Kaira Rouda Books in Order

This nonfiction guide draws on Rouda's marketing and business background to help women entrepreneurs build an authentic brand. It blends practical advice with encouragement on visibility, purpose, and growing a business that fits who you are.

Three mothers, three sons, and one day that changes all of them. This short story follows women at very different stages of motherhood as their separate lives are pulled together by a shocking event.

Nearing forty, Kelly Johnson is tired of living around everyone else's expectations. Her midlife makeover begins as comic reinvention, then deepens into a story about marriage, friendship, and building a life that finally feels like hers.

In Grandville, the lives of roommates Laura and Angie collide with Ellen's unhappy marriage. Ambition, bad choices, and suburban image-making pull the three women into a story that edges from drama toward murder.

Dorsey Pittman arrives on Indigo Island determined to start over and focus on work. Then she meets lifeguard Jack Means, and the resort's no-dating rule turns their attraction into a genuine risk.

Jennifer Benson enters an experimental cancer program determined to fight hard and keep life moving. As fear, marriage, motherhood, and an old flame collide, she has to decide what truly matters.

Burned-out restaurateur Cole Stanton wants a simpler life on Indigo Island, but the holiday season brings chaos. Heartbroken pastry chef Lily Edmonds offers help, and their fresh starts may turn into something more.

Blake Putnam needs a date for a family wedding, not a romance. Samantha Jones agrees to the weekend for career reasons, but pretending to be a couple on Indigo Island quickly gets far more complicated.

Annie Johns seems to have the calm family life she always wanted in Laguna Beach. But a secret from her past still shadows her marriage to Hank, and exposure could upend everything they've built together.

Laura Kinkaid heads back to Laguna Beach as her Hollywood career and long relationship fall apart. After a car accident, she meets Paul Dorn, and a brief trip home begins to look like the start of a different life.

Former reality TV stars Madison Alcott and Josh Welsh are thrown together again when a new travel show returns them to Laguna Beach. Old humiliation, buried chemistry, and hometown memories make their second chance anything but simple.

Acting CEO James Putnam heads to Indigo Island to land a make-or-break logging deal. There he reconnects with Aubrey Templeton, whose family land may solve her money problems, while an old enemy works to ruin them both.

In an affluent suburb, parents and teens head into senior year carrying private fears, affairs, and disappointments. As graduation nears, several families are forced to face what happens when the life they've built starts to change.

Paul Strom thinks he's the perfect husband, father, and provider. On a carefully planned trip to the lake with his wife Mia, his smug narration starts to crack, and the truth behind their marriage turns terrifying.

Phillip Kensington's wine business is thriving, but his engagement is cracking. Amanda Crown is trying to escape Hollywood pressure when a chance meeting brings them together and forces both to choose the future they actually want.

Soap star Scott Cassidy comes home to Laguna Beach newly single and newly famous. When he matches with struggling actress Jamie Kane, sparks fly, but old mistakes and questions about motive threaten their shot at something real.

A year after her favorite daughter Mary's death, Jane Harris decides it's time to reclaim her perfect Orange County life. But grief, infidelity, and Jane's own need for control turn family tragedy into something far darker.

Kate built the business and family with John, then he leaves her for the younger Tish. Now ex-wife, new wife, and daughter Ashlyn circle a marriage full of jealousy, money, and revenge, and nobody is as secure as she thinks.

Julie Jones leaves her suffocating marriage and moves to Oceanside with her daughter for a fresh start. But the troubled son of the home's previous owners refuses to let go, and the new house turns into a nightmare fast.

Political spouse Jody Asher has spent years building her husband's career. When his affair threatens everything and he suddenly dies, she fights to control the scandal, protect her future, and keep her own secrets buried.

Billionaire Richard Kingsley invites his children and their spouses onto his yacht for a trip to Catalina. What starts as a succession contest turns into a storm of lies, greed, and family warfare.

After a whirlwind courtship and beach proposal, Paul Strom's new wife heads to Paris believing she has the upper hand. She didn't marry for love, and when betrayal enters the picture, revenge takes center stage.

The Kingsleys gather at a Laguna Beach resort under new president Paige's leadership, but nobody has stopped scheming. Old resentments, dangerous alliances, and a family-shattering secret make the retreat feel like open season.

Cecilia seems to have the beach house, the baby, and the money to start over. But the nanny she hires is watching closely, uncovering old secrets, and waiting for the moment she can no longer be ignored.

Jill Tingley says she and Jack are living the Southern California dream. Then an empty-nest road trip to Utah cracks open the secret that has held their marriage together, and the drive becomes a dangerous game.

Five former sorority sisters reunite at a Palm Springs estate to celebrate their children's engagement. The weekend drags up a spring break tragedy, old class tensions, and enough buried resentment to make the reunion deadly.