Karen Swan Books in Order

Bestselling novelist Harry Hunter dazzles the tabloids, but his charm hides a ruthless streak. When longtime friends Tor, Cress and Kate are pulled into his glamorous circle, their marriages, careers and loyalties are tested by the dangerous games he plays.

After discovering her husband’s betrayal, Cassie leaves rural Scotland to spend a year living with three best friends in New York, Paris and London. Reinventing herself in each city, she must decide who she wants to be—and who she wants to love.

Prima ballerina Pia Soto lives for risk and attention, leaving her shy assistant Sophie O’Farrell to tidy the chaos. When a devastating accident threatens Pia’s career, Sophie is pushed into the spotlight, forced to confront old heartbreak and what she really wants from life.

Jeweller Laura Cunningham keeps her world small and controlled until a client commissions a charm necklace to tell his wife’s life story. As Laura gathers each memory, she’s drawn into a glamorous, secret‑laden circle that challenges everything she believes about love and herself.

Portobello party girl Clem Alderton hides a painful secret behind her wild nights. After one reckless evening threatens her home and job, a restoration project on a villa in Portofino and a festive commission at Claridge’s force her to confront her past and redefine her future.

Ambitious deal‑maker Allegra Fisher barely notices Christmas as she races to win the biggest contract of her career. A chance meeting with rival Sam Kemp and the discovery of a long‑hidden mountain hut in Zermatt entwine her future with a wartime mystery and a long‑buried family secret.

When her long‑term boyfriend suggests a “pause,” photographer Rowena Tipton escapes to a Hamptons house‑share. Among wealthy summer residents, new friends and a growing business, a sinister intimidation campaign—and a complicated attraction—make her question what home and commitment should look like.

Once, Nettie Watson made a promise never to leave home, and years later Christmas only reminds her of what she lost. When a spontaneous act under Primrose Hill’s twinkling lights catapults her into viral fame and the orbit of a rock star, she must decide if she can step outside again.

Engaged to steady, list‑making Henry, Cassie should be planning the perfect wedding, yet she keeps dodging the date. A turbulent Cornish summer, a runaway cousin’s marriage plans and Henry’s risky expedition abroad force her to face old ghosts and what happily‑ever‑after really means.

Art agent Flora Sykes is called to value a Paris apartment sealed since World War II, crammed with forgotten masterpieces. As she uncovers each painting’s history for the glamorous Vermeil family, scandalous wartime secrets and a dangerous attraction threaten both her career and her heart.

Meg and her fiancé Mitch are living their dream in the Canadian Rockies, running a snowboard business with their closest friends. When a polar storm ends in tragedy, Meg’s only contact with hope is a lone voice on the radio, and grief exposes devastating secrets within the tight‑knit group.

Executive coach Alex Hyde specialises in fixing powerful people, but the volatile head of a whisky empire on remote Islay is her toughest challenge yet. As winter closes in, professional boundaries blur, loyalties shift and Alex uncovers dangerous secrets that could ruin the company—or remake her life.

In modern Rome, tour guide Cesca Hackett agrees to help her aristocratic neighbour, Viscontessa Elena Damiani, record her sensational life story. As Elena’s 1970s past of wealth and scandal unfolds, a diamond ring found beneath the city streets hints at a crime that could destroy carefully kept reputations.

Influencers Bo Loxley and Zac turn their travels into a brand, broadcasting every moment to millions. A winter assignment on a precarious Norwegian farm with taciturn guide Anders and his formidable grandmother exposes cracks in their glamorous image—and in Bo’s relationship—while old mountain secrets stir beneath the snow.

Running from a broken engagement, Chloe Marston relocates to New York to organise the lives of the ultra‑rich. A new role managing enigmatic client Joe Lincoln sends her island‑hunting in Greece, where old love, new desire and a disturbing disappearance collide on sun‑soaked shores.

After Irish knight Declan Lorne dies, his crumbling coastal estate passes not to dutiful daughters Ottie and Pip, but to estranged youngest sister Willow. As a prospective buyer hosts a lavish pre‑Christmas party at the castle, resentments, secrets and risky decisions push the family to breaking point.

When one of Spain’s wealthiest men decides to leave his fortune to a woman his family has never met, financial adviser Charlotte Fairfax is sent to Madrid to investigate. Digging into the dynasty’s past, she uncovers a love story born in civil conflict that may change her own plans forever.

In Stockholm’s old town, nanny Bell Everhurst thinks she knows the family she works for—until a call says her employer’s first husband has woken from a seven‑year coma. A summer on the Swedish islands turns into a fraught battle of loyalties, guilt and long‑buried desire.

Arriving in Amsterdam with a newborn and a secret, photographer Lee rebuilt her life from scratch. Five years later, a book left in her bicycle basket leads her to its author, Sam, and a chance at real love—until the past she never shared threatens everything she’s created.

Filmmaker Clover Phillips made her name documenting surfer Cory Allbright’s life after a horrific accident. After his death, she heads to an Austrian ski resort to shadow his rival, Kit Foley, for a new project—only to be drawn to the guarded man she’s determined to expose.

At twenty, trainee doctor Tara Tremain was engaged to idealistic Alex, who then betrayed her and shattered her trust. A decade later in Costa Rica, a gravely ill child forces her into a dangerous jungle trek with Alex, reigniting old feelings and raising new questions about who he has become.

After a make‑or‑break winter holiday, Natasha’s young daughter loses her beloved toy on the journey home. A stranger trekking in Nepal finds it and begins sending photos back, comforting the child—and Natasha—until his messages suddenly stop and she realises how much this distant connection now matters.

In 1930 on remote St Kilda, fearless cliff‑climber Effie Gillies guides an earl and his son Sholto around her perilous island and feels an impossible spark. When evacuation uproots the villagers and a local man is found dead, Effie’s new life on the mainland is shadowed by suspicion and unfinished love.

High‑flying Libby Pugh and her new boyfriend stop at a university reunion in a Yorkshire stately home just as snow shuts the roads. Trapped with old friends as the power fails, they swap stories by candlelight and long‑ignored cracks in Libby’s relationships finally split open.

In the summer of 1929, dutiful Mhairi MacKinnon leaves St Kilda to be matched with a husband on another island. She returns engaged but secretly in love with someone else, just as evacuation plans, a forbidden romance and a suspicious death entangle her future with her friends’.

In wintry Copenhagen, newly single Darcy Cotterell plans to spend Christmas buried in her art‑history PhD. Talked into three blind dates and tasked with identifying an unknown woman in a rediscovered portrait, she collides with charismatic lawyer Max Lorensen—and discovers their work may put them on opposite sides.

Young Flora MacQueen has always dreamed beyond the hard life of St Kilda. After falling for visiting businessman James Callaghan and then being swept into a dazzling new world, she must reckon with the price of survival when scandal on the mainland reaches back to the island community she left.

Jayne Ferguson, trapped in a brutal marriage on St Kilda, has inherited her mother’s unsettling gift of second sight—visions that show only death. As evacuation looms and tensions erupt into violence, a final killing forces Jayne and her closest friends to confront secrets that refuse to stay buried.