Karen Abbott (Abbott Kahler) Books in Order

Abbott follows Chicago's Everleigh sisters and their luxurious brothel as reformers campaign to close the city's vice districts. Their clashes with rivals and moral crusaders reveal how prostitution, politics, and fears of exploitation shaped changing American attitudes toward sex.

Through the life of Gypsy Rose Lee, Abbott traces the transformation of American popular entertainment from vaudeville to burlesque. Family rivalry, an ambitious mother, and Depression-era audiences shape the performer's struggle to build an independent identity and career.

Four women on opposing sides of the American Civil War become spies, soldiers, and organizers of secret networks. Abbott follows their dangerous work to show how disguise, social convention, and personal conviction enabled them to influence a conflict dominated by men.

Bootlegger George Remus builds a fortune during Prohibition while prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt works to dismantle his empire. His imprisonment, his wife's affair with an investigator, and a bitter betrayal lead toward a murder that exposes corruption and ambition.

After a coma leaves Kat remembering only her twin sister, Jude invents an idyllic shared past for her. Unfamiliar followers and violent flashes of emotion undermine the story, forcing Kat to investigate the person she trusts most.