Linda Holeman Books in Order

Prizewinning pig Frankie expects another country fair when Farmer Halley leaves him in an unfamiliar barn. Realizing he has been brought somewhere far more dangerous, he escapes and faces the uncertain adventures of finding freedom on his own.

Ten stories follow young people confronting the confusion of growing up and discovering that love rarely matches their expectations. Encounters in ordinary homes, schools, and workplaces bring difficult farewells and moments that change how they understand themselves.

Women navigate the loyalties and silences of family life in these stories exploring intimacy. A stolen correspondence, a revealing visit to in-laws, and an unexpected classroom reunion expose secrets that alter familiar relationships and ideas of belonging.

Sent from an English orphanage to Canada, fourteen-year-old Rosetta is separated from her younger sister and assigned farm work. Her determination to reunite them collides with the sorrowful household she enters, where an unexpected friendship offers strength.

Mercy tries to manage school and work while her mother's withdrawal and her aunt's unpredictable behavior destabilize their household. Afraid of an abusive man's return, she must discover whether she can seek help beyond the family she knows.

Nine stories follow seemingly ordinary people carrying private burdens of desire, grief, and betrayal. From an unsettling friendship to an unlikely rescuer, encounters and memories reveal the hidden pressures shaping their lives and their fragile hopes for redemption.

When her adoptive mother leaves, Poppy moves into her father's chaotic new household and begins searching for her birth mother. Unlikely connections with her stepmother and a troubled stranger challenge her ideas about identity, belonging, and what makes a family.

After cholera shatters her village childhood, Emmaline Roke enters the harsh world of industrial England. A search for someone she loves takes her to London, where exploitation and unfamiliar opportunities force her to fight for a different future.

Escaping the prostitution her stepfather forced upon her, Linny leaves impoverished Liverpool for colonial India. As she builds a respectable new identity, she must confront the sacrifices, concealed history, and difficult choices beneath her apparent success.

Left destitute in India, missionary daughter Pree searches for Kai, the son of her mother's servant and the one person she trusts. Discovering his hidden history sends her into a dangerous journey through family secrets, suffering, and unexpected love.

After a devastating accident, Sidonie finds healing and love with doctor Etienne Duverger. When he vanishes and leaves only a letter from Morocco, she follows him to Marrakech, where unfamiliar dangers and disturbing secrets challenge everything she believed about him.

On a Russian estate shaken by the emancipation of the serfs, a stolen child draws disparate lives into a web of grief and secrecy. Aristocratic privilege, forbidden relationships, and old resentments shape a struggle for survival as the social order crumbles.

Abandoned with her mother on a Portuguese island, Diamantina grows up marked as an outsider by ancestry and superstition. Determined to escape poverty and control her future, she pursues a better life while confronting the cost of her choices.