Lori Lansens Books in Order

Abandoned by her mother for the summer, five-year-old Sharla forms an unexpected bond with elderly neighbor Addy. Caring for the girl revives memories of Addy’s childhood, lost love and departure from a community founded by people escaping slavery.

Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby approach thirty with a lifetime of shared experiences and distinctly different personalities. When Rose begins an autobiography, both sisters revisit family, friendship, love and the complicated balance between independence and inseparable connection.

When her husband fails to return home before their twenty-fifth anniversary, Mary leaves her narrow routine to search for him. Traveling across the country exposes her to new friendships and possibilities, gradually transforming the life she had allowed to shrink.

A young man intending to end his life on a mountain instead encounters three stranded women and joins their struggle to survive. Years later, he finally tells his son what happened during five desperate days in the wilderness.

After a bomb explodes at their elite Christian school, two teenage girls flee through a heavily surveilled near-future California. As zealots and bounty hunters pursue them, Rory documents their story online, determined to preserve the truth even if they cannot escape.