Laura Van Wormer Books in Order

This companion to the television series traces the Ewing family's history, Southfork Ranch, Ewing Oil, and the Barnes feud from 1860 to 1985. Character chronologies and photographs place the family's relationships and conflicts in a broader saga.

This television companion supplies background on the characters of Knots Landing and recounts the town's history. It gathers the personal histories behind Seaview Circle's residents, giving viewers context for the relationships and conflicts portrayed in the series.

Four families sharing an exclusive Manhattan address conceal passions and secrets behind apparently secure lives. Their relationships become entangled as private affairs threaten friendships, marriages, and the privileged world they have built beside the Hudson River.

A new television network establishes its broadcast headquarters on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Staff working on both sides of the cameras pursue ambitious careers while navigating sexual attraction, professional power, and promises that prove difficult to trust.

New York editor Kate Watson tries to salvage television star Lydia Southland's unfinished autobiography. Their growing friendship pushes both women to confront personal truths while protecting their integrity in the competitive worlds of publishing and Hollywood entertainment.

Corporate operator Creighton Berns takes over the respected literary agency Hillings & Hillings. Its loyal clients unite to defend their agents and uncover his intentions, finding that the struggle also threatens to transform their own lives.

A writer, broker, advertising executive, builder, and eight other jurors must decide a murder defendant's fate. Their shared obligation brings personal upheaval and unexpected intrigue as they try to separate the evidence from their complicated lives.

Retired investment banker Mary Liz Scott helps her godmother inventory the estate of late Hollywood producer Alfred Hoffman. What should be a temporary favor becomes dangerous when Mary realizes the information she has uncovered is connected to murder.

Television talk show star Jessica Wright receives anonymous presents and increasingly intimate messages from an admirer. As the attention becomes stalking, her public success offers little protection against someone who watches her movements and poses a deadly threat.

After helping a wealthy couple lost in Connecticut, journalist Sally Harrington receives a major magazine assignment profiling television mogul Cassy Cochran. Her chance to advance professionally instead draws her into dangerous secrets and a confrontation with murder.

Journalist Sally Harrington's apparently happy relationship collapses when editor Spencer Hawes vanishes, apparently with a Hollywood actress. A death near Sally's home brings investigators into the wreckage of her career, finances, and increasingly public romantic troubles.

Sally Harrington's new television news job sends her to cover a Hollywood murder trial in which she is also a witness. A body in her rental car and pursuing assassins turn professional ambition into another dangerous investigation.

Journalist Sally Harrington travels to Los Angeles as a defense witness for a producer accused of killing a mobster who once threatened her. Fresh danger and an attraction to her police protector complicate her efforts to testify.

Sally Harrington investigates her great-uncle's possible land ownership just as a major job offer attracts publicity and stalkers. Becoming a suspect in attempted murder, she must protect her uncle while confronting land speculation and competing romantic interests.

Starting her own television newscast, Sally Harrington interviews a wealthy traveler shortly before he is murdered. An attack on an acquaintance at her Connecticut home draws federal attention, suggesting the two incidents may place Sally herself in danger.

Residents of a desirable Manhattan neighborhood face infidelity, money troubles, concealed histories, and disillusionment with success. As marriages and families strain, their interconnected lives expose the distance between outward privilege and the relationships they struggle to preserve.