Craig Nova Books in Order

Growing up on the bleak margins of Los Angeles, Niles Cabro survives family hostility and street violence through his friends’ fierce loyalty. When those friends face ruin, he must decide what he owes the people who helped him endure.

On a bleak Greek island, two Americans become entangled in a passionate relationship and the dangerous affairs around them. Among outsiders and opium smugglers, their attraction draws them into events that threaten to overwhelm their lives.

After losing his think-tank job for using its computer to gamble, Stargell faces financial ruin, marital turmoil, and a persistent loan shark. His attempts to improvise a way forward mingle dangerous choices with moments of unexpected grace.

Returning from war and imprisonment, Chip Mackinnon faces his wealthy father's plans for a socially advantageous marriage. His love for a Midwestern woman ignites a struggle over family loyalty, class ambition, and the right to choose.

Alexandra Pearson marries Bryce MacPherson after her powerful politician father dies, only to discover that his influence still shapes her life. Trapped by her husband's treachery and her father's legacy, she finds hope in a forbidden relationship.

Marie Boule wants a comfortable life beyond her impoverished upbringing, while married father Ben Lunn believes he has accepted his responsibilities. Their seemingly innocent companionship develops into a secret relationship that places their carefully managed lives on a collision course.

Print-shop owner Dean Gollancz finances his ambitions through arson for a Los Angeles gangster. When his son Ray wins an Ivy League scholarship, the chance of escape becomes a painful test of love, loyalty, and independence.

A Hollywood studio boss, a classified-ad worker, a blackmailer, and a hired killer move through intersecting lives in California. Their pursuit of long-awaited opportunities exposes the longing, danger, and absurdity beneath dreams of a different future.

When a venomous snake bites Virginia Lee and treatment fails, her lover, physician Terry McKechnie, must bargain for her survival. The person holding the key to saving her is a dangerous man with disturbing philosophical convictions.

Craig Nova explores how trout fishing intertwines with writing, marriage, and fatherhood. Recollections of courtship, family dangers, and a novelist's working life follow the streams that offer moments of pleasure and perspective amid difficult experiences.

Genetic programmer Hal Briggs designs living workers for menial tasks at Galapagos Wetware. When clients demand increasingly human appearance and behavior, his new assignment pushes the boundaries between engineered creatures, labor, and human identity.

Haunted by his mother's murder, Frank Kohler searches for an elusive sense of affirmation. Vermont state trooper Russell Boyd spends his nights confronting human misery, as their separate journeys move toward an encounter that will change their lives.

In 1930s Berlin, a prostitute trades information for protection amid political violence. A policeman's hunt for a killer of women draws her deeper into a dangerous struggle where survival depends on navigating secrets and competing loyalties.

Lessons in constancy learned while fishing with his father shape Jake's life and pursuit of astronomy. Yet professional setbacks, infidelity, and an enduring childhood attachment test both men's ideals about love, loyalty, and the families they build.

Boston prosecutor Frank Mackinnon inherits family land after his father's death, reviving old secrets and expectations. When his law-student daughter's relationship alarms him, his urge to intervene threatens to repeat the conflicts of earlier generations.

Hollywood fixer Quinn Farrell earns his living containing powerful people's scandals. His growing attachment to a neighbor who cares for dying teenagers challenges his ethical compromises just as a client's appalling crime demands another cover-up.