Lori Roy Books in Order

Arthur Scott brings his family from Detroit to rural Kansas, returning to the place where his sister mysteriously died. When another girl disappears, his wife Celia struggles to protect their children as old suspicions and family secrets resurface.

A murdered Black woman and the disappearance of a vulnerable young woman unsettle a Detroit neighborhood in the 1950s. As the men search, three neighboring women confront tensions and secrets beneath their community’s reassuring appearance.

In 1952 Kentucky, teenager Annie Holleran visits a forbidden well hoping to glimpse her future and discovers a body instead. The investigation draws her into a feud and the disturbing legacy of her aunt Juna’s actions years earlier.

Divorced mother Lane Fielding returns to her Florida hometown, where her father’s crimes still cast a shadow. When her older daughter disappears, Lane confronts hostile neighbors and buried secrets to learn whether the past has endangered her children.

After burying her father, a Ku Klux Klan leader, Imogene discovers a child imprisoned in his secret hideout. Her attempt to help exposes a missing girl’s ordeal and brings her into conflict with the violent legacy her family intends to preserve.

In 1950s Florida, Addie Anne Buckley dreams of joining her aunt Marilyn Monroe in Hollywood. When her boyfriend exposes his illegal gambling operation in Mafia territory, her escape plans become a struggle to protect herself and her family.

Twenty years after a girl disappeared and her father went to prison, Jennifer Jones watches a true crime series revisit that summer. As new revelations emerge, she questions his guilt while someone else presses her for answers.