Karen White Books in Order

An old plantation house feels strangely familiar to Laura Truitt, especially when its owner shows her a photograph bearing her likeness. A lunar eclipse transports her to Civil War Georgia, where love becomes entangled with the struggle to survive.

Catherine deClaire Reed travels to Reconstruction Louisiana after receiving a desperate appeal from her sister Elizabeth. Arriving at the family home, she discovers Elizabeth has disappeared and begins searching through a household where everyone seems to conceal secrets.

Cassie Madison returns to her Georgia hometown to see her dying father, planning to leave immediately after his funeral. Inheriting the family house forces her to stay, confront her estranged sister, and reconsider a love she left behind.

Photographer Suzanne Paris intends to hide briefly in Walton, Georgia, before moving on again. The town's welcoming residents and its mayor, Joe Warner, challenge her determination to remain unattached, while someone from her past threatens her fragile refuge.

Pregnant and recently divorced, Jillian Parrish returns to Pawleys Island with her daughter, seeking the comfort of childhood memories. Reconnecting with Linc Rising revives questions about her missing friend Lauren, whose name now belongs to her daughter's imaginary companion.

Accountant Caroline Collier takes leave after panic attacks and joins her mother at their North Carolina vacation home. Memories of her brother's death complicate the retreat, while neighbors offer connection and a reason to confront her guarded approach to life.

Brenna O'Brien runs a historic movie theater, collects unopened wartime letters, and endures her sisters' matchmaking while avoiding disappointment. When former love Pierce McGovern returns, she must reconsider the choices and fears that have shaped her quiet life.

Realtor Melanie Middleton inherits a Charleston house whose resident ghosts want their secrets heard. Writer Jack Trenholm suspects Confederate diamonds lie hidden there, but their investigation attracts a hostile spirit and draws them into a history of murder.

After their mother's drowning, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland grow apart while concealing different memories of the tragedy. A troubled child's refusal to speak brings Marnie back to the Lowcountry, forcing the sisters to confront their shared past.

Melanie Middleton's estranged mother returns to Charleston after foreseeing danger to her daughter. Restoring their ancestral Legare Street home awakens a vengeful spirit, compelling the two women to combine their abilities to communicate with ghosts despite decades of resentment.

A riding accident ends Piper Mills's Olympic ambitions, and an inherited house sends her searching through her grandmother's past. A buried box containing scrapbook fragments, a charm necklace, and a disturbing newspaper report opens questions about three friends.

A box of old books contains cryptic love notes that connect two war widows who owned a Folly Beach bookstore decades apart. Exploring the messages reveals an old affair and a disappearance, while offering the younger widow perspective on grief.

After her artist friend Monica dies, Julie inherits custody of Monica's son and an antique portrait. Bringing the boy to his Mississippi relatives draws Julie into a family's hidden history while she continues searching for her own missing sister.

Melanie Middleton tries to welcome Jack's estranged daughter Nola while managing house renovations and her own uncertain relationship. An antique dollhouse intended to help Nola feel at home instead introduces a sinister presence tied to another family's secrets.

Ava Whalen impulsively marries psychologist Matthew Frazier and moves to his ancestral home on St. Simons Island. Questions about his first wife's death and the house's history lead her into an investigation that could jeopardize their new marriage.

Burdened by guilt over her sister's disabling accident, Eleanor Murray takes a job caring for an elderly woman on Edisto Island. Music connects them, while the woman's Hungarian wartime past raises questions about another pair of sisters and their secrets.

Vivien Walker returns to Mississippi after her marriage collapses, hoping her grandmother will offer comfort. Instead she finds her grandmother dead and her mother losing her memory, while a storm exposes human remains near the family's troubled home.

Ten authors contribute interconnected stories set at New York's Grand Central Terminal on the same day after World War II. Arriving soldiers, war brides, survivors, and other travelers encounter moments of hope and uncertainty as their lives cross.

Preparing for single motherhood, Melanie Middleton tries to finish renovating her Tradd Street house while keeping Jack at a distance. Ghostly crying and the discovery of an infant's remains force her to investigate a history that threatens her home.

