Heather Balog Books in Order

Unemployed editor Elizabeth reluctantly shelters her British ex-husband just as she prepares to marry again. Her fiance knows nothing of the earlier marriage, and keeping the men apart becomes harder as Elizabeth begins questioning her own feelings.

Julie Hendricks seems to have the career and family she always wanted until she becomes involved with an alluring new employee. Her attraction to Alex obscures the danger surrounding him and a secret capable of destroying her carefully built life.

After Shannon Clayton attempts suicide on her wedding day, she refuses to speak to her psychiatrist and communicates through letters. Her estranged twin Kathryn is asked to help, drawing both sisters toward the secret behind Shannon’s distress.

Overwhelmed mother of four Amy Maxwell is distracted by family frustrations and an attractive new neighbor. Discovering a woman shot dead draws Amy and her daughter into a mystery that makes her question everyone around her.

After losing her son, Andrea Pringle struggles to connect with her newborn daughter. Torn between grief and the desire to rebuild her family, she confronts resentment, isolation, and the painful question of how motherhood can continue after such loss.

Amy Maxwell returns to school hoping to pursue a career in law enforcement while managing four children and an unhelpful husband. Other people’s failings and her own missteps soon draw her into a dangerous predicament she never anticipated.

Amy Maxwell hopes a Caribbean resort holiday will give her family a break, but suspicious guests and her husband’s secret meetings unsettle her. The unexpected presence of a familiar DEA agent encourages her to investigate another mystery.

Fifteen-year-old Kennedy Ryan enters a summer marked by a difficult friendship, an agoraphobic mother, and an unsuitable crush. Discovering a body in the basement turns those ordinary troubles into a lasting lesson about the danger of keeping secrets.

Lexie hopes to finish a detective story for a local contest, but family demands and feuding friends keep interrupting her. A suspected ghost in the abandoned house across the street gives the young sleuth a real mystery.

Lexie struggles to find an idea for another mystery until two new children move into the neighborhood. Her friendship with Isabella complicates old loyalties, while a missing necklace leads her to suspect Isabella’s unusual brother Max.

Popular teenager Charlie Webster has a boyfriend, a promising internship, and a carefully ordered future. Her fascination with an isolated classmate leads her to pursue his friendship despite warnings, threatening the life she once believed she understood.

Four teenagers rely on their friendship to survive troubled lives until one disastrous night leaves one of them dead and missing. Thirty years later, an ominous message threatens to expose what the survivors have kept hidden.

Newly pregnant and suddenly unemployed, Amy Maxwell has yet to tell her husband either piece of news. Searching for work, concealing a puppy, and pursuing a package thief turn the months before motherhood into an unexpectedly complicated adventure.

Leah books a cruise to celebrate her best friend Violet’s fortieth birthday, promising a break from family demands. She conceals that it is a divorce cruise, even though Violet is married, putting their thirty-year friendship at risk.

Amy promises her husband she will avoid trouble, then a playgroup encounter draws her into another mother’s deadly scheme. With a gun pointed at her in a supermarket, she again needs DEA agent Jason Collins to help her escape.

New teacher Kimberly Malone discovers troubling secrets while trying to win acceptance among her colleagues. After students find her strangled, detectives Madden and De Luca sift through interviews and letters to determine whose hidden life provided a motive for murder.

Amy Maxwell faces her fortieth birthday amid college preparations, her sister’s wedding, and uncomfortable feelings about the groom. A bachelorette party ends in death, turning her mounting family dilemmas into an urgent effort to escape a murderer.

A business workshop with her successful sisters leaves Amy Maxwell feeling inadequate, despite the prospect of a relaxing hotel weekend. When an heiress is found dead, Amy becomes entangled in an investigation that threatens more than her pride.

Flattery persuades Amy Maxwell to attend her twenty-fifth high school reunion despite painful memories. A classmate’s murder draws her into another investigation, leading toward a trap where someone intends to force a confession and silence her permanently.