Amanda Dykes Books In Order

Publication Order of Whose Waves These Are Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Kissing Tree Novella Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Amanda Dykes is a published American author.

She loves to drink tea, enjoys tales of redemption, and loves writing her own stories filled with hope. She likes to spend lots of her days going after words and wonder along with her family. She is a former English teacher that really enjoys happy endings and classic literature.

Amanda Dykes is the winner of a Booklist 2019 Top Ten title, a 2020 Christy Award Book of the Year, and an INSPY Award for Whose Waves These Are (her debut novel). She is also the author of Christy Award finalist book Set the Stars Alight, the Kipp Award winner Yours is the Night, All the Lost Places, which received positive reviews from a number of sources including Library Journal and Booklist, and several novellas.

Amanda is also a Christian and has a gratefulness in her heart for the grace of God. The author of her life, she says, gave her a heart that is full of words. They tumble around in her brain until she decides to put them loose on paper with some ink and pour them out, from revelations and stories.

Her hope is to invite the reader in and sit with them for some time and even draw closer to Jesus together as she makes homes for her revelations and stories. She has many stories inside her, such as one set in the mountains in the early 1900’s, or different characters that come out from an estate in the forest to experience the city of San Francisco at the turn of the century.

Whose Waves These Are is a 2019 novel from Amanda Dykes. If you have been looking for an interesting romance that links two different time frames, then you have come to the right place!

A fisherman going through stages of grief decides to put in a poem to the local newspaper in the wake following World War II. The poem is a cry for purpose, for hope, and for rocks. He puts the message out that if you send him a rock that represents the person that was lost, he will in turn build something life giving.

The poem was just something innocent that he sent in, but news of it spreads quicker and even farther than he ever could have thought. He didn’t intend to do so, but his simple words are able to reach people. Tons of rocks come to the tiny town on the Maine coast. Robert Bliss decides that it’s time to get to work building, but it all comes to a sudden stop when a sudden tragedy hits.

Many decades later, a woman named Annie Sawyer is suddenly called back to Ansel-by-the-Sea. The reason is that her Great-Uncle Robert needs some help. He has a great refuge for her when she was young, during one of the most difficult summers of her life. The last thing that she thought was that she was going to find a wall of boxes hidden away in his home.

Then Annie recalls stone ruins close by on an island, and she suddenly gets curious. She has the soul of an anthropologist, and she’s set out to get to the bottom of things and find some answers. In order to do so, she decides to join up with a harbor postman, a man who is as handsome as he is mysterious.

All of the hopes that she had for being able to heal the chasm that has been gaping in her family for decades seem to be urging her towards the ruins. Could it be that it holds the answers that she had been hoping that she would find?

However, Robert is getting steadily more ill. Annie is doing all that she can to try and find the answers that she needs, fighting against time, something that will always be an obstacle no matter what. Can she accomplish what she wants, or is it destined to elude her? Read this book from Amanda Dykes to find out!

Set the Stars Alight is a 2020 novel from Amanda Dykes. If you have been looking for a sweet romantic story, this is the one for you!

Main character Lucy Clairmont had a family that always treasured all of the magic of the past. The fascination that she had as a child with the stories featuring the high seas continued to influence her as she became an adult and worked as a marine archaeologist.

However, she may find help when a tragedy hits. Dashel is an American forensic astronomer and knows all about the stars. This may end up helping her get to the bottom of the truth that is laying behind a puzzle that she has found in the home.

It is about two hundred years later when a boy and a girl spend many of their days playing in a sea cave. There a young son of the estate wants to join and looks on their play. The children grow up and the war leads to heartbreak. This is a story told of love as well as sacrifice, redemption, and betrayal.

Lucy and Dash go to an old estate on the coast of East Sussex, looking for something. But what they search for may just end up leading them to unexpectedly find a community of souls as well as a story that has been hidden away for a long time that may have all of the answers and the healing that they are looking for. Can they find it, or will they be disappointed?

Only by picking up a copy of Set the Stars Alight by Amanda Dykes will you find out! Be sure to go out and grab a copy today so that you can follow along with Lucy and Dash as they try to find what it is that they are searching for (and you can discover whether they do so or not). A fun read that will not fail to keep you enchanted as well as entertained!