Christina Schwarz Books in Order

After returning to her family’s Wisconsin farm, exhausted nurse Amanda Starkey becomes responsible for her niece when her sister drowns beneath the lake’s ice. As Ruth grows older and her father returns from war, conflicting memories threaten Amanda’s guarded account of that night.

Aspiring novelist Margaret leaves her job to write while her friend Letty navigates family life and newfound social ambitions in Los Angeles. Margaret begins using Letty’s experiences as material, turning creative ambition into manipulation that puts their friendship at risk.

A single day in Wisconsin brings a husband’s affair, his wife’s unexpected connection, and a mistress’s troubling admirer into collision. Beneath their choices lie the consequences of an earlier act of revenge that damaged friendships and families decades before.

In rural Wisconsin before the war, a practical young woman finds herself unexpectedly caught up in love. Tarot cards shape a gently wry story about how the tales people tell can influence choices the heart refuses to surrender.

In 1898, restless Trudy abandons her comfortable Milwaukee prospects to marry Oskar and accompany him to a remote California lighthouse. Isolation, the guarded resident family, and a discovery among the coastal rocks force her to reconsider the escape she imagined.

This novel imagines Bonnie Parker’s transformation from a young woman with artistic ambitions into Clyde Barrow’s companion on the run. Depression era hardship, romantic attachment, and narrowing choices shape a life increasingly defined by violence, police pursuit, and public notoriety.