Robin Talley Books in Order

At a newly integrated Virginia high school in 1959, Sarah Dunbar faces racist harassment while Linda Hairston repeats her family's segregationist beliefs. A shared school project forces the two girls to examine prejudice, power, and their growing feelings for one another.

High school sweethearts Toni and Gretchen expect their relationship to survive attending separate colleges. As Toni finds community among transgender students and explores gender identity, Gretchen struggles to define an independent life, testing their assumptions about love and belonging.

Secret girlfriends Maria and Lily target a rival whose scholarship could determine their future together. Invoking supernatural forces at their boarding school unleashes deadly consequences in this Macbeth-inspired story of ambition, jealousy, and a relationship pushed beyond moral limits.

On a church youth trip to Mexico, bisexual teenager Aki Simon meets Christa and decides to move beyond imagining romance. Their developing relationship brings questions about identity, intimacy, friendship, and faith as Aki considers what love means in her own life.

In 1955, Janet Jones finds inspiration in lesbian pulp novels while hiding her romance under McCarthy-era scrutiny. Decades later, student Abby Zimet researches that literature, linking two young women's searches for love, creative expression, and a place in queer history.

In 1977, closeted Tammy Larson begins exchanging letters with Sharon Hawkins, who is also keeping family secrets. Punk music and their growing friendship give both girls room to question their lives as antigay campaigns intensify around them.

Stage manager Melody believes her romances bring disaster to school productions, so she vows to remain single through Les Misérables. Actress Odile Rose challenges that plan, leaving Melody torn between theatrical superstitions, responsibility to the cast, and falling in love.

In 1927 Washington, three seminary students sneak out to a speakeasy and return to find their headmistress murdered. Their search for the killer threatens reputations and friendships as hidden desires and personal secrets complicate the danger surrounding their school.