Patti Callahan Henry Books in Order

Amy Reynolds thinks she has the perfect life until her son's new girlfriend arrives with Nick Lowry, the college sweetheart who vanished without explanation. Old memories and dangerous what ifs pull Amy between the safe family she loves and a past she never forgot.

Meridy Dresden has built a respectable life far from the South Carolina Lowcountry where her boyfriend died in a fire she still feels responsible for. When a childhood friend is blamed for that night, she must return home and risk everything to tell the truth.

At twenty seven, Kara Larson is planning a lavish wedding to a golf pro while quietly wondering if she is marrying the right man. Visiting ninety six year old Maeve Mahoney in a nursing home, she is drawn into an Irish love story that sends her searching for her own first love.

Catherine Leary has avoided her South Carolina hometown since a childhood tragedy on the river drove her family away. Her late father's final wish and the arrival of his former colleague Forrest force her back to Seaboro, where facing the past may open the door to a different future.

Widowed Annabelle Murphy has spent two years raising her children and slowly finding her footing again after her husband's small plane vanished. When the wreck is discovered with another woman on board, Annabelle's search for answers leads her to dolphin researcher Sofie and to secrets that could rewrite both women's lives.

Bookstore owner Riley Sheffield loves the quiet rhythms of her beach town until her mother's fall summons her two very different sisters home. As they work to save the family bookshop and face the return of an old love, the sisters must decide whether old hurts are stronger than their shared history.

Musician Jimmy Sullivan is happiest playing backup in his brother's band until a song he writes with Charlotte, his almost girlfriend, turns into an unexpected Christmas hit. Swept into a whirlwind tour while his family prepares for an Irish holiday wedding, Jimmy has to choose between fame and the love waiting back home.

Ellie Calvin feels like she is drowning in a failing marriage and a life that no longer fits. After her demanding mother's death, a hidden diary and a documentary project with her former boyfriend draw her to a mysterious Alabama bay house, where uncovering long buried secrets helps her decide who she wants to be.

As a young woman, Katie Vaughn gave up her baby daughter for adoption when the child's father married someone else. Years later, engaged but unsettled, Kate receives a message from the girl she surrendered and is pulled back into first love, family loyalty, and the chance to mend a life changing choice.

In Savannah, letterpress designer Eve Morrison and her husband Cooper look like the perfect couple from an old Georgia family. After Cooper's late night car accident with Eve's younger sister, clashing accounts expose buried tensions, and Eve must decide which version of events, and which people, she is willing to trust.

Heartbroken Ella lets a charming stranger believe her husband died saving her in a sailing accident, a prettier story than the truth of his affair. Screenwriter Hunter is desperate for a great love plot, but their shared lies in Watersend soon tangle with real attraction and the possibility of starting over honestly.

After a tragic mistake in the emergency room derails her career, doctor Bonny Blankenship retreats with her troubled daughter to the river house where she spent childhood summers. Reunited with her estranged friend Lainey and wise bookseller Mimi, Bonny uncovers old secrets and discovers how past and present can finally meet.

This novel follows American writer Joy Davidman as a desperate prayer and a letter to C. S. Lewis begin an intense friendship across an ocean. Through years of correspondence, visits to England, and painful decisions about marriage and faith, Joy slowly steps into a love and vocation she never expected.

On the day of her wedding, Colleen Donohue caught her fiancé kissing her sister and fled Watersend to reinvent herself in New York. When her father is diagnosed with Alzheimer's and she comes home at last, old betrayals, new family secrets, and the pull of their Irish pub force her to reconsider what home means.

Set in the years before the Crimean War, this novella follows a young Florence Nightingale as she struggles against family expectations to pursue nursing. Traveling through Europe and training in a German hospital, she begins to claim her calling long before history will know her as the lady with the lamp.

In 1950, practical Oxford student Megs Devonshire is determined to give her gravely ill younger brother a factual answer about where Narnia came from. Her visits with C. S. Lewis and his brother lead to tales from their past, and as Megs brings the stories home, both siblings are changed by the quiet power of imagination.

Savannah professor Everly Winthrop is asked to curate an exhibit on the recently discovered wreck of the steamship Pulaski, a luxury vessel that exploded in 1838. As she traces the stories of two women from a prominent family who sailed that night, Everly confronts her own grief and the ways people carry trauma across generations.

During World War II, teenage Hazel and her little sister Flora are evacuated from London to a cottage beside the Thames, where Hazel invents a private fairy tale world called Whisperwood. When Flora disappears and is presumed drowned, Hazel grows up haunted, until a mysterious book based on Whisperwood suggests her sister might still be alive.

In 1927, eight year old Clara Harrington's world shatters when her mother, celebrated novelist Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, vanishes off the South Carolina coast after writing a book in an invented language. Twenty five years later, the discovery of a dictionary to that language lures Clara and her daughter to England, where long hidden truths about Bronwyn, and about Clara's own life, finally surface.