Jillian Cantor Books in Order

When her younger sister Becky disappears overnight, Abigail Reed struggles with guilt over their bitter rivalry. As the search strains her family, a new neighbor coping with his own loss offers companionship and the possibility of love amid uncertainty.

Grieving her father, Melissa tries to preserve his memory by completing his journal and uncovering his secrets. Changes in her friendships and family force her to reconsider beauty, belonging, and the need to live in the present while honoring the past.

After her judge husband is indicted for bribery, Jennifer Levenworth loses confidence in her marriage and friendships. Dreams that seem to reveal other people’s private lives lead her to question familiar assumptions and search for the truth about her own existence.

This imagined alternative history follows Margot Frank, Anne’s older sister, after surviving the Holocaust and reaching postwar America. As her sister’s diary becomes famous, Margot confronts the legacy of their shared past while trying to claim a life of her own.

Sky and River have known only life on an isolated island until a boat brings rescue. Separated from River in California, Sky struggles with unfamiliar society and a grandmother she does not know, while revelations undermine her understanding of their island home.

A fictional neighbor befriends Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and is drawn into the tensions surrounding their espionage case. Against the fear and suspicion of Cold War America, friendship, motherhood, and trust become entangled with events threatening to destroy their families.

In Nazi-era Austria, a stamp engraver’s apprentice helps the resistance while falling for his teacher’s daughter. Decades later, a woman investigating her father’s stamp collection discovers an unusual love letter that links her life to their wartime story.

A German bookseller and a Jewish violinist fall in love as Hitler’s rise threatens their future. Years later, Hanna awakens without memories of the preceding decade and pursues her music abroad, haunted by the unknown fate of Max and his mysterious secret.

Math prodigy Emma designs a matchmaking app despite objections from fellow coding-club leader George. Early success seems to validate her calculations, until supposedly perfect couples break up and her own feelings reveal complications that no algorithm can easily solve.

Alternating narratives follow Marie Curie’s scientific life in Paris and an imagined future in which she stays in Poland with her first love. The parallel paths examine ambition, marriage, motherhood, and the ways a single decision can reshape a woman’s possibilities.

The women of The Great Gatsby recount their own ambitions, disappointments, and secrets in this reimagining of Fitzgerald’s story. Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Catherine offer competing perspectives as a detective investigates Gatsby’s death and suspects their involvement.

Struggling novelist Olivia accepts a lucrative ghostwriting job for a billionaire claiming a family connection to Daphne du Maurier. At his Malibu estate, conflicting accounts and hidden manuscripts draw her into a mystery about ownership, obsession, and the stories people appropriate.

Aspiring actress Amelia visits romance novelist Gloria Diamond to prepare for a biopic based on her celebrated tragic love story. Gloria’s hostility and a buried secret make Amelia question the official narrative as filming approaches and her ambitions hang in the balance.

Sisters Julia, Emily, and Nora inherit their grandmother’s Coronado beach house with a promise to reunite there each May. When Julia misses their annual week together, the others confront how little they know about her life and their family’s hidden history.

Ellie’s family enters cryogenic sleep to escape an authoritarian government, but she awakens early into the same regime. Facing compulsory initiation and uncertain loyalties, she must find a path to her brother, who has joined a teenage resistance movement.