Reading Order
I’ve plotted the Midlife Recorder series, sometimes called the Gretna Green Series, to include seven major books that cover each of the realms or kingdoms that the Gateway leads to and three minor Gateway and Gateway Cottage diversions just for fun—cos heaven knows we all need more fun.
This paranormal cozy fantasy series blends magic, midlife adventures, Found family, female friendship, and new beginnings in the heart of Gretna Green, Scotland.
If you would prefer a version that includes ALL the bonuses and see where the stories in Spilling the Tea fit in to the storyline. That guide is HERE.
The books in order so far:
The first book in the Midlife Recorder Series is Midlife in Gretna Green
1: Midlife in Gretna Green
Published on July 4th 2022
Niki’s introduction to the whole confusing world in the Gretna Green Gateway (Green on the Gateway star) including a sentient house and some other wonderful characters human and not-so-human.
ISBN: 979-8837010774
ASIN: B0B5VP1MDC
The second book in the Midlife Recorder Series is Painting the Blues in Gretna Green
2. Painting the Blues in Gretna Green
Published 5th November 2022.
Dola, along with Niki and her best friend Aysha fix a 1000-year-old injustice for Queen Breanna in the Pict kingdom. (Blue on the Gateway star)
Niki is re-introduced to the man she had a crush on when she was 11.
ISBN: 979-8360228431
ASIN: B0BKQDVSQ4
Book three in the Midlife Recorder Series is Ties that Bond in Gretna Green
3. Ties that Bond in Gretna Green
Published 9th February 2023.
It’s Valentine’s week in the Gateway and Niki’s first bondings don’t go to plan. Cue hilarity, heartbreak and prophecies for some of our favourite characters.
ISBN: 979-8376517017
ASIN: B0BKQLNQZZ
3.5. House Party in Gretna Green
Published in August 2023
A 100-page novella which fits between Ties and Seeing Red. Dola is 1400-years-old … on Sunday. Niki decides to throw her a surprise birthday party. This was a thank you to my readers for their support. You can read the story about it here.
Book four in the Midlife Recorder Series is Seeing Red in Gretna Green
4. Seeing Red in Gretna Green
Published 28th September 2023
(Red on the Gateway star)
Niki reluctantly sets off to visit Dai in his ‘lovely mountain home’
Along the way, she learns more about Dai and the Red Celt dragons’ politics than she ever needed to know.
ISBN: 979-8858221838
ASIN: B0C6R2HT6Q
Book five in the Midlife Recorder Series is Code Yellow in Gretna Green
5.Code Yellow in Gretna Green
Published 28th March 2024
(Yellow on the Gateway star)
After the events of Seeing Red, Niki is headed for Angry Town with a side trip through Blind Fury County. But surprisingly quickly, the usual fun re-emerges.
ISBN: 979-8883907868
ASIN: B0CWK3FBDF
Book six in the Midlife Recorder Series is Market Forces in Gretna Green
6.Market Forces in Gretna Green
Published on 1st November 2024
Niki is quietly determined to put into effect her resolution that ‘Smarts not Swords’ is the modern way forward for the Gateway and the realms. Whether they like it or not. She decides to update the Gateway’s trade process.
ISBN: 979-8342858359
ASIN: B0CWZFB834
Spilling the Tea in Gretna Green is a companion book to the Midlife Recorder Series
Spilling the Tea in Gretna Green
Coming in late 2025
A companion book: Tales from the Gateway and the realms.
A late addition to the series to clear up some problems caused by the House Party novella throwing the series numbering out on Amazon.
It includes some looooong novellas and short stories we’ll want to read before Orange. It also answers some questions about that letter from Niki’s mother and how Rhiannon helps Niki get the Book to reveal more about ‘those damn prophecies.’
If you want to see how all the bonuses and the stories from Tea fit into the main series, you can read that HERE.
Book seven in the Midlife Recorder Series will be Half an Orange in Gretna Green
7. Half an Orange in Gretna Green
Will be out in 2026 – I have no idea when.
It’s sitting on Rhiannon’s Naughty Step and will be re-written next year.
(Orange on the Gateway star)
Orange is the book about the Galician realm and I can’t say any more, as it would include spoilers for Market Forces.
8. Shrieking Violet in Gretna Green
The Fae realm and much, much more, including Niki’s mother.
9. Silver Shadows in Gretna Green
The final Gateway and Gateway Cottage-based ‘joining book’ as I call them. (Along with Ties and Market Forces). This book brings a few more confusing things to a conclusion.
10: False Indigo in Gretna Green
The final book in the main story line.
What then?
Please don’t panic. This doesn’t mean it will be the last book I write about the Gateway. It simply means that this first phase of the story comes to a conclusion.
This makes the planned main series ten full books. But I wouldn’t be surprised if another companion collection or bonus novella or two appears before we’re finished. Or they’ll be available free via my newsletter as the bonuses on the first three books are.
If you need the most current info
You will always get the latest info on this page which gives you all my current dates and ‘The State of the Author’
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