Erika Swyler Books in Order

Librarian Simon receives an old carnival ledger that seems connected to generations of women in his family drowning on the same date. With that anniversary approaching and his sister at risk, he races to understand the apparent curse.

Former circus performer Paulina settles on Long Island with the man who first saw her in a mermaid tank. As she raises their young children, the mystery of her past and her bond with the carnival shadow their new home.

Young Nedda dreams of space while her grieving scientist father builds an invention that alters time. Decades later, a crisis aboard her spacecraft forces her to draw on the past and reconsider what her father’s experiment meant for their family.

In an AI-governed city, aging surgeon Enita builds a being to preserve her knowledge. When a murder is erased from official records, she and her creation become entangled in a conflict between the privileged elite, the hidden poor, and their machine rulers.