Sarah Pekkanen Books in Order

Elise returns to Chicago on Christmas Eve months after ending things with Griffin, the man she couldn't marry. An unexpected visit with his family forces her to sit with grief, memory, and the hard question of what it really means to let go.

After a humiliating crash in New York, Lindsey Rose retreats to her parents' Maryland home just as her glamorous twin Alex plans a wedding. A family secret forces both sisters to question the roles they have been living for years.

Ilsa thinks she has found lasting happiness with Grif after a chance meeting involving his injured dog. But meeting his family in Chicago brings her face to face with Elise, and with the possibility that the past is not finished.

After wealthy entrepreneur Michael survives a cardiac arrest, he wants a different life and different priorities. His wife Julia must decide whether their glossy marriage can survive his transformation, and whether she still knows the man she married.

Newly separated Corrine heads to her baby sister's Minnesota wedding expecting one hard weekend, not a total reset. As the life she counted on falls apart, she begins to see that heartbreak might also be a way forward.

Cate, Renee, and Abby share a Manhattan apartment while chasing work, reinvention, and stability. Magazine politics, body-image pressure, and Abby's hidden past test their uneasy arrangement until friendship becomes the one thing keeping them afloat.

Four college friends and their spouses head to a luxury villa in Jamaica for a birthday getaway. As a hurricane closes in, private betrayals and long-buried fears crack open the polished reunion.

Kira and Peter trade Florida careers for a Vermont bed-and-breakfast with Peter's brother and sister-in-law, hoping for a reset. Instead, cramped living, old resentments, and a mysterious employee turn the dream into a slow-building strain test.

After a shooting at police headquarters, Jamie Anderson watches her police officer husband Mike come home changed. When another shooting puts him at the center, her marriage and family are pulled into a public crisis with no easy way out.

In picture-perfect Newport Cove, Kellie, Susan, Gigi, and newcomer Tessa all have something to hide. As secrets move across the cul-de-sac, neighborly warmth gives way to suspicion, temptation, and the fear that one family may be hiding something far worse.

Josie's seemingly settled life cracks when a message on husband Frank's phone blows open her marriage. As she looks backward and forward at once, she has to decide whether the life they built can still be saved.

Vanessa is reeling after her divorce and fixates on her ex-husband Richard's new fiancee, Nellie. What seems like a familiar jealousy story keeps shifting, turning a love triangle into something darker about memory, control, and the lies people live with.

Makeup artist Jessica Farris signs up for a paid study on ethics run by the mysterious Dr. Shields. The questions turn invasive, the rules spill into her real life, and Jess begins to wonder who is studying whom.

Freshly unemployed Chloe Powell books a weekend at the Lakewood Retreat, hoping for a reset after her Washington life unravels. The wellness escape soon turns claustrophobic as probing questions, social experiments, and a mysterious guest push her into panic.

Lonely Shay Miller is drawn into the orbit of the glamorous Moore sisters after a shocking death in New York. Their friendship offers the belonging she craves, but the deeper she gets, the more manipulated and expendable she feels.

Marissa and Mathew Bishop look perfect from the outside, but Marissa's affair sends them to Avery Chambers, a therapist with risky methods. As the sessions dig deeper, secrets on all sides turn a damaged marriage into a dangerous game.

Catherine Sterling is ready for a life of her own, but her mother Ruth has spent decades prepared to disappear at a moment's notice. Their fierce bond turns into a battle of secrets as each woman tries to control what the other learns.

Best interest attorney Stella Hudson takes on nine-year-old Rose, who may have seen her nanny's murder during a brutal custody fight. Inside the Barclay family's strange house, every adult seems dangerous, and Rose may be too.

Georgia Cartwright wakes in a locked psychiatric ward accused of killing her younger sister. When she begs her estranged twin Amanda for help, the sisters are pulled into a wealthy family's lies and a chilling question of innocence.

Newly divorced Riley Bell becomes caretaker to Betty, an elderly widow linked to women who vanished during 1960s parapsychology experiments. As past and present close in on each other, Riley finds herself inside an eerie mystery that refuses to stay buried.