Diane Chamberlain Books in Order

In 2010, architect Kayla Carter prepares to move into her dream house on a newly developed North Carolina street, despite eerie warnings and her husband’s recent death. Interwoven chapters follow Ellie Hockley, a young woman in 1965 who joins a civil‑rights voter‑registration project, until the two timelines collide in a reckoning with racism, violence and a long‑hidden crime.

In 2018, imprisoned art student Morgan Christopher is offered an unexpected deal: restore a ruined 1940s post office mural to earn her freedom. As she uncovers disturbing images hidden in the paint, the story of New Jersey artist Anna Dale’s commission in segregated Edenton, North Carolina, and her mysterious disappearance slowly comes to light.

In 1970, young widow Carly Sears learns her unborn daughter has a fatal heart defect and no treatment exists—at least not yet. When a trusted friend reveals he can send her decades into the future for a risky surgery, Carly must gamble everything on an impossible journey through time.

Drawn to a weathered beach house and the family who own it, a woman finds her quiet coastal escape is anything but peaceful. As old scandals, shifting loyalties and buried grief rise with the tide, she must decide whether confronting the past is worth risking the fragile life she’s built.

In 1944, aspiring nurse Tess DeMello’s life veers off course after a single mistake leaves her pregnant by a stranger. Marrying furniture magnate Henry Kraft and moving to Hickory, North Carolina, she enters a loveless marriage filled with secrets, even as a polio epidemic gives her a chance to reclaim purpose—and uncover the truth about Henry.

In this prequel to Pretending to Dance, psychologist Graham Arnette longs to dance again after illness has taken his mobility. As his extended family builds a playhouse for six‑year‑old Molly on their North Carolina land, simmering tensions erupt and Graham must lean on the unconventional pretend therapy he teaches his patients.

Adoption plans in San Diego force attorney Molly Arnette to revisit the North Carolina mountain community she fled at eighteen. In alternating past and present, she relives the summer when her adored, seriously ill father and the adults around her taught her to pretend—including about the devastating truth of his death.

Riley MacPherson grew up believing her older sister Lisa killed herself as a teen. Clearing out her late father’s house in New Bern, she finds evidence Lisa is alive and living under another name. Following the trail forces Riley to question every family story she’s ever heard and decide what truths she can live with.

This short story introduces a seventeen‑year‑old Riley MacPherson as she races to the bedside of her badly wounded brother, remembering how he once protected her. While she hopes for reconciliation, buried family secrets stand between them and the closeness they both still crave.

In this prequel novella to Necessary Lies, thirteen‑year‑old Ivy Hart lives on a tobacco farm in 1958 North Carolina, caring for her pregnant sister and ailing grandmother. One stormy night and a new baby expose the first cracks in the secrets that will later shape Ivy’s life.

In 1960 rural North Carolina, social worker Jane Forrester defies her boss and husband by becoming deeply involved with tenant farm families, especially fifteen‑year‑old Ivy Hart. As Jane uncovers the state’s brutal sterilization program, she must choose between keeping her job and protecting the vulnerable girls in her care.

At nineteen, Travis Brown chose to raise his baby daughter Bella alone, scraping by on odd jobs but surrounding her with love. When he loses his work and home, a too‑good‑to‑refuse offer in Raleigh draws him into a criminal scheme, forcing him to decide how far a desperate father will go to protect his child.

After beloved midwife Noelle commits suicide, her closest friends Tara and Emerson are stunned to find an unfinished confession letter among her things. As they dig into Noelle’s past and the babies she delivered, they uncover a tangle of hidden adoptions, betrayals and lies that threaten their own families.

Sisters Maya and Rebecca Ward, both physicians, respond to a catastrophic hurricane on the North Carolina coast. When Maya’s helicopter crashes and she’s presumed dead, Rebecca turns to Maya’s husband for comfort—unaware that Maya is alive, stranded with strangers and fighting to return to a life that may no longer want her.

After single mother Sara Weston disappears without a trace, her scarred teenage son Keith is left to fend for himself and nurse a burning hatred for his half‑sister Maggie. As both families collide, old resentments from the earlier fire resurface, revealing why Sara vanished and what it will cost to bring her home.

In a small North Carolina town, fifteen‑year‑old Andy Lockwood, who has developmental challenges, becomes both hero and suspect after saving children from a deadly church fire. As investigators close in, his mother Laurel and sister Maggie are forced to face painful truths about family loyalty, neglect and the night of the blaze.

