Luanne Rice Books in Order

During a blizzard at a grand Rhode Island hotel, celebrated artist Maddie Morrison is found dead and her young daughter vanishes into the storm. Detective Conor Reid, his Coast Guard brother Tom, and Maddie’s sister Hadley race to uncover old grudges and save the missing child.

Eight months after her sister’s murder, teen naturalist Oli is the only one still searching for answers. When she rescues another girl left for dead in the same spot, the two join forces on a perilous hunt along the Connecticut shoreline to stop a killer.

Invited to an exclusive seaside getaway called Belle Mer, a family expects lazy beach days and easy reconciliation. Instead, shifting loyalties and an undercurrent of menace turn the escape into a reckoning about trust, secrets, and how well they really know one another.

Artist Claire Beaudry Chase survives a brutal attack in her Connecticut home and immediately suspects her husband, a rising political star. Hiding in plain sight, she uses her art and a small circle of allies, including Detective Conor Reid, to expose a web of corruption before it silences her.

When beloved gallery owner Beth Lathrop is found murdered and a priceless painting is stolen, Detective Conor Reid relives a decades‑old crime that destroyed her family once before. As he and Beth’s sister dig into the past, long‑hidden loyalties and betrayals surface in their coastal town.

A year after her best friend’s death, fifteen‑year‑old Emily is kidnapped by the grieving family and forced to live as the girl they lost. Trapped in a remote house and remade in Lizzie’s image, she must play along while quietly plotting a risky escape.

Depressed and tired of pretending she is fine, Maia runs away up the East Coast to search for the mother who left years ago. Traveling with Billy, a damaged boy from a local group home, she confronts trauma, first love, and what it really means to want to stay alive.

After texting while driving, Roo McCabe is left paralyzed and locked inside her own body, able to think but unable to move or speak. Her younger sister Tilly, racked with guilt and drawn to Roo’s boyfriend, must find a way to reach Roo and repair their bond.

Set on the Connecticut shore, this short tale follows familiar characters through a single charged night, as a woman revisits the choices that shaped her family and realizes how quickly everything can change by morning.

Still devastated by her daughter’s death, Julia goes to house‑sit at her uncle’s lemon orchard in the Santa Monica Mountains. There she meets Roberto, an undocumented worker whose own child vanished on the border, and joins his desperate search even as they fall in love.

A noir story set in Staten Island, focusing on a woman grappling with her son's troubling behavior while she becomes obsessed with a tragedy involving a neighbor. It explores themes of entrapment and the dark undercurrents of family life.

In Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, a woman’s attempt to rescue her sister from an abusive husband ends in prison. Years later, newly free Clare expects a quiet life until the niece she barely knows appears, dragging the family’s buried history into the open.

After a deadly storm upends their family, an English teacher moves her children from Ohio to Newport, Rhode Island, to teach at an elite academy. While she searches for her missing eldest daughter, the younger siblings navigate friendship, first love, and the strange, haunted pull of the sea.

Teenager Pell Davis crosses an ocean to the Isle of Capri to find the mother who abandoned her and her younger sister years before. Among expatriates, cliffside paths, and new love, mother and daughter must decide whether they can forgive each other enough to build a life together.

Separated by grief and distance, a husband and wife exchange letters that trace one fateful season in their marriage. As he travels into dangerous wilderness and she confronts the truth at home, each must decide whether their shared past can survive what happened to their child.

Nearly a year after her teenage son is killed, Sheridan Rosslare hides in her Hubbard’s Point beach house, unable to move on. Charlie’s girlfriend Nell and old flame Gavin Dawson reopen the investigation, forcing the community to face a long‑shadowed crime and giving Sheridan one last chance at love.

Years after giving up their baby in Ireland, Sister Bernadette Ignatius and Tom Kelly leave Star of the Sea Academy to search for the son they lost. Their journey crosses paths with a young man and woman bound by their own orphanage past, testing every idea they have about love and faith.

Single mother Neve Halloran and her bird‑obsessed teen daughter Mickey cling to the stark beauty of Rhode Island’s South County. When plans emerge to raise a sunken World War II submarine that shelters rare wildlife, they join forces with a park ranger whose past is tangled with the wreck.

At Star of the Sea Academy on the Connecticut shore, painter Honor Sullivan has built a careful life with her three daughters after her husband’s imprisonment. When John suddenly returns for their eldest’s wedding, long‑kept secrets, unfinished love, and a possible miracle rock the family.

Reeling from her mother’s death and a broken relationship, anthropologist Susannah Connolly travels to France’s Camargue to seek a mysterious saint from her family legends. There she meets horseman Grey Dempsey and his troubled daughter, and finds that saving them may be tied to healing herself.

