Nicola Kraus Books in Order

Struggling with student debt and work far beneath her qualifications, twenty-four-year-old Girl finally lands what appears to be her dream job. Ignoring her misgivings, she enters a workplace where ambition and survival demand increasingly uncomfortable compromises.

Thirteen years after her first love left town before prom and became a recording star, Kate still carries the hurt. His return gives her a chance to confront him and resolve feelings that fame and time have failed to erase.

High school senior Jesse joins a reality series filmed at her school because it promises college tuition. As producers manipulate friendships and manufacture drama, she struggles to protect her privacy, values, and sense of what is real.

Exhausted and overwhelmed by work, a young woman plans to skip a social event and go straight to bed. Learning that a man she likes will attend sends her into a frantic effort to transform herself before the night ends.

Logan becomes assistant to her superstar cousin Kelsey, reconnecting after a difficult childhood separation. Behind the celebrity image she discovers a damaging family business, and Kelsey’s attempts at independence force Logan to confront their shared wounds.

Max builds a successful service helping girls recover from breakups and begins seeing romantic possibilities with her friend Ben. When the ex who inspired her business returns, she discovers her own recovery is far less complete than she believed.

A coveted White House internship draws graduate Jamie into a secret affair with the president. As she struggles to leave, a confidence shared with the wrong person exposes her and her family to political retaliation and public scrutiny.

When her husband abandons family responsibilities, forty-something mother Rory takes a full-time job at a youth-focused media company. Managing two children and demanding younger bosses forces her to adapt while questioning whether her marriage can survive.

Amanda escapes a Florida trailer park through the patronage of an ambitious lawyer and his inspiring wife. Following his political rise to Washington offers opportunity, until discoveries about his conduct force her to choose between loyalty and exposing the truth.

Bunny leaves her children with her sister, whose family gives them a seemingly stable home. Her return years later shatters that security, leaving the grown children to uncover what happened between their parents and who bears responsibility.