Sara Ackerman Books in Order

In wartime Hawaii, Violet Iverson tries to understand her husband's disappearance and her daughter's frightened silence. Running a pie stand with friends brings comfort to nearby soldiers, but accusations of spying threaten the women and their families.

Army nurse Eva Cassidy travels to Hawaii hoping to escape her past and finds herself drawn to a naval intelligence officer. The attack on Pearl Harbor transforms their uncertain relationship into a struggle amid casualties and danger.

After Pearl Harbor, Lana Hitchcock inherits a remote Hawaiian property and shelters neighbors endangered by wartime suspicion. With a detention camp nearby, protecting two German girls and a Japanese father and son requires secrecy and difficult choices.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Daisy Wilder joins a secret program training women to track aircraft and guide military pilots. She and her fellow recruits must overcome skepticism and personal differences while preparing for possible invasion.

A wartime codebreaker seeking to avenge her brother's death meets a pilot carrying his own secrets. Two decades later, a missing hotel guest draws a journalist and veteran photographer toward a mystery rooted in wartime Hawaii.

Maui biologist ‘Iwa fights a resort development threatening endangered species and reluctantly accepts help from big-wave surfer Dane. Their growing attraction challenges her refusal to date surfers as his dangerous pursuit of enormous waves complicates the possibility of a lasting relationship.

In 1927, excluded pilot Olivia enters a dangerous Pacific air race as a navigator. Sixty years later, Wren inherits Hawaiian land containing mysterious aviation artifacts and investigates the forgotten flight, uncovering a story with unexpected connections to her own family.

Writer Zoe attends a conference at Honolulu’s Moana Hotel and experiences nightmares linked to Jane Stanford’s mysterious death a century earlier. Her investigation parallels a young employee’s efforts in 1905 to understand a tragedy powerful people wanted concealed.

Marine biologist Minnow investigates unusual shark attacks along Hawaii’s Kohala coast in 1998. Her connection to sharks makes her well suited to the task, but uncovering the cause forces her to confront memories of a childhood tragedy involving her father.