Laura Madeleine Books in Order

In 1909 Paris, a railway worker becomes a pâtisserie apprentice and falls for the owner’s daughter. Decades later, an academic finds a mysterious photograph of her grandfather and uncovers the lovers’ story of betrayal.

Grieving after the First World War, Emeline flees to southern France and begins a new life. Fifty years later, a young solicitor discovers her diary and follows a trail of love and betrayal that contradicts what he has been told.

In wartime southern France, Ceci falls in love with someone she is forbidden to want. Fifty years later, Annie searches for her missing grandmother, uncovering family secrets that transform her understanding of the past.

Accused of murder, Alejandra escapes Spain for Tangier and builds a new identity among people with secrets of their own. Fifty years later, an American writer discovers traces of her life and becomes entangled in its unresolved dangers.