Dominic Smith Books in Order

In 1847 Paris, photography pioneer Louis Daguerre believes the world will soon end as mercury poisoning unsettles his mind. His search for images worth preserving becomes entangled with the lost love he has never forgotten.

Nathan Nelson disappoints a physicist father determined to raise a genius until a terrible accident transforms his perception and memory. Sent to a research institute for gifted children, Nathan struggles to understand himself beyond his father’s expectations.

An 1897 expedition sponsored by a Chicago magnate seeks South Seas artifacts and people for an extravagant exhibition. Two young men from different worlds become caught in its ambitions, confronting personal histories and the costs of imperial exploitation.

A seventeenth-century Dutch painting connects its grieving creator, a wealthy twentieth-century owner, and the young woman commissioned to forge it. Decades later, an exhibition threatens to expose the deception and unravel the forger’s carefully rebuilt life.

Retired silent-film director Claude Ballard lives amid Hollywood’s faded grandeur, carrying memories of the production that ruined his studio. A film student’s questions draw him back toward his lost masterpiece, his leading actress, and their turbulent past.

Historian Hugh Fisher returns to his family’s nearly deserted Umbrian village to find a stranger claiming his inherited cottage. Her account of a wartime promise exposes buried betrayals that still shape the village and its surviving residents.