Mariah Stewart Books in Order

Young widow Athena Moran is known in her New Jersey town as a fallen officer's wife and a respected city councilman's daughter. When a tough reporter pushes her to run for mayor, politics, buried family secrets, and unexpected attraction collide, reshaping how she sees herself and her future.

When rock superstar J. D. Borders cheats on his wife, Maggie walks away from their glamorous life and seven children. Years later, a final, live television interview forces them to revisit the rise and fall of their marriage and decide if anything is worth salvaging.

After losing her high powered consulting job, Abby McKenna inherits her aunt's once grand Victorian estate in North Carolina. The neglected house, a blunt housekeeper, and the return of first love Alex Kane force Abby to confront old choices and decide where she truly belongs.

Prosecutor India Devlin rushes home to the Delaware Bay town of Devlin's Light when her brother is found murdered on the steps of the historic lighthouse. Working with family friend Nick Enright, she uncovers town secrets, long simmering grudges, and a powerful attraction she never expected.

Writer Quinn Hollister heads to her family's Montana ranch for Christmas and is snowed in with Cale, the man she loved and lost twelve years earlier. Surrounded by relatives, holiday traditions, and regret, they finally face the misunderstanding that tore them apart and consider a fresh start.

At twenty six, dancer Georgia Enright knows her dream of becoming a principal is slipping away. She escapes to Pumpkin Hill, the farm owned by the half sister she has only just met, and clashes with brooding veterinarian Matt Bishop while reimagining what a life offstage could look like.

Struggling shop owner Zoey Enright lands an on air job with a home shopping network and is stunned when the company brings in Ben Pierce, her childhood hero, to run things. As Ben wrestles with the end of his racing career, their new roles give an old crush a very real second chance.

Underwater archaeologist Sam McGowan joins a salvage project on a sunken Civil War blockade runner, expecting to work under a legendary expert. Instead he finds the operation run by the expert's daughter, Rachel Chandler, whose skills, stubbornness, and passion for the sea challenge his every assumption.

Magazine editor Leah McDevitt has spent years chasing trends around the world while quietly mourning her sister, who vanished as a teenager. When a serial killer hints he knows what happened, Leah teams up with investigator and true crime author Ethan Sanger to uncover the truth and risk falling in love.

FBI agent Genna Snow built her career on speaking up about a camp counselor who abused her and other girls, a choice that cost her family. When a new abduction case echoes her past and brings former lover John Mancini back into her orbit, Genna must face old scars while hunting a predator.

Landscape designer Dina McDermott lives a quiet, comfortable life until journalist Simon Keller uncovers evidence that she might be the secret child of a former president. As political scandal brews and deadly attacks close in, Dina and Simon race to uncover the truth about her bloodline.

FBI sketch artist Kendra Smith helps victims remember their attackers, but she has never found closure in her own brother's kidnapping. Called in to work on the "Soccer Mom Killer" case with ex lover Adam Stark, she is drawn into a hunt that could finally expose the past she has tried to outrun.

Antiques dealer Amanda Crosby believes her nightmare is over when her stalker is finally caught. Then her business partner is executed soon after she leaves him a furious voicemail, and every clue points to her. Chief of police Sean Mercer must decide whether Amanda is a murderer or a target.

As the third vengeful ex con walks free, FBI agent Miranda Cahill and fellow agent Will Fletcher are pulled into a series of deaths tied to the old prison pact. Their fraught, on again off again relationship complicates a case in which the final name on the killer's list may be Miranda's own.

Three inmates vowed revenge before they left prison. Now the first is free, and victims named M. Douglas are being slaughtered. Mara Douglas fears she is next, and damaged FBI agent Aidan Shields must push past his own trauma to keep her alive and outthink a meticulous killer.

Detective Cassie Burke survived a childhood massacre that killed her family and sent a drifter to prison. When new murders in her New Jersey shore town mirror that long ago crime, she and FBI agent Rick Cisco must decide whether the original killer had a partner or someone else is rewriting history.

Nina Madden has spent decades living under the shadow of her father's conviction as a serial killer. When a new string of murders in her Maryland hometown copies the original crimes, she returns to confront cop Wes Powell, the man who built the case, and to learn whether justice actually got it wrong.

