Bette Lee Crosby Books in Order

Elderly Abigail Anne Lannigan befriends a young woman who moves across the street. Their bond becomes the focus of an embezzlement accusation, while Abigail's past reveals the family conflicts and Depression-era hardships that shaped her independence.

Claire McDermott faces her daughter's grave illness, an angry son-in-law, and the disappearance of her grandchildren. Years of unanswered letters leave her waiting for news, until an unexpected reply offers a chance to confront the family's separation.

Newly widowed Olivia Westerly has never wanted children, but her late husband's eleven-year-old grandson arrives seeking shelter. Ethan Allen carries a secret about his parents' deaths, and the danger following him threatens Olivia's carefully guarded independence.

Cupid tries to reunite John and Eleanor after their first chance at love was derailed decades earlier. To complete his work by Christmas, he must also find a suitable partner for John's daughter despite her disastrous romantic choices.

A diving accident leaves seventeen-year-old Lani Deauville with quadriplegia and an uncertain future. This account follows her efforts to pursue education, rehabilitation work, disability access, and family life while living with the consequences of her injury.

After tragedy strikes their coal-mining family, two children seek a new life and become separated. When her brother is blamed for a grocery-store shooting, seven-year-old Jubilee must persuade hostile adults to listen to what she knows.

Louise Palmer wants to remain in the home and friendships she knows, but her husband plans a move to Florida. A friend's scheme to prevent it forces Louise to weigh familiar loyalties against the needs of her marriage.

Drawing on her own family's experiences, Crosby recalls her relationship with her younger sister, Donna. A runaway's disappearance and later struggles with addiction challenge the family's bonds and the narrator's understanding of what loving a sister requires.

Returning to Alabama after World War II, Benjamin Church falls in love with a preacher's daughter. Their struggle to build a family amid poverty and racism eventually pushes him to seek a different future beyond the South.

Widow Ida Sweetwater opens her home to boarders to make ends meet and discovers a granddaughter she never knew. A peculiar secondhand-shop owner offers help and warnings as a missing pocket watch signals trouble among her new family.

John and Eleanor have another chance at love after decades apart, but John's daughter returns home carrying the fallout of a bad relationship. Cupid must untangle their competing needs, using more than his usual romantic arrows.

Nearly ninety, Ophelia Browne must find someone to inherit her ability to preserve memories held in objects. Heartbroken visitor Annie Cross appears promising, but awakening her gift brings a troubling thread of violence into their growing friendship.

Newly married Annie returns to Memory House after an accident overturns her hopes for the future. With Ophelia leaving, she must draw on the memories surrounding her and find one powerful enough to help save Oliver's life.

Max Martinelli cannot forget Julien, the artist she loved during a college year in Paris. After a disastrous New Year's Eve, she returns to search for him and test whether cherished memories can support a future together.

Young Cheryl Ann leaves home and falls in love, then faces an ultimatum from her partner: choose him or her unborn baby. Her decision begins a journey through loss, love, and the demands of protecting a child.

A Depression-era murder devastates Laura Wilkes's family and remains unsolved for decades. When her daughter later falls in love with rookie policeman Jack Mahoney, their relationship offers a new connection to the family's continuing search for justice.

After his wife's violent death, Drew Bishop struggles to care for his traumatized daughter while his job falters. Above them, the Keeper of the Scales searches for a connection that might bring happiness back into their lives.

Crosby explains the real experiences and ideas behind her novels, connecting fictional events with their origins. This nonfiction companion includes glimpses of the books, reader-favorite passages, and suggested reading sequences for characters who cross between stories.

A feud between stubborn neighbors costs Cyrus Dodd his farm and forces him and his wife to begin again in Wyattsville. New challenges test his promises to Ruth while old resentments threaten their chance at happiness.

Tracy Briggs is building a stable life for her son and running the family's magazine business when his father returns seeking another chance. His persistence threatens the progress she has made and complicates a promising new romance.

After their father's death, responsible Meghan Briggs puts her journalistic ambitions aside to save his business. Her rebellious sister returns home as a single mother, leaving both women to navigate family obligations, unexpected attachments, and uncertain futures.

During a music festival in Georgia in 1971, Rachel Dixon wakes to find her baby's crib empty. Another woman's grief has driven a desperate act, binding three women to a disappearance that reshapes their families.

On Kauai, Esther Ka'awai foresees the devastation of Hurricane Iniki despite reassuring forecasts. As she tries to warn her family, her unusual gift forces her to confront the burden of knowing a disaster that others cannot yet see.

Traveling with her daughter, Suzanna Duff is mistaken for a widow's long-lost granddaughter and accepts the welcome. A brief deception grows into a new life, until the return of her past threatens the relationships built on it.

Templeton Morehouse leaves Philadelphia for marriage and a fashion career in San Francisco. When the 1906 earthquake leaves her husband missing, her aging father travels west to search for him amid the city's destruction and broken communications.

Widowed Margaret Rose McCutcheon needs an heir but has lost contact with all eight siblings. Hiring a detective, she sets out to locate them and uncover the events that scattered her family decades earlier in West Virginia.

Widowed Susan Robertson discovers her husband's affair and another woman's pregnancy, shattering her understanding of their marriage. A friend's blunt encouragement and a perilous sailing trip push her to confront betrayal and rediscover her own capacity to survive.