 1919 should be a joyful celebration. With money tight, Isabella and her friends accept an invitation to Emberley, a grand country house owned by the Malvaise family.
Yet rumors of affaires and drug addiction as well as accusations of blackmail sour the holiday atmosphere. The four friends plan to leave before New Year’s Eve, then Isabella and her fiancé Madoc discover the body of a fellow visitor, shot dead and left lying in an ice-skimmed pond.
With multiple motives and suspects, will Scotland Yard solve the crime before Isabella is the murderer’s next target? Will an imperfect murder be impossible to solve?
View the trailer for Christmas with Death at this link.
3rd: Portrait with Death ~ When murder paints with blood.
Isabella Newcombe Tarrant must finish her commission to paint a portrait before she can join her husband in India. She travels to Greavley Abbey School in the sleepy village of Upper Wellsford. There she meets the young photographer Flick Sherborne, and they become friends.
Then murder intrudes.
Isabella and Flick stumble upon the body of George Webberly, a teacher at Greavley Abbey School. He’s been bludgeoned to death.
Why would anyone kill a school master? Motives abound, and suspects increase. Fellow teaching masters. A former soldier haunted by the nightmares of the war. Three ladies were rivals for Webberly’s attentions. Their husbands may have clubbed him and cracked open his head. A photographer. Three fishermen. A medic. The pub owner and his wife. The local constable.
Who committed the murder? Can Isabella find the answer? Or will a murderer paint with more blood?
View the Trailer here: https://youtu.be/6cfEOGy-fXQ
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2015 to 2020 Releases ~The Hearts in Hazard series
All 12 of the Hearts in Hazard books are available in ebook and paperback forms. The stand-alone series is available from multiple online retailers, including Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and more. Click here for the wide distribution of the most recent Hearts in Hazard book, The Hazard with Hearts.
A Game of Secrets ~ View the information and trailer here and purchase here
A Game of Spies ~ View the information and the trailer and purchase here
A Game with Hearts ~ View the information and the trailer and purchase here
The Dangers of Secrets ~ View the information and a new trailer and purchase here
The Dangers for Spies ~ information and a trailer here and purchase here
The Dangers to Hearts ~ view information here and purchase here
The Key to Secrets ~ view the trailer here and purchase here
The Key for Spies ~ view the trailer here and purchase here
The Key with Hearts ~ view the trailer here and purchase here
The Hazard of Secrets ~ view the trailer here and purchase here.
The Hazard for Spies ~ view the trailer here and purchase here.
The Hazard with Hearts ~ view the trailer here and purchase here.
Listen to the audio of the 1st chapter at this link, available now.
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M.A. Lee’s NonFiction
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