Charmaine Wilkerson Books in Order

Eleanor Bennett leaves her estranged children a Caribbean black cake and a recording of her hidden past. As Byron and Benny hear about a young woman fleeing a murder accusation, their understanding of their family begins to change.

Preparing for her fortieth birthday after her mother’s death, a woman searches an attic trunk for keepsakes. Unexpected photographs overturn her understanding of childhood, revealing danger, deception, and the lengths her mother went to protect her.

Ebby Freeman retreats to France after a broken engagement revives public interest in her brother’s unsolved childhood murder. Reflecting on a shattered ancestral jar, she traces family history that connects her present grief with the legacy of slavery.