Embassie Susberry Books in Order

During the civil rights era, Edith Holden lives in a small Mississippi town divided by racism and injustice. Her uncertain love for a man and the prejudices surrounding them force her to confront fear, hatred, and forgiveness.

In 1961 Alabama, Sissy Little reluctantly poses as the fiancée of Truitt Tate, the man who abandoned her cousin. His undercover FBI assignment draws them into the civil rights movement and exposes old fears and unexpected feelings.

Lily Atkins escapes exhausting work for the promise of Chicago society and a wealthy husband. Her path crosses journalist Rudy Addison, whose reporting on racial violence has hardened him, challenging what each believes a meaningful life requires.

Singer Kate Tate returns home in 1963 determined to live by her renewed faith. With Reverend Jesse Waters and other allies, she investigates an old mystery whose clues keep leading back to her own family.

Recovering FBI agent Raymond Little works on an East Texas farm and meets aspiring librarian Minnie Templeton. Stolen money hidden in a donated book draws them into an old county fair mystery as they build a library.

After his enslaver dies, manservant Prince sees his hopes of freedom endangered. He reluctantly joins cook Annie in an escape from Salis House Plantation, beginning a difficult journey that tests their trust and determination.

When her brothers face sale, enslaved seamstress Laura must abandon the security she thought she knew. Her path crosses Sam’s, and together they undertake a journey across the American West in search of freedom.

Widow Norma Tate Cummings hires former convict Clyde Halpern to help manage her farm and family. When a body is uncovered on her property, their new partnership becomes entangled in a past mystery threatening both their futures.

Newly free Keturah Hollis arrives in the Black town of Arrow Creek, Oklahoma, unsure how to shape her life. When shopkeeper Manny Day discovers a body, their shared desire to protect the community makes them unlikely allies.

After the Civil War, Hagar leaves the plantation where she has spent her life and heads west. Traveling with restless Sylvester Hollis, she faces bandits, difficult strangers, and the past while searching for a future of her own.

In 1955, Chicago lawyer Theo Brantley visits Louisiana hoping to try photography. Her grandmother’s questions about an old drowning, followed by the arrival of another body, draw her into secrets hidden beneath the town’s familiar surface.

Isabella Reid returns to Thibeaux County determined to pursue her dreams despite family resistance. A town matriarch’s unexpected confession links an unsuspected crime to Isabella’s dead father, forcing her to investigate before her own future unravels.

Reclusive widow Missouri Jones discovers information that may explain her husband’s death. Teaming up with lawyer Ellis Alexander Dabney-Sinclair, she follows secrets through Thibeaux County that threaten the foundations of the community she loves.

Math teacher Lee Fleming balances a difficult parent, her son, and his recently released father. A trail into Thibeaux County’s past disrupts her ordinary life, revealing secrets that force her to reconsider the world around her.

In wartime Paris, journalist Elodie Mitchell plans to leave for Chicago until a chance encounter introduces her to Josephine Baker’s resistance network. Posing as the performer’s cousin, she gathers intelligence under the threat of discovery.

Journalist Hettie Carlin sees tennis player Althea Gibson’s rise as her chance for a breakthrough story. Their troubled history complicates the assignment, but confronting discrimination together may give both women a way to reshape the public narrative.

Widowed mother Delilah Benson inherits a family farm and helps her community adjust to rural life. When choices from her youth resurface, she must confront the past to protect the world she has carefully built.

An unexpected inheritance sends Aria Crawford from Chicago back to Virginia with a new husband beside her. Keeping the family property proves far harder than receiving it as hidden histories, murder and local turmoil threaten her fresh start.

Addie Triplett takes her murdered twin’s job as a Pullman maid to uncover the killer. Traveling with former porter Mordecai Thorpe, who faces his own family secret, she discovers how much her sister kept hidden.

Luane Mosley discovers that an earlier risk has placed her among people disappearing from Arbor Springs. Facing a predator, she must seek help from the man who bullied her as a child and accept an agreement that reshapes her life.

Pregnant and abandoned by her child’s father, Zora enters a hasty marriage and returns to Arbor Springs hoping to conceal her predicament. Her uncertain new life becomes more dangerous when she is drawn into a drug ring and other people’s secrets.