NOVELS

When Maggie's brother disappears, she suspects him of arson and must keep his secret no matter the cost to herself. 

Lily is a working mother of four who carries the entire emotional and domestic weight of the household on her back. Her husband, Roger, is mostly oblivious to her efforts.

When COVID forces their family into lockdown, they begin to question everything: The strength of their marriage, their competency as parents, and how to navigate this new, uncertain reality while keeping their children—and themselves—sane.

In rural Southern Illinois, Papa has died, leaving Lexie, her big sister, Lila, and Mama alone in their rundown old farmhouse, haunted by his memory. With Mama unable to cope, Lexie increasingly turns to Lila. Even after Mama remarries, Lila is the one Lexie depends on.

But Lila is desperate to escape their small town, and when she leaves home to explore the world, she leaves Lexie behind, too. Desperately lonely, Lexie searches for a new role model, and finds Meg, the charismatic new girl at school, only to discover a new kind of loneliness.

Read the first chapter here.

Cora never envisioned becoming a widow in middle age, but when her husband dies suddenly, her mother says, "Come home." Her children grown and her husband's ghost lingering around every corner, Cora flees to her rural Southern Illinois childhood home. 

Cora should have known better. Her mother refuses to talk about the past. And now her daughter, Kaitlyn, is furious about being left behind. A reckoning is coming. Either the three of them will learn to forgive, or they will break forever.

Following the birth of her son, Claire sinks into a deep depression, connected to a summer party in her childhood that changed the course of her parents' marriage.