Tipsy Collins Series
Where every color tells a story and every ghost has a secret—welcome to Tipsy Collins’s Charleston.
A paranormal women’s fiction series blending Southern charm, mystery, friendship, and Lowcountry magic.
The award-winning Tipsy Collins Series follows Tipsy, a clairvoyant single mom and artistic prodigy, as she solves ghostly mysteries while rebuilidng her post-divorce life in Charleston, South Carolina. As the series opens in the first novel, Charleston Green, a recently divorced Tipsy moves into a historic home in the old village of Mount Pleasant with her three kids. She discovers she’s inherited ghostly roommates: a married couple who hate each other. So begins a series of adventures wherein Tipsy meets ghosts, befriends ghosts, and makes some ghostly enemies, all in the pursuit of understanding untimely deaths and setting restless spirits free. Through it all, Tipsy must manage her own life, which includes parenting, professional, friendship, and dating challenges, while managing her irascible ex-husband.
The Tipsy Collins Series effortlessly combines multiple genres- southern women’s fiction, historical fiction, and paranormal mystery- into a wholly unique story of personal evolution and redemption. Tipsy’s rare supernatural power is the quirky lens through which she rebuilds her life after the devastating upheaval of a messy divorce. She tackles every problem with empathy, relatable humor, and of course, southern charm. All four books in the series are now available: Charleston Green, Haint Blue, Palmetto Rose, and True Indigo.
Purchase Charleston Green
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Charleston Green
#1 Amazon Bestseller/Southern Fiction!
2020 Booklife Prize for Fiction (sponsored by Publisher’s Weekly) Quarterfinalist!
2020 Readers’ Favorite Silver Medalist/Paranormal Fiction!
2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards/Paranormal Division Finalist!
2021 Annie McDonnell Memorial Literary Award Finalist!
If Tipsy Collins learned one thing from her divorce, it’s that everyone in Charleston is a little crazy- even if they’re the already dead.
Tipsy cannot ignore her nutty friends or her vindictive ex-husband, but as a lifelong reluctant clairvoyant, she’s always avoided dead people. When Tipsy and her three children move into the house on Bennett Street, she realizes some ghosts won’t be ignored.
Till death do us part didn’t pan out for Jane and Henry Mott, who’ve haunted the house for nearly a century. Tipsy’s marriage was downright felicitous when compared to Jane and Henry’s ill-fated union. Jane believes Henry killed her and then himself, and Henry vehemently denies both accusations. Unfortunately, neither phantom remembers that afternoon in 1923. Tipsy doesn’t know whether to side with Jane, who seems to be hiding something under her southern belle charm, or Henry, a mercurial creative genius. Jane and Henry draw Tipsy into their conundrum, and she uncovers secrets long concealed under layers of good manners, broken promises and soupy Lowcountry air. Living with ghosts, however, takes a toll on her health, and possibly even her sanity. Despite her renowned artistic talent, she can hardly put paintbrush to paper, and she’s broke as a bad joke. As she struggles to forge a new path for herself and her children, Tipsy has a chance to set Jane and Henry free, and release the ghosts of her own past.
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Haint Blue
2021 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Paranormal Fiction
Clairvoyant single mom Tipsy Collins is easing into a post-divorce new normal. She’s solved a century-old murder mystery and brought peace to her house. She’s rebuilding her artistic career and co-parenting with her ornery ex-husband. She’s hopeful that her boyfriend is Mr. Right. Mercurial phantom Henry Mott still haunts her house, but he’s become a dear friend. Tipsy plans to return to her lifelong habit of ignoring restless spirits.
A series of sudden financial and personal setbacks leave her feeling like she’s back to square one, until a new friendship offers unexpected financial salvation. Ivy More has been haunting a Sullivan’s Island cottage since the 1940s. Ivy’s eccentric granddaughter, Pamella Brewton, will pay big bucks if Tipsy can figure out how to free her moody, volatile Meemaw. It turns out there was more to Ivy’s death than a simple swan dive off the dock at low tide. To complicate matters, Ivy had a secret lover. Shockingly, he’s someone Tipsy has seen before.
As Tipsy struggles with heartbreak, her ex-husband’s shenanigans, and a growing sense of frustration with life, she turns to Henry for help solving Ivy’s mystery. She finds herself learning from her brooding housemate, but also from Ivy, who has far more in common with Tipsy than either of them expect.
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Palmetto Rose
Clairvoyant single mom Tipsy Collins spent the last year focused on her kids and her artistic endeavors. No dating. No fighting with her irascible ex-husband. No ghostly shenanigans. Life is drama free, but it feels stagnant, personally and professionally.
Enter a new supernatural mystery and a new beau, both replete with potential complications. After her teenage daughter ends up in the psychiatric ward, domineering retired executive Jillian Yates hires Tipsy to rid her historic Charleston mansion of spirits. The Victorian ghost-in-residence, Thomas Bonneau, is a charmer, but Tipsy senses something hiding behind his unusual amiability. In the meantime, her unexpected romance with psychiatrist Scott Brandt—her ex-in-law—stokes her former husband’s wrath.
Tipsy struggles to trust her heart, and friends and loved ones—living and dead—offer support as old insecurities threaten to keep her moribund. In order to truly blossom, Tipsy must conquer her fear of life’s thorns.
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True Indigo
Things have been going great for Tipsy Collins, the Lowcountry’s favorite clairvoyant artistic genius. Her kids are happy and healthy, she’s producing and selling her celebrated paintings, and she’s engaged to the love of her life, psychiatrist Scott Brandt. Everyone in Tipsy’s life seems content, except Henry Mott, her mercurial supernatural roommate and wannabe literary virtuoso.
