Erika Robuck Books in Order

After her parents' deaths, Meghan Owen visits the abandoned sugar plantation she has inherited on Nevis. Discoveries in its old house send her investigating her ancestors, slavery, and the tragedies that still haunt the estate.

Mariella Bennet takes a job in Ernest Hemingway's Key West household to support her family. Torn between the writer's attention and a veteran building the Overseas Highway, she struggles to protect her own ambitions.

Nurse Anna Howard befriends Zelda Fitzgerald at a Baltimore psychiatric clinic in 1932. Drawn into the Fitzgeralds' troubled marriage and Zelda's private writing, Anna risks losing herself while trying to help her patient find independence.

Unmarried seamstress Laura Kelley secretly makes costumes for poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's tour. Their uneasy friendship develops amid local disapproval, forcing both women to confront desire, artistic ambition, and the costs of defying convention.

Artist Sophia Peabody enters an intense marriage with Nathaniel Hawthorne, sharing travel, parenthood, and creative inspiration. Across decades and continents, domestic responsibilities and personal losses test her ability to pursue an artistic life of her own.

Charlie and Kate Miller expect to support their son's enthusiasm when he joins a competitive youth hockey team. Instead, demanding coaches, ambitious parents, social media, and endless rink hours threaten to consume their family's life.

Allied spy Virginia Hall returns to occupied France in 1944, determined to undermine the Nazis. Haunted by the betrayal that destroyed an earlier operation, she must choose whom to trust while protecting people depending on her.

American Virginia d'Albert-Lake remains in occupied France, while young British woman Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive. Their separate resistance efforts expose them to danger, sacrifice, and a shared confrontation with Nazi imprisonment.

During Prohibition, codebreaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman helps the Coast Guard intercept rum smugglers. In the Bahamas, Marie Waite builds a bootlegging empire to support her family, drawing the two determined women into a dangerous contest across the Florida Straits.

With her marriage failing and military credentials revoked, photojournalist Dickey Chapelle accepts assignments that bring her back toward combat. Following soldiers through dangerous landscapes, she fights discrimination and personal setbacks to show readers the human cost of war.