Rachel Beanland Books in Order

In Atlantic City during the summer of 1934, the Adler family gathers around a dangerous pregnancy and Florence’s ambitions to swim the English Channel. When tragedy strikes, a protective deception exposes old tensions and entangles several generations in secrecy.

A crowded Richmond theater catches fire in 1811, forcing a widow, an enslaved woman, a stagehand, and a blacksmith into desperate decisions. Their lives become intertwined as the city confronts the disaster and the competing stories told afterward.

Newly married Eileen follows her naval-officer husband to an Italian island serving American nuclear submarines. As contamination fears and protests grow, her relationship with a local journalist challenges her loyalties to her marriage, country, and adopted community.