Joy Callaway Books in Order

An aspiring novelist from an impoverished artistic family joins a wealthy man’s Fifth Avenue salon after a romantic disappointment. As she gains attention and faces another chance with her first love, hidden dangers threaten her writing, family and future.

In 1881 Illinois, medical student Beth Carrington fights to establish a women’s fraternity at her male-dominated college. Seeking help from a powerful male student draws her into competing loyalties and secrets as the women risk expulsion for organising.

Interior designer Dorothy Draper returns to the Greenbrier resort after the Second World War with a commission to restore it. The project challenges her professional future and revives memories of the youthful desires her privileged family once tried to contain.

During the panic of 1893, Sadie Fremd hopes to save her family’s nursery and claim a role her father reserves for his sons. Her growing awareness of who can access beautiful landscapes complicates both her business ambitions and convictions.

In 1913, Belle joins a mountain tour while preparing for a practical marriage that promises security. Researching the construction of the Grove Park Inn reconnects her with a past she has concealed and challenges the future she has chosen.

An event planner returns to South Carolina to help her parents and is drawn into a musical fundraiser dividing the town. A former love and a mysterious newcomer complicate her plans as she reconsiders the family farm’s future.

In 1918, a Broadway performer hopes to entertain soldiers in France but becomes stranded at a North Carolina training camp. Illness, a military secret and an unexpected romance force Calla to reconsider the ambitions she has built around grief.