At sixteen, CeeCee Wilkes is drawn into a kidnapping that ends with a governor’s pregnant wife dead and a baby missing. Decades later, therapist Eve Elliot’s comfortable life unravels when the case is reopened and she must finally admit she is CeeCee—and decide whether to confess or let an innocent man die.

As a twelve‑year‑old at her family’s Jersey Shore bungalow, Julie Bauer made a terrible mistake the summer her seventeen‑year‑old sister was murdered. Forty years later, a letter suggests the wrong man went to prison, pushing Julie to reopen the past and confront her mother, her surviving sister and her own long-held guilt.

Now an adult, Lacey O’Neill has built her life around the memory of her charismatic mother, Annie. When a friend dies and leaves troubled teen Mackenzie in Lacey’s care, old scandals and new responsibilities force Lacey to reexamine Annie’s legacy and decide what kind of woman—and mother—she wants to become.

Eleven years after Keeper of the Light, a stranger named Gina Higgins arrives in Kiss River obsessed with raising the lighthouse’s fallen Fresnel lens from the sea. Living with siblings Lacey and Clay O’Neill, she becomes entangled in their unresolved grief and in a World War II diary that may change all their lives.

Joelle D’Angelo’s best friend Mara is left with severe brain damage after giving birth, and Joelle’s grief pulls her dangerously close to Mara’s husband, Liam. Desperate to help, she seeks out Carlynn Shire, a mysterious healer tied to her own childhood, and uncovers shocking secrets about sacrifice, guilt and second chances.

Eight-year-old Sophie Donohue, who suffers from a rare kidney disease, vanishes during a Brownie camping trip in West Virginia. As her divorced parents and a quiet gardener lead a frantic search, Sophie’s fight for survival intersects with a reclusive woman hiding her own fugitive daughter deep in the forest.

On her eleventh birthday, Daria Cato discovers a newborn abandoned on the North Carolina shore and convinces her family to raise the baby as their own. Two decades later, a television producer returns to investigate the mystery, stirring up jealousy, guilt and dangerous secrets in the close-knit beach community.

Honoring her dying father’s request, astronomer Laura Brandon visits Sarah Tolley, an elderly woman with fading memory and a mysterious connection to him. The visit triggers Laura’s husband’s suicide and their young daughter’s muteness, leading Laura and the child’s biological father into a chilling investigation of wartime experiments and long‑buried trauma.

After losing custody of her infant son, Susanna Miller flees Colorado with the baby and a new identity, determined to raise him in hiding. In Annapolis she begins to build a life, until a used laptop exposes a dangerous secret that could save strangers—but cost her the child she loves.

Twenty years after a tragic accident, Rachel Huber returns to the Pennsylvania town of Reflection to care for her ailing grandmother. Branded by locals as the woman responsible for children’s deaths, she must confront old guilt, a complicated first love and the Mennonite community’s buried secrets.

A successful television journalist’s life unravels after she witnesses a woman leap from a bridge and disappear. Haunted by the stranger’s death and facing a threatened adoption, she digs into the mystery and uncovers painful truths about her own past and the meaning of motherhood.

In drought-stricken Valle Rosa, California, wildfires and fear are destroying a once-idyllic town. When a mysterious man who claims he can make it rain arrives, he upends the lives of a burned-out TV reporter, a former ballplayer turned mayor and a reclusive sculptor searching for hope.

During a winter storm on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, ER doctor Olivia Simon tries to save gunshot victim Annie O’Neill—her husband’s secret lover. After Annie dies, Olivia, Annie’s widower Alec and Olivia’s husband Paul are pulled into the mystery of who Annie really was and how the Kiss River lighthouse shaped them all.

Actress Eden Riley plans to revive her career by making a film about the famous children’s author mother she barely remembers. Returning to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, she uncovers her mother Katherine’s journals and a hidden life of hardship, obsession and secrets that reshape Eden’s own future.

Newly divorced Kit leaves Seattle for a fresh start at Chapel House, an old mansion on the New Jersey shore shared by an eccentric circle of friends. As loyalties shift and past wounds surface, she must decide whom to trust—and whether to risk love again.

Shawn and David Ryder once had an effortless marriage, until the death of their young daughter shattered everything. When Shawn’s work with primates takes them into the Peruvian jungle, the couple are forced to face their grief, blame and the choice to stay together or part.