Lynn Steger Strong Books in Order

Hoping to help her troubled daughter recover, professor Maya Taylor sends Ellie to care for a friend's child in Florida. A catastrophic mistake forces mother and daughter to examine their damaged relationship, guilt, and uncomfortable similarities.

Elizabeth juggles motherhood, two jobs, and financial collapse while questioning the life she worked to build. Reconnecting with her childhood friend Sasha offers a possible refuge, but both women bring unresolved needs and crises to their reunion.

Three siblings gather with their families for their first Christmas after their mother's death. Disagreements over her house expose old resentments, until a local mother and daughter need help and force the family to act together.

After their mother's death, four siblings reunite in Florida carrying private failures and old grievances. Amid oppressive summer heat, family secrets and a rupture between once-close sisters threaten their efforts to find comfort in one another.