Melanie Dobson Books in Order

Twenty years after losing the baby she hoped to adopt, publicity executive Abby Wagner must promote the agency tied to that pain. Returning to Orcas Island, she searches for answers and a way to release the past.

After a ski injury leaves her depressed and restless, Leia Carlisle finds a dangerous thrill in online gambling. Her secret quickly becomes an addiction that threatens her marriage, faith, and the life she has tried to hold together.

After her mother's suicide, Elise Friedman travels to Germany to uncover the truth about her past. Inside a medieval abbey, she finds a dark secret and a man determined to keep her from escaping it.

Jobless and homeless, Camden inherits her grandmother's old Ohio mansion. Strange signs of another occupant and stories of secret passages draw her into a mystery involving runaway slaves, family lies, and dangers that have not stayed buried.

In 1929 Ohio, Detective Rollin Wells hides in an Amish home while investigating a mob family's plans. As he grows close to Katie Lehman, both their secrets could put them in the path of killers.

In 1863, Amalie arrives in the peaceful Amana Colonies to find her fiancé has joined the Union army. As war tests the community's beliefs, she must face grief, divided loyalties, and an unexpected pull toward his guarded best friend.

With her family's fortune fading, Elena is sent to Mackinac Island to find a wealthy husband. Instead, she falls for a laborer and joins him in unraveling the mystery hidden in an old lighthouse diary.

On the 1842 Oregon Trail, Samantha Waldron loses much of the life she knew and must protect her younger brother. A British trader offers rescue, but the dangerous route west complicates every hope she has for love and home.

During the American Revolution, Lydia Caswell is caught between a Loyalist family and a world changed by war. As hidden allegiances surface, she must navigate espionage, divided friendships, and the risk of choosing peace over safety.

In occupied Normandy, Gisèle hides resistance fighters and a Jewish child beneath her family's chateau. Decades later, her granddaughter Chloe investigates the tunnels with a filmmaker and uncovers the truth behind long-kept family secrets.

After a young woman and the manor heir vanish following his drowning, their families are left with painful questions. Forty-five years later, Heather returns to the English cottage of her childhood and discovers unsettling truths about her past.

During the California Gold Rush, hotel owner Isabelle Labrie hides a treasure and hopes for her fiancé's return. When fugitives seeking freedom arrive, she must choose whether to risk everything to help them reach safety.

Seventy years after escaping Nazi Germany, Daniel Knight still searches for the girl he lost. Journalist Quenby Vaughn and Daniel's lawyer follow a wartime trail of sacrifice and deception that could finally reveal Brigitte's fate.

In 1958, photographer Jenny Winter visits England's Lake District and meets enigmatic Adrian Kemp. His abandoned island amusement park draws them into an old legend, a lost romance, and an unsolved murder shadowing the lakes.

Quaker abolitionist Anna Brent helps runaways escape through Liberty, Indiana, at great personal risk. When her work is threatened, she must decide whether newspaper editor Daniel Stanton is an ally worth trusting with lives and her heart.

As Nazis enter Vienna, Max and Annika hide a Jewish friend and stolen valuables at a lakeside estate. Eighty years later, bookstore owner Callie finds clues in an old copy of *Bambi* and begins uncovering their story.

Chosen by lot to marry, Christian and Susanna travel from Germany to help establish a Moravian settlement in Pennsylvania. War, old regrets, and a fragile new community test whether their arranged marriage can become a real partnership.

During the American Revolution, Lydia Caswell is torn between her Loyalist family and her desire for peace. With spies, divided neighbors, and danger closing in, she and her friend Sarah must decide whom they can trust.

In 1942 Amsterdam, two friends risk everything to rescue Jewish children awaiting deportation. Decades later, Ava Drake investigates her great-grandfather's wartime record and discovers a family connection that powerful people want hidden.

After loss on the 1842 Oregon Trail, Samantha Waldron and her brother need British trader Alexander Clarke to reach safety. The hard journey west leaves Samantha balancing survival, independence, and feelings for a man she cannot easily have.

Co-written with Morgan Tarpley Smith, this practical guide helps writers build connected dual-timeline novels. It breaks down key elements of split-time fiction and includes examples, author interviews, worksheets, and tools for shaping a manuscript.

In 1894, unemployed banker Jacob Hirsch and his young daughter find shelter in Iowa's Amana community. As Liesel nurses the child, Jacob must decide whether he can build a new life without asking her to abandon hers.

Homesick boarding-school student Katie falls into the Seine and lands in a hidden fairy kingdom below Paris. With the queen captured and the fairy light stolen, she must follow a poem and find the courage to help.

Before World War II, archaeologist Hanna Tillich is drawn deeper into the Nazi system after becoming a museum curator and adoptive mother. Decades later, a researcher facing her own trauma follows the secrets Hanna left behind.

American Quaker Grace Tonquin rescues Jewish children from Vichy France and brings two siblings to Oregon. More than fifty years later, Addie searches for the vanished Tonquin family, hoping their past can save her mentor's life.

In 1907, five-year-old Poppy disappears from her family's Thousand Islands castle after her father is found dead. Eighty-five years later, Chloe and a journalist investigate, uncovering a truth that may save a vulnerable girl's life.

Taken from Egypt and enslaved in Sarai's household, Hagar longs for security and belonging. When pregnancy turns kindness into jealousy and danger, she flees into the desert and discovers she is not unseen.

This short Legacy of Love novella adds another historical romance to the series, beginning with an unexpected inheritance. The gift opens a door to the past and asks its recipient to weigh love, family obligations, and a future of her own.

As children face grave danger, Zahla refuses to stand aside. With an unlikely ally named Merin, she forms a secret network to protect them, risking discovery as fear and faith shape every step of their mission.

Screenwriter Harper Rayne investigates the disappearance of Via Belle, her late mother's beloved romance novelist. In a Pennsylvania town tied to both women, Harper finds a final manuscript, buried scandal, and an unexpectedly personal search for home.