Maria Hummel Books in Order

In 1859 Vermont, cousins Bel and Laurence shelter a fugitive from slavery, disrupting their privileged upbringing. The approaching Civil War separates them into military and domestic worlds while love and family secrets complicate their coming of age.

A mother’s experience of her young son’s life-threatening illness forms the center of these poems. Hospital wards, family memories and childhood landscapes become places to examine fear, devotion and the fragile continuities that sustain a family through uncertainty.

During Germany's final wartime months, newly married Liesl cares for a surgeon's three children while he serves in the military. Bombing, shortages, and a child's worsening condition test her efforts to protect a family shadowed by complicity.

Los Angeles museum editor Maggie Richter hopes an important exhibition will rescue her institution's finances, but its artist disappears on opening night. Suspicion surrounding Maggie's former lover draws her into an art world shaped by violence and ambition.

A promising Los Angeles art student dies after creating a provocative documentary about coercion and female bodies. Museum editor Maggie Richter finds clues in the work, drawing her toward influential figures with reasons to resist scrutiny.

In a Los Angeles hotel in 1990, Lacey Crane receives a visit from Edith, the friend she has not seen for forty years. Their conversation revisits Hollywood, betrayal and the secrets that broke a once inseparable friendship.