Rumaan Alam Books in Order

Longtime friends Sarah and Lauren navigate increasingly different lives in New York as Sarah prepares to marry. Wedding planning exposes contrasts in privilege, ambitions, and expectations, testing whether a friendship built in childhood can survive their diverging adulthood.

Rebecca relies on Priscilla's guidance as she adjusts to motherhood, then adopts her baby after Priscilla dies in childbirth. Raising both a white and a Black son forces Rebecca to confront privilege and the limits of her understanding.

A family's secluded Long Island holiday is interrupted by an older couple claiming to own the rented house and reporting a blackout. With communications failing and unsettling events multiplying, the strangers confront fear, mistrust, and an uncertain catastrophe.

Brooke takes a job helping an elderly billionaire give away his fortune, hoping for purpose and independence. Proximity to extraordinary wealth reshapes her desires, drawing her into increasingly difficult questions about privilege, generosity and what she believes she deserves.