Two years after an undercover drug sting exploded in gunfire, profiler Anne Marie McCall is ready to build a future with detective Evan Crosby. But questions about the operation that killed agent Dylan Shields haunt her, and following those doubts leads Annie into a minefield of betrayal inside law enforcement.

Returning home to sell her late parents' Pennsylvania farm, Lorna Temple uncovers the bones of Jason Eagan, the teen once blamed when his little sister vanished. Teaming up with private investigator T. J. Dawson, she reopens a case the town considers closed and threatens someone determined to stay hidden.

True crime writer Regan Landry is drawn to the story of Lester Ray Barnes, a death row inmate suddenly freed after his conviction unravels. When he disappears and brutal new assaults follow on the North Carolina coast, Regan and FBI agent Mitch Peyton must decide whether they helped release a monster.

Archaeologist Daria McGowan discovers that irreplaceable artifacts from her great grandfather's Middle Eastern dig have been replaced by fakes. With FBI agent Connor Shields, she follows a trail of stolen antiquities and ritualistic murders that seem inspired by the same ancient culture she studies.

FBI agent Dorsey Collins is stunned when a newly murdered woman is identified as Shannon Randall, whose death her own father investigated decades earlier. Partnered with Andrew Shields, she digs into a case that once ended in an execution and discovers how badly the truth can be twisted.

In quiet St. Dennis, Maryland, police chief Gabe Beck finds a woman's body wrapped in plastic in his car, along with a recording of her dying words. FBI agent Mia Shields joins the hunt as more cocooned victims appear, and together they set a dangerous trap that uses Mia as bait.

Serial killer Sheldon Woods avoided execution by revealing where some of his young victims were buried, but many children were never found. FBI agent Portia Cahill and defense attorney James Cannon, who once represented Woods, work together to identify new remains and stop a fresh wave of killings tied to his crimes.

When four teens enter a Conroy, Pennsylvania, park, two wind up dead and two vanish without a trace. Grieving billionaire Robert Magellan hires former cop Mallory Russo and detective Charlie Wanamaker through the Mercy Street Foundation to find the missing pair and uncover what really happened that night.

New Mercy Street operative and former FBI profiler Sam Delvecchio investigates the staged murder of a soup kitchen volunteer. With agent Fiona Summers and parish priest Kevin Burch, he realizes a serial killer is posing victims to mimic the church's seven acts of mercy, and the final scenes are still to come.

After adopting the daughter of a drug lord, California cop Ann Nolan goes into hiding as Emme Caldwell and joins the Mercy Street Foundation. Her first case, a missing college student, leads to a fertility clinic, a mysterious sperm donor, and a guardian determined to protect his niece at any cost.

Grieving the murder of his wife, former FBI agent Grady Shields isolates himself in Montana until his sister's wedding draws him to St. Dennis on the Chesapeake Bay. There he meets boutique owner Vanessa Keaton and discovers that love and a sense of home might be possible again.

Hollywood actress Dallas MacGregor retreats to St. Dennis with her young son after her director husband ignites a scandal. Reunited with her outspoken great aunt and first love Grant Wyler, now the town vet, she must decide whether this quiet Chesapeake town can anchor her life for good.

Ice cream maker Steffie Wyler has fulfilled one childhood wish by owning One Scoop or Two on St. Dennis's main street. When her teenage crush Wade MacGregor returns to town with his own bruised past and a secret from a failed business, Steffie learns that dreams can change and still come true.

Once the prettiest girl in St. Dennis, Brooke Madison Bowers had the perfect small town life until her soldier husband was killed in Iraq. Back on the family farm and opening a cupcake bakery, she finds herself drawn to Jesse Enright, the steady attorney who wants a future rooted in the town she loves.

Event planner Lucy Sinclair left St. Dennis after a violent assault shattered her sense of safety. Years later, she comes back to stage a celebrity wedding at her family's inn and to face the town, the best friend she left behind, Clay Madison, and the lingering trauma she has never fully named.

During a nostalgic summer stay at a beloved vacation spot, successful chef Lacey Lancaster meets private investigator Clay Knight, a man who carries his own share of secrets. A brief coastal escape turns into something deeper as shared memories and new desire pull them together.

