Cesca Major Books in Order

Meticulously organized Nicola accepts a colleague's challenge to find a Valentine's Day date and enters a succession of awkward encounters. As her deadline approaches, unfamiliar experiences begin to challenge her routines and her conviction that happiness depends on keeping everything under control.

After discovering her fiancé's infidelity, Eve retreats to a houseboat to avoid Christmas. A local veterinarian helps with mishaps and cooking, but his unexplained absences, her friend's secrets, and an unwelcome goose complicate the peaceful escape she had imagined.

Three lives intersect in wartime France: a mute woman sheltering in a convent, a Jewish banker transformed by love, and a young boy newly arrived from Paris. Their hopes become entangled with memories, loss, and violence approaching a seemingly protected village.

Disappointed by her stalled career and love life, Isobel spots the boy she married in a childhood playground ceremony on television. She travels from England to a Malaysian island searching for him, hoping the reunion might restore happiness she remembers from years ago.

Visitor Clara decides to revive a struggling village's closed toy shop, drawing its owner's suspicious son home from his demanding city job. Her enthusiasm challenges his assumptions about work and generosity, while their differences open the possibility of a slower life and romance.

Seventy-year-old Maria's weekly café meetings with Albie are her only meaningful friendship until he suddenly fails to appear. Learning his secrets and discovering a list of unfulfilled wishes sends her toward choices that could break the lonely routine of her remaining years.

Reserved Elsie reluctantly babysits her ten-year-old neighbor Billy, unaware of the fear behind his family's hurried move. When he unearths a buried tin in her garden, a decades-old secret threatens her orderly life and creates an unexpected connection between them.

Busy professional Lottie rushes through life while her widowed grandfather Teddy worries she is missing what matters. Recruiting his elderly drinking companions, he draws her into dances, games, and old-fashioned social gatherings designed to reconnect her with friendship, family, and love.

Furniture restorer Irina receives an anonymous antique bureau that draws her toward a hidden history. Its secrets connect with Abigail, a young woman whose summer romance decades earlier preceded a catastrophe, as Irina's investigation also challenges the grief shaping her own withdrawn life.

After surviving a fire at a New Zealand asylum in 1942, Edith is questioned by a doctor who doubts why she was confined as a child. Investigating her seemingly impossible stories becomes a race against a proposed treatment that could erase her identity.

Pregnant journalist Ava investigates the myths and history surrounding Overtoun Estate despite growing local hostility. Discoveries about a sick girl and an ominous message draw her deeper into its past, while threats make uncovering the truth increasingly dangerous for her own family.

Overwhelmed by work and family demands, Emma forgets to tell her husband she loves him on their anniversary before the day ends disastrously. Forced to relive that day, she searches their shared past for a way to change their future.

An argument during a thunderstorm leaves couple Amy and Flynn in each other's bodies on their way to a family wedding. Navigating the weekend's obligations forces them to experience one another's lives, while hidden histories threaten their relationship beyond the practical chaos.