Widowed Merritt Heyward inherits her husband's family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, and moves into an unfamiliar legacy. Her young stepmother and half brother soon arrive, complicating her efforts to understand the house's secrets and confront her own fears.

Fine china expert Georgia Chambers must return to her Florida family home for work after ten years away. Her grandfather's apiary offers comfort, but encounters with her estranged mother and sister force her to confront the secrets behind their separation.

In a Gilded Age Manhattan mansion later turned into a hospital, three women in 1890, 1920, and 1945 cross paths through one ornate room and a ruby pendant. As maid, secretary, and doctor pursue love and identity, they slowly piece together a family secret spanning generations.

Returning from maternity leave, Melanie Trenholm takes on a client who wants to sell an inherited Charleston mansion quickly. Renewed ghostly appearances around the client and Melanie's own home suggest that the seemingly straightforward sale conceals a troubling history.

Divorced mother Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her children to Sweet Apple, Georgia, where wealthy school mothers coexist uneasily with longtime residents. Friendships with polished Heather Blackford and guarded Sugar Prescott draw her into dangerous deceptions and hidden histories.

Larkin Lanier returns to Georgetown after her mother disappears, then is found unconscious in the ruins of the family's plantation home. Searching for answers reveals secrets stretching back nearly fifty years to three young women and their tested friendship.

Three women linked to the doomed Lusitania confront love, espionage, and deception. In 1915, society bride Caroline and con artist Tess sail toward disaster; in 2013, writer Sarah Blake hunts the truth in family relics, uncovering how their choices shaped her own history.

Melanie Trenholm's Christmas preparations are disrupted by ghosts connected to an excavation in her garden. Meanwhile, an old adversary searches for Revolutionary War treasure rumored to lie on the property, threatening her home and the family she shares with Jack.

At the Ritz Paris, three women across 1914, 1942, and 1964 lean on the same gilded hotel while war and loss reshape their lives. An heiress, a reluctant Resistance courier, and a grieving widow uncover how their stories and one elusive traitor are intertwined.

Separated from Jack, Melanie Trenholm faces a film production in their historic house and suspicions about an old adversary's motives. Ghostly warnings, a legendary jewel, and a decades-old murder force the couple to cooperate despite their damaged relationship.

Journalist Maddie Warner interviews former model Precious Dubose in present-day London, uncovering a wartime friendship shadowed by espionage and betrayal. The story moves between Maddie's guarded life and Eva Harlow's dangerous ambitions during the Blitz of World War II.

A crumbling Newport mansion links three women in 1899, 1957, and 2019, each drawn into the secrets of the privileged Sprague family. Music teacher, debutante, and reality‑TV host uncover hidden scandals, lost loves, and one stubborn mystery inside a boathouse on the cliff‑edge estate.

Nola Trenholm buys a historic New Orleans cottage hoping for a fresh start, only to encounter spirits unwilling to leave. Reluctantly seeking Beau Ryan's help connects the house's unsolved murder to his losses during Hurricane Katrina and their difficult history.

Nola Trenholm’s New Orleans cottage remains haunted as Beau Ryan investigates his sister’s kidnapping. Helping him requires reconnecting with the man who broke her heart, while the spirits in her house reveal danger tied to the same investigation.

Three very different American novelists travel to a Scottish island castle for a writing retreat, only to find the celebrity author hosting them dead in his tower study. As a prickly detective probes their stories, satire, secrets, and a classic locked‑room mystery unfold.

Phoebe returns to Charleston to help her sister care for their ailing mother. Her unsettling premonitions intensify as she befriends a woman whose granddaughter vanished, drawing her toward family tensions, an old connection, and the truth behind her nightmares.

Nola launches a business restoring murder houses and chooses a haunted property for an old flame. Dangerous spirits, a vanished family, and unfinished business involving Beau Ryan’s mother force her to seek his help before the ghosts strike.

The fourth Royal Street novel continues Karen White’s series of ghostly mysteries.