Three McCarthy sisters gather at their weathered family cottage on Martha’s Vineyard to pack up a lifetime of memories before the house is sold. As they fight over the future and chase a legend about their vanished father, they uncover new ways to stay connected.

On the Nova Scotia coast, Lily Malone is trying to build a safe life for her daughter Rose, far from an abusive past. The mystery of a pregnant woman who vanished years earlier, and a determined detective who never let the case go, pull them into danger and unexpected love.

Summer in Cape Hawk should mean peace for Lily Malone and her daughter, but the past refuses to stay buried. As old fears about Lily’s violent ex‑husband resurface and a stranger arrives from New England, two families must decide whom to trust and what to leave behind.

Manhattan librarian Catherine Tierney has avoided Christmas since her husband died, even as a Nova Scotia tree seller sets up his stand outside her building each year. When his runaway son crosses Catherine’s path, all three lives intersect in a quiet, deeply felt holiday miracle.

Baker Jane Porter returns to her Rhode Island hometown to care for her aging mother and face the baby she once gave up. Drawn to widowed apple grower Dylan Chadwick and his teen daughter, she must finally decide whether to reveal the secret that binds them.

Years after three inseparable “beach girls” grew up and drifted apart, widower Jack brings his young daughter Nell back to Hubbard’s Point to learn about her late mother. Nell’s search leads to reclusive writer Stevie Moore, reopening an old friendship and a risky new love.

Widowed defense attorney John O’Rourke is fighting a notorious capital‑murder case while barely holding his family together. Kate Harris arrives on his chaotic doorstep searching for her missing sister, and together they uncover a chilling pattern that links the trial to a vanished woman.

Bay McCabe treasures her seaside home, her three children, and the hard‑won peace in her marriage. When her husband Sean disappears under suspicious circumstances and an old love steps back into her life, one Connecticut summer upends everything she thought she knew.

In Hubbard’s Point, veterinarian Rumer Larkin has made peace with the past, including the boy next door who married her sister. When Zeb Mayhew returns after tragedy and years at sea, bringing his troubled teenage son, the three must untangle first love, betrayal, and second chances.

Free‑spirited marine artist Dana Underhill comes home to Hubbard’s Point after her sister and brother‑in‑law die mysteriously at sea, suddenly becoming mother to her two nieces. With the help of childhood friend Sam Trevor, she uncovers dangerous secrets and learns to risk her heart again.

Wedding planner May Taylor believes in simple magic and happily‑ever‑afters, but her young daughter sees angels and a bruised hockey star needs more than luck. One extraordinary summer forces them to face fear, superstition, and what real family loyalty demands.

Caroline Renwick and her sisters return to Firefly Hill, their Connecticut childhood home, determined to leave old pain behind. When Joe Connor, once a grieving boy she comforted by letter, walks back into town, long‑buried truths and a new love collide.

Thirteen years after her little boy vanished in Wyoming, artist Daisy Tucker has rebuilt a fragile life in Connecticut with his twin, Sage. When pregnant sixteen‑year‑old Sage runs away to find her father in the high country, both parents must confront their loss.

Abandoned when prenatal tests reveal their baby’s disabilities, Dianne Robbins raises her beloved daughter with the quiet support of pediatrician Alan, her ex‑husband’s brother. As a lonely teenager and a wounded sailor enter their lives, all three must reconsider what family looks like.

Fresh from beating a life‑threatening illness, Sarah Talbot celebrates with a small‑plane flight and meets pilot Will Burke. Their sudden connection leads her back to a Maine island, where both families must face old wounds before they can trust hope.

After a devastating loss shatters her Manhattan life, Anne Davis retreats to her childhood home on a wind‑lashed New England island. When a catastrophic fire strikes, a split‑second decision sparks a chain of events that may finally heal her family.

In a Rhode Island fishing town ruled by tides and the family restaurant, Cass Medieros juggles a strained marriage, a partially deaf daughter, and relatives with secrets. One dangerous storm at sea threatens to tear the clan apart for good.

Photographer’s stylist Lydie McBride accompanies her architect husband to Paris hoping to outrun her father’s shocking death, but his affair and a glittering high‑society project draw her into a world of masks, betrayals, and hard choices about love.

Nomadic archaeologist Maria Dark returns to her childhood home on the Connecticut shore hoping for comfort, only to find her family entangled in old hurts and a lingering crime. To help them heal, she must face the past she ran from.

Georgie Symonds thinks her marriage and sprawling family compound on the Connecticut shore are unshakable, until jealousy, suspicion, and a risky documentary project about people changed by tragedy push every relationship she counts on to the breaking point.

Actress Una Cavan has built a life in New York far from the Connecticut beach where she and her sisters grew up, but their bond, her father's ghostly visits, and one unexpected romance force her to rethink what home means.