Ellie Chapman loses everything when her wealthy father is exposed for running a massive financial scam. With a ruined name and nowhere to go, she moves into the small St. Dennis house she inherited from her mother, intending to fix it up and leave, only to find work, friendship, and contractor Cameron O'Connor changing her plans.

Burned out by big city law and a cheating boyfriend, attorney Sophie Enright heads to St. Dennis to visit family and regroup. Buying a shuttered restaurant on the river puts her at odds with neighbor and landscaper Jason Bowers, and their rivalry slowly turns into something far more tender.

Gallery owner Carly Summit brings a major art exhibit to St. Dennis after plans in New York fall through, while former war zone photojournalist Ford Sinclair returns home to run the local paper for a while. Her relentless optimism and his hard won cynicism clash, then slowly find common ground.

Self help author Jamie Valentine discovers after her mother's sudden death that she was adopted, a truth her books never prepared her for. Following slim clues to St. Dennis, she books a room at the Inn at Sinclair's Point and upends the carefully ordered life of widowed innkeeper Daniel Sinclair.

Artist Lisbeth Parker returns to Cannonball Island, just across the water from St. Dennis, to show her work and record her great grandmother's memories. Environmental engineer Alec Jansen, once the boy she rejected for prom, is now leading a development study, putting them on opposite sides of a fight for the island's future.

Architect Cassidy Logan travels to Cannonball Island to design sensitively built, eco friendly homes for her father's company on land that has seen no new construction for nearly a century. As she works with island boatbuilder Owen Parker and wary residents, she finds herself tempted to put down roots of her own.

When Hollywood agent Fritz Hudson dies, his will brings together daughters Allie and Des from his first marriage and Cara, the daughter he had in secret. To claim their inheritance they must move to Hidden Falls, Pennsylvania, and restore the decaying Sugarhouse Theater that defined his childhood.

Chrissy Jenkins has always felt like the awkward one in her extended St. Dennis family. After a disastrous relationship, she returns to the bay determined to rebuild her life on her own terms, only to discover that love and self respect might both be waiting where the land meets the water.

In this short thriller, Deanna Bradley panics and flees when a drunken coworker is dragged from her car and attacked by a gang. Crushed by guilt, she methodically tracks the men responsible, determined to administer the kind of justice the courts may never deliver.

Now living in Hidden Falls, Des Hudson shoulders the practical burden of renovating the Sugarhouse Theater with her sisters when unexpected storm damage blows up the budget. As she hunts for creative funding and juggles small town life, Des also starts to imagine a different kind of future for herself.

Former cop Mallory Russo now works for the Mercy Street Foundation, searching cold cases for new leads. When a mother receives fresh information about her daughter who disappeared ten years earlier, Mallory follows a fragile trail through old neighbors and half remembered sightings to uncover a buried truth.

Back in Hidden Falls, the Hudson sisters near completion of the Sugarhouse Theater as Cara, Allie, and Des each wrestle with love, career, and what family means. Cara in particular must decide whether to keep living with one foot in her old life or fully claim the town and people who have claimed her.

This large print edition of The Goodbye Cafe continues the story of Cara, Allie, and Des Hudson as they finish restoring the Sugarhouse Theater and figure out how to build lasting futures in Hidden Falls, with new relationships and long held secrets finally resolved.

Widowed Maggie Flynn returns to Wyndham Beach for her fortieth high school reunion and reconnects with best friends Emma and Liddy, as well as first love Brett Crawford. Buying back her family home forces her to confront an old secret and consider a second chance she never expected.

Ten years after her husband's death, Emma Dean's orderly life in Wyndham Beach is shaken when she discovers proof of his long affair. As she launches an artist residency at her new art center, a charming businessman and unexpected visitors challenge her to imagine a very different next chapter.

Still grieving her daughter's suicide and reeling from her husband's sudden departure, Liddy Bryant tries to rebuild her life by purchasing a rundown bookstore in Wyndham Beach. With loyal friends, a patient contractor, and an apologetic ex, she faces hard choices about forgiveness and the shape of her future.

Philadelphia office worker and single mother Annie Gilberti learns that her late grandmother was once the ruler of a tiny European duchy and that she is heir to the crown. A "quick" trip to Saint Gilbert, a crumbling castle, and an intriguing captain of the guard upend everything she thought her life would be.