Jessica Anya Blau Books in Order

During a 1970s California summer, teenager Jamie navigates first love while feeling embarrassed by her parents' carefree behavior and nude pool parties. Her expanding world of friends and romance brings encounters with heartbreak, loss, and the complications of family life.

Three adult siblings return to their parents' Santa Barbara home after their mother's heart attack. Over a week together, memories of an unconventional childhood mingle with current relationship problems, forcing the family to face old wounds and uncomfortable truths.

College student Allie discovers that the dress shop where she works is a drug-dealing front. Fleeing with cocaine hidden in a bread bag, she seeks help from her elusive parents while a furious dealer and his hit man pursue her.

Two stories follow teenage girls in late-1970s California as they confront love, heartbreak, and loss. Surrounded by adults and friends wrestling with their own pain, they test boundaries and discover how quickly youthful choices can become irreversible.

Two stories explore women’s unruly romantic lives. School counselor Lexie’s reckless behavior leads to a complicated encounter with her lover and his wife, while Zandra unexpectedly meets the seventh of her many former loves in a department store.

Counselor Lexie James has built a stable life at an elite New England prep school after a troubled childhood. Doubts about what she really wants and a relationship with a student's father threaten to unravel that hard-won security.

Tracy Walder recounts her path from college sorority life to counterterrorism work at the CIA and later the FBI. Written with Jessica Anya Blau, the memoir follows undercover assignments, intelligence investigations, and the challenges of working within both agencies.

In 1970s Baltimore, sheltered fourteen-year-old Mary Jane takes a summer nanny job with an unconventional family. When a rock star and his actress wife secretly move in, she encounters a world of music and adult freedoms that challenges her conservative upbringing.

Nineteen-year-old Zippy sees her job at San Francisco’s elegant I. Magnin department store as a path beyond her cramped upbringing. Advice from coworkers and a new roommate shapes her adulthood, until surprises threaten her identity and cherished position.