Amanda Skenandore Books in Order

In 1906, Alma Mitchell learns that a childhood friend faces a murder charge. Seeking to help him, she revisits their years at her father’s Native American boarding school and confronts the harm hidden beneath its promise of assimilation.

Formerly enslaved Effie Jones returns to Reconstruction-era New Orleans and works as an embalmer. New friendships draw her into social ambition and political activism, while a search for her family forces her to confront memories she has long suppressed.

A silent-film star’s wife loses her privileged life when she is forcibly quarantined at Louisiana’s Carville leprosy hospital. Separated from the world she knows, Mirielle West must confront stigma and isolation while searching for a new sense of purpose.

Fleeing the police, a young grifter named Una gains admission to Bellevue’s nursing school in 1880s New York. As she discovers competence and friendship, suspicious deaths force her to choose between protecting her identity and saving other lives.

After a fatal medical mistake, Tucia Hatherley joins a traveling medicine show to support her disabled son. Trapped selling fraudulent remedies, she seeks escape just as the troupe reaches Galveston ahead of the devastating hurricane of 1900.

In 1939 Chicago, financial hardship pushes Mimi Lukas back into nursing at an illegal women’s clinic. As her work challenges her religious upbringing and assumptions, growing threats force her to decide how much she will risk for her patients.