Kelly Rimmer Books in Order
See Kelly Rimmer books in order, with quick summaries, series background and simple guidance on where to start with her historical and contemporary fiction.
Last updated: December 18, 2025
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Publication Order
15 books
The Midnight Estate
by Kelly Rimmer
2026
In need of a reset, Fiona Winslow retreats to Wurimbirra, her family’s crumbling country estate, determined to restore both the house and herself. There she finds a mysterious novel, also called The Midnight Estate, whose story mirrors her own and exposes a web of long-buried family secrets.
The Paris Agent
by Kelly Rimmer
2023
Twenty-five years after the war, former British operative Noah Ainsworth is haunted by the mission that left gaps in his memory and questions about the agent who saved him. His daughter Charlotte’s search for answers uncovers the intertwined wartime stories of Chloe and Fleur, two women SOE agents betrayed by a hidden traitor.
The German Wife
by Kelly Rimmer
2022
In 1930s Berlin, mathematician Jürgen Rhodes accepts a position in the Nazi rocket program to protect his family, while his wife Sofie learns what that compromise truly costs. Years later in Alabama, their new neighbors’ suspicion and rage force the Rhodes family to confront guilt, survival and the meaning of justice.
Letting Go of You
by Kelly Rimmer
2022
Three years after his wife’s death, architect Finn Gibson hides out at the eco-resort he built on the California coast, clinging to grief. When secretive guest Ella Toms checks in with an agenda tied to his family, unexpected attraction collides with the risk of devastating betrayal.
The Warsaw Orphan
by Kelly Rimmer
2021
In 1942 Warsaw, sheltered Elzbieta Rabinek is drawn into the resistance when she helps a brave nurse smuggle Jewish children out of the ghetto. Her bond with determined teenager Roman Gorka pulls her ever deeper into danger as both fight to save lives and each other.
Undone
by Kelly Rimmer
2020
Running a tech company is easy for Jess Cohen; facing the man she broke two years ago is not. When she’s forced back into Jake Winton’s orbit at her best friend’s wedding, old chemistry collides with buried secrets in a slow-burn second-chance romance.
Truths I Never Told You
by Kelly Rimmer
2020
Clearing out her childhood home while caring for a father with dementia, new mother Beth Walsh discovers pages from her late mother’s journal. The entries hint at postpartum depression, a different marriage than Beth remembers, and a truth that could rewrite her family’s history.
Unspoken
by Kelly Rimmer
2019
Days before signing their divorce papers, Isabel Winton retreats to the couple’s Long Island getaway—only to find her almost-ex, Paul, already there. Trapped together for one last weekend, they finally say the things that could either heal or end their marriage for good.
Unexpected
by Kelly Rimmer
2019
Abby Herbert has her life mapped out—until a doctor says it’s now or never if she wants a baby. She asks her best friend and roommate, tech founder Marcus, to be the father, and their sensible plan quickly blurs into something more.
The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer
2019
In Nazi-occupied Poland, teenager Alina clings to her childhood promise to marry Tomasz even as war tears their village apart. Decades later, a modern-day woman travels to Poland at her grandmother’s urging, uncovering a hidden love story and the family secrets it left behind.
Before I Let You Go
by Kelly Rimmer
2018
Doctor Lexie Vidler has spent years rescuing her younger sister Annie from addiction’s fallout, but a frantic late-night call changes everything. Annie is pregnant, in premature labor and terrified of losing her baby, pulling Lexie into an impossible tangle of love, law and loyalty.
When I Lost You
by Kelly Rimmer
2016
War correspondent Leo is injured on assignment and wakes with no memory of the wife he once adored. As Molly helps him rebuild their shared history, she hides the truth that their marriage was already broken—and fears what will happen when his memories return.
A Mother's Confession
by Kelly Rimmer
2016
After her husband’s sudden death, Olivia is shattered—and so is her mother-in-law, Ivy. As each woman grieves, long-buried secrets about David’s controlling behavior emerge, forcing them to question the past and decide how far a mother should go to protect a child.
The Secret Daughter
by Kelly Rimmer
2015
Pregnant with her first child, Sabina learns she was adopted and that her parents hid the truth for decades. As she searches for her birth mother, three women’s intertwined stories reveal a past shaped by shame, sacrifice and the enduring pull of a mother’s love.
Me Without You
by Kelly Rimmer
2014
Callum Roberts never expected to fall for stubborn, bright Lilah MacDonald, but she pulls him out of his safe routines and back into life. As their whirlwind love deepens, Lilah’s devastating secret forces them to confront what it really means to say goodbye.
Where should I start?
If you’re drawn to WWII and historical stories: The Things We Cannot Say → The Warsaw Orphan → The German Wife → The Paris Agent.
If you like multi-generational mysteries: Truths I Never Told You → The Midnight Estate.
If you want emotional contemporary family drama: Before I Let You Go → A Mother's Confession → When I Lost You.
If you’re after modern romance with a lighter touch: Unexpected → Unspoken → Undone → Letting Go of You.
If you’re ready for her early heart-tugging standalones: Me Without You → The Secret Daughter.
Author bio
Kelly Rimmer is an Australian author of historical and contemporary fiction whose novels follow ordinary people making impossible choices. She’s known for emotional stories about families under pressure, from quiet domestic dramas to sweeping tales set against war. Her books have sold millions of copies and reached readers in many languages around the world.
She was born and raised in Sydney, where she was the kid who cried when the teacher made her put her book away.
Family photos from those years often show her with a novel tucked under one arm and a stack of library books waiting nearby.
As a child she announced that she would be an author one day, then set about proving it by filling notebooks with stories. In adulthood she built a career in information technology, writing fiction in the margins of a busy job and family life, often for an audience of one.
For decades she wrote privately, learning the craft and slowly finding the confidence to share her work. In her mid‑thirties she finally began to show finished manuscripts to other people, and that quiet decision grew into her first published novels, including Me Without You, The Secret Daughter, When I Lost You and A Mother's Confession.
Those early books introduced many of the trademarks readers now expect from her work: layered relationships, moral grey areas and an unflinching look at love in all its forms. They delve into adoption and identity, the strain of illness and grief, and marriages that are much more complicated than they appear from the outside.
With Before I Let You Go she turned to the fraught intersection of addiction, pregnancy and the legal system, and that willingness to tackle hard questions carried into her historical fiction. The Things We Cannot Say, inspired in part by her own family history, moves between wartime Poland and the present day; researching it took her on a deeply personal trip to Poland that shaped the way she writes about memory and inherited trauma.
Later novels like Truths I Never Told You, The Warsaw Orphan, The German Wife, The Paris Agent and The Midnight Estate continue that pattern, blending meticulous research with intimate, character‑driven plots. Whether she’s writing about a young woman helping to smuggle children out of the Warsaw ghetto, German families trying to rebuild their lives in 1950s Alabama, or code‑name agents in occupied France, she’s drawn to the small, human details inside big moments in history.
Alongside these heavier stories she writes brighter, more playful romances, including the Start Up in the City series beginning with Unexpected, Unspoken and Undone. Those books trade battlefields for New York apartments and tech offices, but they still carry her hallmark mix of humour, vulnerability and characters who feel like people you might know.
Rimmer now lives in the central west of New South Wales, in the regional city of Orange, with her family and a small menagerie of badly behaved animals, including two much‑loved dogs, Sully and Basil. Her novels have appeared on bestseller lists in Australia, North America and beyond, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today lists. When she’s not writing or researching, she can often be found behind the counter of the local bookshop she owns, talking with readers, or encouraging aspiring writers with the same simple message that kept her going: it’s never too late to start, and no one else can tell your story for you.
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