Henry has been brooding for over a century, but lately, his discontent has gone into overdrive. His famous temper is out of control and he can’t write a single sentence. Henry’s malaise and its accompanying destruction threaten to complicate Tipsy and Scott’s family blending while her ex-husband haplessly navigates a second marriage crisis. As Henry slowly loses his mind, a series of unexplainable events has Tipsy combing through ghostly memories, meeting new friends and reuniting with old ones, exploring and testing the supernatural limits, and, as always, learning some priceless life lessons.
True Indigo is the highly anticipated fourth and final installment in the award-winning Tipsy Collins Series.
Reviews
Charleston Green
“I am always on the lookout for exciting new writers, and once I started reading Charleston Green by Stephanie Alexander, I was captivated.
This novel leaves the reader entranced; the writing is skillful and clever and funny. I highly recommend this book.”
NYT Best Selling Author Elin Hilderbrand
“With humor, heart and a heaping helping of Southern Charm, Charleston Green brings an entirely new meaning to the term ‘unwanted house guests.’ Tipsy is a lovable, flawed, complex heroine that readers will root for from the first page to the last—and pitch-perfect storytelling will leave fans begging for a sequel. This is Stephanie Alexander at her best!”
NYT Best Selling Author Kristy Woodson Harvey
“Stephanie Alexander does an outstanding job of… outlining a mystery and the dilemma of a psychic who… has her own relationship and family dilemmas [and] finds her own psyche buffeted by too many emotional entanglements… a thoroughly engrossing saga.”
Midwest Book Review (D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer)
“Despite dealing with such heavy matters as decades’ old murder and failing marriages, Charleston Green is a delightfully cheerful novel, full of all the warmth of a South Carolina summer. Stephanie Alexander finds just the right balance between serious moments and the fun, relatable characters….Charleston Green is the perfect read for summer. It’s breezy without being vapid, spectral without being creepy, and full of all the right points for fans of fantasy and realism alike.”
San Francisco Book Review
“Offsetting the drama of Tipsy’s struggle for a new life, Alexander refreshingly interjects charming humor into Tipsy’s dealings with the dead, the mental messages from the spirit of her sassy Granna, and the crazy antics of her besties who are looking for love….This southern tale of love and loss, life and death, and intricate family dynamics is like a taste of fried green tomatoes with a side of sweet tea, while sitting on the porch’s joggling board painted a deep Charleston Green.”
BookTrib
“An enchanting novel of a woman finding her way out of a midlife (and mid-death) crisis….Alexander blends the warm humor of her characters with balmy descriptions of her Southern gothic setting. Her descriptions of Tipsy’s paintings are particularly lyrical… It’s a breezy paranormal read, and yet one with more depth than the reader might expect from the premise. In Tipsy and her ghosts, Alexander finds a story about the frustrations of love and aging, as well as the weight that history places on the living, particularly, perhaps, in the South Carolina Lowcountry.”
Kirkus Reviews
“5 Stars… [Charleston Green is] a genuinly enjoyable drama that uplifts as it unfolds…sure to keep readers turning pages from cover to cover…filled with Southern charm and realistically drawn characters… intriguing and heartfelt.”
Review of Charleston Green, Readers’ Favorite
“With Charleston Green, Stephanie Alexander has crafted a delightfully cozy mystery that, despite not being without peril, is a fun and pleasurable read. The baddies are nicely awful, while the goodies are warm, funny, and resourceful. There’s an intriguing puzzle to be solved as well as life lessons to be learned, and it’s very entertaining to follow the escapades of the various characters, both alive and dead.”
Manhattan Book Review
“Impressively original and solidly entertaining from beginning to end, Charleston Green showcases author Stephanie Alexander’s genuine flair for deftly crafted fantasy fiction that will completely engage the reader’s full and appreciative attention.”
Small Press Bookwatch
“Charleston Green is a charming and clever novel… colorfully peopled by eccentric individuals, both living and deceased. The ghost story element and the ensuing mystery that unravels, allows a familiar story of personal growth and rediscovery, to uniquely shine. Intriguingly, this is also a love story to Charleston and the surrounding Low Country, and the author richly establishes a distinctive sense of place… eminently readable and quietly inventive, the novel’s unusual tone casts a lingering spell.”
The BookLife Prize
Haint Blue
“Alexander’s prose is precise and evocative, particularly when she’s describing the environments of coastal South Carolina…Alexander, as in her previous installment, Charleston Green, works in the tradition of Southern women’s fiction as much as in supernatural mystery, and she blends the two genres together into a seamless, not-too-heavy exploration of how difficult it can be to act once a relationship has run its course. A well-told, deeply felt addition to a ghostly mystery series.”
Kirkus Reviews
“… a highly engaging paranormal mystery filled with frolic, fun, and genuine nail-biting moments… a really fresh take on the paranormal genre, setting this novel apart from others….”
Readers’ Favorite
Palmetto Rose
“Five Stars….Stephanie Alexander has perfected the cozy paranormal genre with the Tipsy Collins Series, and [Palmetto Rose] triumphs in every aspect….engaging and mysterious…the character development of Tipsy, her clients, and her new love interest was… superbly realistic and light-hearted.”
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True Indigo
“Five Stars….Author Stephanie Alexander’s writing creates a charming and engaging narrative that delves into the complexities of human relationships and the supernatural world. Reading this book was like reuniting with old friends and embarking on a last adventure with them after so many interesting twists and turns… [Tipsy] deepens her understanding of her own journey and how far she’s come, which was really heartwarming to admire alongside the thrilling mystery plot. Overall, True Indigo is the fourth and final installment of the Tipsy Collins series, and it beautifully wraps up the character’s journeys with a blend of paranormal intrigue and life lessons…accomplished mystery novels with a lot of heart.”
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