Kris Nelscott Books in Order

A San Francisco Free Clinic receptionist pursues medical training despite repeated warnings that women cannot become doctors. The arrival of a drug-addicted woman and a street child forces her to confront the urgent, morally difficult decisions that caring for patients demands.

A disturbing postcard leads Emerson to investigate a lynching in an Arkansas town on behalf of the NAACP. Passing as white offers limited protection, especially because the sender knows his face, making his search for truth a dangerous test of survival.

A Berkeley campus fire draws gym owner Pammy into an arson investigation amid the protests of 1969. As suspicions spread, she and her gym members encounter hidden violence that forces them to confront motives beyond the unrest visible in the streets.

Former Vietnam nurse Eagle wakes to helicopters, tear gas, and National Guard troops on Berkeley’s streets. Trying to reach her friend’s women’s gym places her in another kind of conflict, where protecting lives challenges the skills she brought home from war.

In Berkeley in 1969, former combat nurse Eagle witnesses a young woman's abduction. When police dismiss her concerns, she joins gym owner Pammy and newcomer Val to investigate a pattern of kidnappings and murders of students.

Widowed Lurleen struggles to find purpose after years away from helping the NAACP investigate lynchings. Traveling to New York without a plan brings opportunities to confront the work and caution she left behind, and consider what her future should become.