Patricia MacDonald Books in Order

After spending twelve years in prison for killing the man she loved, Maggie Fraser is finally free. She tries to start over on a small New England island, but the past refuses to stay buried, and old terror begins to return.

Eleven years after her little son vanished, Anna Lange gets the miracle she stopped expecting, Paul comes home. But the boy who returns is a stranger, and his arrival pulls the whole family back into the nightmare they thought had ended.

Beth returns to Maine after her father's death and is forced to care for the fourteen-year-old sister she barely knows. When she learns Francie is involved with an obsessive older man, Beth realizes coming home may have put them both in danger.

In a small Tennessee town, Lillie's life is destroyed when her daughter Michele is found murdered after a hometown celebration. As she searches for answers, she begins to suspect that the people closest to her know far more than they admit.

Karen Newhall's Mother's Day turns upside down when the birth mother of her adopted daughter arrives at the door. Days later, murder shatters the family, and the search for the truth exposes painful questions about love, ownership, and trust.

Children's author Laura Reed is still grieving her husband's murder when police accuse her of arranging his death. With suspicion closing in after a whirlwind second marriage, Laura must untangle old resentments and hidden motives before they destroy her life.

A child's disappearance pulls damaged families into a tightening web of kidnapping, violence, and fear. As loyalties shift and danger closes in, the search for the truth becomes a fight for survival.

After one husband dies and another tragedy puts her teenage son in the crosshairs of a murder case, Keely Bennett refuses to believe Dylan is guilty. Her fight to clear his name leads her toward buried grudges, corruption, and real danger.

After her sister dies in a house fire, Britt Andersen heads to a Vermont town where nothing feels as simple as it seems. As suspicion falls on her brother-in-law, Britt uncovers family secrets that make the tragedy even darker.

When convicted killer Duncan Avery is released on parole, his daughter Nina is the only one willing to take him in. Her decision rips open old wounds and forces the family to ask whether Duncan is guilty, or whether the real truth was buried years ago.

Newlywed Emma Hollis is attacked at her honeymoon cabin while her husband is just out of sight. As fear closes in, she starts to wonder whether the man she married is really her protector, or the one trying to kill her.

Twenty years after her sister Phoebe was kidnapped and killed, Tess DeGraff learns her testimony may have condemned the wrong man. Haunted by that possibility, she returns to New Hampshire to uncover the real killer.

Morgan Adair arrives for her best friend's baby's baptism and finds Claire already unraveling under postnatal depression. When a girl claiming to be Claire's husband's daughter appears, the fragile calm breaks, and tragedy quickly follows.

When Chloe disappears from a cruise ship, everyone assumes she fell overboard. Her mother Shelby refuses to let the case go, and her search for answers leads her into a tangle of lies, grief, and dangerous secrets.

Caitlin Eckhart's six-year-old stepson vanishes after a normal school morning, shattering her new life. As the search intensifies, a secret from Caitlin's past resurfaces and threatens both her marriage and any hope of bringing Geordie home.

After her parents die in a car crash, Alex Woods learns her mother once gave up a baby for adoption. Finding her half sister should bring answers, but instead Alex uncovers a murder case and a family secret that will not stay buried.

A family living under false names in Philadelphia is thrust into public view after an emergency brings cameras to their door. The publicity threatens to expose the secret that sent them into hiding, and the greatest danger may be inside the family itself.

Eden Radley never forgave her mother for leaving the family, but the apparent murder-suicide that kills her mother and young half-brother feels wrong. As Eden digs into the past, she finds secrets that point toward a far more sinister truth.

Heavily pregnant Dena Russell moves back to her hometown after a whirlwind romance with horse breeder Brian Riley. When his behavior turns frightening and a friend is found brutally beaten, Dena realizes she and her unborn child may be trapped with a killer.

Blair Butler returns to her Pocono hometown to say goodbye to her dying sister and hears a shattering confession about a murder from fifteen years earlier. To keep a promise, she must reopen a cold case and face the lies her family buried.