Saving Abby Books in Order

The Saving Abby books begin with one of the simplest and hardest dreams a couple can have. Claire and Josh Turner want a child. After years of infertility, that hope finally arrives, only to turn into a crisis when Claire learns that continuing her pregnancy could cost her her own life.

That setup gives the series its emotional punch. Saving Abby is built around impossible choices, fear, and the way a medical emergency can change the meaning of every ordinary day. Holmes writes Claire and Josh as people trying to hold onto joy while the ground keeps shifting under them.

Then the series does something smart.

Instead of ending with the pregnancy, it follows the life shaped by that sacrifice. Abby's Journey moves ahead to Claire's daughter as a young woman, raised by the father who loved her mother and protected her fiercely. Abby's health has made her childhood small and careful, so when she gets the chance to travel through Europe's Christmas markets with her grandmother and her mother's journals, the trip becomes much more than sightseeing.

That second book turns the series into a story about inheritance. Not money, but memory. Abby has to figure out who Claire really was, how much of the family story she has been given in pieces, and what it means to grow into a life built partly out of loss.

If you want emotional women's fiction with high stakes, close family ties, and a strong mother-daughter thread that stretches across time, this series delivers exactly that. It is tender, sad in places, and very focused on love that keeps shaping a family long after someone is gone.